Recent reviews by Hellrunner

Well.. they said they set out to make Orcs Must Die 3 the best in the series. I don't see that happening with out a major overhaul of core game mechanics and a complete rebalancing.

First off the weapons feel great to use and are in handling a good update. But do also a LOT of damage wich is detremental to the tower defense nature of Orcs Must Die. you can defeat the first wave EZ without the Orcs reaching any traps. That is till the first Ogre shows up and lets the entire wave just breeze though your kill box.

The traps are way less effective than in the other iterations and cost way too much. You hardly get any money from kills so forget about making baricade paths ways and actualy playing Orcs Must Die.

The endless mode is a joke. If the general balance issues are not enough there is now an artificial HP multiplyer per wave that makes low tier Orcs tank as much damage as Ogers in the first waves compared to the other games where an algorythm just scales the TYPE of enemies spawning to rediculas levels. Wich felt WAY better. But don't worry. To top it all off, for all your effords you don't get any skulls to unlock new stuff, wich was the main reason to play endless. Even the new and interesting War Scenarios can not camouflage the piss taste in this soup.

Sadly Orcs Must Die Unchained was the best in the series (that's why I bought Orcs 3 blindly without any information), but due to it's free to play nature the "service" siezed years ago. It also should have been the benchmark of how to introduce and design interesting new characters, where Orcs 3 falls flat on it's face by just ticking some inclusivity checkboxes and demanding your acceptance.

oh.. the music is garbage too.

Overall I find myself playing Orcs Must Die 2. I have it with all expansions and it is the far superior game. It's finished, the balance is great and it has a metric ton of content.

The graphical fidelity makes me sad... could have been great, if the real talents continued producing it and not the new kids.

Well rounded hero shooter. These devs, like many can't walk two steps without shooting one toe off, but... ya know... sadly that's common these days. If you are a sucker for skins STAY FAR AWAY from this... they are expensive and in random loot boxes. If you like a hard as rocks multiplayer shooter that rewards knowledge and skill... get in! the water is exquisite ^^

A competently made, if somewhat rushed open world game in the post-apocalyptic Mad Max universe. (wich is highly suitable for a game of that sort) Like so many games now days this game also would have greatly benefited from 2-3 months of extra polish and a rework of the hand-to-hand combat system. (I played an Arkham game in the meantime ... yeah REWORK) (Actually take a look at the vehicular targeting as well, pls. It needs some love, too)

I really enjoyed pimping my ride and duking it out with the badies in the dunes and on the weathered roads, mad max style. I did NOT enjoy the racing part of the game that luckily only forces itself upon you twice over the course of the entire game. So although traumatic it's somewhat forgivable.

The ending is even more miserable than the main storyline, where this was expected (It's a Mad Max game after all), and leaves you downed with a sour taste in your mouth. You might wanna enjoy the side missions and never play it though entirely, you'll thank me later. (Actually there is nothing to thank me for, cuz you don't know yet. So you'll play it through and then it's more like an I told you so... thing :)

Recommended

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXUVcgUnOzc

The Sexy Brutale is a neat little "pont and click" adventure and one of the good examples for Unity engine games. Although there is not much pointing and clicking, because you control the main character directly, ideally with a Game Pad. The story, that you piece together by sneaking about and spying on people is sad and very good, especially on it's climax.

The main feature is the "reset day" function, wich lets you explore the mansion and record the movements and knowledge of the protagonists and villians.With some derping it's about 7 hours long.

One would have expected a smoother door interaction, because that's what you do 80% of the time. A little bit more polish on that would have been benificial.

All-in-all a nice experience for the in-between worth about 10 Eur.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dre_mhw5MBo

Pleasently surprised. A very fast, and bloody hack-and-slash sidescroller. A Solid 5.5 h rip and tare combo frenzy with excelent controlls. Very fun if you like sidescrollers, fighting games, hack-and-slashes and to rip your enemys to shredds in a variety of twisted ways. It has a combo list in the pause menu, runns like a charm, exquisite sound and heavy guitar sound track. (Prisoner, ma gurl, Kama-Kazi and 3 skullz Life Rip Magic :)

it has a multiplayer (LOCAL and online), wich i didn't test yet. Dependent on the balance it could be an ever green on the couch with friends.

