Recent reviews by Crafty Kobold

Outer Wilds is one of my favourite games of all time, one that needs to be experienced with as little information as possible and as such the less I explain about the game the better.

The game is all about exploring a hand crafted solar system filled with unique locales and mysteries to unravel. The gameplay is exploration at it's finest along with some puzzle solving.

Now hurry up and play it without spoiling yourself.

The Wonderful 101 is probably one of my favourite games, and for it to receive new life outside of the Wii U fills me with joy. While the game takes a bit of effort on the part of the player to learn the mechanics and how to play well if you put the work in you're rewarded with an action game that's a mix of Bayonetta, Okami and Pikmin and filled with soul.

Some intersting things going on, but I was forced into matches against bots that were so dull and one sided that I lost interest after a few games, before whatever the point is i'm allow to actually play against other players.

Don't make me play boring stomps against bots before I can play the actual game.

Bad Dialogue, Bad Story, Bad Character Progression, Overall terrible RPG. Might be able to okay it if you treat it as an open world shooter with some RPG elements, but it's hard to enjoy it if you at all cared for the Fallout series and/or the RPG genre as a whole.

Was hoping mods could salvage the game for me, but the modding community is dissapoingly weak compared to Bethesda's other games.

Update: Paid mods are now a thing and they are as ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ awful as they were the first time they tried.

The last game I loved this much was Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective.

Great little Indie sort-of-RPG with lovable characters, neat gameplay and some genius attention to detail (Toby thinks of everything)

Plus some other stuff that I don't want to really go into detail due to fear of spoiling the experience, the store page and trailer should say enough really.

Play it.

More enemies, more items, more content in general and an engine that isn't bloody Flash. Better than the original Binding of Isaac in pretty much every way. My main bugbears with the game are subjective ones: The pixelly aesthetic (I much prefer the original style and the filter option looks even worse) and the soundtrack (It's not the excellent Danny B soundtrack)

Fun game in the vein of the Batman Arkham hames with a bit of Assassin's Creed. suffers from being too easy, even more so when you start getting upgrades, and an interesting story (i've yet to bother finishing the game because of it) but the core gameplay coupled with the Nemesis system that generates a sort of emergent storytelling experience from the orcs you kill and are killed by. If only they could kill you without you just letting them.

Fun if simple from modernisation turn based strategy, Improved by Enemy Within Expansion and there's also the excellent (and in Beta) Long War mod for EW that overhauls the game to make it longer and harder

One of the most boring, overhyped shooters I have ever had the misfortune of buying and playing. The entire game is just style over substance (substance of any value that is) and is only worth it if you have similar values or rather low standards for First Person Shooters.

The best Devil May Cry game available for PC, partly due to the fact that DMC 3 is a terrible port and the PC version of DMC 4 runs great and has some extra ♥♥♥♥, though the game really should be played with a gamepad.

The core combat is probably the best of all the DMCs, essentially being DMC 3's combat but with a few additions, the biggest easily being on the fly style switching for Dante, allowing you to switch between the different movesets with the D-pad.

However the gameplay is hampered by numerous things. The first being that for just over half the game you play as the new protaganist Nero who is incredibly watered down in comparison to Dante, having only a single sword and gun, no styles and being easier to perform certain actions. Something unique to Nero is his demon hand, the Devil Buster, which allows him to grab enemies towards him or grab himself towards them, as well as a few special moves. Overall while not terrible he's a lot less fun to play as than Dante.

Dante suffers from playing second fiddle to Nero over all, when you do get to play him you are just cutting your way back through the levels you went through as Nero and fighting the same bosses, only backwards. Including the default weapons, Dante also only has access to three Devil Arms and Guns each, about half of the previous game's weapon selection.

The story is meh. Nothing special, nothing terrible. Doesn't ruin the game and I think if you're playing a DMC game for Shakespear you're playing it for the wrong reasons. I don't really have much more to say on that.

Probably missed out on some things, migh edit this later. Overall good, and as I said in the opening it's the best DMC game available for PC, it just has some rather large pitfalls that stop it from being the best DMC full stop.