Recent reviews by Nawrusi

pretty fun card game.

So, I did not get this game for free, but the creators of the game approached me and recommended it to me. On my laptop I like to not play too big games size it can´t run them. Therefore, I experience many point and click games of small sizes like this game.

The game is a point and click game, very simple and easy to get into. What I would call the games strongest aspect is it´s theming and style. The graphic style seems very cartoony but is of dark subject matter at the same time. This creates a strong contrast that makes for some great atmosphere. The theme of nightmares and night terrors are well done, and creates this really surreal world where anything can happen.

The game is rather short and is easy to get through, although a few of the puzzles took me some time to complete.

The game has some scary imagery at times but nothing to serious. Overall, the game is good, and I would recommend giving it a try if you are into point and click games.

A fun little puzzle game to play when you have nothing to do.

The game is very relaxing and not that stressful, that said that means the game is also very easy and not much of a challenge.

The gameplay is simple, match tiles in the same color and remove all the obstacles under the tiles. When you have removed all obstacles, you continue to the next stage until the game is done. When you complete a section of stages you get to build some wonders of the world and get a history lesson about them. You can ofc. Skip these lessons if you aren’t interested.

During the game you´ll get powerups to help you win. These powerups are extremely overpowered which is why the game is as easy as it is. So, if you are looking for a relaxing game that is not hard to complete look no further.

All that being said, there is a lot of games in the "7 wonders" series and this is not the best one. I would rather recommend “Treasures of Seven” which have more fun mechanics to work with and more challenging levels. In the end don´t buy all the games in the series as they are very similar, and therefore not worth collecting. Get the one that sounds most fun to you mechanic wise and stick with that one.

The game i pretty much a demo for the game broforce and is not a full titel that will take you hours to complete. But that dose not change the fact that this game is 10 minuts of pure awsome!

Presentation:
If you hadn't geussed it this is parody of the movie "The expendabels" whitch stared a lot of action heros. The same fasion as broforce apply here. Every charecter is diffrent and they are all parodies of diffrent action heroes, but here we only get the 5 charecters from the expendables.
As mentioned the game is not very long but it is there to hype you up for the real game "broforce" whitch have even more charecters levels and so on. if you have ever thought about buying broforce and are not really sure if you should get it, try this out since it free. And if you want a fastpace shooter for 10 minutes check it out too.

Gameplay:
Run and gun, thats basiclly what it's all about. Each charecter plays a bit diffrent since some have long ranged weapons and some have short, there is also a melle charecter. Each charecter also have there own speciel move like trowing three grenades or pound the ground so hard it explodes. After those awesome attacks you can also chose to go in with just melle.
The goal to each level is to get to the other end of the level. Along the way you can get more lives by freeing the bros. When you free a bro you become that bro, so you can quickly learn all the charecters.
Each enemy dies more or less with 1 bullet, so you are an unstobebal force, unless you misstep and get youself killed, you also die after only a few shot.
The levels are all jungle themed and can't really be explored, there are a few alternative ways to go, but you pretty much stick to the main road and keep running. The entire plqyingfield is destructable, so you can quiqly make a mistake and destory some important runways or buildings, whitch you now have to find or created an alternative rude for. It is not easy getting stuck luckely.
The AI is not really smart, and you easily outsmart them with no problem. This really works well with the fast pase.
Overall the gameply is really fastphased and it's nice to make it all the way to the end of a level and see everything explode.

Charecters:
Here I'll give a short bio of all the playable charecters:
Broney Ross: his main attack is his duel handguns whitch fires really fast for long range, his special are laying down three bombs infront of him.
Bro Christmas: Main attack is throwingknifes whitch fires really fast for long range, his special is trowing knifes into the air and rain them down upon your enemies.
Trent Broser: his main attack is a rifle with a very long range but slow fire rade, his special is throwing a grenade that calls down an air strike.
Broder Jenson: His main attack is a grenade launcher with sticky grenades with a slow firerate, his special is makeing a bomb car that can be contrloed and detonated for a huge explosion.
Bro Caeser: His main attack is a minigun that fires a very fast long range line of fire that also pushes him back, his special is fireing his minigun behind him, so that he flies up into the air and smashes down to destroy everything infront of him.
Broctor Death: The only melle charecter whoes main attack is his knife, his special is to fly forward and stapping anyone in the way.
And finally Toll Broad: his main attack is a short range flametwrover, and his special is a napalm grenade that sends fire everyehere.
Every charecter is easy to tell apart and fells very uniq.