I payed 10 EUR for it, no regrets whatsoever. I will continue, cuz skillfully executed precision violence with 65 MK Fatallitys a minute. PLEASE.. who's not into that?! ^^

Recommended

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVtWDcdSTJM

Super standard, by-the-book (of system shock 2) but competent game design.
Nothing impressive narritive wise. My story predictions, while playing the game where far more in depth, intreguing (and overthought) than the actual story.

The game could have benefited from 2 more moths of polish. Another month would have been a great investment into the ending where it falls flat, compared to system shock 2 (where reality itself gets turned upside down and you get a hard boss fight). There is one good thing about the ending that is actually innovative (no spoilers), but is also always the same. A missed opportunity, while pleasantly supprising.

Solid game that could have been great.

This is a milestone in game design and nothing short of a masterpiece. I haven't been touched by a game that deeply since... since... actually only movies did this to me. Like I said, a milestone.

It's about love. Senua's love for Dillion and Ninja Theory's love for Senua.
This is what you get if the Devs love thier baby and no corpoRAT has a say in anything artistic vision related.
In one word? - inspiring

Everyone needs to experience this for themselfs, BEFORE you watch it on my (or any) You Tube channel.

The price/experience ratio is unbeatable (payed 30 EUR).

A story well told in every reguard.

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Dies ist ein Meilenstein in Game Design und nichts anderes als ein Meisterwerk. Ich bin noch nie so tief berührt gewesen von einem Computerspiel. Bis jetzt haben das nur Filme geschafft. Wie schon gesagt ein Meilenstein.

Es geht um Liebe. Senua's Liebe für Dillion und Ninja Theory's Liebe für Senua. Das kommt dabei raus wenn die Entwickler ihr Baby lieben und kein Schlipsträger irgendwas zu sagen hat, was die künstlerische Vision angeht.
In einem Wort? - inspirierend

Jeder sollte das erleben BEVOR man sich irgendwas ansieht auf meinem (oder irgendeinem) You Tube Channel.

Das Preis/Erlebnis-Verhältnis ist unschlagbar. (Hab 30 EUR bezahlt)

Eine gut erzählte Geschichte in jeder Hinsicht.

Should come with steam by default and be in every Libary.

Most of the things shown in the trailers is wishfull thinking. Not only got it crowdfunded for an exorbitant amount. It also has "Micro" transactions (6 Bucks per Unit, and there are plenty) and full price DLC. You could easily spen 200-300 Bucks on this one. Does it deliver for that price? Not in the slightest. The game sessions are luck based clusterf**ks that have litle to do with strategy.

Maybe it will be as pollished and impressive as the trailers promise in the future. But not today. Right now its a cashgrab and the development time took ages allready with little improvements.

My tag for this one "Money Annihilation"

It's a metric ton of casual fun! Fast paste action shooter from crazy and skilled devs.

The ingame currencys are strictly divided in Bluets you Play for and SpaceBux you Pay for. Blutes unlock game related stuff like new gear, SpaceBux unlock only cosmetics like taunts and nudity and convenience like more loadout or weapon slots (You don't NEED them. You get 3 loadouts and 6 weapon slots simply by playing) or XP and Bluet boosts. There are no cross pricings. you get almost the same amount of Blutes regardless if you win or loose.

Very good level designers and an hard-line art depratment have an huge impact on the game. Combined with an ultra smooth engine, robust systems and fresh and inovative game modes that are constantly improved it could easily give TF2 a post card from the top.

Concidering the rate of improvements they did in the first week on the match making system and friend list it's almost obsolete to mension the launch hick ups.

The seller is the Weaponcrafting. You can tailor a gun that fits your playstyle perfectly with billions of combination possibilities. Each gun is based on a chassis (Rifle, Launcher, Pulse, Beam) and can be customized with diverse parts, payloads, impact behaviors, projectile movement styles and so on. You can test the weapon on a shooting range before you buy the parts.

Well... Why am I talking that much.. it's free... go get it dummy! XD