Nedávné recenze uživatele The Gaming Archaeologist

One of the weakest of the three I feel, the majority of this takes place on sea, which makes sense given the name, where you use a new speed-boat with mounted miniguns on it! This makes racing pretty easy like in Sleeping Dogs with the spy car, however, this also needs unlocks and the devs took the time to actually make these islands difficult to capture with the large amount of high-leveled enemies and all of them being fairly heavily armoured too so your equipment from the previous DLCs don't work too well.

Beyond this, it's actually quite short and it's hilarious how powerful the major weapon in this is, The Eden Spark, where you can call down lightning to destroy your enemies and eliminate just about anything with unlimited ammo. It's pretty insane how powerful this can be and makes things like tanks to be laughed at.

This is a cautionary tale of why you do NOT arm your officers in a prison with dangerous weapons since there's every chance that the prisoner will steal them and use them against you!

You spend much of your time freeing prisoners (Who may or may not have committed war crimes, but who cares they're on your side and this game about taking down a dictator isn't political at all!) to join the resistance and you even get a really cool summon later with one of these mechs along with summoning it as a vehicle for yourself.

In true prisoner fashion, you can also remove the core from one of these mechs to use as a extremely powerful rifle, though very unstable too! You also have a mech arena that I think I did just for the upgrades and the GRIP is essentially a super-sized Grav-gun from Half-life, but you're hurling huge buildings and vehicles all over the place and causing absolute chaos for the completely unprepared and under-armed soldiers that get in your way.

This DLC is pretty damn insane! First we have how it starts out where the device that is found that's fallen from the sky it used to modify your wingsuit, adding a jet pack that allowed me to all my friends' records for gliding, since it STILL counts as gliding in regards to those things and achievements so in some ways, it breaks the game in a way that is often reserved for modders.

As said, this is the "air" part of their three-set expansions "Air, Land and Sea" where you end up going up to a sky fortress, finding out what's going on and dealing with these super high-tech drones that like to drop from the sky to try and dig up the extremely valuable mineral under this island. What makes the suit even more dangerous is it has a mounted machinegun that's pretty powerful and when using it in the vanilla game can rain hell down on enemies and be gone before they even realised what happened. I was able to completely circle the entire island multiple times with little issue.

The rifle was also pretty incredibly powerful. Not to mention and loved the blue glow the weapon gave off as it fired out projectiles at high-speed and cutting through armour fairly easily. I'd recommend this for end-game or near end-game content unless you want to play this the same reason that I did to just blow off some steam and have a lot of fun!

This game was a request from one of my friends and I had no idea what I was in for, beyond the obvious lewdity from the images, however, I found myself fully enjoying it! There are so many qualities that made streaming it not only easy, but very enjoyable! You can set the level of nudity in it for streaming purposes and download the totally free mod to remove the censorship of the nudity in case you every really wanted to see the characters naked, though to be honest, the text of their moments of taking you to bed are hot enough with your own imagination.

The story is delightfully absurd, taking in both Victorian England setting and then making it sex positive and inclusive so that you can be whoever you want to be, having the choice of pronouns be "Sir, Madam or Boss" and you get to create your character along with your Rival's before starting the game. Both with hilarious outfits including a nude one I chose for the one I decided to call "Dr. ♥♥♥♥♥" which was hilarious.

The story is that you return from overseas after doing the typical things rich people did back then (with added lewdity and absurdity) and you are about to be knighted once more, however, it appears that all of your companies and assets had been stolen! Because of this, a shadowy figure appears offering to give you a loan and help you start up your empire once more, taking on business partners to get started in paying off your loan, building your empire and defeating your rival and their minions in violent take overs!

The many different executives are date-able (and you aren't tied to one per playthrough) and all have their own fun and quirky personalities with lewd art that can be unlocked and their own traits with strengths and weaknesses, given the situation. For example, Pip the cute tomboy loses less energy in combat than others when initiating a takeover and Antoine Hardmeat (yes, that's his name) uses less energy when working at the bank to generate funds and all the others have similar traits and benefits that end up being strategically important when things get difficult late game.

