Tales from the Borderlands
Wow…. just wow. This game is a must buy!
Let me start out by saying that I’ve never played a Borderlands game before this one. If you are new to the Borderlands universe, no worries. Tales From The Borderlands is able to introduce you to the world without needing any prior knowledge of the original games. Technically this game takes place after Borderlands 2, but it is summarized perfectly and requires no further knowledge then what they explain to you.
In TFTB, you play two different characters (Rhys and Fiona) as they recap the story of their adventure. Like most other Telltale games, Tales plays out like an interactive adventure, with dialogue options and choices sprinkled in.
– Real player with 28.6 hrs in game
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I guess there’s a lot to say about the game but I’ll keep it short for ya’ll. If you really want to read some in-depth critisism you can check out the lower part the review. If you just want to know if this game is good for you, just read the short COOL-list up here.
COOL:
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Tales really captures the Borderlands' iconic mix of action and humour.
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Dialogue is quite solid, be it in a serious or humorous scene. Has it’s off-moments though, but that’s to be expected when…
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…You have about 10 hours of story going on. Quite a long journey with lots of twists and turns.
– Real player with 24.2 hrs in game
Lily’s Day Off
This’s a really short game, less than 2 hours of content, but it still managed to be quite entertaining. One of the more impressive features was the music with 16 tracks that helped to really give each path its own unique feel. The story was quite enjoyable as well, always keeping me interested in seeing what the next ending would bring. The art was alright, a bit above average for your typical small indie VN. It fit the game fairly well and you can see most of it in the preview images above to decide if it’s for you or not. There was also an interesting animation demo included where Lily would move her head around to follow a target you could move with your cursor that was rather well done, though it’s just a shame they didn’t manage to find some interesting way to incorporate it into the game somehow, maybe with cut scenes for the endings.
– Real player with 3.8 hrs in game
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– Real player with 2.7 hrs in game
Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Don’t Dry
10/10 Must buy
Disclaimer: I received a review copy by Assemble Entertainment for this review
Note: This is a shortened version of a review from Gao Li Occasionally Reviews to fit Steam’s 4000 character limit.
When Assemble Entertainment acquired the license to make Larry games, they certainly had their work cut out for them. After all, each entry’s about Larry’s attempts to get laid, which, if writers & developers are not careful, can backfire horribly. Surprisingly, the original 1980s&90s games not only walked this delicate line gracefully, but garnered a sizable female player base. Nevertheless, some views expressed therein can seem dated or insensitive nowadays. I therefore asked the developers of this new entry if it was difficult to bring Larry to the new age, to which the lead writer, Falko Löffler, told me, “At first we had a concept where Larry, with his [views] of the 1980s, would be confronted with the modern times. Therefore, we didn’t have to change Larry at all. The entire team designed characters & situations that would pose big problems for Larry, because he doesn’t understand them. None of these were issues for us, but instead it was a lot of fun. We hope that new & old fans will like our interpretation of Larry.”
– Real player with 35.5 hrs in game
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If you are a fan of Leisure Suit Larry, then buy and enjoy this game, it is a worthy entry into the LSL franchise.
However if you are just an adventure point and click fan, maybe buy it on sale.
CrazyBunch gave Larry a much better treatment than it has had in a long time. Jan Rabson returns as the voice of Larry Laffer, and brings him to life as the sleezy loser we love to see fail. The effort put into making this game feel like a LSL game, rather than the Lovage offerings, is noticable in both the kinds of callback jokes and puns in the writing. Overall a great effort, but not a perfect game either.
– Real player with 34.0 hrs in game
Red Comrades Save the Galaxy: Reloaded
Point and click adventure game with a quest to find a Russian symbol.
True to it’s Russian nature you’ll see a lot of Russian stereotypes and clichés which can be fun and annoying.
I do wonder whether I’m walking through some sort of mini-Russia
! with drunks on the streets and being poor with almost everyone asking for money and many things just broken or in a worn down state. To come accross Very rude and impolite people is something I didn’t expect, actually.
The game has a very usable system to interact with the envoirement and a handy map that will transport you trough the game if you don’t feel like taking your characters walking. Beautifully drawn backgrounds and freshly designed lead characters. Still has that olden days Russia look of course. With Russian voices make it sound true to it’s Russian nature. It’s was hilarious to hear them talk in Russian for the first time, luckely the English subtiltes made sense. That’s where this game differentiates from other point&click games, it’s Russia style of handling things.
