Jon Manson

God of War dose something so inedible yet so basic. It gives us characters. So few game do this now, silent protagonist that are empty shells that mindlessly go along with our inputs may be easier to make, but that dose not make them better. As the charters face a world and a story with no easy answer, we also get to experience that lack of easy answers. The fact that i honesty don't know if the villain of the story was even the monster that everyone painted him to be, or just a man so obsessed with answer it blinded him to all else. So many other games would do well to learn that giving us charterers and a defined plot dose not require us to loose out on narrative, it in fact makes it all the better.

The definition of a game made for it's audience. Yes Minecraft Dungeons is lacking in the depth, complexity, and extreme levels of customabilty that dungeon crawlers and loots have been know to reach. But this game is not try to do that, its try and succeeds in being a simplified and focuses experience that doesn't force you to become bodged down with endless tweaking and management, while also still providing the choices of builds that game like this are know to create. This was not made for those wanting the next Diablo 2, this was made for those that like the idea but really don't care about endless homework for a game.

Move over Ubisoft their a new mediocre and their coming for your bland. From cheep tricks and lazy tactic. to boring problems that lead to boring choices and ending in boring solution. And lazy inefficient stats buffing to waste time and lie about difficulty. To a complete lack of internal logic or verifiable information. Darksouls 1.4 is a check mark of every bad idea and lazy design that this developer has been defined by. the biggest hurdle is willing to put up with the developers awful BS long enough top get the end credits, only to feel sick you your stomach as the cost of reaching this point was unacceptably high. Having to actually play this game.

Outwards is a game that tries to recreate a long abandoned style of game design, While pretending that their were not good reason that those designs were abandoned. The entire weight of this game rest on the gamer being willing to turn a blind eye to slow, tedious, repetitive, and sadly to often down right ineffective design. All in order to recapture a felling of nostalgia that was probably left in the past.