Recent reviews by GaussTheWizard

I wish Valve cared as much about TF2 as these modders do. TF2C achieves a significantly better vision for the game than what the main game has become.

Better than Undertale as of the chapter 3+4 release, and it isn't even finished yet.

Nice of Edmund to include a game with his hours of Matthias Bossi recordings

The music's pretty good

Keep in mind that this game is a parody of a highly isolated era of comically bad shovelware games. Don't take it too seriously and you'll have a great time.
My main gripe is that not all of the character interactions have cutscenes; unlike the CD-I games, there are some dialogues which just have simple text boxes, even for NPCs that were animated before.

Best reboot-era Doom game, and it's not even close.
The combat system is a great blend of 2016's sandbox and Eternal's pragmatism. You're not punished for not using certain weapons or upgrades anymore, and there are multiple ways to fill the same niche. However, swapping weapons in the middle of combat is risky because it disables your parry, so you're encouraged not to quickswap unlike the other two games.
Speaking of parrying, the entire game is built around it. People seem to consider it a mixed bag, but I love it. The snap reaction time involved is excellent for adrenaline and is what makes combat truly fast-paced.

Okay, this is getting ridiculous. You're telling me the silkposters made a whole feature-length fangame and got it published on Steam and consoles under Team Cherry's name, all to pretend Silksong is real? Every time I think I've seen the bottom of human insanity, I get humbled again.

More serious review: this game is more controversial, less accessible, but IMO more fun than Hollow Knight. While the worldbuilding is precisely what you'd expect from a HK follow-up, the world itself is more oppressive to play through, a vibe which may not be for everyone. Silksong gives you much better mobility and more offensive options than before, and it REALLY expects you to make full use of them in order to survive most encounters. The enemies and bosses are generally so much more advanced that, if you can keep up, mastering them is way deeper and more enjoyable than it was in HK.

This game feels like it was made for me, which unfortunately means it's not for everyone.

It's okay, more funny than scary and it led to some memorable moments with my friends. But it is deeply flawed, and it won't give you the same thrills or replay value as Lethal Company before it.
- By the time you leave the maze segment, you will find monsters outside and soldiers fighting them, with cars getting flung around and explosions going off everywhere. These chaotic moments are WAY more fun to photograph and navigate through than the maze, which has both less varied and less cohesive enemy design. Frankly, I think the game should have been designed around these moments, not the mazes.
- There isn't much to spend money on apart from healing items and better cameras, the latter of which are the most important money sinks. The lack of options leads to a lack of counterplay against most of the indoor monsters apart from: Step 1. pray you don't get oneshot, Step 2. heal up after it decides to leave you alone.
- The human models are not good. They look like RCT3 peeps which clash enough with the gritty, detailed environment to get in the way of immersion.
- We saw physics objects glitch into the map frequently. Most of them were harmless, at least.

I write a positive review not for Bethesda's efforts, but for those of the modders who gave this game its teeth without budget or deadlines. If you're not one of the "control freak" types willing to get their hands dirty with modding, then stay away - the vanilla game is not "Skyrim VR" but "Skyrim, but in VR": a lazy port which lacks many common things for VR-only games.

There will never be a better named game