Recent reviews by Danny

Great gameplay it feels like an extraction shooter the PvE can be really difficult which is a plus to me. The player fights feel really good when you get into a real 1v1 it feels like a mix of Halo and Destiny PvP. Though, sometimes you can get caught off-guard and there isn't much you can do.

Overall a great game but I have to agree some others that it has bad onboarding. If you are a person who might refund after 2 hours you may end up refunding right before it starts to click.

My buddy Ricky and I have been enjoying it so far.

The roguelike and roguelite aspects of this game are well thought out and fun. Really addictive to keep going once you finish a run to see what crazy ability combos you can create with slotted "gems" into your abilities. On top of that the meta progression of characters does feel impactful and you can even unlock different abilities in place of the starter ones. Absolutely love what you guys did to create a unique but familiar game for roguelike and roguelite fans. This will definitely be my go-to game for a while.

Really deserving of the praise as of right now this has to be the best hack and slash rogue-like out there. I respect the developers original color palette but the more realistic visuals really bought it all together for me. I really recommend giving this a try if you're into hack and slash games or rogue-likes.

Definitely a contender for the best game ever made.

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 has to be one of the best games I have ever played easily blows KCD 1 out of the water even though it too was a great game. After beating KCD 2 I keep thinking about how great the story, world, and characters were. Money well spent on a masterpiece and I hope Warhorse keeps delivering.

It shouldn't be a contest, Balatro is the most unique, innovative game that released this year. Selling so much on PC and mobile should be reason enough to give it a shot. This is absolutely my game of the year.

This game is as good as everyone says woo yeah baby

I'm not sure where to start with Cyberpunk 2077, this game has many problems starting with bugs and optimization to gameplay and story building. Keep in mind when reading this I had lower expectations than most with this game but still believed it would have been a good game, just not as good as everyone was hyping it up to be. When first beginning my adventure into Cyberpunk I walk outside the starting car to 2 different groups of thugs floating on top of each other's heads. Given that was on the first day of release I don't mind too much considering every game these days are released with a butt load of bugs and eventually problems like this will be fixed, not only did I find these thugs floating as soon as I exited the door, NPCs are clipping through elevators, doors, and walls while talking with me and getting to their destination. Optimization is also a complaint for many, I don't understand why the recommended specs for this game involve a 1060, no matter what graphics settings I change the game still has nearly the same performance, but again this is common in many games so I'm not going to fault Cyberpunk specifically for this problem, just something I wish many games would resolve. That being said I have a 1080 and an I7 7700k and only getting a max of 60fps when playing on medium settings only about 5 fps more than playing with everything set to max. Speaking of graphics this game doesn't seem to be special in any regard with their graphics, and I actually recommend you check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DWTWBpXZV8 to see the differences between ultra and low, sometimes it seems as though lower is better just to reduce the amount of blur they use when on ultra, and it seems as though there is no real significant difference when playing on one or the other. I thought amazing atmosphere and breathtaking visuals was something Cyberpunk was striving to get. But these visuals are simply not impressive, they aren't bad either but after taking a break from the game I went off to Red Dead Redemption 2 and man the difference was night and day graphically speaking.




Onto the gameplay, at the very beginning aside from the bugs I was roped in, the story was really nice and the graphics seemed impressive at that point but once you get 2 hours in you walk out of your apartment ready to take on the world, the atmosphere here is fantastic I felt like a little boy in the middle of a huge open world. Hopped in my car and drove around... with nearly nothing to do. I figured well it is the beginning I was just introduced to the world I'll do a few more missions and see what more opens up, I meet new people get more mechanics thrown at me and at that point it changed nearly nothing. Just more upgrades and neat gadgets to do things with that were niche at best. Hacking only gives you 3 options after beginning the game, attack, distract, or take over. Take over cameras, hack into people and damage them, or activate a light, T.V. or forklift to distract the enemy. It is nearly useless to use these mechanics unless you want to distract the exact same copy pasted bulletsponges. Not to mention when you hack someone and blow up their phone or cyberware and damage them, they do not bat an eye unless you actually see you. You can hack, wait a minute hack again, until they are dead. This right here I thought was a bit embarrassing, they don't even try to walk around and find you, its similar to Skyrim NPCs getting hit with an arrow and believing it was their imagination. Once I even had a civilian drive near a turf shootout and sit there, staring at us shooting instead of panicking, driving off, she sat there because my car was stuck in the way in front of tens of guys shooting near her. I truly feel like GTA V NPCs were more impressive and that game came out in 2013. There are also "Cyberpsychos" who were really hyped up in the first side mission to be cool diverse murdering cops and innocents then retreating into their little cave but I quickly found out after fighting 3 of them, they are exactly the same and even the AI here is a bit wacky. You fire an entire magazine into them and they magically dodge half the bullets that are being fired straight into them. Their AI is also only programmed to stay in one specific spot. If you get out of their fight zone they'll stand there and let you keep firing or hack to your hearts content.

Finally the story, I thought the very introduction was really interesting at first, as I said it roped me in gave the characters some personality and hyped me up for a really nice solo experience, until I finished the introduction and found my way into Nightcity. Once I awoke and started my adventure it just felt like a chore, I'm sitting with someone talking about a job who tells me to get in a car and talk with someone about a job I then murder for said object then sit with someone and talk about a job. Granted I'm only 4ish hours into the story but so far I just can't tell what's happening and I just don't seem to care about whats happening. Its just job to job and for some reason the big "boss" giving out jobs cares about specifically me for no real reason, when confronted with the question he just says I'm more trustworthy when I just met the guy. The only praise I can say with this story is within these fetch quests is the mini-stories there are really cool and don't seem super scripted. It felt really interactive when choosing my dialogue then something would happen and I'm slowly regretting that decision. But on the decision side of things I suppose this could be a slight spoiler so beware, everyone gets their own introduction when playing but after the intro everyone is put into the exact same spot, so not every experience seems like it will be tailored into your own unique story.

Finishing this review off I just want to say that Cyberpunk 2077 really has the atmosphere and world building for a great game but because the gameplay and story lacks so much I don't know what this game could become, the open world really seems nearly dead with every side quest seeming to be exactly the same with random punks wanting to kill you for scraps. There is so much left to be desired with this game and the gameplay is nothing shy of a B tier ubisoft game, truly it feels like Watchdogs-The Division but I suppose that's giving it some praise because at least Watchdogs had really cool unique things with their hacks. But pretty much that's about what I have to say. Thank you to anyone for reading, I do not recommend this game in its current state and it seems like it would take quite a bit of time for the game to really be something special, though in the end I am happy the team hopefully gets a small break after being in crunch mode for over a year. I'll definitely give this game another shot over time and update my review accordingly since I want this to be as accurate as it can be.

I first bought Hades after watching a video on it for just a few minutes. Within those minutes I found a game I absolutely adored, the music, the characters, the art style, and gameplay just fit together so perfectly. The music alone is what made me stop watching the video and buy it for myself. I did, however, refund it on steam simply to buy it on my Switch so I could play it anywhere I wanted. I definitely plan on recommending this game to my friends, nominating it for game of the year on steam and gifting it to my friends who want it. This game is a masterpiece.