Recent reviews by Cardamom

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Best game, play game.

The heroes are not all balanced for Duos, but it's fun and I like the aspect of exploration each game allows.

Beautiful and immersive. The dueling gameplay, lighting, models, effects, atmosphere, and dialogue are all finely tuned and showcases the unbelievable talent at Fireplace Games. Amazing game, a must-buy at any price.

I also love the dotted oil paint-like effect of objects as they get further away.
And chicken <3

Similar to the first, but with more.

i really want to get to the point where I start breaking the game, but unkillable melee enemies spawn and I have to restart the run because there's no way to kill them. I'm just sitting there holding down the attack button forever and they take zero damage.

You've been frozen for over a thousand years.
Super Earth was destroyed ages ago.
The Helldivers are an effective weapon built by an ancient civilization.
Gaslighting them could not be easier.
Who's really controlling things?

This game is very fun to replay thanks the the large array of weapons, although the first boss is a huge difficulty spike!


BEWARE: I got this game after the 1.0 release so I'm not sure how it was before, but right now the game is unplayable. The controller input is absolutely broken.
Randomly the game decides buttons on my controller do different actions and the only way to fix this is to disconnect my controller and reconnect it to my computer. I've tried every other solution and racked up 2 hours just trying to fix this. This is the only game this happens with. I thought I would enjoy this game since I play Brawlhalla very often and this is similar. The game has potential for sure, but right now it's absolutely a scam. Broken as hell. Very frustrating.

Edit: Just tried using a friend's controller. Yep, it's broken only in this game, everything else works like it should.
Nevermind! This got fixed in the last couple patches!

Has a 3rd party launcher that asks to download another 70 gb. Launched the game and noticed the controls were inverted, so naturally I searched the options. After not finding how to fix it for 20 minutes I went on the internet to find if anyone had the solution. Every single post I found was met with hate from the community who tell people to spend hundred of dollars on custom controllers. Overly complicated controls and snobby community. Wish this could a review about the game.

In many ways this game still feels more modern, relevant, and revolutionary in 2023 then when it was released.

I genuinely believe the creators looked into a time cube and predicted an impossibly reasonable future, maybe this scenario has always been coded into the human experience. "What if I could poison the world and sell them the antidote?" But this game presents the most realistic depiction of this I've ever read.

Deus Ex allows players an ultimate sense of freedom with the situation and environment, asking "How do YOU want to play this?" For me it's taking a rocket launcher and killing my closest allies - BUT Deus Ex replies; "Oh good, they were evil and you just avoided a future boss fight.".

For people who want to get into this but may be intimidated by this game's age and verbose features, I ask you please spend one level and try your best to get past the jank of roughly 500 useless keybindings and graphics shenanigans. After the first mission all the jank fades into the background and you'll find the vast majority of the game is played through simple mouse clicks. This game absolutely has a problem with presenting new players with too much at once, but most people don't realize all of this can be skipped or ignored until later.

My personal recommendation- skip the intro cutscene and come back to it later. All of the dialogue you need to know is within the game and you'll be caught up with the major conspiracy by the end of the first level. And for me the game and story feel better with only the knowledge Denton currently has.

This game also allows you to keep the skillpoints it gives you at the beginning of the game until you're better established, so don't feel pressured to use them in the title menu.

Story, gameplay, graphics- all timeless. -There's a reason this game's ideas and culture are still so prevalent today.
Play this, you will not regret it.