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Warhammer 40k Inquisitor - Martyr is a fantastic gaming experience. I have been enjoying the many aspects of exploring the skill trees, crafting, combat styles, the story and the exploration and reputation systems. This is easily one of the best games that I have played in this style.

I could expound on the specifics, but I will simply say that this is a game that is now in my favorites list.

This is more of an early assessment, as I am only 29 hours in so far. However, Cities Skylines II is a lot of fun. Reminds me of the simpler times of Cities Skylines, before they added a lot of DLC that did not work well together.

There are more options and the options for roads and designing are smoother than the first release.

The audio is limited at the moment. I tend to stick to the classical radio currently. The limited amount of radio audio makes it repetitive quickly.

In all, Cities Skylines II is recommended. In time, I will be picking and choosing the DLC worth playing as they release come out. They will probably be hit or miss as before, which is fun for a various style of play.

GYLT is an adorable game that burdens itself with an incorrect message.

The mechanics are great, game play is fun, story is enjoyable except one vital flaw.
You cannot control other people and if you could it would only make you the bully. The game puts too much emphasis on caring about what others say and do. The message is incorrect in how to handle bullying, as you do not find resolution by policing others or relying on their validation. There will always be those who are mean or even brutal. If you cannot handle this, then the problem is fixed by looking inward. Raising a little girl, I taught her to see her own value instead of caring about what mean kids said to her. I did not give her the idea that their words had weight that should be thought on. Her bully in first grade gave up bullying her, because it had no impact. Bullies are the way they are because they themselves are broken. No need to be broken along side. As such, this is not a good message in this game, as it puts way too much emphasis that hopelessness is without someone else lifting you up. Embracing sensitivity will only make the person more fragile to those who are mean.

In all, the game is a lot of fun and cute. I recommend it as entertainment, not for its message.

House of DaVinci 3 is a step back from the prior, but still an overall enjoyable puzzle game. The game is again only mouse or touch screen required. The graphics remain the same, despite a new and Game of Thrones-esque loading cinematic. The game is not worry free, but reloading from menu helped.

The developers put a lot more time into cinematic sequences and dialogue than the prior. The time put into these things must have taken a good amount of their allotted time and budget, as the puzzles are easier and less complex than its predecessor.

As a series, I still like the first of the three games for presentation, the second for story and puzzle balance, and the third does well enough to bring closure to the series.

The issue with the story, is that the game takes itself more seriously than the player does, or at least in my case. They did well enough to present a story that was compelling, but the tasks undermine the situation and bring a comical distraction to the supposed situation at hand. I had trouble feeling the tension at being a quiet thief, when I setting off cannons and explosives to blow up a wall, while still supposedly being a sneaky thief. I lost the sense of dire consequences, when the fate of the universe rests on a machine that will comically and loudly hammer a rail and then a shaft, while the story goal is to be unnoticed. This happens a lot in the game. The story in itself is good, but the tasks and puzzles do not fit the situation, making the game become difficult to get into either. It is also off-putting that DaVinici frequently does not look directly at the protagonist while speaking to him. His gaze is slight off.

In all, House of Da Vinci 3 is worth while to play and enjoy as a puzzle game, and enjoy the story as an additional. Together, they seem to clash. The Room and Myst series games still remain a better blend of both worlds.

Better than first, The House of Da Vinci II is relaxing and enjoyable. The game is a mouse exclusive or touch screen if you have that set up. I took my time and still beat the game in less than 10 hours. I did find a couple of bugs, but going to the main menu and back in the game worked in clearing them up.

The story is interesting and well done. The voice acting is decent as well. The puzzles were far more logical and interesting the the first, but nothing was truly taxing. This made for the experience to be both enjoyable relaxing.

In short, The House of Da Vinci II is a fun game and recommended. More so for those that enjoy puzzle games.

Starfield is recommended but with caveats. The main story is based on the concept of nihilism. If you 'live your best life' hurting other and reaping rewards, another universe balances that out with good. If you choose sacrifice, then another universe does the best life options. It all balances out. In this, the game is empty and void of anything meaningful, as nihilism is the concept that it doesn't really matter anyways.

The worst part of the game is the main story and main companions. They are a team of narcissists that operate based on feelings in the guise of science and exploration. Companions go from being aggressively attempting to romance your character to aggressively judging your character based on your actions and their feelings. This contradicts the main story, but the companions constantly contradict themselves with their dislike and like patterns and their own behavior.

The game play is relatively trouble free, but overall the mechanics and game play is simplistic. The combat is fun. The space craft is also enjoyable but buggy and relatively limited. The outposts are very buggy and inconsistent, requiring workarounds often. Owning a home in the game is possible, and I have many homes in my first play through. Homes are worthless, however, and are more of a trophy than anything meaningful or useful. Decorations through the build menu are the only ones that last, but items put in decorations and decorating outside of the build options is hit or miss if they go missing or fall through the game world or on the floor.

