Flipline Studios has once again decided to port over one of their other games, Papa’s Pizzeria. I am surprised that this wasn’t the first game to be ported over to Steam but better late than never. The game has been updated with new quality-of-life features and the gameplay has been tweaked and updated.

Pros

• Fun casual gameplay to enjoy
  
• Customizable options for your character and restaurant for each holiday
  
• Classic Papa Louie art style

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• Some of the minigames are very difficult to complete

You will be serving customers a wide variety of pizzas with different toppings. Luckily for Papa Louie, he made bank by selling only pepperoni pizzas, but since this is the deluxe edition, a few more toppings have been added. The gameplay has been improved, and I loved the quality-of-life features that were added. In the original game, the customers didn’t specify how they liked the toppings on their pizzas, but now it’s much easier.

You can create/customize your character or use one of the game's characters if you want. I should note that you can’t change the appearance of the base character you can play as in the game. You can change what clothing they wear to match the seasons but not their appearance. So, to me, it’s only fitting that my Sona Skyknighter runs this Pizzeria and serve the local customers.
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There are two types of customers you will see throughout the game, closers and extreme closers. Closers are the everyday people you will come across in the game, extreme closers are the people you get at the end of the day. I say this because every customer in the game is extremely picky about how their pizza is made. Accidentally put a topping on the wrong side and decided to make it how they wanted it but the said toppings were on a different side. Well, that customer will deduct that from your overall order score, so that means they want it exactly how they asked it.
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Seasons are here again, and you will unlock season-exclusive toppings, have you ever wanted to wonder what Egg Nogg on pizza would taste like for Christmas? No? Well, Santa loves that topping so it’s a thing. You can also get seasonal decorations and clothing with the tips you receive from the customers after serving their pizzas.

There is also a mode where you can make pizzas from this food truck however you like them. You do have to cut them still though or the customer will not be happy with their order, you can cut them how you like, as long as it’s in a set pattern that the game gives you. You are also able to switch between any of the seasonal toppings of your choosing. Serve Valentine’s Day toppings during Halloween if you so wish.

At the end of the day, you can play minigames and if you win the minigame, you can win a random prize. These prizes are seasonal, but they are exclusive to the minigames only and you can’t find them in shops, although get ready to win the same prizes a bunch of times. Although the minigames are where my issues start to lie, some are unfair.

The first minigame I want to talk about is Customer Cravings, this minigame is quite simple, guess the correct order for the customer you serve. There is a slight problem, you see there is a new mechanic that Papa’s Pizzeria introduces. You can sometimes, unlock two customers in one day, the issue is, the game sometimes won’t tell you this and they might not show up. Thus, when it comes to Customer Cravings, it can be a problem when you don’t know anything about said customer's order. Now there is a way to cheat this by just going on the wiki and finding out said order but for those who don't do that like me; it becomes a problem. Unless I happened to server said customer and I just did not remember as they only came once. Other than that, this is the hardest version of Customer Cravings by far.

Strike Out is a minigame where you try and strike out this Baseball batter, the issue here is that the cursor moves too fast in the later levels. You need to avoid the red line or the batter will hit the ball but since the cursor moves so fast, the minigame becomes basically impossible to complete. Papa’s Raceway still suffers from cheating AI and Fashion Flambe is a little underwhelming for me. The only minigames I was able to do anything on, were Mitch’s Mess, Hot Shot, and Freeze-Put, although Freeze-Put can be a bit difficult in the later stages too but it’s possible.

The art style for Papa’s Pizzeria is nice, now the original game had this unique art style that isn’t present here so if you liked the original, it’s not going to be here. I tested the game on an AMD Ryzen 5 1500X Quad-Core Processor 3.50, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, and 16 GB of RAM, the game should be able to be run on any computer with no issues.
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Papa’s Pizzeria is a nice throwback to the original game with some nice changes and quality-of-life improvements from the original. Fans of the original game should be able to enjoy this game with no issues whatsoever, well. There are some things that fans of the original may like that have been taken away from this game but overall, I enjoyed it and it’s a fun casual game to play when you are looking to chill.

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Vampire Hunters is a game that is a Vampire Survivors clone that would have been called Vampire Survivors but the name was already taken. Now usually, I don’t review Vampire Survivor clones because the ones I have played, usually are quite boring to me. However, Vampire Hunters is unique, as it’s a first-person shooter where you can have a bunch of weapons.

