Coming into DR3 i hadn’t really played any other DR game, and i gotta say, looks like i’ve been missing out. DR3 is absolutely superb, walking the fine line between too easy to have fun, and too difficult to not have any fun. You’ll have fun mowing down zombies like they’re nothing, but once you’re out on foot, brother, you better hope you got some stamina or some good crowd weapons. Then the goofy weapons, clothing and collectibles just add to the charm, and even if they aren’t all chuckle worthy, they at least never delve into cringy levels of design. Then there’s also the story which…. is there. It’s not exactly very good, but at least you can tell an attempt was made, and it never feels half-assed, even if the plot is a bit bad. It’s enough to keep you moving forward, and gives you something to work towards which is the least you’d want, and something some games seem to misunderstand.

To sum it all up, DR3 doesn’t overstay it’s welcome, and offers a fun experience that delivers for 100% of it’s runtime. It’s worth a buy for sure :)

So… Payback. When it launched it got hated for it’s speedcards system, but now? Honestly, it’s a pretty fun game. I had a good time, the driving’s fun and the campaign is long enough to give you stuff to do, but not too long to get boring. But of course, Payback is far from perfect, and it has some glaring issues. This includes: speedcards (Yes, they still suck), the reset system (janky as hell, and it never feels right) and the main gripe, the offroad physics. They are atrocious, and i never got used to them throughout the whole career. Your car understeers and oversteers depending on it’s mood, and some of the offroad races will literally turn you into the joker.

That being said. despite it’s shortcomings, it’s a good game. Definetly better than 2015. Play it if you got it, if you don’t buy it on sale, it’s fun :)

Lucius is a decently fun early 2010s puzzle game, the animations have not aged very well, but the overall presentation and graphics still look fine. The puzzles however… for the first part of the game they are fine, maybe even too easy, then the last few decide to go for the goofiest ever solutions, resulting in turning to a guide, or running around the house trying to figure out what to do. Still though, for the price, and for the length, Lucius is very much worth buying :)

NOTE: I have only played the story mode.

For it’s price, Genital Jousting is a pretty solid offering, the story is an enjoyable playthrough with some chuckle worthy moments and enjoyable controls. It doesn’t overstay it’s welcome, nor does it push it’s jokes too hard which is great. Plus, there’s a whole multiplayer aspect which i did not bother with it, certainly worth buying :)

Hotshot Racing is the definition of aggressively mediocre. It’s not good, it’s not bad, it’s just plain boring. It feels like it wants to so badly capture Mario Kart’s audience, but doesn’t want to be called a clone so all the best parts of Mario Kart are stripped. The AI rubberbands like crazy, which means you can be dead last for the whole race and jump into first on the last lap, or lead the whole race, get shunted from behind and finish 4th. This effectively means all racing until the final lap is pointless, and the plain ok physics don’t make it fun to drive it either, rather it makes it feel like a chore you have to get through. All the characters have Marvel-esque one-liners which make you want to stop playing once you’ve heard the same line 20 times in the last 10 minutes. And the tracks aren’t anything special either, not a single one is memorable in any way, and each has quite a simple layout. In general, the whole game feels like a corporate idea of “cool”, it all feels so safe and bland that genuinely there is no point in playing it. You can have fun with a good game, you can have fun with a bad game, with a mediocre game all you get is disappointment, and that perfectly sums up Hotshot Racing.