Recent reviews by Derek

Cool and epic Chinese monkey game. I was quite surprised at the variety of enemies and bosses. The game provides many abilities, including a mimic tear analogue, which allow for even casuals to finish the game. Hardcore gamers such as myself can choose to ignore these for a more challenging experience. Like most things from China, this game has some jank, but nothing that ruins the experience. I love Yellow Loong and I enjoyed this game more than I thought I would.

From the creators of Shovelware Knight comes Hollow Knight but Hollower and with no Knight.

This game is complete trash, but I like it anyway. Game breaking bugs everywhere, crashes, boring dungeons, boring enemies, boring quests, but the fun / funny moments make up for it. Remaster looks great visually and the new recorded dialogue is good. Game maintains many old bugs but not floating paintbrush, which may disappoint the floating paintbrush enthusiasts community. The variety of bugs in this game is truly astounding. For example, my agility was mysteriously permanently reduced by 30 at some point (unfixable by praying). This really is a game where you can do anything, be anyone, go anywhere.

This game's pretty cool. This seems to be the worst version of it because it has no updates, tons of bugs / crashes and no achievements. Story and world is interesting enough to keep playing though and is undeniably the best part of this game. Combat is alright. Its actually pretty bad near the start of the game because you don't have many tools and most of it is waiting until an enemy moves so you can attack them. Eventually you get more moves that greatly improve the enemy interactivity. The game whooped my ass for the first third because of this on the hardest difficulty. Highly recommended game for any Psychonauts enjoyers.

I can see how this game would be appealing to some people but I was bored the entire time I played it. Combos can be cool sure but they don't even work on most enemies that aren't complete fodder. If I wanted to play a game to learn combos I'd play a fighting game. Obviously the plot doesn't matter in this type of game but it still felt like the entire story could fit into a single 20 minute Rick and Morty episode. There is almost no variety in environments. Repetitive enemies and repetitive boss fights. Cringe dialogue that sounds like the characters are talking to each other with a 5 second delay and translated to Japanese and back. V is absolutely terrible to play as.

After getting to the end of this long ass game, I feel different, perhaps just a little bit Baldur than I was before.

This game is like the game Stray, but for dog people. I highly recommend this game for people who like dogs.

As a member of the elite Grandmaster top 0.27% of Marvel Rivals players, it would not be an exaggeration to say I have a thorough understanding of this game. This game is pretty freaking sick, but its got annoying ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ press Q to win ultimate moves and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ characters that are permabanned in Diamond+ rank. A lot of the characters are fun to play and represent their superhero characters well. Other characters are kinda doggy doo and you hate to see them on your team. Male characters are cool and the female characters have big butts so the character appearances are pretty freaking sick overall. Ranked is full of people blaming their teammates for their infinite loss streak and can be a little cancerous but sometimes you run into fun/funny people.

This game is actually pretty freaking sick despite the initial impression that it is a dressed up and randomized Excel sheet simulator. It really makes you feel like a boss when you narrowly avoid losing and then make the number go higher. Higher difficulties force you to make the most of the sub-optimal crap you're given which you'd normally ignore at easier difficulties. Of course, you can still get completely screwed over randomly by an encounter that craps on your build, but that's just the nature of roguelikes. I'm impressed by the presentation of the game considering it was made by just one stay at home single father.

Overall I give this game 9/10 for being the first game with an actual original concept released in the last 10 years.

This game was pretty freaking sick. But you can't play it unless you've played Yakuza 0 thru 7 and gaiden first. Half of this game is fan service for people who played those games. Hawaii is cool and new jobs are cool. Dondoko island was pretty fun. I don't like the new roguelike dungeons that much and I don't really like how Kiryu takes up so much of the story. This was supposed to be an Ichiban game but Kiryu says "no, this is my battle" and then takes over the story. Still story was cool and fun like all these games.