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Once Human is Division 2 with a bit of Pal World mixed in. It has Division 2 gameplay, customization, and open world map; Pal World survival crafting/building along with "Pals" you can catch/collect that help around your base or fight along side you.

A Dynasty/Samurai Warriors fan service game. As of this review, there are 84 characters from throughout the Warriors game series to play as. Each one nearly maintaining their play style from previous games.

Current playable character count is 91, seven of which are guest characters from KOEI TECMO other IP, the Atelier series and Ninja Gaiden.

Dolls Nest is a combination of three popular games in one. Combat and customizing of Armored Core, Map design of Code Vein, and Music akin to Nier Automata. It manages to pull off all three well.

The core gameplay of this game is great. Kill mobs, resurrect them as your minion, they will fight for you till they die then after, you just resurrect what ever bodies are around, creating your undead army.

Why I can not recommend this game at the moment: it just has a lot of bugs and the optimization isn't very good.

1. Your run will end if you pick up a passive/upgrade that changes your skill in someway but only to find out it doesn't work(bugged) and makes that skill useless.

2. Like many 3D Roguelite games, FPS drop during later stages of a run is a large hurdle for many devs to overcome. Most have in place options to lower the graphics, tone down the particle effects and or disable them.

This game has none of those options at the moment of this review. On a decent graphic card, expect to be playing at 15 or less FPS during a mid to long run. It is unplayable once you are at a point where enemies can one hit kill you and you are at less then 10FPS with no way to react in time.

One step forward and 3 step back. With every new update with this game, something is horribly broken in some way.

Playing this game, I wasn't getting the "Monster Hunter" aspect people where talking about. It didn't feel or played like a Monster Hunter game.

When I finally realized that Granblue Fantasy: Relink reminded me of Phantasy Star Online and Phantasy Star: Portable, that was when everything finally clicked and made the game more enjoyable once I got into that mind set rather then looking for a Monster Hunter like experience.

If you're looking for a Monster Hunter like game to tide you over till Monster Hunter: Wild release, this is not it. If you're looking for a mission/quest board based co-op game, this game will keep you busy. The only thing hindering you from that gameplay experience is the Main Story quest which you have to do before all the Quest opens up at the quest board.

This DLC is a Power Fantasy compared to the base game. The Demonic version of the original playable characters are the embodiment of each of their main strength. You'll be beating stages with ease with them.

I recommend this game. Action Rougelike Dungeon Crawler game with a bit of Souls like in the mix. The game has a good amount of replay value, from unlocking items to grinding out to the hardest levels.

For a deck builder game, this one holds up. There are 3 characters to pick form, each one with a different playstyle and set of cards to build a deck. It listed that each character has 3 different deck to pick from, but for the most part they all play slightly the same in the end. The random Trait tree keep the game fresh every game since there isn't really a set build to follow, aside from to mapping out how to get the strongest traits and hoping there is enough cohesion in the tree to make it worth going after.

My favorite mode in the game is the Hunter mode. It is kinda like a drafting format where you are given standard starter cards then you "open a pack of cards" and pick 1 card from that pack, the rest of the cards you didn't pick get discarded then you get another pack of cards and pick 1 from it again. You do this till you have enough cards to make a deck to play with.

I recommend picking it up on a deep discount. If you see it at 85% off, just give it a try if you like Deck Builder games.

As for the DLC, unless you like an outfit or don't want to forever be stuck wearing the Clown Mask equipment, I don't recommend getting them if you are just starting the game. The DLC comes bundled with 100 Trophy items. Trophy are used to buy game altering equipment for your characters and can be used to buy retries for a failed run.

Want to improve your speed reading and reading comprehension skill? Do you like playing solitaire or waiting 15 minutes watching someone else play? Like card game that is decided on a coin flip?

Jokes aside, Master Duel is very free to play friendly. You are given enough resources to make a top tier deck as a new player or waste it on decks/cards that you like. Before you spend any of your free gems, you have to decide on what type of player you are.

Are you the type that wants to win at any cost and will only use what ever the current Meta deck is or are you the type the just want to have fun and play nostalgic deck/cards?

You only have enough to do one or the other with your starting freebie resources. That said, the game is very generous with the amount of free gems you can receive, so you will be able to get enough gems to pull cards to make new deck as you continue to play.


*This part is for all the Old Guards/People who played Yu-Gi-Oh! back in their school days:
If you played Yu-Gi-Oh! a long time ago and want to get back into it, how the game is currently being played is nothing like how you remembered it.

If you think setting a Monster and a few Spells/Traps on the field is the best opening play, you will be in for a rude awakening when your opponent special summons 20 times in a row and end their turn on a few monsters with the effect of "Negate a card effect" primed to go on your turn.

The best way I can describe how modern Yu-Gi-Oh! is played, it is like a Tower Defense game. If you are going first, you want to set up your field to either withstand your opponent plays next turn or set up a field to make it harder for them to do/play anything.

If you are going 2nd, you want to break your opponent field and or while it is your opponent starting turn, you play cards that allow you to interact and hinder their plays to make it easier for you to break their defense on your turn.

(The cards I'm referring that interact and hinder your opponent during their turn are grouped as "Hand Traps", as a new player, you should look up what they are and how they are used. They for the most part, are not optional and will be required to be in your deck)

The best tip I can give new players is, just read your opponent cards during your duel then go back to watch the replay and read them again if you don't understand the cards. It will be daunting and confusing but doing so will make you a better player. Like I said above in the opening joke of the review, doing so will improve your speed reading and reading comprehension skill.