I had already played and beaten the original Dishonored, so i knew what to expect from the sequel and the game delivered for the most part. Gameplay is solid, finally they included fun gadgets for the non-lethal playthrough so you don't feel like you are missing on the fun aspect of the game.

Storywise it didn't click like the first one, i felt it jumped the shark with this weird soap opera/fanfiction where somehow emily has become this super cold blooded assassin that cares for noone. Sorry i just don't buy it. World also took a big hit, maybe the novelty wore off, but it doesn't have a "real" feel to it anymore, they are just hubs with people to kill(or escape).

Everything considered i'd still recommend for the gameplay, although, at least on pc, game runs poorly and i actually got motion sickness while playing.

I had always heard high praise for the dialogue system of Oxenfree, but i didn't know it was also a lovely little game. Story is a bit a hit or miss, i was okay with it but i can see where some people might have issues, and afaik people are still looking for a secret "good" ending, so there's that.

Highly recommended. Art is lovely, dialogues and characters are well written, and the story accomodates multiple playthrough with multiple outcomes.

As soon as i saw the early unlock for the next Humble Monthly, i knew i had to buy it.

Inside is truly a gem, it reminded me of the old days of flash adventure games, stuff like "The company of myself" or "Everyday the same dream". I heard a couple of negatives remarks by friends who thought it would be a puzzle/platform heavy indie instead of a chill adventure 2dscroller. As for me, i thoroughly enjoyed this handcrafted experience. Everything just "clicked" perfectly for me, probably the best indie game i've played in the last couple of years.

...and then the puruit of gael took the Ashen one in the Ringed City, where he went on to kill every last living being in the whole world. And i'm not even exaggerating, okay maybe a little bit. I loaded the dlc with high expectations and waiting to be disappointed and left with sense of awe and sadness. I hope Myiazaki is happy with what he's created.

And with this we bid farewell to Demon/Dark Souls. After 8 years it's probably safe to say that it is time to move on...wait there is still Bloodborne, i take everything back.

Finally winter 2014 is here and so is Persona 5! Bad jokes asides, persona is the main reason i bought a ps4 and it's a marvel. Since the various reviews around have covered pretty much everything i'll just talk about stuff that stand out for me.

• I believe the "1 more" system is inherently broken compared to the "Press turn". It makes the basic battles a non-issue, as long as you can hit weaknesss, and takes away a bit of strategy vs bosses;
• The games is a huge leap forward in thematic coherence and system balance (i managed to max every confidant and every stats withouth the need of a guide);
• They really did justice to the 3d models of Kaneko work;
• Negotiations are not random, glory to YVHV!
• Even on hard, the game feels too easy. I fear more the random encounters than the bosses (although i love their design).
• Buffs/Debuffs are OP as always (i never took Ann out of the party against a boss);
• Altered status are more viable than ever, charm carried my ass in the first two dungeons (sorry Mitsuru if i berated you in p3).
• Some confidant boni are borderline gamebreaking (temperance and sun in primis).

I would add some screens but alas Atlus blocked that feature for the game and i only have low res photos shot with my phone.

I've had eyes on this game for years, not many jrpg around on pc and this is supposed to be one of best and especially after the mess that was Zestiria i was digging some good old nice jrpg action. I sort of liked it, but the actual battle gameplay was awful and the spike hyke on every boss was unbearable (luckly the dev knew, and dialed down their stats everytime you die)

Everything else apart from the battle was generally very well done, i would have probably appreciated if some of the companion were permanent but it wouldn't have made sense story wise so i can't complain.

Awesome game, awesome cast of characters. An absolutely lovely, charming and comic platform. I honestly have no idea why i hadn't heard of this series before getting the Pirate Curse, a real shame if you ask me.

I had the Uncharted trilogy sitting on my desk since i bought the ps4 back during the black friday craze. I was blown away by the jump in quality between the three games (although U2 was imho the high point of the trilogy). Can't wait to play the last installment (which is sitting on my desk too :p)

God Of War 3 was a jump in the nostalgia back in the ps2 era, and i'm sorry to say that maybe, the games were not as good as i remember. Perhaps it didn't age well, but by today standard the gameplay is straight up mediocre for an action game. Demon design is 10/10 though, love their rendition of the chimera.

I tried to like this game, i really tried...the title of Zestiria is wrong imho, it should be "Tales of horribly wrong decisions". This game is utterly broken, boring and all around bad. I was going to prepare a lenghty analysis of every shortcoming of Zestiria, like the utterly broken difficulty system, or the on rail combat, the characters ripped of a random page on Tvtropes or even the stupid mess that's the equip stats and buff, but then i went and faced the final boss. Oh boy, oh boy that final boss is the epitome of the horror that is this game design.

