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Velvet Crowe

velvet_crowe
Game Junkie - 1160 Game Ratings
Member Since: 03 Jun 2010
2772 Film Ratings
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Age: 32
Bio: Former journalist, invested in humanities, fitness, and consuming garbage. Subtlety is overrated. https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/176986912-drew https://twitter.com/DrewStr56396515

more Recent Ratings

87 92% Psychopomp Gold (2024) - Rated 17 Nov 2024
"Psychopomp's messaging is a bit lame at points. Feels tacky to do a horror series that has a female lead land on birth metaphors. But this game offers so much more than that, creating a bizarre world that plays with physical manifestations of abstracts that reference mental anxieties that plague all sorts of people, while painting vague pictures as to what exactly the world is that in the direct sense may or may not be honest with you. That and it's visually amazing to look at."
44 24% CIMA: The Enemy (2003) - Rated 29 Oct 2024
"Conceptually this game is really cool both in terms of its setting and gameplay. But fuck me is the pathing of your allies obnoxiously bad and it is goddamn grating to try and path allies into the objective when it doesn't properly work. Even if everything was working fine I don't think the game does much to engage you in its mechanics regardless and the gameplay comes off as more experimental than polished. I tend to like that more often than not, but this could be executed better."
82 84% Dead Estate (2021) - Rated 28 Oct 2024
"I think way too much of the movement incentivizes circling around the room and a lot of progress can just come down to you getting lucky... but fuck it, the RNG elements make the game actually fun on multiple different runs and the enemy design does a solid job of covering space in such a way that even if you're circling you still have to pay attention. It's also elevated heavily by all content it offers and the many different characters that change how you play the game."
52 32% Rebel Inc: Escalation (2019) - Rated 28 Oct 2024
"I think it's neat in that it's a simulation game but with its paced amped up to 11. However, the game is also not one to encourage experimentation since you're going to be doing the same upgrade rotations every map and the distinctions will just be the obstacles in how you get that win condition. Perhaps there's value in cockblocking from the obvious win conditions, but I just don't find the way the game pushes its form of optimization on you to be particularly enticing."
73 65% Love Esquire (2019) - Rated 12 Oct 2024
"Genuinely one of the funniest games I've ever played that manages to be consistently funny at all points of its run time. The gameplay loop overstays its welcome; however, and it just got increasingly tired and tedious to play especially in New Game+ runs. Didn't really like how awkwardly the game can force you into certain routes too. But man, the game is so charming and funny to me that I can look past all of this and say I was thoroughly entertained."
80 79% Death and Taxes (2020) - Rated 11 Oct 2024
"Conceptually this is cool in terms of how it treats the inhumanity of office work as impetus to view human life as disposable, framing this as you just "doing your job" devoiding yourself of the consequences of your actions further amplified by the game telling you to not have a conscious about it. It's fantastic framing that I think gets weakened on the replay runs where I don't think the game does a good job of clarifying what your actions lead to and side stuff coming off as being pretty moot"
87 92% Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time (2020) - Rated 11 Oct 2024
"Certain things are lame such as how overly contextual Tawna's and the mask mechanics were or the obtuse placement of a lot of boxes being such a massive gating against completion but this game elevates so much of Crash's core design and I just generally adore the expectations of completionism in general that I can't help but love this. Maybe a bit of recency bias on this but in terms of the total package it's possibly the most consistently good of any Crash game to date."
70 59% Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy (2017) - Rated 11 Oct 2024
"As a remake I do appreciate the additions in the form of adding time trials and consistent features across all titles but I really hate the awkward collision and I'm not a fan of a lot of the game's art design decisions. This game has boring looking models compared to the original and often doesn't understand how the original used camera and framing to amplify the tone of its scenes. It lands on the strength of the original games level design but it's not a great replication of that."
45 26% .hack//Infection Part 1 (2003) - Rated 25 Aug 2024
"This is a really cool game stylistically and I think the main appeal of this will come from how much it emulates an MMO community within a scripted context. While I like that from an appeal standpoint, I struggled to go through this due to it playing like one of the most mind numbing mmo's imaginable while also just kinda being too cheesy and melodramatic for me to take any of it seriously. Maybe if I dare myself to play the other games I may end appreciating this more?"
68 57% Kingdom Hearts III (2019) - Rated 16 Aug 2024
"KH3 is such a divisive game to me. The cheesy story is a goldmine for hilarity and it has some cool boss fights and levels... then comes A LOT of annoying shit like how committal your attacks against many bosses lacking hitstun made worse by how you NEED to commit to trigger your form switches. And certain bosses just have like... the most annoying goddamn shit which is exemplified by the triple Xehanort fight. Though there are moments where it shines the general game feel is... bad tbh."