Recent reviews by Tene

one of the best games to ever release on vita is now freed from its rotting corpse
and now we have a precedent for persona 5 royal to come to PC
still waiting for persona 3 to get some love though atlus...

i'd be lying if i said this review wasn't just to get the autumn sale badge
but you still gotta give props to DE for supporting warframe as long as they have, i remember waaaaay back when the UI was trash, there were only five warframes, and abilities were something you had to equip as mods.
game's come a long way, and i'm glad to see it.

VA-11 Hall-A is a masterpiece that I was lucky enough to stumble across back in 2015, when it was still in alpha on itch.io and cost nearly four pounds less than the non-sale price, and honestly I can't do the game enough credit just by talking about it.

The premise is simple but works better than you'd expect. Your character is a bartender, mixing drinks and changing lives, and when a customer orders a drink, you can choose which way to make it, how much alcohol to use, and (for the regulars whose favourites you learn over the course of the game) whether to serve them something completely different that they'd like more.

The world building that has gone into this game is incredible, especially considering you experience it all either from behind a bar or on your character's phone, and I've yet to find another game that makes you genuinely care about what happens to the NPCs.

Every character you meet is unique, even the ones that show up once and never come back. They all have their own story to tell, and it's your job to (with the help of a little of man's other best friend, alcohol) get them to tell it. From the only non-corrupt cop in Glitch City to your coworker who disappears for days at a time, hell even your character has her own story to tell.

Also, there's a Shiba Inu wearing a Hawaiian shirt and aviators.

There's so much more to this game that I can't get into because it's so much better to experience it firsthand, so please. Pick up the game. Give it a try. It's really cool.

I think I'm almost done making my character.

Shouting At Cops Simulator 2014 with Bag Tossing DLC.
10/10 would PUT THE GUN DOWN again.

Over the top.
One of the many ways you can describe a game that tells you to give a man a brain transplant and then puts a hatchet, a power drill, a hand-operated buzz-saw and a high-powered laser within reach.
In a world where you get an achievement for completing the transplants while both drugged and electrocuted, why would it even matter that your heart transplant patient was left with just a heart where there once laid a set of lungs, a stomach and a liver under a ribcage?
The controls, while touch-and-go at times (though this was likely intended by the developers, else why would A, W, E, R, Space and the mouse be used to control a single arm and hand) make it a challenge yet to be seen in other games, albeit accompanied by many a time spent ranting and raving at the screen because you wanted to pick up the green syringe, not stab yourself with the blue one and impale a claw hammer in your patient.
The ridiculousness of the game is only taken further by the challenge of performing the operations in an ambulance (complete with corners sending your equipment flying around and the doors opening before you can pick up the replacement heart), and then even further to space, meaning that you need to keep going back to make sure your scalpels are where you left them and not drifting off where you can't reach, and you need to make sure that the container for the organ is shut tightly, else it be lost to the back of the room. After that, you can even go so far as to operate on an alien, after accidentally stumbling across the jettison codes for the makeshift zero-g theatre and being abducted from the vacuum of space.
All in all, it's a great way to pass the time. The game is specifically structured so that even killing your patient is difficult short of taking a hatchet to their skull.