– Real player with 17.9 hrs in game
Well, it’s a russian game. Its main characters, Peter Isaev and Vasiliy Ivanovich Chapaev, were real people who served in Russian Civil War. Then, in 1934, came a very successful and popular film “Chapaev”, so this pair became the stable character of jokes and folklore, being popular for decades the USSR existed. They only lost their former glory in in 1990s-2000s, because of changed times and morals.
And, this game was made first decade after vanishing of that country, in a dark time for millions of people. Among questions that arose then, there was one, kind of philosophical - whither to move? For some people the way to get to the answer was - since the Union’s return in the nearest years seemed to be highly improbable, it’s reasonably to sum up all the previous experiense that country, consisted of every inhabitant, had, to highlest its best, to use it as base for building something some suitable for new circumstances, and then to move on.
– Real player with 13.5 hrs in game
Simon the Sorcerer: 25th Anniversary Edition
I have to applaud whoever is in charge of this remaster for their radical new approach to remastering games. The influx of constant reboots reaping easy cash from aging millennials who use nostalgia to mentally prepare for a lingering midlife crisis seems to have grown quite stale given that all reboots follow the same old paradigm: take an old game, improve some aspects of it to make it somewhat more palatable to a 2020 audience, profit, rinse and repeat. It is therefor exquisitely refreshing experience MojoTouch’s brave decision to deviate from the stagnating market of hi-res renditions of 90s walking simulators by actually making it WORSE. And let me assure you, they did not hold back.
– Real player with 19.2 hrs in game
Okay, so this isn’t a black-or-white decision for some. But if you tally it all up and look at the bottom line, it’s a resounding yes.
Is it an actual HD remaster? No, it isn’t. But they clealry state it’s an xBRZ upscale and nothing else. And there’s an option to play the original style, which we switched to in a click of a button.
Would I have loved the graphic interface option? Sure, but it’s not a dealbreaker.
But here are the main pro points:
Nobody buys the rights for an old point and click game and releases it with bonus material to make a quick buck. These guys love the game and made it available for old fans and new. Cease it.
– Real player with 16.8 hrs in game
머준이의 사건파일 ~쌍둥이 저택의 비밀~
Animators need to take a break, too. That’s why they went to that workshop.
Of course, they took all their gear with them, but they were happy about the change of pace.
That is, until the night when they wandered into that mansion after getting lost…
Despite being empty, it still seemed that the mansion was well looked after.
However, while they were all in bed that night, a terrible thing happened that none of them could anticipate.
Was this merely an accident? Or did someone plan this? Mujun decides to do some detective work and get to the bottom of this case himself.
Explore the scenes and solves puzzles in the mansion to reveal the truth.
Who is the culprit? And what exactly happened in this mansion?
Key Features
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Eye-catching and unique pixel-art graphics
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Deeply immersive storyline
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Simple yet fun puzzles.
-Unexpected and interesting multiple game endings.
3 Minutes to Midnight™ - A Comedy Graphic Adventure
Somewhere in New Mexico, an explosion shatters the night. Plucky teenager Betty Anderson wakes with a jolt. Where is she? Who is she?
Whatever blew up in the desert seems to have wiped her memory clean, but as she’ll soon learn, Betty has a lot more to worry about than amnesia. Like, say, a town full of people who aren’t what they seem, a corrupt mayor, a secret military base, the mafia, and a potbelly pig with a vendetta. Then there’s this little problem of a doomsday plot counting down to the extinction of the human race… and time’s running out.
Join Betty to crack the conspiracy that starts with a bang and ends at 3 Minutes to Midnight—if we’re lucky.
Classic adventure gameplay.
Inspired by such titles as The Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, and Sam & Max Hit the Road—3 Minutes to Midnight combines the point & click gameplay and clever humor with high-def cartoon art, an intuitive interface, and a compelling mystery.
Two playable characters.
Play as plucky teenager Betty Anderson and the ambitious and diplomatic mayor Eliza Barret—two characters on opposite sides of the spectrum—to unravel a plot much deeper than one would surmise at first glance.
A small town of strangers and secrets, all deeply connected.
All the characters in the game—as well as the world they live in—have a rich and detailed backstory, with clever and unexpected ties to each other. Scratching the surface won’t be enough to discover more than their apparent identities.
