Recent reviews by Cypher

This game is a masterpiece. I definitely recommend it, even at full price, let me elaborate my joy of playing this work of art.

I ended my first playthrough (Coop with 1 friend, Tactician Mode) in more or less 125 hours (review states 154, ignore it, save says 125~, spent time afk in the menu) and i was speechless, overjoyed and I also had this feeling of bittersweetness after ending it. I will add on this matter that i did complete the first Divinity Original Sin game, and while that one is also a great game, THIS one is FAR superior, in every aspect no questions asked.

First of all the Story: Oh dear where do i begin now? It's a very colorful, deep, loaded with feels, filled with twists type of story. I liked every questline, from the most secondary and marginal one, to the main ones, there is so much attention to details that you're just overwhelmed. The characters involved are all different and each of them is unique from another, backgrounds, dialogues (100% voice acted), alignments and so on. The feelings that interwine them with the story are so deep that, I wont hide i was close to crying in one (maybe two?) situation.
This game cannot be discovered in just one run, mainly because you can make so many choices that lead into different story paths and endings, that sometimes you're left there deeply thinking what is the choice you want to make, especially because there is no correct answer in 90% of the cases.
Long story short, who wrote the story is a full fledged artist and a genius, you get a 10/10 out of me.

The Graphics and Music: I loved every soundtrack present in the game and the sounds are all really pretty and appropriate. Graphically speaking the game is also outstanding, it delivers amazingly portrayed areas of the game, cool character models and a really cool set of art.

The Gameplay (TACTICIAN MODE): For me it's close to perfection, having played the game in tactician mode i felt so much weight for every skill or spell i used during combat. This is how you properly make a wonderful turn based combat system.
The only thing i have to complain about this aspect is that sometimes the AI AoE bombs a bit you too hard on Turn 1 (sometimes even ending up in a party wipe), in a very unpredictable way and you have to reload "just because you were sitting a bit too close near your companions during a dialogue". Thanks to the armor bars is not possible to win fights only by CCing your opponents like you could do in first Divinity game.
The equipment/spell system of the game is amazing, you can encounter so many variants of the equipment pieces you're wearing that sometimes you're left thinking "Is this better or this other one?" for at least a dozen of minutes (only to go back on your decision because you're unhappy with the result, lmao). The consumables and the crafting system of the game are a really big aspect of the game, and it has been done pretty well.
The amount and variations of different enemies is a piece of work, making combat never redundant.

I think i don't have anything else to add to this review.
Thank you deeply Larian Studios for making my life better, i will surely make a second run of this piece of art of a game in the future.
With high hopes for the next upcoming game (BG3, BG3!) of these guys, this is Cypher signing out.

Time for a review for a beautiful game.

I will start saying that this is no casual game, it's part of the Grand Strategy Subgenre. One game can require hours and hours of gameplay and still end in a total failure if you don't know what you're doing.
The game (in vanilla) starts in 1936 just before the start of the World War Two and you need to pick a country to play until the 1950, the fun starts here, you can play whatever and every country is different from the other. You might choose to play a minor power like Portugal or a major power like Germany or United Kingdom, you will need to manage the whole country, from the economy policies, to the military, to the infrastructures, to the research and so on...
The gameplay is great but it requires patience and time to waste, hours might pass and you can end into accomplishing nothing at all. The historical events are pretty accurate, expecially if you play vs Historical AI.
The UI is amazing, i played the other grand strategy games published by paradox but HoI4 one is the best of the pack. It is clear and explains everything.
I personally call this game an "alternate history generator" because it never ends like our history tells us.
The workshop is filled with nice mods that can alter you experience in interestings ways (alternate history mods!)

Sadly there are bad sides here too:
Paradox has the bad habit of bombarding the game with DLCs that contain game mechanics.
Multiplayer games are sometimes subject to desyncs that can be a bit annoying.

I suggest to buy it on discount since it's filled with many DLCs.

I lay my pen here.
Signing out.

Ok let's review this game.

The first thing i felt when i opened the game was that this game was going to be good, and now that i finished it i feel that i was not wrong, let me explain why:
First of all, the characters! I just loved the main heroine Claret Spencer, she's a well made character, but the others are not that inferior, everyone of them is well made.
Second point, the plot, i liked it, it's not too much complicated and twisted but it's somewhat genial, a world ruled by the mighty skyborn race, the long story about the humans and the skyborns was absolutely pretty. The game is steampunk themed, flying steampunk ships everywhere and that kind of stuff, i like it but it is a matter of tastes.
The gameplay is pretty fun, the dungeons and mazes can be very tricky if you do not pay attention to the switches or to the hidden chests, but i have something to say regarding the fights, they're not too hard, i played the game on normal mode but there are people that complain that those fight are too much easy even on hard mode. I think that only the colosseum fights were hard to beat.
The maps are very good for the eye, the developers did a good job here, you go from a steampunk city to a sandy desert to a fantasy forest, good point here!
The soundtracks are enjoyable and put at the right place, expecially some fight OSTs made me "hype".
The only thing i have to complain is that the game is quite short, it takes around 8 hours to fufill the main storyline.

