Recent reviews by max

One of my favorite games of all time.

It's Portal 2.

Pros:
Love the action platforming gameplay, which I think is especially important since it's the bread and butter.
Visuals and audio really sell the aesthetic, love the more tonal aspects of the sound design w harpsichord, xylophone, etc.
I love the skeleton companions and I will protect them at all costs.
Love how the different sheep compliment each other in the late-game.
Ungodly amount of content for a game made by students in less than a year

Critique/areas for improvement:
I found it disorienting when enemies would pop in with no vfx nor animation to accompany it
I think the firepit sound design could use a little more "body" (could barely hear the fire when I moved the character next to it)
Same goes for the sound when a sheep hits a target, when an enemy hits the player character, I think it could use less "click" and more "oomph"/"smack".
The upgrade menu sounds seemed to be doing a weird reverse panning effect which I found to be distracting (I'd hover on the left-side icons and hear sounds in my right ear).
Small QoL thing: Would love to be able to back out of the pause menu with the "B" button on controller.
I found myself accidentally killing my sheep a lot by spamming RB, not sure why that is a feature. Would have preferred that they stay alive and/or replenish to max when I do that instead of killing them all off and respawning all of them.
Corners of the skybox took me out of the experience.
Health pickups felt under-powered and while not a high priority, could use audio feedback when picked up.
I found myself switching to kb+m due to the complexity and verticality later in the game. UI switching for controller/kbm should happen based on input used, not when my controller turns off. I also found the binding of the special attack to the "1" key to be a strange choice ("F" could be a good replacement?)

Sound when the player character decapitates a large enemy sounds more like a bone crunch/apple bite, could use more slicing/gory/juicy sound.
When the house uprooted, was expecting to hear more rocks/dirt gravel but the sound I heard seemed more like a reverb-y "balloon pop". Same goes for the destructible walls. Obviously, the balloon pop worked for those balloon-lizard enemies.
Serious difficulty spike in the late game. Combat encounters are really long and Baba Yaga's House has an insane, destiny-raid-boss amount of health. Didn't see any health pickups in this boss fight.

One of the greatest games of all time without a doubt.

Peak FPS gaming!

They didn't have to go this hard but they did.

Excellent story, amazing soundtrack, fun gameplay and great replay value. Not much to say that hasn't already been said. Looking forward to Grand Theft Auto VI.

Yes. I already liked it at launch, but they massively improved on the launch version over the years w/ patches. CD PROJEKT RED is in a league of their own.

Before this game, people didn't think a killer app could be made for VR. Now, people just wish there were more VR killer apps like this game.