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Ive played only as danny trejo for the past year or so, largely because its a huge pay-to-qol kind of dlc. Its not at all pay to win, since you can find and/or craft an equivelant to everything you get. However, spawning with a spacious set of clothes and a really powerful and most importantly light melee weapon is really great. If I play on a pve server i tend to not use this, though, to get more immersion since im not sweating. Idk if I'd buy this for 15 bucks though, its worth more like the 7 bucks I paid for this.

Arhippa approved.

Quite the excellent game. Pacing, graphics, gameplay and all were on par with the quality you would expect from the "Resident Evil" title, in other words it was nothing short of phenomenal. All and all, the only shortcoming was that sometimes the enemies would feel rather way too challenging. This was very uncommon however, and a rather miniscule shortcoming at that. I would rate this game a very solid 9/10. It is a bare minimum of 10 hours of scary and fun gameplay, with a lot of replayability if you are into that.

Dark Souls II is very much it's own experience. If you are looking for a very similar experience to DS or DS3, I would not recommend this. With this being said, however, I must say that despite playing through DS1 and 3, I very much enjoyed this game. All around, it is it's own unique experience. Pros and cons:

+ Excellent graphics
+ Aesthetically pleasing world
+ All around unique in its style
+ Interesting enemies

- Lore is probably told the worst out of all the DS games, not inherently badly, however
- Combat is meh, playable but dont buy this game for the combat

I would not recommend buying this for the full price. It def is not worth 40 bucks. However, I bought a copy off of G2A for 8 bucks, totally worth it in such case.

It's a fun nostalgia trip for those who have had the privilege of enjoying the Swords & Sandals series as a child, and def worth its penny.

For those who are not playing this as nostalgia, I suspect you could still get a kick out of this. It's a nice game to play while queing for a game in Overwatch lol, or just as a fun game by itself as well.

10/10, would recommend.

Scum is a very good game. It's PvE is particularily fun, and PvE lacks only in consistencty of the private servers. I hear NA servers are more stable than russian ones so theres that. When playing this game in its default state (e.g settings have not been changed from the base game), then be prepared for a challenge of true magnitude. Survival will be tough, guaranteed. For those looking for a more BR experience, theres always the easy "10X LOOT MAX CARS MAX EVERYTHING" etc etc. I find these very boring but, you do you. What's amazing is how this game is not even finished yet, and it is incredibly good.

HUGE DISCLAIMER:
DO NOT CONSIDER BUYING THIS WHEN IT IS NOT IN SALE.
For you to fully enjoy CIV 5, you definently need all the DLC. All the good mods etc. Require them, and also the game is boring without them. As you can see, they cost an insane amount, but luckily the DLC combined with the base game goes on very dapper -90% or more sale every now and them. Wait for that, and then buy this, you will not regret it.

ANOTHER DISCLAIMER. FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR EARS, TURN DOWN VOLUME UNTIL THE LOGO SCREEN IS OVER WHEN BOOTING THE GAME. IT IS LOUDER THAN THE FULL MIGHT OF A FLEET OF JET ENGINES. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Disclaimer(s) over.

As for the actual review, there is not a game more flexible than CIV 5 in my opinon. Most of the time, I play civ 5 while doing something else, and I love it so much. I watch interesting videos, often movies even, or even do my homework. I even often take reps between turns, that's how chill this game is. You just need a mouse, no need to use keyboard which adds a huge amount of chillness to the game. That's how chill this game can be.

With that being said, civ 5 has an unbelievable potential for anyone to be a very immersive experience.
This is what I mean by this game being flexible. It can be the ultimate chill, sit-back game, or it can also be the ultimate immersive strategy game. Below I will list some very immersive parts of this game.

- You can to plan out a military strategy against 4 (or any number really) different nations all allied against you. You have to take into account everything. "Where will I place these forts?" "What natural terrain can I use to my advantage?" "Is my coast protected well enough?" "What city should I attack first?" "How can I get a favorable peace treaty?" It's just amazing the amount of thinking that can go into this game.

- You can plan out an invasion across the world against someone playing on a continent far away. Enough said, that's badass.

- Diplomacy is a large feat in this game. Seriously. The amount of depth that can go to diplomatic ties is amazing, and you just have to try it out yourself to know. Alliances can be formed with one important civilization by denouncing certain leaders this important civ dislikes, doing them favours etc etc. It's amazing.

- There are just so many things in this game that I have not even mentioned that add to immersion. Planning where to settle, religion, its all great.


You might be thinking that no perfect game exists. And well you would be pretty much right. Civ 5 is 99% perfect. There are many games where I feel like I have wasted some hours perhaps in playing them so much but Civ 5? Not one hour feels like its wasted. It's an amazing game, and I hope to play even more. The game allows you to focus on different aspects of life while allowing itself to be used as a sort of place to just chill.

Cons? The music probably. Like seriously, I remember in the beginning hearing some stupid frog croaking while playing with the Aztecs. One should not forget the good music however, it does exist. Shoshone peace theme is one example of an amazing civ 5 theme. Actually there are very few sort of "Main themes" that are bad, just that the music that plays during actual playing is... not good. Bleh. For your own sake, unless you enjoy frogs croaking, turn off the music or replace it with something better. (this can be done via simple file manipulation.) I for one have totally turned off music but each to their own.

There is no person I could not recommend CIV 5 to. I was COMPLETELY new to strategy games (especially turn-based ones) but I loved the game in an hour or so. Even after 1000 hours, I still have ♥♥♥♥ to do and am looking forward to it. New mods to try, fun achievements, it's all there.

Final verdict? 9/10. (one point taken off for ♥♥♥♥♥♥ frog croaking. ♥♥♥♥ you Aztecs, no one likes you anyway you backstabbing war-mongering cu*t)