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<span class="name" style="color: #333" data-wfid="a6368413b3f3"><span class="innerContentContainer">Video Game Log</span></span>
<ul>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Cassette Beasts</b>, <span class="colored c-red">Not Recommended.</span></span></div>
<span class="note" style="font-size: 12px; color: #666"><span class="innerContentContainer">Pokemon is still the king. I think it tries new stuff but ultimately is a clone.
</span></span>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Empire Earth I, II, </b><span class="colored c-red"> Not Recommended in 2024, graphics doesn't hold, severe QoL needed</span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Fallout 3, </b><span class="colored c-blue">Maybe but dropped due to:</span></span></div>
<ul>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">The bugs, graphics and the gameplay have aged too badly to enjoy it in 2024.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Once you have played newer releases, it's very hard to go back to this game.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Huge area but eh, the gameplay loop is pretty much loot->explore->kill->loot->explore->..</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">You need to save a lot as you'll miss or goof up something</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">It takes years to start, actually play the game. </span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">I'll probably come back to this later if there is a remastered version. </span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">I want to play it but it takes quite a long time to open up/get to the good parts.</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Portal, </b><span class="colored c-red">Recommended but dropped due to health hazard (FOV + blur = nausea & headaches)</span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Portal 2</b>, <span class="colored c-red">Recommended but dropped due to health hazard (FOV + blur = nausea & headaches)</span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Half Life 2 + DLC</b>, <span class="colored c-red">Recommended but dropped due to health hazard (FOV + blur = nausea & headaches)</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Age of Empires DE, </b><span class="colored c-green">Highly</span> <span class="colored c-green">Recommended</span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>NFS Most Wanted (2005), </b><span class="colored c-red">Not Recommended, dropped after 3 hours, super repetitive</span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Painkiller, </b><span class="colored c-red">Maybe but dropped due to health hazard, see DUSK. Also super repetitive.</span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Call of Duty (1) + United Offense, </b><span class="colored c-green">Recommended</span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Wolfenstein (2009), </b><span class="colored c-red">Recommended but dropped due to health hazard</span></span></div>
<span class="note" style="font-size: 12px; color: #666"><span class="innerContentContainer">This precise, sharp shooter oozing with atmosphere is a classic if you can tolerate the nausea and headaches.
</span></span>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Oceanhorn, </b><span class="colored c-red">Not Recommended, dropped after 1 hour.</span></span></div>
<span class="note" style="font-size: 12px; color: #666"><span class="innerContentContainer">3D Zelda inspired game fails to even be a mediocre game.
</span></span>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Quest Hunter, </b><span class="colored c-red">Not Recommended, dropped after 2 hour.</span></span></div>
<span class="note" style="font-size: 12px; color: #666"><span class="innerContentContainer">A banal repetitive top down lite-rpg, true to it's name.
</span></span>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>DUSK, </b><span class="colored c-red">Recommended but but dropped due to health hazard</span></span></div>
<span class="note" style="font-size: 12px; color: #666"><span class="innerContentContainer">Excellent shooter, a bucket load of secrets, lot's of love. Unfortunately, not for me.
</span></span>
<ul>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Fantastic "boomer shooter" (style similar to the DOOM era, thus for boomers)</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Movement is fluid, gunplay is satisfying, lot's of enemies, lot's of care put in this game.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Unfortunately, I simply couldn't get into it:</span></div>
<ul>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">The low pixel art/graphics makes it very hard to navigate dark mazes underground - I probably need a very sharp monitor for this.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Jump scares - I simply refuse to play games with them</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Movement is a bit too fast for me liking - I get nausea because of this - fast speed in claustrophobic alleys/mazes with constant guns blazing. </span></div>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">This is a fantastic game but not for me.</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Grim Dawn</b>, <span class="colored c-blue">Maybe,</span><span class="colored c-pink"> </span><span class="colored c-blue">dropped after 5-6 hours</span></span></div>
<span class="note" style="font-size: 12px; color: #666"><span class="innerContentContainer">Fun action-rpg but still an action-rpg aka mindless, repetitive slaying of hordes for RNG loot.
</span></span>
<ul>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Well optimized, runs smoothly even in very low end hardware.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Lot's of builds, customizations that allows you to experiment and create a character you love.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Good environments, many quests though all are basically kill, fetch or go rescue/talk to someone.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Fun for a while, get's very repetitive later on - this is pretty much the whole genre imo, I am not a huge fan of action rpgs because of the randomized loot. </span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">To experience/enjoy it fully you need to buy all the expansions - significantly more expensive than the base game.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Satisfying gameplay, poor bosses. </span></div>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Novalands</b>, <span class="colored c-blue">Maybe,</span><span class="colored c-pink"> </span><span class="colored c-blue">dropped after 6-7 hours</span></span></div>
<span class="note" style="font-size: 12px; color: #666"><span class="innerContentContainer">Forager copy but with a bit of a charm. Surprising amount of content.
