Recent reviews by Shimmer Gaming

Warframe is easily the best Free to Play game I've ever played. The movement system is fast, and easy to learn but hard to master. The combat is rewarding and killing feels satisfying. Everything paid is optional and will only save you time grinding or give cosmetics, and grinding never feels boring because the core game is so fun to play. I don't see myself putting this down anytime soon, and I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone.

Best MMO I've ever wasted 1,000 hours on...

Actually really fun and addicting now. I can't put it down! Between managing my freights, building my freight base/planet base, missions, main-quest, exploration, gathering, crafting, hunting, space combat, building, upgrading your suit, gun, and ship, it feels like there's always something to switch off too when you get bored. It's funny, because when the game came out having nothing to do was a huge complaint. Now I feel like the game is full of stuff, and it's STILL being updated despite being years old at this point! I highly recommend it at it's current stage, and I can't wait to see what's next for the game.

Welcome to the new generation of survival horror. 10/10 can't wait for RE3.

Was a poor kid. Always had friends talking about how badass Halo 3 and Halo Reach were, but at the time I had a PS2 and an original Xbox with the first Halo game. I loved it, but man did I wanna play multi-player. In the future I got a 360 and I think I borrowed Reach from a friend. Couldn't afford Live Gold, but loved the campaign.

10/10 Getting to relive my childhood, replaying the Reach campaign in 60FPS with a mouse/keyboard, and FINALLY getting to experience the multi-player everyone used to talk so highly of, as no subscription fees are needed to play multiplayer on PC. I absolutely love it and I feel like I'm as hooked now as others were ten years ago. Can't wait to replay Halo 1, and experience the other games in the series for the first time... oh the things I've heard about Halo 3 back in the day.

No movie... game... book... music... or any other form of media has touched me the way To The Moon has. From it's simple graphics and gameplay to it's heartbreaking, entrancing, realistic, and plausible story this game trancends the boundaries from game to pure art. It's an experience that left me in tears moreso than any other form of media ever has.

Do NOT be put off by it's retro graphics. To The Moon is the kind of game every person needs to experience at least once. It's a game that will twist your emotions constantly from humorous to sadness to happiness to anything in between.

You play as two quirky doctors who have the special job of going into one's memories and altering them permanantly in order to grant a dying client their lifelong wish. This will allow them to believe they had lived the life of their dreams as they draw their last breath so that they may die in peace. It's not as simple as pulling a switch however, as the doctors must travel backwards through the clients memories all the way to childhood where they will implant the desire as early in as possible. Normally it isn't too difficult...

But every now in then there comes a client that is a little bit particular.

The job seems simple enough. An old man living in a big house wants to be able to visit the moon before he dies. But things get strange when not even he remembers why he wanted to visit the moon in the first place. So the doctors must go back as far into the man's memories as they can. Experiencing a lifetime of romance, tragedy, loss, hapiness, and any other fathomable emotion you will grow to the characters in a way you haven't grown to any game characters before.

I can't wait for the sequel so that I can experience the next chapter in the Doctor's stories!

Easily one of my favorite Final Fantasy games. Yes it is locked to 720p, but yes it still looks gorgeous. Running flawless framerates on my AMD A10 Quad core running at 4.3ghz, 12GB DDR3 RAM, Windows 8.1. I have a 3TB HDD so the install size didn't bother me one bit. (Seriously guys, 1TB+ hard drives are dirt cheap.)

Put a good 100+ hours into the Xbox 360 game, flipped out when it was ported, and plan to put many more hours into the PC version as well, and also plan on buying the other two when they're released!

Guided my nearsighted, colorblind lich through a castle chasing a headless chicken to restore health only to be killed by a flying painting that knocked me into a pit of spikes. 10/10 GOTY

Rogue Legacy is one of the most fun games I've personally played in a while. You play as one of several classes entering into a castle in order to kick ass and get gold. You die easily, expecially at first. You'll be lucky to survive a couple minutes your first few rounds of the game. After you die you choose a new heir to replace you between three randomized choices, and the one you choose determines not only your class for the round (Warrior/Barbarian/Mage/Shinobi/Lich/Miner/Etc.) but also varying traits that can make the round either much harder, or much easier. (Colorblindness, near/farsightedness, short, tall, weak limbs, etc. to name a few) It's pretty cool because you can see the family tree of every heir you've chosen up to that point. On top of that the castle is also randomized so you never know if it'll be a walk through the clouds or the literal incarnation of hell itself.

Upgrades you buy are permanant throughout all your characters though so any max health, strength, critical stats, etc. you buy along with any weapons and armor you buy will transfer over as you die. As more and more people sacrifice themselves for teh epic lootz the easier it will be to make it farther and farther into the depths of the castle. There are other locations aside from the castle that you can make it too, as well as minibosses and bigger world bosses to fight but as of now (Almost 5 hours in) I'm still unable to survive anywhere outside of the castle.

You will unlock upgrades that slowly build your castle from the ground up and range from stat increases to blacksmiths, enchantresses, new classes, gold increases, and many more. Eventually you can even upgrade the games difficulty in order to keep yourself challenged at higher levels for bigger rewards. Aside from upgrades you can also find random items in the castle that you can interact with such as diary entries, paintings of other games made by the developers, carnivals with mini games, and even a jukebox that lets you choose a track to play for the current round. The music is reminisent of titles from the Sega Genesis and so the music brings back a sense of nostalgia to me. It's nice, it doesn't ever feel repetitive, and it sets the mood rather well.

All in all I would recommend this game to anyone who likes rogue-like games, or just general addicting timewaster games. It's cheap and it's really worth the money.