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Layers of Fear (2016)
Created on 29 June, 2017 12:50
Layers of Fear (2016)

Beautiful but gets boring

This is a walking simulator with very little story that will not necessarilly make sense and a couple "puzzles". You’ll get a couple small jump scares and then get used to them and just ignore them trying to get to the end as quickly as possible. Pros: - beautiful graphics - fluid 60 FPS most of the time - chromatic aberration can be disabled as well as head bobbing (I left head bobbing on though), and the FOV can be increased - key binding and mouse speed options - can be finished in a reasonnable amount of time (two or three evenings, so maybe 5 hours?) - not really frightening because there are many jump scares and it’s impossible to die. Cons: - some heavy stuttering sometimes - a few very obvious graphical bugs (on Linux) - on the first launch the game opened a borderless window that was smaller than my screen and blocked alt-tab and did some weird broken things. I had to edit the prefs file to restore a decent resolution and then the game worked correctly. - uses Google Analytics. - very annoying "puzzle" near the end of the game where you have to find draughts pieces in a dark room and where the game sometimes makes the view spin by itself for no reason that I can guess. - it’s a short game for the price - not really frightening because there are many jump scares and it’s impossible to die. - gets boring after a while. Despite all the cons I don’t regret buying it (on sale) and playing it. It was beautiful and different. It’s also refreshing to be able to finish a game.

3 gamers found this review helpful
Created on 15 June, 2017 00:32
FlatOut 2
Created on 14 June, 2017 04:53
FlatOut 2

Much better than Flatout 1

This is a good, fun and playable arcade racing game. It is challenging but not too hard. It’s fun to demolish the scenery and find shortcuts. In my opinion it’s the best racing game for Linux at the moment (in 2017). On the negative side, gamepad input is broken (on Linux with an Xinput gamepad) so I had to painfully map gamepad buttons to keyboard events with xboxdrv. You also have to launch the game settings first (either from the menu or with the right argument to start.sh) or the game will open in an ugly 1024×768 screen and move all your icons and windows, quite annoying.

1 gamers found this review helpful
Created on 14 June, 2017 04:51
FlatOut
Created on 14 June, 2017 04:36
FlatOut

Almost unplayable

The cars are very hard to control, skidding all the time. On top of that the computer-controlled cars will not hesitate to crash into your car while you are already struggling to follow the road, making things worse. The ragdoll "feature" when you crash into a tree is infuriating. Get Flatout 2 instead, it’s much better!

4 gamers found this review helpful
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