</span></span>
<ul>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Very much a forager copy. </span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Fast progression in the first half, grindy in the later </span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">So much casual and chiller than hardcore games like a Factorio. </span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Simple crafting, only a few items, just 32 items in the research tree</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Content is very well introduced and unlocked </span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Cheap enough for the content it offers, still I don't really think it's enjoyable content in the later half as you're just chasing to unlock everything and be done with it. </span></div>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Dredge</b>, <span class="colored c-blue">Maybe, dropped after ~6 hours.</span></span></div>
<span class="note" style="font-size: 12px; color: #666"><span class="innerContentContainer">A well crafted lovecrafting fishing indie that wears off after a few hours.
</span></span>
<ul>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Gameplay: fish -> sell -> upgrade boat to fish better, explore, make is faster -> repeat</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">The story and atmosphere is what it makes it so much intriguing. There are lite horror elements, eldritch horrors of the sea lurking, mutated fish and cults. </span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Very beautiful! Striking art style! Etched in my memories!</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Grindy. QTE Fishing. </span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">~7-8 hours, maybe 10 for everything</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Quests are either fish something or fetch something. </span></div>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Vampire Survivors</b>, <span class="colored c-green">Recommended, </span><span class="colored c-blue">~40 hours = all achievements</span></span></div>
<span class="note" style="font-size: 12px; color: #666"><span class="innerContentContainer">Bullet-hell, rogue-like shoot 'em up. Great old-style, charming art-style. Very addictive. Very cheap.
</span></span>
<ul>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">You pretty much play a stage again and again and level up your characters with random weapon and power spawns. Why? to unlock more stuff.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">There's a nice implicit story that makes it fun to grind for achievements</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">The power scaling is really well balanced, dopamine rushes all the time when you have chest dropping given 5x rewards, your character massacring hordes. </span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Gameplay wise it's nothing revolutionary, nor is the story. But it's fun and that's what matters. </span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">The surface hides deep secrets, interesting mechanics. It's so much more than a mindless RNG bullet hell session.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">In Vampire Survivors you don't just hunt <i>vampires</i>, you hunt achievements. Secrets and unlocks are layered perfectly. Secrets unfurl like a Matryoshka doll subtly startling your intrigue.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">New unlocks make the gameplay crazy - the good kind. That high DPS slaughtering makes the dopamine hit, the soundtrack kicks and before you know, you’re addicted.</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>TOEM</b>, <span class="colored c-blue">Maybe, ~6 hours = all achievements</span></span></div>
<span class="note" style="font-size: 12px; color: #666"><span class="innerContentContainer">An intriguing albeit childish story, charismatic and memorable characters, soulful writing, whimsical dreams, grandmother’s love and a satisfying camera system fills this black&white game with infinite colors.</span></span>
<ul>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Very short, completed the main game in 3 hours (~75% achievements), 100% main game in 4hours, 100% everything (game+dlc) in ~5.5 hours.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Basto Island, DLC (free) is quite irritating with it’s confusing level design and the day-night mechanism</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">For the full price, this is not worth it, sale? sure.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Gameplay is again, taking photos and figuring out simple puzzle.</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Fashion Police Squad</b> (FPS), <span class="colored c-red">Not Recommended, dropped after 1 hour.</span></span></div>
<span class="note" style="font-size: 12px; color: #666"><span class="innerContentContainer">Unfortunately you need specific guns to kill specific enemies. That's so stupid and breaks the flow.
</span></span>
<ul>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Really wanted to play it fully, snazzy art fitting to its name. </span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Fun, unique concept. Happy Boomer Shooter.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Very basic combat skills.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Unfortunately you need specific guns to kill specific enemies. That's so stupid and breaks the flow.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">If you don't use that specific gun, enemies don't get hurt! So bad.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Imagine playing DOOM but you need specific weapons to kill stuff.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Irritating enemies that just spam and crash onto you.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Combat arenas cluttered and visually messy</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Platforming frustrating as well and just useless. </span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Weapons do not feel good to use at all. No soul. No kickback.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Incomparable to DUSK or ULTRAKILL. Those are leagues ahead. After playing those, you just can't like this...</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Cult of the Lamb</b>, <span class="colored c-teal">Recommended after 6 hours, </span>[Backlogged as I don't have a controller]</span></div>
<span class="note" style="font-size: 12px; color: #666"><span class="innerContentContainer">Grindy though. Much, much better if played using a controller
</span></span>
<ul>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Ironic humour. Oxymoron indeed.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Charming. </span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Very little rouge elements (which is good as I hate RNG stuff)</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Amazing sound effects esp. the funny voices. </span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Great degree of polish.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Upgrades are meh.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Grind doesn't pay off. </span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Decent story albeit predictable story.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Quite easy even on hard, (can be fixed)</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Kingdom Rush Frontiers</b> <b>TD</b>, <span class="colored c-green">Recommended, </span><span class="colored c-blue">~10 hours = main story.</span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Kingdom Rush TD</b>, <span class="colored c-green">Recommended, </span><span class="colored c-blue">~10 hours = main story.</span></span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Salt and Sanctuary</b>, <span class="colored c-green">Highly</span> <span class="colored c-green">Recommended, </span><span class="colored c-blue">21 hours = main story + 90% side content</span></span></div>
<span class="note" style="font-size: 12px; color: #666"><span class="innerContentContainer">2D Souls from 2 great souls!
