LEFT ALIVE™
OK so why would i recommend this well, although left alive is full of issues and by no means is a good game is worth trying.
so lets start by stating what may be obvious to anyone reading the extensive, extensive….extensive amount of negative reviews.
As a stealth survivor game it is quite terrible, the lack of options for stealth kills shows it makes it impossible to complete even one part of a mission without being detected.
It also suffers from having a very limited selection of weapons. don’t expect to be surprise. The AI is terrible as well.
– Real player with 36.4 hrs in game
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tl;dr Front Mission’s final nail in the coffin. Less so Front Mission, and more so a downgrade of MGSV/MGSurive to PS2 bootleg standards.
The game has barely any Front Mission identity. Sure you get various countries and other terms dropped here and there but outside of that this game is a MGS ripoff, trying as hard as possible to rip off various stealth concepts and survival-crafting concepts from MGSV and MGSurvive. The game’s story too tries hard to lecture you about war in some attempt to be MGS.
– Real player with 12.7 hrs in game
Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot
Half-Cooked for Wolfenstein and VR Fans Alike
I think I had realistic expectations for Cyberpilot. I could tell from the lack of coverage this was one of those obligatory VR spinoffs just so a franchise has some representation in the VR marketplace. It wasn’t going to be anything great but I love VR and I love Wolfenstein so I figured there’d be enough novelty to satisfy me. I was expecting something similar to Batman: Arkham VR, where there’s a very short adventure simulating some (but not many) of the franchises iconic moments in VR and then you get some virtual toys to play around with.
– Real player with 8.1 hrs in game
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Experienced on the Oculus Rift with Touch Controllers
You can view my review & gameplay here: https://youtu.be/zkCcELQwB90
I bought this game from a 3rd party website for 12% off the normal price of $19.99 USD. Whole game took me 3 hours to complete. I spent at least 30 of those minutes just getting around the bugs that I encountered during my gameplay.
Overall, I would say the game is rather mediocre. There’s nothing that really stands out about the title or the VR implementation. It’s rather surprising this effort comes from a Triple A publisher like Bethesda. I would rather they had spent the money they wasted on this project have gone into converting some of their older titles into VR. It would have been a much better investment for Zenimax.
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
Muv-Luv Alternative (マブラヴ オルタネイティヴ)
It is really worth its #1 VN in VNDB, it was worht the time i spent playing the 3 games. Muv Luv Extra, Unilimited and at the end this one, i might be one of those who really liked extra a lot and was meaningfull for me, so people who wants to play it and looking at this review for a chance, give a try and just stick with it, feel it and enjoy it, dont play it like challenging you to finish it asap, just enjoy the game and you will feel like living like Takeru in their world and understand and suffer all the things he had to endure with, and avoid spoilers, it might be obvious and for some people it normally doesnt kill the thing, but believe it kills like 60% of the feelings if you know what is going to happen, and when you finish the game you can go check all the awesome info about Muv Luv you can find, it is worth it and very interesting
– Real player with 116.8 hrs in game
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It’s good, but I don’t recommend it.
Overall - one of the best and worst VNs I’ve read. World presentation and history itself were superb. Although scenario had huge dips where I struggled not to skip dialogs about “resolve”, long- and short-term goals, unconvincing drama etc. The same stuff was talked about over and over again. Also, for the game this long there is not enough music tracks, so they are overused. Apart from that - great presentation, action scenes (not typical for VNs) and EPIC story. There are not many FMVs but there are moments where reading it feels like watching big budget sci-fi movie.
– Real player with 114.3 hrs in game
Muv-Luv photonmelodies♮
Pros:
-They got rid of some minigames in Altered Fable that were mandatory for progression and extremely difficult
-The translation job is fairly competent, albeit I think they took some creative liberties at times.
-It’s a nice bundle of stories from the Muv-Luv-verse
Cons: There’s a decent chunk of cut content from Altered Fable (namely H-scenes) that fans all agreed they wanted to keep included, but were lied to
Some of the aforementioned creative liberties in translation are…off-putting at times.
