Recent reviews by FleetCommand

Just ♥♥♥♥ you, Epic and your anti-consumer practices.

You wanted to get into Yooka-Laylee just to find disappointment and lose the hope of ever playing a great 3D platformer on your PC again? Go no further, stranger! Stay here, read and press that "Purchase" button to fly back to your childhood's best version. Be a kid again, enjoy playing through the levels, dressing up your character without microtransactions. This is what games should be about: having fun while playing it. And I did have fun while I played A Hat in Time.


This game is cute. Not just the simple version of "cute", but it's the "so damn cute" version of cute that even me, as an adult man with a job and whatnot got really hyped when I unlocked the pink outfit for my character.


The game looks great. Nicely chosen art design with various levels. You have the spooky forest, the town with bad guys, the boss battles, run-and-jump levels, etc. It's never too much and keeps your interest during your playtime. You control Hat Girl, who - as you learn in the first minute of the game - got stuck with her spaceship and have to collect "time pieces" (in the form of hourglasses) to be back on the road again and head home. As you progress, you can pimp up your spaceship and unlock new costumes. You can (and you need to) also upgrade your hat which will give you some nice powers to get through the levels.

For this, you also get cute visuals, a fantastic soundtrack and great voice acting both for you and the other characters surrounding you.


I loved:

• Cuuuuuute
  
• Tight controls, good camera movement
  
• Enjoyable fights, enjoyable dialogs with the enemies
  
• Nothing but fun
  
• Great level design, collectibles
  
• Nice hats
  
• Great music and sound

I had only problems with the following:

• The game crashed a few times
  
• The native resolution of my 16:10 display is not supported which I don't really get because it still offers me 16:10 resolutions, just the native resolution is not one of them.

TLDR; Buy it and have fun.

There are games which you touch, play for a few minutes and realize it's not for you and you'll never touch it again. Is this game one of those?


Game looks fine. Nothing interesting, nothing exceptional, just "fine". Got it in the latest Humble Bundle. I was aware it's not a Game-of-the-year contendant, but looked cute enough to get the higher tier bundle in order to receive this game. And I wanted to play a fun little platformer.


No, don't touch this game. At least not with a mouse and keyboard. Controls are CRAP. For starters, you have no mouse control in the menu. Also, to activate a menu point, you need to press "Space", to get out you need to press "Backspace". These guys never heard of Enter and Esc? Probably they did, because when you are in-game, you can press Esc to go to the Pause menu, but from that point you need to use Space and Backspace again. It's an inconsistent piece of shait. "V" to skip cinematics? WTF? And of course keys are not rebindable.

Camera is also a useless pile of censored word. You can use the default camera setting which partially gives the camera control to the game, but that's not really good as your camera changes perspectives as you move. After that I found the "manual" camera which told me that I can move the camera as I wanted and "it will stay" where I left. No, it doesn't stay. And I hoped that finally I can control the camera with the mouse, but there is a "camera acceleration" assigned to the mouse movement, so even if you set the camera sensitivity bar to the max, it will still be a slippery disaster to move around. And - as just you could expect after reading so far - it doesn't stay where it should.

As far as I'm aware this is the "improved" camera movement which they patched in post-release as they did not even have this at first. I don't even want to imagine what a pain had it been playing this around the time this game came out.


Options in the menu are non-existent. You get the standard Unity graphics presets (from "Fastest" to "Fantastic"), resolution and Vsync, but no custom setting for anything. Not that it would be really needed, as the game only barely looks better on "Fantastic" than on "Fastest", so whatever.


Cute Banjo-Kazooie wannabe with horrendous controls. Too bad that platformers depend heavily on the ability to move your character around so this is something I don't forgive. I would have been fine with the dialogs, the non-existent options and even with the game-mechanics, but if I cannot move properly it's time to hit the "Uninstall" button.

1 player plays this game at the moment besides me. Game looks great, I really enjoy the look: beautiful maps, good player models, good weapon models. But it was horribly mismanaged and now noone plays it anymore.

