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The game itself is actually really fun and enjoyable, however when the servers are having issues and you're doing a TIMED PARKOUR PUZZLE and the characters keep rubberbanding and not jumping and getting stuck on the terrain it's awful.

When the servers are good it's great, when they're not it ruins everything.

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SnoobY's Review - Sleeping Dogs

In Sleeping Dogs you play as Wei Shen, an undercover cop getting himself deep into the Triads. Sleeping Dogs has a very good storyline and is also has very exciting gameplay. You start on the bottom and you work your way up to the top in the Triads. People will not trust you in the beginning but as you do more they start to trust you.

Sleeping Dogs is an open world game, meaning you can go around the world and do what you wish. You can do the main missions, side missions, find all the collectibles and more.

The side missions include a lot of things, for example you can go on dates, complete favors and race. There are collectibles in the form of Lockboxes. You can find and open these lockboxes to get unique clothes, money or a gun. Guns are very rare in Hong Kong and are also not used too much in the game. You will fight most enemies using melee attacks. You can counter every attack or just straight up fight the enemy. There are various combos and moves you can unlock by doing a training at a master in fighting.

There are 2 Combo routes you can go for, one is more cop like and the other more triad like. So the cop route for example has disarming. For each combo you wish to unlock you have to first find one of the masters Jade Statues, these were stolen and you recover these collectibles.

There is much more stuff you can do in Sleeping Dogs, too much to write about. For example, Gambling, Racing, Fighting and hacking.

Sleeping Dogs also has it's own Completion System built in where you can earn Bronze, Silver and Gold Medals for doing various tasks, like disarming 10 enemies.

Sleepings Dogs also uses Steam Achievements and has multiple DLC. There are 3 DLC's which add more story and the rest are mostly going to spoil the game for you. The other DLC's will all give you free money or levels which will not make the game as fun as it should be.

To get all the Steam Achievements and complete the game 100% it will take roughly 40 hours, Sleeping Dogs is my personal GOTY for 2012.

Pros
- Good combat system.
- Good driving mechanics.
- Good storyline.
- Many features and things to do.

Cons
- Some Gold medals are really difficult to get.

SnoobY's Review - Terraria

Terraria is a fun 2D game. It contains platforming, building, fighting and many more things. In terraria you create your own world. It is completely up to you what to do with this world. You can go out exploring, finding new biomes, monsters and items. Each biome has it's own unique items.

The main purpose in Terraria is to gear up your character. You can craft armor or fight monsters to obtain rare item drops used to craft armor and weapons. In the chests you can also find "Accesoires". These accesoires can do various amounts of things. They can make you fly, hover, increase your damage, automaticly use potions, make bees fly out of you when you get hit by an enemy.

Every item in Terraria is unique in it's own way. Then ofcourse there are bosses, these bosses can be summoned by combining items to create a "Summoning" item.

There are also events which appear randomly or when an item is used to start an event. These events can spawn hordes of monsters for the entire nighttime (rougly 10 minutes).

Pros
- Terraria is exciting.
- Good combat.
- You can create what you want.
- Gearing up is fun.
- Bosses are difficult
- Hardmode

Cons
- Grinding is nessecary.

SnoobY's Review - Electronic Super Joy

Electronic Super Joy is a difficult yet rewarding Platformer. While it may be frustrating at times it becomes very rewarding when you finally get past that part or get that collectable. This game has quite a few different elements involved in the platforming. In the begining you can only jump. Then there are levels when you can do crazy stuff like flying, double jumping, sliding and ofcourse smash. All of these things combine for a really neat platformer.

The music in this game is also great, that is, if you enjoy that type of music. Electronic Super Joy is based a lot on the music so I would recommend playing it with your sound on.

At the end of each chapter there is also a boss battle. These boss battles are very difficult and each one is difficult in it's own unique way.

Pros
- Difficult yet rewarding.
- Good music.
- It looks good.
- Good use of checkpoints
- Achievements
- Challenges (0 Deaths and Collectibles).

Cons
- It can and will make you rage.
- Seizure inducing.