Recent reviews by Aimbot

Play this game. Do it now! Prey is a great "immersive sim." I can't think of a game that makes me think about stuff as much as this one does. And I've never had an "evil" playthrough feel worse. While there's a message about Empathy that the game can't quite hit because it can't read player motivation, it did make me feel bad for doing bad things.

The gameplay is great; it's an FPS but you're not strong at first. You have to sneak around and gain power over time. Both the gunplay and extra abilities are fun. There are multiple ways to play and approach things. The story is really interesting too. Play this game. Support games like this. More people need to play so more games like this get made. Do it! Do it now!

This is an old game, but I finally got around to playing it. The intro is interesting. You meet some silly characters. Then you run around shooting the same few enemies for a long, long time. There are some neat guns, which is the fun of the game. You finally get more enemies later. But the world and most of the characters were boring and one note. There wasn't enough about the vault or the mysterious person communicating with you to keep me going. I finished just to finish and see if the Vault had anything cool. You fight a neat monster and the game ends. This might be fun with friends, but at the end of the day, I was mostly just chewing through endless waves of dull enemies. The alien shotgun was pretty cool though.

I tried the T-Bone junction DLC. I was intrigued but you have to drive everywhere without fast travel. That got tedius and boring quickly.

I had some fun with this. The combat felt good. I like when I learn skill at a combat system as the character is learning combat. But I play game less for pure gameplay anymore and want a story too. On one hand, this is a long game and poorly paced. Several times there were several long cutscenes in quick succession making it like a movie I was watching. On the other hand, the story just ends unresolved. I never saw any indication this was supposed to be "book one" of a series. It seems like the devs were far too enamored with the portrayal of real historical people and events.

I did like the last two conversations in the game, one each with the character's real and surrogate fathers.

I had some fun and might check out a sequel, but the last few hours left a bad taste in my mouth.

I really enjoyed Q.U.B.E., and it's ending left me with a really good feeling. It is definitely one of the best attempts at recreating the feel of Portal, and is definitely better if you've played Portal first. The puzzles were fun and the story (present only in Director's cut, apparently) was satisfying. So naturally, I got this game.

It was boring. While I liked that various mechanics, only a handful of the puzzles felt non-obvious and made me feel good when solving them. The writing and story were dull. There is a binary ending choice for no reason, when you haven't made any choices yet. You're supposed to figure it out based on the dialogue along the way. But it's pretty obvious and of the two doors, they even make them LOOK good and evil, lit up like ME3 choices. Yeah, I know those were ALL bad. But would your rather walk toward the silver-blue light or the dark, red one? Worst of all, the story here undermines the events of the first game, Thankfully, it can't take away how good that game FELT at the end. Go play that instead. If you already have, stop there.

This is a simple puzzle game, but as a fan of Portal, Talos Principle, and Cube, I enjoyed it. It's not as good as any of those three, but I did enjoy it. One thing it got right was the pacing at the end. Picking it up again after a while to finish it, I was getting to where I was ready to be done. The game made it sound like I had a long way to go but the puzzles were over. All that remained was some fast paced platforming, needing to stay in the moving light pools. But with some good music, it felt like being behind the walls in Portal. It was exactly what I needed to finish the game on a good note.

Lots of reviews of games say they wish for a middle option between "yes" or "no" on the recommendations. I think the best comparison is a food you like just enough to mindlessly eat it while you watch TV or work on a project. It was fine at the time, but you don't really remember it and won't go out of your way to eat it again.

I liked getting a ship and flying around, but the locations weren't that interesting. The story ended up being pretty boring, though I liked a few parts. The guns were fun, though combat eventually became dull as well.

But... well, writing this makes me want to load it up just to check it out again...

So, fun combat, sneaking, and stealing with weak story, world, and writing.

Bastion was awesome and made me really care about what had happened and what was happening. Here, the voice actor for the excellent narrator in Bastion is a talking sword that won't shut up. I have no idea what's going on and don't care. He keeps babbling and it isn't nearly as interesting as before. It's about the boring world, not what I'm doing or what is happening. I have no reason to care. The gameplay is boring too. Blech. Give me more Bastion.

The game seems cool and I like how the movement feels. But the combat is a frustrating chore. You die in one hit and redoing entire rooms when messing up on the last enemy gets old. If you're willing to take the time to master the movements, it'll be easier and probably satisfying. But I wasn't enjoying the learning like I do with some challenging games. (Played on free days)

I bought this because it seemed like a simple action/adventure game that would appeal to my son, who is young and just learning to play games. I was right on the aesthetics, wrong on the gameplay. I enjoyed playing it and he enjoyed watching and helping sometimes. The combat was only ok and a bit shallow, but I really enjoyed the puzzles and the exploration. Running around the world and gaining access to new movement abilities was great. There is a final boss, but, thankfully, it was a puzzle, not combat. My only disappointment was that, out of nowhere, the final boss is... a giant turd. There hadn't been anything that low-brow in the game so it stuck out.

The developer really leaned into the aesthetic of toys in a kids toy box and had the child show up in the background a few times. That was a lot of fun. There is a nice, basic, and obvious moral hidden in there too. But I liked the simplicity so I could explain it to my son and it was subdued enough where I didn't feel like I was being beaten over the head by an author's "message." Finally, there are a few non-upgrade collectibles and it was fun recognizing the characters from other media hidden throughout.

There seems like there could be a lot to this game if you give it time, but I wasn't willing to. The survival mechanics seemed hard to recover from a downward slide, but maybe I missed something. Part of it why I couldn't get into it was graphics. It looks like a much older game and that really just rubbed me the wrong way. I never played "No Man's Sky" but the apparent similarities worried me. Maybe if it goes on a further sale, I'd try it again. I had some interest in continuing to play. I just decided I'd rather keep my money at this point and I have plenty of other games to play.