Recent reviews by Pinko

One of the best games of the last few years. The Story and Main Quest are well designed and even I, who hasn't played the previous games, could follow the story. The missing pieces are explained and the old characters get introduced (a lot of implicit explanations though). The variety in Sidequests is really nice to see and there often are different approaches for completing them. Also in the main quest there are some decisions to make which have greater consequences.
The world looks fantastic and is stuffed with mini-objectives.
There is almost nothing bad i could say about the game, just really little, irrelevant things. Everybody should have played this game!

I had high expectations when a release date for Rise of the Tomb Raider was announced. But of course I tried not to be hyped since the last years many games were overhyped - when you played them or saw actual gameplay footage they were just bad or not close to what trailers showed.
But this title just surprised me. First, I was overwhelmed by the graphics (I didnt play too many new AAA Titles the last year, but if you did, i guess you'll still find it pretty). Then I saw how big some of the areas are and again was surprised. Beautiful landscapes and if you look close enough, they are full with collectables. As you may want to know, I played the game on 100%, got all of the collectables. And I was never really bored by searching the map. Gameplay was really good - Mechanics worked well and control input felt natural. I don't want to spoil the mechanics, which are augmented during the game. It's hard to describe, but I really loved the experience I had playing this game. The story however is ok, a little bit flat and predictable (No trash plot though).


If you played Tomb Raider 2013, you'll love that game. Some things are similar, but Rise of the Tomb Raider is better in many ways. I highly recommend this game to everybody who enjoys adventures, singleplayer, nicely designed game worlds and collecting (Also recommend the game when you don't like the last aspect since you can play it without searching for all the little things and sidequesting). Hope to see more from this developer studio :)

I played Bioshock a time ago and now have finished Bioshock 2. I didn't really expect that what was given to play there. It does everything a bit better than the 1st game:

• Graphics. That's obvious because its the later game, but still should be named here.
  
• Setting. So cool setting with such differing places. Really like that.
  
• Gameplay. New weapons and a better weapon-handling (maybe it's just because I got trained by Bioshock 1 but it still felt much better)
  
• Respawning. In my Bioshock review I wrote, I hated the respawning enemies. They still respawn but not that often and in those large numbers as in the first game. Very good solution.
  
• Orientation. I had my problems with pathfinding in Bioshock but targets are chosen more wisely, and the compass works better. Although there's much to explore aside the main quests, the levels aren't that confusing. Thanks a lot for that :D
  
• Mind Blowing story. I loved the story of Bioshock, it was special and somehow twisty but here comes Bioshock 2. I'll explain some Spoiler free- story below.

The story is way better than in the first game. It takes part about 20 years after Bioshock and has some referances to that in the beginning. Even an old character is seen in the beginning. 1st thing special: You Play a big daddy. But not any, it's the one who was soulbound to the daughter of Professor Lamb. She really doesn't like us and makes us kill ourselves in the first cutscene. Then the game begins. So many questions: what happened, why are we alive when we just died? There will be more questions... The answers are fascinating, mindblowing and totally worth playing.

If you liked Bioshock, you'll love this.

just a few things to add:
In the beginning I had a bug, when I startet the game it closed the game window. Had this a few times but then it worked. You should save the game from time to time, because if you have a bug it's really getting on your nerves. Had 2 really strange ones and took quite a time. Plus I had the closing-bug again in a later point of the game. Gladly directly after a safepoint but had to start the game 3 or 4 times. Still think it's an awesome game^^

The story and setting are wonderful, It looks beatiful and it's very hard. So if you like or think you could like "Point and clicks" this game is right for you. If you don't I think it though could please you. It's another masterpiece from Daedalic, so have fun with it^^

I really liked the atmosphere in BioShock and many of the ideas it has. But still there are things which were terrible: the enemies respawn all the time and sometimes I didn't know what to do or where to start to do what I had to do. So this might get on your nerves. But still I would recommend BioShock because I think this experience shouldn't be missed^^

Well, I played CS:GO a lot and I liked it. I wanted to try this game, too but I think it isn't very good. It is sometimes fun but not constantly. The menu and server-searching thing is not very confortable, it feels not very balanced and so on. The idea of counterstrike is great, the game that it wants to be, but in my opinion they reached this goal in CS:GO. Maybe I'm too spoiled by CS:GO, but I'd recommend to buy CS:S just in a good deal (e.g. wait for sale) if you want, but It was better to buy CS:GO.

I loved "Edna & Harvey: the breakout" and this game is the following. And it's as good and surprising as its predecessor^^ You see that things have changed; theres not anymore this "Every single item combination has a different reaction" feature... It's a shame, but Story and Idea are again more than awesome and implemented. So again a recommendation :)

I knew this game was great before I played (Many people said so). But though I knew, I was surprised. It's an old game and you see there was no big studio which made this.
But I love it because it has so cool features:

• It has a great story and a fascinating plot (and twists)
  
• It's humor is awesome
  
• It includes extremely hard puzzles etc.
  
• Every single item combination and reaction is different (really every single reaction!)

and more. I just recommend to buy it, nothing more to say :D

This game first seemed a bit strange but I know, that Daedalic games usually are good. So I played it and in my opinion it's a very nice game. The Voice acting is great and the plot, too. I think it's not as good as the "Deponia" trilogy and the two "Edna and Harvey" games but still one of the best Point&clicks I think. I'd recommend to buy in sale^^

An adventure, not very long but very nice. It looks beautyful and the synchro and music are awesome. It includes just a part of the story (it is chapter one) so I can't tell you for sure that it is good, but this first chapter lets me think its pretty cool. When you played through, theres some BTS stuff worth to take a look at. It's worth its price but of course it's sometimes half prized or lower, so if you can wait i recommend to buy it then. Have fun with this game^^
Only thing I disliked: I had a little bug in the beginning, the prologue adio and video didn't fit well, and (spoiler) the guns in the outro looked really strange xD