Recent reviews by luntix

As a relative newbie to the series having played some of Worlds and Rise, I'm quite enjoying Wilds. Combos feel better this time around, mechanics feel streamlined to where it feels intuitive without making it too easy, and the addition of a mount is great.

So far I haven't found the game too difficult but I'm not at high rank hunts yet so that will likely change but it's pacing itself in a way where I really feel like I can learn properly.

That being said I have one big disclaimer.

Performance and visuals can be terrible at times. Either there's some sort of issue in the backend with texture streaming among other things, there are times where the game runs and looks good and times where it runs and looks like a Nintendo Switch Port.

Ghost of Tsushima is easily one of my favourite open world games. It's a pretty standard open world affair, go here, clear this camp/base, free people, do these little side missions along the way. The story is interesting enough and the side missions never really feel like they drag on. Combat is fun, a nice mixture of stealth and face-to-face samurai combat/duels. It's a very pretty cinematic game and I quite like it.

Sand Land is definitely a labour of love by Akira Toriyama, the ILCA Inc. Dev team and anyone else who might have worked on Sand Land as an IP with Toriyama.

The combat is pretty straight forward beat-em-up combat, it might change a bit later but at the time of review I’m only 10 hours in.

The vehicle combat is also fairly simple but fun, especially since you get to customize your vehicles equipment which can change up how they perform in combat. Again, I’m only about 10 hours into the game and I’m sure with more vehicles, upgrades and types of enemies you fight it will add more depth to the vehicle combat. I also do like that you can swap vehicles on the fly in combat, meaning you can really mix and match to your heart’s desire.

The music is pretty good when it plays but most of the time it’s more of a atmospheric dull tone.

Very minimal performance issues as well.


I do have two complaints:

• There is some Unreal Engine 5 stuttering, but it hasn’t given me too many issues or caused me to die in any way.
  
• Your companions don’t seem to ever shut up. I like them, they’re pretty good characters, but they talk almost all the time.

All in all, if you love the Toriyama style, I think you’ll like this game.

Updated Review as of 2024.05.06 now that on the final mission

The stuttering mentioned above got really worse during a few of the later segments to where it was causing me to struggle in a combat section. Again though, it didn’t seem to happen for a good chunk of the game so that’s not terrible.

The vehicle combat is still fairly simple but once you get more vehicles, being able to smoothly swap between 5 in combat is very nice.

There’s extra vehicles you can unlock that aren’t part of the story but at a certain point it feels like you need to grind a bit too much for materials to be able to craft and upgrade these non-story vehicles. To go with the material grind and upgrading vehicles, I constantly felt material starved to the point where I was having to go out and farm enemies for materials to upgrade stuff, at the end of the day I really only kept 3 vehicles updated and the rest more or less sat due to my personal impatience with farming materials.

Some of the vehicles you get, it feels like you almost get them too late in the game when they’re used to progress extra areas of some temples/dungeons from much much earlier in the game. Quite a bit of back tracking to do those.

What I thought was the midpoint of the game was actually the final quarter or final third of the game and that section went by fairly fast, even with me doing the majority of the side content available.

All in all though, still a fairly fun game and I think worth a buy if you like exploration beat’em up vehicle combat gameplay with a decent story and a great art style.

When I first played Last Epoch, I thought it was going to be a garbage game, that was way back when it first came out in early access.

Boy am I ever glad to be wrong.

This game is the perfect middleground between Path of Exile and Diablo 4. It also is a cheap base price with no required additional purchases. Stash tabs just cost ingame gold and all the MTX is purely optional cosmetics. Every build seems viable with a good amount of depth with the skills having their own individual talent trees and unique gear is really only required for a few builds to pop off, most builds work with whatever gear.

Solid 9/10 ARPG for me. Highly recommend

DRAGON QUEST XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age is one of my all time favourite JRPGs. It's modern but still has that classic jrpg feeling to it. The story was pretty standard but good. The characters are likeable and the overall game was fun.

The Definitive Edition, however, is an upgrade and downgrade in numerous ways that I wont list. The majority of the downgrades are on the graphical fidelity of the game, with this version using downgraded textures and models from the Switch version. I highly recommend playing this with Project Rebuild on Nexus Mods, there's also a guide on steam that I recommend as well that covers Project Rebuild and other tweaks.

Despite the connection issues and crashes I've been having, the crashes likely being an issue with my GPU, the game has been a blast.

Just spreading democracy to the bugs and automatons one bullet at a time.

Seemingly unplayable on AMD GPUs. On a 7900xt I get constant crashes, sometimes with an Unreal Engine crash reporter and sometimes where it just freezes and closes the game.

Looking into this, it seems to be a common issue amongst AMD Users. It's quite unfortunate because what I have played has been really fun but crashing on every cutscene is real bad.

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed has filled the gap left behind by Diddy Kong Racing. The tracks are really fun, the music is great, and the overall, the game is just fun. Honestly one of the better arcadey kart racers out there. It's criminal that Sega/Sumo Digital haven't given us another one.

It's everything that a kid who grew up watching Robocop could've wanted. The game is a nice length at about 9 and a half hours that doesn't overstay it's welcome. Each mission had good pacing and weren't overly long. The side missions are short and sweet but often rewarding without there being too many of them. Exploration is rewarded for the most part. The Auto-9 feels real ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ good but so do the rest of the guns, though the Auto-9 has a nice upgrade system. The skills system is straight forward and you don't need to put too much thought into it.

All in all, I've really liked this game. A solid 8/10 for a solid first person shooter singleplayer experience.

While steam only says 2.1 hours, I did play through this game entirely on console. As a long time Armored Core fan, it's everything I ever wanted from a modern Armored Core game.

I hope we get more of these games because the Mech Genre needs some love.