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The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword Hd Review
Zelda games have always been about exploring worlds that seem huge, and discovering little corners and caves to tell all about. They have ventured into 3D space before they have, with Ocarina of Time focusing on grandiose plots and dungeons, but in Skyward Sword this sense of discovery seems to have disappeared into the background and broken the series focus on exploration. In 2011, Nintendo reforged The Legend of Zelda with the shake of the Wii Remote, but with the Sword of Heaven you feel like you're losing sight of the forests and trees to focus on the spinning sword waves, and the adventurous reach of the series is also lost.
By Jingjing Wang5 years ago in Gamers
Akiba's Trip: Hellbound & Debriefed Review
Debriefed follows the other Akibas Trip games in style by collecting a wide range of items that can be used as weapons, from wooden swords to rugged keyboards to anime body cushions for girls. You and your opponents are vampires and the way to defeat them is to destroy their clothing by engaging in fights, tearing them and exposed the shadow souls to direct sunlight to fry them. Be aware that the undead resemble their synthisters unclothed, but the way Shadow Souls is implemented in this game is much more captivating.
By Jingjing Wang5 years ago in Gamers
Cris Tales Review
When you play as a time mage, Cris Tales includes a lot of time-based tricks, plot devices and gameplay hooks. If Cris Tales has one outstanding feature, that is that it is the unique use of time travel and time manipulation that is at the heart of all you do.
By Jingjing Wang5 years ago in Gamers
Orcs Must Die! 3 Review
With a pre-accounted budget, you start level purchases and alternate between placing traps of your choice in small dungeons and large squares with the goal of doing as much damage as possible to passing orcs. The traps and hostile triggers come from the school of slapstick comedy from Tom and Jerry, who throw orcs into the air and sting them with beehives until those waiting for the upcoming Jackass meeting find out who they serve best.
By Jingjing Wang5 years ago in Gamers
The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles Review
In the court itself, the game is about presenting evidence, cross-examining witnesses and, in due course, objecting. Ace Attorney is a fun game that lets you solve puzzles, look at your evidence, find inconsistencies in testimony, discover new angles and turn a trial upside down. For those looking for an action-packed version of lawyer action and judgment, there are better games, but Ace Attorney has a fantastic story to tell, and its charming character cast is a bit too much to highlight a visual bog-standard novel.
By Jingjing Wang5 years ago in Gamers
Microsoft Flight Simulator Review
Most a la carte deals cost between a few dollars and up to $50. Players control aircraft like Cessnas and huge passenger jets like the Airbus A320. The diversity is excellent for Air Force vets, but I was a little disappointed with the military aircraft.
By Jingjing Wang5 years ago in Gamers
Samurai Warriors 5 Review
Koei Tecmo and Omega Force have not shied away from releasing their Warrior Musou games for the Nintendo Switch in recent years. If you want to cut through the Moblin slime of iconic characters and romance in the Three Kingdoms, you'll find it. Fighting battles need a reason to fight, and in Samurai Warriors 5 the story mode takes players back to the Sengoku period of Japanese history, when the young Nobunaga Oda is drawn against his friend-turned-foe Mitsuhide Akechi.
By Jingjing Wang5 years ago in Gamers
Tribes Of Midgard Review
In order to burden the player even more, there are joints that spawn in the open world every few days. They are giant giants that make their way into your village and although it may take a few days to go in to your township, it would be wrong to presume that you don't worry about them as they get closer to the village.
By Jingjing Wang5 years ago in Gamers
Chernobylite Review
Imagine a horror game taking place in a real-world place full of history and bad radioactive energy. Every time you die, you wake up in a dream landscape where you can see how the most important decisions you have made are interconnected and how everything will change because they use Chernobyl shards as payment for the interdimensional gods who are forced to run the show. It is not easy for a game to reveal the workings of its electoral system, but given the Chernobyl network's vast range of choices and possible outcomes, the developers were right to flaunt them.
By Jingjing Wang5 years ago in Gamers
The Ascent Review
There are many opportunities to improve your character with a variety of skills, but I don't think I've ever really understood how to improve, nor has it helped me in any tangible sense. Weapons and armor are designed to defend together against different elementary resistances, but the game does not adequately explain how to equip each one for each task, why some kind of weapon works better against a particular enemy, or why an achievement emerges to celebrate a combination. In fact, there are a lot of small factors that make The Ascent look more like a PC game than an Xbox Series X showcase, as it turns out.
By Jingjing Wang5 years ago in Gamers
