What I usually want from an FMV adventure game is either fun quick paced “interactive movie” experience, where every choice I make leads to a new interesting possibility, or a solid adventure game where the FMV is just a visual style. The Shapeshifting Detective is neither.
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Thoughts on: Yakuza 5 Remastered
Yakuza 5 is considered to be one of the best entries in the franchise. To me, it’s the least enjoyable one so far.
Thoughts on: The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
I’ve heard a lot of good things about the previous titles from Supermassive Games (which I haven’t played yet due to their PS4 exclusivity), yet all of the reviews I’ve seen of this Dark Pictures Anthology project were mediocre at best. So it took me a while before I decided to check them out, starting chronologically with the Man of Medan. And, well, it’s not terrible.
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Thoughts on: Critters for Sale
Though not many of them are being sold, there are countless of “weird games” out there. And quite of a few of them got really popular at least in certain circles. From Revenge of the Sunfish, to Space Funeral or Goblet Grotto they tend to get people intrigued, whenever they could be considered “good” or “bad”. They’re just fascinating and it’s interesting to ponder their existence if not always play. Critters for Sale is something like that. It’s not particularly fun to play, but it is certainly fascinating.
Happy about: Tormented Souls
Over the years I’ve seen so many attempts to make a survival horror game I stopped counting or caring. Mostly because vast majority of these titles, even back from the time the genre was still relevant, were crap. And as often because they weren’t actually “survival horror”, as in a genre and not a meaningless moniker given to any horror game. Tormented Souls didn’t look great, but I was willing to give it a chance. It turned out to be enjoyable.
Thoughts on: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Singleplayer)
Given how little I write about… well, given how rarely I actually play Call of Duty games, it’s easy to assume that I don’t like them. But I do. CoD 2, or 4: Modern Warfare were genuinely amazing dumb exciting military FPS titles and I’ve greatly enjoyed a few other entries in the series. All singleplayer, of course, I never cared much about this kind of multiplayer. But nonetheless, I don’t play them often not because I don’t want them to be good. But because I know that most of the time they are disappointing, and I don’t want to pay Activision Blizzard full price for disappointment (I actually would prefer to never pay them, but they do own some good franchises).
This time, I’ve decided to check on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare story campaign. The 2019 one, not the original or remastered. And it’s less disappointing than I’ve expected.
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In love with: Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered
If it were late 90s-early 00s it would be impossible for me not to play and rant about NFS games. I’ve played them since the 3DO original, despite never being a huge fan of racing games. And up until Most Wanted in 2005, the only title I didn’t play the year of release was Hot Pursuit 2. After MW, however, there has been just one NFS game that I highly enjoyed and that game was Hot Pursuit (2010). After the “street racing” phase of the franchise, started in Underground, has grown stale, the new Hot Pursuit (not to be confused with the third game in the series from 98) suddenly revitalized the franchise by simply going back to its roots, while keeping all of the innovations from the 00s. It felt like a “best of” compilation of the series and even 10 years later (well almost 11 now) in this Remastered form it remains amazing. Despite the fact that not much has been “remastered”.
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Happy about: The Forgotten City
I’ve never heard of The Forgotten City until it came out and everyone was talking about it. But apparently, originally this title has been a mod for Skyrim. As a mod, this sure would be amazing. As a standalone title, though? Yeah, it’s pretty good.
In love with: Chicory: A Colorful Tale
A couple of years ago I saw the first teasers of the “Drawdog” game on twitter and it looked really neat. The project regularly popped up somewhere on my timeline, consistently looking more enticing until finally it changed the title to the current Chicory: A Colorful Tale and then finally, and very recently, got released. Despite me not liking the previous title from the developer, Wandersong, all that much it was a promising game with lots of heart, so I was hoping that Chicory will be better. It turned out to be more than that.
Happy about: Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective
From the screenshots, it’s easy to think that Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective is a Where’s Wally\Waldo?-type of game, like Hidden Folks. That’s what I thought at first too. But while wonderfully detailed screens, full of charming characters and fun interactions, are indeed present, the game plays quite differently. This is, as the name would suggest, a maze game, where you must figure out how to get from one point to the next. And it’s quite fun, even though it has some frustrating elements to it.
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