– Real player with 83.8 hrs in game
Note: This is not a classic game. It’s like an anime with subtitles, but most of the time, the images don’t move, meaning there are only slight animations. You should be prepared to read a lot and also should have already read Muv-Luv (+ hidden Unlimited) and Alternative first - otherwise you will miss out on a lot of plot and details. Even though they are set in a different universe, as you should know by know, there are a lot of similarities.
This game is the 2nd fandisc of Muv-Luv and features 3 BIG stories.
– Real player with 63.4 hrs in game
Shogo: Mobile Armor Division
Shogo Mobile Armor Division is a first person shooter created by Monolith and was the very first game to use the Lithtech engine. It’s a rather unique game stylistically and in terms of concept. You play as a pilot named Sanjuro who both controls a mech suit and fights on foot in a war against other mechs.
Shogo is heavily inspired by Japanese anime. To the point where I think it harms the game overall. The game looks very ugly visually and you can especially see it with the characters, who all look overly cartoony and somewhat disturbing. The story is also rather confusing and convoluted. It’s not helped by how all of the characters come off as overly obnoxious, especially the main character. I understand it’s to fit the style of the game but it feels really cringey while playing. However the soundtrack is fairly decent and does match the style of the levels pretty well.
– Real player with 10.8 hrs in game
Awesome game, but very difficult to make it run on modern systems. You have to fix no mouse recognision, missing soundtrack, windowed mode, often crashes and abysmal performance.
You can increase fps a lot by disabling crosshair, look at Steam guides for other fixes.
Anyways the game itself is truly awesome, fun combat, pretty good level design that still hasn’t dated too bad, nice weapon variety and multiple choices you can make that may lead to different levels. Combat is heavily unbalanced, but not broken.
– Real player with 9.7 hrs in game
Wrath of Anna
The only reason I have 7.3 hours of Wrath of Anna logged (woefully making it impossible to try to get a refund..) is that I left the game alt-tabbed after it failed to boot up an online match (but seemed to freeze and never loaded the main menu again) and I left to go do something else, forgetting about it.
Look closely at the footage in this game’s trailer. No interaction is shown with any enemy, object, or NPCs, instead the player character is mindlessly meandering through the environments, occassionally ducking and staring at something in the distance. You will get all of this and nothing more if you choose to spend your money on Wrath of Anna. Wrath of Anna is perhaps best summarized by one of the screenshots the dev has selected in the preview images, a stairway to nowhere, shrouded in fog. This game has a cool setting but is completely devoid of anything of substance.
– Real player with 7.3 hrs in game
I was given this game for free very early on in its development. Every once in a while I will reinstall it to see what is going on with it, and so far it seems like the DEV can’t quite make up their mind on what they want this game to be. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, since it might show their willingness to move away from their initial plans for this game.
When I first tried this game it was very rough. It seemed to mainly be an early attempt at a large scale PVP game similiar to CSGO. However, the game was extremely rough and I was never able to actually play with anyone. You had to manually input IP addresses, so no… there was also mentions of a single player story mode. Initially this game page had screenshots of mechs and something that looked like a giant sandworm. Those screenshots have now been replaced with screenshots of what look like the beginning of an attempt to make another survival game.
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
BLAST-AXIS
Edit: Added some gameplay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMYDIrcV0D0
As a big fan of 6DOF games i had to give this game a try.
So i played the free demo 20 minutes then instantly bought the game !
Really good gameplay, tight controls and great sense of speed.
The level design is quite good too with nice music and great atmosphere within the levels.
BLAST-AXIS also deliver many satisfying weapons to use and also give you the choice to play in first person or third person (worth mentioning as it’s not always the case in many other games).
– Real player with 11.6 hrs in game
In this game you play as a cute little maintenance robot fighting blobby blue aliens who have invaded phobos for some irrelevant reason. It isn’t the most polished 6DOF (descent-like) shooter, but it probably is the most unique and original, and it might just be the most fun. The game’s main strengths are solid level design and a diverse and fun arsenal.
