PAWARUMI
Pawarumi is a fantastic vertical shmup and one of the best of all time. Great graphics, great music, three different difficulty settings with the easiest being super easy and laid back for newcomers and the hardest being perfect for those looking for a traditional bullet hell challenge featuring a crazy true final boss encounter at the end w/ a true ending.
Includes an in-game gallery achievement menu, a Practice mode to play individual stages (and being able to go for achievements that can be unlocked on those specific stages). The game’s three color weapon/enemy color system is quick and easy to pick up on and the game implements the system perfectly, allowing you to score more points, refill your health meter (Shield) and refill your bomb meter (Super). Each stage is really well designed and different from one another, with each section throwing something entirely new at you beyond just new enemy ship types. Highly recommended for anyone looking for a fun and challenging vertical shmup with tons of replay value =)
– Real player with 33.5 hrs in game
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I kickstarted this game and haven’t been disappointed. To call it an indie game really doesn’t do it justice - the level of polish is very high. Nice 2.5D graphics that are reminiscent of Radiant Silvergun or Zero Gunner 2, interesting weapon mechanics and a deep scoring system really make Pawarumi stand out among ‘indie’ games, and with just about the right level of difficulty not to scare beginners off. The game has 5 levels each with it’s own unique theme - first level is a snow base, second is a weapons factory set in industry and lava, find the rest out for yourself :-p. With mid bosses and bosses that you can blow bits off to maximize score, anyone who’s played shooters before will be right at home. Only real omission is the lack of a 2 player mode. Definitely worth £12.99 of anyone’s money!
– Real player with 16.8 hrs in game
Katamari Damacy REROLL
This is a public service announcement.
You may have noticed a highly voted negative review claiming that the game is unplayable without a controller due to a lack of key mappings.
This is not the case. The game does work with a keyboard - I have completed the entire game playing this way.
The problem is not with the key bindings but with how they are explained. I made the same mistake as the other poster when I first started playing but once you know how to use the keyboard it’s actually quite intuitive.
– Real player with 26.3 hrs in game
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I’ma split this into two reviews. One for people who played Katamari Damacy on PS2, the other for people who have never played it.
PS2 players: Hello. I too am old. This is in almost every respect the Katamari you remember. Except the visuals come in higher resolution (no pixels!) and everything loads quicker. There have been complaints that the game only runs in windowed mode until you’ve cleared the tutorial. Yup. True. After that you get access to the settings from Home Planet in the same way you accessed them on your PS2. This bothered me not at all. If you think it might bother you, you’ll want to take that into consideration. There have also been complaints that the game didn’t recognize controller input during the tutorial. No idea. Mine worked just fine with no configuration. Also, the story scenes involving the Hoshino family are presented in Japanese with subtitles, rather than the NSTC PS2 release’s divertingly weird English dub.
– Real player with 19.2 hrs in game
Hidden Animals: English - Spanish
A nice game as such, but containing unforgivable mistakes in the vocabulary that it’s supposed to teach you, and badly optimised in my opinion.
I bought this game for my 9 year old daughter, who likes hidden object games and is quite good in them - but there aren’t that many suitable for children, so I was happy to find this one. Since we are neither English nor Spanish native speakers, I was prepared to translate for her and the game wasn’t meant as an educational tool, but she learns English in school, so I hoped she would also pick up a few animal names while playing. But very early she got frustrated by the fact, that it seemed simply impossible to get three golden stars and thus uncover more pieces of the bonus puzzle, no matter how quick she was or how hard she tried (I tried to help with that and didn’t succeed either) - so she stopped playing because it was driving her to tears, and I bought her Hidden Animals Photo Hunt instead to make up for this disappointment.
– Real player with 7.3 hrs in game
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Hey, want to have a good game? Check this indie out! :)
In Hidden Animals you will learn animal names too, while finding them - I don’t even know why they don’t teach languages like this; awesome idea. Speaking of awesomeness I liked the music so much, that I just had to stop at the main menu, just to listen. Nice pictures, user-friendly design. I also liked that it was a good fun my daughter as well: she likes animals and stages can be completed in minutes.
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
Jet Set Radio
Have you ever wanted to be a rollar-blading punk, rollin' around the city tagging walls, and stickin' it to the man?
No? Maaaan fuck you get out of here yes you have. This game is known far across the land for it’s kickin' soundtrack, beats so thick you could bounce a coin off ‘em. Also, it’s so old GBA could run it, so don’t sweat the specs. Only worry is the keyboard controls suck harder than your EX girlfriend, so grab an Xbox 360 controller and get going.
Now the objective of the game is simple, roll around the city, tag some walls, and keep away from the fuzz. However, this is all done to the sweet sonic sound that will be oozing out of the audio device of your choosing. It also helps that this game has graphically dated better than you could ever dream of. (Oh snap son.) You might get one Jet rank on your first playthrough. Might. If you wanna get Jet on every mission you must first study the anicent urban staking gurus.
– Real player with 48.9 hrs in game
“Who are you! What’s your name? Super Brothers!”
Jet Set Radio is one of those games you most likely saw a demo of at a Target or Best Buy back in the early 2000s but never really got to play because you were too cool for a Dreamcast. Luckily, this PC port exists. This game is the perfect mix of skating and graffiti with a soundtrack to match and graphics that are considerably better than those of today’s games. The added danger of being tackled by street guards, being shot at by a crazed police captain, having missiles fired from helicopters, and run over by motorcycle riding police makes it more fun
– Real player with 47.6 hrs in game
Elbub
This game may look very zen on the outside.
