Recent reviews by HydroMasor

This game has a lot more complexity than folks give it credit for. You can meet up with the homies and chase the ball around, or you can use trainings and modules to hone your skills to climb the ranked ladder. Matches are bite-sized (avg 7 minutes) and you can feel like you played a lot in a short amount of time. Players have a choice of standard matches with teams sized 1-4, ranked, tournament, extra, and seasonal game modes. I've been playing since 2015 and this is definitely in my top 5 games of all-time.

Endless Space is a turn-based strategy game. It can be played in single- and multi-player modes against computers or friends (or both). In a way, it's like Sid Meier's Civilization games, but in space - do not be fooled by the battle cinematics from the trailer. You control solar systems and build your population and economy to help you dominate others, build starfleets to defend, wage war, and conquer, hire heroes with special abilities to increase the efficiency of your empire, research technologies to broaden your militaristic, diplomatic, and economic skills - and so much more. There are a multitude of different ways to win and the randomly generated galaxies give the game an excellent replay value.

Gameplay: 10/10

Endless Space, as previously mentioned, is a turn-based game; however, the system works in such a way that all players are able to make their actions at the same time. The game's interface is well-planned and easy to work with; however, the user will need to take time to really understand the game before they can become good at it.

Story/Conent: 9/10

"In Endless Space you play the role of the leader of one of the many intelligent beings of a galaxy at the beginning of the space age. Very quickly, you discover the remnants of an older civilization. That civilization called themselves the Endless, among their ruins, a matter called Dust, with amazing proprieties is found. It shapes and does what its user thinks, it gives a reality to dreams… dreams that lead to the extinction of the Endless." as quoted from Creative Director, Romain de Waubert

This is a general theme that runs throughout the game; however, the player can customize their own faction with a great variety of traits and features. The galaxies are also randomly generated, based on settings chosen before the game starts. The standard game also includes 4 dlc packs and Disharmony is technically the 5th; however, it adds a great deal more to the game and changes it more than the others did (that's why you pay for it).

Soundtrack: 10/10

The soundtrack for this game is well-done. It is calming, relaxing, and fits well with the game. It focuses more on ambience, so it will not distract from gameplay - the soundtrack is also nice to listen to out of game for this reason.

Overall Score: 29/30 ( ~ 97%)

This is one of my favorite games, so I reommend it to everyone. This game is well-worth the cost; and I would also recommend purchasing the DLC pack Disharmony because it adds a great deal to the game. The Soundtrack is also worthwhile because it excellent.

Dungeon Defenders is a level-based tower defense game. It can be played in single- and multi-player modes against waves of monster AI that seek to destroy the Etneria crystals. It's like a traditional tower-defense game, but it combines elements from RPGs that players enjoy. The user controls a champion that is able to fight and use abilities by themselves, but can also create and manage different kinds of turrets (amongst other things) to aid them.

Gameplay: 8/10

There are plenty of quests and sidequests to complete from the standard game and dlc; and these can be reapeated as desired. The player can chose from four characters (the dlc adds more) and have more than one character saved, should they desire to switch to a different class.

Story/Conent: 9/10

You play as the descendents of great heroes that guarded the land of Etheria from great evils, which they sealed into Eternia Crystals. The younger heroes that you play as have accidentally unleashed some of the evils sealed away in the crystals and have to fight off those that seek to unleash the remainder of that which is trapped inside.

With all of the quests and heroes from the standard game and the dlc, there's a lot to do.

Graphics: 9/10

The game looks and feels good to play. It has a bit of a cartooney, yet somewhat realistic feel and the battle arenas look nice.

Overall Score: 26/30 ( ~ 87%)

In conclusion, the game is enjoyable. In addition to the base game, I would recommend purchasing the DLC packs because they add a great deal of diversity to the mission and character options. If you like tower defense, then you will probably like this game!

The Binding of Isaac is a 2D game that puts the player in a basement that changes with each playthrough. The playstyle is rather similar to the original Legend of Zelda, but there is a good deal of difference. In the basement, there are many floors (levels) and as the player progresses, they will encounter items, rooms, monsters, bosses - many of which can be unlocked through various challenges. Although the floors and bosses are randomly generated, there are encounters that are repeated in every playthrough, such as mom, mom's heart, and isaac (himself). Every time the player "beats the game", new regions of the basement (more levels) can be added, which increases the difficultly. If the player dies, they must start from the beginning, but this is balanced by the fact that there isn't a huge number of floors (less than 20), yet on each floor, there are many different rooms. Be warned, it is a bit of a rage game (like Flappy Bird) because you might find yourself getting rather annoyed every time you die, especially if it happens a lot in one session.

Gameplay: 10/10

The gameplay is really solid and straightforward. You can play as several different characters, each with their own ability, but only Isaac is initially unlocked. The player moves from room to room, fighting monsters and discovering items, while descending deeper and deeper into the basement.

Story/Conent: 10/10

The story is built off of the Hebrew story of God commanding Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac. The game is rewritten so that Isaac's mother is commanded to sacrifice him, but he escapes to the basement, where he fights demons to save himself. There are religious themes throughout the game, but the game itself is not strictly religious - it's about killing monsters by any means possible.

Soundtrack: 10/10

This game's action-packed soundtrack fits well with the gameplay. It adds to the game by pumping the player up during boss fights and is calmer during standard spelunking of the basement and all that ensues.

Overall Score: 30/30 (100%)

This game is awesome and it's one of my top 5. I would highly recommend it to anyone and I would also recommend getting the dlc and the soundtrack because they are both excellent.