Interesting Telltale game in the Batman universe. The story is quite unique and engaging and has some interesting turns of events regarding both Bruce and Batman. Performance-wise, the game ran like a charm without any bugs during the 9-hour duration to complete the game. I like the fact that the saves can be imported in the second part of the game, The Enemy Within, and I can continue the story with the choices that I made in the first game. A really nice game, and I recommend it to all the people who like story-driven games with QTE events. A game worth 7/10 as a grade from my perspective.
Atlas Fallen is an action-adventure game.You collect essence, which is used to upgrade your armor and your essence stones. Your variation of gameplay comes from the gauntlet, which has 3 tiers (bronze, silver, gold) with 4 slots per tier (1 slot per tier for an active stone and 3 for passive effects).When you fight, you gain momentum (3 bars corresponding to every tier of the gauntlet with the selected essence stones).In order to be effective in combat, you need to gain maximum momentum, but there is a trick.As you gain momentum, you deal more damage and also activate your stones from the gauntlet, but you also receive a lot more damage from enemies, and an over-leveled enemy can kill you with 1 hit. The essence stone selection is very important in this game in order to build your character for higher difficulties.The game has a parry mechanic - if you successfully parry the smallest enemies, you will freeze them for a couple of seconds. For the higher enemies, you will need 3 successful parries to crystallize them. You also have a powerful attack, which is called shatter, that can be used to deal a massive amount of damage but consumes all your momentum gauge. From a technical perspective, I didn't have any crash.I played the game on a laptop with a Ryzen 9 6900HX + RTX 3070ti mobile with everything at max at a constant 90 FPS. In order to change the game resolution, you need to launch the Direct 12 version from GOG, and after that, quit the game and launch the game normally, which runs on Vulkan directly. For some unknown reason, if you try to change the game resolution while on Vulkan, the game will crash. The Xbox controller works fine.The game supports multiplayer.The visuals are quite nice for an AA title; the character models are kind of repetitive, as are the voices used in the dialog.The game can be finished in 25-30 hours.New Game+, has some new monsters and also 3 new sets of armor.I really recommend this game to players at the discounted price.
This game is my cup of tea for the nostalgia factor and the gameplay.I played the game on a laptop (Ryzen 6900HX+RTX3070TI) with everything on epic at 60+ FPs without any drops or stuttering. The Xbox controller works very well also if you prefer to play it that way. All the achievements are easy to obtain if you are an achievement hunter. The game is a FPS combined with lite RPG elements. You level up and gain skill points that can be used on various stats. The first stat to rise is Deduction because you receive extra XP points from notes, scans, and killing enemies. You can max Deduction in the first 3 missions if done correctly and you did all the side quests, scans, etc. After that, you can max out armor, combat, vitality, and engineering for extra damage with the Auto-9 pistol, which is your main weapon. Before leaving an area, do all the objectives, because there is no way to return and do the secondary objectives later, and you will miss a lot of XP points and maybe feel underwealming on higher difficulties. I played the game on extreme difficulty, and it was quite easy, and I needed 26 hours to finish the game, but I searched every nook and cranny on every map. From a graphical point of view, the game has nice visuals with everything on Epic.The reflections, light shadows, and explosions are quite nice, and the presentation of Detroit is accurate and has some of the movie characters from different sequels of Robocop.There are some minor changes for the endings but not that major overall, and your decisions throughout the game will affect the endings and change the outcome for some of the characters that you encounter in your playtime. I really recommend this game to all FPS players, and Teyon did a great job with this game. 10/10 for me
The game is a visual novel with a lot of text to read and with some fights in an action adventure ninja style. There is a total of 10 characters to select (4 from Neptunia, 4 from Senran Kagura, and 2 others). You have 7 skills to select from, 4 slots for items (2 throwable weapons and 2 talkismans), and a grid with gems that increase your stats, damage, ofer passives, etc. The gameplay is very light-core and repetitive in order to level up your character. Every character has an ultimate power to unleash when the shinobi metter is full. Between the 8 main chapters, you can do an arena-type mission to level up and gain gold and items. The controller is working very well in this game (I have an X-Box controller, and I recommend it to everyone to play it using a controller). I had some issues when I quit the game because the game wouldn't quit to desktop and music played in background. A reset is required. In order to avoid this, I usually exit to the main screen and hit Alt+F4 to quit. The game was fun, and it's a typical Idea Factory/Compile heart product. I recommend it to the fans of the developers who know what to expect and to light players. The game ran perfectly on integrated 680M graphics from a 6900HX laptop processor with everything on full at over 60 FPS at 1080p. I didn't need the discrete GPU for this game, so the requirements are quite low. The camera is a little wonky from time to time in certain corners.The game can be finished in 10-12 hours on normal difficulty, and also all the achievements are quite easy to get. If you play it on hard you will nedd 20-24 hourts because the enemies will be more damage resistant.8 out of 10 for me ( buy it when discounted ).
