Recent reviews by Roika | #42

A cinematic and satisfying experience from start to finish! I can't speak on the multiple performance issues that are being complained about in the other reviews. There were some minor bugs here and there but nothing gamebreaking that couldn't be fixed with a quick reload of the last checkpoint.

From a gameplay perspective, this game was a HUGE upgrade to the first installment. Having played Miles Morales shortly before this, the difference was quite a sight to behold. Most of the side and busy quests were good and never felt annoyingly overwhelming in quantity. Even if you don't actively seek them out, the game does a good job in putting these quests in your main objective path, so you end up doing them here and there very organically, without it feeling like a chore. Once I reached the point of no return in the story, I had 95% of everything done and could quickly go finish up the rest before advancing the plot.

I was afraid of switching back and forth between Peter and Miles feeling a bit forced but it was done extremely well. All in all, one of my favorite games in the recent years - 9.5/10.

I want to preface this review by saying that I absolutely loved playing Game Dev Tycoon, which was the main reason I bought this game. The game does have a good base to build on but it feels very unfinished. I was slowly but steadily developing my studio when the game just ended all of a sudden with no option to keep playing. I couldn't get to a lot of the research options that are in the game because I unexpectedly ran out of time. There is no warning of this whatsoever, so the whole experience up to that point felt a bit meaningless.

The genre fatigue system makes sense but it also really penalizes specializing into a specific genre, which doesn't feel good, as all your analytics and premium features to make a good drama movie for example, are wasted when going into a new genre you know nothing about. You end up completely guessing budget allocation, and, more often than not, end up making a bad movie that loses you a lot of money.

While the game has a lot of potential if expanded on, I can't recommend it in its current state.

I was sceptical at first, but Delta Force is a very fun and extremely polished game. Sure, the operators and their voice lines are kinda generic and the chat is full of edgy people talking nonsense, but for a free to play game, it looks and plays great. I would say this game is superior to its closest comparable game, that being Battlefield 2042. Can't say much about Operations, as that mode is not my cup of tea, but the weapons, maps and operators in Warfare feel pretty balanced and make for a well rounded game experience (except arrow lady, just delete her honestly).

As a longtime Dragon Age fan, it pains me to say this - but the game just isn't very good. The story is flat, companions are uninteresting and it's very hard to root for anything in this game in general.

To say some positive things first, the combat system, albeit very simple and linear, is actually quite fun. The game looks really nice graphically (even though it looks nothing like how Dragon Age should look in my opinion) and the performance of the game is outstanding and a lot better than other triple A games that have come out in recent years. No crashes, no major bugs, all in all a very polished game.

The biggest failure of Bioware in this, however, is the absolutely horrible writing. It feels like no dialogue goes into depth, all conversations are superficial and feel like they were written by an angsty teenager. The dialogue wheel is an absolute joke and could have just as well been left out entirely. In this Dragon Age, you don't call the shots. You are told at every turn how you should feel and how your character should react to events. It really does not matter at all which of the options you pick at any given moment. You could roll the dice on every answer and it wouldn't change the end result significantly or at all. The game tries really hard to be taken seriously, but fails this task across the board.

Had the game been developed by a new and upcoming developer studio, it wouldn't be a bad game. But once you measure it against the depth of the Dragon Age franchise, and especially the expected standards of a Bioware game, everything just crumbles.

If you are not really invested into Dragon Age as a whole, I would say buy it and have fun with it. But if you're a longtime fan of Dragon Age and after all this time were expecting a game as good and as captivating as Origins, you're going to be sorely disappointed.

Simply put - this game is a piece of art and one of the absolute best games of the past 20 years. I recently went back in to finish the "Phantom Liberty" DLC, and it did not disappoint.

Cyberpunk 2077 is an absolute must play for anyone that enjoys immersion and immaculate storytelling!

Baldur's Gate 3 is quite possibly the best game I have ever played. I could go on and on about how great the voice acting is, how much you can influence the story by decisions you make, and how impactful they feel, or how it allows and encourages creativity in your gameplay like no other game - but everything I say pales in comparison to experiencing it for yourself.

This game swept all of the awards for a reason and believe me, it is fully deserved. If you haven't played it - what are you waiting for? You are missing out.

I want to preface this review by saying that I cannot really comment on all of the performance / bug / crash issues that have been reported by other people. I have had one crash in ~50 hours of gameplay, no real bugs (apart from a cape glitching out on a specific unit) and an all around great experience.

Keeping that in mind – Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is a great game! For me personally, this game is an upgrade to its predecessor in pretty much every area. To all the people having doubts, I can say this game is definitely worth it once all of the performance issues have been ironed out!

Ori and the Will of the Wisps is a worthy sequel to its predecessor. The visuals, while already great in the previous game, were improved even more and again offer a stunning experience from start to finish. One of my gripes with Ori and the Blind Forest was the stale combat system which has been completely revamped and greatly improved in this game. Combat in general has subsequently become a more important aspect, which some people may like or dislike.

The quality of the story and soundtrack rivals the levels of the first game, which is an impressive feat in itself. It also brought some QoL changes that I greatly missed in the first game like quicktravel. From a gameplay perspective, a lot of new and fun mechanics were added to the different level designs. The shard system, which enables you to change your skillset on the fly, brought some great variety on how you wanted to play Ori throughout the game.

That being said, the escape sequences weren't as good as in the prequel and I thought that some of the boss fights weren't designed that well from a boss mechanic standpoint. Most of the bosses had very obvious and repeating attack patterns, which were easily abusable and made some of the fights a bit too simple for my personal liking.

All in all, I still think Will of the Wisps is the better game overall, which — considering what I thought of the first game — is praise of the highest magnitude.

After starting the game years ago and for some reason abandoning it again quickly, I decided to pick it up again. I had quite high expectations due to the universally good reputation this game has and I have to admit that I was not disappointed.

The game is beautifully designed and offers a good balance of challenging level design while not being overwhelmingly difficult. The combat is pretty straightforward and while being fun in the beginning, it gets a bit stale towards the end. The save feature is also pretty ingenious and I personally really liked the way it was implemented. I think some people might dislike it but I digress.

I would've liked a bit more focus on the puzzling aspect in this game and an easier (or more accessible) way to quickly travel from one point of the map to another. Sometimes it also wasn't that intuitive to figure out where you had to go next to progress in the story but these were all minor "flaws" in an otherwise awesome game.

Overall, a really good platformer with an engaging story, beautiful visuals and above all - a beyond masterful soundtrack.