Rating of
2/5
Warhammer: Chaosbane
Banhammered for Being Chaos-Bland
While I am a big fan of the hack n slash RPG genre, trying to find a decent one to match the master Diablo series has been a challenge. Every now and then we find something surprising - like the Van Helsing game - but most other times we mercilessly slog through games like Titan Quest or Torchlight III. Most games in this genre fall short and even with a Warhammer backing, Chaosbane must join the ranks of the underwhelming.
Looks and Stuff: For a game that actually changes your appearance based on what armor you wear, it fails to celebrate this by having a camera that pans so far out that any change is lost in the distance. This also means that even with some fairly good creature designs you get little detail in the chaotic, muddled …
Rating of
4.5/5
Tinykin
Puzzle-Platforming ‘Pikmin’-Lite
“Tinykin” is the second game from French Indie developer, Slashteam, whose initial game, “Splasher,” didn’t really make much of a… splash. As a ‘Meatboy’-style platformer that came out in 2017 just before “Celeste” (which had much more marketing… for some reason), “Splasher” flew under the radar while the team went back to the drawing board. For their second game, they changed genres from Precision Platforming in 2D to Collect-a-Thon Platforming in 3D, while also wearing their Nintendo influences on their sleeve: Specifically, “Tinykin” looks for all the world like it wants to be a ‘Pikmin’ clone, and that’s what initially got me interested in it. And while “Tinykin” does indeed share some basic …
Rating of
3/5
Dark Souls
Death Comes Easy, Victory Comes Hard
You play the role of the Chosen Undead, a cursed undead human who escapes the undead asylum in the kingdom of Lordran, who embarks on a perilous journey battling powerful foes, and must decide whether to rekindle the flame and prolong the age of fire or embrace the coming age of darkness.
Presentation
Dark Souls presents a dark atmospheric world, with intricate level design, and countless areas to explore. The game came out in 2011 on console, and in 2012 on PC, so the graphics are quite dated. I installed a graphics update known as DSFix, that improved the graphics dramatically. Definitely a must to enjoy the game fully.
Gameplay
The gameplay in Dark Souls is challenging, rewarding, and unforgiving. Simple as that. I chose a …
Rating of
5/5
Mass Effect Legendary Edition
Three genre-defining action RPGs in one updated with high definition visuals and a host of downloadable content. The best games of their type, full stop.
Rating of
3.5/5
Demon's Souls Remastered
Difficult, Frustrating, and also Rewarding
Demon's Souls is a remake of a game with the same name on PS3. It's a beautiful, difficult, and rewarding game that lacks when it comes to controls and explaining things.
I had never played a game in the "Souls" series before starting this so when I began I only knew a couple things. First, the series is pretty popular and second, that it's viewed as extremely difficult. By the time I finished I understood both of these things very well.
The story of this game isn't that intriguing. In a land called Boltearia an evil presence is taking over. A fog is enveloping the area and there are evil creatures and demons strung about. Once you're in there is no escape and it appears there's a evil being making people like you kill …
