Recent reviews by luckynumchris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z9N07091rg

Here is my full review of this demo

This is basically my review here.
Sure a lil self promotion but basically my hour playing summed up in about 20ish minutes.

Balatro - Does it deserve game of the year 2024?

https://youtu.be/q0h3utnxknU?si=OPj8jenlFAx10uPG

I'm not a big horror guy so I barely played it but I can tell this is a great game.

A lot of things surprised me like destructible levels, the game screws with your head the whole way through and like a traditional roguelike you get neat abilities and it's very challenging.

If you like horror games and roguelikes then I would definitely put this on my wishlist and try it out sometime. Very unique.

Here's a link to my review

short
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TqrJEXvw9RY
longer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BVeLq4f8II

Bottom line the game wants me to suspend my disbelief where I clean a crime scene with police there. The trailers show cops chasing but I feel like that's what happens when you get caught. But they are there from the start and I'm supposed to vacuum or moving a dead body when they JUST saw it.
It's an insult to police and human intelligence and I just can't suspend my disbelief that much.

I originally thought this was more like a relaxing powerwash kind of game where I clean up a mess but I have to be fast, or can't make too much noise or something.

Shame because I was looking forward to this on my wish list for a while and it's a franchise.

8.4/10

Unique kind of gameplay, fast. Clear. I only had to look up one thing because I was worried it was glitch (it wasn't)
Very smooth combat

Music was good too. Found myself going on youtube because sometimes playing these games I personally play other music or something so I didn't have the most chance to listen to all of it. But going back on youtube I thought it was pretty good.

When I payed attention to the story it was kind of interesting ish

Cons:
The fast travel points weren't as close together as they should've been which led to a lot of walking back and forth.
There weren't THAT many enemies but you barely think about it when you're whizzing by everything.

But overall great game.

The game is fun but it came at the wrong time. I love my Roguelite FPS games and this game has potential. The environments are great, I love the theme as well and I love how many implants the games looks like it has but its' all too artificial.
All the implants that you put on your arsenal will happen just by playing the game. There isn't very much a strategical value to how you put them on your weapons because it's just the 4 types like switching the weapons, using grenades, an ability or your movement ability or your main (f) ability. I'm going to be using all those anyway so eventually you just kind of forget and don't care what they do because you're going to do the move regardless, but the game does a good job throwing a lot at you.
Like in Doom I would be able to control when I want my shields, or ammo or health with a separate button. The game needs more separate ability buttons for actives. But anyway it's a good game, well done and didn't have any problems with it technically speaking which is great these days.
So having said all this I feel that the market is a little competitive when it comes to all these types of games out there and I have many on my list so if this game came out a year or two ago that would've been perfect.
It's more of a personal preference but I definitely see and understand the love it will be getting.

So I will definitely recommend the game if you haven't had enough of Roguelites FPS shooters but not expecting too much of a strategical gameplay. Just a very fast paced reflexive kind of combat that feels rewarding as any Roguelite should when you beat a level or boss.

This is definitely a great game, and if you like Rogue Likes you definitely have to try this one.
I've been waiting for this since I heard about it when it was just for PS5. So glad I waited because I just can't play on controller to aim properly. Glad that HouseMarque decided to put it for PC.

The game feels great, movement doesn't feel clunky at all. Your characters moves intuitively to what you want and every mistake felt like it was my own from not reacting or moving in a certain way.
The mechanics are great with the different items have a positive and negative effect... Not too different from other Rogue likes games (which is a good thing) .

There are only 11 weapons but even tho you use/seen 1 pistol it still can be very different from the last pistol you used because of the upgrades and attachments it has that makes it feel almost like a whole other weapon.

The enemies seem diverse enough where I have 14 hours and still running into new enemies still with different abilities and dangers that still keeps me guessing.

I haven't beat the game yet but the story is definitely intriguing with enough mystery and doesn't slug too(ooo) much. There are some parts of the game that will stop you from the action to walk slowly in a first person mode but it's not a big deal. (warning these parts can have a horror element to so sit further back from the screen if you get scared easily) .

Even after I beat the game the game has a challenge mode and daily challenge mode to keep you coming if you just feel like you want that extra challenge.
So it's a good reason to have the game installed on my computer to hop on and off after a run.

And I definitely have to address that dreaded "fatal error" message.

Yes I got that message many times, and I agree in Co-Op for what I tried made it unplayable right now.

My friend refunded it but I still pushed through because even if you get it and the game crashes; the game completely remembers where you were with all your items and weapons and the previous room you were in before.
It crashed more and more tho that resulted in me looking for a fix.
And after looking I found some steps which made it so I could play a full 6 hours without 1 crash.

I don't know which solved it but I did all of the following below:

- verified the game files in steam and then restarted the computer
- updating my video card because it hasn't been updated for 2 weeks.
- turned down my settings from high to medium with no reflections.

My computer has 32 GB and I have a 3070X card, but I think it has something to do with optimization or something. I hope it will get fixed but even with medium graphics the game looks great still and at the end of the day I'm not someone who cares too much about graphics so it didn't bother me at all. After that I have only had a great time playing through the game.

Thanks again HouseMarque for porting this great game.
And hopefully other exclusive games can see what a big market they are missing out on!