Hi guys! Today I will talk about Quantum Break. As always, the review will have four parts, firstly I will talk about the storyline, then about the gameplay, afterward, I will talk about the visuals and finally, I will tell you my personal thoughts and give you a rating for the game from 0-10 (10 being the best).

Storyline

The story of Quantum Break is captivating. Many unexpected things happen and it will surely keep you entertained for the duration of your playthrough.

One very interesting thing is that you control how the story will play out through your decisions in the game. The voice acting in the game is too notch and won’t leave you disappointed.

I won’t go into further detail in the story since I don’t want to give you any spoilers.

Gameplay

Now let’s talk about how the game is played. The game plays as a third-person shooter. There are things that Quantum Break does good and things that it does bad. Let’s start with the negatives.

The first problem is that the game doesn’t have enough variety in his weapons. It has just enough to not use the same weapon all the time but it would be good if there was more variety.

Another negative thing is the enemies in the game. There isn’t much variety in them too. Fights will play out the same way most of the game.

The last negative thing is the puzzles that the game has. Sometimes to get access to a location you have to see the scenery as it was in the past and then move things in the scenery to make the door open.

These puzzles are more annoying than challenging since their solutions are obvious. These are the negatives.

Now let’s talk about the positives.

One amazing thing about the game is the ability to manipulate the time that you get.

These abilities are very fun to use and it isn’t something that you see every day.

Another positive thing is that the gunplay isn’t clucky at all and it feels very well optimized and smooth.

These are the things I had to say about the gameplay. Now let’s talk about the graphics.

Visuals

The graphics of Quantum Break look very good for the time that it was released and even today they are on par with some big releases.

Playing Quantum Break is like playing in a movie where you are the protagonist.

If you didn’t know, there is a TV series about the game and you will see live-action scenes from the tv series in the game.

This isn’t something you see every day and it will probably be a nice change from the traditional cutscenes in games, there are those traditional cutscenes in this game too but the live-action cutscenes are a nice addition.

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Final Thoughts

Quantum Break is an above-average game that has many things that it does good and many things that it does do bad.

It has good gunplay but not much variety in the guns, it has cool powers that you can use against enemies and in puzzles but the puzzles aren’t really challenging.

It also doesn’t have enough variety in the enemies. As for the general game difficulty, it isn’t very challenging even in hard difficulty. The only thing that is truly challenging is the final boss battle.

The story takes about 10 hours to finish. I finished the game on the same day I bought it.

I guess the story is more of a selling point than the gameplay. The story of the game is very good but I am not sure if people will find it enough to buy the game. I would recommend waiting for a sale to buy the game since I don’t believe that it is worth the full price.

Final Verdict

Storyline: 8.0

Gameplay: 7.5

Visuals: 8.3

General Rating: 7.9

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Hi guys! Today I will talk about Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege. As always, the review will have four parts, firstly I will talk about the storyline, then about the gameplay, afterward, I will talk about the visuals and finally, I will tell you my personal thoughts and give you a rating for the game from 0-10 (10 being the best).

Storyline

This game doesn’t have a storyline. The characters that you can choose to play with have stories but there isn’t a story mode so I can’t say anything more in this section.

Gameplay

Even though Rainbow Six Siege has been out for almost 4 years now, I only recently bought it and started playing it.

The first time I played Rainbow Six Siege was a few months ago on a free weekend but it didn’t hook me then.

The reason it didn’t hook me is the same as the reason why most players give up on Rainbow Six Siege, and that is its steep learning curve.

Rainbow Six Siege has many maps and those maps consist of buildings with 3 floors at least.

Learning how to move around these maps, what spots should you cover, what spots will the enemy come from and the abilities of the enemies and your team will take hundreds (literally hundreds) of hours and can be discouraging for new players.

I remember when I first played on the free weekend I died again and again before I understood what had happened or where did the enemy hit me from. Now you may ask, why did I return and even bought the game.

The reason is the game’s price.

Ubisoft puts the game on sale very often and the price for the standard game is 8 euros, and I have to say, their plan worked on me.

