Pizza Tower Review

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Pizza Tower is a 2D platform game in the style of the Wario Land series, where we play a chef and restaurant owner Peppino Spaghetti who has to fight Mr Pizzaface, a floating pizza to save his restaurant Peppino Pizza. Pizza Face threatened to blow up his restaurant with the laser from the nearby Titanic Pizza Tower.

The tower has 5 floors where various challenges need to be completed to free various creatures and earn money and points. There are different tasks at different levels, including collecting items and defeating monsters and obstacles. Defeating enemies allows entering combos and gaining necessary upgrades in skills and weapons. The player also has to unlock boss fights and destroy pillars.

The game needs to be restarted at times to do timed challenges. The play is based on various abilities that Peppino displays, such as dashing, running on walls, jumping from heights, or transforming his enemies. Although the game features some stealth elements while Peppino can gain completely new abilities, there are also exploration elements, and secret treasures that need to be located. The versatility of Peppino’s abilities is one of the main enjoyable features of the game.

In the end, Peppino has to defeat his greatest enemy Pizza Face. As the game has certain features of so popular Wario Land series as well as various improvements, it has received positive reviews from gamers. The game has unique, hand-drawn art with fluid animations that give the game energy and quirky feel. The levels are interesting and challenging while the unique qualities, humor as well as catchy soundtrack contribute to the popularity of the game that great support especially among Indie games community.

Pizza Tower, released for PC has been one of the most favorite games in 2023.

Dead Space Review

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Dead Space is a remake of the game from 2008 that was to be one of the scariest games at the time. The game contains significant improvements with regards to its predecessors Dead Space 2 and Dead Space 3 as well as changes incorporating elements of comic books based on this theme.

The story takes place in the 26th century. Isaac Clarke receives a signal from his girlfriend, Nicole Brennan about an attack of Necromorphs, mutated human corpses on USG Ishimura, a mining ship near the Aegis VII planet. He is sent there to repair the ship. When he lands on Ishimura, he and his crew have to fight Necromorphs. He also learns how Necromorphs that were part of an outbreak were created.

He needs help, but when another ship arrives, he finds out that it was sent to destroy Ishimura and any survivors. Isaac needs to battle the Hive Mind, a Necromorph that gives orders while dealing with induced by Unitology hallucinations. He has to prevent the merging of Necromorphs and other humans on Earth. Isaac has many tasks including saving his girlfriend Nicole, repairing the ship as well as unraveling the mysteries surrounding the cult responsible for inducing psychosis on the ship.

The gameplay involves the exploration of a large ship while we are being attacked by monsters as well as Necromorphs, Exploration unlocks various areas and allows for accessing supplies necessary to survive on the ship. The visual effects and 3D music make the entire gaming experience immersive.

The game was released for PS 5, Windows, and Xbox X/S.

Metroid Prime Remastered Review

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Metroid Prime Remastered is a new version of Metroid Prime published in 2002, being also the continuation of Metroid Dread a 2D platformer published in 2021 that was about exploration of the planet ZDR. Metroid Prime contains shooting elements but its main part constitutes exploration while also involving solving puzzles and jumping platforms. Samus has to fight enemies including bosses.

Samus Aran wins awards as well as seeks to uncover various mysteries. We meet her when she arrives at Tallon IV inhabited by cosmic pirates who conducted there their experiments. Samus has a task to find out how a radioactive Phazon increases the strength and size of various creatures and how it was made. All Samus knows is that some meteor brought Phazon to Talon IV. Samus needs to explore a variety of places as well as find out about Chozo population. She also has to gain new abilities and skills to progress. It turns out that Phazon came with the creature called Metroid Prime, who had to be contained in a temple to prevent Phazon from spreading. Samus manages to gain entry to the temple but is attacked by Riddley. She defeats Riddley as well as Metroid Prime, but her suit is damaged and she needs to escape.

Talon IV in Metroid Prime consists of a maze, where we need to figure out how to cross from one part to the next. There are underground tunnels with lava, tropical forests, and snowy landscapes. To explore the entire area, we need to first unlock its parts.

Elden Ring Review

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Elden Ring is an action, role-playing game for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. This open-world third-person interactive game created by FromSoftware and made by Bandai Namco is about the exploration of the Lands Between, a land that has been destroyed. The creator of this game, Hidetaki Miyazaki also made Dark Souls and this game was to be a sequel to Dark Souls. The player travels and collects runes that can restore the Elden Ring while conducting combats. The appeal of this game is the possibility of a wide-ranging exploration that can be achieved in one’s own individual or personal manner.

