Recenzii recente de Bassem

Since it first released on Steam in 2017, Shapelab has grown a LOT and continues to grow with new features and improvements to existing ones. Personally this is my favourite VR sculpting app. Aside from the advantage of sculpting in VR, which lets you experience true 3D and a sense of scale and depth and organic control with your hands, Shapelab itself has some nice features that are presented in a simple way, like the usual 3D sculpting brushes similar to Zbrush, but also a painting mode, adding multiple objects, boolean operations, stamping, reference images and more. And of course you can export your work to continue working on it or render it in an external 3D application.

Cute little meta-game! Sorry, what's that? There was no game?

I feel bad giving a thumbs down because this game does have potential. The concept is really neat, and the game is quite polished compared to most VR games out there.

But two central things got in the way:
- In a rhythm game, you do not want sound effects that play off beat and mess up your coordination. The main weapons in the game are a bomb with an exploding sound that comes after your attack instead of punctuating it on the beat.
- The gameplay in general is not that engaging. For a bullet hell game, the weapons and effects are surprisingly tame.

All in all it just didn't hook me, which is a shame because it looks great, the music is pretty cool, and with just some more work it could be great.

When you play a sidescroller with a mouse cursor in the shape of a crosshair, you expect to be able to shoot where the cursor is. But for some reason in this game you can only shoot straight left or right, completely ignoring the vertical position of the cursor.

Also, the game encourages you to run past enemies for at least half of each run. Where is the fun in that? And when you do enter combat, it's stiff and boring.

Big nope from me.

It's not necessarily a bad game, it's just really aged poorly in terms of gameplay and mechanics. As top-down corridor 3d scifi shooters go, there are better options, like Shadowgrounds and Alien Swarm.

This game is nowadays pretty clunky. Enemies spawn behind you, that dumb mechanic that games in the early 2000s loved to do. Scavenging is a drag because you need to stand your character just in the right spot, and then hold down the interact key.

The gameplay loop is tedious: You need to activate a console / acquire a key to unlock something. Over and over. Corridors are too samey and the minimap is no help.

Story is presented in tiny comic-book segments, with pretty nice art and voice acting.

Controls are probably the worst aspect of the game. I highly recommend you use the alternate controls using this guide https://sp.zhabite.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=663505110

All in all I did play it for several hours, but realised in the end that it was a bit of a bore. I think I'll install Shadowgrounds instead.

If it's at 2.5$, it may be worth getting.

Match-three gameplay, of the drag-a-line kind rather than the swapping kind. As a match-three game, it's excellent. Different colours charge up special moves, such as shuffling the board, or breaking frozen tiles, etc. Often you need to plan ahead and think about your chains will affect the distribution of the board, in order to eventually target a certain tile.

The main objective of the game is city-building, but that aspect is shallow and too linear. I wish it was more fleshed out, and affected the gameplay somehow. I thought the buildings I was unlocking would give me special powers in the tile-matching parts, but it was just window dressing. Wasted potential there, but it wasn't annoying.
One thing I was impressed with was that your god's-eye view of the city allowed you to see dozens of citizens milling around, performing various tasks, and each one of them was named and can be clicked on to read their thoughts.

Occasionally there are object-hunting minigames, which unlock the special moves I mentioned above. This was the only part of the game that I actually disliked. I am very into hidden-object games, and there's a right way and a wrong way to do them; and it was all wrong here. The way the objects are hidden is obnoxious, forcing you to tediously hover over the entire screen to see the mouse cursor highlights.

But most of the time, you'll be tile-matching, and it's really good. It's got depth, with many mechanics are that introduced bit by bit. I mean, I spent 60 hours on it, and that was just the campaign. There's a bunch of challenge levels afterwards.

Looks good and the shooting is satisfying. Otherwise, it's between average and annoying. It's very unbalanced, only one weapon is really viable, and if you're even one step higher or lower than your enemies, you can't hit them (but then, why make the terrain so multilevelled?) there are other annoyances, such as the one-slot inventory (why even call it an inventory).

I completed the campaign for completion sake, and that was enough.

Pretty fun selection of line puzzles. For a more varied and challenging version, check out the game LYNE. But this one here is free, and pretty good.

I went back and forth between liking and disliking this game.

I liked the art, the music, and some of the dialogue.

I disliked the lack of gameplay, the lack of art variation (at least add more poses and facial expressions) and the overly preachy and unrealistic dialogue, especially during one conversation between two sisters, where it goes full psychoanalysis. Yes, a second-grade noble daughter and an estranged girl would use those words to express those thoughts. Sure. Cinders is portrayed as precocious, but she has no voice of her own.

Overall, I did enjoy it.

I feel bad dismissing this game so early, but it's not a rhythm game; it's a runner game I suppose, but your jumps and slides are not to the beat of the music. They are JUST off, enough to be really confusing because you keep wanting to do it to the beat. And the music evolves as you progress through a level, further lending to the impression that it's a rhythm game (even though it's not).

Coming from actual rhythm games, this one just threw me off.

Cute visuals and great music.