8 euro for a triple-A game is a good price to give this game a second chance.

I saw some videos for beginners on Rainbow Six Siege and what they have to do to learn the ropes and the first thing I did is to do all the Situations (Sieges’ tutorials) at realistic difficulty and get at least 2 of the 3 stars in each situation (the stars signify objectives and if you complete them you get a star).

This took me some hours but after I finished them, I became familiar with a lot of the game’s maps and that helped a lot on my next step which was PVP in Newcomer mode.

Newcomer mode is PvP for beginners in the game and it has a roster of 3 maps, and it gives you a good taste of what to expect in PvP.

After I played for a few hours in newcomer mode I started playing in casual mode where you can play in 14 different maps as of the time I write this article.

I have to say, I’ve learned to enjoy this game through this process because now I know what is going on and why I died when I die.

I recommend to the new players to do the same process I did to be able to enjoy the game. I am nowhere near as used to the maps as I would like to be, as I said it will take hundreds of hours of gameplay to learn everything about the different maps, but I know enough to play in them and not die like an idiot over and over again.

Now let’s talk about the gunplay. The gunplay in Rainbow Six Siege is very good and fluid. It doesn’t feel clunky at all and it’s very enjoyable.

There are many different types of guns and each operator (the character you pick to play the game) has 2 or 3 guns available.

Each operator also has a special ability and knowing how to use it optimally can help your team win a game.

Each match consists of at least 3 rounds. The first team that wins 3 times, wins the game. In each round, the teams switch between attack and defense, so for example if your team began as the attacking team in the first round, in the second round they will become the defending team.

There is a different roster of operators for attacking and defending, meaning that you can’t pick the same operator for attack and defense.

There are different objectives in casual mode that will randomly be chosen for you to play by the game, your objectives might be to defuse a bomb, free a hostage or capture a point in the map.

Visuals

The graphics of the game are top-notch and worthy of a triple-A game. There are some particle effects in the game that don’t look good, for example, fire, but generally, the game looks amazing.

It has a nice balance between good graphics and performance, meaning that the graphics are good enough but not overly good to affect performance for those that don’t have the most expensive GPUs.

There is also a lot of customization for those that like to change outfits and weapon skins for their characters, although you will probably have to spend money for customization because if you do it the free way you will grind for 30 hours for a single character outfit.

More on that later.

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Final Thoughts

As I said before, the game is very good and it’s definitely worth to buy for those that like fps games.

The only negative thing I have to say is that it takes a lot, and I mean a lot of hours of grinding to buy operators.

There are those operators that come with the game when you buy it but the rest you have to buy them yourself, either with in-game currency which you get by playing the game or by buying season passes and DLCs.

Ubisoft says it takes 30 hours of gameplay to unlock a single operator without boost packs or anything else that will give you more renown (game currency) per game.

So if you just want to buy the standard game you will have to grind for hundreds of hours to unlock all operators, and don’t even think of buying anything else with renown like skins and outfits because they cost as much as an operator costs.

Now you might say this is a huge problem but consider this, the game gets continuously updates with patches, new operators and maps and the money for those things needs to come from somewhere, and since most people would prefer to pay than grind Ubisoft has a nice cash flow to keep the game afloat.

Also, everything new is available to all players so you get new maps and new operators (maps are free but you have to buy operators with in-game currency) that you can unlock without being forced to pay for them with real money.

Whether you like it or not I think this is a compromise that us players that want the game to keep getting updates and new content have to make.

Final Verdict

Stoyline: –

Gameplay: 9.0

Graphics: 9.0

General Rating: 9.0

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A decade-old game, InFamous stands out surprisingly well for its age. The game was given free to most that bought a PlayStation 3 in 2012 as part of their welcome back program.

The review will have a storyline, gameplay, graphics & SFX, and finally, a personal thoughts section. Without further ado:

Storyline

The game begins with our protagonist Cole MacGrath, just an average bike messenger boy, delivering a package in his hometown, the fictional Empire City.

