Nice graphics, nice music and mediocre gameplay in an OK puzzle game. There are lots of chase sequences hindered by the 2.5D world, the first game is better in this regard. Also some bugs preventing progress. Sometimes I quit a puzzle after fiddling for half an hour, noticing the same action suddenly worked when restarting the game. Puzzles are interesting and unique, nothing to difficult. Overall I enjoyed the game but was kinda relieved when it was over.
Dying Light is fun, terrifying and the gameplay is amazing, even when playing with a controller. The world building is excellent, it reminds me a bit of Sleeping Dogs, Just Cause and GTA. Searching for items on a broken bridge, with hundreds of zombies running around abandonded cars and buses make the game into a truly terrifying experience. And don't even think about scavenging at night. Graphics and music are good, voice acting is decent combined with a big open world. Lots of fetch quests and a pretty predictable story can't take away the fun and horror you will experience playing this game! The highlight is the parkour system, which remains satisfying and fun throughout the game. Highly recommended!
How hard can it be? You manage a group of pilots in big machines fighting against a group of enemies. Everything the enemy will do is shown on screen. Where will it attack, how much damage will it cause? How much collateral damage, where are new enemies spawning, what buffs and ability are active? Well, everything above and more is shown on screen before you make your move. You got infinite time to figure it out. So how hard can it be? It turns out to be pretty damn hard. My experience on normal difficulty as someone who doesn't play many strategy games: - This game is pretty hard in the first few hours but after about 6 hours of playing it "clicked" so to speak and from that point I managed to clear every mission and earn all the bonus objectives (perfect island scores) in one playthrough. - Some of the mechanics are obscure and only revealed through trial and error. - The better you get, the more upgrades you can acquire, making the next few missions even easier.
The Talos Principle is a great puzzle game, on the verge of being pretentious. It requires you to solve puzzles which get progressively harder. The game is difficult enough to make you waste a good 15 minutes every now and then, without becoming annoying. It doesn't have humor like portal or an insidious setting like Limbo or Little Nightmares. Good: - Good balance and difficulty - Supreme soundtrack - Graphics look amazing despite its age - Story sticks with you after you're done Bad: - Overstays its welcome a bit. With only a few mechanics I was waiting for the end halfway through - Most random texts are just that, random and rather uninteresting Conclusion Great game, at 90% off it feels like a steal.
Just finished my second playthrough and this is a mediocre game at best. The atmosphere is great, just like the music and the story plot twists. But everything else is just so annoying. The combat is the worst, point and click and it depends on correctly timing your attacks and luck more than strategy. Some RNG combat effects, like "pain", take all strategy out of the game. It has some bad level designs, like the swamp or sewers area where enemies constantly respawn after a few minutes. The fights often feel unfair or have extreme difficulty spikes. The animations and characters are repetitive, the controls are often unresponsive which makes the combat unnecessary difficult. There are only a few gear upgrades, which aren't available until you've completed at least 90% of the game. The story is decent but lacks in several areas. For example, in the beginning of the story some key characters are introduced which are never seen nor heard from again. The minigames are 90% luck based, don't expect something like Gwent. It has some good plot twists and just like the second and third game some decisions will impact the story much later in unexpected ways. But there is no reason to play this game, just play the second and preferable the third game which are both much better.
