The Wonderful 101: Remastered
I’ve been playing this game for YEARS back when it released on the Wii U. I never thought in a million years that The Wonderful 101 would have an official PC release. And yet here we are. So how does it hold up?
Maybe I’m being biased here but I genuinely believe this is PlatinumGames and Hideki Kamiya’s magnum opus. The combat system is extremely intricate and complex but damn does it feel satisfying to master. This is NOT a cutesey wootsey Pikmin-style adventure game. This is very much an action game that ranks up there with games such as Devil May Cry and Bayonetta (2 other games Hideki Kamiya is responsible for. Go figure.). This is a game that does NOT hold your hand whatsoever nor does it do any spoonfeeding. You’re gonna get punished. You’re gonna get destroyed. You’re gonna get nothing but consolation prizes along the way. You’re probably also gonna get frustrated with the weapon switching gimmick and say the controls are bad and that it should’ve stayed on the Wii U where it belongs.
– Real player with 308.1 hrs in game
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At first this game can seem very inaccessible due to its abnormal controls and original home on the Wii U. Hopefully this review will clear up some misconceptions as well as highlight, in short, what makes this game so incredible.
TLDR: PLAY THE DEMO, it will give you a basic feel for the gameplay as well as a showcase of the game’s spectacle. Any fan of Bayonetta, DMC and the likes should play this game right now. This game is incredible and my favourite of all time. The controls are responsive (when played with a controller) and the combat is incredibly mechanically deep, combined with an immense level of spectacle through its 20 hr story. It is just Wonderful.
– Real player with 113.9 hrs in game
Legend of Kay Anniversary
I among many other people who bought this played this as a kid but by no means is this game only fun because of nostalgic value. These sort of kid like platforming games is what pc honestly needs.
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Great graphical update from the original
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Combat is great among most hack & slash games, its pretty solid on all levels
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Platforming is fun and brings you back to when platformers weren’t only 2d indie hardcore platformers
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The sound is a huge bump up in quality, although I did experience a few very minor odd sound placements but I won’t detract any points from it
– Real player with 24.4 hrs in game
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Family Rating
Everyone 10+
Rating
between Mixed, Good and Must Play
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– Real player with 21.3 hrs in game
Beyond the Storm
Beyond the Storm is a love-letter for the game Tyrian, published in 1995 by XSIV/Epic Megagames. As it, expect the same experience, with a lot of more content and improved visuals.
Be NEARLY vaporized, crushed, blown to pieces, flame broiled, and electrocuted using your incredible targeting skills and class 1 fancy flying to keep you alive in this SHMUP that brings back the essence of the classic arcade shmups!
Features
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An “open-galaxy”, divided in sectors, wormholes, nebulas, asteroid fields, enemy fleets and full of planets and stations, each one with it’s own playable sectors
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Original music, inspired on the iconic soundtrack from Alexander Brandon
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Original graphics based on the original Tyrian art made by Daniel Cook, a.k.a. Lost Garden
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Lots of ships, enemies and weapons
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A lot of content lore-based, with a full readable database inside for more info
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Customizable weaponry
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A re-imagined energy generation system, allowing customizable ship systems based on energy redirection
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Fully voiced lines (in EN and PT-BR)
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Starfield Jukebox, for listening the OST with awesome visuals!
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SiN: Reloaded
Nightdive Studios and 3D Realms have joined forces to bring you SiN: Reloaded, a completely remastered experience of the classic 1998 shooter from Ritual Entertainment. SiN was a groundbreaking story driven FPS brimming with memorable characters, horrific enemies and a devastating arsenal that pushed the Quake II Engine to its limits. Now in 2020 SiN has been Reloaded!
When the CEO of SinTEK Industries begins injecting the streets with a DNA-altering drug, it’s time to reassess the laws of morality. When the same twisted bio-chemist plans to overtake the world with her unholy army of genetically-engineered mutants, it’s time to rewrite the golden rule.
You are Colonel John R. Blade, head of the most prominent private protection agency in Freeport. Now Elexis Sinclaire is waging her holy war against the security industry…and you along with it. You’ve made a religion out of fighting crime. Now you’re going to make Elexis pay for her sins.
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SiN and Wages of SiN expansion, completely rebuilt from the ground up in the KEX engine!
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Remastered High Definition Models and Textures by Slipgate Ironworks
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Support for Wide- and Ultra-Wide video resolutions
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Restored/uncensored original game assets
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Native controller support
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Deathmatch and Capture the Flag Multiplayer Game Modes
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Includes SiN: Gold 2020 update enhancements and bug fixes
Agent Intercept
For being an expanded port of “just” a mobile game, this one’s great.
My only two complaints are irregular, but severe crashes and the fact that the campaign is rather short.
Though, regarding the latter, Score-Hunters will still have plenty of fun with the arcade mode.
– Real player with 17.1 hrs in game
This is a really fun game. It has striking character design, engaging gameplay, and a funky soundtrack. The story and dialogue can be goofy but that’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
Incidentally, I have not encountered any bugs.
– Real player with 5.3 hrs in game
Tomb Raider: Anniversary
***** QUICK SPOILER-FREE REVIEW *****
An amazing game! I’ve played the others by Crystal Dynamics and I’d place this with the gritty reboot as the best.