A mysterious man calls Cole and offers him 500$ to open the box. Though hesitant at first, Cole opens the box, which triggers an explosion that is the game’s start.

Afterward, Cole recovers for 4 days and discovers upon waking up that he has newfound electricity-based powers. He also learns that after the explosion, a new epidemic plague has broken out, the city is in quarantine and various mafia gangs have assumed control over the 3 islands that make Empire City.

Cole, while trying to survive with his best friend Zeke, is soon dubbed a terrorist, and is blamed for the explosion, as well as having powers.

This ruins Cole’s relationship with Trish, his girlfriend, and an angry Cole, alongside Zeke, tries to escape the city through the barricades the police have set up.

After an unsuccessful escape attempt, Cole is recruited by Moya Jones, an FBI agent that tells him that the package that he was delivering him had the Ray Sphere, a bioterrorism weapon that absorbs the energy of all living beings in a huge radius, and transfers then to the host, thus giving him powers.

She offers him a deal. Help her find her husband, John, who disappeared during the explosion with the Ray Sphere, and retrieve the Ray Sphere. In return, Moya will clear Cole’s name and help him escape town. Cole reluctantly agrees.

The rest of the story is through the missions that you will be given. It should be noted though, that while the base story and ending are the same, many smaller details will change based on your decisions and the game’s Karma System. You can do the heroic actions or the evil ones, thus growing your reputation either way.

The game has a deep storyline that is continued in comics (even the game’s storyline is illustrated in a comic style way), as well as its sequel; InFamous 2. I will say one thing, the story is full of twists and complications, betrayals, etc. One thing is for sure, you will sympathize a lot with Cole.

Gameplay

Having electric powers, the gameplay revolves entirely around them.

Generally, you are in an open-world scenario with inaccessible due to story areas, accessible areas that don’t have any electricity that is infested with bad guys and Cole is weakened due to the lack of a source of power, and areas with electricity that either Cole has liberated or hasn’t.

You can liberate areas by doing side quests. Liberated areas have almost no enemies inside.

You begin with just your basic attack, which is a thunderbolt that you can shoot from your hand. You also have the power to create a huge shockwave if you fall from a high place.

As you restore electricity to the city, you gain more powers, like throwing electric grenades to healing people or absorbing them for energy.

Most attacks use up points of energy. You have a specific amount that you can increase by finding specific objects throughout the city.

You can also recharge your energy by absorbing the electricity from a nearby source, or by grinding on rails that are charged with electricity (like train rails).

By completing quests, comboing enemies and discovering and executing new combos, you gain experience which you can use to improve your attacks.

The game also has the aforementioned Karma System. By doing the choices in the main story missions (and some side quests) and by various action (healing or killing civilians for example), you gain Karma points towards that direction.

There are 6 levels of Karma, 3 for each alignment. The 3 hero levels are Guardian, Champion, and Hero, while the evil ones are Thug, Outlaw and Infamous.

Your Karma affects how people treat you and your upgrades. Evil upgrades tend to be more catastrophic and powerful, while Good ones err on the utility side.

Your Karma also affects the color of your powers. You shoot light blue lightning as a good character and red as evil.

Karma can change from one side to the other provided that you do the sufficient amount of actions toward the side you’re aiming.

There is only one case where you can’t change your Karma ever, but that spoils the story, so I’ll leave it to you.

The path you choose won’t affect gameplay drastically, but if you want to be good, you have to be more careful when fighting in crowded areas, and if you are bad, citizens might start throwing debris at you.

There’s also no post-game story or objectives, other than the classic 100% everything.

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Visuals

The graphics in this game are anything but dated. If you just see/play the game, without any prior knowledge, you could never guess it’s from 2009. The effects and attacks are also very well made, and every area is rural and dark, passing the story’s tone and theme excellently.

Personal Thoughts

The game had very positive reviews, all well deserved. Even today, the gameplay and the story are something unique that everyone should try out.

The game even has some form of replayability, as you’ll definitely want to play the game a second time to see how it is to be good instead of evil or vice versa, and what changes it brings to the story.

Besides, it’s the only way if you want to 100% the game.