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Absolutely inspired by From Soft games, Bloodborne and Souls, the hunter cape is available!</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Pretty much 2D Dark Souls</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Great sense of fear and reward from exploration</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Almost 100 enemies, ~15 areas with loot and secrets</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">A bit of a grind for materials which are required to upgrade weapons</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Quite unbalanced late game, 4-5 weapons can pretty much get you through the game</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Many attributes, huge skill tree and more to experiment and customize, </span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Ranged is useless</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Far: Lone Sails</b>, <span class="colored c-green">Recommended, </span><span class="colored c-blue"> ~3 hours = main story, 100%</span></span></div>
<span class="note" style="font-size: 12px; color: #666"><span class="innerContentContainer">An amazing, beautiful, atmospheric and soulful journey into the unknown.
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Complete 100%(?) in ~2.5 hours.</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Astoundingly beautiful world, atmosphere. Excellent world building.</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Simple puzzles, I appreciate the design choice to keep this simple as the main experience is the journey you take.</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">A few moments give a sense of awe and wonder, made me realize what makes this medium so special.</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">The feeling of travelling into the unknown, you are scared what lies ahead yet you want to push ahead.</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Great soundtrack and sound design.</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">A bit bland gameplay that involves mostly micromanaging your vessel. Robs to fully experience the visuals. </span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Very short.</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Vanquish</b>, <span class="colored c-red">Not Recommended, </span>Dropped after 4 hours</span></div>
<span class="note" style="font-size: 12px; color: #666"><span class="innerContentContainer">Low budget, lite Halo wannabe.
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Set in the future where, Russia attacks US using advanced robots, etc</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">You play as a DARPA super soldier with a cool suit</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Fast and fluid combat bogged by mindless enemy design and AI</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Rocket powered sliding is cool.</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Extremely cheesy dialogue, story and characters</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Terrible boss design</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">First boss is a big spider robot</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Second boss is an human with a suit as well but he is so fast and simply spams </span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Unbalanced, three rockets take him out</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Third is just the first boss x 2</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Visuals are NOT great for a game that came out in 2010, AC Brotherhood, Mass Effect 2 and others look so much better, Fallout 3 (2009) looks better</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Visual information overload, so much stuff in the background, horizon, front and back mix terribly. </span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Bland Art Design. Everything is grey.</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Very short, can easily blast through the easy mode campaign in 4 hours or less. I finished 50% in just 2 hours in normal. </span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Carto</b>, <span class="colored c-red">Not Recommended. </span>Dropped after 1 hour</span></div>
<span class="note" style="font-size: 12px; color: #666"><span class="innerContentContainer">Lost in terrible UI and puzzle design.
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Great mechanic!, rotate map pieces to proceed!</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Likeable characters and story</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Puzzles are vague soon fall into simply trial and error</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Terrible UI for PC players, no mouse support is a huge miss</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Unsure about the data collection practices</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Forager</b>, <span class="colored c-blue">11 hours = main story + side grind ~80%</span></span></div>
<span class="note" style="font-size: 12px; color: #666"><span class="innerContentContainer">Grindy and soulless.</span></span>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Fun in the later half.</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Painstakingly grindy for the first few hours</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Great art, clean yet vibrant. </span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Soulless quest and dungeon design. </span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Terrible UI, upgrade window, etc</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Unbalanced crafting and production. </span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Wytchwood</b>, <span class="colored c-red">Not Recommended</span>. Dropped after 2 hours</span></div>
<span class="note" style="font-size: 12px; color: #666"><span class="innerContentContainer">FetchWood.</span></span>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Art is great but suffers heavily from information overload. </span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Important items are not visually distinct from environmental static objects.</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Bad performance on PC. </span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Great world building.</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Too much backtracking, no efficient teleport.</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer"><b>Archvale</b>, <span class="colored c-green">Recommended, </span><span class="colored c-blue">11 hours = main story + 70% side content</span></span></div>
<span class="note" style="font-size: 12px; color: #666"><span class="innerContentContainer">Slay them, short and sweet.
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">11 hours, 80% done.</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Played on PC, on Game Pass using KB+M. </span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Fast Paced Action with lite-RPG elements, ~pixel ARPG</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Medium grind for crafting</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Good boss design, gorgeous pixel art</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Unbalanced in endgame, armour set + 1 weapon destroys everything</span></div>
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<div class="name" style="color: #333"><span class="innerContentContainer">Fun and addicting gameplay loop</span></div>
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