JSchlansky
Game Addict
Member Since: 15 Apr 2014
Bio: I perform various production-related tasks
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Dusk (2018) - Rated 23 May 2025
"After trying a handful of modern boomer shooters, I had been convinced that the genre simply wasn't my bag. Dusk obliterated that notion (and Cultic too but I'm still working on that one). Excellent on every level from the combat to the music to the art direction, and especially the top-tier level design. The two games that have blown me away the most so far this year were both made by David Szymanski — what a dev, and highly aspirational considering the tiny teams behind this and Gloomwood."
DYSMANTLE (2021) - Rated 24 Apr 2025
"loses extra points because I really soured on the game after I started to suspect that AI was used for (at least) some of the voice lines and a lot of the 2D art assets. There are weird mistakes in the art, especially in the recipes that you make at ovens. You'll make a dish called "corn cob" but the artwork you're shown is clearly a shish kebob instead. Or you'll make "bread" with the description "just regular toasty bread" but the picture will be a salad instead"
Gloomwood (2022) - Rated 23 Apr 2025
"I don't think I can in good conscience give a perfect score to a game that's still in Early Access, but everything that's in here is damn near perfect and has the makings of an all-timer in the stealth, horror, and immersive sim genres. The atmosphere, level design, mechanics, everything so perfectly nails exactly what it's going for. (At this point, I've finished through the hive update, which gave me over 15 hours of playtime)"
The Room Two (2016) - Rated 21 Mar 2025
"A big step up from the first game in terms of variety, atmosphere, and style. The puzzles are still solid throughout, though having one of the 6 chapters be literally 20 seconds long with no puzzles is such a cop-out way for them to make the game sound longer than it is. Like just be honest that it's only 5 chapters long. It still ends extremely abruptly, but there is more of a culmination to a finale in this one at least and the overarching story takes more of a shape than the vague first one"
The Room (2012) - Rated 08 Mar 2025
"Really enjoyed this right up until its abrupt ending left things feeling anticlimactic and unsatisfying. It doesn't really even have an ending, it just stops happening and goes "don't worry, there will be sequels." The short runtime wouldn't bother me at all if it just had a proper resolution."
Far Cry New Dawn (2019) - Rated 11 Feb 2025
"I swear it's like AAA developers are competing to see who can write the most annoying and obnoxious characters"
Sniper Elite III (2014) - Rated 11 Feb 2025
Sniper Elite 5 (2022) - Rated 11 Feb 2025
Sniper Elite: Resistance (2025) - Rated 11 Feb 2025
"It's the same old shit over and over again. Might as well be DLC from 4 or 5 games ago in the series"
Peggle 2 (2013) - Rated 30 Jan 2025