THE GOOD: Damn near everything!
The puzzles are actually puzzling, the platforming challenging, the dialogue and acting are actually good and the story gives Lara some surprising depth! The music hits both the atmospheric and action themes perfectly, and the game is more than its money’s worth in terms of length (expect 20 - 40 hours). Oh and it still looks great in 2015!
– Real player with 41.6 hrs in game
Tomb Raider: Anniversary is a superb game in almost every way. As a video gamer new to the franchise, I can now fully understand the reasons behind the tremendous popularity of the Tomb Raider series and the fervor of its fan base. The extent of my previous experience with the internationally celebrated Lara Croft amounted to about 20 minutes of game play on a roommate’s Playstation back in the year 2000. Thus, I had not been truly prepared for how fantastic a journey I would embark upon in Tomb Raider: Anniversary for PC on sale from Steam.
– Real player with 40.6 hrs in game
La-Mulana
La Mulana is…. an unfortunate game. It is very interesting and has a lot of potential, but it commits many gaming sins that can’t be overlooked. This is a NES era kind of game that is designed to force you to use some kind of guide when playing it (think castlevania 2). If you respond to this, don’t just say ‘the game is supposed to be hard’. Dark Souls is my favorite game; I know the difference between a game that is difficult because it’s designed well, and a game that is difficult because it is designed badly.
– Real player with 160.1 hrs in game
Do I recommend this game?
No. You can read the reviews and decide for yourself whether you think you’ll be able to stomach it, otherwise I see little value in trying to play it for simple reasons such as liking the art, or metroidvanias, or puzzles, or because a lot of people say it’s amazing.
Something I’ve noticed while playing La-Mulana is that an overwhelming majority of modern (and not-so-modern) games have quite some of the so-called “handholding” in some shape or form. This includes games being touted as having nearly no handholding such as Dark Souls (I’m sorry, I need to draw comparisons simply because other people probably draw them but for the wrong reasons, and it’s a good difficult game that is similar but also incredibly different).
– Real player with 129.7 hrs in game
Project E.V.A. Remake
Join Erika Hoshinara in her investigation of a virus outbreak inside a big corporation. Explore 4 different areas each with unique enemies, bosses and puzzles to solve.
Blast through enemies with different weapons and tactically manage your ammo and medkits. Collect differents weapon upgrades and get to the bottom of this outbreak in this 2D action game.
Play through the campaign with 2 difficulty modes or through the ever randomized Sweep and Clear game mode for endless replayability.
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The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED]
Read my full review at https://www.vgr.com/eternal-castle-remastered-pc-game-review
In the indie game scene, a lot of games take inspiration from the games of the past. Typically this comes in the form of tributes to oldschool consoles like the NES, SNES and Mega Drive. But it’s not often you see games that pay homage to the graphics of old IBM PC’s. The Eternal Castle, a supposed remake of a lost 1987 PC game, is such a game. And much in the vein of the game MURI, it acts as a tribute to old school PC games from the late 80’s and early 90’s. In this review we’ll be taking a look at this game and also discuss its legitimacy as a remaster. So strap in, it’s time to explore the CGA glory of The Eternal Castle.
– Real player with 12.5 hrs in game
The Eternal Castle is a tribute to the cinematic platformers from the past, such as Prince of Persia or Another World . This genre does not get a lot of representation these days, so I want to support developers that make games for a limited audience. Let’s be honest, this game is made for people with nostalgia for those clunky platformers. I really enjoy the gameplay because it’s very faithful, and any subjective criticism that I have does not take away anything from its artistry (which is something really special). As far as I know, the original game that is being remastered was “lost”, but I do know that this remaster imitates animation cycle from Prince of Persia . I wish the developers would give the credit for the sources of inspiration, instead of just claiming that it’s a remaster of a classic masterpiece that nobody played. But let’s make something very clear, this game combines the features from several titles, and could not exists in its current form if it wasn’t for them.
– Real player with 9.3 hrs in game
Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap
Wonder Boy III: The Dragon’s Trap was originally made for the Sega Master System and ported to the Game Gear and Turbo Grafx-16. It involved the main character, Wonder Boy, fresh from his last adventure getting cursed by a dragon’s curse and then roaming the land to try to fix that curse.
It also was a fantastic game that rivaled entries like Metroid and allowed players to return to areas they had been in before to find new rooms with abilities earned over time. It was essentially a predecessor to what would be known as a Metroidvania.
– Real player with 29.2 hrs in game
This is how people make an HD Remake of a old game. No crappy graphics, no 90’s radio quality music.
This game is awesome! I guess the saga is one of the first Metroidvania games to exist, playing it feels a bit like playing a platformer Zelda game, but without puzzles to waste your time, you can explore, fight monsters, challenge bosses, aswell as look for secrets. Why didn’t I met this game before? Where have this been all my life? (Probably it’s Monica’s fault…)
This game doesn’t force you to grind so you can buy equipment, or at least not that much, some equipments you need to go killing monsters so you be able to buy them, but still, the game doesn’t make you waste hours killing the same monster for coins to buy your equipment (unless you want to get a certain equipment that is supposed to be acquired way later in the game).
– Real player with 25.7 hrs in game