MERCH!
Giant Bomb - a website about video games and the people that make them

saddlebrown (Premium member)'s Reviews

9 public written reviews

The views here are this user’s only and are not representative of Giant Bomb's thoughts and opinions on the discussed video game. GB's official reviews reside at giantbomb.com/reviews.

A wonderful but flawed piece of storytelling

4 out of 5 stars

I beat The Last of Us in one sitting my first time through. I don't recommend it. It's a dark, grueling experience, but I needed to see it through. Shortly after, I started it again, this time on Survivor difficulty. I just barely made it out of the sewers with almost zero health and zero supplies. I needed to take a break. I never picked it back up. Until Left Behind. And I'm so glad I did. I wouldn't have thought…

Read the full review A wonderful but flawed piece of storytelling

A wonderful but flawed piece of storytelling.

4 out of 5 stars

I beat The Last of Us in one sitting my first time through. I don't recommend it. It's a dark, grueling experience, but I needed to see it through. Shortly after, I started it again, this time on Survivor difficulty. I just barely made it out of the sewers with almost zero health and zero supplies. I needed to take a break. I never picked it back up. Until Left Behind. And I'm so glad I did. I wouldn't have thought…

Read the full review A wonderful but flawed piece of storytelling.

A wonderful but flawed piece of storytelling.

4 out of 5 stars

I beat The Last of Us in one sitting my first time through. I don't recommend it. It's a dark, grueling experience, but I needed to see it through. Shortly after, I started it again, this time on Survivor difficulty. I just barely made it out of the sewers with almost zero health and zero supplies. I needed to take a break. I never picked it back up. Until Left Behind. And I'm so glad I did. I wouldn't have thought…

Read the full review A wonderful but flawed piece of storytelling.

A wonderful but flawed piece of storytelling.

4 out of 5 stars

I beat The Last of Us in one sitting my first time through. I don't recommend it. It's a dark, grueling experience, but I needed to see it through. Shortly after, I started it again, this time on Survivor difficulty. I just barely made it out of the sewers with almost zero health and zero supplies. I needed to take a break. I never picked it back up. Until Left Behind. And I'm so glad I did. I wouldn't have thought…

Read the full review A wonderful but flawed piece of storytelling.

Jazzpunk2014

3 out of 5 stars

As Jazzpunk's brash, stylistic opening blares and swoops across the screen, you'd be forgiven for assuming that it's a game by Brendan Chung, the designer of bold, fantastic games like Gravity Bone , Thirty Flights of Loving , and the upcoming Quadrilateral Cowboy . Its got the same audacity and a similar visual style, full of loud colors and clean lines. It has the same panache for catchy brass music and it even…

Read the full review Jazzpunk

Dark Souls2011

5 out of 5 stars

I was arrogant when I started Demon's Souls. I ignored the warnings of those who had come before me and pranced through the first level without dying once, laughing in the face of man and God alike. But check the dates of my trophies and you'll see a pretty clear story being told: My arrogance lasted about a month and a half before I finally got stuck and quit until eight months later when an insomnia-driven…

Read the full review Dark Souls

Assassin's Creed III2012

1 out of 5 stars

Assassin's Creed III is the most dramatic overhaul in the series. It proudly features a new engine with streamlined controls, revamped combat, and reworked animations, among a host of other changes. It introduces a groundbreaking new setting with unflinching, unromanticized depictions of history. It promises to finally deliver on Desmond's potential and end his part in the overarching storyline. Assassin's Creed III…

Read the full review Assassin's Creed III

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves2009

5 out of 5 stars

Featuring one of the most exciting single-player adventures I’ve ever experienced and extremely addictive cooperative and competitive multiplayer modes, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is a game that all PlayStation 3 owners need to have. One of the best aspects of Uncharted 2 is how likeable its characters are. Nathan Drake deals with situations that go from bad to much, much worse with a nervous laugh and a joke.…

Read the full review Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Shadow of the Colossus2005

5 out of 5 stars

I'm going to be frank- when I first started Shadow of the Colossus, I hated it. I hated how the character, Wander, was so very awkward as opposed to the normal badass I'm used to controlling in a videogame. I hated how the controls felt needlessly unconventional. I hated the horse, Agro, because he was so stubborn and hard to control. But then, something changed. I started to appreciate how Wander was so different…

Read the full review Shadow of the Colossus