The game was criticized for the repetitiveness of the enemies, as most enemies as you advance seem to only gain more HP.

I think it’s an excellent game that anyone who has a PlayStation 3 should try.

That’s why it has so many sequels and media after all.

Final Verdict

Storyline: 8.2

Gameplay: 7.8

Visuals: 7.0

General Rating: 7.7

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Quick Understanding of Block Extrusion (or Q.U.B.E.) is a single-player, first-person, puzzle adventure game developed by Toxic Games.

Both games are compared to puzzle adventure legends Portal 1 & 2, but in reality, they only share the genre.

This review will have a storyline, gameplay, graphics & SFX and finally, a personal thoughts section. Without further ado:

Storyline

The two games, despite being sequels, have a completely different story, with different characters, and even different gameplay. The only common theme story wise is that Q.U.B.E. 2 comes after the events of Q.U.B.E. 1, but you don’t really understand that until the ending(s).

Q.U.B.E. 1 begins with you, the player, waking up in similar fashion to Portal 1. You notice a pair of strange gloves, and soon, you are contacted by Commander Nowak.

The Commander claims that you are an astronaut that was sent from the International Space Station abroad a mysterious cube-shaped vessel near the moon, which is also on a collision course with Earth. She also claims that you suffer amnesia, probably a side-effect of space traveling.

You were sent there with the purpose of deciphering the vessel, causing it to explode and avoid collision with earth. Without many options, you decide to move on.

You find out that your special suit can interact with various colored tiles inside the vessel, and you use this to advance. While you’re solving puzzles and moving on, all with the support of the Commander, you soon lose contact, and your transmission is interrupted.

Suddenly, another voice is heard from the transmitter, a man who calls himself 9-1-1. He tries to desperately warn you that the commander is lying about everything, and you are in fact, a lab-rat, trapped in an underground facility, forced to solve puzzles for data.

The game carries on with both persons trying to convince each is right, and unfortunately, there is only one ending in which one of them is right. That’s some wasted potential. However, you can find many threads where people argue who was right or wrong, even after the ending.

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Q.U.B.E. 2 begins in a somewhat similar fashion. You are a female scientist named Emilia Cross, and you try to traverse some kind of ruins. Through the rest of the game, you solve fashions in manner, again, similar to the previous game all the while having the support from the mysterious Commander Emma Sutcliffe.

The game is more plot driven than the last, so I won’t spoil it too much, but this time there are 2 different endings to choose from, which are, in my opinion, a bit vague. You will also find out the game’s connection to the first game.

Gameplay

The 2 games differ a lot in gameplay between them (maybe due to the 6-year gap it took for the sequel to be released), with only the core gameplay remaining the same. Let’s begin from the original:

In Q.U.B.E. 1, you have a suit that basically has 2 actions; retract and extract. You will be traversing a mostly white tile facility, but in it, there are a few colored tiles you can use your suit on.

• Red Tiles are able to extract for up to 3 times depending on your needs.
• Blue Tiles are jump pads. Extracting them basically activates them.
• Yellow Tiles come in sets of three. You have to choose which one to extract, and depending on your choice, you gain different results. Generally, it creates sets of stairs.
• Green Tiles produce a green block or ball, which can be interacted with the other tiles. Usually, you will be using the green object as the key to the puzzle’s solution.
• Purple Tiles rotate a portion of a wall/floor (depending on the position).

All puzzles will be using some sort of combination of the above blocks. Later in the game, more elements will become available, such as gravity, AI movement manipulation, and light reflection.

If you get your hands on the Director’s Cut, you will also gain access to various speedrun challenges, as well as some extra story. The speedruns are a bit different than the original game, as you won’t be interacting with colored tiles that much.

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Q.U.B.E. 2 changes quite drastically. Your suit now can interact with several special tiles, and it’s up to you which colored tile should you use to solve the puzzle. There are 3 colors to choose from: red, green, and blue, each with roughly the same function as the previous game.

As with the previous installment, there are many other things to interact with, like moving platforms and magnets among others.

