Title: 52 Games. 1 Year. 2018.
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This is a cute little puzzle game which can be played multiplayer. Now I only played it multiplayer, and I feel that if you play it by yourself you don't get the same feel out of the game. Playing with someone else causes you to mess up more often and mess with each other to hinder their progress (as well as your own mind you!!), and thus hilarity ensues. This game definitely has some problems, I know it's not supposed to be the easiest game to play and your character flops around like jelly, but sometimes them mechanics fuck you over rather than just making it a difficult challenge. Had to reload from the checkpoint multiple times due to things not being usable again, or moving something you shouldn't have, falling to your death and not being able to retrieve it (luckily the checkpoint function is there, and it does save regularly). It also crashed once when attempting to reload a checkpoint, this may have been due to someone re-spawning when it was chosen to be reloaded. Overall a fun game to play with friends with some small problems you'll probably get over and laugh about when playing it with them. A lovely VN with four cute girls in a literature club in school all fighting to be your one and only waifu, and in the end Overall the game was kinda annoying and repetitive (especially the first playthrough), but I could see it was building to something. Now I played this game after the hype, so I knew there was a twist, and it was going to be weird and creepy, but I feel like all that hype ruined it and it wasn't as over the top as it was made out to be. I did like the little things they did with the game files, and considering this is a free game it's made really well and is quite good! I also feel that the game handles their whole thing on mental illness a bit strangely, one second they can be making jokes about it, the next you have one of them saying nice things and to take care of each other, I just feel they could have used less of the jokes there. In the end it was a decent experience and I think anyone that has steam should also be creeped out by the weird school girls!! This game is something unique to it with you being someone going through a computer system, looking into old videos about a murder. But it being unique doesn't make it a great game, while the story itself is quite interesting it falls flat almost everywhere else. It seems unrealistic for a police system to have all of it's videos not organised, or for there to be nothing else mixed in if you're doing a search for it. The videos were kinda well done, although some of the acting didn't seem very good. I felt it was padded out by the fact that you had to look up specific words to get new videos, and also kinda broken in the fact that if you put anything in comments or tags of a video it could mess up the searching and leave you not seeing some of the videos. Also them being all over the place makes it kind of difficult to follow, but I suppose that's the point to have you put the story together yourself. And finally at the end (after it deleted my save and I have to get all the videos again, with a guide this time) it just kind of ends, says something "shocking", but it just seems quite boring that it just ends. Overall it had a good story, bad ending and meh mechanics. ... This is the first Monster Hunter game that I've ever played properly. I didn't really like the others and gave up on them quite soon after beginning them. This one seemed different, it might have been because the graphics were better and no loading between areas, or I just didn't give the other ones enough of a shot. The game itself doesn't have a great or huge story, but the mechanics for fighting the monsters are good and there's such a range of weapons to choose from and to try. There's not that many monsters and you feel like you're left fighting the same ones over and over, but I can give them the benefit of the doubt because they're adding more as time goes on. The online community (on the PS4) I've had no problems with (except for the odd really crap player) and it's great to be able to call for people to help you or to help others on something difficult, or even just something you want to finish quickly. Overall it's an enjoyable game which gives a lot of incentive to keep playing, as I'm still playing it now, with 130h and counting. This is a short bonus episode after Before the Storm which tells you of Max and Chloe's last day together. It doesn't give you any important details or story information, but gives you the chance to wander around and figure out what both characters were like before both seasons, and overall what went wrong when it came to Max leaving. It was enjoyable to play, and the ending, although it was known from season one, it wasn't really expected in this episode, making the whole goodbye even more heartbreaking than before by getting shown how they left it. Overall a good episode, and would definitely say anyone who likes the game should play it. I started this game back in 2016 but only got around to finishing it now in order to play the second one (which I have to play season one again anyway -_-) It's a quick paced action game following the first season of the Attack on Titan anime. You play as a variety of characters, each with different stats which can change the way you might have to play in order to control the situation. Each mission is basically the same, where you swing around, kill titans, help allies and then the bigger titan appears and you kill them. It basically continues in this way, with a few small exceptions. Overall it is a good and enjoyable game, yet repetitive, and to play the epilogue you need to do a lot of optional content, which pushed it's stars below a four. I had this game almost as soon as it came out originally on PS3 and I had gotten to the final Jeanne fight and I got stuck, and I gave up because I didn't know I could lower the difficulty at the time. And then I got the collection of the WiiU, and never got a chance to play it. And now after so many years I finally finished it on the Switch. I love this game's fighting, character designs, and art style. It's a bit confusing on the story sometimes but it generally came together, and sometimes the fights didn't seem fair. But overall I can't believe it took me so long to finish, and when I finally did I wasn't disappointed The story of A Way Out is the usual one when it comes to a prison escape, so there's nothing new and exciting there. The most interesting thing in this game is the coop gameplay. This can't be played by yourself and you need someone to play with, and honestly without this mechanic the game would be closer to 2 stars. You have to work together with your partner to escape, while also competing against each other in small minigames throughout the story (like piano, banjo, wheelchair balancing and connect four). This is what brings the game to life, some competition and cooperation with someone (in my case) you know, which makes the game more fun to play. But in the end any decision you make means nothing, and the ending (one of two) is decided in the end by which of you can mash 'x' faster, that's all it comes down to, it's very anti-climatic, and if it wasn't for this I would have easily given this game four stars, but instead I reluctantly gave it 3 and a half.
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