BROK the InvestiGator - Prologue
(Disclaimer: I was involved in this game as a voice actor, though not for anything in this demo. I’ve not been pressured to write a positive review, however, and went into this game blind. My thoughts are my own.)
TL:DR? It’s fresh. It’s fun. It’s free. Go play it.
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I was really pleasantly surprised by this game. When you work on projects within the indie game world, you always hope that they turn out great. From everything this demo showcases, Brok has the moxie and charm to be something special.
– Real player with 19.2 hrs in game
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Completed on Hardcore difficulty with a wired Xbox 360 controller. (Also my first ever review; apologies for the formatting)
The best way to describe my experience with this demo is that it’s a game I never knew I wanted. I found BROK mainly because I was bored but also because Steam related it to Disco Elysium, so I was inclined to try it. After my first few playthroughs, these were aspects of the game that stuck to me most.
Gameplay and Features
The voice acting is phenomenal. Casting is on point, especially Brok’s voice actor (Bryan J Olson) who makes Brok a very charming individual with his animated delivery.
– Real player with 14.3 hrs in game
Yolka
A Game inspired in the saga souls, with an open world to explore and some animals to hunt.
Play as a prisoner trying to get ahead in a wild world, progressing with what you find in your path, exploring this great world between hand-to-hand combat and hunting your own food.
Features :
Dynamic combat with great emphasis on the player’s timely reaction.
Collect armor, weapons, and different jewels to increase your strength, stamina, armor, and agility.
But be careful, do not trust yourself, when you die you will lose all the jewels.
Hunt to eat and manage to get ahead in this wild world.
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Drakkar Crew
ABOUT
Hey rookie, climb aboard! We’re heading for adventure across the North Sea on our reliable Viking ship! Choose from one of the charismatic characters, hire some warriors and engage in bloody battles!
RPG
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Improve the skills of your hero to get access to additional abilities and quests.
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Use various types of weapons and armor.
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Purchase different ships and equip them to your needs.
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Complete the storyline and additional side-quests.
OPEN WORLD
Your character travels around the large world based on Scandinavian and Slavic mythology.
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There are various settlements located on the map.
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Pirate and merchant ships are traveling on the seas.
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Caves and ruins of ancient civilizations hide treasures.
Interact with the world! You can trade, employ recruits, sell prisoners or simply plunder all and receive valuable resources by force!
CREW MANAGEMENT
The player has to employ a team which helps him fight.
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All units have their own specialization such as soldiers and others performing support functions on the ship - cooking, treatment, navigation, etc.
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Each warrior reaches new levels by receiving points from successful battles.
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Warriors need a salary, food and victorious battles to support their levels of morale!
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Carefully watch over the crew members! They can be wounded, develop bad habits or catch diseases.
BATTLES
At last, your brave team of cheerful, bearded bandits lands in the coastal village. The nose of the Viking ship sticks into the shore, and warriors led by your character jump out on the land!
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Dynamic battles in a beat’em’up style with tactical elements.
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You control the main hero and issue commands to your crew members.
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Your warriors have their own intelligence - they react appropriately to different situations on the battlefield.
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AKIBA’S TRIP: Hellbound & Debriefed
After a little over 80 hours, I’ve finally got the platinum badge. Now, I would like to mention that platinum isn’t the same as 100% I am not even close to getting 100%, there’s still so much clothes and weapons and nicknames and other stuff to collect. I just managed to get all of the Steam achievements, but that’s good enough for me! And now that I’ve gotten platinum, I figured I might as well write a review.
So as you already know, this game was originally released in 2011 for the PSP, and now in 2021 they decided to release a PC HD remake. Now, I’ve never played the original PSP game, but I am certain that they have made good improvements, and it’s also a very nice port.
– Real player with 86.1 hrs in game
Don’t ask for HIS measurements!
Onto a more serious review. I wish there was a neutral recommendation but, since there isn’t, I cannot recommend this game at full price.
To preface this review, I played the original version and the plus version on a psp years ago.
I love that Aquire has translated this game into English and ported it to pc. It makes it easier preserve such a great series.
However, if you are coming in from Undead & Undressed, you may be disappointed.
