120 Days of Summer (more or less)

There's not really a lot of thing to say about Celeste : it's beautiful, the storyline is a nice add-up to an amazing gameplay and level-desing and the OST is great. It's definitively one of the best game I've played so far this year at least. The end.

If you want to know a bit more, let's divide the world in three categories :

• Category 1 - those who don't like platformers : first, there must be something wrong with you... How can you dislike the greatest kind of game there is ?! Two, I'm not sure why you reading this, clearly Celeste is not a game for you.
• Category 2 - those who love platformers, especially when they're hardcore : first, there must be something wrong with you... How can you be such a masochist ?! Two, I'm not sure why you reading this, clearly Celeste is perfect for you and you should already have read it everywhere, you should be playing it right now and forever, it's the best hardcore platformer created since Super Meat Boy at least ! The three best words to describe it are : Perfect, Perfect and Perfect.
• Category 3 - those who like platformers but are afraid of hardcore difficulty : I would really advise to give it a try. Celeste is so good it would be a shame to not play it if you think that it may be your kind of game... And the main part of the game is challenging, yes, but manageable I think for everyone who have played and liked a platformer before.

Now that you have every keys in hands to decide if Celeste is a game for you, I think you should buy it anyway. Listen to me, it's perfect. PERFECT. PERFECT!!! AAAAAaaaaaargh!

An "action"-adventure game in big, chunky, very-well-done black and white pixel graphics that obviously draws a lot of its inspiration from Zelda: Link's Awakening

You found a sword and now you suffer from a curse that let you die every 60 seconds. Oh no ! Thankfully, you'll respawn in your house after each death and the game will have save every item you'd have unlock before your death. You'll have to run against time to find new items that will help you unlock new paths and discover new checkpoints to progress in the game and try to beat the curse.

It's a weird mechanic and it sounds rather artificial (or too "videogamey") but it works fairly well in game and it's pretty fun

The world is quite small but lively and enjoyable, the devs created lovely characters for you to meet (I want to marry the lighthouse turtle!) and it's a lot of fun to explore, fight and die miserabily just before a new checkpoint or key item of the game

Minit isn't perfect though. It's short, very short, which souldn't be an issue as long as you know it before buying it, but it feels like it should have been more than what it is. The end is very abrupt unfortunately and left me in a bad state of "I whish there was more"...

Of course that last impression doesn't utterly ternish the overall good experience I had while playing but I felt like it should be noted.

A solid adventure game walking in the steps of the old 2D Zelda games.

The game is quite pretty and the monsters and friendly animals' design caught my eye too; gameplay-wise the fights aren't really difficult but they're fun and it's about the same thing for the puzzles. For the most part it's a very casual game where you'll find your fun by exploring and discovering the world the game is set in/ It's pretty linear but there's a lot of little bits and things to search for and discover in every new area you'll unlock as well as new abilities to backtrack and access parts of the world you couldn't before.

It took me about 8 hours to reach the end with a feeling of having seen most of the game content. I know that there's still a lot of things that I didn't discovered which should be enough for the completionist out there to draw out the most of the game during a few extra-hours of gameplay !

In short : a very nice game !

Beaten in a little bit less than 3 hours. The game is made of three big levels that you can explore at any time (even though there's clearly a preferable order to do so ; but that means that you can skip a puzzle for some time if you're stuck). You'll have to beat every puzzle of these three worlds in order to gain access to the last level, a tiny bit shorter than the previous ones and a little bit more based on platforming than puzzle (not hardcore platforming though).

Semblance is a puzzle-platformer where your character can hit some walls/floors/ceiling in order to create new platforms to stand on and jump from to access the orbs you'll need to access the endgame. As you'll make progress in the game you'll discover new interesting mechanics that I won't spoil here. Just know that the game as enough mechanics to keep you interested all along (well... if it wasn't the case in a 3 hours long game...)

Once again, I found it pretty easy, but I still had to pause and think for a bit on some of the 2nd and 3rd levels' puzzle.

As long as you acknowledge that Semblance is a short and casual game, if you're still interested, you're in for a very fine experience!

