Recent reviews by Dogsalad Salad

what a piece of crap

Echo is a medium length, beautifuly high-quality, well polished experience. No game is without its flaws, however.

Gameplay: the enemies you face learn from your actions. What you do, they will also do. However, if you DONT do something they also wont do that thing. It is a very cool strategic element that the player can quickly pick up on. Its intuitive and its done VERY well. This is one of the best parts of the game, and it needs to be because its about 50% of it. The player can choose the difficulty that they want not only by selecing normal or hard from the menu, but by playing slowly and stealthily (easy) or go in sprinting with guns blazing (hard) as the enemies will do the same. Towards the end of the game (about 75% completed) it starts to feel a little stale, but are quickily changed up with a spike in difficulty in mechanics. The pacing and timing of it is well executed.

Graphics: ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ gorgeous. Few games look this good all the time at this price point. The enviroments take lighting very well and the animations are all very well done. (dead bodies ragdoll a little bit which looks kindof bad but its forgivable.) I do have one gripe however….. The players face doesnt look good. I dont mean to say that she isnt attractive but she looks like a video game character stuck in the uncanny valley. The face seems to look better in some of the trailers than she does in the game, which i hope was unintentional. Other than that, its 110% gorgeous all the time.

Sound is stellar at all times. Subtle and fitting. Theres little to say beside that its just very good.

Characters and story are well fleshed out. They are revealed through passive dialogue as you travel through the palace. The dialogue between the characters keeps the mystery lingering about for the full experience. Dialogue slows down towards the end which i found disappointing but it worked just fine.

Tldr: I really love this game. 25 bucks for a truly unique and well polished experience is worth it. Get it, youll like it.

whats vanquish like?


youll play through it once and never again probably, and a hard mode isnt even available till you beat it once, so if you think its too easy as i did you wont be able to up the ante

its semi entertaining but wont blow your mind by any means

its a little like warframe, but not as entertaining. the story is literally as if a japanese company said "lets make a halo ripoff" and did that, but ended up with a semi decent game.

i wouldnt reccomend it, its a one-and-done type of game

and when i say its like a halo ripoff it seriously is, its got scarabs and banshees and warthogs etc, even a bunch of the weapons are the same

except the main character isnt as cool as chief and the "cortana" isnt as cool either

and the enemy protagonist is pretty lame

so yeah, overall not the greatest game ever made. not horrible, but nowadays its not worth buying while there are so many other great games out there that blow vanquish out of the water at the same price.

If i could give bannerman a neutral review, i would be tempted. Warning: i can be overly critical.

Bannerman is a very decent game, if you understand that it was made by 1 person.

the art is very good, and the combat was very obviously inspired by historical techniques. In that sense, the animations are very good and accurate. (though its much easier to hold a sword while running by its guard than setting it on your shoulder, as the character does.)

the music is fantastic! and then..... its horrible. There were two areas in the game that had a horrible flute playing COMPLETELY out of tune. Its bad, seriously. I dont know what they were thinking but it sounds like they just got some bloke off the streets to just mess around with a recorder for a few minutes and called it a day. Other than those two parts, the music is seriously great. I might even get the soundtrack and just delete the songs with flute parts.

combat is the core gameplay. its good but has its issues. the dodge seems somewhat unresponsive. sometimes youll see an attack coming, use the dodge or block key and still get hit because the animations are too slow/you didnt react preemtively enough. Seeing an attack coming and reacting isnt enough, and i found it a little irritating.

The art is very good. the story is simple and easily understood. Combat is passable. NPC characters are fairly well defined, considering the shortness of the game.

my last gripe (and its a minor one) is that the character has an uneven gait while running.
clu-clomp, clu-clomp. Noone runs like that. Its more like skipping than running. its wierd and a constant annoyance for me, but i imagine most people dont even notice.


Overall, bannerman is pretty cool. Id say get it, because if this one person can make a game this high quality then they can certainly make their next game better with more support.

While initially dissapointing, no mans sky has come a LONG way and its 100% worth checking out!

a bit short, but a great experience. This game sets the bar for VR rpgs.

If you have a roomscale VR set, you need to play this. its a great "first game" for VR.

Honestly its a bit bland even with all the modding drama aside

LAME SPOILER:

the ending is seriously disappointing. a bomb goes off and when the cutscene ends you return to the last checkpoint you were at before the bomb exploded (there is another nearly identical ending)

this game is probably good for about 5 hours of play but after that it just ends. youll run out of things to do and there is no NG+ or anything like that. just boom, game over.

it looks nice and its fun, and i would recommend it if you can get it on sale but with such a huge letdown after all the lore included in this game, it ends up feeling incomplete. its "okay" and a quick time waster.

if you end up passing on game one you wont be missing much. However, its still a solid little game.

pretty good, though its a strictly "very hard" game. dark souls-style difficulty but cranked way the ♥♥♥♥ up.

and ♥♥♥♥ the last boss

The combat is much deeper than it looks like on the surface. The community is great and thriving.

The game centers around playing the same 20 or so maps, but they are diverse enough to remain interesting for a very long time.

Vermintide is the classic easy to learn, hard to master. Absolutely worth your time. bring a friend!