Finally, about the SFX, again, I congratulate Toxic Games. The voice actors are amazing, and especially in 9-1-1’s case, you can really hear the desperation in his voice.

Q.U.B.E. 2 in specific has a lot of ambient sounds near statues, that are actually quite plot-relevant. Very polished in general.

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Visuals

The graphics in both games are amazing. It was developed using Unreal Engine after all. Especially the scenery in Q.U.B.E. 2. To be honest, the graphics look a lot like Portal’s graphics, but that doesn’t mean they weren’t any good!

Personal Thoughts

The Q.U.B.E. series is, in my opinion, unfairly compared to the Portal games. Each game has its own distinct storyline and gameplay, and they don’t overlap. I don’t even get the comparisons, you can just play both sets of games and be a happier person.

The puzzles are challenging and will keep you on your edge. The story is immersive and with twists and turns. Even the mood of the game is generally quite eerie, which fits the story of a stranded person looking for a way out without any information.

Final Verdict

Storyline: 8.0

Gameplay: 8.5

Visuals: 9.0

General Rating: 8.5

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Yet another mobile game, Super Spell Heroes (or SSH) is a 1 on 1, match-3 real-time take on battles with a twist of elements (how exciting!) Bet you haven’t heard of it though and that’s why I’m here. Hopefully, by the end of this review, you’ll have found your newest mobile game addiction.

As a mobile game review, it will be split into 3 parts: general, gameplay and personal thoughts. Without further ado:

General

Developed over a year ago (as of the time of this review) by Sviper GmbH, SSH is a promising game with tons of potential.

The basis is that you are an all-powerful wizard who uses elemental magic and must defeat the forces of evil.

The game is played 1v1, real-time, and it’s based on a match-3 system. That also makes it a real-time strategy game, and it has some collectible card game elements to it.

There are changes to the game usually every month, but some months might have more updates than others.

The monthly basis is the very least. As a new game, from a relatively unknown developer without many resources, the game still does its best.

There is no competitive scene, not in the form of esports at least. You can compete for the most shards (which serve as the game’s ranking system).

With enough support though, everything’s possible and I’m sure that an esports scene is in the plans if the game becomes very popular.

There are a handful of characters in the roster for now, but every character has (besides a unique way to play) a bunch of different builds you can try.

As mentioned, the game is relatively new, and it doesn’t have the proper resources to advertise itself, nor enough features to support a ton of newcomers.

But we stick with the potential, and this game has plenty for anyone willing to support it.

Gameplay

Does the gameplay justify the patience we must give and the support we should offer? I certainly believe it does.

As I said, you control a wizard in battle. There are 10 wizards to choose from, but you’ll start with only one. Each wizard masters 2 of the existing 5 elements. When you unlock them, you get their basic deck along.

Every deck has 9 cards separated into 4 spell tiers:

• Basic spells, marked by a grey gem. There are 3 basic spells in each deck.
• Advanced spells, marked by a green gem. There are 3 advanced spells in each deck.
• Elite spells, marked by a light blue gem. There are 2 elite spells in each deck.
• Ultimate spell, marked by a purple gem. There is only 1 ultimate spell in every game, and it usually serves as the deck’s win condition.

When you play, you will get some random spells and mana dropped. However, at the start of the game, only basic spells may drop.

As you cast more and more spells, you fill up your spell charge bar, and once it’s full, you unlock the next tier of spells.

Mana is the non-spell elemental blocks that drop. In order to cast a spell, you must connect it with two or more mana of the same element.

The more mana you use, the more powerful your spell will be, and the more you fill up your spell charge bar.

This leaves you with a very hard choice though; do you use all of your mana in order to fill up you spell charge bar faster and cast more powerful low-tier spells, or do you play conservatively, saving for that one big juicy ultimate spell? The choice is up to you.

Every character will have a plethora of spells from each category to choose from, and your deck (and character) determines your playstyle.

Some characters share the elemental mastery over 2 elements, but even they have different choices of cards and by extension, different core playstyles.

You don’t even have to worry about wizards having the same set of spells (which will happen often, trust me).

