The other reviews capture the graphics, mechanics, and sound quite well. This is solid SNES level RPG stuff. Unfortunately, the story introduces characters about halfway that are not relatable. There is a strong push here for modernistic values, so you might want to check it out first before buying.
First of all, if you encounter screen tearing, go to your video card setting and enable triple buffering. It will solve the issue permanently for this game. As others have pointed out, this is a great traditional RPG. You end up with 4 characters and go through the adventure gaining levels, solving quests, and fighting monsters. The plot is everything you would expect from this kind of RPG. It's is simple, fun, and engaging. The graphics are simple in the old style of SNES days. The music is excellent. There's not much to criticize here. The crafting system is easy because you are told what is needed, an the game provides the ingredients for upgrades via shops and loot. You do not have to worry about foolish recipes that are impossible without a guide. It's a straightforward and fun RPG adventure. Thumbs up.
This is pretty much what you'd expect from the pics and scenes. You run around in stages, jump around, shoot, and blow things up. There's a basic plot that works. It's quite a bit of fun. It's relatively short, but this is great for a quick fix of action, explosions, and guts. This probably should have been 2-player, so that's a bit of a flaw. Changing weapons can be a bit slow although that makes you think a bit in a fight. This is certainly recommended for quick action and destruction side scrolling.
So this plays like your standard turn based game. However, it's filled with hundreds of issues where you need to know ahead of time what to do. Too many unintuitive areas. Some of the builds are also unforgiving, and the result by the end the of the game is that you wish all your characters just had super sniper rifles. The beginning of the game is absurdly rough as ammo is sparse. This makes it not particularly fun for this type of game. The characters you meet come and go, so you end up barely caring before you're off to a new environment. This feels like one of those games where the potential was there, but someone decided to make it 'hard' and ended up killing the one through annoyances. Some playtesting would have solved many the issues here. It also tries to push some modern social issues, which just seems out of place amidst all the other frustrations.
For a game that claims to be immersive, this one starts by just throwing you into a role and then proceeding from A-B. You never really care about the story or your character. You get captured, betrayed, and freed, but it does not matter. You just move from A-B either using stealth to backstab or kill everyone if you make a mistake. There are towns, but you visit them once and never again. The result? You don't really care about them or their people. It's just another attraction on a one way trip. It all feels very formulaic and limiting like very old games that have set areas you need to memorize. The graphics and sounds are nice enough, but the gameplay is standard shooter material. However, it gets rather unforgiving at points. As others have pointed out, the swamp section towards the end is horrific as you essentially have a time limit via gas filters, and you have to run around fighting monsters and waiting on a ferry. Worst of all, the game will auto save, which can leave you in a situation where you reload surrounded by enemies and out of air. It's just another reason to lose interest here. For comparison, a different game in the same vein called 'Stalker' has similar issues, but the ability to use small towns as an HQ allows you to get your bearings and tackle it. Metro Last Light Redux just feels like a game thrown together to impress with graphics and 'immersion', but ultimately fails to impress.
You will like this game. It's everything good from the old Harvest Moon games. You have all the addictive parts of farming (tools, crops, money, animals, land, etc) and there's plenty of interaction with all the characters. You also have a few dungeons to explore and fight monsters ( often to collect useful items). This is essentially what you want when playing a farming type game. The graphics and sounds are up to the task, and the overall themes are interesting.
This is an excellent game. The first Evil Within was a bit scarier, but it had a few too many instant kills and somewhat cheap difficulty in spots. Great but not excellent. This sequel carries the good from the first game and makes it more interesting. You come to care more about the characters, and you have a bit more freedom (not entirely) to explore and deal with the horrors. When this one ends, you have a pretty good feeling, and there's even a teaser at the end that promises more (we can only hope). The graphics and sound are solid here. The difficulty seems fairer, and easier than the first game. You have plenty of action and stealth elements as well. There's plenty to like, and the few puzzles are not that hard at all. Fully recommended. It's got that B-movie charm similar to the feel from the old Resident Evil games.
This is a very short and simple fighting game. It's built around your character doing a bunch of combos and crazy attacks. All the stages are linear, and you have two characters to choose from. The voices are in Japanese, but the text is in English. There's not much here, but it's fun to play for a while. This will probably take you an hour or two. It gets a bit repetitive, but the game is not very long. Not much to say here. It's just a standard quick run around and bash things game with a silly story attached.
This is a solid strategy game. You essentially get 6 characters per map (some allow for more; others less). There is a great deal to do with your characters. You have the story ones and then you can create/recruit others. Each character can access various classes to train in for new abilities. You also have plenty of equipment to handle. There is no absurd permadeath at all. If your character gets killed, they receive an injury that lasts one battle. Then it's gone, and they're back to normal. Not bad at all. The difficulty scales as you move through the game. You can replay most of the maps to gain experience, gold, etc. These maps will have new enemies, so there's some replay there. There is an annoying mechanic that can instantly drown characters, but this can be countered with items/abilities or disabling it in the settings. There's not much to dislike here. The graphics and sound are solid. The controls are menu driven, so that's not an issue. The story is stand RPG stuff complete with a secret better ending. If you want a solid turn based strategy game, I'm not sure what else you could ask for.
The game's graphics and storyline do a good job creating an believable and interesting atmosphere. This is the game's strong suit. The story is a bit off. The guts of the game are choosing dialogue options with characters and then moving into combat areas. The dialogue options are all arbitrary and are just guessing games. It gets rather old moving through the same dialogue trees. The first playthrough will seem okay, but even it gets repetitive. The story itself is all over the place. Some of the characters are interesting, but the main plot gets jumbled. There are also characters that behave in ways that are not appealing, yet the game tries to make out that you as a player should accept them. This kind of brainwashing is not needed, and where are the real choices? The combat is rather bland. You'll be repeating the same moves a lot. The key is to dash around and then attack. This works on just about everyone. The powers you receive are neat, but some of them don't do much. This is a decent atmospheric game with game elements grafted in. It doesn't really fit well as a whole. It's a shame because the environments would work quite well here if it weren't so limited.
