Recent reviews by SHADOW HAWKZ

This game is a very well polished, highly detailed, "Where's Waldo?" experience that has you tasked with finding lost items amongst a chaotic, yet highly charming landscape. The scenarios are jam packed with small details, almost all of which are teeming with adorable little quirky animations, artistic design, and sounds which really bring the little world to life. It is honestly amazing how full the areas are, there are no cut corners here.

The game starts off easy but quickly levels begin to offer a challenge that will really push you to really pay attention and find items hiding in plane sight. Some items do require you to interact with something to reveal the item you are looking for. Sometimes this is fine, sometimes it is a little challenging, for better or for worse.

This is a simple, cheap game that does exactly what it advertises. The game has a large selection of Lofi music to listen to so the music is not repetitive. Decorating your character and home is simple and there is just enough to really make both your own without being overly complicated. The game is atmospheric and can get you into a nice cozy mindset while you focus your energy into productive tasks. The price, especially when it is on sale, makes this a very nice game to run in the background.

The end game does need to be expanded upon but the beginning and middle have a very fun and engaging gameplay loop. If you have friends, this is a must play game to enjoy with one another. The game does a great job of not taking itself seriously while giving you the power to roleplay as a drug dealer and manufacturer. Playing with friends is fun because you can each take on different roles and slowly build your drug empire.

Very early into the game but I have to say that it is worth the hype. In terms of extraction shooters, this leans on the more casual side as players have the option to fight difficult PvE enemies in addition to PvP if players so choose. Whether you want to be friendly or hostile, the game does a very good job of pairing you with a pool of players who will likely play similarly to you which is very much appreciated. Games like this can be stressful, but this one does a good job of making the experience not that.

This game is highly rated and generally, I would say for good reason. I would also say that I recommend it. That said, I would say this game and story is just "good". You really need to go in with the mindset that this really is just a movie that you can kind of interact with. Your choices really do not matter. Really your decisions determine which of 2 characters get cut from your team, who you add to your team, who you romance, and then 2 outcomes at the end of the game. Every other decision is just for momentary flavor to your experience.

People praise the writing here as something amazing. It is good. It is not the greatest like a lot of praise wants to give it. Some characters have cheesy dialogue but some of it is good. The characters are the strongest part for sure. The ending is a little frustrating and it somewhat feels like characters on both sides (heroes and villains) just kind of give up and make out of character choices.

Overall, the experience is worth it if you want to sit back, relax, and enjoy a simple story.

Game is abandoned and amounts to a short demo in its current state. No reason to purchase this game right now unless the devs come back.

Both the UI and the controls are really bad. Changing graphics settings were unreasonably difficult to edit anything in on controller. Changing any option launched you to the top of the menu and the game has no way of detecing your resolution so you are clicking endlessly through random resolutions to even find the one you need.

Saw this was Overwhelmingly positive and thought the game looked cute and had a nice charm to it. Menu's are way too poorly designed to be enjoyable to play for any period of time. It is going for a clunky retro vibe so if you can get over that, there is probably a game here that you would enjoy but it was not for me.

Helldivers 2 is a very special experience that is rare to find. Here there is no true PVP element (although friendly fire is on) so the entire experience is PVE. Helldivers 2 delivers some of the most cinematic and chaotic co-op action I've ever played. Every mission feels like you're starring in your own sci-fi war film—explosions, teamwork, and sheer desperation included. You are both extremely powerful and extremely fragile. Death is constant both for you and enemies a like. Enemies that the game throws hundreds and thousands of at you every single mission.

The gameplay loop is tight, addictive, and genuinely fun, with plenty of depth to keep you coming back. Constant free updates keep the experience fresh, and the progression system is refreshingly fair. Premium currency can be earned just by playing and/or farming, and there's zero pay-to-win nonsense (although you can speed up the process with real money currency).

The game gives objectives for the player base to work towards such as defending against invasions, liberating planets, or killing certain amounts of enemies to name a few. The game has a relatively dynamic war system that involves trading planets back and forth with three different enemy factions. The experience puts other live action service games to shame.

Overall, I have not had this much fun with a multiplayer game in years. Closest I have been this invested in multiplayer has been since Halo 3 during its prime.

This game has a simple yet fun game play loop of selling product. Buy items, set their price, sell items, buy more items, expand your shop, repeat. The added flavor of opening packs to then sell cards as singles adds another fun layer to the experience.

This visual novel took me a little less than 6 hours to achieve all 15 endings. I was able to naturally get to about 10 of the endings without using a guide and then used a guide for the remaining 5. After seeing most of the common scenes, the skip function was used.

This was a very enjoyable read. If you can appreciate dark humor, this visual novel is a high quality experience. The game being fully voice acted is a major upside and the voice actors do a really good job conveying the personalities of the characters. Scenes are fast paced and no scene feels dull or boring. Every scene has a good purpose so there is no boring dialogue to get through. The fast paced nature of this visual novel also helps because it does not take long to get to an ending. Because of how fast paced the story is, that is how you can easily get to 15 different endings in less than 6 hours.

While not necessary, you would certainly appreciate this game a lot more if you grew up in the 2000's as the aesthetic is stylized during that time period. The game does a lot of social commentary that would have been accurate for that time period.

Despite this visual novel having a certain aura of meme appeal, this is actually a really well written story. It addresses issues that society has started to address and some that we are still struggling to figure out. The main character Nicole is fully self aware and her main flaw is not having any empathy for her choices. She knows every action she makes and how it fits into defying or conforming to expected social norms. This leads to a dark, comedic, commentary on issues such as, but not limited to, sexual assault, women treated as sex objects, bullying, teenage substance abuse, self harm, suicide, victim blaming, uncaring school administration, school shootings, and others I likely do not recall.

Even if you are normally not a fan of visual novels, you may like this story because it plays more like a movie than a book which may appeal to a wider audience.