The best part of the game comes in side quests and ship combat. I especially liked the Crimson Fleet/SysDef quest, the only real epic space battle in the game. Nothing even came close. There are a couple of other decent quest chains, but equally several that are abysmal. In all, it is hit or miss, but with something for everyone. There is even a lawyer/court drama that the character can play out, if you like that kind of thing.

The dialogue is often suggesting of modern day politics, but that is unavoidable in today's environment. It is easily ignored or skipped if the dialogue is too annoying. There are some very preachy quests, however, that will appeal to some and be revolting to others. There is a significant representation to 'diversity' of sexual behavior. This seems to have been a priority to the developers.

In short, the game will truly hold its value with mods and possibly DLC. In itself, I almost refunded the game initially, but am glad that I did not. There is a good framework, though tedious through the old school design of loading and outdated menu designs. There is also a massive lack of features that were in prior Bethesda games, which will probably be modded and/or brought in via DLC. Time will tell. I recommend the game, but do not expect a work of art. This is a framework of something that can be much better and I expect will be.

Remember Me is an average game. The voice acting is mostly great. The graphics are good. The combat is decent. The story and level design are awful. Much of the story is a contradiction of itself with countless plot holes and a failing attempt to be artistic.

The combat is enjoyable though repetitive. You can build your own combat combinations for attacks, but they end up just being the same thing. Often times, the combinations will fail as it tries to launch into a different combination, making combat situations needlessly complicated. Seems that the idea was never fleshed out.

The graphics hold well to the age, but the repeating imagery and assets cause the art to be lost into a sea of similar views and level designs.

The voice acting was mostly great. There is a point where the acting falls off and feels like it was changed last minute and did not flow with what came prior.

The story is where the game completely fails. There is a complete lack of consistency. I did like the first four chapters of the game, but it fell off a cliff in the fifth and never recovered. By the ending, the ninth chapter. the entire story was a cringe fest, filled with bad man tropes and bad dad cliches. There is a complete lack of self-awareness in the game, which leads me to believe that writers of the game had a sheltered life that failed to relate to real troubles. The premise of the story came down to one memory/moment which was completely askew to the resulting actions. This, which happened in the fifth chapter, caused the game to become meaningless and petty. The moral compass of the writers is void as well. Their idea of right and wrong is based on feelings from a set perspective, regardless of how that impacted others. This came off very poor in judgement and even worse when putting that into visual representation.

In short, I do not recommend this game. Remember Me is a story driven and focused game, which is the weakest and poorest aspect of the game. The author of the story has a questionable moral compass, if any morals at all.

First of the series, The House of Da Vinci is mostly simple puzzles that take no thought. They are time consuming but medial.

Many times in the game, I found myself bored. I stayed interested enough in seeing how things play out. The story is not as in depth as The Room, nor are the puzzles, but being the first of three so far, I am interested in seeing if complexity improves in the following. Several times, I just started doing something else while playing and leave the game paused while I checked my YouTube channel or walked my pupper.

In short, I recommend the game if you enjoy puzzles. Just do not expect anything difficult or engaging.

Unforeseen Incidents is a casual fun game that is mostly point and click with the mouse. The voice acting was decent. What is particularly interesting is the story. There is a strong connection with what happened in the past few years and the game's story.

In short, a relatively funny and enjoyable short game. The game does sit heavy with what has recently happened, however.

Metro Exodus is a well made stealth and survival, apocalypse game based in Asia. I like to refer to it as a Fallout lite with a better story. The open world is more linear and not as in depth, but story and voice acting is phenomenally better.

Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition provides a fantastic improvement on what was already a beautiful game. The graphics are not next generation. However, they hold up very well and present a beautiful game that disguises its age well.

The audio is a bit of a mess. Despite having fantastic audio and excellent voice acting, the Enhanced Edition did not do anything to upgrade the audio. As such, many of the new drivers and format delivery can cause the game to crash. As such, you may find that your headsets, newer surround sound systems and sound bars could crash the game. This has been the only issue that I have run into. I turned off the spatial option, played the audio through an older driver and it stopped the crashing. I have had zero issues since.

Metro Exodus was already a highly recommended game, in my opinion. The Enhanced Edition releases a beautiful enhancement to the game, making the experience fantastic on my 84" television. This game is recommended for those that enjoy apocalyptic story lines, or even a good story game. You do not have to do the open world aspects, but I find them enjoyable as well.

In short, Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition is recommend as a fun gaming experience that holds up very well to today's games. Fallout-lite with a better story and more compelling linear experience.