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Acolyte is a interesting little AI assisted mystery game that has some really neat ideas but also is just... a wee bit at odds with its premise.

The problem with having a story about you being assisted by a high end AI is... well we dont have those. We certainly don't have them avalible for use in a computer game. You will frequently come up against this wall where she doesn't understand what your asking, or misunderstands something because you aren't at the step of the story that she expects you to find something out at. Which is another problem, you can easily jump ahead if you figure something out too quick and break progression. I had to wipe my original save because I solved a puzzle early, skipping a story step, and she kept refrencing events that hadn't happened in game yet or would no longer take solutions to earlier steps in the puzzle.

Its still an interesting game and for the price i think its a decent money to time spent ratio but just be aware that much like the app in game, this game is still something in need of a few bug fixes.

Also, not really a pro or a con but I did realize something after finishing the game. You can unlock a lot of outfits but oddly never the one shes displayed as in the game header or most the promotional material. Slightly odd.

I got this game ages ago as a gift and so every now and again I come back to it to try and give it another go just so their money didn't go to waste.

But like.. nah man. I normally am ready to go to bat for From softs design decisions but nah. This ain't it. This is a game for the nichest of niches even when it comes to From Soft fans and if you are in that niche you aren't bothering to read review in the first place.

It's not a bad game but I do think that by default the game takes too long to get through the dialog and results. I know that once I finished the game I was able to use an option to speed things up but I don't recall seeing it in the original options. The end result is the game took a couple hours to complete and I was feeling kind of weary of it by the end.

I also think its a mistake to have ALL the questions presented to you in one playthough. There is very little replay value to be found here because of it. Having a randomized assortment of questions with more added as time goes on would give it more legs.

I'm recommending it because I think its an interesting game conceptually, but it is a rough experience and not just because of putting your thought process under a microscope.

Everhood is a game full of interesting ideas that sadly never really materialize or are fully explored enough to be satisfying. The games story is somewhat lacking and it very clearly exists to be a counterpoint to another popular indie darling but fails to carry any of the charm or weight of its opposite.

It also very very very much does not know how, or when to end. There were like 4-5 times the game literally goes "This is it! Lets end this right!" and then continues on to the next instance of that. It just meanders as a game and as an ending seems like they wanted to cram every trope they could fit despite it already clearly overflowing out of its seems.

What could have been a really good remaster/remake of an SNES classic is instead marred by an attempt to expand the games runtime by inserting a bunch completely annoying and unfun tower defense sections between story quests. The result IS a longer game.. but one that I ended up really having a hard time picking back up as each chapter only makes the sections less and less tolerable.

Do you like factorio but wish it kept you on your toes more, constantly having to run around trying to find new sources of resources to replace the dwindling ones you have back at home and dealing with a spherical planet with shifting gridlines instead of one flat giant perfectly spaced out world?

Well dyson sphere program is for you!
Just.. don't ever expect to be able to sit around on your rear for the first few days of playing because until you get deep into the tech tree your pretty much always going to have to be tearing down, rebuilding, moving, and improving your factory. Your going to have to content with RNG giving you planets in your local system that have really crap power generatior capabilities or lacking vital resources. Your going to have to expand, contract, and expand again. All in pursuit of the moment you finally have enough of everything to start consuming the universe for its resources.

Look its.. not really worth playing. 20 minutes of extremely easy puzzles with zero portals to be seen and really poorly thought out controls. Like who makes a VR game without a turning mechanic? You just assume everyone has full room tracking and can have their controllers seen with their body fully turned?

Anyways yeah its just.. not worth it.

Avengers isn't a bad game. It's just not.. a good one.

The combat is kinda dull and lifeless with unexciting loot. The campaign saddles you with mostly playing as a character that doesn't really have that exciting of powers? Especially not next to like Thor or Ironman.

The story.. feels off? Like, first off it feels like this game is trying to put itself in the MCU with some of the refrences and characterizations but also It's impossible to get past that nobody looks like their MCU version and the characters all act a little questionably. Like the main character is a fan fic writer who is a big fan of super heros but when she gets mutant powers all she does is kinda bemoan that shes a freak now when it seems like if anything she would have been at the forefront of the resistance long ago.

Everything is just either kinda off, kind of weird, or bland bland bland. You spend a lot more time running around punching robots than anything else.

Having sunk 11 hours into it my take away with this game is that Littlewood isnt' a bad game persay but it is a game with more fat on its bones than meat. About everything you need to do in the game leaves you at the mercy of rng with an energy system that feels stilfing at most times. You'll spend more time grinding out the same resources again and again and again than doing anything else and the town building segment is more or less.. I mean its there, but it never really feels that deep.

You get people who want to live in your town, you grind out enough mats to build their house, you get a blueprint from them that you grind the mats out for and build... eventually like halfway through the game you get the desk blueprint letting you see what they want in their home and then you fight rng both in the marketplace as well in the resource gathering dungeons so that you can finally fill out a page of their requests and get a blueprint for some quality of life ability that feels like should have been gated some other way. Rinse, repeat, until you get bored.

While its not BAD... when you compare it to other similar titles it feels very light on the content and heavy on the grind (or the fat). It's just hard to recommend it when most the time you will spend with the game is dealing with the arbitrary gating the game puts in front of you to extend its playtime.

Every few years I come back to shovel knight going "man why didn't i ever finish this game? Its so famous in its genre!" and every few years I play for like an hour and remember why. Because its not a difficult platformer, its just a very rubberross-ian troll platformer where you learn a little, die, and repeat. Some people find that fun. I can't say it seems like very good game design.