Come on, step it up.
Bastion is fantastic with only one exception made for committing the cardinal sin of having an incredible combat system and virtually zero bosses. Wait, what.
Well this old man'd give it a 5/5 since I'm hearing this line in Ruck's voice.
Gish is a puzzle game for people who were wondering what the Super Meat Boy guys did before they made games that were actually good.
1/5 would puke again.
Recettear is a great game but a little samey, like how there isn't actually that many hidden values to customer buyouts and you can achieve ridiculous 95% sale efficiency by always selling at 114% mark-up and just cultivating a customer base that will pay that for big money wares. Also the dungeon crawling is fun enough but not that great.
4/5 I'm really gay for moe blobs.
Faster Than Light is a pretty entertaining Rogue-Like with all the flaws I could associate with the Rogue-Like genre, mostly related to frustration and RNG horse-shit. Also it's kinda really bad form that the last boss is a puzzle that requires very specific layouts and punishes some weapon layout creativity.
4/5 in general, 1/5 if you're trying to unlock the Crystal Ship or something.
Borderlands 1 is completed because I beat the DLC with 3 friends and uhhh General Knoxx is pretty great and Dr
ZNed was one of the few times I felt genuinely intimidated by the enemies but as per the core Borderlands experience all the bosses are bad jokes and oh yeah General Knoxx had a really bad obsession with long-distance vehicle travel time and that sucked.
3/5 Knoxx, 3/5 Moxxi, 4/5 Ned, 3/5 Claptrap, 4/5 Overall Game With Friends, 2/5 Alone.
Burrito Bison and Burrito Bison Revenge are perfect flash games.
Just try them.5/5 x2 had to slap own wrist to not grind out every achievement in Revenge.
X-Com: Enemy Unknown the new one is really great, it really captures the spirit of the originals and is fun as all heck and has a modern UI that makes it easier to get into than the oldies. As a giant nerd I actually miss all the stuff they took out and as a giant sperg I really wish they'd diversify enemy line-ups a bit more buuuuut it still rules.
5/5 will play again on harder difficulties.
Torchlight 1 is Diablo 2 for idiots who can't let Diablo 2 go, I fired it up to get it the fuck off my list and I did the entire game as a Shoot Guns Lady Class and it was pretty boring as fuck, I feel bad that somebody would copy Diablo 2 this hard and deliver more boring skill trees. Oh and all the enemy design in the last half of the main game is incredibly bad, I'm talking enemies that can hit you with nearly instant full-screen attacks the second you see them. Don't worry though, I realized that if you use the "Resurrect Instantly But Lose Experience" option until you bottom out of your current level, you won't lose a level or anything. I beat the last two bosses of the game by face-tanking them and resurrecting 30+ times while watching Adventure Time and idly hitting Right-Click so that my Explosive Shot would go off at least one time before I died again.
3/5, it's a competent Diablo 2 clone except for all the times it's not and the amateur design mistakes really hurt.
Half Minute Hero is on Steam now and it's a 4 hour parody JRPG that is better than a lot of 60 hour modern JRPGS. The writing wit and charm and the design is outstanding, it really shows that these dudes knew what they were doing to make things fun and to get you really into the game. My favorite little touch is that the
excellent sound-track is designed around the game's 30 second gimmick so most tracks are shorter than 90 seconds, many 60 or even 30. QUALITY.
Play through the entire game on Retro Graphics first, they butcher the other
three awesome game modes pretty badly with the new stuff.
5/5 Would Rewind Time Again.
