Recent reviews by szkye

I won't spend real money on skins.
I will spend just a bit real money on skins.
I don't need to dinner tonight if I can get this StatTrack skin.
Can't wait to get money to spend on this.
Nevermind. Take it. Take it all.

What is half-life?

Spent 3 hours waiting to be the Murder in a populated server.
Got killed first second by RDMing.
10/10 would break keyboard again.

So now that I finally finished the game I wanted to make a quick faq/review on my own comparing to some of major reviews out there.

1. IS THIS GAME LONG?
A. Yes.

2.IS THIS GAME TOO LONG?
A. No. But... The game is not "too" long, it indeed takes quite a time to finish it but that's not useless gameplay. The story keeps up building tension and making things more difficult. There are a lot of times you'd think it's probably ending but it's keeps going. Which I like because I gave money for this. Also it depends on how much you die and replay from last save cause it's manual. (hipsters...)

3. IS THIS GAME HARD?
A. Yes.

4. IS THIS GAME TOO HARD?
A. No. There's gonna be times you'll get stuck. Alien is unpredictable. Sometimes you will wait for ages to get killed, sometimes you'll go perfectly unnoticed and then get killed. It's not hard to play, it's hard not to die. Challanges are easy, get there, hack this. It's the creature and other enemies that will force you to go low and slow, which is frustrating sometimes as it also builds up tension. (for example, the alien is close, you see the exit, you go slowly so he won't hear you, and it takes ages, if you run he/it will get you right away)

5. IS THE STORY GOOD?
A. The story makes justice to the film. It's diverse, it keeps up the tension and makes sense. The rest is spoilers.

6. IS THE GAME SCARY?
A. Yes.

7. IS THE GAME TOO SCARY?
A. Kinda... It's common for AAA horror games to be in this sensitive zone (which I just made up), which is right between it's scary enough but not too much so we get the most sales possible. This is not the case. This game made me jump and swear a lot. There's been times I didn't want to play it because I didn't want to sweat. I ended up playing anyway. But still it can be even scarier that this. The difference between this and other games like the next Silent Hill is that this kind of fear seems real, where the other one is just creepy and weird and also if you have to use jumpscares to keep up the fear you're not doing a great survival-horror.

8. IS IT REPLAYABLE?
A. Yeah. There's a lot of AWESOME games that are not replayable at all. I mean, maybe I'm just the only one but I LOVE SO MUCH Metro 2033 but I can't get to play it again. Thinking about all the stuff you went through but still somehow I just get bored. With Alien Isolation I don't I'll have this problem, because it's so random, you'll never get the same experience. Also you can try and get the DON'T KILL ANY HUMANS trophy. Good luck with that.

This is the best indie thing you could ask for. I spend days figuring out the code and finding the secrets. After many hours of playing and filling my room with writings trying to crack the code I felt like I earned an achievement in life. Even though the mistery is just a cute background story, that mistery fills every hole left by the gameplay. Which are really a few. The long development of Fez and the hunger of perfection, made possible for a game so polished and finished to see the light. The spoilers of Fez are not in the story, but figuring out one's path and the secret behind the journey.

The story is simple. You are Gomez, and you find out that your pretty 2D world has been glitched and a new perspective has appeared. You now see a 3D world you weren't used to see, and you need to get used to it... fast, because you're the only one who can save the world.

You collect cubes and anti-cube to restore the balance. From this point... as less you know before playing the better.