Avi Bishop

It’s not a masterpiece. It’s over convoluted and frustrating design for the sake of visual art direction to get across a tone that feels ironically shallow because of its priority to only show the tone through its illusionary unique and unconnected setting. Fetch quest simulator? Ehh. Sisyphus simulator with extra buttons and less philosophy? Precisely. It gets a one star, because of it managing to step backwards and feel worse than even more derivative game designing. If you use a ratio of filler gameplay to meaningful gameplay/cutscenes to carry, Security Breach is funner and more meaningful than this as a fetch quest game, at least its tone and gameplay mechanics coincide. And the Directors Cut just made the game easier and more convenient, it’s openly admitting to horrible art being made-which Ghost of Tsushima is too and did the same thing-. If you are on PlayStation or PC go play Returnal, that game did what this game couldn’t. Returnal does the opposite of Death Stranding, it offers multiple tones with an emphasis on dreadful curiosity and drive, whereas Death Stranding never got its only tone down consistently and meaningfully. It literally dwarfs Death Stranding in comparison. It’s almost as if it learned from the mistakes of Death Stranding.

Ya know I watch television to immerse myself in worlds that are far from reality, a show about a looser that falls for a crazy women is far from a new concept, combined; with an un-compelling and barebones plot-I question why people enjoyed any second of this show, you could say I felt like I was going insane.

The Fountain: a movie about sacrifice, exploring the depth of the space of unknown, embrace, and finding life in death in the form of greater knowledge… the knowledge of the unknown, the understanding to not understand. This movie will affect those who are ready to see it. It’s an easy to misunderstand production I can understand why it’s misunderstood, but in all irony those who misunderstood at the end of the day just. didn’t. know…

Just cookie cutter typical western movie made just for spectacle. This is barely cinema, it’s just a cheap montage with good enough editing to count as a “story” Also I fell asleep and missed 3/4’s of the movie. I highly doubt what I didn’t see was masterful whatsoever

Misunderstood This movie is almost entirely symbolic, everything down to its purposeful tropes that it employees to make the symbolism more obvious. It seems many miss its mature themes and actual application to real life on how some people go through what Ajar and Eva did.

Intricately made with passion and dedication. One of the most ambitious games I’ve ever played, but from start to finish was a blast, or, warp I should say. This world feels alive, engaging, thematic, and best of all, fun. Holy cow is Mass Effect 2 an incredibly fun game, every gamer should play this.

A timeless classic that holds up to modern day standards and remains to get a good laugh and catch the player off guard whenever it feels like. This creation is as brilliant as its concept, the game doesn’t hold back on any idea that was thought of within the studio, because the game takes place within a brain. At that point it’s the limit to the creators imagination and that vision was executed perfectly. From 2005 to 2025 I can see this game being discussed for another 20 years if not consistently recognized for what it accomplished.

The game’s feel is a conflict in and of itself. It’s a game where the character sways their gun and is hefty in animations, but expects you to meet every gunfight with precision and accuracy to feel cool when it lacks basic features like diving and omnidirectional sprinting. The game wants the player to feel smooth and graceful then it wants the player to feel tight and precise. Instead of attaching a sticky grenade to an enemy and using your timing to throw them the game just gives you the option to grab and turn any person into a grenade, in the same menu you could just kill them. That’s like saying do you want to kill someone you’ve grabbed the animation equivalent of dying in a janky way or turn them into a firework, it’s mindless! Trepang at its core exists for the same reason Doom does, but the core gameplay conflicts with itself. The story is as barebones as it gets. The ability to NOT be able to aim down sites and then hold off on giving the player the option to akimbo because of… a serum? Anyway at that point it’s why not akimbo everything. Trepang is just mindless nonsense and it’s at the fault of people who were higher up in the studio that had too much inspiration from too many varying sources. It makes the entire point of an over-the-top shooter not fun, it makes it mindless. If this game was made by one person I’d let it slide, but it was made by a studio. It gets one star, because the game exists, it gets another, because it’s kinda fun, but that’s just how humans find video games fun.

I wish I could do 4.1 stars or 4.3, because this game shines at just every aspect except early pacing. I’m just going to focus on the few negatives I noticed, because everything else is stellar. There could be more story elements to round out this game, but it’s really in a void of its own. I would like to say I believe the game being slightly shorter and then having a roguelike mode would’ve been the best, but the game was incredibly fun especially for a mobile game. On that note I would like to say the basic grunts in the game could be more daunting or funner to kill, I’d recommend taking a page out of ULTRAKILL’s book for that one. But as the game goes on the variety helps outshine the basic grunts that can cause gameplay to be more frustrating than make you feel like a folklore Rambo. I highly recommend especially on mobile, because this game can get lengthy and it’s fun to put some earbuds in and just game to become immersed