Visuels:
The visuels is 8-bit style, and dose not really deliver anyhing to visuel impresive, that would be the weakst part of the game in my opinion, since you don't really take a look at the visueal. The fast pase in this game, also make it very hard to aprisiate anything, but that is what it is designed for. There is no reason to make a beutifull scene if you are just gonna run past it right away.

Music/Sound:
The guitar solo at the end of each level is the only really memrebal thing when it comes to sound, the rest of the sound effects are pretty much gunfire, explosions, screams and desturction.

Story:
The Exspendabros have been send out to find and interegate Conrad Stonebanks, who aprently knew they where comming or just had a whole army ready. There is not really more to the story unless you want me to spoil the ending of this 10 minut game. Just play it for youself and you'll see the conclution to the story.

Conclution:
For a very short game that is only made to highlight another game, expendabros shows how the entire gamemechaniscs in only a few levels. Every charecter fells great to play and the overall game only makes you whish for more. If you are into fast pased shotters and are not to concerned when it comes to visuels give this a try, and the best part, you won't have to pay a thing.

So let`s make a few things clear. Yes I am an adult that played this game for a short while, and will judge it from my persective.

Presentation:
So I started up the game, and some obnoxious music starts to play, and I get 2 options, wither to play the game or watch the credits. Already here I see some red flags. The only enjoyment you can get from this game is from the colouring parts, and nothing else. The game simply dose not give you a lot of options to work with at all.

Gamepaly:
So you start up the game, and you have to go through all the leatters of the alphabet from A to Z. When you enter a new level, an item that starts with the letter you chose will appeared. You can then chosse to colour it or not. The skip mechanic is on "esc" otherwise you can use a brush or bucket tool to colour the picture. The tools are extreamly simple, and you can`t really do anything major to change the picture. Overall the gameplay becomes boring and pointless fast.

Visuels:
The visuels are really cartoony in the hop world, but otherwise the pictures you can paint are really simple.

Music/Sounds:
The music is a simple loop that get`s anoying really fast, otherwise a voice will congratulate you every time you complete a level. The voice also get`s repetetive fast.

Conclution:
So after playing this game for a little while, I thought to myself "why should you buy this game?" You don`t get anyhing interesting to work with, and you could easily find something for free on the internet, that was as good or even better than this game, I will simply not recormend this game for that exact reason, this game has no point for existing.

So i`ll start this with some bad news. I personally had some problems with the game. Sometimes the screen would stay small and windowed, other times the game would freze up and the worst thing that happend was a gamebreaking glitch that made me start from the beginning of the game. The game got stuck in such a way that I could not give items away, no mtter how far I got back in my safe files.

The reason I am telling this now, is becouse this may not be a problem for your game, and therefore it should not be part of my review of the game. Overall I enjoyed the game and it`s story and if your game dose not break like mine, it would make a better experriance for you. Now on to the accual review.

Preentation:
From the beginning of this game, it is clear it is an older one. The graphics are really low qulaty and the animation can be a bit wonky, but you quicly get use to the older graphics and apriciate what is going on with the story.

The game begins with you as a journalist on his way to speak to a profesor, when you enter his lighthouse he tells you that he is dying, and that you must bring back an egg to the Amazone. You then find the egg and the profesores plane and you are on your way.
The presentation and premess is really simple, and that really helps the game, since it is very basic in itself. You can read more story if you want too, but it is not necesary in order to enjoy the game.

Gameplay:
The game is a point and click game, and you have to progress to the next area via the professores plane. The plane is the hightlight of this game, it can transform into many diffrent kind of vericels such as a helicopter and a sub-marine, it also has a grabeling hook whitch helps throughot the game.

The gameplay is really simple, but the exploration in this game is really well done, since you see many interesting locations, and you can roam more or less free and find out how to progress. It is hard to explain more about the diffrent areas whitout spoling the game, since it is very short, but you get to go to the amazone, underwater, an uncerground hangar and other cool locations.

Charecters:
All the charecters are really flat and uninteresting, but really this game is more about exploring and discover the truth about the egg you are carrying. You don`t really know much about your own charecter and as said any other charecter is not really interesting to talk about.

Visuels:
Eventhough the game looks old, the visuels are the stroingest part of this game. All the diffrent locations are buetifully crafted and looks very good. There is also a great veriaty in locations, that helps the game very well.

Music/Voice acting
The main theme of this game, is pretty good, and it is clear that the creator liked it, since it seems to be some of the only music in the game.

