Modern and Retro Video Game Reviews, News, and Gameplay
You can finish Indiana Jones and the Great Circle in 15-20 hours if you stick to the main story. I played for 68. I went full completionist, collected everything, and played almost the entire game without firing a gun. I also got stuck in scenery more times than I can count, watched a soldier stand at attention while skewered in a trap, and lost hours to one puzzle near the end that nearly drove me mad.
The Great Circle has some rough edges, but I couldn’t put it down.
When I saw Mixtape getting 10 out of 10 scores, I immediately downloaded it. But after I watched a review of it, it didn’t really look like a game, but more of an interactive story or visual novel. That’s not what I was looking for and I immediately lost interest. A few days went by and the reviews kept rolling in calling it a masterpiece, but also lots of division within the gaming community about those high ratings. I figured I had to see for myself.
It took only two days, about 3.5 hours of total gameplay, to finish it.
For me, it’s a 6 out of 10. It’s not a masterpiece, but also a lot more of a game than the angry reviews give it credit for.
A game with a lot of meaning, some darkness and comedy, and way too much dialogue. That’s the short version.
I came into Disco Elysium knowing almost nothing about it, other than that it’s a phenomenal game. People say the game is amazing, it’s unique, dark, and one of best-written games ever. I’ve heard people talking about how they wanted to replay it making completely different choices. I mean, that sounds like a must-play, right?
But after getting started, I was very surprised to see at what kind of game it actually is. A wall of reading. Heavy political and socioeconomic stuff. Race, poverty, ideology.
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Silent Hill is one of the most well-known survival-horror series, known for its dark atmospheres, twisted and creepy monsters, and psychological scares. Oh and fog.
With the massive success of the recent Silent Hill 2 Remake, many gamers (like me) are returning to older games in the series, one of which being Silent Hill: The Short Message, which is free on the Playstation Store.
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There are a lot of good reviews of Resident Evil 6, but there seem to be many more bad ones. Some of these reviews make the game seem so bad that I was sure I was going to hate it. I picked it up from Redbox anyway and played it over the course of a long weekend.
I played the game all the way through for a total time of 31:48:09 (hours:minutes:seconds)