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Overload - PC Game Review

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Overload is a mech fight game. There are some guns, too, but they appear less than the regular punching. Graphics are nice, but the UI annoyed me in many little ways. For example, the mouse cursor always starts at the top left. In some places, W S A D works and in some it doesn't. It also ignores clicks sometimes. Fighting is OK, but I found it repetitive and mostly boring. Arcade mode does have some clever stuff. You have Mod slots, where you can install stuff you get into missions. You also have research point, for improved mech items, as well as mods and weapons. There are also cosmetic items you get. Overall, it is OK, but if I had bought it I'd be disappointed. As a Humble Bundle item it is pretty much par for the course.

Q.U.B.E. 2 - PC Game Review

Q.U.B.E. 2 is a puzzle games, which gives me many overtones of Portal. You can control some devices, with different cubes/colors with different types. For example, one is a jumping pad, one just extrudes a plataform and one outputs a cube. You use these to solve puzzles. But it feels a little dry, compared to Portal. It's not bad, and the puzzles are quite clever (but not so much that I can't solve them). But it feels a bit like work so far...

Anomaly Korea - Android Game Review

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I recently got a Samsung Galaxy Tab S6, and decided to try older games I got on Humble Mobile Bundles. Anomaly Korea is the first. I had already played some of the games in the series on the PC, and they were OK. Anomaly Korea works nicely so far on the Tab S6, which is nice specially given that it is a few years old by now. As the other games, it is a reverse Tower Defense, where you use your units to survive the towers, and usually to achieve an objective. You get an interesting mix of options, including routes, order of your convoy, upgrades, abilities and buying units. Graphics are nice enough, and the gameplay is fun but not great. Overall, worth the time, and even money if you have to buy it.

Galaxy Tab S6 - "Review"

I recently got a Galaxy Tab S6. I will not do a real review because this is a lot of work, so there are just some notes on the subject. For reference, my previous tablet was an iPad Air. It is crazy thin, and quite a bit slippery. I imagine the cover (specially the cool keyboard cover, which isn't even that pricy) would really help there, but they didn't have it on the Samsung store I went to (and another I asked). Apparently they are a rare item, just as the tablet (which I got notified by the store, that one unit had arrived and that I had to go that day to get it). Hopefully it will be available soon. Borders are really thin. Sometimes I will bump the screen by mistake. Screen proportions are better for watching movies than the iPad - it is very close to a screen aspect ratio. The double-tap on the screen to wake is nice, because you can just double-tap in the fingerprint area and then unlock it (some reviews I read complained that you need to use the power button fi

Amazon AppStore on a Tablet

I recently tried to get the Amazon AppStore running on my new tablet (for an app I was sure I had there - but didn't). Turns out it was quite complicated because Amazon's detection is broken and it insisted my android tablet was a desktop. Why not offer a download just in case? Good question, sure which they thought of that. The only way I managed to download was going to my android phone, downloading the APK from there, uploading it to Dropbox, and then using Dropbox on the tablet to install it. Seems silly, of course. Specially when I didn't even use anything from the app after all that...

Just Cause 2 - PC Game Review

I am playing Just Cause 2 for the first time. Why? There was a sale for Just Cause 4, and several people mentioned that it was much less fun than 3 or 2. Since I really liked Just Cause 3 and already had it (for 9 years!), I checked the store page to see if it still worked well. They said it did, and in my experience so far it really does. Graphics are still OK, although certainly not great. The faces in particular are pretty bad. But so far ($ hours played) I don't really like the gameplay. In particular, the whole using the signal to find the part crates is a bit annoying (just like it was on 3). I didn't much like Just Cause 3 in the beginning, so I'm going to continue for now. But so far it seems that the grappling hook was much more fun in the sequel.

Salvation Lost - Book Review

Salvation Lost is the latest book by Peter F. Hamilton, part of the Salvation Sequence, which started with Salvation. The author is one of a few authors that I pre-order books from. I feel no need to wait for reviews because he delivers every time. Now that some people know that the aliens (unnamed to avoid spoilers, but should be very obvious) are trying to take humanity to their god, the fight begins. There is plenty of action, both in the present and in the deep future. And even the regular tech is fun. There is also a new group of criminals in the legion, which mildly tie in with the bigger events, but they are OK, and introduce some new tech. There is a fun twist in the end (on the future) with someone's identity. I can't help but think that the interloper is a bit of a deus ex machina event - something that does happen often with Peter F. Hamilton books. Still, the book was just awesome and I can't wait for the conclusion...

Evergarden - PC Game Review

Evergarden might be the weirdest puzzles game I've played in quite a while. Mostly, you combine plants and grow them to combine them into shapes. I am sure there is more to it, but I haven't figure it out yet...

Synthetik - PC Game Review

Synthetik is an interesting top view rogue like shooter. There seems to be a lot going on with it, plenty of guns you can get, mastery per gun, gun variants, you can buy guns, there are a lot of modules, etc. There is even research that you can do between games, which I guess is a variant on the unlocks that many rogue-likes have. But frankly, I mostly have no idea what is going on. There is a tutorial but to me it just covered a few of these parts. Looks great, though. One annoying thing is that the cursor can go away from your monitor, and if you click at that point it completely messes up the game.