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The Good:
Lock Picking is actually kinda unique using a rhythm setup, A+
Sabbac is a great card game, I wanna play sabbac.

The Mid:
The Story is fine, no where near as good as the Jedi Games.
Combat and stealth are fine if not a bit too easy even with difficulty up.
Hacking is kinda boring but better than Fallout.

The Bad?:
The bad parts of the game are thankfully stuff that don't really actually affect the main run of the game. Space Combat, The Open World itself, The Cartels, the side missions, the speeder.

Honestly this game would have probably been a lot better if they didn't try to shoe horn in the standard ubisoft game play loops and had instead gone for a way more linear game. The Upgrades and Equipment you can find don't actually matter outside of getting more health, health regen, and sometimes being able to utilize heavy weapons. The crafting for your bike doesn't matter, the crafting for the ship only really matters to make the final fight quick, the cartel stuff really doesn't matter at all because you'll never really fall into a low enough rep to have hit squads sent after you and the rewards you get don't matter because see above.

Honestly get this on sale and just play sabbac and do the main quest it's probably worth fifteen bucks for a decent six hours.

This is a fun game.

Pros:
Very loving adaption of the works of Junji Ito to a haunted house game.
Short, maybe three hours of content, this is a pro because the base gameplay loop probably wouldn't have stood up to padding out.

Cons:
One boss fight wears out its welcome really quickBalloon Head

I'd like to see a sequel by this team, maybe make it a little longer, the puzzles a bit more complicated, and a different game play loop.

An excellent recreation of Tony Hawk 3, and a so-so recreation of Tony Hawk 4, probably due to a limitation of the engine? Who knows. NOW DO THUG 1&2

Very good SOTN-Like

I wish there was a rating between yes and no.

Yes, this is a good port of a bunch of Yugioh games, the dev did a good job on the emulation front.

No, because half of the games are basically the same game just minor revisions, and the fact those games are grindy "beat this guy five times, move on to the next guy, oops your deck isn't powerful enough now I have beatup Joey for 100 rounds to get good enough cards" This isn't a fault of the devs of this collection, it's just the first set of games where just not very good in the first place.

SOTN by way of Metal Slug. Excellent work.

Thank goodness you're here reading this review.


Do you like having a chill experience just watching sight gags with no challenge? I did and it was lovely.

A chill metroidvania like. Well done.

Pretty good game play loop, a more action oriented more approachable xcom. The game is also extremely faithful to the movies and lore previously established in Aliens, and even gets the tone right.

I can't really think of any glaring downsides at this point, I would have liked more of certain elements and maybe more opportunity to do base building like the xcom base, but overall good game.

This game is a love letter to old style wrestling games such as No Mercy, WCW/NWO Revenge, and the Smackdown series. The controls are quick to pick up and you can pretty much drop anyone into the game and make the fighty people hit each other unlike the 2K games. If you have friends this is the wrestling game you all can sit on a couch and play. Key positives for this game is extremely ambitious music selection, multiplayer fun, and core fighting experience. Negatives include weird roster omissions of legacy/important AEW names such as Uno/Stu, Acclaimed, etc, limited create-a suite, and hit or miss aesthetic choices

Pick it up if you: Love AEW and Oldstyle wrestling games and have friends

Pass it if you: Hate AEW/Don't know anything about AEW, care about aesthetics over substance, and don't have friends.