Recent reviews by Shikameister

Legends never die :)

To start with, this game looks lovely. Beautiful pixel art and a moody electronic soundtrack accompanied by elegant, expressive animations that make fighting and traversing the world a sight to behold. Although the exhilaration you get from clearing a dungeon with only a fragment of health left is a feeling worth chasing, this intense difficulty makes it an experience for a very specific type of gamer. The type that lives and dies by hard games such as Dark Souls.

The world, it's characters, the writing, pacing, all the interesting side quests, main quests and activities simply make it one of the best games that i have played. Is it a perfect game? No, there are problems with it, but it is a must buy. This game can undoubtedly be used as a measurement mark for future games.

Conclusion:
Overall, the beta is mediocre at best. With such a saturated genre, you would at least expect a good multiplayer. I hate review scores, but if I had to give one like others do, it would have been around the 6/10 mark.

Networking/Connection:
This is the worst part of the multiplayer. A Triple-A FPS game should have dedicated servers, not Peer-to-peer connection. Because of this, hitboxes are all over the place. The enemy can be seen missing on the killcams, but somehow the server registers it as a hit.

Gameplay:
It's your usual COD. Fast-paced shooter with low TTK. However, I don't remember the maps being this small, making any medium-long range weapon useless. Unless you are used to quickscoping, you should stick with SMG or shotgun. Talking about the shotgun, it has a special fire ammo which is way too overpowered from my point of view.
Movement is clunky. Some areas feel like they should be reachable, but they aren't. The small size of the maps contribute to the clunkiness of the movement.

Graphics:
Although game looks alright, textures are blurry/muddy. In fact, I quite liked the photorealistic graphics of Battlefield 1. I think it suits FPS games.

Sound:
Yet another category which fails to fulfill my hopes. Don't get me wrong, it doesn't have issues. But come on, the sound feels like it has been reused from older games.

Performance:
The port is mediocre. People are reporting stuttering and frame drops, but i haven't experienced anything like that. For reference, I'm using a GTX 1060 laptop with a i7 6700HQ processor and 16GB RAM. I was getting stable framerate on a mixture of high/extra settings.

The Wolf Among Us still feels like something I lived more than something I watched.

Orwell is a unique text-based investigation game related to a novel called 1984 by George Orwell. The game already highlights somewhat important parts of the text. However, it is up to you to upload the information, and your decisions will matter in the future episodes. You will be spying not only on the social posts, but also on the private chats, calls and emails of the suspects. As you move on, you will even be able to access some crucial data on your suspects' PCs.

Graphicwise, the game has got a stunning interface and a great webchunk system.

Although people are complaining about the shortage of the game. It is not that short and I would estimate that every episode is around 45-60 minutes. Anyways, I would prefer better experience rather than a longer and boring one.

To conclude this review, if you have enough enthusiasm to not rush and play the game slowly by reading and understanding most (or all) of the information which requires a decent amount of English knowledge, I recommend you to buy this game.

Even if quality and interface don't satisfy you, this is the most complex game development tycoon on the market.

Absolutely speechless

One of the best and somewhat realistic hacking simulation with a great soundtrack on the market. Can't wait for the DLC :3

There are some games that you have to play if you consider yourself a Gamer. This is one of them. Even if you don't appreciate it.

Edit: CSGO still manages to grab my attention, even after all these years.