Jim Perry – Google

I'm not sure why they decided to go from the amazing Stick of Truth and Fractured but Whole formulas for this overly simplistic, poorly designed, rogue-lite formula. The character options are FAR mor limited than in previous games, hidden behind in game currency. There's a Dark Matter component that scales prices up the more you purchase new upgrades, leaving you with the endless sense that the end of progression always moves further and further away from you the more you invest time in the game. And then there's the technical problems. Need to roll to evade an attack? Better hope it's on solid ground cause you can't just roll of a ledge, you stay there. So move your 1 foot in a direction and then still get hit. What about enemies and, worse yet, allies in the way while you roll? Well, they'll straight mess you up, too. Need to get over a wall to confront Stan and fight alongside Cartman? Better do it with real people, cause the CPU allies will stand there and just auto killed for falling behind. What about the camera? Well, it never adjusts for the direction you're moving in, so you can jump and dive attack with daggers at an enemy, then point the attack back to follow up after traveling through them, only to swing at air.... Cause the enemy's already ran in a direction that you couldn't see. Then there's the smaller things, like subtitle pacing being WAY off and ahead of the scene. Oh, and whoever coded the gameplay, needs to ensure that button inputs don't somehow disappear. I finish with a gross out debuff, try to respond with my own ability, and then my character just stands there doing nothing. You can even see this with the multiple times you need to press "X" on playstation to add dark matter to your upgrades. This game reminds me of the old days of Playstation 1 and N64. Where we got "South Park", "Chef's Luv Shack", and "South Park Rally".... All terrible and soulless cash grab games that were god awful. Go back to turn based or strategy RPGs. Go back to the aesthetic of the show. If you can't, don't even bother making a game like this.

If Scorsese was trying to say something thoughtful and clever with this story, he should’ve gotten to the point. The story is a very tragic plot and worth telling, but my god! What a slog! I’m now convinced he’s the filmmaker version of Abe Simpson, droning on forever, trying to arrest your attention with mindless details that hold no importance. “So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time.” I think this was the last coffin nail for me and Marty moving forward. I have his old works that I still cherish. But jeebus, if he announces another movie, I’m going to facepalm so hard I’m afraid of knocking myself out.

Can't connect to the online on PS5, because the stupid way that EA manages accounts. Just get a constant loop of the game telling me to use a QR code to reset my password. I've gone through all of this over and over again. I've tried to log on through a browser and link my PS5, but that doesn't show any option to do so. And then there's the redundant EA Help site, which walking through my issues in the selection, just eventually tells me to follow a twitter account for updates about server health... So this game's going back. Maybe it was good, I don't know. EA got in the way.

Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection

It's fine to have a bunch of stuff to play the old Street Fighters against friends or something. And there's the Arcade mode. But again, the Alpha 3 re-release doesn't include World Tour mode. I wouldn't have purchased this if I had known that. Running the paces and getting a "customized" version of your favourite character to play your friends against their customized characters was the best part of any Street Fighter game. It allowed meaningful decisions before the matches even started, and made others have to respect and find out if you spec'd your points in something like Air Block, or Alpha Cancels, and if you pumped the damage slider all the way up and lost defense or vice versa. So 2 points for buying a compilation that I've purchased a handful of times for the most part (but is still fun to play), but missing my favourite mode in my favourite SF game is a huge strike against it for me.

There’s some gold in them there hills when compared to the theatrical cut. But overall, it suffers from Snyder’s normal tropes, like the perpetual dawn/dusk sky and overused slow motion, as examples. But there’s a few more quiet moments that resonated with me, and were actually brilliantly captured through the lens. And that’s where my frustration with this cut leaves me rubbing my temples. Overall, it does feel different from the theatrical release. But Snyder’s vision doesn’t really add much more positive without twice the amount of fluff. I can accept that Snyder’s vision is out there, and some fans got a version that’s worthy of “Elseworlds”. But I’m still more interested in a Dini and Timm live action world. They’ve proved themselves in both animation and in comics that they understand and respect these characters.

It has some charm and fun, and then after a long enough period, you realize that it's also sort of chance based, and that you'll get the worst levels to build up while some people get world 1-1 and 1-2 over and over again. Farming more time by collecting the easily accessible stars and running through the collected enemies in their path. But there you are, carefully jumping and wasting time on world 1-4. So overall, I wanted to be able to play Mario, and compete against others. Not have random chance undermine my level of skill. But what was I thinking? Nintendo invented the blue shell. They don't care about people who can play their games well. Their design methodology is to cut people who play well off at the knees.

Great game with a minor amount of technical issues. It picks up well from the first Spider-Man (as Miles does in the game). (For the PS4 version) The technical gripes that I’d never seen in the previous game are loading mid swinging around the city, missing sound from characters as they speak (and oddly subtitles don’t show either when this happens), a surprising step back in combat (as the rhythm of the first game seems off, and even on the easiest difficulties, the enemies don’t allow for recovery animation or anything. They can and will attack at once, making that 100 hit combo trophy a headache to get). Models during the narrative parts have just stopped working (four underground thugs stuck in a doorway, so I had to restart the whole narrative part. Which those are the least fun in the game). It’s riddled with a bunch of issues the original didn’t have. Maybe not optimized for PS4 (odd as it’s the larger player base). So I won’t give it a 4/5. But if you enjoyed the first, you’ll like this!

Man.... They should put a picture of this game beside the word, "mediocre". Single player is just a slog to recruit the old team after they've had another tiff with each other after the events of "A Day". Then it's just running around in the same stages and mindlessly beating up androids from AIM in the post-game when you can more comfortably play online. And with no real announcement of any of the characters that I care about, I may not be playing this even in a month's time. That's more subjective, but still. Where's Wolverine, Spider-Man, or even another obscure character, like Wonder Man or Tigra? I don't hate Kate Bishop or Kamala, but they have some really boring abilities for a video game.