Recent reviews by Abek

My go-to "sit down and relax" game

Very fun game. As all from horror genre: it gets less scary the longer you play. Difficulty level is very flexible and you can customize it however you want, so even experienced players can have a challenge.

I hope they'll keep developing it

It's hard to review this game for me because at the start I liked it a lot, but the more I played the more flaws I've noticed. First of all the choices don't seem to matter that much. When I started NG+ to get all missing achievements and missed cutscenes I was choosing different dialogue options and the outcome was the same in like 9 out of 10 scenes. "Thousand routes" mentioned in "About this game" section is not what I expected it to be. There's set number of scenes assigned to each character and you get couple of them during every episode. In the middle of NG+ I've seen them all and all. It also leads to situations where you saw one character at the beginning of your trip and then you meet someone who is connected to them and you don't even have a dialogue option to mention it. Even though it should be obvious topic for the conversation.

Nevertheless I'll reccommend this game as I had fun playing it. Keep in mind though that it's a one time experience. If after reading the description of the game you are hoping for something that is replayable, then it's not the game you are looking for.

I never thought that spreading democracy could be so fun. "This bullets are ballots, I'm casting my vote"

I never thought that something as simple as this can mess with your brain. After couple of tries, I seriously started doubting myself. Great idea and fun little game.

The game is unplayable for me. It goes to the loading screen and then crashes without any error. It also messes up the resolution of Steam app along with resolution of some Windows components such as tray. Judging by comments from other I'm not alone with this. It's a joke to release something like that. I'm not going to waste time with troubleshooting of something that should work out of the box and I'm going to get my refund.

First of all let's answer one simple question. Do you like Dark Souls games?
- If yes, then you will like Elden Ring. If I've been told that it's Dark Souls 4 with open world I'd believe it. The main difference between Elden Ring and Dark Souls apart from open world is easier jumping. Now assigned to a single button.
- If no, then you need to ask yourself one more question. Why didn't you like it? Was it because boss fights were too hard? If yes you should be glad. Now you don't have to kill boss immediately to progress. Because of open world you can always go back, spend some time leveling and gearing up and come back later. No more hitting the wall. If the reason was different then you probably won't like this one either. Combat system, leveling, dialogues and mechanics are basically the same as in other Dark Souls games.

This game is really cool in it's simplicity. It kinda reminds me of idle games which I'm not a big fan of, but in here apart from upgrading your gear, you also need to move your character in order to avoid damage and get experience. There are also some nice Castlevania references (or ever rip offs) if you are a fan of games with Belmonts.

This game is great as long as you like crime thriller movies, because it's basically an interactive movie. There's not much when it comes to gameplay as it mainly consists of quick time event sequences (and you can adjust the difficulty of them as they should be a bit challenging for plot reasons).

Three things that shine the most in this title are story, choices and atmosphere. I liked the plot a lot more than in Fahrenheit which was made by the same company. If I had to find something I didn't like, it's definitely controls. I've played it on X360 gamepad and moving the character or making it face desired direction was sometimes a bit frustrating. Apart from that I had to tweak the deadzone settings for my right analog stick because otherwise I wasn't able to do some move patterns which resulted in my character being unable to even close the fridge door, but since it's fixable it's not that big of a deal.

Dark Souls clone with some original mechanics. At first I didn't like the combat as it's a bit sluggish, but I quickly got used to it. If you are souls veteran like me you shouldn't have many problems with it. Apart from the game being a bit short I had a good time playing it.

+ some new mechanics in comparison to Dark Souls
+ nice graphics

- bosses are super easy and their attacks are very predictable
- not much to do in terms of leveling as there are no stats
- a bit short