The player’s journey is to become in the end the ruler of the land while unraveling various mysteries and secrets along the way. There can be different outcomes of the game as well depending on how we play this game. Instead of becoming the ruler another ending can involve destruction. The ending depends on the actions of the player.

Apart from battling the bosses, we need to collect various items that can improve our chances of winning with our opponents that include enhancing our weapons our improving our health. Not all battles need to be fought, but those most essential require certain knowledge about fighting with the weapons we have.

The player seeks all that remains of Elden Ring even if it means taking it out of the dead body of Queen Marika who used to rule the Land Between. To learn about

This game has been awarded the best game of 2022.

Horizon Forbidden West Review

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Horizon Forbidden West is an open-world game that is the continuation of Horizon Zero Dawn. The game is about the exploration of the huge world, including the underground and water. It contains elements that refer to the previous game. The main protagonist Aloy fights AI HADES that hasn’t been destroyed in the previous game. She needs to stop the destruction of the Earth. We get acquainted with tribes, but we can choose our own story as well as Aloy’s character. In Horizon Forbidden West we travel and collect various tools, and fight opponents that include other tribes, machine-like bosses, various beasts, or other humans. We get rewards for defeated opponents.

Horizon Forbidden West have various modes of moving such as flying, diving, or climbing. Exploration is enhanced through the tools we have at our disposal such as hang-gliders or ropes. We also need to solve various puzzles to get through the game. The representation of the world and each character is done with graphic precision that enables the player to become more immersed in the game. Apart from exploration the game also involves quests, gathering, and hunting. There are elements of stealth and open battles.

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Review

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Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is the next episode of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and takes place in Aionios. It is an action role-playing game for Nintendo Switch about Alrest inhabited by Titans. In this world that is made of colonies, the nations of Keves and Agnus’s are manipulated into fighting with each other due to no apparent reason. An organization called Moebius is behind this manipulation of continuous fight. In Xenoblade Chronicles 3, the Flame Clocks give our protagonists a certain life span. They are then sent into Ether.

The main characters are Noah, Lanz, and Eunie as well as their support Riku and Mio, Taion and Sena, and Manana. Keves are technologically advanced while Agnus owns energy called ether. Although soldiers have a limited life span of ten years, our main protagonists manage to cross this restriction. Then, the whole world turns against them. Protagonists want to find out why the conflict in their nations continues.

The story of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is complemented by unique types of battle systems with classes that can also be changed when applied to different characters. There are also various capabilities such as changing into a monster. Characters can adopt one of the six classes and acquire abilities as well as add classes and abilities from additional characters. These changes in classes need to be made carefully especially when fighting with a particular boss. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 requires exploration. There are deserts, forests, caves, icy as well as other mystery regions.

A Plague Tale: Requiem Review

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A Plague Tale: Requiem is set in the South of France in the 14th century’s Europe during the plague pandemic. It is the continuation of A Plague Tale Innocence that features its protagonists Amicia, her brother Hugo as well as Beatrice and Lucas. Amicia is trying to find a cure for her sick brother who’s condition worsens with every stressful situation he endures. Her situation is even more difficult because of Hugos’ unique abilities. She has to deal with taking unpredictable turns events.
We never know what will happen next. A Plague Tale allows us to experience all the horrors of the pandemic with a vivid depiction of plague effects.

Amicia and Hugo have to fight the plague, defeat opponents and manage to survive amidst death and destruction caused by this plague as well as war. They have to solve puzzles while battling enemies. She also has to defeat various supernatural forces. For physical damage, she uses weapons such as a knife and cross-bow. These weapons can be enhanced with tools such as fire, saltpeter, or tar. Each enemy has to be defeated differently. We also need to be inventing how we use various tools to battle opponents that need to be kept at a distance as well as unblock our path. Our path choice can be freely chosen.

A Plague Tale: Requiem has graphic depictions involving both beautiful scenes as well as corpses or other visually shocking aspects of life in these times. The game incorporates elements of battles with elements of stealth that prevail.

