Recent reviews by Meen & Grean

I really wish the instruction of what you were supposed to do was more clear, or atleast hinted at all. Then again, the game might have been even shorter than it already is.

If you feel like sparing a coin to an indie dev, go for it. But if you want a serious horror/anomaly game, look somewhere else.

Better than I expected. Alot better, actually. Though you're gonna have to enlist the help of your friends (preferably those who already play the game and have for a while) because if mine didn't help me out with figuring this game out, I'd have given up on it a long time ago. Beware: it will be a sloggy grind by yourself. But that's Free To Play gaming for you, comes with the territory.

I didn't know it was going to be so difficult having played the original flash game and seeing it wasn't THAT bad. And yet, the game not only demands precision platforming, but also has the nerve to make you build and lose velocity where your character doesn't stop or start moving immediately, causing you to conveniently slide into the many obstacles it will throw your way, as if dying upon being hit wasn't punishing enough. The last straw was this room full of lasers and an acid pool with narrow platforms to jump on, which gives you the smallest margin for error. It is very frustrating. If I had known Vox Populi Vox Dei 2 was going to be some B.S. like "I Wanna Be The Guy", I would have never bought it in the first place.

Play this game if you like B.S. difficulty platform games.

It's one of those achievement games that you'd use to decorate your profile with. However, it was rather unpleasant to even play as a game by itself. The reason being the controls are wack with how the box character you play as is slow, has a habit of sliding off platforms when you're trying to stop, how there's a bit of a delay with your button presses (atleast for me), and it doesn't help that this whole thing just screams "I just picked up game-devving for the first time, so here's a basic platformer" because it's one of those games that makes the spikes kill you even if you touch them from the non-pointy sides. I got this game for free and I still feel like I wasted my time.

Only get this if you want to decorate your profile with Japanese kanji and you're willing to put up with the platforming. Avoid otherwise.

You come to this game looking for those cool looking neon sign letter achievements people have on their profiles, and you stay for the puzzles. This is one of those games that give you a dozen achievements just for showing up and clicking play. But is it worth the 59 cents I paid? Yeah, I'd say so.

The Good
>As I mentioned before, the achievements. You get an achievement showcase on your profile to spell out your name, funny words you're not allowed to say, or whatever else you want to say. And this is one of the few games series that lets you do that. And if you're not into the neon sign aesthetic, there's a bunch of other Zup! games that have different styles available.
>Doesn't overstay its welcome. The game covers the letters of the english lexicon, the numerals, as well as some different symbols to choose from, which is like...40 levels in total? I didn't bother counting them all. It took me like an hour and a half to beat all the levels.
>Very simplistic. This game costs almost nothing and is a simple physics puzzle. The barest minimum kind of game you could get. You'd have to be running an absolute toaster of an office computer to not have any good frame rates, and most of the puzzles are easy to blow through besides two or three, which I am ashamed to admit I had to look up a guide for and even those were just timing based puzzles where you have to click the explosive in a certain order at a certain time.

The Bad
>The Confused Color Palette. The color choices of each of the levels and objects are very strange. You have to get the muted blue ball onto the sea green platform, but don't mix it up with the blue/purple platforms. I mean this is already a bare basic game, could we have had a better color palette? Honestly.
>Very simplistic. This is really a subjective thing, but this game has no dialogue, no menu text, nothing. I wish the game would have had actual menu/UI text.
>No replayability. There's no real incentive to revisit this game once you beat it. One and done. You got all your achievements (which is easy to do), you got through all the levels, it didn't take a long time...and...that's it. There's your lot. You've seen it all and done it all. Bye!

Overall, if you want funny little achievements for spelling out your name or words on your profile, then go ahead and pick this game up. Or any of the other Zup! titles you want if you don't like the Neon letters style. There's no shortage of them and the dev has made other simple puzzle games. But as far as its merits as a puzzle game go? It's really small and basic. Which could be a good or bad thing depending on your expectations.

But that's all I got. Zup!

Activision shut down the H2M mod that was coming out literally tomorrow (Aug 16th 2024). After this game spiked in sales, after it was specifically stated that the mod will only work with legitimate copies, after all the hype and anticipation of having a new and modern Call of Duty game with none of the fat or greedy b.s. of the new ones, Activision shuts it down.

