Recent reviews by Saint Jinx

I've watched this game so many times growing up that this new version had almost no scares to offer me. Almost. But that didn't dampen my enjoyment of it at all. It's fun, the axe is ridiculously satisfying, and there are still so many moments that I can appreciate so much. Easter eggs, unique characterizations, specific scare concepts. All of it is done so well, and I never really appreciated how much they affected my idea of horror until I finally played it again. Definitely recommend, whether you've played it before or not.

Having played all three games, I really really liked this one. It's not the most fun, and it has the least choices, I'll admit, but it's actually pretty compelling. One ending devolves into pure insanity, but the others are very in line for the game, especially when you consider Jecka isn't as smart or malicious enough to thrive in the world of Class of 09 like Nicole is. It adds a very interesting perspective to things, and I really don't think the "fetish content" was actually fetishized as much as it was a slightly comedic take on the difficulties that come with actual sex work.

Overall, not necessarily the best game in the series, possibly the weakest, but if so then only by a hair's breadth. Still enjoyed.

If 2016 was the experiment, Eternal is the finished product, taking everything that 2016 tried to do and polishing and refining it. The guns are purposeful, the enemies are impactful, and the difficulty is refined to feel impossible while still helping you to overcome it. It's not like a Souls game where it demands you fight it for your enjoyment, it only intends to press you as hard as it knows you can take it.

One of the best blends of boomer shooter action and anticipation building horror I've ever played.

Got the gym teacher and counselor convicted, the idiot jock drug dealer to jump, and the nerd to feed me answers so I graduated a valedictorian. And people say high school is awful.

Great game, very fun and with an incredible amount of freedom in its gameplay. Awful story, like a 5/10 brought down to a 2/10 by its ending. It's probably better if you don't think about it, but it really falls apart if you do. If you're looking for dumb fun and guerrilla warfare in rural America, this game is great. If you're looking for a solid, thought provoking story that doesn't ruin itself by indecision, stay far, far away.

It's like Payday 2 but reinvented with its core ideas and mechanics given more focus and polish. There's obviously less than Payday 2 here, but everything that is here matters so much more and feels so much better. 10/10

I watched part of this game on YouTube. I cried a little.

I played it myself. I cried a lot.

I got a friend to play it while I watched. We cried a lot.

I watched other people play it on YouTube. I still cry.

But it's always a good kind of cry.

I'll preface this by saying that if you're the child of a single parent, or a single parent yourself, this game might have far more impact on you than it did me.

That being said, I can't really recommend this... experience. I have very little bad to say about it, but almost nothing good to say about it either. It's a decent if not basic story about a girl reflecting on her relationship with her mother, but it's not exactly in-depth or anything. The story is broken into basic interactive segments, like clicking on lights to play an animation showing where the relationship is at in the given time. There's not really any merit to this being an interactive experience rather than just like, a short YouTube video. For example, at one point the girl and her mother take a train ride, and the gameplay for the segment is inserting the coins into the machine, hitting the ticket buttons, dragging the tickets over to stamp them, then putting them in the slot. That's it. There's no real benefit to that being interactive beyond the simple entertainment of being able to fling the coins around the screen.

The story is not particularly interesting either, as it kind of just is a very simple life story. I can even sum up the story in a single sentence if I tried. The biggest compliment I can give this game is that it's told very well visually even if there's little to no point in it being interactive. If you're interested in seeing this story, go watch a YouTube playthrough that's over in like 45 minutes, then play it yourself if you think the experience is worth giving your money towards. Otherwise, there's no point.

Only Episode One is out as of writing this, might update in the future.

The only way I can think to describe this game is simple yet satisfying. I can't think of anything that Cultic tries to do that it doesn't succeed at. Exploration is fun, combat is engaging and satisfying, the horror is incredibly effective. I think if I had to say anything negative about it, I'd say the soundtrack can get repetitive and the final boss is too chaotic for my tastes and makes it hard to really know what's going on without some trial and error. But this game is an excellent blend of action and horror, with some crunchy and visceral sound design, punchy weapons, satisfying enemy variety and more. I've never been a fan of fire-based weapons in shooters before, but Cultic makes them some of the most fun.

If an action-horror FPS game sounds like something you're interested in, pick this up. You won't be disappointed.