When they kickstarted it, there was a great need of a good WWII multiplayer shooter, so it was a huge success. But the development went slower than they hoped, and at one point they just decided to go completely silent. All this while the kickstarter goal included a full-time community manager, who was not managing anything apparently. After months of silence they came around and told us "we are good, we are releasing soon".

By the time this happened, CoD: WWII was announced AND released (announced after this game was announced, but released before we could even touch anything Battalion) and people just purchased that one. Regardless, when they went live, a lot of people tried to join, but the servers were non-existent. You queued for a long time just to get to an empty server (if you were lucky enough not to crash out), and while tons of people were trying to play the game, servers were not auto-filled from queueing players, so they barely joined your server. It was a total disaster, and was managed horribly and server issues were resolved extremely slowly. By the time the game became playable, noone cared.

And you should not care either.

Edit: Buy this game on your own risk at this point. Telltale closed down and up to this point there is no guarantee that all 4 episodes will release. So if you buy the game, be aware that you get 2 episodes for sure and at the moment they are "working on" ways to see if they can release episodes 3 and 4.

Edit2: Skybound announced that the rest of the game will be released under their name. I think it's a safe buy now.

Original review follows:


Just finished the first episode and I like it. As I always like the Walking Dead games: they surely have good story and a relatable protagonist. This time we are playing again with Clementine, who grew up in the past years. We wander around a little with AJ when we find ourselves with a group of kids in a school which had seen better days, and now is serves as a safe place for them, far away from everyone. Can Clementine and AJ find a new home with this group? We are about to find it out.


If you've played the other games in the series you already have some idea what to expect. You get cell-shaded graphics, looks like what you can expect from a well-made post-apocalyptic area: decayed buildings, pale colors. The music, sound and dialogs are also in place, I really liked the song which rolled during the credits.


To give Telltale the credit, they finally added real achivements to the game. Not just "Achivement 1" through "8" you get automatically while you play through the game, but proper ones, some of them can be missed too.


I don't really expect story-changing decisions from a Telltale game anymore, so I won't complain on this one. When I finished the episode I wanted it to end differently as I got the feeling that it was something I could have achived by telling AJ how to/not to act earlier, etc. But, after a little bit of research it turned out that it's not possible. I guess I just let it go and enjoy the game.

However, there are a few things which I don't get. First: why do I have to reinstall "The New Frontier" (16 GiB) just to get my save file from there? Back then when I played "The New Frontier", I had to reinstall the game before that to get the savefiles from Steam Cloud. I thought it was synced in my Telltale Account, but probably that wasn't the case. So after that I made 100 % sure that The New Frontier was linked with my account. Yet, I could not get the save data from my account as the game told me that the choice list was incomplete. However, after reinstalling The New Frontier, I could get the savefile from there and it was accepted. It might have been also not complete, as the game did not ask me if I killed Lee or not in the first game (man, that was a long ago), but it asked me if I killed Lenny or not. Strange.

A new feature which got introduced is the "actions which will have consequences" feature. It was there before, as it is there in any game, but this time you are alerted before doing anything else by putting a red trigger indicator on the screen. You want to trigger a button? Fine, press "A". But you want to trigger a button with a red "A"? Better think about it what will happen. Of course you have no idea, and sometimes you don't even have the choice not to do it. Then why is it there?

In Life is Strange: Before the Storm they sometimes do that: two options appear on the screen: "Side with Rachel" or "Take the blame", then the screen fades, the "something significant is going to happen" sound effect is being played and you have to decide. But in Life is Strange, it's fine. Fine, because you have choices which have real consequences in the game. Here, you don't. I'm not saying they don't have any, as it would be not fair. They bring up different dialog choices later, and - as we could find it out earlier - they can sometimes decide the lives of people. But regarding your life? Not so much.

I feel like adding these were not necessary to enjoy the game, maybe the real reason to put them there was to build up the pressure in the players to feel responsible for their acts.