The ones with the same elemental pair usually have very distinct playstyles due to their unique spells. The game even encourages you to play with everyone!

There are 5 elements in this game and roughly, each has a unique playstyle. The game began with 4 elements, and the fifth element of water was added recently.

I can definitely see more elements being released, but now, I’m guessing they’ll focus more on using water along the rest of the elements first… Anyway, the five elements are:

• Fire, the first of the 2 elements you’ll be acquainted with at the start of the game. Fire tends to be pure damage (or support for more damage later), with many nuke spells.
• Nature, the second of the 2 elements you’ll be seeing at the start. Nature is defensive by nature (pun intended) with lots of heals and blocks.
• Light, the spam element. Light typically tries to spam you with repeated spells or by refilling your mana. By spamming, they also reach higher spell tiers faster and quickly overwhelm their opponents.
• Earth, the hard-hitting element. Generally, earth has a mixture of offensive and defensive spells, and they all revolve around the same concept; high risk/high reward. Typically, when you cast a (very slow) earth spell, you get a weakness token, which reduces the damage you can do for a while. This offsets the fact that earth spells are extremely powerful, both offensively and defensively. Earth is very good at disruption too.
• Water, the annoying element. Since there is only one character that uses water, I don’t have the full picture, but generally, water wants to… flood the opponents field with water tokens and disrupt their plays. These tokens start to timeout when they reach the bottom of the board, and your purpose is to turn them into ice tokens which stay until your opponent has no more moves left, after which the explode, dealing huge damage.

There are characters of every elemental pair possible, bar anything with water. Water is only combined with earth, for now.

By winning battles, you earn shards (which as aforementioned are the game’s ranking system) and move to new areas. every new area allows you to unlock some new characters and some new spells for each character. You can unlock these things by doing quests which appear as you play the game.

Quests also give you spells you already have. The purpose is to collect enough so you can upgrade the spells you want to use.

As you upgrade spells, your wizard gain experience, after enough he’ll level up, gaining more max HP.

You can boost almost everything in this game by watching ads. You can also pay directly for cosmetics and cards.

There are also clans that mostly serve as ways to gain an extra spell because they don’t offer too much in particular. Personal friends, however, are better, as, with every win, they strengthen the friend bonus chest you get once a week.

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Personal Thoughts

This game is pretty fun to pass the time. The experience is more casual than other, more competitive games, but it takes just as many skills and mechanics. Like most mobile games, your reaction time must be top-notch.

The game surely serves its purpose despite its age and humble beginnings. I believe that with enough support, it can become a big enough game to rival the top ones.

As for the matter of P2W. This game certainly gives you an advantage if you pay, but which game doesn’t. Fortunately, it isn’t as bad as Clash of Clans for example, and you can happily play the game for free without fear of being terribly behind.

Honestly, I’d rate this game as much as Clash Royale, because, even though it’s nowhere near as competitive, it has tons of potential.

General Rating: 7.5

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Hi guys! Today I will talk about Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It’s the first Zelda game I have played, and it has become one of my favorite games.

As always, the review will have four parts, firstly I will talk about the storyline, then about the gameplay, afterward, I will talk about the visuals and finally, I will tell you my personal thoughts and give you a rating for the game from 0-10 (10 being the best).

Storyline

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has a very good story and interesting characters. I promise that you will love some of the characters in this game.

I won’t go into further detail about the story because you will learn the story in the tutorial of the game and a little mystery makes the game more intriguing.

Gameplay

Let’s talk about the game mechanics and what you can do in this game.

First of all, this game is huge and when I say huge, I mean it. It has so much content so many areas for you to explore so many things to do that you will have to play for hundreds of hours to finish it all.

I have played over 60 hours and I still haven’t finished the story because I find so many interesting things in the world of Zelda and I get side-tracked a lot.

In this game, there are shrines that you have to find, and each shrine has a test that is a puzzle or a combat trial. When you finish the test, you get an orb and when you get 4 of those orbs you can increase the number of hearts (HP) you have by one or the stamina you have available.

