Recent reviews by simmer9191

LIKE:
- good retro style animation. nice and relaxing atmosphere.
- is a good game for relaxing after get hit countless of time in other souls games. Everyone can enjoy without opening a guide. BUT... (more on this on disliked.)
- good story telling. It breaks my heart when the game reveal what and why story are in the last (5th) chapter.

DISLIKES:
- During animation, it's unskipable mostly. When the long animation ends, there is no sign that the player need to take control. Lots of time the long animation interval that the character just bouncing on the screen before anything continue. During these animations, we cannnot skip and we don't know if it's the end of the animation. So, if we keep banging spacebar, we will end up skipping the first few dialogues. If you play it, you will understand what I mean. The reason that I want to hurry through is most of the animations especially in the first 4 chapters is nothing much really happen.
- The story in the first 4 chapters for me is too slow pace.
- The worst (and may be only) aspect of the game for me is lots of achievements can only be done in the first or second playthrough. Lots of these are choices that is no right or wrong answer. If you just want to enjoy the game as it is, you will miss most of the achievements. That explains why the global percentage achievements are very low.
You will need a master level of Rhythm game skills to get quite a few of these achivements which may be a surprise.

I'm not quite sure how I got this game in my library. The game is quite fun though. It's retro style pixelete graphics should be simple enough to play on very low spec. pc. I believe many already have this game in their library too. Give it a try!

This is among the best racing games that can be played solely with keyboard. The only exception is drifting is still too hard especially if you want to get 3 stars on drifting. The default setting is not good for keyboard control. You just need to make sure to adjust the game setting properly. For me, I played many different games that best control with keyboard+mouse/joy pad/wheel. I play 1-3 hours/days, 3-5 days/week on FH5. It would be inconvenient and time consuming just to install the steering wheel on my desk every time I play FH5 or other driving games. I don't know how others handle this.

Simply the best hack & slash. This is despite the fact that I'm not a fan of Minecraft. The art style is much more refine comparing to Minecraft. To enjoy all the contents, you will need the Ultimate Edition + 3 Season Pass. At this time, it's the best price so far.

At first, I almost refund the game immediately after I saw how crude our character graphic is. It looks like 80's games on big screen monitor. After I know more about the mechanics of the game, I decided to keep it. Hopefully, looking forward to endless hours of game play in the future.

Edit 25/6/2024: I got what I hope for. Now, I added 79 hours to it. I still just explore fraction of it. One thing is I have to do more research on how to proceed further. It's not so obvious what to do next after you beat the first boss, for example. If you found it, most likely, you will need to search more on how to get all the necessary dependencies in order to move forward. Most likely, I will have to search for dependencies of dependencies...

In summary, it's complex piece of simulation software, be prepare to spend huge portion of your life on it. If you look for game that is cheap and lots of mechanics and contents with good replay value, look no further.

After the new update just drop today, the Creation Club is still inaccessible (from where I'm). It has been available until this NG update that silently took it away. There is no explanation of why. This makes us lost access to all previous claimed/purchased items.

I would consider myself lucky given lots of discussions lately have problem getting it works on modern PC. I myself also faced some difficulty with other (mostly old) games despite trying all fixes that I can find. I just would like to say that this one works flawlessly on my first launch w/o having to figure out anything.

The dual monitor game play is also working quite nicely and is easy to setup. However, we have to set up this from the launcher. No in-game dual/single monitor switch. We can always quite the game and relaunch it to change this setting.

However, I have 24"/1920x1080 and 27"/2560x1440 monitor. The game does support setting both monitor to run at 1080. The launcher tends to prefer the higher resolution (1440) and locks the resolution. This makes the game overflow on my 1080 monitor. But it is possible to switch it to 1080p, although it is a bit tricky. Having done that, the different in physical screen dimension makes controlling/aiming across monitors less ideal. This really tempting me to acquire another 27" monitor just for this game. The ultra wide dual screens setup is very impressive during game play.

Having to mention that the graphics are updated. It looks really nice comparing to anything emulated. My final verdict is to Just grab it during sales period which happened a few times a year lately.

In my first game session, the game is quite impressive. Great graphics. No problem so far. Although, I didn't make much progress to judge it yet. I just feel that it's quite fun and not that bad at all. The only problem is the price is falling fast ^^. Now, it's already cheaper than when I bought it.

The game is good. Easy to play and fun. The only problem is the quality of the PC port. Someday, I do not have any problem. Other days, I got crash when starting the game or when spider man died. When this happens, it always happen 100% of the time. Sometime, I just reboot and it just work. As a lot of ppl already complained, it truely happens. So, if you are not ready for this, skip it till they really fix it. (30/9/2023)

If I have listened to other's advice on getting this instead of paying more on other hack&slash, I would have save 29USD to use on some other games. You won't regret it esp if you buy when it's on sale. Just get the whole bundles. Graphically, they're on the same level.