You have to conquer districts and work your way up to the final one where you face the boss and then have to beat them before finishing the chapter at moving on, but also making sure to keep up with the ever-increasing loan repayment that at one point, starts demanding gold bars meaning you now have another resource to deal with!

The game itself is a really fun one for completetionists as the achievements are tied into upgrades that you can unlock by playing the game normally, but also, has a rouge-like quality to it where even if you lose and have to restart, any and all upgrades you've unlocked are still unlocked and purchasable from the trader in game. As of writing this, I've unlocked MOST items, however, I still have more to go and I enjoy this game enough that I'm willing to play it again and again to unlock more as it's quite a chill game. These items can be really powerful as the more mundane ones add new placements to place more executives and others give passive bonuses to your company and executives, which is why they're important to track down and unlock.

Dating is comprised of minigames that keep up the same absurdist humour. Especially in regards to one of the first dates unlocked, Butler Battle, which is like a game of battle ships, but with your butler as the ship and having only one ship to do battle with.

Every character gallery has some shipping writing to read between the characters and you even get a small peek of this when friendships are unlocked where executives working together can build up levels where they get better at working on a job together, getting more resources when together on the same job.

This game was ultimately a hell of a lot of fun to play and I will be returning to it every so often as I'm trying to get the last few achievements and loving the dialog between the characters, the player and unlocking more items for later. If you don't believe me, please take a look at the video below where I often ended up in giggling fits over the absurdity and hilarious situations that happen!

My gameplay/stream: https://youtu.be/AY4r10CFSUY?si=P_BOk9MVzkvKJtpD

I can't believe I've not reviewed this...I think I was waiting to return to this game and get all the achievements. Something I only save for games that really inspire me to go 110% for them. I originally streamed this years ago and certainly didn't know what I was going to get with this!

First part of my stream: https://youtu.be/-aDXAHywnFs

Now before continuing I'll get content warnings for this game out of the way for those that need them:
Sexual Abuse (referenced and suggestive imagery), gore (decapitations, blood, open wounds), body horror, Childhood Sexual Abuse (only written down and alluded to for first and DLC case) and that's all that comes to mind. I apologise if I missed any.

When I started this game up my assumption was that it would be a horror visual novel similar to others I had played in the past, being fairly typical and "middle of the road" in regards to horror (as there's only so much you can do with a VN, right?) however this would prove to be one of those that, like The Letter, has a lot of depth to it and can be really haunting. Even if you're the type not easily scared by horror or gore.

Unlike The Letter, this game doesn't have nearly as many branching paths, however, the choices in it were great and very fulfilling imo.

Story:
(It's been a while so bare with me...)
You play as someone who wakes up with amnesia and has a mysterious mark on your wrist. Soon you learn that it's a curse and when investigating a building that you feel a strange draw to and a clue about your curse you are greeted by a creepily human-like doll that's just sat there as if it were alive. The person you search for, turns out to be dead with flowers bursting from their stomach and before you can get any answers you meet a few strangers who were looking for the same person and needed help in their investigation of a haunted school.

The doll is actually alive and speaks to you about the curse, suggesting that they might be related somehow and you on on a adventure of tracking down these haunted locations and removing the spirits.

Gameplay:
As a VN you can imagine that there isn't too much here that you don't be expecting, that said, you are able to choose only one person to bring with you on these investigations and each one may give you a different insight or even have a skill to help with your investigation.

When you have a final showdown with the spirit, you have a selection of items to use that, when used, will create a different reaction and depending on what you do, you may either banish the spirit (effectively destroying the spirit and sending it to oblivion) or help them pass on (pacifying the spirit's rage, releasing everyone from it's curse and helping it pass to the other side) which in some cases were easy if you payed attention to who this ghost was, what happened in their life and, ultimately, how they became what they are now.