Puzzles up the wazoo.
Tired of the same repetitive, unoriginal puzzles? Then put on your thinking cap, because 3 Minutes to Midnight will keep your brain working on overclock! With over 200 unique objects available to solve the myriad of puzzles you’ll encounter.
Replayability.
When we say replayability, we’re talking hidden dialogues and events, characters that you might otherwise never see. Maybe that character you kept hearing about… wasn’t actually real, or maybe he was and just hid very well.
Multiple solutions to some puzzles.
Most of our big puzzles have been designed in such a way that there’s sometimes more than just the obvious solution. You might find an easy way to solve a problem, or maybe you’ll find a secret that unlocks more information about the backstory of our characters.
Elaborate hint system.
Our built-in hint system will highlight important objects and assist during those tense dialogue options. After all, we wouldn’t want you to get lost (or look for a walkthrough online!) So if you have the need, activate this option, or don’t.
“That doesn’t seem to work."—No more!
“That doesn’t work” is now a thing of the past! No more will you be stuck hearing the same phrase 5000 times in a row, because we made sure to write 5000 lines of unique dialogue specifically for this reason! All of those clever and funny, of course, for you to discover at your leisure.
A Vampyre Story
A starting note that the play time does not reflect game length or completion time as I often leave games running whilst off doing other things.
A Vampyre Story is a fun point and click game that whilst not breaking any moulds of the genre it’s characters and dialogue I thought were witty and memorable and had me laughing out loud a fair few times. It also looks good, but the animations can sometimes ‘stick’ shall we say, although this is not a big issue.
Any fans of P&C’s will not be diasapointed in what this has to offer, although not the most challenging game out there, the puzzles aren’t ludicrously obscure as they can be in some other titles and range from simple to medium difficulty.
– Real player with 46.4 hrs in game
I picked this game up when it first came out on disc and I regretted never finishing it. I was thrilled that it showed up on Steam and I’m very happy my memories of the game weren’t just nostalgia, it’s very fun and polished. The tone and puzzles are reminiscent of classic LucasArts games and the art is top notch, even by today’s cartoon game standards.
Some have not liked the voice of Mona, the main protagonist. It is high pitched and I can see how it could annoy folks but I thought it fit and didn’t mind.
– Real player with 18.3 hrs in game
Ankh 2: Heart of Osiris
Play the first Ankh game instead, its slightly more enjoyable. Ankh 2 is a disappointment so far for me and not much new is offered in the game early on. I also bought Ankh 3… but I do not have high expectations, as the sequel to the first game is already a letdown after the first hour and a half. I will push through and complete it some day, possibly changing my review, and move on to the third game in the trilogy.
UPDATE: I finally finished the game….
I have good news and bad news… Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4 all sucked…. That’s the bad news.
– Real player with 9.8 hrs in game
Could’ve been good but too many annoyances made this game pretty unplayable.
There are parts I really liked about this game, the story are actual puzzles were enjoyable. But that’s about it.
Technical glitches up the wazoo. Uggg. It completely crashed on me so many times and a couple of times after an event happened the game glitched, with dialogue popping up like it hadn’t happened and I couldn’t go back, couldn’t go forward. So lame. Also, talk about clicking on super tiny specific things or one tiny hidden area of the screen to find an exit. I literally had to move my cursor slowly across one oasis scene trying to find the one small spot that finally popped up as an exit.
– Real player with 9.7 hrs in game
Ankh 3: Battle of the Gods
The omens of the Battle of the Gods have been many, signaling the impending fight for supremacy over all other gods of Egypt. And of course, Assil will be caught in the middle of it all again. Together with his girlfriend Thara, he will have to prevent the sinister Seth from winning the battle and subjecting Egypt to his regime of terror. With the typical Ankh humour, numerous bizarre characters and gags by the wagonload, Ankh - Battle Of The Gods is again a candidate for the adventure gaming throne.
– Real player with 77.2 hrs in game
Sale? Check
Huge Fan of the Series? Check
Then it is worth it! Otherwise, I’d avoid it. Ankh 3 is actually a decent improvement over its predecessor and includes a lot of your favorite characters and that humor from the series…but I honestly don’t think it is worth the increased price unless you were a die-hard fan of the other ones.
– Real player with 9.5 hrs in game