This was a free game that I decided to try for a bit because it’s been a while since I last played a shooter and I actually liked an earlier game in the series. I did finish it as the game seems rather easy to me even at hard difficulty and it’s quite short but I didn’t really like it at all. I thought it felt extremely linear and the story is just a tour of the most famous names of the Wild West with a classic revenge plot as the connective tissue.

So finally I get around to play something that is relatively recent. This was a virtually unknown game when it was released by a brand new studio. It quickly gained attention due to its beautiful cyberpunk visuals and due to the bugginess of Cyberpunk 2077 on release, was even hailed as the superior game. To me, the isometric view and gun-based reminded me of Crusader: No Remorse, an old game I have fond memories of, so I bought it not long afterwards. Unfortunately while its visuals are indeed fantastic, I’d judge its gameplay to be only average while its story and characters are downright forgettable.

This is one game I always knew I had to play even back when it was first released. Yet putting it off was the right decision because all the additions made to the final edition of the game including most importantly fully voiced dialogue for all characters makes it so much better. The voice acting is so critical and of such high quality in this game that I couldn’t imagine experiencing this game without it. There are some flaws in this game, such as how the plot is railroaded to go through some key bottlenecks no matter what you decide to do. But I love this type of dialogue-heavy, skill check-based RPG and I really want developers to make more games like this.

This is a meme game that was mostly popular on consoles and took a while to come to the PC. Even though it looks and sounds like a joke, it really is a game, with the gameplay being mostly puzzle solving with some light stealth elements. Finishing it takes only a few hours and the graphics are simple. But there’s so much charm and personality in it that I think it should win over just about anybody. As I understand it, this has been a real hit for children. Even if they’re too young to play it themselves, they seem delighted to watch their parents do so.

I bought this a while back after hearing about it being one of the better clones of Dark Souls while also featuring some unique mechanics of its own. I thought that the anime aesthetics might be appealing too. Unfortunately while it’s decent enough as an action game, it copies Dark Souls so apishly without consideration for why the legendary games did things that way that its very existence offends me. Plus I realized that the anime aesthetics come with anime story sensibilities that are so rote and full of the usual tropes.

Anyone who knows anything about videogaming doesn’t have to be told how popular this was a while back. It turned out to be highly influential as well as many other games have since copied its simple yet highly addictive design. I never picked it up back then because I hate rogue-likes and the art it uses looked basic to me. But I always knew that I would probably enjoy this somewhat due to my love for deckbuilding mechanics and this is too important of a cultural touchstone to ignore forever. Having put some time into this now, I can say that it really is absolutely brilliant and I was an idiot for putting it off so long.

So finishing up the DLC content as I’ve mentioned earlier ended up not taking very long at all. By my count, the DLC content includes two full maps with their associated missions, two Sniper Assassin maps and four Special Assignments set on the existing maps. However as I omitted writing about the Sniper Assassin mode at all in my previous post, I’ll include the first map of the set here as well.