This adds more of a story aspect than real mechanical benefit from what I remember, but either ending is up to how you feel in regards to these lonely spirits who often ultimately died in a painful way that they didn't deserve. There are also timed sections where you need to make a choice or end up dead. A life-or-death situation where the wrong move can cost you your life which happens either due to the spirit finding you first before you are ready, a trap being set off or even attacked by a vicious/possessed animal. Again, the solutions are there if you look for them, however, not everyone will be able to identify them or even understand the order they need to be used in, but the save system is fairly generous so it isn't too bad. Again if memory serves.

The art is perfect in it's ability to portray images that evoke horror and fear. I wasn't too certain of it at the beginning, but I found myself really liking it. It's certainly not your typical brightly-coloured anime style and there is a lack of typical emotes like sweat drips and ect, however, this all just adds to the game. I don't think I could've taken these moments are seriously as I did when playing this if the art looked like, say, Hero Academia or Spy X Family. If anything, this is closer to Attack on Titan with it's use on dark colours that convey the seriousness of the series.

This is a really good horror VN that took me completely by surprise! I highly recommend it, but only if you can stomach through the content warnings mentioned earlier. They don't pull their punches in the topics of this game and it's all the more reason to play it!

Like numerous WB games, there's a LOT to be said about it. Not just from the content, but also the press surrounding it, how it went in heavily on microtransactions and even has a Orc Merchant character who smirks and cheers whenever you spend money to get random Orcs in these lootboxes.

This has been changed and gutted, but it's clear that this game was built with that in mind from the very beginning as all Orcs and Equipment have a rarity value that plays exactly like mobile games and MMOs (Commons, rares, epics, legendaries being the highest) making it a fact that cannot be ignored as it permeates every part of this game. That said, let's talk about the gameplay.

All I really have to say about storyline and gameplay is that if you enjoyed the first game, then you'll certainly enjoy this one. Especially in it's current state and not how it used to be prevalent with micro-transaction filth. Now it's a far better game, though flaws have been cleaned up too. However you also still have things like daily challenges and ect that remind you of it's failed attempt to be a full-priced game that was lousy with Micro-transactions.

The story essentially continuing the fight and battle from the first game, but then getting wiped out by the Dark Lord and having to start over. Interesting idea, however the only issue I have with this is you don't start with the ability to dominate Orcs and we all know that's one of the most fun bits of this game is dominating and controlling legions of Orcs. There's even a mechanic later of bringing them back from the dead to be zombies that are under your control!

With many side-missions to keep you entertained for hours, one of the things I hated using was the fighting pit. You have no control over your Orc as they fight a different orc and even if yours is a Legendary that you've leveled up, improved their abilities and more, they can still be defeated by a Common at half it's level making you curse the fighting pits and just getting on with the far more interesting side-missions like collecting artefacts, uncovering the past or finding Shelob's fragments that are scattered throughout the world and give you a look in her role for the rise of the dark lord.

Shelob has the ability to turn into a sexy woman, because, it's not like that's been done a billion times before! Though I admit she did have the voice of the very sexy Claudia Black so I also would like to give it a pass too. You get an ability to summon spiders if you find all of them, but it's a shame that the spiders come in only one size catagory and you can't, for example, have a Caragor-sized spider to charge around on, but that's a minor thing and it's especially fun when you're hunting a captain who is terrified of spiders so you immediately break him.

Without giving spoilers, the ending is certainly an interesting one and gives you a reason to come back and keep playing it and in a way that fits the narrative of the story, even giving you new powers and abilities to try out.

The game currently comes on sale quite often so if you're interested in more Shadow of Mordor, then certainly go ahead. If you want a fun action game then this is certainly fun and worth the price it often is on sale. Especially if you can get all the DLC to mess with extra characters and stories.

