Shawn ツ (mainly on the Blue app)

26 | He/Him | Former Freelance Journalist

Discord: _gaming (only accepting friend reqs from mutuals)

[Shawn ツ (mainly on the Blue app) @ShawnRazor]

Their morals are in the right place which is awesome, but I can't help feeling a bit of second hand embarrassment

[Shawn ツ (mainly on the Blue app) @ShawnRazor]

Seeing some posts on Bluesky is unintentionally really funny sometimes. Just will be browsing randomly and someone will post something akin to saying "I'm so glad I'm not a piece of shit, because being a piece of shit is bad and people like that are bad"

[Shawn ツ (mainly on the Blue app) @ShawnRazor]

In all honesty I'm really excited to finally replay one of my childhood faves, MW2, but I still have World at War to properly experience for the first time

Oddly I did play it before through Plutonium with a buddy, but it was missing half the missions so...lol

[Shawn ツ (mainly on the Blue app) @ShawnRazor]

I don't think I quite respected how much of a jump CoD 4 was until I finally played the previous installments. Finished it earlier and it's such a night and day difference in a lot of ways.

It's still not perfect since it carries some sins of its past, but it's a big step

[Shawn ツ (mainly on the Blue app) @ShawnRazor]

Tried Ravenswatch with a close friend earlier and it's somehow both not what I expected yet also mostly what I expected. Didn't really know there were other roguelikes like Nightreign where you try and explore a map as quickly as possible

Pretty fun tho! And very stylish

[Shawn ツ (mainly on the Blue app) @ShawnRazor]

Disregard my comment yesterday about the new Tomb Raider looking good

[Rock Paper Shotgun @rockpapershot]

Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis studio have used "AI-assisted tools" during development, but swear "any AI-assisted assets were either replaced or refined by humans"

https://t.co/lTXZJ066oF

[Shawn ツ (mainly on the Blue app) @ShawnRazor]

What a weirdly misguided game

https://t.co/MOTadhoLoV

[Shawn ツ (mainly on the Blue app) @ShawnRazor]

No shot it has a 3.6/5 average on Backloggd

It's a pretty game and the idea is interesting on paper, but it just fails on so many levels. So little enjoyment to be had when 95% of the puzzles don't have satisfying solutions

Definitely gonna have some fun writing this review

[Shawn ツ (mainly on the Blue app) @ShawnRazor]

Viewfinder has to be one of the most bizarre puzzle games I've ever played, and I don't mean that in a good way

I don't think I've ever played a game in this genre that has been so deeply against the player finding the solution in my life. It rejects the idea entirely

[Shawn ツ (mainly on the Blue app) @ShawnRazor]

@TheVoidwalker09 Even if it's just meant to be silly as hell with a touch of precision, that genuinely sounds kinda awesome. Never been huge on straight racing stuff but arcadey stuff is my jam

Ty for the info!

[Shawn ツ (mainly on the Blue app) @ShawnRazor]

Overall not a bad showcase tbh. Lotta stuff that didn't interest me given I don't have a PlayStation (I asked for that tbf) but some neat stuff. Dave the Diver prequel spinoff looks awesome, ILL looks delightfully brutal, Tomb Raider looks pretty good

Got more than I expected

[Shawn ツ (mainly on the Blue app) @ShawnRazor]

@TheVoidwalker09 Yeah I feel ya on that. Not a whole lot exciting so I'm hoping both the Xbox showcase and SGF kinda fill that gap

That said, never tried either Stuntman game but that trailer got me curious

[Shawn ツ (mainly on the Blue app) @ShawnRazor]

@alittleyareli Envisioning them dropping the Bloodborne remaster for PS5 and PC and the theater workers having the worst day of their lives

[Shawn ツ (mainly on the Blue app) @ShawnRazor]

Credit where it's due, it doesn't look quite as bad as the last two entries

Still not all that good, but it looks like something that wouldn't turn me off entirely. That's a step in the right direction

[Shawn ツ (mainly on the Blue app) @ShawnRazor]

"20 minutes of uninterrupted gameplay"
Oh shit they must've really cook-
>God of War
...Oh.

[Shawn ツ (mainly on the Blue app) @ShawnRazor]

"20 minutes of uninterrupted gameplay"
Oh shit they must've really cook-
>God of War
...Oh.

[Shawn ツ (mainly on the Blue app) @ShawnRazor]

GLaDOS when you enter a new test chamber:

[Shawn ツ (mainly on the Blue app) @ShawnRazor]

@minttwoods 1000%. It just doesn't feel like they knew what to do with the concept outside of surface level ideas

[Shawn ツ (mainly on the Blue app) @ShawnRazor]

Viewfinder has to be one of the most bizarre puzzle games I've ever played, and I don't mean that in a good way

I don't think I've ever played a game in this genre that has been so deeply against the player finding the solution in my life. It rejects the idea entirely

[Shawn ツ (mainly on the Blue app) @ShawnRazor]

Even when it tries to let you find something out yourself, it either feels wrought with far too little friction or plain doesn't understand how to give context clues toward the solution it's asking for

[Shawn ツ (mainly on the Blue app) @ShawnRazor]

@alittleyareli Hope everything's okay Yareli

[Shawn ツ (mainly on the Blue app) @ShawnRazor]

@quantaxtrep I agree up to the point of publications offering guidelines of their review scores. Like over on Backloggd, I include a list describing what each of the 10 points in rating means

It can be useful, but I definitely agree thst it's frequently misused

[Shawn ツ (mainly on the Blue app) @ShawnRazor]

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for using your own review metrics if you don't feel like a 1-5 or 1-10 works for you

But when I see someone gave a game an 8/10 and then said they don't recommend it + were disappointed, I have to wonder what we're doing anymore lmao