Playing No Game: Wrong Dimension was an joyful experience. It really is a great point and click adventure game. The game checks off all the boxes you would want from these types of games. At the time of writing this review, I cannot find anything negative to say. I want to congratulate the developer on nailing it. Verdict: Highly Recommended
Door Kicker: Action Squad is a great coop shooter. It is streamless to play with a friend through GOG galaxy, unlike Door Kicker where we have yet to figure out how to join a hosted game. Action Squad has a suitable difficulty curve. When you learned the gameplay pattern, the game throws you a curve ball forcing you to adjust your play style to achieve a 2 star or greater rating. Character upgrades keep the gameplay loop fresh and are a necessity. Controls are tight and responsive, especially using a controller (used a PS3 controller with appropiate drivers). The keyboard experience is not the optimal interface for this game. My only complaint about the game is there is no level selection screen after you finish a level. You are forced to either advance to the next level, or exit and recreate a new coop session. Higly recommend this game over Dook Kickers if you are looking to play with a friend. Verdict: Buy It
Cook, Serve, Delicious is back for a third helping. This time it goes back to its original gameplay loop where you build a menu based of a set of rules which changes depending on the city/route you are visiting. Instead of playing a day from opening to closing, you are now making multiple stop in a city in your food truck. These stops act as "Rush Hours" found in the previous two games. There are new quality of life features like pressing CTRL will serve all finished orders. Let that sink in a bit. You no longer need to type in 1, 2, 5, 7, 9 anymore; just hit CTRL and BAM, orders served. You can now strategize on what foods to prep in your holding station as the number of orders at the next stop will be provided. No longer will you blindly prep food in your holding stations. There also no more chores. (I will miss that gameplay feature). Buzz is also gone...? The upgrade system is back but it is in a progression tree. Example: You cannot immediately unlock increased holding station freshness until prerequisite upgrades are already purchased. CSD3?! is oozing of personality and quality. Each setting in the options screen is represented by logo signs. The keyboard setting is a Domino's like logo and the gameplay settings is a Krispy Kreme like logo. How cool is that? The game now features has voice acting from your two helper androids. Joanthan Geer is back with an amazing soundtrack. Cook, Serve, Delicious 3?! takes the best parts of the previous games and serves it to you in food truck portions. I highly recommend buying the game if you are looking for a hardcore cooking game or are a fan of the previous games. You won't be disappointed because you will be too busy chasing those perfect runs.
I'm 14 game days in and this is the Harvest Moon (HM) that fans always wanted for PC. There's relationship building, crop growing, mining, combat, nature spirits, fishing, house expansion, etc. It has all the building blocks that make a HM game. The player can choose to create a male or female character and there are 5 guy and 5 girls to court. As with all HM games, players need to find out, through trial and error, what NPC likes and dislikes are. Thankfully, players can see the relationship status with each character from the menu. Stardew Valley is a beautiful game. There are so many things that make this game come to life like rabbits going into shrubbery, grass blowing in the wind, and butterflies coming out of trees when the player shakes them. The soundtrack complements the peace country lifestyle but there's always a clock running. Time flows very fast. It keeps running outdoors and indoors, but stops in menus and during festivals. Players who hate the fast flow will be put off but it's inherent to this type of game. The game was made to be to be played with a mouse and keyboard, but it has some controller support. LB and RB don't do anything. It's not great but it works. Like all games in the HM series, there little quirks that don't make sense. Players will be forced to trash an item when crafting if your inventory is full. Depending on the quality of your keyboard, the arcade game may not register all your key presses. I have a habit of holding down keys that don't need to be held down. But what's a HM game with out a few bugs. I'm glad that freshly plowed squares are already water when it's raining. If you are a fan of the HM series and haven't gotten your fix in a while, you should definitely pick up this game.