Pros

• Fun action-packed gameplay where you can get tons of weapons
  
• Different upgrades and trinkets for your characters
  
• Each stage has a different objective for you to complete

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• The game can get a little repetitive
  
• Bosses are a little underwhelming
  
• End credits are remixed with AI music

Vampire Hunters tasks the player to fight hordes of enemies, you have guns, melee weapons, etc, that you can get by leveling up. To level up your character, you must collect a certain amount of orbs. Then you can select an upgrade for your character unless you have a certain constellation equipped but more on that later. The game has auto-fire on by default, so all you have to do is point, aim, and move. You can turn off this feature off if you want to but I kept it on because I don’t want to be constantly clicking.

The gameplay is very fun and is action-packed, you will have a limit on the amount of stuff you can carry on you but you will get damage upgrades for the weapons instead. They will also scale to the later parts of the stage you are on but you will also come across stronger enemies as time goes on. The maximum amount of stuff you can hold in the game for your character is 14 different weapons, which weapons you get is up to you and is randomized.
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Besides upgrades for your characters, there are also permanent upgrades and skill trees for the characters. Permanent upgrades go through all the characters but will only affect the one you choose to play as. You will need these silver coins to get these upgrades and the amount to get another upgrade on it will increase. So for example you put one silver coin into damage, you will need two of them to get damage to level two. Then there are the trinkets, which you can get from the skill trees and these will give passive effects. Like more crit damage, health, shield, etc. Each character has their own trinkets they can use and to unlock these, you will need to boss souls. To get them, you will need to take out bosses in the stages, which are also randomized.
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The bosses work in that you will fight one at first after a certain amount of time but later down the line, you will face up to two, or three, with a max of four bosses to fight at the same time. Although at that point you can just take the boss out with no problem, as normally your Blood Rage meter will just take it out. Or you never have to waste it because said boss just shows up and doesn’t do anything, like they showed up to a party and just said nothing.

Now there is more than just surviving the stages, you see, after 30 minutes, you have the option to complete the stage by doing a simple objective. Like closing portals or doing some other small but simple objective. That being said you can just ignore and keep killing enemies to build up your combo meter, which will also build up your Blood Rage ability. Your Blood Rage ability is where you will do extra damage for a few seconds, and it helps clear out a bunch of enemies and just melts bosses no matter who they are. To build it back up, you will need to kill a bunch of enemies it also helps if your combo meter is very high too. The only way for a combo to break is if you didn’t kill an enemy after a few seconds or you get hit. One of the two will end it if you can get yourself on a straight pathway. Have fun if you have the correct guns because no enemy is getting through to you.

Although as much as the game is fun, it does have its fair share of issues, the game can get stale, it is a Vampire Survivors clone, so it suffers from this exact issue. There isn’t much to do afterward but get a higher score, which is fine, but the issue is there. Speaking of things that do nothing, the bosses do nothing. They just show up and don’t do anything, mind you some will go out and find you and will attack you and others do have gimmicks. However, there is this boss called Slayme, which is a nod to Ghostbusters, and this scarecrow-like boss that will hop on one leg and put down these totem poles and that’s it. Mind you Slayme one will leave this green goo behind and slow the player but it’s more of a minor inconvenience than anything.

Stages do have their gimmick bosses, but they also don’t do much, like in this one stage, there is a dragon boss. But here is the thing, this boss, only affects half of the stage, if you go inside the castle, the dragon can’t hurt you. There are other examples of bosses not doing much but if I had to say, they just all seem like giant enemies. Now to be fair, Vampire Survivors bosses aren’t anything special either, they are just giant sponges.

Vampire Hunters uses old-school 3D graphics, they are nice to look at and I like them. I tested the game on an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, AMD Ryzen 5 1500X Quad-Core Processor 3.50, and 16 GB of RAM, I had no issues while I was playing, and the game ran fine.
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I should at least talk about the soundtrack a tad bit, the game uses copyrighted free music for the game's soundtrack, they even have a remix for a TouHou song so that’s cool. However, the end credit theme is AI-generated, and the Steam store page does not state this at all. Now using copyrighted free music is fine but using an AI-generated song is pretty sad. It's not enough to get this game a negative review but I will point it out. The devs do need to update the Steam store page saying that AI is used in the game as per their rules.

If you are looking for a casual but more action-packed Vampire Survivors clone, then Vampire Hunters is not a bad choice. There is something to be had here that is enjoyable, with its fun gameplay, weapons, and other upgrades you can get. The references that the game has is also a nice touch, something I enjoyed.

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