This review will be quite biased due to loving this game as a child-hood favourite of mine from back on the PS1! It's always a delight to see a game that you loved get updated, but you must be asking exactly how "updated" can it be.

My stream of the game: https://youtu.be/LT30sqbxK14

Visually, there isn't much that can be done for the character models, being 2D, much like the pre-rendered images in FF9, but reversed. Instead of seeing smooth characters walking around a blocking image, it's 2D characters with imperfect animation walking around a smoother 3D environment. This isn't as bad and it even enables you to notice things in the environment that you may not have before back on the old SRT TV when sat down on the floor after a hard day of going to school, getting bullied and now time to escape!

Anyway, for those who are already fans, this is a easy pick. The inclusion of achievements enhances the game as it pointed out locations and things that I had never done before. There are also no major game-breaking bugs or issues that you generally see when the remake is half-assed as I have experienced with certain FF games that get upscaled.

The music comes out a lot more crip too, so again, if you're already a fan, go ahead and join on the adventure again!


For those who have never played this game:

Story:
Grandia is a JRPG where you play as Justin, a boy who wishes to become an adventurer like his father before him and his before him. The game starts with cryptic images of an ancient civilisation and voiced lines from the general of the Garlyle Forces (The Military) General Baal, as he wakes up from his dream and discusses vaugly their mission with his son Colonel Mullen and Lieutenant Leen.

We get to view out the window to the nearby town of Parm where we play as Justin who is proving his worth to the bullies in that he'll discover hidden items to prove he'll be a real adventurer one day! The real adventure begins not too long later when you get investigating ancient ruins that the army just so happen to be investigating.

Gameplay:
Combat is done in a turn-based style, somewhat familiar to the ATB system in FF7, however, when one of your character's turn is ready, combat is paused so you can take your time to choose between combo, critical, magic&moves, Tactics, Defend, Item and Escape.

A concept I love in this game and have not seen in others (besides it's sequel) is that even though it's turn-based, the map is fairly open where characters need to move next to each other to attack, allowing certain bosses to have abilities that draw people close to them for a limited AoE attack that can be extremely brutal. This allows you to put your more magic-focused characters to stay out of close combat and time to intercept them as the enemy has to walk to them.

Combo is a basic attack where you swing twice (or more if equipped with a certain item) and dealing basic damage. You run up to the enemy and swing away.

Critical is where you take a moment to make one big swing. This is a single hit with more damage than a single swing, however, it is able to cancel out a enemy's action if they're in the process or charging up a powerful move or spell.

Magic & Movies: Self explanitory. You gain moves based on your weapons and your skill with each one, same with magic. It's not always obvious how big an area of effect might be, so be certain to note it down in your head, but most fall into the category of either "single Target" or "All ..." so you shouldn't get too lost with this.

Tactics: For those who want to let the AI do battles for you. Good for grinding, but I never used this myself so I can't comment on how good it is in any aspect.

Defend: You can choose between either putting up a strong defence, often making most attacks do minimal or no damage or Evade where you can run to a different spot across the free-form map that you fight on.

Item: Easy to understand. Pick an item to use like potions, food and even equip a different weapon. This is great if you want to level up multiple weapons or use certain weapons for certain enemies. i.e. Holy mace VS Ghosts

Escape: Another easy one. You attempt to run from battle, allowing you to abandon it, but the monster will still be on the map to face you if you wait around too long.

The leveling and magic system in this game really interested me and I've not seen much like it before apart from in certain really old-school RPGs. Leveling the character does the normal things, increased stats and amount of xp for the next level. However, you also have xp and levels in weapons and all four magic elements.

The weapons are often for moves, but can also be blended with magic to create some epic displays of power. Every weapon level comes with it certain stat increases, such as how I laughed at how powerful I made Sue because one of her main weapons (throw) gives you a bonus to strength with ever level and so I focused on that. Magic does the same so you'll often focus on earth and fire for your heavy hitters due to the stats that they improve.

