Recent reviews by Warlach

So, ignore my play time - played offline and it didn't record but I have completed the first chapter.

Firstly, yes, there are bugs. Rather than focus on them as plenty of other reviews have I'll address them at the end as, at least in my case, they didn't stop me from playing and loving this game.

The voice acting was wonderful, the story was really engaging and I loved the dynamic of feeling totally badarse when playing as Batman - even if it's mostly like a long quick time event form the Arkham games - to playing as Bruce and exploring the world. I am totally pumped for the next episode. As you can tell from my avatar I am a bit of a Batman tragic but it really is very good.

I also really liked the take on one of the characters from the Batman mythos which was really original and interesting. If you'd told me about it before hand it I would have said it sounded silly but, like a lot of the game, it just works.

...except for the bugs.

I haven't had all the bugs that others have and I played this on my Surface Book so it was hardly a special gaming rig and it handled it reasonably well. I also seemed to overcome them:

Framerate: So yeah, at first it was wildly inconsistent and kept dropping. I changed the graphics settings from High Quality to High Performance though and this solved it completely with no real noticeable depreciation in the graphics quality either.

Resolution: This was the worst. First thing I did was set the game to fullscreen... and it froze. When I relaunched it entered fullscreen again and would just show white. I used alt+enter to exit this, the game crashed. When I opened it again it was windowed and I just played it like that. I assume this will be patched but it wasn't that big a deal, as frustrating as it was at first.

Wonky Mouse: The mouse function seemed to work fine in the quicktime events but was slightly hard to control when selecting dialogue options, especially as most of these are on a time. This was only an occasional problem and given I played it on a Surface Book I ended up cheating by hitting Spacebar when the options came up, picking which one I wanted and then touching the screen to make the selection when I unpaused.

So, yeah, it's buggy and lots of others have had far worse experiences than I have but if you're lucky like I am, or wait until it's fixed, you'll find a really brilliant Telltale Game that, from a creative standpoint, lives up to they hype and anticipation - it's just a shame that the technical side lets that vision down.

Beautiful :)

Even more so is all the people in the discussion boards who don't understand it!

What a bizarre, wonderful little thing...

Today I achieved playing and finishing Lumino City. It was a lot more linear than I expected - none of the classic back and forth of classic point-and-clicks - but it was charming, gorgeous (it's all handmade, mostly from paper) and surprisingly challenging at times. Was also surprised by the darkness and depth of the story.

Took about five hours all up so $20 is a bit steep, although it's currently 25% off in the Steam sale. Even if you hold off buying, definitely add it to your Wishlist.

This game is awesome.

I mean, it's a test for a game that will be awesome, but even the test is brilliant.

The final secret puzzle for collecting all the stars was fantastic and it reminded me so much of everything I loved about Myst - puzzles on an island will do that - that I can't recommend this enough.

Such a gorgeous, brilliantly unique game. I love it.

(As always, ignore my play time as I play offline too often.)

I've just finished Act 1 and I LOVED it. Great design, brilliant writing and an amazing atmosphere. The sound work is phenomenal!

Would you like this game? If you like trippy, mysterious point and click adventures with amazing style that don't give you all the answers, then sure. Check my screenshots for examples of the writing/art you may enjoy.

Evoland is the tale of two games.

The parody, homage, humour and writing are all top notch. If you're fan of Final Fantasy, Zelda, Monster Hunter, Diablo and the whole RPG genre there is a lot to enjoy.

However, the actual gameplay and mechanics - especially once you transition to 3D - leave a LOT to be desired. Parts aren't hard because they're challenging, they're hard just because the game plays in parts like the crappy 3D shareware games from the 90s.

All in all I really enjoyed myself but be warned - if struggling with a crappy 3D RPG is going to outweigh your enjoyment of this games central concept then you're gonna have a bad time. Also, check out DRM Quest for a similar approach to procedurally adding elements, albeit one lampooning a whole different part of gaming culture...

Absolutely brilliant. Love it.

I'm not sure it's a game, as such, but exploring the lives of Dan, his wife and his kid and then making the hard decisions to influence their lives is really engaging.

Do you like typography, history and platforming?

Seriously then, it's a no brainer.

Not sure if the difficulty comes from great level design or frustrating controls but it's very very good.