Recent reviews by Bob A. Black

It runs at 43 fps with low graphics. It isn't that bad for my overused 1050ti graphic card. I had fun testing my PC.

Typical night in Romania.

Joking apart, Cry of Fear is the scariest game I've ever played.
Everything in the game creates the perfect creepy and anxious environment. I always had the need (and paranoia) to watch my back and check every corner. Sometimes monsters like to get out of nowhere and brutally scare you (you can't imagine how many times I jumped from my chair).

There is only one feature I hated in Cry of Fear: the platforming sections. Collisions are really bad, but luckily these sections are just a few.

And one last thing: play your very first run in Easy difficulty, because you may find this game kinda difficult. I played in Normal, and I can say it was quite challenging.

Game is badly optimized, and some achievements are bugged.

Some quests are bugged, and there isn't a save option.

I can't recommend Hello Neighbor because of two big issues:

Puzzles:
Puzzles are nearly impossible to solve without following a walkthrough. Most of them can't be solved by logic.

Glitches everywhere:
Very often, everything gets stuck inside the walls: The Neighbor, the items, even the main character.
The worst that could happen is when an item essential to beat the level disappears from your inventory out of the blue.
In Act 3, after I spent more than 4 hours racking my brain to solve puzzles, I was about to open a door using the red key (essential item to beat that level), and suddenly the key decided to vanish for my inventory. I tried to search for it everywhere in the map but in vain (I even checked the Lost and Found Box).
The only thing I could do was to restart the level, but I didn't want all my time to be wasted, so I temporarily enabled the Universal Key cheat on Cheat Engine, and finally unlocked that door.


In conclusion, Hello Neighbor isn't a horror game, it's a very frustrating parkour game that has very bad platforming and a lot of bugs.

- it's been a long while since I played Dead By Daylight
- waited half a day to install it
- played first match (as survivor): killer idling
- played another one: killer bot
- bought a new killer, Knight, using free currency (iridescent points)
- waited 20 minutes in queue for matchmaking
- new killer was very hard to play
- got bullied and then insulted in chat
- played the next matches using The Trapper (my favourite killer)
- won 2 (survivors were mindless)
- lose 1 (matched against seasoned players)
- realized that the game is unbalanced, and devs only care about money
- uninstalled it
- never more

One of the best story I've ever played since I've started to play video games.
The more you play it, the more you get hooked (I finished the game in just two days).
Game lenght isn't neither too long, nor too short. I beat the game in about 6 hours.
I really loved to hear every character's voice in the game. Voice actors did an astonishing job.

And one more thing (spoiler ahead!):
The plot looks like a mix up of Fight Club and Falling Down.

Gentlemen, welcome to Dubai.

Hamster Playground review

Pros:

- Microtransactions only concern skins, dress, and home decorations
- Probably the best hamster game on Steam
- There aren't achievements behind a paywall

Cons:

- There is only one free background music (aside from minigame modes). The other ones are locked behind DLCs
- Only 1 of 5 minigame is free of charge (developers gave away some for free to early access players)
- Gameplay is lacking (there's not much to do)
- DLCs are overpriced
- Can be very repetitive after some hours
- Two achievements required to farm the level for 20+ hours

Recommendation:
You might love it if you've a liking for hamsters. Generally speaking, I don't recommend it.

Rank: 2 out of 5 [★★]

Animation Throwdown: The Quest of Cards review

Pros:

- A lot of characters from famous adult tv shows (Family Guy, Futurama, American Dad, King of the Hill, Bob's Burger, Archer)
- Good variety of cards
- You can unlock all the achievements without spending money (a couple require grinding)

Cons:

- Some levels in Story Mode are nearly impossible to beat, unless you don't spend money (and get lucky) on card packs, otherwise you have to farm cards
- Unoriginal and terrible music; they could have use some of the soundtracks from these shows
- Season Pass and card packs are expensive
- Online multiplayer has pay-to-win players

Recommendation:
There are way better card battler games on Steam, and they can be often found on deep discount. I don't recommended it.

Rank: 2 out of 5 [★★]

The clunky commands make this game super hard to play.
The bosses have way too much health to be defeated without making your character die first.