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This game takes everything that makes Danganronpa and AI The Somnium Files good, between the anime-style humor, the class trial/mystery labyrinth design, and the overall atmosphere, and cranks it up to 11. Kanai Ward, the main area you explore in the story, is an absolute treat to explore, and probably the most immersive and expansive environment I've seen out of all of Spike Chunsoft/Too Kyo's work.

Additionally, this remaster has all of the DLC substories, which give some backstory behind the main cast, included for free, so there's lots to try even outside of the main game.

Overall, I would highly recommend giving this a try, whether on Steam, Playstation, or Xbox, if you're into these murder mystery-type games.

This game is amazing.

It's like if Poppy Playtime had a Trepang2 or Mirror's Edge-like parkour system tacked onto it, and my first playthrough (and speedruns) are a blast.

I write this review as someone who is a big fan of Poppy Playtime, regularly following all of the lore and picking the game apart through speedrunning all of the main series' chapters.

This game has a pretty promising premise; For those that are unaware, it is basically Dead by Daylight, but with Poppy Playtime mechanics. For a while, it kept to this idea pretty well and was very immersive, including different packs of music that play while you explore the different maps, and a battle pass system that I personally didn't mind much.

However, the game at this point is unfortunately largely dead, and I put a large portion of the blame on the environment Poppy Playtime was in going into the latter half of 2023. By that point, Chapter 3 of the main series was being teased constantly, and I feel a lot of the players just wanted to play the main game by that time. Mob Entertainment also made some really bizarre changes to the game that didn't really need to be implemented, such as completely removing the mini Huggy Wuggy minigame in lieu of just pressing a button to let players know you're nearby. They also removed the pre-game lobby, where you could try out the grapple hook platforming system and give the pillar puzzles a try before you go into a live match, which was a really good way of socializing with other players.

All of that being said, I'd say giving this game at least a quick try (especially with friends) is worth your while. Poppy Playtime is a series I will hold near and dear to my heart, even through its missteps.

Modern Warfare III: Multiplayer is fun, with the remastered and new maps being fun to move around in with the slide-cancel movement brought back from MW 2019.

The campaign is hot garbage, with a sizable chunk of the missions being Warzone/DMZ-like "open combat" missions that I did not vibe with, and the plot being very meh with no real stakes to keep you on the edge of your seat. Shame on Activision for forcing Sledgehammer Games to go through intense crunch time to finish it.

If you're mainly a multiplayer player, I would recommend it because of the return of slide cancelling, returning maps, and the cool store bundles. If you're a campaign player exclusively, I'd advise skipping this and not giving Activision your 70$

Black Ops 6: The singleplayer is very fun, and some of the most fun I've had playing a CoD campaign since Black Ops Cold War and CoD 4.

The multiplayer is also very fun, with the omni movement allowing for crazy juking to get out of rough situations. The maps leave a lot to be desired with most of them being medium to small size, but the environmental design in each map is good enough that I didn't really mind it much.

I started this game back in June, because I had seen a video about it from the YouTuber AstralSpiff and thought the FMV look combined with the hotel setting was really cool.

What resulted was it becoming the scariest game I have ever played.

That assessment might sound kind of odd given that the main big scares in this are jumpscares, but At Dead of Night does it differently. For starters, the performances of the real-life actors are interwoven seamlessly with the graphics in the game, such that it's indistinguishable from magic. Secondly, Jimmy is constantly after you *the entire game*, and learns from your hiding spot habits; If you keep going to a spot or floor of the hotel to try to evade him, he will get there more and more quickly. It's that constant sense of dread in combination with everything looking so real that I ended up fearing Jimmy more than any other horror game antagonist, even if it looks like a silly B movie on the surface.

I'm a little desensitized to the scares now having speedran it a lot/beaten it on Extreme mode and knowing Jimmy's mechanics more thoroughly, as well as being a horror game fanatic, but I don't think any future horror games I play are gonna match the terror that this game gave me.

If you want a masterclass in point-and-click horror that will scare you silly, this is it.

The play time shown on this review is not accurate, as I spent several hundred hours, probably 300-500+, on this game on the Battle.net launcher.

This is my favorite Call of Duty by far, even surpassing the old CoD games, for several reasons:

- It got back to the CoD roots of having a fun and engrossing campaign. Considering that this was my first Call of Duty since I played the Black Ops III campaign in 2016, the atmosphere of the world and the soundtrack blew me away. No other CoD game, not even the recent Modern Warfares with the reappearance of Captain Price, has even come close to the "wow factor" effect this game had on me.

- The presentation, especially for the multiplayer, with the sound and map design is so good. It really gets you in the mood. I also like the little lines each operator says when something happens, which adds to this even more.

- While this was when the CoD games started to get filled with microtransactions, I didn't mind it at all given that they are purely cosmetic.

- The movement flows really well, and it's a heck of a lot better than the sluggish movement the Modern Warfares and Vanguard have; Looks like MW III is improving on that, thankfully.

The best worst game ever made.

While the non-pancake version it's based off of isn't the best game ever, this is one of the best VR horror games I've played, short of the Jeff sections from Half-Life Alyx.

Definitely try this out if you own a VR headset

This game is what happens when you're working at McDonald's in the Twilight Zone

This is gonna sound weird given my total playtime, but I did not like this game.

For context, I had high hopes for this game. I was looking forward to it since 2017, only a couple years after the initial teaser trailers.

What I thought was gonna be a fun Amnesia-like survival horror shooter, instead turned out to be a confusing, clunky, and frustrating mess.

For starters, there's the combat. You get three guns in total: a main gun for interacting with puzzles, a revolver/handgun, and a shotgun.

The problem? You don't get the handgun or shotgun until you're very far in the game. The puzzle gun does have an attack that does damage, but the animation for shooting it is so sluggish and the attack does so little on enemies that killing enemies becomes a very arduous process. Enemies hit like a truck, with most attacks doing two bars of health (for reference, you have a maximum health of 7 bars), and health stations are infrequent, often not appearing until after a long a stretch of dealing with enemies. With the checkpoint system being atrocious on launch, it got to a point where I flat out quit the game for two weeks.

The game is also not great at giving the player direction as to what to do next. I get the appeal of having very little to no obvious indicators of where to go and exploring instead. Hell, some of my favorite games ever made do this same thing. The difference with Scorn is that it gives no indicators; No map, no objective, no nothing. While they had good intentions with that idea, it can lead the player to very easily get completely lost, whether that's with exploring the world or solving a puzzle, and have to look up a guide. While there's no shame in looking up a guide to finish video games, having to look up a guide within the first 30 minutes of a game because there's no indication of what to do at all is an indication that the game has failed the player. This, in combination with my earlier frustrations with the combat, resulted in me having to use a mod to beat the game.

All of that being said, the game does have very good visuals. It reminds me of the game Agony, a similarly-veined horror game in Hell.

Overall, it's a fun game, but I heavily recommend you do it with a guide and avoid combat.

EDIT 2/8/2023:

I have a more favorable opinion of this game after some time spent with speedrunning it. I still hold the opinion that the combat can be cumbersome.