Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/846770/DYSMANTLE/ GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/dysmantle PCGamingWiki: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Dysmantle A mess that doesn’t know what it wants to be This game’s premise is great: an island “survival” game where you destroy stuff to get better tools, to destroy more stuff, with your final objective to escape the island. Simple, but efficient. It could have been great. The problem is that the developers didn’t believe this would be good enough, so they decided to make it more interesting (read: deeper)… except they REALLY didn’t know how to make interesting stuff… so they added a LOT of pointless (AND SHALLOW!) mechanics: ...

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1477834 Trakt: https://trakt.tv/movies/aquaman-2018 There is nothing to say, because it was nothing. The story is bad and actually has a massive plot hole: when Aquaman finds his mom, she knows that Aquaman is fighting to save the world… except the mom had no way to know that since she’s been stuck in isolation for 20 years. The visual effects are bad (props to that AWFUL lighthouse green screen! I haven’t seen green screen this bad… outside of YouTube movies parodies). ...

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7126948 Trakt: https://trakt.tv/movies/wonder-woman-1984-2020 A badly written and badly made great story. It’s a badly written and badly made [movie of a] great story. There’s a great film in there but it’s just broken. I’m genuinely struggling to write a critique that makes sense because the films makes no sense. It’s a film that’s completely missing what it’s trying to do, there is a great story buried in there, but the end result is just awful. ...

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/312200/Chasm/ GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/chasm PCGamingWiki: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Chasm Interesting game It feels a bit bland, but the fact that it’s a really slow paced game is interesting… It’s like Dead Cells on x0.5 speed which… surprisingly works! It’s a weird mix between a metroidvania, a roguelite (but it’s REALLY NOT!) and a precision platformer. About the roguelite-but-not-really: it’s a game where you do “runs” on a procedurally generated “dungeon” layout, but the run is of the whole game (you can die, but you don’t lose anything, you just respawn at your last checkpoint), which is… an interesting way to add replay value. ...

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1061180/Crumble/ Itch.io: https://brute-force.itch.io/crumble PCGamingWiki: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Crumble So close, yet so far… This is a great momentum platformer… for the first world. The best world is the one that doesn’t happen in the sky but in a forest… which is the first one… literally the tutorial world. Then it decides to put you in the sky and to become a hardcore platformer with momentum mechanics… and the quality just nosedives completely until it crashes. ...