And for what? Because they're afraid that the mod is going to pull players away from their stupid Black Ops 6 game? Because the mod developers didn't bow down and kiss their hand begging for their blessing to make such a thing? Because they're that obsessive over maintaining control over their IP at all times? They just wanted people to buy the game without realizing that people can still refund it immediately? Not even EA does stuff like this, and they get far more hate from the gaming community.

And as for the game itself? It is half-broken on PC where it just straight up doesn't wanna launch due to some weird memory error. And one of the missions just straight up doesn't wanna load, and refuses to let you progress through the rest of the campaign. Not to mention that Activision tainted this classic game with weapons inside of lootboxes that weren't in the original.

Fnck you, Activision. This is why you never buy Call of Duty games at full price, kids.

I give this a soft recommend, but only because I snagged this game for free recently.

If you like stealth games, as in REALLY like stealth games? Like, hardcore stealth games that does everything short of straight up giving you a game over screen for going loud? You'll like this game.
But if you're not into hardcore stealth games and/or prefer the approach of going in loud, stay away. Because this game becomes teeth grindingly hard and annoying if you don't observe 100% percent clandestine methods of operation at all times.

By this, I mean that the game will make every Tom, ♥♥♥♥, and Jerry on the map bum-rush you all at once if you so much as let off one unsilenced bullet. They move inhumanely fast, half a dozen are in two different directions looking to flank you, and your armor only takes like 4 rounds of automatic gunfire before you're dead on the floor. These enemies are strangely coordinated for being a bunch of unwashed drug addicts.

Overall? It's good. But I wouldn't ACTIVELY recommend it to anyone. Only stealth aficionados need to apply.

This frantic action game is great for those of you who've played F.E.A.R, or if you just enjoy movement shooters in general. Interesting story, gory and violent gameplay, the best metal soundtrack since Doom 2016, and It's also really well optimized for how good it looks on high settings too, loads way fast on my HDD. For 21 bucks, it's an absolute blast. Get this game instead of whatever insipid Call of Duty cosmetic pack you were eyeballing.

This is a great mod with alot of new mechanics not seen in either of its official predecessors like the scrapped diversity vent, the water showers, and portal cubes. The puzzles are reasonable enough, doesn't pull any weird twitchy B.S., has a mostly good story with just two entertaining characters, varied scenery...oh, and it's free. So even if you somehow hate it, you don't lose anything for it.

Anyways, enough reading my review. Go play it. PLAY IT. PLAY IT NOW.

This PC port was already broken enough before, and required an unofficial mod patch to be playable and decent again. But Capcom apparently wants to make it so that you can't mod this game anymore with them adding Enigma DRM to their back catalog of Steam games.

What is Enigma DRM?

Enigma DRM is this newfangled Anti-Cheat that Capcom is introducing just because some coom brain idiot left his nude Chun-Li mod enabled during a live Street Fighter tournament. And ever since then, they have gone on a crusade against any and all mods on their games, whether or not they are actual cheats, harmless skins, or even necessary fixes like in Resident Evil 4's case.

Enigma DRM will interfere with your game's performance (causing stutters and framedrops and maybe even random crashes), will prevent you from modding (see above), and may even make your game even more unstable than it already was. DRM like this even interferes with Steam Decks, making them unplayable and incompatible.

Now, to my knowledge, Resident Evil 4 does NOT have Enigma YET, as of Jan/12/2024, but they've already got Resident Evil 5. And if they've got Resident Evil 5, it's only a matter of time here. And as I've said before, this game has terrible issues that NEED an unofficial mod patch for the game to work properly. Stuff like framerate issues, QTE's being absolutely brutally unforgiving (this game is littered with QTEs btw), instability, and so on.

Enigma DRM threatens to make this game even more unstable than it already is.

So moral of the story: Don't buy this game. Or any Capcom game. And if you have purchased any Capcom games already, give them negative reviews and spread the word about Enigma DRM. Let other people know about these issues so we can hit Capcom in the wallet where it hurts them.