Do I recommend this game? Yes, I do. Play it, enjoy it, it's great.

Bluehole Entertainment, what is wrong with you? Just ♥♥♥♥ off, stop acting like you invented the Battle Royale genre and stop ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sueing others. You ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!

I paid 30 € for this game but that's 30 € more than it worth.

If you have any other edition of this game and you hope for an enhanced experience, you won't find it here. The only upside of this edition is that you won't need witchcraft to start the game as it does not crash by default.

Anything else? No.

They promise UI scaling, but this simply doesn't work if you have smaller than FullHD screen. Video is still tiny little thing in the middle of the screen, just like with the original version. Simply doesn't worth the money.

If you don't own Neverwinter Nights, there's no point to get any other version as this one works, at least. But if you do, then there's no point of getting it.

Best purchase of 2017. Just finished Episode 3 and I have.. feelings. That's what makes a story-driven game great, doesn't it? And, besides the beautifully drawn characters, the fantastic music and everything we already know from the first Life is Strange game, this game made me value life even more. Value having someone next to you even more.

Technically the game is not perfect. They used Unity engine which has some quirks on non-16:9 screens, or they forgot to animate things here and there, but nothing outstanding. The game is as beautiful as the first one, great voice acting, nice music. And feelings.

The only reason when you should not pick it up is if you're not into story-driven decision-making games. Otherwise get it, you won't regret it. I almost added "Telltale-like" but I realized I should not. In Telltale's otherwise wonderful Walking Dead, you will get a prompt like "John will remember this". 30 seconds later John (or whatever the name might be) is dead by plot. Nice 30 seconds rememberance. Here your decisions actually matter. Here, just deciding the fate of a little bracelet in Episode 2 can determine the outcome in the ending cutscene. You cannot stop destiny from being fulfilled, but you can make someone really happy. You can have someone who truly loves you. You can be the only honest person in someone's life. Or you can join to the club by hoping to spare her from the truth and feel remorse by doing so.

Too much talking. Get this game, free up your night or sit with your SO and play it. One episode each, from start to finish, without looking up anything.

ICEY is a game about... killing Judas, I think. You are instructed by the narrator that your goal is to kill Judas, the evilest of the evils, the monsterest of the monsters. That's why you're on this world, this is your only goal, this is where you're expecing the satisfaction from.

The game basically is a 2D hack-and-slash with upgradeable skills, stunning graphics and a blue-haired protagonist. I like blue-haired protagonists. In Dex you also played a blue-haired protagonist. That was great. Here you are blue-haired again. Can anything go wrong? Not really, if you can handle things which you don't think would happen.

The combat is solid, the movement on the screen looks great, I really enjoyed dashing through the screen for long seconds without touching the ground. Also, you can upgrade your skills. I loved the background music and the level backgrounds too. You have secret and not-too-obvious areas to access, so exploring worth the time.


I expected a hack-and-slash with a blue-haired cool chick in it. With this in mind, I fired up the game once I downloaded it. One minute later I almost quit. When I heard the narrator for the first time, I thought it was the most unprofessional work. Ever. In a videogame. It took me a little to realize what's going on, and after a few more minutes I started enjoying it and had a lot of fun with it.

I really liked:

• the graphics
  
• the fluidity of the movement
  
• the animations
  
• the music
  
• the pretty level backgrounds

I had problems with:

• the on-screen prompts. It's hard to access the upgrade stations. It just says "Press B" when you approach, but you have to be on a specific spot to access the terminal even though the prompt is up on the screen.
  
• The same with the side roads where you were supposed to press B.

If you expect nothing more than a traditional hack-and-slash where you go from start to finish, defeat the end-boss and feel good about it, this might not be the game for you. If you don't mind sidebranching here and there and you're in a mood for the endlessly talking narrator, get it.

After all these years, it's still the best game featuring zombies. How can anything be fun which features hundreds of dead people? The answer is Left 4 Dead 2.