Eternal Games

Far from the Silent Hill name, Townfall delivers a successful psychological horror experience in terms of atmosphere and artistic presentation, supported by stunning visual graphics, excellent audio engineering, and a story featuring interesting ideas. However, the game suffers from a weak combat system, repeated reliance on stealth, and padding in gameplay that negatively impacts the experience's pacing, while the ending fails to provide a payoff proportional to what the story builds up throughout its hours. Despite these flaws, Townfall remains a good horror experience worth attention for fans of this genre, but it is far from being exceptional or memorable for a long time.

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Marvel’s Wolverine offers a violent and bloody action experience with a cinematic nature, alongside linear level design and very limited exploration, in addition to excellent and stable technical performance without noticeable frame drops. Unfortunately, however, the game represents a huge missed opportunity in terms of story and characters, along with enemy repetition and a lack of challenge, even when playing on higher difficulty levels, with exaggerated ease that reduces the overall enjoyment of the experience. In the end, Marvel’s Wolverine is one of those PlayStation games that I felt had a massive opportunity to deliver a much better experience than what we actually received.

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Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter delivered what its fans were waiting for; it presented a heartwarming story, vast content, amazing characters, enjoyable combat, and an exciting progression system, thereby delivering a well-rounded experience from various aspects. It might be the kind of experience that only comes around once every few years, thanks to what it offers in terms of a distinctive story, a world rich in detail, and memorable characters, alongside enjoyable gameplay that maintains its quality throughout the experience. All of this prepares the series to be a perfect fit for fans of the genre, and makes it an experience worth the attention of role-playing game enthusiasts in general.

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With a new and bold idea, ProbablyMonsters studio presented its game by combining the Souls-like and Roguelite genres together, executing it in a wonderful and well-balanced manner. The game featured a distinctive progression system that relies on selecting armor during gameplay, along with rewarding and thrilling exploration that gave the game a unique and special identity through a beautiful art style and good, simple graphics. However, it faced flaws in a combat system that is sometimes unbalanced against regular enemies, limited magic abilities restricted solely to weapons, enemy repetition across all areas, underwhelming bosses, an unbalanced final boss fight, repetitive area design, and unstable performance.

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The Blood of Dawnwalker is considered an excellent Action RPG experience that delivers a wonderful, poetic story alongside carefully written characters and a meticulously crafted protagonist, while introducing a new and distinctive time system that serves the experience in a dark world full of secrets and mystery. It features an enjoyable and addictive gameplay system with two different forms—as a human by day and a vampire by night—backed by deep RPG elements that grant you complete freedom in building your character and shaping your story's path through masterfully crafted, unforgettable quests. This blend is completed by a enchanting soundtrack and a stunning art direction to deliver an epic experience that leaves a clear mark, despite a few flaws in enemy variety and side content.

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In the end, the return of Onimusha through this release proves Capcom's serious effort to revive one of its most venerable franchises in a style that blends the spirit of the past with modern-day challenges, smartly drawing inspiration from combat mechanics in games like Sekiro. While the game shone by delivering intense and challenging boss battles, alongside a stable technical performance that serves fast-paced movement, it faced a few clear obstacles. The weak AI of regular enemies and the dullness of the linear design for main missions negatively impacted the adventure's pacing, in addition to a drab visual tone that dimmed the luster of the game's world. Nevertheless, the experience remains an enjoyable and worthwhile stop for fans of the series and samurai game enthusiasts, provided you overlook a few missteps in balance and overall difficulty level.

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In the end, Captain Tsubasa 2: World Fighters is a game that delivered a clearly contradictory experience for me. On one hand, we have very good gameplay, simple and fun controls, special abilities and moves that are the best in the game, in addition to an excellent visual adaptation from the anime and manga, alongside a large roster of characters, national teams, and modes that can keep you playing for hours. Furthermore, the presence of Arabic language support at an excellent level serves Arab players greatly, making the game experience easier and more enjoyable for the Arab audience. On the other hand, however, the game offered a very poor story, presented in an overly childish and cartoonish style, with weakly written characters as well as poor and repetitive dialogue—which is very disappointing, especially if you are a fan of the series and enter the game expecting a story worthy of the Captain Tsubasa name. Therefore, I believe Captain Tsubasa 2: World Fighters is a game aimed primarily at fans of the series, anime, and manga, while it may be less appealing to audiences who have no prior connection to the world of Captain Tsubasa.

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Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy delivers a strong and distinct adventure. Asobo studio wanted to build a large portion of the gameplay around Sophia's character, adding direct combat, expanding exploration, and presenting puzzles tied to mythology and ancient civilization—all while maintaining the elements of mystery and tension that forged the series' identity, despite a few narrative events that could have been handled better and the ease of the puzzles. However, Asobo wants to convey that the world of A Plague Tale can expand far beyond Amicia and Hugo's story, even if that means risking changes to some of the rules we have come to know.

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The Mexican Ninja experience is literally a missed opportunity. From what I played, the game's quality as a game is very good and would have undoubtedly achieved a high rating, but its completely unacceptable technical state made the overall experience extremely bad. In its current state, I do not recommend it at all, ever.

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The Sinking City 2 is considered a very courageous and bold step from Frogwares studio, and a tangible success in shifting from open investigation to pure survival horror in the footsteps of games like Alan Wake 2 and Resident Evil. The game succeeded in delivering a terrifying and visually stunning Lovecraftian atmosphere, with focused level design and highly enjoyable puzzles. Despite this quantum leap, the game suffered from some design contradictions; most notably breaking survival rules by providing unlimited resources in key encounters, alongside voice acting that did not rise to the level of the story. If you are a fan of survival horror and enjoy dark atmospheres and smart puzzles, the experience offers an enjoyable journey worth attention, even if some of its aspects cracked under the rubble of combat details.

