Recent reviews by Pirate Werewolf

The Witness is a very fun puzzle game, with a relaxing ambience and an open world that you can explore at your leisure. It can sometimes be frustrating when you have to figure out the rules for a puzzle, only for it to somehow not work and then you realise that you interpreted the prior puzzles incorrectly in a fashion that worked for them, but it's also very satisfying when you do work things out.

The environmental clues are wonderfully designed, and realising that I would have to take pictures of my screen for references was a slightly humbling experience.

An absolutely fantastic game with a wonderful story. One of the best puzzle games ever made.

So far, it's looking good. I'm enjoying the game, though it is a bit slow to start.

Excellent fun, with amazing world-building and a fascinating story. Aloy is a great character, the graphics are great and the gameplay is a lot of fun.

Absolutely addicting, and a whole lot of fun. If there's any downside, it's that the end stages of the campaign can get a bit grindy.

This game is a lot of fun, even if the difficulty can be punishing. If you've played Mechanicus, it's a more polished version of that, with greater map variety and a greater emphasis on finding cover and flanking enemies, though the soundtrack and atmosphere of X-COM isn't quite as good.

Absolutely addictive, and terrific fun from someone who enjoyed playing the tabletop game and is new to the Total War series. I wholeheartedly recommend this game.

It's a fun game, and a faithful adaptation of the board game. It's also a lot harder than I expected, and for some reason the simple AI always plays better than the Average AI. Not sure why.

New troop units, weapons, gear and opponents, as well as an entire new tech path. Just five new missions, but they add some nice variety tot he game with rival techpriests instead of just more Necrons. A much-needed addition to the game that improves it in a number of ways.

Great atmosphere and a killer soundtrack really elevate this game. It feels respectful to the source material, the combat is fun and the huge number of different ways you can customise your squad of techpriests for different missions gives you an enormous tactical variety.

Making the extra movements and more potent weapons and abilities dependent upon cognition points was a fantastic idea, as these cognition points can only be harvested from obelisks and defeated opponents (or stolen from living opponents), forcing the combat to be more aggressive and fast-paced, rather than relying on hiding behind cover.

It isn't without flaws, however. The difficulty scale needs a bit of rebalancing, as the early game can be punishingly difficult (thought a lot of fun) while the later game is incredibly easy. The latter half/third of the game becomes less about winning the battle than about winning it in the fastest and most efficient way possible (which, to be fair, is very appropriate for the Mechanicus). One of the upgrade paths for your priests is pretty much useless; the Secutor line is too weak for the early game when compared to the other paths, and wholly superfluous in the later missions when a fully kitted out squad can clear a battlefield in a single turn.

Definitely get the Heretek DLC, as it adds some new weapons and troops, five extra missions and some variety in opponents, as you crush a rebellion of Xenarite Hereteks onboard the Caestus Metallican. The Xenarite tech path is also pretty useful, giving some powerful abilities, thought at a rather steep cost.

I'm certainly hoping for a sequel, hopefully with more factions and an improved difficulty curve.