Recent reviews by IamaWizardAMA

I played it last year when it was released and the game was a mess. This week I decided to revisit this game and give us a second chance. I'm glad I did because I'm having a great time with it. I started with the multiplayer, which was a little confusing at first, but I got the hang of it after a while. After a few hours there I started that campaign and It's a great Avengers story.

The biggest issues I had were with performance and glitches. I had to do a lot of extra leg work to get it to run smoothly and I've glitched through the floor a couple I times. Still, in the end I'm having fun. It's a solid 7.5, in my opinion.

Below average game that is just a micromanagement simulator and isn’t really hard if you’ve ever been a manager at a company obsessed with micromanagement.

Skim web page
Place VPN
Move wifi
Hack networks
Move wifi
Check the balcony
Listen for the hitman
Blah blah

Yawn. If you like that sort of thing, more power to you. I get enough of it at work.

This game taught me a lot about life. How sometimes in order to go forward we must first go back. In order to got up we must first go down. Sometimes absorbing a lot of blood is your only path to the future where you may or may not get attacked by a giant cat that paws at you with disinterest. When you face intense adversity, like flippin gravity, just change the laws of physics and show ceilings what feet feel like. Can't swim? Just propel yourself with hand farts. The pro tips scattered throughout this nightmare castle are numerous and should be treated as gospel.

In the end, though, the number one lesson this game teaches is an important one: The moon sucks. Luckily, this game doesn't.

Surrender to the flow.

I, uh... what?

The Last Door is an exemplary adventure game. The story is engrossing, and the puzzles never fall into that "I have 40 items in my inventory and have no idea what to do next" trap that a lot of older adventure games do. I think there was only one time I felt the solution to the puzzle was a bit obtuse, which is a big deal for me when playing a point-and-click game. I don't want to spoil the story, so I'll only say that the further down the rabbit hole you go, the more demented things become. Where this game really shines, though, is in its atmosphere. I didn't think a game with such simple graphics could create such a rich and foreboding atmosphere, but they way they combine it with incredible sound design creates a level of dread I hadn't felt while playing an adventure game. Do yourself a favor and play this with headphones on and let the game take you on a ride.

"I wish this beach was made out of soda." - Probably a quote from this game.

SDP is the kind of silly game I would make had I the time and focus. You walk around various locations and drink soda in Microsoft Paint creations while a disembodied voice spouts so-stupid-it's-hilarious statements about their love of soda. The levels range from "Drink soda on a beach" to "Drink soda inside a human mouth." You finish each level by drinking your soda (LT brings the straw up to your mouth, RT drinks). There are bonus sodas scattered around, but I think they're just there for an achievable, though I love the "B-b-b-b-bonus soda!" soundbite.

The environments are a combination of LSD trip and a 5 yr olds' daily output in MS Paint. I'm not saying the developer fed his daughter acid or anything, but it should maybe be investigated. I'm just saying. The downfall to exploring the amazing level design is the slow movement speed. You would think a guy jacked up on sugar would move faster than a snail, but he moves about as fast as the static backgrounds. Before the feminists jump all over me for assuming the main character's gender, I'd like to mention that gender isn't specified (though you can maybe view the male disembodied voice as coming from the main character) and since the game is in first-person I have injected myself into the lead role and I am a male. There, crisis averted. So, the non-denominational fluidly gendered main character saunters around slurping up the carbonation, but they can also just fall through the textures (it's a feature) and explore the world outside the world. These areas are mostly just black fill buckets, but it's nice to get outside.

Oh, I almost forgot: There's a game hidden within the game that is the actual game where you play as a rain drop (I think?) and go through what can only be described as "Wario Ware: Nightmare Fuel Edition Pre-Order Edition Powered by MS Paint". You're thrown from situation to situation and most of the time you figure out what you need to do right as you die. When you die you turn into a rain drop ghost and go to a big room filled with.. uh... books or something. In this room, you can jump into the fire and try another set of mini-mini games and if you manage to be successful (Only the Lord knows how it works) one of the books now has a picture.

Once all of the pictures are revealed a giant face appears and the final boss battle begins. You must play a game of "Guess Who?" to win. The winner gets to drink soda. Only some of what I have just said it true.

10 out of 5

This game is a really good hidden object/puzzle game. If you've ever enjoyed a game by Big Fish games then you will love The Big Secret of a Small Town.

Story: There isn't much story and what there is I had forgotten by the end. You are a detective trying to find the mayor (I think, I honestly forgot all the story by the end).

Level Design: It does a great job of keeping the area you can explore small in order to minimize confusion and backtracking. One thing that can get annoying with adventure games is getting 45 minutes into a game and realizing you forgot an object in the first screen. Big Secret is designed to keep your frustration to a minimum.

Puzzles: The puzzles cover a wide variety of styles, from slide puzzles to Tetris block puzzles. If I recall correctly, not a single style was repeated so it never got repetitive or boring. The only puzzle I disliked was the final puzzle, which was seemingly random. The flow of the game is: You're stuck in an area. Find hidden objects, use objects on devices which leads to a puzzle that rewards you with an object that you use on a central puzzle which in turn helps you exist the area. It's a nice formula that kept me hooked to the end.

Overall: I recommend The Big Secret if you like casual puzzle games. Sometimes it can be hard to find genuinely good casual games so I say jump on this one if that's your thing.

It's Diablo with Marvel characters. If that sounds fun then this game is for you. It is free to play so it doesn't hurt to check out. I am through the first 10 levels and the only thing I can see someone not liking is that your equipment doesn't change your character's look. It doesn't both me, personally, since the game is a ton of fun, but I can see it being an issue. So, my so-quick-it-is-scary review has come to a close. I say "Give it a shot, what's the worst that could happen?".

If you like changing your pants every 10 minutes, this game is for you!