While it does say HD update, the graphics does not look great when it is up-scaled to 1080p and above. Also, the voice recordings sound compressed. This is to be expected when you port a psp game to pc.
– Real player with 42.8 hrs in game
Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara
If you’re thinking this is just going to be another double dragon game then like what Captain Tenneal likes to say on the show MXC: “Well, YOU’RE WRONG!!!”
This game incorporates some of the most advanced mechanics you’ve ever seen in any beat-em-up. And mind you these two games came out wayyyy back in 1996. Expect to see: Critical hits in your attacks, spell casting, combos, FOUR PLAYERS!, backstabbing, infinite combos (if you’re good enough), secrets, forked paths, different equiappable weapons, level ups, and unlockable in game perks such as arts, galleries, and even house rules to play around with.
– Real player with 598.0 hrs in game
Gather your party before setting forth! Or just yourself. That way you don’t need to see the disappointment in your friend’s eyes as you die to a kobold.
“BY THE ABYSS
- Fighter, every time he falls down. Every time.
Chronicles of Mystara is two ported games with some retro flair - Shadow Over Mystara, which is a cult classic beatemup which has as much accolades as Gary Gygax giving birth to the 20-sided die, and there’s Tower of Doom, which can come too.
They’re coin-op arcade games with a flair for the tabletop, giving you classes, items, branching paths, Tower of Doom even has effects for enemies failing saving throws. All of this makes for a game that’s novel, intricate by nature, and has earned its cult classic status.
– Real player with 28.7 hrs in game
River City Ransom: Underground
Hindsight review:
Hear me out. Don’t let my hours fool you. Despite having spent 80 hours pre-launch as a backer tester, I’ve spent most of my time in the Training Arena to study the game and figure out how I could improve it if the promised mod support does come through. I admit I was a little too hyped, and I let bias take over seeing how far they had come with my own eyes. I let the game settle now. Well, honestly I never felt comfortable recommending this to others because I knew there was some serious flaws, and the game needs some serious polish. I really had fun playing through the game, but some overall design decisions aren’t going to change, which ruin my overall impression.
– Real player with 730.0 hrs in game
If literally any other game studio developed this game, it might be fun. Welcome to the poochie the dog of videogames, RCRU.
It’s a terrible game, and baffling design choices and EXTREMELY poor patch management have squandered what could have been otherwise a very, very good game. For the record, Patch 13 is coming out soon, solving problems such as the flawed police system, and some big bugs, which is great.
So why am I voting this game down?
Go read any other review of this game, and you’ll hear the same thing, “Good, but doesnt live up to its potential. Also bugged as the dickens. Very Unbalanced. Pointless RPG mechanics. Lame genuinely cringe inducing meta humor, and pointless references that show the devs cant grow up, and move away from the 90’s.”
– Real player with 345.9 hrs in game
The friends of Ringo Ishikawa
“The friends of Ringo Ishikawa” is a freeroaming beat em up game. In this game, you take on the role of Ringo Ishikawa, a japanese highschool delinquent, who lives alone without any family members. And experience his daily life together with his four delinquent friends.
The player is given a lot of freedom in this game. You have your own apartment where you can return to, to save the game through sleeping, to read a book, or to sit down at your desk and study. Outside, you can go to school, visit the school’s library, attend classes, pay close attention to the teacher and take notes during class or stare out of the window. Or you could be sitting in a cafe somewhere, drinking tea while killing time while smoking. Or maybe somewhere in a park, doing pull-ups to improve your max HP. Or just do what highschool delinquents are known to do, squatting in the corner smoking cigarettes and having fistfights with students from rival factions. The player will get hungry in this game, which will affect your academic performance and other things. You can spend the money you looted from KO’ed enemies or scholarship money from having good test result to purchase various food/drinks.
– Real player with 40.3 hrs in game
The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa
The friends of Ringo Ishikawa is a charming beat em' up.
Set in a random Japanese city, you play as Ringo Ishikawa. He’s a senior in high-school at a crossroads in his life. Being a leader of a school gang, Ringo needs to re-focus his path in life. Study in school, or train. The game begins very well. No title screen or intro card are shown. It’s just you and your bud fighting on a train. Lo-fi Hip-Hop plays and fits very well with the backdrop of the contemporary Japanese setting.
