Galandra 最近的评测

Absolum is one of those beat 'em ups I wish other beat 'em ups would learn from. I think the execution of Roguelite elements works well enough with the aspects of the game that are based around adventure and exploration while being all under the very familiar label of side scrolling and beating the ♥♥♥♥ out of anything with a health bar not colored in allied hues. With a small but strong cast and storied, well-paced level design whilst ensuring no two runs will go the same way often enough and a bevy of moves for our four, well-designed main characters, and tons of combo potential, I just hope Guard Crush makes more content for Absolum, or a sequel. I'll take both, ♥♥♥♥, just don't let this one go.

Also might TOTALLY be into Galandra.

I beat Nitro Express and I want more.

Inspired by eighties and nineties buddy-cop anime, Nitro Express is not some Metal Slug clone, but an offering in the same spirit of highly-destructive, and cathartic gunplay with cute anime girl leads, and answers to the burning questions many of us had at those arcade machines years ago.

Wouldn't it be dope to go through levels with the shotgun instead?

With nary a pistol in sight (mind, I wouldn'tve minded a big ol magnum revolver myself), Nitro Express acquits itself well of any scrutiny that links it to it's heritage with a suite of weapons you earn through gameplay and a little grinding with extra missions. There's enough variety here for a number of different playstyles and subweapons like grenades, riot shields and the RPG help vary things up further.

The art is endearing, action packed and literally explosive. They encourage you to blow up everything from vehicles to vending machines and there's even some fun little dialogue handled codec-style; which brings me to the characters as well. Barely more than I can count on one hand, the AVD are a lovely bunch as is our main antagonist. There's such pop in every animation--and I adore that they wanted some level of realism in the reloads--in particular with the LMG. The story won't be anything to write home about but it's honestly perfectly serviceable and more importantly, FUN. If the guys that made this have anything else up their sleeves, I'm here for it.

The publisher was not transparent about what version of the game that was being released for sale. There should be plenty of customization options available but they've gutted the mode from previous versions of the game that would let you acquire them, in favor of purchaseable DLC, for a 20-year old game, in a desperate bid to push sales to continue to fund the next installment in the series.

The terrible thing here is--I enjoyed the gameplay. However what is on offer is amazingly and unfairly barebones for a game that released years ago with much, much more content. I feel like I've been had and wish they'd add all that stuff back in a patch. No one wants this like it is, Sega.

Good game!

This game was pretty damn fun! Obviously the gameplay is incredibly simple, it's in the vein of Yume Nikki, or some other of that game's contemporaries. The writing and tone are incredibly darkly humorous, which really about sums the game itself up. A young-adult brother and sister have to survive after months of starvation. Once they take the reigns of life for themselves, everything goes crazy--it smacks of some of my favorite movies for pure absurdity, like Evil Dead or Psycho Goreman. Terrible situations, even worse people, but a work that never endorses their actions as anything but what they are. With a sense of humor. I hope the creator will continue to work on this from their unfortunate exile from the internet and they deserve praise for going against the grain.

This old sock loved this game on release. Not so much in 2023.

Won't pretend it's perfect.

But I won't lie and say it's not one of my favorite gaming experiences of the last few years. Being tons of hot steel boosting around an open space with bombs, rockets and missiles and more is exceedingly satisfying. From the movement, to the art style, to the experiences of earning new parts and making new builds with new looks. I want MORE of this sorta thing. AC VI is awesome.

This game is the definition of all killer and no filler. Sixteen levels of butt-kicking goodness styled in retro 1990s arcade splendor. The characters, environments, music and the like are as crisp and evocative of Saturday morning cartoons even if you're not part of the generation that grew up with THESE turtles, or turtles at all really! There's just enough mechanics in the game to feel a sense of progression and power, with collectables scattered through the levels to bring some incentive to keeping a careful eye out as you're shredding the streets up with crazy combos and special moves. Six-players, and you can drop in, drop out LOCALLY along with playing on the internet and/or with strangers or friends! Who even does that kind of awesome stuff anymore!? Dotemu is on FIRE with this one. I'm actually mad they're not making River City Girls 2 right now tbh. Please, pick this game up if you like fun games, beat-em-ups, multiplayer games or some permutation of the three. It's totally radical!

COWABUNGA!

Edit: The Wu-Tang Clan make an appearance.

WAKE UP SHEEPLE AND PURCHASE

Invader by the name Cloud Strive shows up--in my Elden Ring playlist there's already the remake version of FFVII's battle theme somewhere in there and so is another song from it (but I'll get to that). My character is blonde, blue-eyed and carrying a big ass sword too so it's like oh you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hahahaha. After a night of fending off invaders with the homies, I'm thinking another one wants to bait me out of the main hall of the building I'm in to go in the direction of the archers. But I tell my two friends to let me rock and try to get a fair fight with this guy. I wave at him, he stands still, I walk forward, they get out Radahan's greatswords and I get mine out too--and for a minute straight it's just an out and out fight with four heavy ass swords going with the occasional anime ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sprinkled in (cuz the swords special attack to draw in the opponent using control of gravity before slamming the weapons into the ground to detonate a violent explosion) before he gets out his actual greatsword and I get mine and we get to brawling for even longer. I lost by a smidge of health but it's like.

None of that was scripted and that is a standout encounter.

11/10 Elden Ring don't @ me

Other shooters let you play at aggression. DOOM is the aggression. It rewards ENTHUSIASM above all else and that is something the shooter genre sorely lacks these days.

This is not meant to be a long review as DOOM doesn't need many of my words to tell you it's one of the best shooters of the decade.

But if I COULD tell you all something?

RIP.
AND TEAR.
UNTIL IT IS DONE.