Recent reviews by jstr

Oh what a gem this game is! It brought me back to the good old days, playing TellTale's iconic games like TWD, GoT, TWAU, Batman, etc.
I'll just list the good and bad things I recall after playing six episodes so far. (The last two will come out later) no spoilers up here. Don't mind the 2 hours, played the game on PS had to get myself a copy for my steam acc.

Pros:

+ Interesting story.
A bit rushed, not so original, yet with the well written characters it comes alive and makes you laugh (a lot) and even feel sad from time to time.
+ Characters/voice actors.
To be honest, I thought Robert's voice familiar straight away, but for some reason just couldn't picture who that was. Googled cast after playing first episode and damn, what a cast so many familiar voices and faces. Everyone has done a great job.
+ Visualls.
Dig it much more than oldschool TellTale's look.
+ OST and licensed soundtrack.
+ Digital Artbook and comics.
Helps you get deeper into the world of "Dispatch".

Cons:

- Story.
Feels rushed and short. Maybe it's just me, maybe it's just the way AdHoc had to put it, maybe you should do something better, than reading some random user's game review on steam. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- QTE.
Sucks, not gonna like. Just the lack of interaction makes it almost useless to turn this feature on.
+/- Minigames.
Don't get me wrong, the dispatching is cool, just like "This Is the Police" but with supes. Hacking minigame is pretty decent too. When you beat episode 6, you realize that the minigames have almost zero influence on the story, just a filler part. But I guess me and a lot of other people who enjoyed that game would absolutely love to play some sort of standalone version of dispatching, with few more enhancements here and there.

Verdict
I absolutely suck at writing reviews.
If you liked the show "The Boys", if you into supe theme (very rare in my case, too old for that shi*t), into corny black humor and western media, that's the game you should play.


Good luck in your future projects, AdHoc!
Can't wait for more to come from you guys!

On release review - horrible, beyond horrible.





upd 2024:
4.0.0 released, the game is not exactly bad. I wouldn't say that it's good, but from all the free ones, it's the most decent on the market.

Biggest no-no for me, is engine and graphics, way to behind from EA FC and probably won't reach it's potential.

Hope that Konami have some plans to move it on new engine, in order to compete with the future FC (or whatever it will be) game from 2K

Decent f2p football game, in a few months I have built decent team without any donations.

My review is negative because of Konami's actions, should have moved it on a newer engine, and concentrate on competing with their "nemesis" FC.

dontnod, stop making a grown man cry in the middle of the night
love this game so much. liked it even better than first part due to the "road-movie like" story.




p.s.- i've completed in on the other account, but gotta give review everywhere, it deserves everything
p.s.s - i gave huge review for LiS:BTS, but this one gets a little one cause noone reads it anyways

Rest in Peace, IdolNinja ❤
Thank you for your dedication, you did a lot for this amazing game, and last true Saints Row title.

upd 23.06.2025 - 100% done after almost 5 years ,_,

This is my new favourite game of all time. I've never played anything that beautiful, big, complex and full of atention to even smallest details. This is the experience that everyone should at least try. Amazing game. Bravo, Rockstar.
My little advice for you, random reader, complete story till chapter 2 or chapter 3, then complete all the strangers missons, every side quests and stuff and try enjoy the world of RDR2 before going to chapter 4 and further.

In the end of a day, you must've heard a lot about this game. I don't need to tell you anything more about it. Just try it, you won't regret it.

Tried it - Bought it in Rockstar Store - Completed it - Bought in Steam - Completing it again but completing every activity in the game without rushing through story. Never bought one game twice, expect for GTA 5 on console and PC

So, where do I start. Probably by saying that this game is hella awesome.
Let's start with the positive aspects of this game.

And yeah, before playing prequel -play the original LiS game! You will be hit by emotions much harder than vice versa. Just a little "IMO".

(No spoilers ahead., If you didn't play the game yet, you can safely read my review.)