There are six weapons in the game but thanks to ammo types and alt-fire modes these unfold into… a lot of weapons, I can’t do the math. For example, the “tube” mortar launcher has three ammo types: flame rounds, grenades, and flak shells. Drilling down further, the flak shells can either be fired in “burst” mode, acting like a shrapnel shotgun, or in “fuze” mode, which fires a single projectile that explodes with AOE damage when it hits a wall or enemy. There’s a tool for every job, and each weapon is a good mix of quirky and powerful which gives them a real sense of personality. They’re your friends and you come to love them as you spend time hanging out. The cluster missiles in particular are an absolute joy.
– Real player with 9.4 hrs in game
Mecha Knights: Nightmare
As someone who loves the mecha genre, I was excited for Mecha Knights: Nightmare’s release, and I was not disappointed. There is a lot of customization within the game, allowing for many different builds - though explosives are the current meta. The randomized drops foster experimentation with new equipment and weapons, often leading to discoveries you would not have found by relying on stats alone. The many types of weapons having a distinct feel and varying use making your choices feel like they actually matter, which is something often lacking in games, where every weapon has a very similar feel.
– Real player with 82.7 hrs in game
tl;dr: I really like this game. For $15 it isn’t bad at all.
I have some issues with it, related almost entirely to the story, not the game itself. I’ll grade it in a normal SPAG (Story, Performance, Aesthetics, Gameplay) method. It will be mostly my thoughts on the story element (IMO) issues, though.
=== Story ===
So the story in this game is bad, but in a manner that is so inoffensive I cannot tell if it wants to set itself up in the next game as being satire or serious. I’m assuming there will be a next game, if only to introduce swords and such.
– Real player with 21.5 hrs in game
Baldr Sky
I’m not really sure what to say about the experience that is Baldr Sky. There is so very much I could get into, but saying anything too specific feels like reviewing Muv-Luv Alternative as if it was a stand alone work.
While being nothing alike in ways, Baldr Sky does check a lot of the same boxes and as it is much lesser known, I’ll just mention those similarities first.
-It is very creative, well thought out and complex.
-It is very sci-fi centric and technical without being dry.
-It is an incredibly engaging, edge-of-your-seat read.
– Real player with 275.7 hrs in game
Baldr Sky is one of the best recent VNs and JRPGs to have been localised to the West, delivering an entertaining story, memorable characters, and robust action RPG combat.
It’s set in a cyberpunk vision of urban Japan in the aftermath of a tragedy called Gray Christmas, which left an entire city in ruins. Local and federal governments, a private corporation, a research team and a religious cult are implicated in the event, with each party blaming the others. The survivors who comprise the bulk of the main cast include alumni of an esteemed school, who believe they had been witness to suspicious events prior to the disaster during their school days.
– Real player with 196.1 hrs in game
Muv-Luv photonflowers*
Note: This is not a classic game. It’s like an anime with subtitles, but most of the time, the images don’t move, meaning there are only slight animations. You should be prepared to read a lot and also should have already read Muv-Luv (+ hidden Unlimited) and Alternative first - otherwise you will miss out on a lot of plot and details. Even though they are set in a different universe, as you should know by know, there are a lot of similarities.
This game was a pretty mixed experience in my opinion but still a good read overall. It’s divided into 2 parts.
– Real player with 62.7 hrs in game
A CHERRY WITH SOME WONDERFUL FRUITS
PREMISE : this collection of stories contains a total of 12 tails, 7 of which set in “Muv-Luv Extra” universe; the others are set in “Alternative” world. I’ll make a short review of eveyone of them, starting with the 7 of “Extra” and finishing with the 5 of “Alternative”.
- BEFORE THE CHERRY BLOSSOMS BLOOM : a 3-4 hours long story of Takeru & Sumika reationship after they became engaged. Reading this one, you will start to hate Sumika for her stupid childishness (not that she ever was so mature in “Extra” time frame). But at the climax of the story, you’ll probabibly reconsider & change your mind about her.
– Real player with 26.4 hrs in game