I suggest to buy Skyborn, it's worth the price. (maybe you want to get it on sale)

Oh right i forgot, Chaska for the win!

First of all, i will start this review saying that this is one of my first visual novels that i ever played.

This VN is a great one for different reasons, the first that hit me is the whole concept of the story, you're a simple space investigator that is investigating a wasted-away old and big spaceship where tons of people used to live in it. The first thing you see in this game is a "console" where you can interact with the main computer, you will be forced to choose to boot one of the two AIs (you can switch beetween them during the game), Mute or Hyun-ae.
Those two are the main characters and they've have a completely different behavior and way of thinking, they have both different and awesome backgrounds, one is the main AI that controlled the whole spaceship, she knows everything of everyone and she doesn't like the other one, Hyun-ae. Hyun-ae is a girl of an of old era that was put in cryostasis by her father for centuries because she got a disease that could not be healed in her times, so her wishes were to be healed after centuries where hopefully the medicine was more advanced, but something went wrong after she quit the cryostasis.
They're both well written, everyone of them got different soundtracks and different ways to answer to your questions with well made face expressions.
The soundtracks are great, well placed and put exactly where the atmosphere needs them to be, i think that they're great too expecially in some parts of the game.
I wont say more on the AIs because i don't want to create spoilers but i would spend some hours talking about them.
The interface is pretty and well made, i really felt that it was a computer interface, even if the AI were much more human than i expected.

Your job is to search between tons of logs to reveal and discover the true story behind the destruction of the spaceship with the help of the two AIs, at first you will feel lost in this sea of logs but when you keep discovering things the puzzle will complete itself with some reasoning. The feel of feeling confused because the story-telling is purposely put in a way where you will discover mixed parts of it. You will discover how the people used to live in that spaceship, the Mugunghwa, the traditional society where people lived in, the sturdy classism and so on (trust me there is a lot to say about this). Almost everything in Analogue leads to deep meanings, why don't the AIs like eachother (or i should say they hate eachother)? Why was everyone so evil with the Pale Bride? What has she done? Why is everyone dead?
Simple questions, difficult answers with very deep meanings, sensations and reasons.
The game has 5 different endings and i only unlocked one of them in 5.2 hours.

I liked a lot this game, i recommend Analogue: a hate story, it's worth its price. Even if i must say that i got wrapped by my personal tastes and feelings.
10/10 would play it again to unlock the other endings.






Poor Pale Bride... :'(

I liked and enjoyed this game so much that i ran here to post a reccomendation, i suggest this to everyone that likes a game that can offer a good plot, nice mechanics for being a simple side-scrolling hack n' slash.

Let me explain,
The mechanics and the combat system are very nice, not too difficult to understand, smooth and filled with spectacular effects, but they can be a little repetitive during the end game. The game engine runs smoothly and the graphics are awesome, they're filled with colorful maps, characters and enemies.
The plot and the storyline are good, it's filled with well-made characters with good voices and different personalities, the main character itself is epic.
I enjoyed the soundtrack very much and it is well fitted with the situations, with the scenes and with the different areas of the map.
I liked the puzzles and side-quests too, they can take you some time away because they're not easy to understand, you must explore the map and understand exactly what you must to do to make your way to the game ending.
The only thing that i feel a little bad about is that once you finish the game and the side quests hardly you will play this again because it hasn't a high replay value, you're not going to feel at the same way of your first time on this game.

In the end it's a game that is worth to buy and play. If there will be a sequel i will buy it.

Terraria is an awesome sandbox-rpg game with 2d side view. Many people say that this is a 2d copy of minecraft, i say that there are too many differences to say that. For example: the world is limited, there are many bosses, there are some RPG aspects like upgrading the lifebar and the manabar (so there is magic stuff!), there are many NPCs with a specific role (ex: arms dealer, mage, merchant, medic.. and so on), the game is fantasy sided, etcetera...
I would recommend this game, i enjoyed this game a lot and there is an update incoming for it! So don't waste your time and go to check some gameplays of this game, you will like it!

I suggest you to buy this game, it's one the best competitive first person shooter of ever like it's predecessors.