Recent reviews by krichian

"Gather your party and return to the Forgotten Realms in a tale of fellowship and betrayal, sacrifice and survival."

As a huge fan of cRPGs like NN, Icewind Dale and of course original Baldurs Gate games I was somewhat sceptical of Larian taking care of the third installment. Fortunately their experience with Divinity series translated properly into creating a fun, vibrant RPG experience in Baldurs Gate 3.


If you ever played a Larian game you will be familiar with the mechanics on hand. Turn based combat, tons of abilities and spells to use. The DND mechanics are mostly brought out into the open during conversations where you roll a dice too see if, for example, your persuasion check is good enough. This is easily overcome by quicksaving and quickloading, so ultimately if you wanna win at the roll, you just abuse this mechanic.

The dialogues are all voice acted, and the choices you make are relevant to the story ahead, and as for a proper RPG game there are many, many outcomes, which is one of this games strongest achievements. Combat itself is predetermined, so if you learn the enemy patterns or where they pop up, you can easily prepare ahead to blast them into oblivion. Other than that you can pick up loot, sometimes you roll a skillcheck in the overworld to learn stuff or uncover buried treasure. It is all really well done and pretty immersive.

Alas the part of camping is also strategically important, there you recover your health and spell slots. Also during camping you talk to your party members and there are some story beats to get through. Game also has a alchemy options, but for me specially I just crafted health potions and never really did much else there. The whole camp vibe reminds me of Dragon Age 1 and 2.


Graphics are an improvement over the Larians previous game and on ultra settings the game looks really gorgeous. The world feels alive and sprawling, the dark caves are climactic and dangerous, and the city in act3 is full of vibrant life and npcs. For a typical RPG game BG3 is a step up in terms of graphics and hopefully we get some more RPGs on this engine.

Music is alright, there are a couple motives that are nice to hear, but generally after 20-30 hours it gets a little stale. Battle music is nothing special unfortunately.


Story is very will written and enganging. You wake up on a "spaceship" with a parasite in your brain. Your general quest is to remove the parasite from your brain to gain freedom. During the beginning sequence you meet 2 characters who join you, and after the crash of the ship you find a couple more teammates throughout your travels.

Every single character has his own goals and history, and somehow all of their fates and quests align with the story ahead, which I was really impressed with. You also wanna keep on your teams good side, as certain characters can leave you if they don't like your choices.


Is the game woke? No. Are there elements of wokeness that annoyed me? Only in character creation. "Somehow" when you default to a race of humans it always chooses a black skin colour preset. Why not make it random? I don't know. The options of penises and vaginas are a waste of time. They should spend it on fixing bugs. Also my character was a white human bard, but my character icon was a black dude in the quest panel. And I don't think this was a bug. Unlike

Act 3 which was so buggy, my textures stopped loading. Quest items didn't appear. There is a point where you have to cross a bridge. It didn't load, so I had to use flying to get where I needed to go. NPCs gave me items that didn't appear in my inventory. When I loaded saves from before the game was still bugged, and somehow even acts 1 and 2 got bugged along. So the game completely broke. Had to reinstall it.


pros
- its baldurs gate sequel!
- lot of things to do, lot of quests to solve, lot of goblins to kill
- party relationships - romance who you want
- multiple ways to solve a quest or a fight
- graphics are really good
- very long gametime
- act1 and act2 - took me around 70hours with no bugs at all

cons
- camera work can be annoying
- messy inventory
- character creator could be alot better (especially male hair)
- BUGS IN ACT3


If act3 didn't exist this game would've gotten from me a perfect 10/10. Unfortunately it exists and it really pissed me off.

If you have alot of time on your hands (we're talking over 100 hours) and if you are lucky to not get bugged in act3 this game gets 9.5/10.

For me the final verdict is

8.5/10

Really enjoyable, but flawed, which for some might range from minor to very annoying flaws.

At the time of writing the game is being reinstalled, hopefully the bugs will disappear so I can finish the game.

edit: reinstalling fixed the issues, everything is back to normal , but it was a huge inconvenience

I had a fun time playing this thing that is definitely not a game.

