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35.4 hrs on record (34.6 hrs at review time)
Balatro for the game of the year go brrrrrrrrr

Edit: You already know why I edited this review.
Posted 19 November, 2024. Last edited 27 November, 2024.
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3 people found this review helpful
23.9 hrs on record (22.1 hrs at review time)
Tekken 8 handles the story mode pretty well and actually brings back childhood memories, and it's 100 times more enjoyable than Tekken 7's story (if you could call that a story). However, Bandai Namco's handling of the customization and the season pass literally destroyed the game.

Tekken 7 customization options were rich and felt amazing for a very long time because its competitor Street Fighter was basically non-existent. Right now, Street Fighter is actually pretty good and Bandai Namco can't get away with selling you nostalgic characters or goofy customization options.

If you're a casual, you would get more value and enjoyment from Street Fighter. If you're a long of the Tekken series, just watch the ending of the story mode on YouTube.

I'm aware this is such a harsh review, but Bandai Namco shouldn't be allowed to dominate the market with the BS they're opposing us anymore.
Posted 7 October, 2024.
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2 people found this review helpful
1 person found this review funny
15.7 hrs on record
If you are into 90's horror movies with horrible acting and a horrendous script, you are gonna like this "game".

I have to congratulate how they manage to make dogsh•t characters say the dumbest lines in tense situations. A guy gets his hand cut off and 5 seconds later he's back to deliver jokes even 5-year-olds won't laugh. I felt like this "game" could give those Japanese English dubbed games a run for their money with how awful the delivery of the lines was.

There's an alien-looking girl whose face won't move when speaking, and there's a black gay dude who listens to podcasts about horror stories and his voice sounds like he ate Arnold Schwarzenegger. There's an influencer/streamer attention wh•re which is the only positive thing about the game since you have the chance to kill her off early.

The only character who's speaking like a human being is Kaitlyn and maybe the alien-looking girl Laura who somehow looks and speaks better later in the game.

You have to play the game multiple times to see all the outcomes however, YOU CAN NOT SKIP THE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ CUTSCENES!!!! (Even the credits)

The game ends out of nowhere and doesn't offer any closure to all the drama. $60 is a steal for this game.

Go watch an old 3/10 horror movie instead. At least that will make you laugh.

Side note, rot in hell, Emma.
Posted 19 July, 2024.
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2 people found this review helpful
290.5 hrs on record (86.7 hrs at review time)
I'm not an FPS enthusiast, and although I tend to try and play them all, I never play them for more than 100 hours. The main reason is split between scummy monetization and poor gameplay loops/events.

This game might be the only free-to-play FPS game that doesn't have scummy monetization. Everything offered is not slapped in your face once you boot up the game, and the store has some impressive stuff. With that said, the battle pass has a design choice where each row (i.e. 1-10 / 11-20) consists of different themes and similar items dedicated to their row.

As for the devs of the game, as far as I've seen, they quickly make an impression on you that they are the exact opposites of EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard, etc. They improved the game since its beta, and now, in its current state, Season 3 of the Finals is probably the best version. They really do listen to player feedback. I don't recommend listening to what streamers and YouTubers are saying about the game, as they are complaining about the game's new ranked system and trying to overshadow how impressive and promising the game's overall direction is.

For the casual player experience, The Finals is enjoyable with your friends and solo. However, I have to say the lack of communication from the players hurts the experience of the game a lot, as people tend to not speak at all. The weapons are great with some being more significant and overpowered than others. These things are inevitable in an online shooter game, but the game never feels like it's unfair.

Overall, The Finals is a great game for competitive and casual audiences. It just needs a few more game modes and maps.
Posted 19 June, 2024.
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1 person found this review funny
14.7 hrs on record (0.1 hrs at review time)
For a better gameplay experience, be sure to play this game at Hideo Kojima's house while having a blindfold on and never, NEVER leave your controller plugged in for your little brother to take over.

The first Dunkey approved game. History has been made.
Posted 9 May, 2024.
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20.1 hrs on record
The game is filled with game-breaking bugs. And when I say game-breaking, I truly mean it. There is a main story mission pretty later on in the game (involving some cult if you're interested in searching for yourself), which I couldn't progress. The game thinks you're inside of an area (which you're supposed to), but the animation never plays out, leaving you in the open world that you can't do anything about. If you try to reload a checkpoint, the game sends you back to bum♥♥♥♥ nowhere and you gotta go to that bugged spot to try and fail again.

- Half of the main missions are truly broken and not optimized.
- The side missions are always too far and the game makes you wanna gouge your eyes out when driving.
- There is of course no fast travel, so you have to withstand horrible driving + horrible open-world design choices like putting tons of unbreakable objects (such as street lights, mailboxes, lamposts, telephones)
- The open-world side activities are way too repetitive to be enjoyable
- The aiming is horrible
- Mushy and blurry environments. Turning motion blur off is like trying to deflect a bullet with a fork.

The only positives I could think of are the tracks on the radio, voice acting (which is amazing) and the documentary style story-telling.

