Yeah, it's clearly furry game with fetishes, but it also suprisingly good metroidvania. Size changing by eating food and enemies is interesting, good planed mechanic with great impact for whole gameplay and i liked how it works, but rest of the game is also solid. It also isn't overly long or complicated and difficulty level is just right to be challenging, but it isn't too hard. I think i would like more interesting platforming sections, because Tribal Hunter is more about dealing with enemies than jumping. Characters are pleasent to look and well drawed and colors are pleasently vivid, but enviroment isn't very detailed and it gives me more feeling of just video game levels than plausible locations. I liked music, it's really nice to listen. Well, plot is just ok, it is, it has some laughs, and characters are charming, but is isn't nothing special or engaging. Overall good and solid, but not awesome game.
I think there is room for swashbuckling game, but not like this. This game is looking and sounding nice from distant, but i changed opinion when i played. You get forgettable plot that really wants to be parody of classic motives and films and to make you laugh on every step, but it's missing miserably with its humour every time and cutscenes are just horrible. And gameplay is boring and clunky. I didn't feel fun from fights, collisions aren't great and camera can stuck. Thats few platforming sections for changing the pace are just simple, linear courses. Just disappointment.
Cavern of Dreams is very charming 3D platformer with graphics being love letter to N64 times, ah, and you are playing as a little cute dragon. Often strange or wacky visuals, distorted by small number of poligons and stretched textures are strongest aspect of this game, because platforming itself, not so much. Gameplay is very clunky with bad camera control, hit detection and rather bugged controls. And it capture very well how infuriating were water levels in early 3D platformers. It exploratory platformer and there is some pleasure in searching collectibles, but often i was confused what i should to do next. And i can't say that i like music here. So, nice game, but with issues, you can play it when you want some retro style 3d platforming, but there are better games like this out there.
Shadow Warrior 2013 was great oldschool shooter with nice story. In sequel they changed it into crappy looter shooter with awful plot and even more awful jokes and trashed everything i like in previous game. I sprinted through main quest, because i hate in FPSs to loss time with piles of colorful garbage items, enemies with life bars, boring levels with awful enemies placement and chaotic combat during which nothing can be seen. There is one plus of sequel, when you can see something in chaos of effects and models, you can see how lovely enemies are turning into pieces.
As a small free game Janosik is quite good. It's like a miniature metroidvania with comedy presentation, minimalistic pixelart graphics and nice music. Gameplay is also pleasent with a couple of moves Janosik can use from start or learn like rolls, double jump or bombs. Level design is rather simple, could be better and normal foes aren't much threat but boss fights aren't too great. And i saw some bugs. But overall good game.
When i was kid, i read about games from Myst series in game magazines and i loved what i saw on screenshots. This interesting, fantastic worlds full of strange mechanisms catched my attention. But i never played any Myst. Now i tried first of series and it was pleasent experience. Maybe game isn't as beautiful as later instalments, but despite this it have some interesting places and plot. Still this old prerendered graphics have some charm. And this climate of mystery and loneliness in strange worlds highlighted by sounds. It was great, despite i had to use walkhtrough to complete the game. I like plots and worlds in adventure games, but unfortunately i'm rather bad in solving puzzles. But at last i played Myst game and i'm happy with this. And there are few more games to try.
I never played Daikatana when it originally came out and later i only heard about this creation of John Romero was it legend as one of the worst shooters ever made. But i was curious. If it is really so bad? If legend is true? Answer is: yes. I knew this in moment of starting new game, when i landed in one of ugliest swamp i have ever seen in video games, full of buzzing bugs and jumping frogs as first enemies. Daikatana is ugly even as a 2000 title. It using Quake 2 engine, but i looks worse than Quake. Gameplay is clunky and levels and enemies are often iritating. Involving time travels plot had potenial but in the end is boring, and voice acting and cutscenes are hillarious bad. One of the key features of Daikatana: companion system, is the worst part of game. Buddies of main hero are totally idiots who go straight into danger, shots you in back, blocking everywhere and when they die is game over. I had to save/reload very often. Lucky for me there was an option to disable limited save crystals feature so i was iritated less times. But i can't say that Daikatana is the worst shooter. There was some moments when i had fun. Four periods of time is four various enviroments, enemies and weapon sets. And some of weapons was really satisfying to use. And some leves was satisfying to complete. There are worse shooters out there, but they didn't have do impact to games as media. And thats why i gave Daikatana two stars instead one. I don't recommend Daikatana as pleasent game. It legend is really true. But sometimes you have to see on your own eyes what it means when big game is bad game.
Doom is mile stone in case of FPS genre and PC gaming. Without Doom game industry was probably looking very different. Doom is more than twenty five years old now but for me it beat's many of more modern shooters in case of entertainment. Characteristic graphics, level design, demons, guns and fun of shooting are superb. Anyone should play original Doom. It's tons of fun. And there is huge number of various source ports and great mods for this game. Because all of this Doom is immortal.
