Recent reviews by Hails Storm

Ena has always been a surreal, thought provoking web series that pushes artistic boundaries and respects the viewers intelligence to dig deeper for its themes and messaging. This is no different; it plays out exactly how an episode would. A short experience, but one absolutely worth playing. Throw the extra ten dollars if you can- it's worth every penny.

Gearbox ruined what was one of the best rougelikes released in recent memory. Great work undoing 5 years of hard work and community goodwill in under a week.

Update 2: Playstation is so stupid. Like sure, account linking is no longer required but 90% of all countries ON EARTH cannot buy or play this game anymore. What? Review is back to negative until this decision is also reverted. But given that MORE COUNTRIES HAVE BEEN ADDED SINCE I doubt it. Get bent Sony jfc

UPDATE: Public lobbies tend to be a lot more stable than not. I'm changing my review to reflect this. However, games are still buggy, the balance is incredibly off (with the vast majority of games heavily slanted in favor for Vanessa's puppets) and nearly every single game has lasted for less than five minutes with the puppets always winning. The "all eyes" debuff that shows the locations of everyone occurs way too frequently and lasts way too long; Vanessa's minions can obtain buffs that benefit them when they're already winning by a landslide.

I want to like this expansion. It has a lot going for it, but the longer I've been playing the more I realize the core balance is not good. If you are only going to join and play in public lobbies do not buy this. I can only really recommend if you have a group of friends to play this with. Because as it stands, it's not fun otherwise.

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I really hate giving this creator dlc a negative review, but as it stands it is simply unplayable in its current state.

The concept of mod creators having the ability to release mini expansions is a novel and amazing concept. However, Vanessa's curse is IMPOSSIBLE to play at the time of writing this review. In the few hours I've played I've only had ONE normal game that didn't have game breaking issues. The other dozens upon dozens were filled with bugs, hackers, and matches that legit lasted less than a minute.