The voice acting is pretty decent on some parts, but not that great on othersm it is pretty mixed here.

Story:
So the story is simple; get the egg to the Amazone. There is not a huge plot anywhere to be found here , but really this game did not need it, it survievs on simple exploration, whitch I really enjoyed doing.

Conclution:
The game is a fun point and click game, that is well made and very funny. It can be a bit hard to know what to do at times, but overall it is pretty simple and good. If you game for a story rich gaem, you would have to look elsewhere, but if you want a simple and fun exploration game, you would properly like this.

The covers you get with this soundtrack are pretty awsome.

What do you get?:
You get 32 amazing tracks that were played doing the game, and nearly all the songs are well made and sounds amazing. They give you that pixelated felling that the game also tryed to do, with it`s artstyle, and the two fit together so well.

Some of the tracks can get a little bland, but it is to be expected for music that is made for playing in loop over the game.

Many of the soundtracks have so many feelings attatched to them, and can give you an emotional ride from sad, to happy, to pumped.

Is it worth getting?:
Yes it is. It is an amazing pixel sounding soundstrack, That will make you remeber all the good memoreis of your palythrough. It also is some amazing tracks eventhough you never have played the game. Overall if you loved the soundtrack of the game, you will love this deal. If you are a big fan of emotinal music that sounds very pixelated like Hotline Maiami, you will also like this collection of amazing tracks.

Always choose Warsaw!

So I start the game up and are greeted to some screen adjustments. I type it in and proceed to the main screen. Here I can chose to do a fast game, or simply customize a match.

I thought the game was a simple war game in the style of similar games such as the war aspects of Civilization series and age of empires, but as I would discover, there was nothing simple about this game.

I start a match as a NATO country, one of the two factions you can join and NOTHING on the screen makes any sense. I tried to press some buttons, but nothing happens. The game has no tutorial to teach you how to play the game, so I am officially lost. I find the "next turn" button and 5 minutes of the other countries turns go by. At this moment I was so bored from looking at the computer make it's moves, that I then did nearly nothing and said next turn and the 5 minute hell continued.

I was aware you could play as more than one country, but really if you let the computer do its thing, it will either win or lose you the match, so I chose small countries and did nearly nothing, yet won!

The game really needs a tutorial. I played like 10 hours of this game, and I still don`t know, what half of the buttons do. And trust me I tried to find out, but in many cases, the interface is so bland and have no explanation to what anything dose. Bottom line, look up a tutorial if you want to enjoy this game to its fullest.


Now about the gameplay overall it sounds simple, but again there is no explanation to tell you what you’re doing, why I win or lose a battles with my units and so on. Simply put You buy units and attack the opponents. If you win you take over some land. The one to have the most land after 100 turns, wins.

You can gang up on land units by surrounding the tiles around the unit, yet sometimes the other unit still win. I figured it had something to do with the number under it, or the stars, but I attacked with the same amount of numbers and stars, yet still lost. It seems there is some RNG involved, but the game does not show that.

You can also buy planes and boats, in order to cross rivers and seas, and make bombing of other enemy units. The plane strategy seems to be good, but There was a time where my planes got shot down, without any explanation.

As said there are 2 factions to join. The Russians or the allied forces. From there you can pretty much chose any county as long as it is European or USA.

There are a few exceptions which are the neural countries, but I never found out what they were doing in the game, other than just waste turns. I never played one of them, simply because they seemed to just be there, imprisoned by their own borders.

Whatever you do, choose the Russian team. It starts with a massive army, and wins pretty much every time, duo to the fact that USA must sail over all their units. I played a couple of matches and Russia won every time, no matter what I did. This makes the game so boring, since you just have to wait, in order to win or lose.

The game looks like an old reboot of an older game, which I normally don`t complain about, but the graphics are really lazy on the map and units. You never really feel like you are in a great world or anything, it`s just a plain and boring map, with a lot of symbols on it.

The main theme is actually okay, but the music in-game is downright terrible. It is full of annoying repetitions and loud noises. To top it all off you are never going to hear the music that well, since the sound effects to this game, are so loud and gets repetitive fast!

The mash of bad music and sound effects, made me turn off the sounds completely and find my own music. Luckily, I listen to metal, so the fighting seemed more exiting with that as the soundtrack, but the 5 minutes waiting every turn, really put me off. I must have listened to every single Iron Maiden song by the time I finished a match!

I don`t really know if this game is based on historical events, since I don`t know too much about history. I could imagen it is an aftermath of the 2. World War, but I don`t really know.

