MachineGames – is a game developer studio founded by some of the key people from Starbreeze Studios. Who worked on Riddick and Darkness. And you can feel it in this game. Which is already a pretty high praise for the new Wolfenstein.
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Quick thoughts on: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2
Well, this was quite a waste of potential. Dracula vs Satan in the fantastic/futuristic modern day setting among the apocalypse – sounds exciting. Plays boring.
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Remember me. Forget-me[-not]
I expected nothing of Remember me. Later I looked at it again and acknowledged that it looked nice, but it still felt boring. When it came out all reviews were showing that my predictons were right and I almost forgot that it existed. But then I heard several excited opinions on the game and it got me curious. When I learned that the soundtrack was done by Olivier Derivière I got even more interested, since his soundtracks never disappoint and are consistently beautiful. Then i played the game and it wasn’t particularly great. Then I completed it.
Metro 2033 Redux. Better in most things edition
4A has recently released Metro Redux – a pack of two remastered games, Metro 2033 from 2010 and Metro: Last Light from last year. Both games were moved to an updated engine with updated lighting, both games have new distinct modes of playing them – Survival (closer to 2033) or Spartan (closer to Last Light). Both games got updated voice acting, with the same voice actor for Artyom in all main languages and new localisations including the Ukrainian. I’ve already told what I think of the Metro: Last Light Redux, which was less affected by this remaster. Metro 2033, on the other hand, looks very different now, several levels were combined, some scenes and sections were redone, at times completely, the weapons were redesigned to be closer to how they work in the second game (so you modify weapons now instead of exchanging different weapons with different modifications), controls were updated as well. Most of these changes were welcome and make the game far more fun to play. Yet, there are a couple of changes that are questionable at best and outright dumb at worst.
Metro: Last Light Redux. Game of 2034 Edition
Less than a week ago 4A released Metro Redux – remastered versions of Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light. Both games were moved to an updated engine with updated lighting, both games have new distinct modes of playing them – Survival (closer to 2033) or Spartan (closer to Last Light). Both games got updated voice acting, with the same voice actor for Artyom in all main languages and new localisations including the Ukrainian. 2033 was affected the most, of course, but I will talk about it later. After replaying both original versions of the games I decided to play Redux in the opposite order. Partially because I never got the DLCs for Last Light which are included here. Partially because it was fresher on the mind. Let’s see how the game and its Redux versions fair.
Oh and I’ll start with my older Last Light screenshots and then will use the LL Redux screenshots for comparison. The old ones are in 5:4, from my older monitor.
Thoughts on: Q.U.B.E. Director’s Cut
Whenever this game is worth buying or not depends, pretty much, solely on the fact, whenever you get the original version of the game or not. I’m saying that because Q.U.B.E: Director’s Cut is probably the worst developers’ spent time and money I can think of in gaming history of remakes and re-releases. What we had was a really nice, chill and clever first person puzzle game, with very distinct look, complete lack of narrative (but a lot of environmental narrative, which left all to your imagination) and beautiful soundtrack.
Thoughts on: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate HD
Mirror of Fate is a curious beast. While I didn’t like first Lords of Shadow all that much, apart from the stunning visual design and an intriguing, but poorly told story, its 2D sequel/side-story feels an improvement in almost every way. It’s like most of the best things and few of the bad things from LoS put together in a 2D action adventure RPG platformer.
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Quick thoughts on: Mars: War Logs
As a curiosity purchase for some really low price, this might be an interesting game to check out. Especially if you like studying games from a design standpoint. As a full (even if low) price story driven action RPG, Mars: War Logs isn’t very good.
Revisiting Resident Evil 6 a year later
I like this game. Not only as a huge fan of the series. I really like it. But I cannot recommend it to any fan of Resident Evil, nor anyone who wants a good survival action or simply third person shooter experience, unless they have a lot of patience and forgiveness for all the time the game does something stupid. Which happens way too often.
Thoughts on: Thief (2014)
Wow, where do I even start? I guess, by saying that despite a LOT of disappointments, bad design decisions, few rare but horrible glitches, the game is good. It really is. When thinking about what I’m going to say about the game while at about mid-point of the game, I was thinking of “really good”. But the last few levels are quite badly done, so “good” it is.