Recent reviews by ZuppaDiPasta

Forgotten hidden gem from the seventh generation. It's as fun as it's stupid as it's barbone and borderline broken. A relic from a bygone era when racing games didn't need raytracing and licensed cars that make it unpurchaseable after 5 years and a constant stream of DLCs to keep it relevant. For a buck, a couple of cheap beers and a day off work, it's all the fun you'll ever need.
This'll put hair on your chest.

Riveting action, a compelling protagonist, a deep lore and an stellar plot, an award winning soundtrack by an Hollywood blockbusters composer, these and much more are the features you will not find in Egg.
A game for the ages, if anyone says videogames are art, show them this to change his (or her) mind.

Is this game good? Is this from my past? Am I playing this game because I am scared of the impending fact that I am now approaching my 30s and as I grow bitter and old and reconnecting with products from my childhood distracts me from the inevitability that the sparkle of innocence is now gone from my eyes and I am gonna die one day?

Yes to all three. My 12 years old self would've ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ his pants if he saw this running on a portable device, it runs great on Deck, in fact it runs so good you can tune it down considerably and save a ton of battery.
In usual WB fashion, all the other languages like Italian and German are available but disabled, you gotta edit 4 digits in the configuration files to enable your language. Makes you wonder why they didn't do it themselves.

This game bursted through the door of my list of the prettiest games I've played. Putting aside the gimmick of playing part of your journey with one or multiple complete strangers that you have no way to identify, which on his own is already a neat concept, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this game is pretty, even at medium settings, even on Deck. Which btw, runs it like a champ but do not waste it on its built in 7" monitor, play it on a couch, with a controller, on the biggest screen you can get your hands on.
It really is a spectacle, it's one of those untraditional games that are more like interactive movies than games, you cannot die, you don't fight enemies, you are taken along for the ride in a feature length movie, which is about the time you're going to experience from start to finish. Of course, it BEGS to be played again and again, to be explored better, to meet other people, to complete the achievements, and honestly being about one hour long adds to replayability, it's not a 20 hours commitment.
If this was an animated movie, it would recieve endless praises for being pants-♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ good looking and maybe contend for an Oscar, but since this is a videogame, and videogames, as we all know, are not art, but silly little games for children and women and gays, I don't see art critics rushing to praise how good it looks. So I will: Not only is the artstyle of Journey incredibly stupidly amazing, not only the clearly real-time rendered scenes merge so perfectly with your surroundings I legit could not tell at a point, no spoilers, if I screwed up or was doing as the game intended (and it was the latter), I would say that a medium like animation would not be able to immerse the end-user into something like this the same way videogames can.
If there's one example to be given on why videogames are art, this is it. No other medium could capture the feelings this type of stories can give, Journey is a masterpiece not because it looks good, not because it's masterfully done, but because they chose to make it a videogame.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ buy it now.

Good game. The silent narrative makes the plot captivating, there is much that remains unexplained that makes you wonder about what exactly happened before the events of the game start.
Now, the bad: the camera is your main enemy, collisions are very bugged (I died falling through the floor more than once), the game seems to have an hard time loading assets in a timely manner, with bushes popping into existence and A-posing enemies, it's an indie so it gets a pass but you need to know what you're getting into.
It's a very enjoyable game, it runs great on Deck, pick it up next sales.

Another entry on a list that I like to refer as "Great game! Unfortunately, EA."
If you, as expected when buying an older EA title, finish their job for them, you can mod this game to be the Special Edition, which includes a launcher for American McGee's Alice, the first game, and by downloading it you can play both of them, as I did, demonstrated by my hours count. This review will be about both of them, as playing the first game takes very little effort and you totally should.
Both Alice 1 and 2 are absolutely amazing, first one is a forgotten gem, thanks mostly to EA who doesn't give you an official way to play it, second one still thanks to EA has kinda been forgotten too. The atmosphere across the two titles is consistent but fairly different, there's a lot more shock factor in the second one but that's a good thing, a bit of a retcon on the main event that causes Alice's insanity but it also greatly improves the narrative, they're astounding games. Too bad EA robbed us of a third game and was so ass to everyone involved, devs and fans alike, that it was the final nail in the coffin of McGee's will to put up with the gaming industry's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Alice 1 aged very gracefully, it's a bit wonky but given that it runs on Quake 3's engine you can't really ask for too much, it's very enjoyable to play and it's only shortcoming is the platforming, the ideas are solid but the game engine just isn't cut for landing on a tiny platform from afar.
Alice 2 fixes the platforming issue, it's very enjoyable, the only problem is that sometimes the hardest enemy to beat is the camera. You will die a lot because of it, but thankfully you just respawn on the last solid platform you were standing on, so it's forgiveable. But the game is just too easy, even when played at high difficulty, it's more story-driven than anything, its saving grace is the fact that the story is damn good.
Now, the issues of the EA's Steam port of the second game: again, they just needed a couple of lines of code to give us 60FPS, they could've just given the first game and all the DLC contents as a Steam DLC, having DRMs on a 13 years old game is moronic, and the lack of Steam achievements kinda hinders replayability, if there were achievements I'd be more likely to play NG+ to find every secret.

In conclusion, EA is a pile of dung that was so ass it made McGee retire, the game is well worth the money, too bad the money ends up in their pockets.

Ya like jazz?

Decent game, MASSIVELY overrated.
I vibe with the general absurdity of the plot, I like the weapons system (very similar to Okami, also by the most racist and toxic japanese game director aka Hideki Kamiya), I like all the pans straight to the ass of Bayonetta. Too bad those are the only times you'll like the camera movements.
My favorite scene is right at the intro, with Enzo taking a fat piss on Hideki Kamiya's grave.
I hope you are sexually aroused by quick-time events, otherwise they might be a deal breaker. Get it on sale, it's not worth the full price.

Do you even marvel at the construction of bridges?
Do you like the voice of GLaDOS?
Do you lack any regards for human life?
If you answered yes to all three questions, go ahead and spend the 1 buck (plus another one for the Portal Proficiency DLC) and start thinking with portals.

It's a great little game, I would never fire up a desktop or a laptop to play it, but on 15 minutes bursts on Deck while you're waiting for dinner to cook or on the toilet, it's amazing, some puzzles do get pretty challenging, I'm honestly pretty happy with my purchase. And you will too, no questions asked, get the game or else.

There's space.
There's deads.

Delivered what was promised, great game, hard to believe it was made by EA.