Recent reviews by Bendita Locura

I have two big takeaways from this first chapter as someone who watched some of the original web videos.

1. Dream BBQ cements Joel G as the visual Lewis Carrol of the YouTube generation.

2. ENA? Would without hesitation.

It's the OG Dawn of War experience but your fancy gaming PC can run it without issues of running an old game from the 2000's. It was like getting back in the saddle and like I never left. I don't have anything else to say.

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Having never seen RoboCop until after I bought this game on sale, I was intrigued at how they would capture not only the kickass action setpieces and irreverent gallows humor from Paul Verhoeven's iconic 80's classic, but also the surprisingly human drama and sneakily clever social commentary just under the almost toyetic, yet still dystopian surface. I can say with confidence that Polish developer Teyon and French publisher Nacon swung for the fences and hit a home run in every aspect that counts. If the very word "RoboCop" invokes any sort of positive emotion in your brain, nostalgic or otherwise, you owe it to yourself to play this game. You will get the RoboCop experience daydreamed by every 80's kid who had toys based on this graphically violent R-rated movie, from shooting bad guys, to solving cases, to even wrestling with your identity and what it means to be human, all brought about by the effectively stoic performance of Peter Weller.

It's basically Postal Redux but with 2.5D graphics, a marketing strategy to rival the most shameless of 70's exploitation films, a Roguelite mode better than the story levels, a protagonist so edgy Yuri from Doki Doki Literature Club would add him to her knife collection, a moderately funny YouTube poop made from its cutscenes and I can play it with a 12th Gen CPU for more than 20 seconds without my game crashing.

Nowhere near as transgressive as anyone led me to believe (devs included), it plays itself so straight it loops right back around to being about as silly as your average emo kid from middle school who would look at the art for the Steam cards for this game depicting John "Not Important" Hatred and say "this guy gets me". Unfortunately, the story is about as riveting as a typical conversation with said kid. I can only imagine that, like almost all pop media controversies, Destructive Creations played the gaming world like a fiddle and then laughed their way to the bank before moving on to strategy games of all things. As is, Hatred is aggressively okay enough that I feel fine having paid $2 to add it to the rotation of games I just kinda boot up when I want to turn my brain off.

Update 6/1: If you're not too hung up about not getting achievements, the 1.666 mod of the game is an improved experience overall, with a choice between top-down, first and third person, tons of gameplay and visual customizations available, and even unlockable cheats and other goodies. I especially appreciate how much of a better spiritual sequel to Postal 1 it is compared to the vanilla game.

Straight up crashes after 20 some seconds when using a 12th Gen processor.

"I kingdom came, I kingdom saw, I kingdom delivered a dagger through the chest of half a dozen monks in their sleep"
- Henry "the Hungry" of Skalitz, 1403

Among the finest pieces of Eurojank, this time from a different former member of the Warsaw Pact, Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a love letter to the Czech national heritage and all the other games and media that inspired Warhorse to come out and express their own take on the open-world sword and shield RPG. The excellent dialogue and worldbuilding strikes the perfect balance between attention to historical detail and remembering to have fun with its concept. The characters radiate personality and charm thanks in no small part to stellar actors. The mechanics, while having a higher initial difficulty curve than most of its peers, is fair and logical in a way that makes being powerful that much more earned. It's probably the best historical fiction I've come across in any medium, and I look forward to diving into the sequel.

While I'd argue it's not as thematically deep as Doki Doki Literature Club despite having similar story beats and character types, the varied environments and game mechanics made for an unpredictable wild ride that kept me on my toes and the strong characterization kept me invested. I do hope peaceful mode takes the opportunity to give additional depth to Mita's character and expand on the lore and the various loose threads currently dangling in the game as is.

The absolute zenith of the phrase "Easy to play, Difficult to Master", Balatro takes draw poker and takes it to surreal and deranged extremes that it probably wasnt meant for but by golly do I love how boldly it does so as much as I hate it for kicking my winner strats in the teeth.

The perfect remaster: well throughout improvements, big and small, to the experience yet immaculately faithful to what made people fall in love with this series 20 years ago.

I can't believe this is how I got tricked into installing Roblox.

For better or worse, this game and its popularity is the phrase "I want shorter games with worse graphics" taken to its logical extreme. The only thing realistic about this game is that the Russians usually lose. So with all the usual bells and whistles thrown out and the focus solely on gameplay, is it fun? Well, kind of. There's still a lot of the usual problems with these kind of multiplayer FPS games, namely a godawful XP and kills grind for better weapons and attachments (Seriously, why do games still do this?), and while the community isn't as toxic as others, quite the contrary they're passable, it would be nice to have a Battlefield-style game without a community of what I can only kindly describe as the emotionally disabled putting every dead meme and word that comes out of their mouths into a microphone for my migraine speedrun any%.

Other than that, yeah pretty cool indie game.