I have to rate this game at multiple angles

Solo experience is kinda dull and shows alot of flows in the game mechanics - I would give it a 7- score, its not bad but some design choices leave me baffled, like to slow movement speed of your characters, which at some points is just frustrating, no block mechanic for certain characters and overall flawed combo system that leaves you vulnerable to attacks so you really need to get gud to get an S rank on a level, on normal difficulty.

If you play it with a friend its an instant 8+ rating, and the games flaws kinda disappear as you have fun kicking butts and laughing at stupid deaths.

I do recommend this game if you have someone to play it with, a solo experience has alot of annoying and frustrating parts. Comparing it to TMNT I think TMNT has a lot better solo experience, but SOR4 has alot more going for it with 2 people.

A cute metroidesque puzzle game where you solve puzzles , jump and do other standard stuff. Nothing mindboggling here. As for the metroid stuff I vastly more enjoyed new Prince of Persia. What this game does better though is graphics, artstyle, mood and music. But it just feels kinda offbase to me. I really like it and I even recommend it but I don't want to give it a thumbs up, cause I feel like it's just a tad overrated.

pros
- graphics
- it uses less space than 2 music albums
- mood
- one man creation - props for that

cons
- nothing really new
- some annoying backtracking
- somehow it feels shallow
- price tag (5-10 euros would be enough)
- coping fans of this game in comments

To properly review this game I have to use one of the texts by the famous, legendary 21st century writer Fred Durst.

Now move in, now move out, hands up, now hands down
Back up, back up, tell me what ya gonna do now
Breathe in, now breathe out, hands up, now hands down
Back up, back up, tell me what ya gonna do now (c'mon)
Keep rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin' (uh)
Keep rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin' (what?)
Keep rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin' (uh)
Keep rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin'

A 2d metroidvania game that focuses on finding weapons and skills, which help you progress through variety of not really hard (on medium difficulty) fights and challenges.

pros
- lots of guns
- cool upgrades
- controlling a drone
- soundtrack
- beautiful pixel artwork
- a mystery filled story

cons
- lots of useless guns, I used maybe 3 or 4 and theres like 20 or something lol
- not really challenging on medium difficulty
- most areas are just a different color
- which makes the backtracking to 100% the collection a boredom filled experience

Fun with friends , but a little short, buy on sale for half price and enjoy Turtles beating folks up.

Tinykin is a fantastic game, its simple in execution, it looks cute, it plays really nice. If you want to spend some quality time pick this up! It's short but superfun!

ETG is a roguelike shooter game. I don't really dislike the game, just giving it a thumbs down cause I have a mixed feelings after 15 hours, some reviewers say its a hard game, well maybe with a starting weapon on floor 3 and above. I dont really have any issues with difficulty, but there are some other things plaguing this game that made me feel like its a younger, less talented brother of Binding of Isaac. Anyway

pros
- graphics are nice
- music is good
- lot of stuff to unlock and progress toward
- if you like guns there are many here (2A represent)

cons
- achivement based progress (and the achievements are really rough to get in the beginning)
- visual clutter (some rooms there is just too much spam you dont really know what hit you)
- lot of useless guns
- passive pickups are poorly explained (I dont want to google stuff while playing)
- after 10 hours early game becomes a slog

If you are a fan of roguelikes there is some nice gameplay here, and I will probably grind some stuff, cause I am not bored yet, but the genre is so vast and expansive now, that Enter the Gungeon feels a little bit awkward at times.

Final Score
7/10

A point and click game that tells a story of a small village in the Alps, during medieval period.
Game has 3 acts, and in the first two you solve murder mysteries, act 3 is a kind of summary where you learn the truth behind the first two acts, which cover almost 30 years of the village life.

Pros
- graphical style
- the choices you make mostly matter (which is important)
- act 3 was pretty good, which kind of elevates the whole game
- interesting setting

Cons
- no manual save (which forces you to play a second playthrough if you want different achievements)
- mostly technical stuff like
- skipping dialogue or cutscenes is unavailable
- slowly disappearing bubbles of text - (wasting your time)
- the first two acts dont really matter that much in the grand scheme of things
- poor audio (on the other hand the music is nice)

Final Score
7/10

buy on sale for 10-12 euros/dollars