Recent reviews by Cantor of Stelt

Giant robot cheese simulator 2023

10/10, would bully enemy ACs with dual Stun Needle Launchers again

I died of heatstroke while riding a dragon to a volcano. 10/10

In all seriousness, Palworld is a good offering for an early access game, but not without issues.

The first of these is the performance during extended play sessions. After 2-3 hours of play, the framerate suffers, and the game will eventually crash. This is likely a hardware issue on my end, as I only have the minimum RAM (16GB), but other players also experience this. A workaround that helps is disabling NVIDIA High Definition Audio from your system settings, and I've found that disabling shadows also helps.

Another major issue is that sometimes Pals will stop working on their assigned tasks, accompanied by their stations vanishing from the Monitoring Station's menu. You can lift and throw pals to manually reassign them, but keep an eye on your fridges and power plants.

Pals will also occasionally just stop moving, and the lift/throw technique also fixes them.

Overall, I can't say these issues stop me from recommending the game, but it's another level of micromanagement on a game that, for me at least, is already filled with it.

I made a fat zombie bartender drink himself to death. Need I say more?

Speaking as a free player on Steam who paid not only for the game on PS4, but the first 3 DLCs through the Forsaken collection, I cannot recommend this game. Every dime of content I paid for, around $100+ USD, is vaulted. Exotics from that era are locked behind an already slow grind made even worse by the paid battlepass tier and post-Forsaken DLCs. The campaigns are entirely unavailable, and multiple locations, both DLC and BASE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ GAME were scrapped when the content vault was introduced. Exotics I have access to on the PlayStation version are inaccessible on my Steam copy as I don't own the frankly insulting Forsaken legacy bundle or whatever it is needed to use them.
My original review for Destiny 2 recommended it purely on the basis of gameplay and nostalgia, but the time since that review was made has allowed me to see just how unforgivable the flaws are. If you still want to get into Destiny 2 for the gameplay, go ahead, it's fun. The gunplay is good, the reworked subclasses are leagues better than when I got the game, and the DLC that I've been able to play through free weekends have been genuinely fun. But it's a bittersweet experience knowing that Bungie is probably gonna throw all the current story DLC in the vault sooner or later - all $185 of it.
How ironic that a game where the Light is meant to triumph has become a place of utter Darkness...

I first played this game for a week straight when I visited some friends in North Carolina, and I haven't played much else over the last three days. The art style is gorgeously detailed, yet minimalist, the enemy design is inspired and readable, and everything in the game is communicated incredibly well. It's easy to pick up, easy to play, and satisfyingly difficult to master. No two characters play the same, and characters that you look at and think you probably wouldn't like might turn out to be your favorite and vice-versa.
19 Steam hours isn't a lot, but as I said, my first experience was a week of play with friends halfway across the country, learning, improving, and falling in love with this game. Petrichor V will take you and break you, poison, burn and bleed you, and tear you apart more times than you can count, but it'll keep you coming back, and through it all, you'll survive.
In simplest terms, this game ♥♥♥♥♥♥' rocks.

I'll be the first to tell you, I hate playing games slowly. Since I started playing with a consistent group of people, I've blasted through game after game, level after level, etc., all without a moment's pause. Quite frankly, it's a terrible habit, but I'm not like that with Stardew. Sure, I could blast through a lot of the objectives in the first year, farming, foraging, crafting, fighting, and everything else, but I don't want to. I like exploring the mechanics of the game, pushing myself where I can, limiting what I must, and then doing it all again the next day. I could go on and on about psychology trying to explain it, but I'll just cut to the chase and say that this game genuinely helps me slow down and enjoy the simple things in life. Playing a game where I'm not constantly surrounded by cowards and dead men (that's Darth Vader, for ya) is such a refreshing experience, and I absolutely love it.

Don't let steam fool you, I've got well over 200 hours in this game (at time of writing), and every second was spent having a riot of a time, slinging spells at beasts mundane and magical and getting snarky with demons. I've removed people from existence for insulting me, helped unlikely individuals with their daily troubles, searched every haystack I've found, and the game just keeps on giving. There's nothing out there quite like Divinity: Original Sin 2, and I doubt anything, except for another Larian production, can match its charm. This game is a solid 10/10, and I encourage everyone, their grandmas, their dogs, and the horses they rode in on to give this absolute gem a try.

It's alright.

Definitely a game I'd enjoy the opportunity to play if the screen wasn't constantly going black. What little bit I could play was entertaining enough, even if most of the ground classes and space combat were entirely locked behind game breaking graphical errors.

To call this an idle game is a crime. This ♥♥♥♥'s strategic. You need to pay attention to DPS, hero hp, abilities, and your formation. It's not idle, it's pseudo-idle.