When you start playing you might feel like you’re inside a mysterious bubbley type world-
Then you start playing…
You realize you need to be global elite to aim to head towards the bubbles.
Or an experienced austronaut working outside the hubble/space station.
Then you realize you have to follow the ribbon to finish the game xD
Took me 10min to realize that :)
Overall good game, just hard to navigate at the 1st time i guess ;)
It has a nice soundtrack too.
– Real player with 9.3 hrs in game
This thing is weird. Really.
The first thing we see launching the game is a menu written in a fancy font related to being a bubble among skies. I don’t mind the font, but the choice of colors is terrible and it looks really bad.
The game itself is playing with gravity by attracting yourself to nearby bubbles in a weird world. There is only sky, a very weird blob-like construction, some strings that we should follow, bubbles of course. And nothing more. It’s psychodelic. Even more when we hit something. And even even more when we click right mouse button by accident.
– Real player with 4.0 hrs in game
Super Goo Goo
What makes a good game? Is it the beautifully crafted characters and expansive worlds? Is it the jaw dropping graphics and a soundtrack that has you listening to it on repeat? Is it the endless possibilities that a game has to offer even after completing the story that kept you on the edge of your seat for hours? The simple answer to all these questions, is no. A game is not defined as good by what it is, but by what it represents. Games nowadays are all about what’s new and popular, and not about what a game should be about, the game. That is where Super Goo Goo shines. Super Goo Goo is one of the only modern day titles that I can truthfully say is a classic and is always about the game and experience that the player has. It has all the elements to be, not just a good game, but an amazing game. When you first load up the game you are welcomed with a perfect menu that helps you get right into the action and meet our hero, S.G. Goo. We learn about his journey for the 100 stars, and how they were stolen many moons ago, and we now must help him fulfill his destiny. You will be taken across the massive world, searching for them while solving complex puzzles, and defeating the bosses that guard them. Without a doubt, the story has to be one of the biggest emotional roller coasters I’ve been on in all my years of gaming, nothing quite compares to the experience. Without giving too much away about the story; you will laugh, you will cry, and you will be wanting more. Whether it be more puzzles to solve, more stars to collect, or another boss to slay, you will want to continue to play this game until there is absolutely nothing left for you to do.
– Real player with 2075.1 hrs in game
classic
– Real player with 3.2 hrs in game
Sonic Mania
The last good sonic game.
– Real player with 87.3 hrs in game
one of the most best games if ya wanna be taken back in time. 1000/10 would recommend.
– Real player with 37.0 hrs in game
Coloring Game: Pixel
I don’t understand why this is ANOTHER standalone game instead of an expansion. I really enjoy the relaxed nature of the color by numbers stuff, but It’s weird to me to have so many different versions of the same game in my steam library.
– Real player with 63.1 hrs in game
It is addictive. The firsts ones are easy. Afterwards, there are more and more pixels to fill (fortunately there is an option to fill large swatches at once. Then pictures get big, and you have to move the window over it.
One warning. If you make a mistake and click on a pixel that was filled with a different color, it goes blank again, and you will have to refill it
– Real player with 44.7 hrs in game
Sonic Forces
This is a game that SEGA spent a lot of time hyping up, and does it live up to their hype? Not even close.
I’ll start with the positives: the game CAN be fun and it does have a few cool stages.
Now we get into the negatives.
Control: All the characters either feel really floaty or really stiff in terms of controls, and this is mostly evident in 2D sections. Often I found myself either overshooting a jump when I jumped from quite a distance away and several instances of bad braking which would send me down to a lower path or to my death. This happened a lot with Classic Sonic and the Avatar specifically, who had 2D sections more often than Modern Sonic did.
– Real player with 42.0 hrs in game
Where do I even begin?
In short: 5.5/10, just bland game.
Please read with an open mind :)
First, the Positives:
1. Music
Sure, Fist Bump (the main theme) can get a little repetitive, but the overall music was great, most of them compliments the level they were in, and the boss battle themes are spot on. Was kinda hoping Modern Sonic’s stages music would put more emphasis on the guitars & rock genre feel, or orchestra like in Unleashed. Most of them are EDM inspired (for me anyway), I don’t enjoy them as much as previous games’ music, still great though.
– Real player with 27.4 hrs in game
True Lover’s Knot
I actually like to play VN’s from time to time, but wow this is one of the worst I have encountered in a long while. You play as Emma, a female Mac Gyver who can and needs to fix up every damn thing with her IT skills, namingly server, mobile phones, tablets,doors, or even ship engines. Because all of this tech.stuff is interchangable and breaks every five minutes, obviously.
Which brings me to the absolute stupid and infuriating match 3 mini-game. It isn’t hard at all, but so very overused that you find yourself on this mini-game screen every few minutes and you quickly feel as if the starting melody of it is mocking you. Seeing how the story is about Emma taking a cruise trip with her best friend, I didn’t expect much plot, yet even the little there is, is drab and expository. Less telling and more showing would have done wonders here.
– Real player with 4.6 hrs in game
This game has a lot of selling points that would ordinarily be a massive hit with me - Romantic story, anime-inspired characters, photo-realism, exotic/luxurious setting, etc etc. That’s why I bought the game, after all. But while my personal check marks are all on deck, the execution has completely missed the boat. I get that it’s the job of the developers to try and sell the game, but reading the description here on the store page after having played the game will make the passengers of this voyage feel like they’ve been shanghaied. Let me break down the brochure for you:
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game