Yang Yeh

Started out slow but turned into a pretty ideal 2D platformer with decent puzzles.

The lore building is great but I feel it was a weak entry to the series. The game mechanics are fantastic but are marred by some poor design decisions. Monster sections cannot be replayed because after you "revive" , you fast forward past the part you died. The dev said this is to emphasize the horror and story telling, not the struggle, but then why make the mechanics so unclear? You will most likely not learn how to get past the monsters until the end of the game; it's like force skipping several puzzles. The focus on story telling is a sob story capped with anti-climatic ending choices. Regardless, the game play itself is excellent and polished.

First playthrough took about 10 hrs. Because the main enemy keeps switching between sections of the game, it never got boring and you feel that everything is very well designed. It's a fresh take on the series and a return to survival horror. Re-playability is minimal, farming for the achievements is a bit tedious, but there are a lot of DLC chapters.

Classic Louie! Very impressive he was able to turn around a solid set so smoothly.

Beautiful cinematic adaptation. A NZ chess story and a story of passion, community, and family. As an ignorant American, I am glad I watched it with closed captions.