So the final boss. I'll keep it spoiler free if you are masochist enough to play through Zestiria. As far as final bosses go, it starts fairly standard, first phases is a classic boss encounter, you are in a small circle arena where you dodge stuff and hit him in the head. Same goes for phase 1.5. That phase 2 starts and everything crumbles. For the phase 2 i'll need a bit of visual aid so here it goes my mad paint skill. Couple of tidbit before we start, your party is composed by 2 humans and 4 seraphim, only 4 can be active at the same time and every seraphim active must be paired with a human. If a seraphim dies you can swap them out while they "heal" and if a human dies a seraphim che revive them given that they have any spare battle point.

As you can see the Boss pattern attack cover a cone in front of him, he will never move and every attack hits the exactly same spot every time. The red circle is the closer to the boss but also the deadliest, you are dead meat if you stand there. Orange will get you hit 75% of the time and yellow is kind of a safe spot for sniping if you keep guard for his long range attack. Blue spots are safest, you'll get hit once in a while but you'll sustain basically 0 damage compared to the rest of the battle arena. Strategy for this phase is standing in the blue spot and hit attack. That's it, you just stand there and hit the attack button over and over. What about your party companions? First of all let's start by saying that party AI in this game suck so you can guess what they will do the whole fight. Yep, they stand in the red circle, die, resurrect and die 5 seconds later. Meanwhile you stand in your safe zone chipping away the boss 200k HP with your manacing 1k dmg a hit. Not so bad right? The fun part hasn't started yet. When the boss health falls down a threshold it begin charing a OHKO move unless you can pass a dps check, and you need your full party for this part. Yay! And you can only use 1 item every 10-15 seconds, so your best bet is to hope that the active seraphim has at least 1 unused point to revive the human and that both of them will attack the boss. Best part? You have to do this 4 times, and after every dps check you lose 1 seraphim so you are stuck in the last parts with permanent dead allies. Keep it up for 20 minutes and you have beaten phase 2!

If anyone is interested in the characters and the story, i redirect you to the beatifully drawn anime which also made some much needed adjustement to the story so it makes sense

I honestly didn't expect this game to have such a complex ending(s). "Final Battle" was just as epic as i thought it would be, even though this sort of games usually fail miserably to portrait a battle of that scale (things like the Dragon God from Demon's Souls).

Sooner or later i'll start New Game+ with hard mode to jump on the dlc since i haven't had a chance to get there in my first playthrough. </div>

Oh Kholat, where do i begin? First of all i realized i should never go on a trip alone in the woods cause I suck at reading a map+compass. My experience in the first 30 minutes can be summed up in

• Where on earth am i?
• Where on earth am i going?

On to the game, it's a walking simulator survival horror centered around the mystery that surrounds the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Now, i'm not saying that reading about the accident is more interesting than the game buuuut yeah it is. Kholat story is basically something out of the SCP-Foundation, i won't spoil anything if you want to play this.

I'd say Kholat qualifies as a 5/10. First of all: game is optimized like shit on pc, second of all, despite being "open world", the content is very much gated. Some roads were blocked with rubble or insurmountables 5 inch high rocks, forcing me to go around the whole freaking map to reach the note that's just beyond THERE AHHHH. Also flashlight was beyond useless. The "night" is more lit than my christmas tree.

Love it. I absolutely love it. I hate it at times, but i am mostly in love with it. Let's start with the negatives: gameplay is not great, i mean, boss battle are amazing but the actual fighting is not that good although it's always fun to obliterate goblins or cyclops. Sidequests are also boring, talk to X->travel all the way across the world and do Y, rinse and repeat. Some feature are nice on paper but oddly implemented. For example people affinity, you can give a gift to any npc in the world and raise affinity with him, this is only worthwhile with shops as they will have more stuff to sell.

Where the game really (or should) shine is the exploring bit. There is always a cranny or a dark zone on the map to reveal, and also min-maxing your bag before every journey is a lovely chore that adds that lil' bit of tension during exploration, "how many healing potions do i need? Do i need this specific herb to counter that status? Crap i have no more oil for the lantern and now i can't see shit". For the night is dark and full of terror. Early on at least, then you can breeze through them without a scratch, neverthless not being to see 5 feet in front of you is always chilling.

Lastly, the scale of the boss battle in this game is truly epic. Scaling the back of a griffon while it soars up and tries to scroll you from his back, is astounding. On the other hand, being able to grab onto stuff and pick up everything, opens up some hilarious scenario (see exhibit 1 and 2)

Oh yeah, i started my run #133 on xcom 2. Not that i ever managed to complete any single one of them. Ok i beat the game once when it came out, but now we have mods. MODS!

As of today i managed to survive the first two months, i researched the magnetic rifles and just barely survived the first encounter with the viper king in his lair.
I lost 3 good men, 1 by the hand of the viper king, 1 killed by a 4% crit behind full cover and the last one panicked instead of running for the evac zone. Godspeed! you rookie.

In screen 1 through 4 you can see what happens when menace 1-5 and 2 advent reinforcement pods meet on a roof for an improv rave party