Reviews Rate the game you finished/retired

[fantomena]

Finished



Tooke me a bit over 40 hours, did the majority of side quests, all bounties, checked all the areas in the game, did a lot of exploration. Ended up really enjoying it, had a lot of fun with it. It's a very focused RPG o nthe smaller scale, there are 4 areas you progress through in the story and each has their own "theme". Just overall a lot of fun. Main negatives is tha tthe story was kind of meh, a lot of enemies needed too many hits to kill and the upgrade system was kind of "meh" as you usually find the same items in the same area all the time when you loot and if you want to upgrade to the highest tier you can't find that material in the first area.

Otherwise, a big positive suprise.

Score: 8.5/10

 

[Virtual Ruminant]

Finished Tintin Reporter - Cigars of the Pharao (Pendulo Studios / Microids, 2023)

Thoroughly disappointing adaptation of this 1930s Tintin comic, that somehow manages to look even worse (with regards to character design and style) than the Ubisoft-made 2011 adaptation of the 2011 animated Tintin movie, and it doesn't play much better either.

The choice of source material was pretty strange to begin with (it's an early Tintin story, so popular characters like Captain Haddock aren't even in it), and the very outdated story and relatively poorly written secondary characters are made even worse by the massive changes and additions made for this game.

Even stranger, Pendulo made this game a 50/50 action/stealth and point-and-click game, and the action/stealth parts are so poorly done that the pretty good point and click bits couldn't really save this game for me.

6/10

 

[fantomena]

Finished



A decent game, not mediocre, not great, has it's ups and downs, highs and lows. Sometimes the story is good, sometimes, it's boring and predictable, sometimes the gameplay is good and fun, sometimes it's boring and janky, combat is good and mediocre, depending on the weapon you use and the level design. Somewhat of a boring start. The open world is very empty other than some shops you can use to buy new weapons and stuff for your car by using money you receive by selling collectibles you find. It has a free ride mdoe you can play where you simply drive around and do some races and an extra hunting" mission.

I feel the story was very rushed towards the end and it could have used 1 or 2 more chapters. The world lore could have been explored more and the characters are decent, yet predictable.

Score: 7.3/10

 

[Virtual Ruminant]

Finished Little Kitty, Big City (Double Dagger Studio, 2024)

An open-world funny, cutesy/wholesome four-legged-cat-protagonist 3D puzzle platformer. For what it is (a light-hearted 10-hours-to-almost-100% game aiming for a wide audience in both skill and age-range), it's perfection. Visuals, soundtrack, gameplay, pacing, controls: simply on point, no filler, no boring minute.

10/10