Shadrack “Shati” Chabedi

I just finished the campaign. If you enjoyed Doom 2016, stay away from this product. It's a failure and it's convinced me to fully abandon the DOOM franchise. It's a completely different game expressly designed to pigeonhole the gamer to play to the style dictates of the Devs and, consequently, enemies are designed to be killed in those directives making weak ones indestructible, even to melee. On it's own, it isn't an issue but try facing 9 different enemies, all charging at you at the same time, and having to recall each's weakness - you waste ammo and run around the map looking to chainsaw zombies to refill stocks. The momentum is also off. Each new zombie is introduced with a flash tutorial that pauses the game, draining the game's energy before an epic fight. You can disable these pop-up tutorials of course, but are you willing to given that enemies become indestructible if you don't kill them the way Devs want you to? Too many issues with this game, from collectibles with 6 paragraphs to read (see The History of the Sentinels) etc. It was torture. I quit caring about the lore because it makes no sense to read 3 long paragraphs in what's meant to be a fast-paced game. Do they know about audio-logs? Edit: I completed it 100% for the Platinum Trophy on Play Station. I thought I couldn't hate the game anymore than I did at the time of writing the tutorial and I was wrong. I should've waited for the Multi-Player of Eternal. It's the single most poorly designed thing in the entire franchise.

Great crime drama, I thought the quality of the writing in Season 02 more evolved than 01 - extremely well structured, well paced, the characters connected in a very compelling way around an extremely good plot. They had a host of great actors. Season 01 episodes 01 - 04 were really terrible and I almost quit it but I hate having an opinion about something without fully exhausting it. I found the earlier episodes marred by narrative inconsistencies, poor character development, overworked cliches, and the title "the sinner" not properly melded into the narrative - it was shoddy work. I feel titles are the shortest summaries of any work and here, to give 1 example, nothing at all explained Cora's mother's unremitting religiosity that was such a burden on her children, when her own sister was a carefree spirit who enjoyed literature without those religious hangups? Did they grow in the same household etc.? Interestingly enough, this very inexplicable religiosity is later used by the writers - to great effect, mind you! - to seek to mold the story into a compelling end and by doing this, this religiosity (which the title is derived from) becomes a mere convenience in lieu of the writers having something important to say about having a childhood with abusive, overbearing religious parents. And I do believe what they had to say - about religion, about terminal illness on children - was important, as evidenced in the last 4 episodes. From Episode 05 to the Season Finale of Season 01, it really takes a compelling and moving turn with extremely good dialogue. I wasn't expecting that. My most memorable moment was when Cora was in prison and her abusive mother - with her Bible bashing! - came to see her and Cora's parting word was that "I am more free in here than I ever was with you." That was really powerful. Really good and moving crime drama.