Magic is must the same. The more you use it/more enemies you hit helps it level up quicker! Certain spells it can be VERY easy to level up, such as water which gives you all your healing spells, starting with heal. With the SP spare you can heal outside of combat and collect xp from doing so.

Just like with weapons, as you level them up you unlock new abilities, or in this case, spells. Not only that, but some spells require two seporate elements to be at a certain level and they give xp to both elements at the same time. Combinations like below:

Air + Fire = Lightning Magic.
Air + Water = Ice Magic.
Earth + Fire = Explosion Magic.
Earth + Water = Forest Magic

Each one having it's own unique spells that can't be obtained alone such as poison, magic block, move block and even buffs and healing. This certainly makes for a grind and because of how you only see a ????????? for every ability you don't have, it's exciting to find out what that spell is that requires such a high level of fire and only on Feena? The characters have access to unique spells too so you can't be certain what one person might have, however, the basic spells you get when you first get each element is always the same.

The fully-animated scenes of this game always blew me away and was why it was on two discs on the PS1 and for me the nostalgia was great as they are still well-crafted and beautifully animated, however, they aren't perfect. There's only so much up-scaling can do with old footage after-all, as demonstrated in this highlight of my stream of this game, around my Birthday and the only reason I streamed it: https://youtu.be/erQAR1XaJjk

I believe the game still performs well and you can find many endless hours of fun through the adventure! That said, I will once again admit that I am biased so this review isn't as free of it as most others that I write are.

This game was picked for me and my friends to stream on a weekend and though it was a lot of fun and showed some great promise, there. The game has a passive-collection system in the form of the adorable creatures called "Drakes" who are sadly not decended from Dragons, but that doesn't matter as these little adorable things do a lot of the building everywhere in camp, but you need to craft the amulets yourself for travel between the corruption to each island.

Monsters will routinely attack the island and there's so much stuff you can smash apart, collect and such to make back home. Not to mention, if you keep the Drakes well fed, not only will they gather stuff for you, but they'll continue to work and be happy! They also have the chance of finding objects you might find useful, dumping them in the mail box for you to get later.

Though we didn't get far, the story certainly had me intrigued. You play as this kid (I assume teenager?) who is on the outskirts of their city, looking back at it and their mobile, having a message from a love interest that says "I think we should see other people" which was an immediate Oof, but we ended up following a magical raven that brings us into the world of the Drake! You are given the task to not only be the guardian of the Drakes, but to also clean up and destroy the corruption that infests this whole world!

Now for the technical standpoint:

Graphically it has this cute cartoon look that I love and first time seeing a Drake I was just in love with the adorable thing! Oh, forgot to mention they even get you gifts too! Anyway...I found that the game didn't hamper my CPU like previous games I've played for our Saturday game and it worked well with streaming. I don't remember encountering any graphical glitches either.

Controls were great, no major issues and buttons were in the appropriate places. It just feels natural to play with a controller which I only do for certain games, usually 3rd person games. I also use a 3rd party controller so if it picked up mine without any issue, it'll certainly be compatible with whatever you have!

Multiplayer has one or two issues. When we played it, you weren't allowed to co-op until you completed the tutorial, which is fair enough I guess as the story is highly focused on your journey and it'd be weird if one teenager turned into multiple! We had to look up online how to join as it was never explained straight away, but apparently it's after the tutorial finishes, which is after you activate the Lighthouse. This was a pain as the three of us had to play the game singleplayer for a while before we could finally link up!

That said, we were having a lot of fun, but what ended it was when the game crashed. Crashes are not a major deal breaker, especially as after the entire hour it only happened once, but we lost ALL our progress. At first we were confused, wondering why it wasn't auto-saving, but it appears that, again, at the time, it was bugged and you had to make certain that you save because the auto-save was a little tempermental. So we lost all our story progress, all our weapons, buildings and so on, but when exiting I noticed that my character and her level was still there!