The game has no story really, other than the fact that Russia Wins this war.

Conclusion:
I did not enjoy this game. After the dreadful start by not knowing what to do at all, I slowly learned how to buy, and deploy units and attack the enemy. But the Russian army simply dose all the work for you, I was just running around the map, while the computer won for me.

The gameplay is really slow, if you don`t chose more than one county since the waiting and loading can take such a long time. I think I would have liked it better, if the gameplay was speed up in some way.

Overall I can`t really recommend this game, it is one of the most boring games I ever had to sit through and there are a tons of better strategy games out there, as a better alternative.

Now I am aware this is an early access game, so maybe a review like this will make the developer work on some of my critics. And who knows, maybe if the game will ever leave development hell, I will give it a new review.

Can I just say I LOVE the titel of this game? It`s so good!

Presentation:
Right away I saw this as just another RPG maker game, and it can be hit or miss for me when it comes to them. They have been flooding the market and I am personally getting a bit tired of seeing them everywhere, but I was postively suprised by this game.

The begining of the game, shows the end of the game to start with, whitch sets up a lot of explanation for the main charecter to do, via the main game, whitch og couse is a retelling of the events leading up to the end, this really draws you in, and you really want to know how you got there.

Gamepaly:
The gameplay is very simple, since there are no combat in this game. You just have to walk around and solve all your problems throug interactions with other charecters.¨

You get some huge areas to explore right away and you can solve a problem from diffrent angels deppending on how you did things, in the area you are in.

The game is centered around player choice, and all the choices you make throught the game, will impact the ending, and other parts of the game. As a huge fan of player choice games, like The Walking Dead, this game really got me to invest in my own story very much.

Charecters:
In this game, you chosse your carecter in the beginning, and afterwards make choices based on the situation you are in. What I love abbout this game, is the many diffrent charecters that are presentet to you, and how you interact with them. Sometimes, they can seem eaither good or evil, in terms of thier intentions, but many of the charecters are in a gray area, where it is not easy, to put them as a bad guy or a good guy.

This really helps the game, since you have to deal with these gray area charecters, and need to really find out, where you stand on the matter they present to you. This could for example be the beginning choice where you best friend wants to blackmail a doctor, becouse he dose not want to help his girlfrined fom an overdose.

These amazing cases are such an awsome experince to go through, and really highlights this game as great.

Visuels:
The game is a pixelated game, but really uses this to the max, some of the art pieces in this game look really good, and still give you a great atmospher overall.

Music:
The music in this game is amazing! The soundtrack is even out as DLC. The diffrent themes throught the game really help the areas atmospher, and are amazing to listen to outside the game.

Story:
The story is really great and here is the reason; grayzone. I have already talked about this, but it really is what makes the game shines. So in the beginning of the game, you chose a charecter and there boy or girlfriend, afterwards, you are given an author dealm whitch starts the real game. Here you have been left by your lover, and the author deal is going really bad. But then you are invited to your X´s wedding.

This sends you on a journy to find out why he or she invited you, and who she dumped you for. Along the way, many charecters ask why you are doing this, and the game is really good at making you qeustion your own quest, or really be determend to get your X back, so you can have a good life again.

To get too the wedding, you must travel around diffrent areas earn money, and in the end confront the beginning of the game, and make really hard choices.

Conclution:
This game is amazing. It presents the player with a deep thiking issue, and makes them deal with it, in any matter they see fit. It also shows how far you as a person would go, in order to maybe have a chance at anything, that could set your life strait.

It is truely a game about taking chances and explore the gray areas of youself, since you may or may not find out, what you would do in hard situations liek the one the main charecter is presented to.

If you are looking for a game with action, don`t play this. But if you are looking for a great storyline an amazing plot and ending, hard chocies and amazing chareccters, then I would highly recorment this game.

Ohh my, this game!

Before I start my review I would like to point out I palyed this game on my pc without a controller. The PC port of this game is downright terrible in terms of controles. Maybe you sould get youself a controller before playing this.

Presentation:
So the game begins with awfull music and starts with an amnesia plot. So original! Afterwards you are running aound, trying to find out how anything works in the game. All the butttons are displayed with the X-Box controler icons so you have no idea how the controles works on a PC. After running around some time, and thinking the controles are bad, I incounter and enemy. The enemy is easely beaten, but dosen`t die! I figure out you have to burn the corpses in order to really kill anything in this game, and trust me they play on this fire thing alot in this game. From the begining I was afraid I was not gonna like this game, and I was right after all.

