Recent reviews by TurbulentWinds

good game

pretty good for summer sale

A must play.

Ow. Chapter 5 sucks.

A must play.

I was unable to beat anything past Prince difficulty for 200 hours. Then, I played as Arabia.

I'm not exactly sure what just happened. All I know was that it was great.

The story in this game is fragmented and confusing pretty much all of the time. Every bit of knowledge just creates more questions. But the funny thing is that I don't want a coherrent experience out of The Final Station. The story's confusion allows the game to stay true to its characters. No one knows everything. Everyone is looking for answers and trying to survive. The writers did a great job on the game. I highly recomend the DLC as well. It has some crazy plot twists.

Gameplay is interesting and pretty good. Not the best but doesn't get boring. Visuals and musics are good as well but the main draw is the story.

I'm gonna try to figure out what the **** happened now.

10/10

ABZU is brilliant. It is vibrant, exotic, pulsing with life, full of hidden depths and meanings. It is a message enveloped in serenity. It is art. By any definition of the word, ABZU is art. I would never consider ABZU a game. It is a concerto of colors, of nature and exquisite in its beauty. You will dive into a vivid portrait of a underwater landscape. By the time you walk upon land again, you will have been forever changed, if you payed attention. Every detail seems planned perfectly to give the impression of spontaneous explosions of life and death. The story is our story and our story, theirs. Heed ABZU’s warning, understand the art within art, meaning within meaning. This is an English teacher's dream come to life, a movie, a book, a quote, a symbol so relevant to today's young people. ABZU is a creation of uttermost passion, able to give me a feeling I have only experienced atop mountains, viewing the unspoiled forests around me. ABZU is art.

Enjoyment - 100/100
Replayability - 100/100
Community - 100/100
Graphics - 100/100
Pricing - 100/100
Developers - 100/100
FInished Product - 100/100

Grand Total - 100/100

Screeps is a very interesting concept game that I definitely would want to see expanded. This game, as far as I know, is the only one of its kind. You play by coding little workers to execute tasks and create bases. Creating the AI that controls your units in real time has never been easier or more necessary. Screeps is a great way to learn JavaScript if you have experience coding in the past, however, I would not recommend that you purchase Screeps without basic programming knowledge. The game itself plays smoothly except for occasional lag when viewing the world map and other players' rooms. The tick speed is a little on the low side which slows things down a bit and the graphics are meh. Selling a CPU subscription makes sense, but limiting players to 10 CPU without buying it is a bit of a cash grab (30 CPU default would be fine). Other than that, there are few things that need improvement. Screeps is very fun to play after you read up on the documentation; I currently have 8 hours on Screeps but most likely I have another 16 or so from programming in Microsoft Visual Studio.

Enjoyment - 95/100
Replayability - 100/100
Community - 100/100
Graphics - 50/100
Pricing - 75/100
Developers - 70/100
FInished Product - 100/100

Grand Total - 84/100

I highly dislike this game. Which is why I love it. Steep is intense; unless you expect to spend hours repeating the same course over and over again, leave and don't come back. The first level took me around 30 minutes to master but after that most of the courses rated Easy wear easy. However, Normal and Hard is a whole different story. This is realistic. There are no save points. A tiny miscalculation can lead to a good amount of time utterly wasted on longer runs. The Normal difficulty is near impossible with anything other than the wingsuit. Just forget about Hard; it is impossible. A tap from a twig in a massive forest will require you to start over from the beginning as the AI does not make mistakes. Checkpoints, which are only on some levels, are painful to succeed in (exhibit A: just spent 2 hours on a Normal difficulty level and did not ever make passed more than half of the checkpoints; the majority of the time I only made the first two). Wingsuit is fun, after you master it and skis become decent after sometime. However, snowboarding is very non responsive in terms of tricks and the other one (parachute or something like that) is just plain boring. The visuals are immersive and vivid which is a big part of the game. It is very fun to explore and just mess around with friends but serious single player is brutal (the feeling you get when you finally win through luck makes up for the pain). Overall, I recommend the game for playing with friends but not at the full price.

Enjoyment - 80/100
Replayability - 100/100
Community - 90/100
Graphics - 100/100
Developers - 90/100 (I heard Ubisoft is behaving on this one)
Pricing - 50/100
Finished Product - 90/100

Grand Total - 86/100

If this seems negative, I just spent about 2 hours on one level repeating it around 40-50 times and have not yet finished it once; I actually like the game but we have a love/hate relationship.