Papers, Please2013
5 out of 5 stars
Deceptively dark for a simple premise, understanding whats just under the surface really changes your outlook; the price of being good at a fascist job.
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Deceptively dark for a simple premise, understanding whats just under the surface really changes your outlook; the price of being good at a fascist job.
The ultimate pirate sim. Targets were underwhelming but the ship battles more than madeup for it. Not a great Assassin’s Creed game but a perfect pirate game.
Labrys is best girl. The game’s use of Heartful Cry is the best needledrop in the series
It shows its seams on second play throughs but works great if you meet it at its level. Lee is the perfect blank slate to be as nice or as mean as what makes sense and I have tremendous respect for it.
The ultimate version of the game. Every item has hidden values for morale or usage and change values greatly. The voice acting and music are top tier and it’s honestly one of the best run based games out there. This is my definitive Oregon Trail
The most influential full game of modern horror and PT is the other
I don’t normally do half stars but when I watched Minotti play through this game (his favorite game from his childhood) it struck me that some of the jokes were literally incomplete. Like the punchline seemed separate from the joke, or Larry had to say a line really fast because the timing was way off. It was baffling. also ugly characters. Any match 3 slop can make pretty video game girls but this male gaze sex…
For a puzzle game that promises limitless abilities, you end up falling back to the same tricks a lot. A lot of the powerups are either overpowered or don’t work as intended
Love the soundtrack and style, but the autocombo mode is too easy and the normal difficulty is too hard. It’s frustrating. Some amazing setpieces though
The distortion world was such a lame fart. Can’t even put strange Pokemong in there? What am I supposed to feel?
Having the joke ending accessible for the first playthrough is unforgivable. and the stupidest twist in the series I’m sorry
Goofy minigames and normal controls this is the best of the fighting game trilogy. I wish Unleashed wasn’t such a giant step back but theres so much potential in these games. Plus playable Spacegodzilla is everything I ever wanted.
I wanted to like it so much. It was a present. It was rare and expensive. But you can’t give me characters and rip them away for chapters in a game like this. Micaiah’s whole team is terrible, but I’d rather see their journey than wander around.
One of the culprits decided to tell Apollo he would never accept him. And I felt that. I will never accept you, Apollo. Can’t even be the star of your own game. Gary Sue powers of reading poker tells instead of the superior magatama. go away Apollo
A cute idea but unforgiving execution. Like real capitalism
I’ll give it this the voice cast gave it all to make it the same level of melodrama as the showz shame the side stuff was weak but I think its still a fun accompaniment to the show
I love this game and it’s one of the most beautiful stories on the system but boy its grindy. Emulating fast forward spam made it bearable.
A near perfect arcade baseball game in contrast to my favorite sim MVP 2005 but its fielder assignments are unforgivable. Flyballs and bunts might as well be a crapshoot. They give you a button to change fielders but also change them automatically. So you could switch to the right one and switch back immediately several times
I hate to say it but turning this into a double battle with limited capturable Pokemon make this a very slow game
The voice acting was top notch and the art was beautiful. BUT everything else is severely lacking
The standard in my opinion, mostly because its portable and 9 is too big. The characters (normally) have finite time to grind and support. My favorite thing with these characters is they all seem to have their own stories and lives, slowly revealed as they talk and support woth different characters. Having all characters pair with each other has hurt it a lot in the other handheld games, and the limited classes help…
I like this game a lot but the main campaign is sucha small part of the whole package its hard to say if I got the whole package
Duller and uglier than MP 4. Donkey Kong curiously unplayable too. Its weird, and the capsule system slowa the game down to a crawl imo
The perfect starfighting game with barely movable action figure onfoot sections. Baffling choices
The best water graphics in video games. And I believe has that great hockey and volleyball minigame room?
This is my goldeneye. Better weapons better warfare and maps. Turrets and remote control bombs
I remember enjoying the combat but it was jarring there was no story or congratulations screens in the Top Gun game
Memorable designs for the ghosts I love this game so much. Not perfect but the ghost collecting is a blast and getting perfect hunts for better frames is a fun challenge to return to
Tennis RPG that happens to have some Mario. You get an endless parade of anime opponents and have to improve stats by practicing and drills, just like real tennis. I had a 20 minute rally in this game and a 90 Minute match. It was the most difficult boss fight I’ve ever faced because I did not recall my most recent lesson and we were exactly evenly matched. “ I love telling people this.
My only knock is the final boss requires collecting all supposedly optional collectables as if the normal ending is satisfactory. Other than that perfect game. Why won’t they bring the combo mechanic back?
What if a game improves and added to every element of its predecessor, but in all the wrong ways? Banjo Tooie basically took your character and moveset from game one and tripled them. They increased collectables and back tracking. It gave you mini games FPS sections and several unique transformations and traversal types. Is it awesome? Yes. Is it too much? Also yes. I had the Prima strategy guide and couldn’t keep…
I don’t care that assets are reused. The gameplay changed and this is the first time a space ever felt lived in to me. But the crowning achievement of this game was showing you all the terrors in this doomed town and motivating you to help them out after seeing them fail over and over again. It became worn territory in other media but I never felt it as much as here. Failing the mask quest and dooming an NPC is a…
The quintessential Mario Party. You have goofy outfits, fun maps, and one of the best soundtracks on the system. I stand by that. DK is so off model its cute
Where do I begin? The mysticism of a whole new land of Pokemon, with working days of the week and a working clock. Pokemon has never felt as lived in as this game; visit this shop on Tuesdays, wait for your hiker friend to tip you off on a rare Pokemon swarm. And finally a return to the old map culminating in a boss fight with your first game self? This game is a masterpiece and it is a tragedy internal batteries…
The perfect arcade hockey experience and I won’t hear anything else.
I had a legitimate panic attack when I learned Pikachu wouldn’t listen to me because my voice was changing from puberty. I became aware of mortality and the impermanence of everything and everyone. Also the Pokemon are off-model and look bad.
Actually I beat this game this year and enjoyed my time with it. It’s a short puzzle game where lives are hard to come by so you have to go as far as you can before getting a game over. Like how games used to be. The mechanic is Flick must pick up powerups to his seeds and plant them so they can be upgraded platforms, bouncepads, shields, or berry throws. It’s actually pretty simple. The big downside is that he does…
This game’s charming as all hell but has nothing to do with Godzilla. It’s a puzzle game where big G is chibi and chased by other chibi monsters as he tries to obtain his goal of breaking every boulder in the level. Monsters charge heedlessly at him and slowly drain damage if they touch you. You defeat them with a big cartoon fist. This game is nonsense but it was my very first video game and I love it for that.
It’s amazing how much hearing Star Wars music and sound effects elevate the experience. Rogue Squadron is clumsy in places even compared to say Shadow of the Empire but the different ship types and mission variety give it so much more legs. i will say I have been unable to obtain gold on the first level because I don’t think there are enough enemies to shoot down. I wipe the map clean but still end up two short. I…
I’m a Mario Party fan but the prevalence of 1P games, repeatable minigame algorithm and plain maps make this a skip
My first platformer. Obtuse, messy, but simple enough of a concept where I found eventually beating it rewarding. There are probably better uses of the property but I like this one.
A surprisingly robust puzzle game on gameboy that is offbeat and interesting in its own personality unique in Nintendo. He won’t die but rather resets you to checkpoints, which is a simpler less frustrating way of making a stage platformer. I liked it a lot even though the branching paths were obtuse
World class soundtrack, and a mostly tight experience with fun levels and characters. Knocked off a point because some of the platforming is unnecessarily slippery and is much more prevalent in the second half.