The shrines work as travel points since you can fast travel to the shrines you have found. There are a lot of shrines in the game, they are 120 shrines in total, and it will take you a lot of hours to find and complete all the shrine trials.

There are also main story missions and side quests that you can get from NPCs in the game.

In terms of combat, there are a lot of weapons that you can find in the game to use.

There are over 100 types of weapons that you can use not including bows.

One thing that you need to be aware of is that weapons in Breath of the Wild have specific durability and eventually they break.

Some people find it a good thing since this feature forces you to use different kinds of weapons and makes you think before you use your weapon on an enemy, but others find it frustrating because they don’t want their weapons to be destroyed after they use them.

Personally, I found it very frustrating at first because I had to find weapons to fight the enemies and it wasn’t easy at first, but after you find weapon spawn locations in the map you will never run out of weapons.

Weapons that you find that are outside of chests will respawn after a blood moon.

A blood moon is a feature in the game and when it happens, all the weapons that you have found are taken from their spots and all the enemies that you have killed will respawn.

This feature makes it so that you will never run out of weapons or enemies to fight.

Besides the combat, you can also hunt animals and cook in the game. This makes the game similar to a survival game.

Visuals

The graphics of the game are outstanding and will surely please everyone.

There are some beautiful locations on the map that are truly breathtaking. In terms of character customization, the game doesn’t fall short.

There are a lot of outfits that you can find or buy (with in-game money) in the game and many of them have a specific use, for example, there is an outfit that makes you climb faster, and outfits that increase your heat and cold resistance.

I like this feature because it forces you to wear many different outfits according to the task you have at hand.

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Final Thoughts

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is truly an amazing game. It has a lot of content, interesting missions, good combat, amazing graphics, a good story and a huge world for you to explore.

If you love open-world games, this is a game you must have. It is one of the best open-world games out there that much is certain.

Final Verdict

Storyline: 9.7

Gameplay: 9.7

Visuals: 9.8

General Rating: 9.7

That’s it for my review guys, I hope you liked it. If you liked the game leave a comment down below and tell me what you liked the most about this game. See ya in the next article.

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Pokemon GO was one of the most hyped-up mobile games, as well as one of the most hyped-up Pokemon games.

The reason is simple. Everyone’s number 1 fantasy since 1996 (when Pokemon began) was to have Pokemon in the real world. Pokemon Go would come to fulfill that fantasy, but did it actually hit that mark, or did it fall short?

Being a mobile game, this review will have a general, gameplay and finally, personal thoughts section. Without further ado:

General

Though the Pokemon franchise belongs to Nintendo, most of their side series games are developed by different companies in collaboration with Nintendo.

Niantic is the company behind Pokemon Go, and they used the tools from their previous game called Ingress to build it. The game belongs in the small augmented reality subgenre, which is what it implies.

The game was so hyped up (due to the popularity of the Pokemon franchise) that, on release, millions of non-Pokemon fans downloaded and continue to play it to this day. Perhaps its simplicity as a game helps, but what is for sure is that the game is extremely popular to non-gamers too.

Gameplay

Being a virtual reality game, Pokemon GO utilizes the real world. It uses an internal GPS signal to generate the landscape around you and some points of interest/gyms based on real-world locations of interest. Close to points of interest (called Pokestops) spawn random Pokemon.

They are not fully random of course, there are some Pokemon that are more common than others, and their type is loosely based on your location (you’ll find more Water Type Pokemon near ports and beaches).

Every continent has its own exclusive Pokemon too. There are different exclusive Pokemon for different areas on the same continent too!

Your purpose is… well, to catch ’em all. Pokestops give you essential items to help you with your cause (mainly Pokeballs).

There are other items that can be used too, like potions for healing or berries that help you with catching wild Pokemon or might give you bonus rewards after you catch them.

To actually catch a Pokemon, you just need to flick a Pokeball at it and hope you catch it.

To move from one Pokestop to another, you must actually move, as in, use a vehicle or your own two legs.

