Recent reviews by YGSFox

As someone, who is around since the very first Resident Evil, this ticks all boxes for me.

Graphics: 9/10 (Ghosting with FSR Framegen, hence one point less)
Sound: 10/10 (The whole thing just works)
Characters: 10/10 (I absolutely love the development of the characters)
World-building: 8/10 (Great addition to the RE-canon, but could have been more)
Narrative: 8/10 (It's no masterpiece, but for RE it's great)
Atmosphere: 10/10
Gameplay: 9/10 (some minor hiccups, which could be totally my fault)
Personal Verdict: 9,5/10 (which is quite high for me, since I'm picky)

All in all, a great game that serves pure horror fans (who like RE2 or RE7) as well as action fans like in RE4. It's no perfect game, but a nearly perfect Resident Evil and the most well rounded package for me.

Performance on highest settings with native 1440p and frame-gen was great (120FPS throughout), but depending on your machine, your milage may vary (7800X3D, 7900XTX, 64GB DDR5).

If you love survival horror and action horror or are an RE fan, this is for you.

Already finished it on PS5 and now again on PC.

If you're looking for a really solid action game, this one is it. Challenging battles, interesting areas and exploration in semi-open-world areas and a protagonist, that is eye-candy while you collect more than 140 outfits.

World-Building is great, the story not so much and the characters are replaceable. But the fun factor is a given.

Keeping it short and simple:

If you're remotely interested in "JRPG's" or turned based RPG's, if you love pieces of art and if you're not afraid to commit at least a bit into a game, if you loved NieR Automata for the philosophical aspect and if you are open for an incredible one-time experience: This is it.

I spare you of the details. It looks good, it sounds good, it's astonishingly well written and the game play is addictive. No bloat, no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. And if it doesn't run on your machine, your machine is the problem.

10/10 would rip and tear again.

Daisy approves!

Short, graphically creative, addicting and my car has #tofu on the bottom side.

Absolute Drift is an amazing mini-game that let's you choose between three difficulties. Your goal is to make good drifts and complete challenges, all while it's connected through an open world area. After each area, you unlock a new car and drift your way further through the game.

It took me nine hours to complete all steam-achievements, so it's really short but I can recommend it to every drift-fan that doesn't look for a hardcore-sim.

The only missed chance is the soundtrack. While you even start with a replica of the iconic AE86 Panda Trueno, you don't have Eurobeat as a soundtrack but other non-iconic tracks instead. Protip: Mute the music and look for an Initial-D Playlist on youtube -> profit.

Either way, buy, drift, enjoy!

Well, by no means a perfect game. At times stunning visuals, but rather lackluster and arcadey car handling, even for an arcade game. Best enjoyed with a gamepad on highest difficulty without any driving aids.

Also, ♥♥♥♥ those sprint buggys.

The game provides a fun time but it's beyond any reason, to have a matchmaking multiplayer only. It doesn't let you customize races with friends and utterly destroyed the only play.

Fun 15 hours of single player for quick and easy races in nice environments (the tracks are the real star of the show), but don't expect anything deep.

Well, let's keep this as short as possible.

Have you ever played Ace Combat? Have you enjoyed Ace Combat? Did your heart crave for those moments, like battling the Yellow Squad? Fighting Solo Wing Pixy? Fighting giant air fortresses? Intercepting cruise missles?

Well, look no further. Project Wingman is a game, that could be called "Ace Combat Greatest Hits".
Is it a carbon copy of Ace Combat? Yes. Is that a bad thing? Hell no.

The game sticks to the Ace Combat formula like nothing else, but everything they did, was done with a passion. Let's break it down a bit.

Graphics:

While not as polished as Ace Combat 7, they managed to bring interesting areas to the table, highly detailed aircraft models and nice to look at effects.

Sound:
The sound design is great and in some parts (looking at you missle alert) not as annoying as in Ace Combat. And while the composer is no Keiko Kobayashi and they don't have any signature tracks like Megalith, Zero or Archange or Daredevil, the soundtrack fits the bill, is atmospheric and well made.

Gameplay:

While the planes feel a tad bit lighter than in AC (especially the "low-level" planes), they did everything right. You always feel like you're in full control and the addition of PSM as an easy to use special rather than a very advanced and situational maneuver like in AC makes it fun and it comes in handy, even though, the "high G turn" from AC7 is missing if you're used to it.

Presentation:

Don't expect the same level of story telling outside of the missions as in AC. You have your briefings and very few rather static conversations. But ingame, it's doing everything right. You won't see a huge difference to the big brother.

Narrative:

You have a rather dystopic vision of the future you're playing in and you witness a war from the eyes of a mercenary pilot (Cypher anyone?). And while it never fully reaches the same emotional impact during the campaign like AC5 did (Choppers death, the betrayal of the wardog squad), the last few missions hit the nail with a rather dark depiction of the things that happen. And without wanting to spoil too much, the last battle is the best duel, you could wish for. Better than pixy, better than yellow 13 and better than Sol 1.

So, if you like ace combat, there's no reason for you to buy this masterpiece of a game.

Oh and...did I mention that it also has a wave mode for more replayability?

10/10, would vent again.

Would die again. 10/10

Not much to say. Bad Port but certainly the one masterpiece you only see once in a few years.