Rev! Good boy.

COD4 Modern Warfare Remastered. Nowhere near as good as i remember! Dare i say the newer campaigns are better, the sneaky sniper bit with the Scottish dude aside, of course.

Would have bought it when it was on sale recently till I discovered they were actually charging for the DLC maps separately. 

Greedy feckers.

Domina

Well, I guess. It's one designed for replay and has an endless mode. Could dig deeper and build better gladiators quicker. Could up difficulty. Could try direct control of gladiators.

Some aspects of menu management could definitely be designed better, but it's generally fine.

Very strong aesthetic, sound track and rough and ready dialogue.

Definitely worth a crack.

Domina sounds awesome, really need to give that a razz.  Always love it when you read good things about an obscure PC game, then find it's already in your library!

Lollypop Chainsaw (PS3)

A silly Grasshopper Manufacture beat em up.  I liked this when it came out - in my head it was a game where it was a little dull the jokes didn't land for the first couple of levels, but then it got progressively better and funnier as it went on.

That's still true I think, except it never got good or really funny; it was just okay to play and the jokes never really landed for me this time, but the setting and characters are wacky and pleasant enough for the most part.  Maybe the humour didn't really work for me this time since I wasn't really into the game as much - the game does boast 'famed Hollywood director' James Gunn as creative consultant and a writer.  I quite like his work on the whole and also Grasshopper's stuff.

The fighting's good in and of itself - basic stuff but it's fun.  It also has a cool gimmick where you get bonus points for killing a bunch of enemies at once.  You're encouraged to round up the enemies like a sheepdog, before hitting a decapitation.  Makes you think about how you're playing a little differently.  Quite like it.

Where it fell down for me:

*you can barely play more than 30 seconds in a row without the game wrestling control from you.  You beat a group of enemies, the camera lurches around to the exit, or shows your next objective.  Mostly it's always really obvious stuff, like there'll only be one exit anyway.  Sometimes the camera does not lurch away, and it's never a problem to find your way out!  
*It's a short game but levels are spread very thin, dragging on for around an hour, and long after it's run out of ideas on how to mix it up.  Think I would have enjoyed it more as a budget, 3 hour game.
*Didn't enjoy any of the boss fights.  If I never see a boss where you deplete it's life bar, then it refills and starts another phase, I'll die happyish.

Does have a really fun soundtrack.  Mickey kicks in when you power up and you get Cherry Bomb on the title screen for instance.  Good stuff.  The pseudo comic book aesthetic looks pretty rough and plain though and has not aged so well.

Okay game but wish I never played it again really.

Well jel that you had the time. I got as far as beating a boss and getting a new ability to be able to progress to second area or something.

Mad Max

Incredibly solid open worlder.. let down a little by the lack of plot, the general unlikeableness of Max himself and a found the conclusion particularly annoying. But there's a lot to like a lot to do .. it's just that a bit like Just Cause it kind of needs you to mix up how you do it and it doesn't have quite the toolset to stop that becoming a little dull after a while.

The open world, you assistant and the car are all the stars though and a lot to like about it.

7 cans of Dog Food out of 10.

People in Britain used to drink beer all the time as the fermentation process was one of the few ways to make water safe to drink. The beer in question had a very low alcohol content and is the origin of the term ‘small beer’ used to describe something unimportant. I wouldn’t be remotely surprised if the Egyptians did the same.

Blip Blup (Android)

Puzzler by the Monument Valley folk, but more boring, and less aesthetically pleasing.  A few tough levels (particularly getting three stars; for unknown reasons, it's impossible to get two stars on any level, which somehow annoyed me), but it was all just a bit boring.  I also did find the solving very intuitive, and not in a good way.

A "meh" [6].

You could play some good games, you know. Your completed list reads like some self-imposed gaming flagellation.

Florence (Android)

Interactive story, really, but I liked it - nice art style, quaint story (awww), nice UI.  A rose-tinted [8].

Obviously there's more to Gunstar than Seven Force, but omg Seven Force.  BOSS IS APPROACHING.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Obviously there's more to Gunstar than Seven Force, but omg Seven Force.  BOSS IS APPROACHING.

I've never beaten all seven forms, I probably need to rectify that. He's in alien soldier too iirc.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2

Probably the closest I've come to feeling like I did when I finished FF7 back in the 90's. I really enjoyed this. It took me just over 60 hours to complete.

Particularly impressed that I didn't need to grind at all to see the end. Every time I got stuck, I just needed to rethink my party and set up. The field-skills aspect, however, did mean I had to retrace a few steps to progess - as my characters didn't have the necessary skills to clear certain check-points. Perhaps I should have paid closer attention to that.

The real star is the battle system, which keeps on adding new elements all the way to the end. There's loads of layers and systems in place, perhaps too many. It did all click for me though and battling never felt like a chore.

I reckon 8 out 10 is a fair score for this.

That's Kirby star allies done. Kirby games usually go off the rails at the end but this was a new level of batshit, fighting a giant demon in a battle out of
Completely insane.