This aspect of Pokemon GO helps with local businesses, as they can have a Pokestop. Some local businesses use an item called lure module which attracts Pokemon to that Pokestop, and offer free internet should someone buy something from them.

When you catch Pokemon, you earn some stardust and that Pokemon’s evolutionary line candy (i.e. Eevee and all of its evolutions will be using Eevee candies). stardust and candies can be used to strengthen the Pokemon, but you can collect the candies in order to evolve the Pokemon instead.

Pokemon have different strengths and potential (similarly to the main games) and there is a lot of micromanagement involved, which is why I recommend a guide if you want to play seriously. There is also a buddy system, which allows you to earn a specific Pokemon’s candy by walking.

You can also find (usually) rare Pokemon from Pokemon eggs, which can be found randomly from quests and Pokestops. There are 3 tiers of eggs, with each tier giving you more powerful and rare Pokemon.

There are the 2K eggs, the 5K, and the 10K eggs, which all imply the amount of walking you must do to hatch it.

To hatch an egg you need an incubator. You are given 1 basic incubator for free and you can find more from quests and level up rewards, or buy some.

By leveling your Pokemon, catching them, or evolving them you gain player experience. As you level, more and better items become available to find in Pokestops, and you gain some rewards.

After a specific level, you must choose which team you want to be a part of. There are 3 teams to choose from:

• Team Valor, which is the red team, with Moltres as their mascot. Team Valor believes that strength should be above all.
• Team Mystic, which is the blue team, with Articuno as their mascot. Team Mystic believes in knowledge and how it can be used for benefit.
• Team Instinct, which is the yellow team, with Zapdos as their mascot. Team Instinct relies on… instinct and intuition.

The teams won’t affect your gameplay too much so don’t worry about picking one.

However, every Gym is controlled by a team, and if it’s not your team, you can go fight the Gym Pokemon left behind until you take the Gym for your team.

If the Gym belongs in your team, you can leave a Pokemon behind to defend it if there is enough space to do so (and heal it if it battled).

Leaving Pokemon in a Gym will give you gold which is the game’s currency. You will get more gold if the Pokemon stayed there for a lot.

Gyms have raids periodically. There are super rare (and sometimes exclusive) Pokemon. These usually need 5 or more powerful trainers to defeat, and once defeated, you have a chance to catch it.

Raids are announced an hour beforehand (but not the Pokemon, just its strength) so you can plan accordingly. Every player has only 1 raid pass per day, except of course if you pay.

There are also battles, either Gym battles or trainer to trainer battles. Both work pretty much the same, you tap for your basic attack until your strong attack meter fills up and den you tap and hold to do the powerful move. Niantic will try to shake things up a bit but there won’t be much difference.

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Personal Thoughts

I have been a long time fan of Pokemon. I will really try to be objective about this since it involves one of my all-time favorite series even to this day.

I really think that Pokemon GO is… meh. The fantasy of catching Pokemon in the real world is swell and all, but it gets really obnoxious when you find out that it literally sucks your mobile’s MB or GB supply like a black hole.

Plus, the combat system is really dull, it gets monotonous after 2 or 3 battles. The changes won’t help much. I also dislike the power creep, where some Pokemon are generally going to be optimal.

I always thought that in the real world, Pokemon could be as strong as the trainer makes them (with the exception of legendaries and maybe pseudo-legendaries).

But, there are positives too. First things first, Niantic tries very hard to deliver new and exciting events, separately to the release of every generation, and to great success might I add.

If you are a working adult and don’t mind your cellular data, you will have a great way to pass the time if you are just walking.

Honestly, while it shouldn’t be supported as it is illegal, the most fun you can have is to use a tool that allows you to move your character without moving, i.e. a hacked or cracked version that allows GPS manipulation.

You will probably be caught for it and Niantic is extremely strict with them and rightfully so.

General Rating: 4.5

It’s not that the game is a disappointment, but if you are a hardcore fan of Pokemon, you know how great their games can be, so this rating is compared to the general franchise.

Do you play Pokemon GO? Do you like it? How much of a fan of Pokemon are you? Write so in the comment section down below.

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