Recent reviews by Raaleth

A Larian title that often gets overlooked and IMO doesn't get the attention it deserves.

It offers an interesting take on the Divinity universe lore, showing it well before the RPG games from a steampunk perspective. The writing is what you'd expect from Larian - nuanced, immersive, and of high quality. Thorough the game you get to make a lot of political decisions, and the game does a very good job at presenting different points of view convincingly. Also, you have a general who is a lizardman in a suit.

Gameplay is relatively simple and relaxing - think of it as Total War lite, with one twist: you participate in the battles as a DRAGON WEARING A STEAMPUNK JETPACK. If that doesn't convince you, I don't know what will.

Great mobility shooter. Ridiculously fast, bloody, with Darksouls-like bosses (in the sense that you can die in seconds if you miss one dodge).

Weird, hell-heaven-robots-and-guts atmosphere, with an admixture of jazz and lots of blood. Makes for a very unique feel. It also has an equally gritty story to go with it.

There were a few weird hiccups, like some maps in episode 3 (including one where you can't see much) and an odd checkpoint here and there, but it doesn't subtract much from the overall experience.

Great expansion pack to a great game.

Game takes place mostly in the castle and catacombs, which is very reminiscent of Return to Castle Wolfenstein. It replaces The New Order's technology-oriented themes with more occult ones, which is even more of a throwback to RTCW. It offers a mostly new arsenal, and I fell in love with Bombenschuss. They don't make bolt action rifles in games like they used to. Also the pipes are so much more satisfying than knives.

Visuals are absolutely stunning, especially for someone who prefers RTCW aesthetic to TNO. Great mountain vistas come together with detailed castle interiors to create an absolute eye candy galore.

That being said, the game has some drawbacks. The gold pickups/secrets seem generic, and the initial section of sneaking behind supersoldiers drags a bit and feels repetitive. The difficulty has some sudden spikes as well, with several combat arenas where you either start back up against a wall, with not much room to manouvre, or which are so open you can be shot from any direction.

Still, it's a great expansion pack overall. (yes, an actual expansion pack, not a DLC)

The capybara of city builders. Nice, relaxing, simple, with graphics that can only be described as friendly and very calm music. Good city builder to relax for half an hour.

Really decent city builder sim with a nice, minimalist, clean, sci-fi style.

I'd call the game a hybrid between your usual city builder and a manufacturing game. You've got citizen buildings and traffic to manage, but you'll be spending most of your time establishing production chains, making sure that you are producing the right ratios of resources in an area, and managing traffic.

Really impressed with the number of traffic management options, it's basically on the same level as modified Cities Skylines. The game has adjustable difficulty level where you can pick how many items each vehicle moves per trip and if you want to have vehicles do return trips, which is a far more useful difficulty setting approach than just changing item costs like in most games.

Only real downside is the train management system. When you click on a station it doesn't give you the names of train lines passing through it, and similarly, when you click on a train there's no line info. It's especially bothersome when you compare it with how well the traffic management is designed.

Also extra points for the devs working on the game and reacting to player feedback. One of the updates broke the distribution centres, devs fixed it within a day of me reporting the issue. Wish more developers reacted that quickly.

Lovely, 80s futuristic retro aesthetic. Although there isn't too much variety in the environments, for a game of this length it's suitable.

Think of the ships and stations in Aliens. Writing's alright, with a few standard sci-fi twists. The puzzles are there to create pacing rather than challenge the player, and the ones in cyberspace tend to get repetitive.

It's definitely not on the same level as Firewatch, but it's a decent little game for this price. Would recommend, especially for those who love futuristic visuals featuring clunky CRT monitors and mechanical clicking keyboards.

Great game, but recently there have been increasing connectivity issues, which is the last thing you want from a PvP game. It's getting to the point where any large scale battles are at times impossible and using bigger vehicles is not viable.

Also glitches are starting to pop up, like bridges with invisible walls on them, people unable to access seaports etc.

Devs just said that they're aware and they'll fix it in the next major update, which is at least several months away - the development cycle is pretty poor, with major updates coming out every several months and no minor fixes inbetween, even if something is obviously broken.

Negative review will stay until the connectivity and QOL issues are fixed.

I really like how Black Labirynth fits into the formula of old expansion packs instead of DLCs. Good amount of content for the price paid. More levels, more enemies, more weapons, more music.

Levels are even bigger than in original Amid Evil, and they maintain the same visual standard. Big high fantasy vistas, lots of contrasting colours, all of it conveys a sense of scale and wonder very well.

The projectiles for already existing weapons feel somewhat smoother. As for the two new weapons, the scythe is IMO much better than the Aeturnum, and the fists are one of the best melee weapons I've seen in a shooter. The feedback on hitting an enemy is so juicy that periodically I'd check if I've still got all my organs intact, just to be safe.

The difficulty level overall is a bit higher than in the base game, which is what you'd expect from an expansion - you're supposed to finish it after you mastered the base game.

Someone mentioned puzzles being too difficult, to which I answer... Puzzles? What puzzles? The pacing is smooth and I don't think I've ever had to stop and think for longer than 10 seconds. My only minor gripe would be relatively low number of giant enemies, though I guess a lot of people would find them too spongy.

Buy it, its a steal for that price, even if its not on sale.

I've finished this game about 5 times over the last couple years. One of the best old-school shooters/boomershooters out there.

Good gun feedback, great explosions, high interactivity, interesting, dirty cyberpunk art style, and lots of punchy one liners. Build engine game through and through. Also bonus points for this game reminding me of SiN, which I loved as a kid.

We used to talk about the holy trinity of Build games, Ion Fury makes it a holy quad.

One of my favourite anti-depressants, one of those game you can count on to get you through a tough period.

I especially appreciate the humour, quite dark, but never feeling like it tries too hard. The writing overall is really decent.