Showgunners is a tactical turn-based, composed of 10 episodes plus one additional from the free DLC.Every episode is a large area, composed of fighting arenas, solving puzzles, avoiding and disarming traps, exploring for loot containers and collecting autographs that increase your fame. In every episode you will have 8–10 fights.The fights are not that unforgiving as they are in the X-com series,even on hard difficulty.The first 3 episodes are a little bit harder because you are low on life, practicaly no skills and your gear sucks. During the episodes, you will collect various members for your team,with different skills, suitable for any tactical approach. Some of the guns have higher damage against a particular enemy, but it's weaker for the others, so you need to plan your fights before entering them.I finished the game on hard difficulty + Ironman in 17 hours and 44 min, and it was a blast.The most difficult part of the Ironman run are not the fights which, if they are planned correctly, are quite easy (I played a lot of turn-based games for over 2000+ hours in the X-com series only), but the damage received from traps found in the environmentoment. If you receive continuous damage, from more than 3 times,you are dead.Some of the traps can be disarmed to avoid the damage alltogheter.Before every arena fight,you have the shop and the free refill of your life if you receive damage from the environment.In the exploration zone of the game, you will encounter ambushes, which are small fights with 3–4 enemies.Every new episode introduces a new type of enemy with different abilities. The last 2 episodes are overpopulated with enemies,but at that time you will have all the characters at full level, fully geared. Phantom the sniper is easily the most deadly character in the game and, if you know how, to use her at full capacity, she can clear rooms full of enemies very easy. I really recommend this game to everyone who is interested in turn-based games. 8/10 for me
Clid the Snail is a twin-stick shooter with interesting characters and an original story. The game doesn't have manual save, only autosave. You have 5 areas, which are the main levels, and at the end of every level you will defeat a boss. Beside shooting, you will have some platforming to do, and if you fail (hit by lasers, traps, etc), you will die and you will be reset to the last autosave. If you fall from a cliff, you will lose a life. You start with 5 lives, and you can upgrade it by collecting seed for 10 lives + 1 additional life that can be bought from a character in the game. The games also provide you with simple puzzles in order to open doors or collect something. You have 4 shells with different abilities (fly, launch rockets, create a wall of ice, or create a protective barrier). In order to create a new shell, you need resin from a specific tree. The shells cannot be changed on the go because there is no inventory, but before every boss fight, you can change them at the vendor. You have gadgets (grenades, mines, turrets, med-kits) and various weapons (4 received before game missions and 3 that can be bought). The characters are enjoyable and unique, the story is nice, and the world is great. This game has two problems: the colors are dim and muddy, and the length of the game is under 7 hours. I finished the game in 4 hours and 40 minutes doing all missions, collecting everything, and talking with every character before and after missions to learn more about them and the world. After you finish the game, your save will be deleted automatically, so you need to get all achievements in one run (only one missable achievement in the desert, where you need to talk with all the characters before starting the mission in order to not miss the achievement). I really liked the game, and I can recommend it to everyone who loves twin-stick shooters. I hope that a sequel will be made because the ending was open. 8/10 for me, buy it at discount.
The game is a turn-based JRPG. The fight grid is structured in 3 layers (TOP: increase magic atack pergentage and magic defense; MID: increase physical attack and physical defense; LOW: increase magic atack pergentage and magic defense). You have different formation types to choose in order to group your characters on a single lane, on the same lane, one per lane in order to maximize their potential and abilities. You start with 3 characters, and you will collect another 3 during the game. In battles, you will have 3 main characters, and the other 3 will be support. You can switch the characters in the battle on the go without extra turn. The main characters will be damage dealers, and the support characters usually have passives that improve the total health of the group, damage, or improve counter or protect abilities. There is a chance every turn that the support character will defend the main character for all damage received from 1 attack (it can go as far as 35% with passive skills). There is also the chance that after every atack the support character will counter with another atack (it can go up to 25% with passives). The enemies have weak points (vulnerable to different magic or physical attack), and if you fill up the fear gauge, a weak point rush will follow where all the main characters will atack the enemy in one turn (you can get 4 atacks). Every new enemy can be consumed in order to learn new passive or offensive abilities for the character that devours the enemy. You can create elixirs to farm gear based on the enemy components collected, you have romance, potions, level-up, stats increase and all the specifics of an RPG. The game presentation is a visual novel, with few 3D scenes from time to time. Some important parts of the visual novel are voiced, but the majority is just text to read. The characters are lovely, and the team cohesion and story development for the characters is great. The story overall is okay. I recommend this game. 10/10 for me.
