Author: Chezni

I used to be with it, until they changed what it was. Now what I am with isn't it and what is it seems weird and scary to me. (Doomsayer Voice) It will happen to you...
Betrayer
by Chezni

Betrayer? I barely knew ‘er! AHAHAHAHA… ha.

Lepcis has this great response any time I complain about a game but stop and ask, “Am I just biased?” To which he responds “No, you just know what you like.” That singular statement is a great way to understand that even though your preferences are swayed by your own personal interests, they’re still a valid method of evaluating something, as long as you’re aware of that and admit it. Thus, I am an extremely mechanics-driven player; I play to consume rules, tricks, puzzles, strategies, nuances (even bugs at times), stats and techniques. So–even while Betrayer presents itself *very* uniquely… it’s a horrible game mechanically, and because of this I cannot rate it higher than Tier 3.

 

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DarkWood (Completed)
by Chezni

It’s like if you took some of the good mood bits of Silent Hill 2 and smooshed it together with the survival aspects of the old Fallout games, the vision mechanics from Endless Sea, all in combination with some very simplified aspects of the survival craft genre. Oh, and Poland. That ends up being the perfect recipe for…

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Downwell (Completed)
by Chezni

Well, yeah, I mean I could write you a review or you could just watch my video. Or you could just buy the game. Would you rather be happy or $3 richer? Yeah, I thought so. Tier 1 vid and Steam link below.

Vid Link

Steam Link

 

Neo Scavenger (Completed)
by Chezni

Hey, let me ask you something. Do you think you know Fallout? *ahem* You heard me. Fallout. Do you think. You know it? Hey! Yeah, you with the fedora. I’m talking to you. Don’t you walk away from me. FALLOUT MOTHER$%*#@$. DO YOU SPEAK IT. Because I don’t think you do. I. DON’T. THINK. YOU. DO. Because you think Fallout is the original Fallout? Don’t make me laugh. It’s Wasteland. Yes, Wasteland–a DOS game–was the original OG which would inspire people to go on and make Fallout. And I’m here to tell you, that Wasteland is garbage. What does that make Fallout? Extra garbage. What does that make Neo Scavenger? Are you even worthy of uttering its name mortal? Neo Scavenger is freaking amazing, and is the best damn Fallout game you’ll ever play.

 

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Hal’s Hole in One Golf
by Chezni

Four! Tier Four! Haha, okay, okay, it’s Tier 3 but I can’t make that joke otherwise. It is of course…

 

I once read in a gaming magazine, you know your stock is worthless when it arrives and your employees shout, “Hey guys! Looks like the new Frisbees are here!” I can’t help but feel that same way every time I hold a sports game in my hands. Actually wait–I can go deeper. Deeper. DEEPER.

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Pathologic HD (Completed)
by Chezni

You can’t save everyone.

The longer you play games, the more you fall into the pattern of genre expectation. We have certain expectations of body counts in our FPS’s, an acceptation of grinding in our JRPG’s and if we play hour Horror games and don’t experience at least a couple jump scares, we would consider ourselves misused. It is these patterns that form a groove into which the unknown becomes known, and wonder is replaced by predictability even before the game is played. Pathologic on the other hand, is what makes you remember that games can be anything but predictable.

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Dead Rising (Completed)
by Chezni

Believe it or not, I don’t have any screenshots of this game. Then again, I probably don’t need any, as popular as this game is. You’ve likely seen it before. Look. I could go into the big long anecdote about hours of soda-infused midnight shenanigans I pulled off in this game with friends howling in laughter behind me. I could tell you how I’ve waited 10 years to finally own a copy, so I could finish the damn thing. But I’m not going to. I’m just going to tell you, that this was not and is not one of the best zombie games I’ve ever played. It was and is one of the best games I’ve ever played. And here is a laundry list why.

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