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I am just about 5 hours into the story. I am still in the common route and have yet to pick heroine route. That being said, I can already tell there's a serious amount of work and care being put into the making of this VN. Every single line, except ones spoken from a character's mind, is voiced professionally resulting in immersion. The characters have sway even when there is no active movement, making the visual dynamic.

From what I can find on YouTube, this VN's common route should last for about about 6.5 to 7 hours. After that, player can pick heroine route that can most likely ranges from 3 to 5 hours. Considering there are multiple heroine routes, the whole game can last at least 15 hours.

15 hours of story with great visual for $15 ($8.99 when on sale) is a great deal if not a bargain. I highly recommend this for those who want to support the team. This is a work of art. I have never bought a VN before, and I was very skeptical about it thinking I might have to ask a refund before the 2-hour period ends. I don't need that. This VN is worth every single minute of it.

It's an amazing city building game like never before. The fact that it's been several years and nobody else managed to make such perfect game like this speaks a lot. If you love city building, or even just the idea of making your own city, then you will need to try this. Don't be afraid for making a silly looking town the first time you hop on to this game—it happens to most players. Once you learn the basics, you can dive into mods and try adding things step by step. Before you realize, it'll be a new day, and you forget to go to sleep.

It's actually a fun game if you've got the correct community. It's weird that the game doesn't implement voice chat despite almost everyone's using it. With discord, however, this problem is solved. All in all, it's a great way to start doubting if Jack should remain your friend.

I know that this is free, and I shouldn't expect something too high out of it. That being said, I did try to enjoy it. Unfortunately, I was only able to go until the mid 2nd day. There should be a hook in the first 3 to 5 mins that makes the audience crave for more. I just didn't see it. I'm sorry, but I can't really recommend it.

This game is similar to Growtopia in terms of mechanism, however the community is very different. Player base here is much more friendly and honest versus those playing Growtopia for some reason. Yes, the UI is somewhat worse, in my opinion, to Growtopia's. However, the main point of playing game like this is to enjoy the social aspect as well, which is no longer the case with Growtopia. They're also working on having an actual currency for trading instead of World Locks. Anyway, give this game a try. Just be sure to not be toxic and maintain a friendly community.

I've been in Insurgency series since the previous one. It's been a wild ride. Unfortunately, as time passes by, it seems that the developer prefers to focus on making the game more accessible to new players by making updates to cater more casual play-style. Removing techy was one of them. By that time, I decided to put the game into hibernate, and I deleted the game. I still kept attention on the updates for future since I was expecting them to give us some performance boost. It's sad to know that new updates being pushed seem to only provide the players with ability to purchase skins which is a terrible move in my opinion since that ruins the immersion—again, another updates pushed to cater toward new players by baiting them with fancy shining weapons. Sorry, but this time, I have to tick the button next to it as I don't even have any appetite to reinstall the game at this state.

I've only started playing this game the past 3 weeks I suppose. It's great. The graphics is not very up to date to today's standard, but looking at the fact that this game is released in 2012 is incredible. The sound update makes the gun sounds terrible. The reload and switching sound seems more realistic, but the gunshots are worse (for most guns). With a completely free label, the amount of cheaters and smurfers have gone dramatically high. If you're expecting to play this game with fair competitive matches, postpone that wish until you reach Lv. 21.

This is an amazing free to play fps game and completely not a pay to win one. It's got beautiful graphics thanks to Unreal Engine 3 and run surprisingly not that heavy for medium tier rig by sacrificing the 'high quality' option and choose the medium one. As far as I play it, there are not that many cheaters crawling this game. In fact, you might even be able to spot the BattlEye bans several players out of the match in just one week. It's not perfect, but you don't have to worry about having to meet a cheater as much as perhaps in other fps games.

The realistic aspect is deeply considered in the process of making this game. From the fact that 1 round will be stored in the chamber, giving you the chance of having extra 1 bullet by simply reloading it, to the fact that you can scope (right click) on pretty much almost every gun exists in this game, be there just an iron sight or equipped with a sight and scope for designated marksman rifle. Grenade launcher attached to many assault rifles adds up the tactical experience since you don't really have to be so dependant on your aim and can just try to predict the opponents' next moves and bam.

The skins do not, in any way, affect the performance of any gun presented in the game. However, they do make some of them look much better and beautiful, sometimes even have their own reloading animation. Still won't affect your gameplay in terms of extra advantages.


Update 1:
The game is dying since the past one or two months. The average online players are getting lower and lower. It finally hits 1Kish players. At this point, they decided to merge all the server so the players will have less trouble in finding on-going match despite the fact that they (the players) may forget about ping and suffer a lot from it. Competitive in several regions is completely dead. There's just not enough players to queue even one game. I've sent them several suggestions including the fact that they really need to campaign more on ads. I've never seen them posting any ads on any commonly used platforms. It's sad. Honestly speaking, the game has much potential yet has died even before the EARLY ACCESS tag is put away.

Update 2:
The developer finally decides to remove your ability to sell in game items like your weapon skins. I'm glad I was able to sell mostly everything before I stopped playing the game. I only noticed it when I came back to the game. Now there are even less NA players (less than 50 active players on custom room mode as of right now). This game has only recently declared that it's finally got through the early access, however it's already dying; even before they take out the early access tag. My prediction is that this game is going to be completely dead within several months in NA region.

This is probably the best zombie surviving scenario game I have ever played. I bought this game when it was put on sale, and turned out it was so good. My suggestion would probably be to make the weapons a little bit more realistic, especially in number of rounds contained in a magazine, and the recoil. Having the ability to peek through the iron sight or any optical sights will also be a great implementation I'd like to see in the next L4D series. Storyline is quite interesting, although some parts may feel quite unrealistic. Introducing a new not-so-overpowered-unique zombie will also be another kudos.

There's a ridiculous amount of thing you can do. Honestly, your skill is literally the limiting factor. Join some groups, and play with mods against AI or PVP. If you are interested in buying this, I'd advise you to actually find some groups that you will stick around because I am personally not a big fan of the vanilla online server games. It was just horrible experience to me.

That being said, the game is, at the same time, clunky. Some people say it's the engine, and it's probably correct. You'd be lucky to have near 45 fps when you're playing online multiplayer even if your rig is high end. It is just that unoptimized. I am personally looking forward for Arma 4 if there is ever going to be one in the future, but the lag and stutter just kills the mood for every time I fire up the game.

The single player campaign is less laggy. I would get around 50% to 70% more fps when playing single player campaign. However, you can only 'play' the first couple missions before you are made to be the team leader. Managing the teammates (AI) to go where and hold what angle while looking what direction is so clunky. I would spend minutes literally trying to tell Bob and John to be in the same group and face that way while Rick and the other dudes watch from what angle and hold fire until they're allowed to shoot.