I'm not sold. The story doesn't make any sense, the game is very blend gameplay-wise : not good enough as a platformer, not hard enough as a puzzle-game, the levels are mostly empty and it's never clear what you should be doing.

I used a guide a few time and it helped me go through the game without thinking too much about the lacks of Seasons After Fall but now that I'm thinking about it a few weeks after beating the game I really don't see why I would advise anyone to play it : yes, you could think that the beautiful graphics might make it up for the lousy gameplay and storyline but it turns out that after backtracking for the millionth time across the levels without noticing any variety in the landscape you'll find everything pretty boring…

That's a shame…

Yes, it's true that the ten or so animated 90's cutscenes are very nice. Everything else in the games goes from okay to quite bad : the pixel-art graphics are far from perfect (a lot of copy-pasting, everything is too static (isn't that ironic?) and the sound design doesn't really stand out.

The storyline is, as you'd expect, full of 80's and 90's references (Back to the Future, Stephen King, Terminator and whatnot), unfortunately they also kept every bad cliché of that era : jokes about fat people, girls, geeks, confederates flags in the trailer park… The different playable characters are a group of friend with "Together… Always!" as a motto but they keep being extremely mean to each other and I couldn't feel attach to any of them at any point because of that. Their conversations never sound right and the game suffers from lazy writing all along.

Gameplay wise, it's not utterly bad but it's not very good either. The fights felt sloppy, the platforming is not one of the game strong side, the level design is dull and once again the puzzles are way too easy to be any fun.

TLDR : don't play that game…

Sethian is a weird game. Basically you have landed on a planet (Sethian) where it seems that civilization once existed but has now disappeared. your in front of a weird computer-interface with alien-symbols as a keyboard and you have to try to communicate with an AI, trying to understand what happened there.

It's a game for linguists, interpreters or translators maybe. You'll have to get the grammar basic rules then you'll have to discuss with the computer and ask him about symbols that you haven't translated yet to understand their meaning.

After a while, you should be fluent enough to have a real-talk with the AI and understand a bit of lore.

Promising and very interesting during the first few minutes of the game I soon realized that learning grammar wasn't much fun for me. I decided to follow a guide because I was still curious about the lore but close to the end I was stuck again. I think I suffered from a bug keeping me from unlocking new lines for the AI… I had to read about the end in my guide…

Sethian clearly isn't for everyone and it would be hard for me to recommend it. Still, it's a very unusual experience I think and it was enough to keep me interested… it definitively won't be true for everyone...

A magnificent and absurd point & click that ends in less than two hours ? It's perfect for someone like me who usually aren't a big fan of this kind of game : the puzzles are funny and not so illogical and even when they are the world is tiny enough that you don't have to go round and round not knowing what to do for too long.

I'd almost regret that the game is so short !

The huge strength of Four Last Things are its amazing graphics made of cut and animated paintings from the Renaissance-era : it's vivid, beautiful, funny and that should be enough in itself to make you play the game just for the joy of admiring this animated masterpiece !

When it comes to Dark Souls, first of the name, there's no way I'm unbiased : this is one of the best game I played in my entire life. It's so perfect I don't even know what to say about it…

Let's be honest though, Dark Souls Remastered is mostly just Dark Souls patched for bugs and with a renewal of interest for online playing (at least around the time it was launched). This means that Dark Souls Remastered is still one of the greatest game ever made, in my always moderate opinion, but is it worth it for someone who already played Prepare to Die Edition ?

Honestly I'm not sure. I loved to be able to easily play online and find people to play with but I don't know how long this will last. I bought it has an excuse to play Dark Souls again (as if I needed one…) and I can't say that it was a reasonable choice. Still, have I already stated that it's one of the greatest game ever made ?

For those who never played Dark Souls and think that they might like it… I think it's a shame that this Remastered version costs twice as much as the old one used to be…
Is Dark Souls worth 40$ though ? Definitively…

Well, I'm not sure what to say about this Remaster. One thing is for sure : Dark Souls and its DLC is one of the greatest game ever made and in the end, that the only thing that matters for me.