– Real player with 20.0 hrs in game
Crazy Flasher Series 2021
Okey primero de todo la saga de juegos de andy la formo parte de mi infancia y era bastante entretenido en los tiempos que uno iba al cyber a pasar el rato y probaba los juegos flash en pags como newgrounds,armor games,etc.
Pero sinceramente este “port” esta muy mal hecho la resolucion es 800x600 y no se puede cambiar,la musica no es la misma aunque seguramente sea para evitar problemas de autor(asi que podemos dejarlo pasar),cuando uno inicia el juego es un menu con los juegos de 2 al 5(al lado de cada uno podemos ver la lista de trucos para usar)y elegir entre los idiomas ingles y chino,(cabe destacar que faltan algunos juegos como runner x)desgraciadamente uno al iniciar en cualquier juego tiene una unica resolucion,se traba seguido y literalmente es como jugarlo en una pag de juegos flash solo cambia la musica,espero que mejore en varios aspecto en el futuro(de ser posible) ya que esta saga fue muy querida en mi infancia y me apena que haya envejecido para nada bien,ojala se pueda mejorar como tantos otros juegos que empezaron siendo gratuitos en pags flash para despues acabar en steam con un juego bastante mas pulido que su version flash.
– Real player with 13.4 hrs in game
这个是中国早期的优秀网页游戏，我的童年回忆，感谢作者让我童年有了怀恋
This is an excellent web game in early China. I remember it across my childhood time. Thanks the maker for letting me have nostalgia for my childhood.
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
Die for Valhalla!
Die for Valhalla! is an amazing combination of rogue-lite and side-scrolling beat-em-up style game that has amazing graphics and catchy music. This game is absolutely huge with so much continuous slaughtering fun!
There are two different playing modes, the first is essentially an arcade mode with a larger world where there are a ton of procedurally generated side-scrolling beat-em-up levels. Your goal is hack, smash, and slash your way to the end of the levels and defeat all of the enemies along the way. The other mode is essentially a rogue-lite, more difficult, with permadeath. Your choices matter a bit more because everything could mean life and death. (Kind of funny given the premise of the game.)
– Real player with 16.1 hrs in game
What a gem! $9-12 of hack n slash fun!
Fans of “Rampage knights” and “Castle Crashers” this is a great game for you .
Die for Valhalla follows the same pace, environments and formula as castle crashers with quite a bit more attention to skill point allocation and character development.
This game, while a fun multi-player, still shines with an entertaining singleplayer mode. This is often not the case for hack n slash beat em up games. You start by picking a spirit who represents a season. As that spirit, you can possess objects or revivable vikings to fight and dominate the battlefield in silly ways. Each viking represents a class or style of fighting with special moves. Pets can be found on some maps by defending a point (warning the shrines health will be your pets health, and yes pets can die). Hopefully pets can be permantly unlocked, as they feel somewhat useless at the moment acting as dumb damage sponges. If you leave a map to the overworld view, you have the option to unlock clan houses that contain various types of vikings and bonus perks.
– Real player with 13.3 hrs in game
Kung Fu Jesus
I haven’t finished the game yet but this is my impression so far.
Gameplay:
The gameplay consists mostly of a “2.5D” world I guess where you move side to side and you can move a little bit up and down the environment as well with mostly simple fighting mechanics in my limited experience of fighting games. There are fun combos that you can learn from doing different things and there are abilities that you can discover as you progress, all the while gradually leveling up your total health and energy levels.
– Real player with 65.4 hrs in game
It’s painful to play this game long enough to be allowed to review it.
It’s obvious that someone put a lot of time into this game, and the whacked out story had me interested in progressing, but… the gameplay is so bad I can’t force myself to continue. Unfortunately, the game sat in my library for almost a month before I played it, so I was outside the time window for a refund. Please learn from my loss.
A short list of features:
-No indication of how to leave the first room. Maybe you’ll stumble into it. Maybe you won’t.
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game