-Story it's self. It's a memorizable drama.
-Soundtrack. It's f*cking amazing. If you having a bad day, just check it out. You will just "fly away" from your own world by listening to this.
-(compared with the last game) Face animations(F.A). Deck Nine with Unity engine did good job improving F.A. Much better than original LiS , but still, not perfect.
-A lot of interagations, including grafitti. Where you need to mark different places in the game world.
-Voice actors. They did a really good job, Unfortunately game engine couldn't do it's best to show us all the impressions, but , shout out to them. Especially Rhianna Devries (Chloe) You did really good. (don't throw rocks at me, Ashly Burch's fans , I love her voice too)

Some negative aspects (don't kill me for that, please)
-engine. Yeah, the "picture" it's self look pretty sweet. But sometimes, u just can't see all the expressions going on from the voice actors.

I think that's it. Once again, Deck Nine, you did really good job. And of course, thanks again to Dontnod Entertainment for bringing us this story. And everybody who worked on the OST to this game.

Originally posted by Chloe Price:

"Drink more, feel less. Yes, please."

I haven't played anything like this in a very long time. I spent almost 30 hours in a row playing this game - it's this addictive.
I haven't try this game in past, i tried to download a pirate copy of this, but didn't play it. But now, i did buy it , and I do not regret it. Last addictive game for me was Oblivion. When i spent nights playing it.

But enough of me, let's talk about the game.

Starbound it's when - You start the game to play for 30 minutes, but played for 2 days straight.
Starbound it's when - You arrived at planet you been before , but you found a new biome with new mobs.
Starbound it's when - You destroying planets to earn money to upgrade your space ship.
Starbound it's when - You kill new tough mobs, but die from level 1 mobs.
Starbound it's when - You still finding new mobs and biomes after 40 hours of game.

Starbound is amazing. Just buy it, you won't regret it.

upd: well, i actually finished this game in 50 hours. I mean the main quest.(it didn't take me 50 hours to beat the quest :D, it took me to discover all planets and upgrade my ship and everything else) The only minus of this game. Easy bosses and realy short storyline.
first time playing this game was awesome , but this 50 hours right now is over. I don't know what you can do after you upgrade your ship and beat the storyline. I already visited all the planets, found a lot of cool stuff, but at this point game is over.

I really hope that someday Starbound going to be much bigger, during to updates.

upd2: more than 80 hours in the game and I still find new biomes and mobs.

online killed GTA franchise
This is so F* sad to just watch how they killing their own universe.
Next GTA 99.99% will be MP only, beacuse of this...

R* you're not that R* that i used to know.
Sharkcards, cheaters, everything is too expensive.
Just R.I.P.
Grand Theft Auto 1997-2013.
Leslie Benzies 2001-2013
Microtransactions 2013-????
Cheaters 2013-????

upd: GTA Online? more like gta infinite warfare.

Telltale, its time to stop. Really.

Im saying it as a person a person, who watched orginial The Walking Dead, Fear The Walking Dead, read all comic and books, played season 1,2.

After the Season 2 Of TWD, the team that has been working on 1st and 2scnd season has falled appart. There new team formed up, and they started to work on Season 3. Well, new engine and new team f*cked everything up.

Minuses.
*Poor story , that is not intresting at all.
*Dumb deaths of many main charachters including Kenny and Jane
*Bad (VERY BAD) engine.
*Poor work on the game (many bugs)
*Theres gonna be Season 4, what is really bad.. I really hoped that story is gonna end right on season 3.
*"Clementine and the A,J. stroy is 90% unknow" . I was waiting for all season to know whats happend to A.J. And there was just cliffhanger.

Pluses.
*Jesus.
*Clementine ( a lil bit )

In the end, i can say, if you a new player, and don't know story of TWD (tv show, comics) you can play this game.
If you love TWD, don't buy this game. Please.

waiting simulator



still beta



upd: 13.12.18 - it's not beta now.


what the fu......