Short Game Review: March 2022

Yoshi's Crafted World:

Mellow Mode made the mandatory secret hunts a lot more bearable, it's still really good otherwise.

Shadow Warrior 3:

Shadow Warrior 3 was the most fun I had with a modern shooter since Ratchet Rift Apart. I had a blast while playing it. It's Doom Eternal with a bit of Titanfall thrown in. It's easily the best game in the reboot Shadow Warrior games.

My only big gripes is some of the glitchy platforming and a little too much story and cutscene reliance but outside of that, the game is a blast to play. It's also nice to play a game with reload cancelling since Vanquish.

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island:

Yoshi's Island was pretty good, the only parts that annoyed me where the puzzle parts and enemies attacking you and Baby Mario would keep jumping out. Yoshi's Island was pretty weird in how this game is the earliest examples of a game having regen health, escort missions, AND it being a prequel as weird as that sounds.

Singularity:

Decent Half Life 2 meets Bioshock shooter. Not as good as the former, but better than the latter. The Chaingun seriously breaks the game, but it's entertaining enough for the short game that it is. It is kind of sad that this was Raven Software's last game before the became apart of the CoD machine.

Super Mario: Bowser's Fury:

I already reviewed the base game on the page without Bowser's Fury. I wanted to talk about Bowser's Fury in isolation and overall, Bowser's Fury is great. It's up there with Oddyssey as my favorite game in the series and it's better than the base game. This and the latter are the only collectathon platformers that rival the first Jak and Daxter. Bowser's Fury controls very well and I enjoyed exploring the levels. If this is the direction the Mario series is headed in, I am all for it.

Super Mario 3D World:

Enjoyable game overall but what bugged me about it was more so how easy it was to break after you use the infinite lives exploit. You die a couple of times and then use the White Catsuit to cheese the whole game, all though it did come in handy when getting stars and those auto camera moving levels. Both of them I really disliked, I always dislike it when a game makes me wait during an intense gameplay sequence. The camera can be irritating at times too but it's decent time overall.

The Medium:

Decent enough game, the puzzles and overall flow of the game kept engaged enough especially for a heavy story based title, but whenever that stalker monster pops up, the game becomes really frustrating, luckily he shows up on occasion. Worth getting on a sale.