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A flash classic. A love letter to games, flash, classic or indie, or even to web itself. A little fun adventure full of funny fails. A reference gallery that still has an identity of it's own. A small time capsule of a 2010 to 2020 decade. A small chunk of Newgrounds. Memorable. Distracting. Homage. Creative. Suprising. Fun. Heartfelt. Sincere.

You can call Henry Stickmin games a lot of things, and most of them are probably true, but what's definitevely true is that Henry Stickmin is our beloved little stickman rogue, and he and Charles and Ellie, their partners, will forever stay in our minds.

Punch-out-esque side episode DLC that shows how much more potential Star Fetchers have, and the Pilot already proved it with oozing style. It's really good (better than base game at least in terms of gameplay), and it still has the blunt-insane but sincere writing I loved in the pilot. Nevada is best and I love her; Let her join Thornz.

Let me just copy my review of half-life...

Half-Life Black Mesa is as classic as you can get... Wait a minute...

Black Mesa is a fan made remake of Half-Life, and to be honest, it's my prefered way to experience this classic.
Everything that made Half-Life great makes Black Mesa great.

Black Mesa still has the base of Half-Life's methodology "Run, Think, Shoot and Live", but it is enchanced with thoughtfull changes to controls and movement. Weaker chapters have been improved upon with more tuned level design; weapon tweaks make the whole arsenal more appealing and already excelent setpieces and excelent sequences were improved upon - something I thought was nigh impossible.

The pacing of the campain is excelent, from one encounter to another encounter, the flow of everything is on par or sometimes greater than in Half-Life. Still escaping the failing facility through it's different sectors, finding survivors and discovering more and more about the facility; it's still all there and witnessing the fallout of our actions is still captivating.

And Xen chapters itself are impressive - they are no longer bad!
Reworked and completely redesigned into something new while retaining most of the beats the original had and conveying them better than ever. Beautiful alien enviorment with sparse interference of Black Mesa temp-facilities scattered here and there, that are joy to explore and retaining all the level design principles and knowledge that Half-Life is known for.
Problem of slowly depleeting resources in later chapters are absent thanks to frankly good move to make scientists from overworld sent you care packages, making them actually help you.
Interloper chapter has still little pacing issue, but it is not bad as it is penultimate chapter and it being longer feels like final stretch to reach finale, so that basically resolves itself.

I would still highly recommend playing the original HL before Black Mesa to appreciate video game history and what an amazing game it still is. But Black Mesa is better and absolutely amazing. A worthwhile play!

Half-Life is as classic as you can get

The game starts slow, with ride to the work through the Black Mesa facility, where we play as Gordon Freeman and just continue our work as theoretical physics scientist as usual, but in our procedure, we accidentally creates an apocalypse scenario, which we will witness the fallout off it.

The combat loop is tight and inherintly fast paced with methodology of "Run, Think, Shoot and Live" through encounter to encounter. Fighting against aliens and against soldiers is exhilarating; two different factions with two different strategies that you need to approach accordingly.

The pacing of the campain, or at least the overworld section, is one of the best made. Escaping the failing facility through it's different sectors, finding survivors and discovering more and more about the facility we worked with. Activating last resort prevention of alien invasion and surviving the warzone to get to the Lambda facility is some of the best sections of the game.

Some of the best shooting campaings next to Half Life 2, Doom Eternal and Titanfall 2 and would have been perfect if not for the Xen chapters.

Xen feels like an afterthought in otherwise easiest 10/10 shooting experience possible I could give. Confusing layout, pacing halts to the snail's pace - especially in Interlopers chapter, complete lack of any resources to survive anything except from some random dead scientists' stash, drab color scheme reminding me of various color of vomit and textures of vein holes, which might have awakened Trypophobia in some of people.
Imagine if there was an alternative game where Xen was not bad...

Regardless, it is still worth playing, at least until the Xen starts.

Used Resident Evil 4 HD Project to play

Resident Evil 4 is a suprising instant favorite of mine, as I didn't expect to love it as much as I do

Some of the best 3rd person shooting combat in... ever, still after all the years. Creative encounters constantly thrown at the player, demanding aim and positioning, doing constant micro decisions of which weapon to use and it's worth the ammo, to excell at impossible odds. It resembles a combat you'd see in John Wick movie, and B-movie horror tone of RE4 helps it's frankly insane narrative and insane accomplishments made by Leon

Controls were suprisingly modern when I switched from controller to mouse and keyboard, making entire issue of tank controls obsolete (and even then, when I played with controller, tank controls weren't that big of an issue), and while inventory controls on MK were uncessecarry deligated to unusual keys, they weren't that much of the hinderance after getting used to it.

The only complain I would do is that going into the inventory to change weapons would kill the pace of combat, I didn't really felt that, but it might be issue for some.

It is an instant classic, a must play!

Max Payne proves itself as an excelent Hard boiled Fugtive Cop experience.
A well shaked blend of moment to moment action and narrative of the deeply shaken cop, driven by vengence discovering a disturbing plot of control.

full of intrigue, a lot of very well executed bullet time action and thick atmoshepere similar to action movies like Matrix, Pulp fiction or Hard Boiled.

It may not be the best in terms of pure gameplay or shooting, but it worth to play not only to experience the cult classic, but also to see how Remedy started, and they started with a whisky and a bang.

It being an older game, it means you need to dig in files a little for it to run as smooth as butter; thankfully community did make a fix-it-all executable file, which fixes a lot of audio or physics problems, found easely in guides.
If you don't mind a little older games, it is worth playing!

A disturbing expierience, a full dive into the endless void of human self-loathing and hard grasp at any straw of happiness. Red haze covering the whole narrative maze, the stark and explicit colors evoking powerful vibe and ambience; a strangely familiar, but not usual state of mind.

It's great.

Playing this game is like stepping into the dimension of both relatable understanding and too out of the depth discomfort.

Absurd.

That's all there is to know about Pikuniku.
It is an absurd, colorful, bizzare game about people getting used by one powerful corporate individual under the vail of free money to power their own intrests and screw over everyone else while we play as funni red bean with kickful legs.
And i can't love it more than i already do.
Game is such delight with it's humor, writing and randomness. I can't help but love it.