Recent reviews by CameronRose

Fantastic entry to the series, great roguelike. Though I hope it expands in the future.

I am a massive fan of HoH 1, as well as all other Hammerwatch games. Original Hammerwatch 1 was my first and I’ve been obsessed since. I must be honest I was very sceptical at first because I am not big on the new art style. However, that is mainly personal bias - I guess I don’t like change and having over 300 hours in HoH 1 made me very attached to how the original game looked and played. I got over it very quickly, as this game has enough similarities to first HoH to keep me happy and even more improvements to make me even happier, i.e. a lot of convenience improvements, like seeing imps on the map, being able to send resources to town frequently, or frequent spawn of potion refills; new gear system, or run modifier.

Though there are a few things I miss like the trinket shop in town, or well. I also preferred that the builds were drink+trinket based rather than upgrades/gear (though maybe I just didn’t get to the point where that is the case so the drinks I collected are not powerful enough to significantly boost my builds). Not much to complain about classes, I think they improved greatly on the original game with one exception - ranger. Ranger used to be my favourite and I dare say it’s my least favourite now. Flurry of arrows was a superior ability and I wish it was present in this game too, instead of the power shot. Just makes the ranger much slower and boring.

This game is a massive grinder so it needs replayability and it does have it but it is certainly lacking extra content to break from the routine every now and then. I’m looking forward to see what they come up with in the future in terms of DLCs.

It is so great to see how far this game improved since it first came out. As a huge fan of Fallout games I excitedly bought it as soon as it came out in 2018. I played it on a console at the time. Like everyone I was greatly let down by it - the bizarre decision to not include NPCs, the emptiness of the world as a result thereof and generally boring gameplay - there was nothing to do and certainly nothing to do with other people - this was neither good as an MMO or a solo experience game.

I gave it another chance a few years later and bought it on PC after reading about all the improvements done to the game since. I was pleasantly surprised to see how much this game was transformed from the disastrous launch. The world has become more lively, NPCs added in, map expanded, plenty of quests and events to do, and above all else my favourite - camp building. Camp building is probably the highlight of this game but for the full building experience it is mostly impossible to avoid opening up the dreaded store filled with micro transactions. The game also does get a bit annoying on higher levels if you don't have Fallout 1st subscription - mostly because of inventory management and limited space. However, neither store purchases, or subscription are essential, and they also will not give you any advantage over other players beside bragging rights about the cool, real money items you have in your camp.

This is a decent Fallout game but I would not say it is a good MMO - player interaction is not necessary beside a few repeatable, daily grind kind of quests and bosses. All of the story can be completed solo and playing with other people beside having fun with friends does not add much to the experience. The story itself lacks the typical Fallout story edge but I guess lacking edge is something most modern games suffer from. It is also easy to run out of things to do (I was done with unique quests by level 100) but new content does get added regularly.

Overall, despite some of the negatives I still very much recommend this game for a decent, casual experience. It is far from a masterpiece, or from being an exceptional Fallout entry but I had a ton of fun playing it, and even managed to grind out 100% achievement completion, which is easy to do, just time consuming.

Skyrim VR is far from perfect but it works, it does its job as is. I expected Fallout VR to be more or less the same - nu uh. It doesn't really work without support of external software, and for smoother experience - modding as well. If you have the patience to do what it takes to optimise it - buy it but only if it is on sale as it certainly is not worth at its full price.

The game has been out for 2 days and I already managed to sink nearly 15 hours into it. So far I’ve had a love hate relationship with it due to the general difficulty of the game but I cannot say the experience hasn’t been overall enjoyable.

If you got this game expecting it to be alike Heroes of Hammerwatch or Hammerwatch 1, you will either be disappointed or pleasantly surprised. This time the game went into a different direction by opening up the world; it no longer follows a strictly linear progression alike in previous games.

Now, despite liking open world games, Hammerwatch to me was a break of sorts where I could just follow what the game tells me to do, without doing the tedious exploring, resource collecting, having to figure out my next step, or getting distracted by side quests. This cannot be said about Hammerwatch 2, which is a semi open world game with many activities that open world game often entails - crafting, enchanting, exploring, cooking, fishing, tedious side quests and so on. Whilst it does retain the atmosphere and look of the previous games - it isn’t the simple roguelike you play to take a break from, eventually tiresome, open world games - it is now kinda one of them.

Whilst I do recommend it because it is a great game, I must mention I was minorly disappointed to discover that the game has become a lot more expansive and it no longer has that feel of being a quick and simple game I can just ‘play for a bit’ without overly committing to it (I still sank many hours into Heroes regardless but I didn’t feel like I had to). This could be a big upgrade to some who wanted the game to become more expansive, or it could be a slight disappointment to the boring gamers like me who kind of want to replay the new versions of essentially the same game.

Regarding the multiplayer issues some have mentioned - I personally do not care about it. It seems to be the same as Hammerwatch 1 where someone else’s character was also locked to the save. It wouldn’t hurt to have a similar system to Heroes of Hammerwatch where any character could just join at any point but this isn’t really a multiplayer focused game so if you’re a multiplayer enjoyer - don’t bother because this isn’t really a game for you. Just because it has the option it doesn’t mean that it needs to be played with others to be enjoyed.

Absolutely exquisite. Perfect for grinders who don't easily get bored replaying the game over and over for stats and achievements

DLCs are an acquired taste, or at least have been for me but once you're deep into it they are great fun too