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The developers' passion can be seen in Duskfade. It is clear that they loved classic platformers and tried to re-introduce that feeling to a new generation of players, and they succeeded in many aspects, especially the level design which was flaw-free, the variety of environments in these levels, the joy of exploration within them, and certainly their distinctive visual and audio identity. On the other hand, the core of the game itself suffers from problems that are hard to ignore. Exaggerated jump physics, unpolished combat, and a bad Lock-On system are all things that directly affect what you will be doing the most throughout hours of gameplay. Despite completing the game 100% and enjoying exploring every corner of it, I was left with a continuous feeling that the game was just one step away from being an excellent platformer, and that step is polish, which unfortunately was not present enough. In the end, we have an enjoyable adventure for fans of 3D platformers, but it is not the experience that surpasses the games from which it inspired its ideas.

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When combat is at its best, and you succeed in summoning your team members at the right time, starting a combo of attacks that combines your characters' abilities, the game delivers some of the most enjoyable and thrilling combat moments in fighting games of this generation.

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Celestial Return possesses one of the most interesting new worlds among modern narrative games, successfully blending cyberpunk with cosmic horror in an innovative way. However, the game seems closer to an excellent visual novel trying to present itself as an RPG, despite not reaching the point of being a true role-playing game. If the developers had succeeded in improving the dialogues, providing more creative outcomes for failure, and granting players greater freedom in shaping events, it would have transformed into one of the most prominent indie narrative games this year. Currently, it is a very good experience in terms of world and story, but it still stumbles due to some decisions that stand in the way of what it is trying to achieve.

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Echo Isle is an enjoyable experience worth considering, but it is a small experience in every sense of the word. At a price of $5 and a playtime not exceeding an hour and a half, it may be a good option for anyone looking for a fun and quick dose of nostalgia. However, the game remains a missed opportunity that could have been much better; it possesses strong fundamentals but lacks sufficient length or content to be a complete game. Nonetheless, the solo effort made by the developer to create a short game is enough to make us recommend trying it for fans of this genre of games.

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Kusan: City of Wolves offers a challenging and distinctive combat experience, combining engaging dramatic narrative with a captivating artistic style. Although the narrative suffers from some flaws resulting from the approach taken in presenting the story, the game compensates for it with fun gameplay, epic boss encounters, and a good variety of weapons and enemies, despite a flaw in the distribution of this variety. Additionally, some skills seemed to be of limited usefulness or virtually useless throughout the experience. With a good progression system despite a few notes, while level design stands out as one of the game's strongest elements, delivering, overall, a very excellent experience.

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The first installment of the Halo series is considered the jewel made by Xbox and the primary reason for Xbox's success. What this legendary entry truly deserved was a remake worthy of the game's historical status, and to fulfill this entitlement, Halo Campaign Evolved was released. It preserved the spirit of the original game while bringing improvements to the narrative style, environment design, vehicle handling, along with high quality in gameplay and graphics, the addition of usable weapons, and extra missions to pave the way for the game's story. However, the game was flawed by some issues such as repetitive level design in indoor areas, technical issues, and problems in cinematic cutscenes.

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The Revelations expansion managed to surpass all expectations, hopes, and dreams, creating the most complete and best experience in the DOOM series of all time. The add-on succeeded in providing a different, addictive, and fun gameplay system that relies on the spear and shield and switching between them, which surpassed the original game. It provided the best level and encounter design with distinctive ideas and a real challenge, and undoubtedly the best bosses in the series as a whole with a gigantic and highly diverse set of enemies, and a breathtaking epic soundtrack, alongside an excellent and polished progression system that benefits from meticulous exploration and smart puzzles with different ideas. This journey is only completed with the perfect and integrated End Game content that puts all your skills to the test.

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Super Mario Odyssey proves that Nintendo is still capable of reinventing the Mario series with every new release, by providing innovative ideas, a level design full of creativity, and a great variety of gameplay styles that maintain the fun of the experience from beginning to end. With massive worlds that encourage exploration, distinctive artistic graphics, exceptional music, and stable technical performance, the game succeeds in delivering one of the best platforming gaming experiences in the history of the video game industry. It is a game that is hard to stop playing, and deservedly merits its status as one of the greatest games of all time.

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Artistic Style and Performance: Regarding the artistic style, it seems that Bandai has allocated a huge budget for this series; as the game features precise and dazzling details for a game that adopts the Japanese animation (Anime) style. Thanks to the beautiful lighting and visual effects, the game maintains a smooth and stable performance at a rate of 60 frames per second, despite the existence of some slight slowdowns or occasional stutters during battles.

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In the end, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag Resynced provided an enjoyable experience, but it did not achieve what I was expecting from a game that carries the description of a 'remake.' It succeeded in clearly developing the gameplay, whether through improving combat, climbing, and ship combat, which are elements that made returning to the pirates' world more enjoyable and smoother than ever before. On the other hand, the concept of a remake was not reflected in the remaining aspects as required, as the story did not witness fundamental changes, the Animus story was completely deleted, and the graphical level came closer to an enhanced remaster than to a true remake, alongside a number of technical problems and bugs that affected the experience. Therefore, as a fan of the original part, I felt intense enjoyment while playing this version and loved it very much, but I was expecting a complete rebuilding that keeps pace with the capabilities of the current generation, and the game did not meet these expectations.

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