Gameplay/Controles:
To be honest there is a great aspect I like about this game, the crafting. You can find items all over the game, then open your inventory to combine items in order to make a bomb, or molotoves etc. This aspect was great but here comes the bad aspects.

The camera can be switched from 3. to 1. person and the other way around. Sometimes I really think to myself, that the developers really did not know, if they wanted to make a 3. or 1. person game. They also switctes between these to modes some time, so I really wished they had just keept one or the other. The 3. person camera is either locked in a cinematic wiev, or right behind you and flies around if you get close to a wall. This togehther with clonky movement, makes the game So anoying to navigate.

The combat is really stiff. Eventhough you can move the weapons you have in hand around, they still seem to do one of two attack animations. The pistol is so underrealming, simply becouse you need fire to kill anything. And the bad combats goes on, and is the main part of the game. When a charecter is knoked down, you either need to have some fire, or find a nerby firesource, if you have none, you are going to fight the same enemy over and over forever.

There are driving in this game, but it is beyond bad. Eveything is so stiff, and you fell like you have no real contole over the car. There are even some driving porstions of the game, that took me SO long to complete becouse of the bad contoles.

There are also puzzle accpetcs to the game, but only one stands out, and that was the ghost puzzle where you have to find objects to spell a sentecne for you, the rest is really generick but it all have a problem.
The game is really not giving you any information how to do any of the puzzels in the game. Even when the anwser is not at all obvious. There is some dark floor you have to light up in order to walk past it, but the game dose not tell you how you can deal with it in other ways that are way smarter and easier. There even is a part where you have to make a really complicated bomb, in order to open a door by sticking it to a minion and there has been no indecation that you are able to do tihs.

The gameplay is really focus around fire, so everything get`s boring fast, becouse you only have to think of one way to win. There are many options to make weapons, but you simply choose the simples one, becouse any other way is either too complicated or too wierd.

You can also rewind time in the menu. It`s a really pointless feture. Just wanted to mention it.

Charecters:
I could start by saying, "what charecters?" All the charecters are so badly wrinten and the only way to get anything from them, is by reading SMS`s you get on your phone throught the game. Even this informatiuon is not interesting. So here are the charecters steriotypicall: main good guy with an atitude and amnesia, worthless girl charecter that works as loveinterest, old guy that knows whats going on and helps amnesia charecter, evil guy and evil force.
The dialog for all of them is so badly written and you care about no one in the story. Overall the charecters are so bad the game really makes you ask youself "why am I playing this?" "what do I get out of helping charecters I hate?"

Visuels:
This game is very ogly. The graphics really look to pixeld eventhough it`s a never game. It tries to have a seriuos look sometimes, but the graphics really kills it. Only a few moments and a boss looks ok, but why could they not make the whole game look like that?

The game takes place in Central Park, and therfore everything looks the same. Eventhough you laster in the game can explore, you find out how doll and gray everything looks. The coloursceam is a big minus here.

The animation for the game is also very wonki and glitchy. Sometimes the enemies can jump in the air and fly after your car eventhough you have driven far away. All in all the game look bad

Sound/Music:
The main theme of the game I think is bad, but you can of couse like it if you will. The rest of the sound is nothing to write home about.

Story/bosses
There will be no spoilers here, but I will comment on the ending.
So this is an amnesia storry. Your charecter has no idea who he is, and has to find that out. He finds an old guy and a girl and starts to figure stuff out. Then an evil guy shows up and want to kill the manin charecter.
The goal of the main charecter and the evil guy is to either stop or let out the devil. And by the way the devil destoryes a huge part of New York, and is aperentlly hitten under Central Park.

The story is really boring, and all of the charecters fells like they are totally ok with everythign that happens around them. You are just running around from one location to antoher while the girl is trying to find anything out about you. This leads to lot of traveling and a lot of bad combat in order to find the portal to the devil.
Eventhough the concept sounds cool it is executed in such a bad way, that you really losse interest of the story early on.

I have to mention there are boss fights but only one good. The rest is just plain bad and they are really few too.

About the ending. You have to make a choice, but trust me NONE of the choices makes for a good or even decent ending to this game.

Conclution:
So you kinda know now what I think about this game. I see it as a bad port from the X Box and a bad game in general. As a person that loves good carecters and story this game tries way too hard to have a good story and it just makes all the flwas shine even more.
Combine this with bad graphics, bad combat, anoyng puzzels and overall bad everything and you got youself a bad game in my opinion.