Overall, I felt like they wanted to put every single idea and mechanic into this game to make it enjoyable but never realised it would be their downfall to not choose simplicity over complexity. I couldn't even finish the game, so there's no way I could recommend it.
Posted 22 November, 2023.
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11.0 hrs on record
After getting surprised by how amazing they managed to make the first game, 2K surely reminded me how lazy they are with this one. Not only it's barely a "remaster" but it's a massive downgrade from the original game too.

Checkpoints are horrible, models disappear or turn into a zombie in some cutscenes, the dialogue sometimes overlaps and characters repeat the same lines over and over, police are way too forgiving to the point where I had no issues whatsoever which is bad, on hard mode the enemies can shoot you through walls and they just randomly one-shot you, there are parts that I'm sure they have never playtested...

But the worst of all, the optimization is horrendous. I have a 4070 and I couldn't believe my eyes when my FPS went down to 20 just out of nowhere. This happens in some shooting parts where there are lots of enemies and they keep throwing molotovs. None of these issues were in the original game.

All they ever did was just some fancy lighting around the city and window dressing to make it look like they added a few things.

Mafia II is one of the greatest games ever made, Mafia II: Definitive Edition is one of the worst remasters ever made. Do yourself a favour and play the original. Don't bother with this one.
Posted 17 November, 2023.
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13.4 hrs on record
There are games which are called remakes, remasters, reboots, reworks, this edition, that edition AND there's this game. 2K made a completely new game and I'm honestly surprised how they pulled this off. The original game (even though it looked impressive for its era) looks like something you would order from Wish compared to this game.

The game is very faithful to its original with a few additions to help you discover sub-plots or some scenes that felt underwhelming. The voice lines are completely new, the motion capture quality is insane (not uncharted 4 level but it's still damn good), there are new locations to discover, new secrets to find... pretty much every single thing is brand new except the story. I was not a strong fan of the original game, always liked the second game more but with this new game, I feel like now I can embrace it with all its glory.

The optimization is all over the place, it's a bit dicey whether you'll have a problem or not but if you stick around for a couple of hours, the game can easily compensate for the annoying issues. If you have a 144hz monitor with an Nvidia GPU, what you need to do is >
Open the Nvidia Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings > Program Settings > Either add manually or select the game from the menu > Change preferred refresh rate to highest available. This will allow you to play the game (or rather allow you to) fullscreen 144hz. Otherwise, it sends you back to the desktop unless you Alt+Enter and open windowed mode.

And finally, the car race part is still extremely annoying if you don't change the driving settings to regular from simulation. You might lose a couple of hours getting frustrated for nothing. All in all, though, I strongly recommend not sleeping on this game.
Posted 15 November, 2023.
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19 people found this review helpful
24.6 hrs on record
It's simple, fun & addictive. It gets repetitive quickly, but if you're one of those that don't mind wasting time, I do recommend it.

Don't do what I did and play the game for 25 hours, expecting something to happen eventually. The late game doesn't offer anything exciting. It just helps you grind faster
Posted 4 November, 2023.
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65 people found this review helpful
170.8 hrs on record (169.8 hrs at review time)
*This review is 100% spoiler-free*

Starfield fails to deliver the immersion Bethesda was strongly confident about. The exploration is the most significant part of Starfield, but when it's combined with back-to-back loading screens, running on empty fields to an area where you'll memorize every single layout after 30-40 hours of playing, that's when the immersion starts to have no effect, and you feel like you're in a sandbox, clearing out the area you encountered 60-70 hours ago.

Unfortunately, Starfield becomes tedious after playing for around 30 hours, and that's not even the worst part. The game doesn't even "start" before you play for about 30 hours. The tedious part is mainly because of the NPC vendors who can't stop telling you their life stories. Compared with the main story conversations in which the characters explain the stuff to you plain and briefly, talking to a random NPC, quest giver, or vendor almost feels like a punishment for exploration and curiosity.

Aside from all of this, the game has way too many technical problems that are begging to be solved by modders. Bethesda yet again left their game's fate to the hands of the modders. I have never seen a game this desperate for mods. I doubt anyone can play the game unmodded with a Nvidia graphics card if they want to achieve a stable 60+ fps experience.

I tried to do the game justice by completing each faction's quests, almost all side quests around the major cities, and so many other random encounters & activities, but after playing the game for 170 hours, none except the faction quests felt like they were worth my time.

That brings me to my final point... the ending. I wasn't expecting Bethesda to deliver a well-written narrative story, though, after seeing so many people talking about how unique the NG+ is, I was expecting the game to end on a high note or at least deliver a sense of accomplishment for all I've done during my playthrough, but it was a huge letdown.

I regret taking the time to bond with my companions, talking with every NPC, flying & running around scanning the planets, and lockpicking every door or chest I encountered. Overall, I regret completing the main story. I can't believe I'm saying this, but IGN was right about the 7/10.

Give it 1 or 2 years, and Starfield will be completely different, thanks to modders. Though, I doubt if they can fix the annoying loading screens.
Posted 22 September, 2023.
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