Couple of short reviews of games I completed recently.
Little Nightmares 2 - 8.0
Kinda expected it to be a longer game considering the success of the prequel. Other than that it's basically identical gameplay-wise. Sadly, the game (like its predecessor) still relies a lot on trial and error segements. Somehow they can't do what other developers who make similar kind of games (Limbo, Inside, Planet of Lana, Bramble) can do. Even when you know how to proceed it still feels like you need a bit of luck to make it work and not die. From what I remember though, the trial and error sections aren't quite as frequent as in the first game.
SteamWorld Build - 8.0
I really like the SteamWorld games and this is no exception. The gameplay is basically a shameless copy of the Anno games but it's still fun, even though Anno is far more complex than this one. The mining part is quite unique and fun though. The game doesn't offer much replayability unlike many other games in the genre. Once you finish the story there's no point in continuing and no reason to start a new game as there isn't even any AI to compete against.
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands - 8.0 (yeah everything gets an 8.0/10 today. Boring, I know...)
Very nice spin-off in the Borderlands series but other than the setting it doesn't do enough to evolve the series. Gameplay is fun, enemy variety is good and there are plenty of bosses to kill. There is once more tons of loot even though I don't quite understand the drop rate. I always got plenty of rare wards, melee weapons, rings but almost never rare weapons which is why I used maybe 10 or so weapons throughout my whole playthrough. Needless to say I often felt underleveled when I tried to kill enemies that were at least 5 levels above my weapon level but what to do when you don't get good drops?
I used performance mode but I still got some heavy drops here and there. One time it was so bad that I had continous drops to 0 FPS for a couple of seconds in the middle of a boss fight and still managed to beat the boss. A full console shutdown solved the issue.
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