Stream of Part 1, hopefully more in the future: https://youtu.be/0Fi7aH3eVgo

Stream/Gameplay: https://youtu.be/zfSDeqKVwzY

This game has been sitting in my library for quite sometime and it's about time I got to it because I enjoy these kinds of games with a humour similar to that of games like Dungeon Keeper 2, Evil Genius and so on.

In this game you play as the native aliens on this planet that gets invaded by a drill/corperate tower owned by "Galacticoil" who are over-the-top dystopian capitalist company that doesn't care about the workers and the CEO is a fool who clearly failed upwards in his life and had no idea how to deal with real dangerous situations.

The aliens obviously have a reference to xenomorphs and the way the game works is you gain Biomatter by eating humans. Both the unarmed workers and the armed security detail. With this Biomatter, the queen can create a drone that later is able to evolve into three different creatures that have their own strengths and weaknesses.

There is a upgrade tree where you put your points on multiple branching paths. The fun and interesting part of this is that you can save before a mission and turn upgrades on and off so you aren't stuck with a certain build if you find that you don't use a unit that much or if you feel the points could be spent in better places for a certain mission you might be struggling with.

The dark humour is great and I love how the voice actors have played their roles so well in this, but at the same time the game felt a little short as I was having SO much fun with this. I still highly recommend this to anyone looking for a turn-based tactical game with a dark sense of humour.

This is a game that surprised me in many ways and all of them good! I'm quite a fan of the B-movies that this game is referencing, both successful ones that were staples of Sci-Fi like Forbidden Planet, Planet of the Apes movies (yes, movies. There were many more than just the first), ect and awful ones that you may or maynot have seen on MST3K!

For example, the interrositor from "This Island Earth" which was in the MST3K movie makes an appearance! The arm-mounted laser weapon from "Laserblast" appears on mobs near the end and we even see a monster that has the head of the creature from "The Giant Claw" which became infamous merely due to the fact that a Mexican props department was paid next to nothing, they shot the film, then later got the prop which was hilariously ugly!

Anyway, about the gameplay. At first it controls like a twin-stick, but more like 3rd person RPGs like Grim Dawn, Path of Exile and ect. Your weapons are found throughout the game and upgraded, giving you an ability to choose what to focus on. There are no real stat changes from what I've noticed, but I obviously haven't gone through the code or done extensive research, but I often boiled it down to what weapons had reach and which ones were small and fast to inter-change depending on the situation.

The game's set up is that you are playing as the characters of this Director's movie that's being remastered on DVD, called, "The Deadly Tower of Monsters" ! obviously. As the game goes on the commentary is hilariously funny, talking about the costumes, certain actors off the set (like how the emporer was played by a dodgy used-car salesman who ripped off his producer) but he also reacts to certain secrets like the film reels you can collect, however, those things are all just extras.

A part of this game I didn't expect, but quite enjoyed was being able to aim down off the tower and shoot at the approaching enemies. A warning that they're coming represented with a hologram Invader from Space Invaders.

As to be expected, the higher you get, the more monsters and references you battle! If you work on the achievements, you earn upgrades that affect ALL characters such as extra energy, extra hp, more damage with guns, more damage with melee weapons and so on. This is all another reason that you might want to look for these items, however, it isn't required as quite a few you'll do by accident like fully-upgrading weapons, destroying mutant dinosaur eggs or flying through hoops!

The bosses are massive and feel massive to take on. Especially as the giant monsters will often be falling down off the tower and you have to shoot them, making certain to avoid danger, but also keep shooting the boss until they crash and die!

The ending had a twist I really didn't see coming! I don't wish to spoil it, but it was a lot of fun and really got me engrossed in finding out what would happen next!

I recommend this to anyone who likes these kinds of games and especially fans of B-movie shlock films, like those by Ed Wood. There is a lot of fun to be had, even after finishing the game.

Stream/Gameplay: https://youtu.be/ivrH8Wvh2_E