Darby Wood

Borderlands has been one of my favorite games series for a decade, with each entry earning my attention for hundreds of hours. Tiny Tina's Wonderlands wont be getting that kind of time commitment from me. Upon loading the game youre met with a black screen with a white loading bar, and a low resolution dragon that flaps across the screen. Its so unfinished looking that at first I thought the game hadnt fully rendered. This encapsulates the entire game experience. Instead of our heroes being introduced through a world building intro montage full of attitude and energy, theres a blunt explanation of the scenario. "Oh hey player, its you. now make your character." theres no hook, no explanation of stakes, nothing to draw you in. This design philosophy continues with the combat, which seems to exclusively revolve around fighting the same 2 types of skeletons for the first 5 hours of gameplay. Theres so little there that its shocking from a Borderlands game. You're just expected to play the game because you bought it, not because the game draws you in. I want to like this game, but after playing for several hours I find myself wanting to load up Borderlands 2 or the Pre-sequel again.

Total War: Warhammer 1 and 2 are some of my favorite games ever made, but Warhammer 3 is not. At present it suffers from terrible design changes and a premature release. These are the 4 big issues: 1) Frustrating mechanics. The games campaign railroads players into performing a boring yet stressful race to complete tasks before the AI. In previous games you controlled your faction as you build an empire, but here you mimic the AI or lose the game. this has no replayability and is frustrating at every step every. Seperately most battles are new "minor settlement battles", sieges dominated by overpowered tower buildings which respawn the moment they are destroyed. These battles are repetetive, monotonous, imbalanced, time consuming, and awful to experience. 2) Poor performance. Even on an up to date powerful gaming pc this game crashes regularly, fails to render, experiences collosal frame rate dips, and is plagued by a host of other performance issues. it simply isnt optimised well due to premature release. 3) glitches and bugs. Units cant be controlled, go invisible, fall to their death on traversable terrain, loop, lose pathing.... its a lot. 4) Game Balance. Certain factions and units seem well developed, others seem to be afterthoughts. Many of these issues were reported on expensively by playtesters before the games release. Creative Assembly knew the game was not finished, yet chose to release anyway. Hopefully they will fix these problems with patches as time goes on, but customers should not need to wait to enjoy their purchase. at present this game feels like an incomplete cash grab.

A great first act is utterly wasted by the rest of the film, which devolves into shot for shot redos of previous matrix films and extremely heavy handed dialogue. No characters grow, previous character growth is retconned away, and dozens of boring action scenes do nothing but fill time that could have been used to explain or resolve the plot. This is an objectively bad film

This was very close to being perfect, but a few poor creative decisions stole some of the magical weirdness of the original story. Still very good and well worth a watch

art is excellent, gameplay not so much. Lately gamers seem to feel peer pressure to praise Fromsoft games while ignoring just how boring, repetetive, and frustrating they can be. Souls games arent that difficult, they just engineer situations where the player fails until they memorize the game. Often this feels like being punished for not already knowing what your supposed to do the first time you play. The amazing art and mood is the only reason to deal with the slow and buggy gameplay at all, and makes it almost worth it. but sadly the setting is tarnished by bad design