Recent reviews by Just Juice

Elden Ring feels like a dream. I have hardly scratched the surface and it's already the most engrossing experience I've had with any type of media. Fromsoft could have easily stretched the content in this game out into multiple DLCs. They've outdone themselves and everyone in the industry. It's going to be extremely difficult to top this.

I don't know much about HEMA, and I'm not super into traditional fighting games, but Hellish Quart has been a ton of fun! Animations and their transitions are very fluid and look great, and the sword binding feels 😙👌. I'm very impressed so far.

A very creative, clever and fun physics game built on the basic mechanics of golf.

I wasn't planning on trying PCP today, but I guess there's a first time for everything.

Bee Movie: The Game

There is a great game here, but it's diluted with an unnecessary plot that constantly interrupts you and ruins the pacing. It makes you pretend to type in a chat box, fiddle with the options menu and watch painfully slow, edgy text prompts. A lot of the time these segments feel longer than the actual gameplay segments, and you can't skip them! Asking $25 for this is a joke.

This game has made some pretty impressive changes and improvements over the past couple years. I gave it a lot of ♥♥♥♥ when it released, but it's become a much fuller experience since then.

This game starts off interesting and pretty fun, but it never really picks up. Not a lot of variety, and gameplay segments feel extremely short between the dreadfully slow cutscenes (many of which aren't even animated). Environments are dull and usually very small. Combat is smooth but there isn't much to it, plays like a generic third-person action game with dodge rolls. Most of the combos are way too slow and low damage to compare to spamming the same 3 button combos, and the guns feel useless.

I am currently at a stage in the late game where it's just an on-rails shooter. This stage is extemely long with so many copy/paste enemy spawns that I constantly feel like the stage is just looping infinitely. All this while you're encouraged to button mash extremely fast due to super spongey enemies and seemingly having no max fire rate. My hands aren't happy.

It's a beautiful game but it just feels like a drag to keep playing.

One of the greatest, most immersive and memorable single-player experiences.

My GOTY for 2017.