Stray in a Computer World

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In Stray, we look at the world through the eyes of a cat that fell into an underground city and will have to get out of there. This city is run by human-like machines. We will be discovering the nearby sites by jumping or falling into various sites as well as playing with a ball, but also solving various types of puzzles. All these adventures are possible due to the agility of the cat. A drone will accompany us and help to communicate with other machines.

Stray’s underground city has only robots. They are necessary, as without them we we become lost. Some of them lead a normal life, but other robots try to get out of there.

As a cat, we will jump on pipes, roofs, enter apartments as well as access spaces that are impossible for humans to reach.

In Stray, we need to find our way completely on our own through exploration. We need to solve relatively easy puzzles and battle machines. We have to avoid dangerous monsters that can defeat us. Most of the time is spent on exploration and deduction. While the majority of the game involves puzzles, not everything is obvious and we need to find out many things on our own. These puzzles make the core of this game. At times, the cat needs to simply avoid danger.

Stray performs better on PS5 rather than PS4.

God of War Ragnarok Review

God of War Ragnarok is the continuation of God of War about Sparta’s God of War and its son Atreus with various enhancements and has become one of the games of the year. The story is also the continuation of what happened earlier. There is a war between gods, but Atreus, the main protagonist is older now.

We have an idea what is going to happen because it has been foretalled that are occurring according to Nordic mythology. Atreus decides to free Tyre, the Nordic god of War. Freya wants to take revenge on Kratos and Atreus who killed her son, Baldur.

We can explore all nine kingdoms such as snowy Midgard, Ironwood, sandy Alfheim, rocky Svartalfheim, spell-bounding Jotunheim, hot Vanaheim, Helheim, Muspelheim, and Asgard, the land of Gods, and face what is to be the end of the world or Ragnarok while Filbumwinter or never-ending winter makes havoc across the lands. Amidst all the battles we also need to solve puzzles and complete the tasks needed to do that. We can also travel on a boat, use a sleigh, and discover various locations

In God of War Ragnarok, the player controls Kratos, who is a God of War according to Greek mythology. Loki as partly human and partly god can also be played. Kratos and Atreus are preparing for the battle in Midgard to take over Asgard. It is the sequel based on Nordic Mythology and the continuation of previous episodes.

With the latest 4k technology, God of War Ragnarok impresses with the realistic rendering of the environment. God of War Ragnarok is best played on PS5, but also older consoles can render this game sufficiently. It is also available for PC.

Miitopia Switch Review

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Miitopia is an adventure, role-playing game, where the Dark Lord Stan steals people’s faces and a team created by the player has to rescue them. The characters created in the game can have any features except for the clothes that are available during the game, The main character is a traveler who accidentally arrives in Miitopia, a peaceful place until the Dark Lord Stan appears out of nowhere and leaves most of the people in the town faceless.

The first place in Miitopia, where this calamity happens is Greenhorn that has its own King and a princess. Soon, the King and the princess also suffer the same fate and need to be rescued, although Greenhorn’s princess, who is soon to be married needs also help in reuniting her with her boyfriend. The Dark Lord Stan needs to be traced and defeated. Unfortunately, the Dark Lord Stan kidnaps the team except for the main character, who now has to create a new team.

The next area in Miitopia, Neksdor, located near a desert is then also visited by Stan while the genie Tony, who is accidentally released from the bottle steals money from one rich celebrity living there. The team has to battle to recover faces in Neksdor and then rescue the genie, whose face has been attached to a Pharaoh. After rescuing all faces in Neksdor the team is kidnapped again, and the new team travels to Realm of the Fey, where in the same way the residents lose their faces. The team finds out, however, that the Dark Lord Stan is in Karkaton.

In Karkaton, the kidnapped team needs to be rescued, so a sage helps the main character in battles as well as rescuing the members of the team. When the Dark Lord Stan is located and defeated, he manages to steal the face from the sage and turns into an even darker lord, who then disappears.

The entire team now heads to the Traveler’s Hub, a place where there are many travelers, who may know where the darker lord may be. The team has to complete various quests, and in the end, they learn the location of the darker lord. When they arrive at the tower where he resides, they realize that it is locked with jewels. The team has to go back to the Traveler’s Hub to find these jewels through completing quests and return to defeat the Darker Lord, who adopted the face and the powers of the sage.

Although some parts may appear to be easy in Miitopia, it turns out that as the game progresses there need to be good strategies and puzzles solved to win this game that is full of surprising turns of events and funny moments.

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