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No game has ever made me feel like this.
This amazing Art piece was painted to make you cry with many colours.
Every moment, every step deeper into this beautiful game, I fall further and further deeper into admiration for what these developers brilliantly created for us to experience. When you play this game, expect to be awestruck at any moment. Expect to feel the pain of loss. I felt grief for the first time since I lost someone close to me.

Every Sorrow is born of love tho...
And Every Love transcends sorrow...

Sven was right, when he stepped on the Game Awards stage. I feel like he knew that something was brewing. Whether that is because he saw Shadowheart step into the role of Maelle, or because he is all knowing.

The Artists of Sandfall, please continue to make amazing games.
I will await the next time I see this studio painting.

Amazing Game.
Amazing Devs.
Larian Studios continues to helm amazing ethics and even though I haven't completed BG3 yet, the good review is warranted because of Swen Vincke and his amazing team.

I should probably finally get out of the grove, but I blame myself wanting to play BG3 in multiplayer.
Will edit once I finally finish this masterpiece.

Edit: This is not a game... this is Art. I have finished my first playthrough, but not without sitting through the entire credits. A game like this deserves it, a piece of art that moves me to tears. Thank you Larian for pouring your love and soul into this work of art.

I would only recommend Risk of Rain 2 PRE-SEEKERS OF THE STORM DLC, but because of the amount of bugs that were made because of time crunch I wouldn't buy ROR2 in the state it's in. If you want to support the developers play Risk of Rain Returns or Downpatch.

Some things were fixed and some things were left in... but man its good to play ROR2 again.

Not only is there a bug where I can't play the game AT ALL,
but now Sony has forced Arrowhead to add PSN requirement.

RIP one of the best games of this year

Man I love Fishing

Minor Area, Gun-play and Bullet Type Spoilers in this Review
After fully completing the game and getting 100% Achievement this is my review.

I went into the this game demo expecting a small game that had a nice game-play loop with cool gun mechanics, and after full release, the game did meet the expectation but it did just that. There were some parts that were really cool and some parts that were lacking.

If you have played Don't Starve at all you have played with the camera type before, although there isn't a rotation button for the camera I think that in the case of this game it works because of the how the set pieces were made to be seen at the chosen rotation. The art-style is one of my favourite parts in this game and I think that Galvanic Games did a great job creating the look of a Wizard Western setting. All of the areas and entities in the game felt perfectly executed in the art-style that Galvanic Games made.

When it comes to the Gun-play and Bullet Types there are some clear outliers, bad options and must picks which until I finished the game made it so I never used anything but one type of ammo. The offending bullet type is the Lightning Strike Bullets as they do too much damage for how easy it is to make and upgrade them (especially with the powder upgrades like Crit% Up, Crit Damage Up and AOE Up). Past the Swamp area I never used anything other than a full hotbar of Lightning Strike bullets in either Wunderbusses or Carbines. All of the other bullets (other than Teleport and Damage for moving around and damaging objects respectively) were either had other bullets that it relied on to do damage or didn't do enough damage to compare to Lightning Strike. With the bullets out of the way on to the weapons, with 4 weapon types of course the sniper and shotgun equivalent were on top. I did use the pistol for teleportation but the SMG didn't see the light of day in my play-through after testing it in the swamp.

With enemies and achievements in a video game comes the difficulty, and I wish I could say this game had a good difficulty but the only time I almost died was when I fought the desert boss without any healling items at a starting health of around 150hp (Max hp at the start of the game is 1000hp). That being said on both of my runs of the game I haven't died and don't know what happens when you do so. If one thing could be added later on in this games life, I hope it would be a harder difficultly. I was able to 100% this game with one save without dying after (in-game time) 7h 40m. All of the bosses had cool gimmicks but I felt the final one was severely lacking in difficultly even compared to the first. It is defiantly this way because of how the player has alot more power growth compared to the enemies. The base game difficultly felt like a Normal difficultly at the start but ended at an Easy by the time you are at "midgame". Not saying that the game's base difficultly should be souls-like but a option to increase the difficulty would be nice.

I only recommend this game if you a looking for a Wizard Western and are fine with some base building and crafting on the side.

PS: Multiplayer is very buggy but alot of fun, I wish it could be more than a 2 player co-op but that could be an update later.

Great game. Would not 100% again. Would not golden berry again.

A Minor Spoiler can be found in this review
After 100% Completion All I can say is this.

Elden Ring is my #1 Game of 2022, the sole reason why I kept playing till 100% is the amount of things you can do, even just the "builds" that are possible keep you learn new ways to play. All of the Bosses were rewarding when you beat them, and none of them felt unfair.

My favourite part of this open world FromSoftware Masterpiece is how densely pack the world is and the amount of detail that went into this world. Even the smallest of areas rewarded you with either an unexpected item or message which made it fun finding all these nooks that either other have found and left a message or a new space to put down your own. I know I'm definitely not good at this game but I still was able to get all achievements on one save (NG+2 Required).

When it comes to bosses, Melania was both the hardest and most rewarding to fight. Never in a game have I spent hours on the edge of my seat death after death fighting for my life, and when I beat Melania I think I passed out in celebration. The absolute only thing I like about the bosses is that you can't re-fight without either going into NG+ or making another save. I think a way to re-fight a boss (without getting the runes because that would be broken) in maybe the round-table would be fun. (I only say this because of another game that I play with similar mechanics has a re-fight option)

In closing,
Elden Ring Is one of the Only Games I would say that Everyone should eventually Complete
15/10 - One of the Best Games I've played in my Life

I hate my friends.



































STOP ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ YEETING ME OFF THE STAGE!
Good Game though.

This Game is the 2nd greatest application on Steam, only because tmodloader exists.

If you don't have this game consider buying the most content filled experience.
Also try the Terraria Mod Calamity!

Also I hate the Fishing Achievements