Katana ZERO is an overrated game. With that out of the way, it is still a an okayish game. Spoilers ahead. The game centers around what it basically would be like, if people "in the real world" had the ability to replay as you do in a game, i.e. you die and you do it again. This is the corner stone of the game and it influences the gameplay and the style. You quickly get annoyed by the replay after finishing each level, but luckily you can skip it (although the option to disable it in the menu does not work). In Katana ZERO you will replay each level many times and the same when fighting the bosses. The way to beat the game is to memorize the enemies moves. This can get a bit tiresome, which the developer must have acknowledged because it is very easy to restart a level with a single key press. This way of playing, remembering what to do and what the enemy do and then retry until you succeed is in line with the story of the game. The story in Katana ZERO is what I would have called emo-like 10 years ago, but today I think it falls under a catch all, something like "dystopia". There are no clear winners, it is a sad story and frankly it is a very confusing story. The game is not interesting enough to replay, so replay is for game mechanics, but that also gets tiresome because of the gameplay style. So 3 stars for the game and 1 star extra because it looks like a one man job, and another star because it is on GOG without DRM. I will probably play it again, but having just finished the game and dying ~30-50 times in the last boss fight, it is not something I think will happen in the near future.
Darksider Genesis was the first game I completed in the hack'n'slash RPG genre and it is a great game. The game pretty much carries you through the story without to much back tracking, platforming that gives you a challenge and perfectly balanced enemies. Can recommend.
Fallout New Vegas is a good game. It is not a great game like Fallout 3 IMHO, but it's good. The story is a little superficial and the setting can get tiresome and repetitive. On the plus side there are some enemies that will put on a challenge and reduce you to save scumming. It is of course still one of the better FPS / RPG ever made. I play without mods and the game still runs perfect.
Great game, could do with Fallout 5 right about now and Fallout 4 on GOG. I have been playing this game since it's release more than 10 years ago and it is still one of my favorite games. The story is very good, the mechanics works very well (it's a good engine) and my only complaint is, that Fallout 5 is nowhere to be seen. The only mod I use is for optimizing CPU usage on all cores.
Great, great game. Heavily influenced by Mankind Divided and the Deus Ex series, but that is only a good thing. I played one of the early versions on a GTX 1050 running ~30 FPS and I enjoyed my time very much. Looking forward to paid DLC and hopefully tons of hours of extra gameplay. IMHO the story could have been 2 - 3 times as long with +50 more side quests and +10 more main missions. It is a game where you can see that much effort has been put into it and it is a solid game.
It is very difficult to rate this game. If you compare The Messenger to Ninja Gaiden on the SEGA Master System, which it so clearly copies, it falls through with 1 star. The levels in the first part are boring, repetitive and does not giver a good challenge. If you look at The Messenger for what it is, a ninja 2D platformer released around 2018, it gets 5 stars simply because there is nothing to match this style now. So 3 stars it is. Very minor spoilers ahead. The game is split into two parts. The first part is easy and if the devs would take some time to strenghten the levels and add some more bosses, it could have passed as it's own game and it would have been a good game if not a very good game. It tries to copy what Ninja Gaiden did perfect on the SEGA Master System and to my knowledge no other game has done since. Perhaps the game could have been split into different parts, save games disabled and "lives" as you know it from the old games, i.e. Mario, with a Game Over feature would have been nice. The second part of the game is a mess. It is sort of a RPG platformer hybrid, that does not work very well, because it lacks effort. You are not guided and the level design is one big mess. You have the Unity go-fund-yourself platforming template map as you will find in every other Unity platformer and a cryptic messages about items you have to find. I did not finish the second part of the game, not because I did not want to, but simply because early on, I was told about an item (which I now realize must be some sort of end game item) which I went and fetched, used and ended up in with a game breaking save in which I could not complete the level and could not backtrack beyond the last save point. I did invest some time trying to figure this out and to my knowledge there was no way around it and I had to delete the save. If the devs had respected the genre some more and less of the ironic humor, The Messenger would have been a solid game.
