Another solid Telltale game. I did have a hard time with some of the things they did story-wise, like Thomas Wayne having been a criminal, but at the end of the day the deviations in lore from the comics does not really change anything core to the Batman canon. This season focuses on Harvey Dent, Falcone, Selina Kyle, Lady Arkham, and Oswald Cobblepot... along with Bruce's core relationships with Gordon and Alfred. Joker also appears in a minor role as a John Doe in Arkham Asylum and he helps Bruce when Cobblepot and Lady Arkham arrange for Bruce to be sent to Arkham, which nicely prepares things for the next season.
This is a classic isometric/CRPG game that has had metric tons of custom UGC created for it by the modding community, from avatar tweaks to custom campaigns to even custom persistent worlds, many of which are still around from when the game was initially released. I am very appreciative of Beamdog for bringing it back to modern systems (and modern consoles, too) with the Enhanced Edition. I do wish that the UI interface was remastered more, but that's not really a show-stopper, and I know they aren't finished with it yet; they keep continually patching it to resolve minor bugs and support many features the modding community requested. It's amazing to see a game this old (18 years?! Lord and Lady...) continue to get love and attention from Beamdog.
This is a great isometric CRPG set in the dystopian cyberpunk future world setting of Shadowrun, which is one of my favorite tabletop RPG systems. They especially did a great job balancing out turns between those in combat and your decker(s) in the Matrix, which was always a hard balancing act when playing the TTRPG. I'm also a big fan of the Shadowrun setting and lore, and there were definitely many nods in the game to lore that was established in the novels, even including a few characters like Harlequin and James Telestrian III. (Which, as a side note, the novels are all available in ebook format again now that the long-standing rights issues were cleared up.) Add on to that the fact that you can also create user generated content (from things like avatars to a full fledged story campaign), and you're looking at basically the Shadowrun equivalent of D&D 3E's Neverwinter Nights. I fully enjoyed the campaign (although I loathe bug shaman *shudder*), and I'm looking forward to sinking my teeth into Dragonfall next. I originally backed this on Kickstarter (and then the same with Dragonfall and Hong Kong), and I don't know why I hadn't finished this before now. Originally, I spent some time playing Dead Man's Switch on my Android tablet, but unfortunately HBS recently removed it (along with Dragonfall; as far as I know, Hong Kong was never ported to Android) from the Google Play Store to avoid having to make changes to comply with GDPR. (Which doesn't make sense to me, but that's what their support folks told me.) So PC is pretty much the only option to play it at this point. I'll also note that it does work with Macs running an OS version predating OSX Catalina (I played this primarily on a Macbook using OSX Mojave); Apple dropped support for 32-bit apps in Catalina, and all three games in this trilogy are. Given what occurred with GDPR, I would very much not expect them to be updated to 64-bit apps to work under Catalina and future OSX releases.
This is a great isometric CRPG set in the dystopian cyberpunk future world setting of Shadowrun, which is one of my favorite tabletop RPG systems. They especially did a great job balancing out turns between those in combat and your decker(s) in the Matrix, which was always a hard balancing act when playing the TTRPG. I'm also a big fan of the Shadowrun setting and lore, and there were definitely many nods in the game to lore that was established in the novels, even including a few characters like Aljernon Half-Dream. (Which, as a side note, most of the novels are all available in ebook format again now that the long-standing rights issues were cleared up.) Add on to that the fact that you can also create user generated content (from things like avatars to a full fledged story campaign), and you're looking at basically the Shadowrun equivalent of D&D 3E's Neverwinter Nights. I fully enjoyed the campaign, and I'm looking forward to sinking my teeth into Hong Kong next. I was also rereading the Dragon Heart Saga while playing through Dragonfall, like I did Burning Bright while playing Dead Man's Switch. Out of the 3 games in this series, I think Dragonfall was my most favorite. I originally backed this on Kickstarter (and the same with SRR and Hong Kong), and I don't know why I hadn't finished this before now. Originally, I spent some time playing this and SRR on my Android tablet, but unfortunately HBS recently removed them (as far as I know, Hong Kong was never ported to Android) from the Google Play Store to avoid having to spend the money to make it GDPR compliant. I'll also note that it does work with Macs running an OS version predating OSX Catalina (I played this primarily on a Macbook using OSX Mojave); Apple dropped support for 32-bit apps in Catalina, and all three games in this trilogy are. Given what occurred with GDPR, I would very much not expect them to be updated to 64-bit apps to work under Catalina and future OSX releases.
