Recent reviews by ScaryWaves

Loved the game. Found out that the company behind it made the artists use AI for the concept art. Immediately spoiled my opinion of the whole damn thing. No AI, ever.

Note: This is my first Gundam Breaker game. I am someone who loves the shows AND building actual Gunpla.

So Gundam Breaker 4 is a third person mission-based beat 'em up where you build your machine from all kinds of different parts from across the entire Gundam franchise. The story is serviceable but nothing to write home about, this is all about the gameplay, and to the teams credit, it feels good to play. With such a wide variety of parts and weapons and add-ons and powers to mix and match, finding a playstyle that is fun and Uniquely You is actually quite enjoyable. I personally settled on a combination of God Gundam and Barbatos Lupus Rex to throw hands all day long without a single ranged attack.

With all of this being said though, the game does leave me wanting. It would have been nice for the story to feel more involved, or for the CPU to feel a bit more challenging. Increasing the difficulty just gives them more health and makes them hit harder. I would have also liked to have had the chance to actually fight more weird combination units, which the story could have utilized more often, but alas. The mission types are scarce and pretty samey. I forget the music as soon as it stops playing. This is very much a "you got the basics down but you could do so much more to polish it up." Again, just like. An overworld, a more engaging plot, letting the player be more than a faceless, voiceless spectator DURING the story. It very unfortunately has the vibe of being made with the intent of online multiplayer to carry it, which I am. Not here for. So if that's your jam, this likely won't apply.

Overall, yeah, I do recommend it, especially if you're a Gundam fan. Hopefully we'll get more content down the road to beef it up a bit, but I'm not holding my breath.

One thumb up.

So I somehow managed to beat the Dragon on my very first run, fully aware that I wouldn't have survived had I not stumbled into a winning strategy of items.

That being said, it was fun, and this is a nice, simple time waster of a game that delivers what it promises: it has pegs, it has goblins.

Alright so here's the thing. Any review for Warframe is going to inevitably become outdated as new content and reworks come out. It is, after all, an eternal Open Beta Free-To-Play game. But given that I've seen it evolve from 2013 to 2022 (with a hiatus now and then) I figure I may as well give it a go.

Warframe is a Free-To-Play* Third-Person Mission-Based Looter-Shooter Hack n' Slash MMO where you control an ancient space wizard ninja and fight Late-Stage Capitalism, the Military-Industrial Complex, the T-Virus, and the remnants of a dead empire across our solar system. You can either play alone or with up to three strangers/friends. It is also a game that asks you to take your time with it. There is a HUGE grind aspect to it, and things will be locked until you've progressed to certain points.

This is where the asterisk next to Free-To-Play comes in. There is a premium currency, Platinum, that exists, and it can be used to bypass the grind for MOST things. It costs real money to get. There are daily rewards that can give you a discount on the cost of platinum. However, it can also be traded between players, so as long as you want to put the time into getting the mods or items people want, you still don't have to spend a single cent for anything, it will just take a while.

So look, if you have the time to put into it, a few hours a day, and don't have a problem with not getting instant gratification or access to everything the game has to offer, then yes I'd say give it a go.

Okay so after almost 20 hours and getting all but one achievement in one go, I can say with full confidence that this game is Fine*. Like a 5.5/10.

*To explain: this game doesn't do anything poorly aside from some floaty platforming and numb combat. But it also doesn't excel at anything it attempts either, and in genres as over-saturated as Metroidvania and Souls-like are, that's gonna make it real rough to recommend over the better entries.

With that in mind, if you HAVE played Hollow Knight and Castlevania: Aria/Dawn of Sorrow and Order of Ecclesia and Symphony of the Night and Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night and Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion and Metroid Dread and Axiom Verge and Dead Cells and Blasphemous and any of the Soulsborne games and don't feel like revisiting them, then by all means get this while it's on sale. Kill 20 hours and never pick it up again because there is no replay value other than "same game but you can set challenges to make it harder with no reward for doing so."