The original Soldier Of Fortune is one of my favorite games. It's next to flawless. This sequel is a shell of that one. The world looks so empty and bland. Most ememies and NPCs just stand around, even when you're close to and bump into them. Stealth is a joke. You can go around throwing knives around, breaking boxes in front of enemies and still not get a reaction. The only way they react is if they're directly facing you or if you shoot a weapon. I also encountered a slew of glitches, one of which included an enemy soldier falling from the sky and triggering an alarm at a checkpoint, ending my game. I got caught in this loop for about 20 minutes, trying to figure out my way out of it. Finally, I just started the level all over again and got through it this time without it raining men... hallelujah! So, you're probably wondering why then am I giving this game a 5 star rating? Well, I love games like this that are hilariously bad. It's one of those, "it's so bad, it's good" kind of games. I'm having a lot of mindless fun with it, and that's all gaming is about... having fun. Games don't have to be Earth-shattering; they just have to be enteraining, and this one delivers on that. It's the kind of a game that you can pick up and play to pass the time. If you can get it for a dollar or two, I think it's worth it.
This game is amazing! I love everything about it. I'm so glad that they brought it to GOG.
Upon launching the game, I get the dreaded "font too big" crash. I looked into it, and many people recommend lowering the scaling to 100% before launching the game and changing the game's .ini file to match my screen resolution. Neither of these worked for me. I wasted an hour trying to figure this out myself. The only way for me to get the game to run was to run it in compatiblity mode with Windows XP and disable fullscreen optimizations. I also had to check the two DPI boxes and selected "system enhanced." But, this only works if you bypass the games's launcher and GOG launcher. I bypassed these launchers by going into the game's folder and launching the Xenus executable. This launched the game, and it ran just fine, but once I quit out, I got a different error trying to launch the game again. The only way to play this game is to verify the game's cache and go through this compatibility process again. What a headache. This game requires a 3rd party unofficial update or mod to work, as it's broken out of the box for me. I can't support a game that falsly advertises working on Windows 10 and AMD hardware, so I just refunded it.
Solitaire Quest: Garden Story is one of the easiest Solitaire games to pick up and play. There isn't much of a learning curve, but the game still manages to stay challenging. Cards are locked behind various barriers that you have you have to overcome. You can buy perks with the coins that you earn from playing each level to help you through some of the more challenging levels. When completing levels, you early flowers that you can use as currency to upgrade your garden. This game is fun, aestehtically pleasing, and has a nice soundtrack. It's a game that I play while having a podcast or YouTube video on in the background. I would like to see more Solitaire games on GOG. One thing to note is that if you download this game and it crashes on launch, just verify the game's files, and it'll work. I had this issue, but it may just be limited to my configuration.
This game is so fun and highly addcitive. If you're a fan of the Blood Omen games, you'll like this one. It's jsut so well done... maybe the best in the series!
Have you ever thought to youself, "hmmmm, I sure do want to go to a House Party and get some, but I don't want to get off the couch." Well, now you can. Just get you a copy of House Party and you can party like it's 1999. This game takes place in the 90's, where your goal as either a male or female is to mingle and build up a reputation that'll lead to the good stuff. This game allows you to save and load your game anytime, so if you mess up your chances for a some hanky-panky, you can just reload and try again. You can't do that in real life. Lol. The only issues that I have with the game is with keybinding. The game regularly crashed when rebinding keys, but I found a solution. If this happens to you, just delete every single binding through the main menu and rebind them from scratch. This worked like a charm for me. Also, the frame-rate isn't the most consistent, but for a game like this, I don't think it matters much. I'm surprised at all the graphics and font options for the game. The voice acting is pretty decent, too. This game is a lot of fun. I picked it up for free and bought the explicit DLC for only $3.74. I recommend having it if you're like me and you detest censorship of any kind.
As my title states, Darksiders II: Deathinitive Edition is a mess, from the moment you boot up the game, to the merciful end. If you're a keyboard and mouse player, you're going to find out quickly that just rebinding keys is tedious enough to turn you off of the game, as you can't rebind one key without unbinding it from another. And after you bind a key, you get kicked up to the beginning of the keybinding menu, making you do a lot of scrolling to rebind every key. Once you've spent 20 mintues on just rebinding keys, you start the game, only to realize that the in-game menus make your keybinding experience feel like a walk in the park. You can barely see your character on the menu. Navigation is backwards. Selecting an objective is unresponsive without messing around with it. The controls are sometimes unresponsive. As others have stated, the lighting issues are still present. When I turn the camera, I see squares of darker areas that turn to light as I move and areas of the world that flicker. On to the actual gameplay. Well, it's action-packed, and there's not a dull moment. There are plenty of collectibles to find. Death's skill tree and his abilities, upgrades, weapons, and armor are plentiful, but on normal difficulty, the game is such a cake-walk that I didn't get to experience a whole lot of it. I had 8 skill points hoarded up at one point and totally forgot about upgrading my skills, and I currently have 1 million guilt, as I didn't see a point in buying anything from any of the vendors in the game since you get plenty of powerful gear from killing enemies and from chests. Darksiders II: Deathinitive doesn't have much of a story. The game feels both rushed and unbalanced. This game just mediocre, at best. You can tell that there was no love put into it as there was with the first game, and it shows. Is it playable? Sure, but you'd have more fun watching paint dry.
I'm a big fan of these types of puzzle games, but Magical Drop IV's poorly implemented control scheme give the game an extra, unnecessary learning curve which makes it a drag. The game's controls are a throwback to the 1980's, where you use your right hand to move your character with the arrow keys and your left hand for the action keys. This would be fine if the action keys that the developer chose were chosen wisely, but they are not. You use the "S" button to bring your drops down to you and "X" to throw them upward. And "D" brings down another row of drops. it's an awkward control scheme, and there's no way to rebind any of the keys. Normally, I'd say that this game should be played with a controller, but another reviewer is complaining about the same thing... no ability to rebind controller buttons. I don't think that much thought was put into what I feel is one of the most important things in a game... good controls. With that said, the game is very colorful and its artwork is cute. And, the game's music suits it well. It's got potential. The developer has stated that he'd look into implementing the ability to rebind keys/buttons into the game, but that was in early 2023. At this point, I don't think that we're going to get it.
This bundle of Resident Evil 1, 2, and 3 was a surprise to me when I saw it. I had to pinch myself to make sure that I wasn't dreaming. So far, I've played through Resident Evil 1, and it's flawless. They've made just enough minor tweaks to the game to enhance the original experience without changing it.
