Saturday, 12 September 2015
Update 1
Hey there, you may have noticed I haven't posted, I have been a bit busy recently with revision and school work, but, on Monday, I will have a post up on the site I promise!
Tuesday, 8 September 2015
Review: Cards Against Humanity
Hello there again, its time for my second review, and the title is most definitely appropriate for the game. Cards Against Humanity is by all definitions, a Card game, and it is sure as hell a game against humanity, offensive doesn't even begin to describe it with cards ranging from cruel, to funny to downright disgraceful, and to be perfectly honest I'm surprised the game hasn't been banned everywhere. I have played this game with four people and two people and so I will review both as if they are entirely different games rather than different ways of playing. Now, a quick note on this game was that I came into it with a neutral perspective rather than assuming it was crap outright, a rarity for me, but at least I was justified.
The game has two kinds of cards, black cards and white cards, black cards are sentences and white cards are to go in the gap. Each person gets 10 white cards (4 people) or 5 cards (Two people) and someone draws the black card reads it out and each person plays a card to fit in the gaps in the sentence... So there are the reviews, no onto the game.
Starting off with two player, I played the game with my friend Kate over at The Teen Aspect (Third Advertisement for her blog, it is really good!) and it was entertaining to say the least and although we didn't get any really bad cards we got a few bad ones, in order to decide the winner we mutually decided and it worked pretty well.
I also played 4 player with my family and in that, we got offensive cards, very offensive and the game was hilarious for it, I highly recommend playing the game with someone who is not very offensive and therefore you wouldn't expect it from.
Overall, if your looking for a game to kill an hour or two with some laughs, or to lose a few friends on the run up to their Birthdays/Christmas because your a bit short of cash, this is the game for you, it will last you a very long time for its absurdly large number of cards and it is well worth its price tag.
8/10
The game has two kinds of cards, black cards and white cards, black cards are sentences and white cards are to go in the gap. Each person gets 10 white cards (4 people) or 5 cards (Two people) and someone draws the black card reads it out and each person plays a card to fit in the gaps in the sentence... So there are the reviews, no onto the game.
Starting off with two player, I played the game with my friend Kate over at The Teen Aspect (Third Advertisement for her blog, it is really good!) and it was entertaining to say the least and although we didn't get any really bad cards we got a few bad ones, in order to decide the winner we mutually decided and it worked pretty well.
I also played 4 player with my family and in that, we got offensive cards, very offensive and the game was hilarious for it, I highly recommend playing the game with someone who is not very offensive and therefore you wouldn't expect it from.
Overall, if your looking for a game to kill an hour or two with some laughs, or to lose a few friends on the run up to their Birthdays/Christmas because your a bit short of cash, this is the game for you, it will last you a very long time for its absurdly large number of cards and it is well worth its price tag.
8/10
Friday, 4 September 2015
Review: Worms: Revolution
It is time for my first review, Worms: Revolution. Now, as a small child, I played Worms religiously, taking my time exploding, shooting and bazookering (Yes its a word, don't google just trust me) little backyard critters into specks of dust and I actually got pretty good at it (In a slightly less shit than someone who has no hands kind of way). So, what do I think of Worms: Revolution...
Well, from the start, it doesn't begin well, the tutorial level is about as entertaining as having your teeth violently removed from your face with a pneumatic drill and about as educational as the Sex Ed in English Schools. On top of this, the controls are manageable however they have changed for the worse, with a replacing b as the fire button! What idiocy is this and it was massively confusing the first time and resulted in many deaths from plummeting off a sheer cliff and smashing my wormy nose into the dirt or sinking beneath the waves like a rock. The jetpacks have also been changed in an unintuitive way, as in you now have to press a and then use the left stick to control, something which took many drowned worms and smashed controllers to figure out.
The game begins to improve once you have learnt the controls and have started to get a hang of the game, it begins to get fun, playing with a friend is amazing especially when they have an amazing ability to not only stay alive, but also hilariously miss you (Sorry Kate #TeenAspect) which brings the game to life. Also, the different classes make the game a lot of fun with the heavy been able to soak up damage, scouts moving quickly and leaping around like idiots and scientists which regenerate your health.
Overall, the game is fun once you get into it, and it is always fun with friends and if you have never played a worms before so you don't already have previous controls engrained into your skull.
7.5/10
Well, from the start, it doesn't begin well, the tutorial level is about as entertaining as having your teeth violently removed from your face with a pneumatic drill and about as educational as the Sex Ed in English Schools. On top of this, the controls are manageable however they have changed for the worse, with a replacing b as the fire button! What idiocy is this and it was massively confusing the first time and resulted in many deaths from plummeting off a sheer cliff and smashing my wormy nose into the dirt or sinking beneath the waves like a rock. The jetpacks have also been changed in an unintuitive way, as in you now have to press a and then use the left stick to control, something which took many drowned worms and smashed controllers to figure out.
The game begins to improve once you have learnt the controls and have started to get a hang of the game, it begins to get fun, playing with a friend is amazing especially when they have an amazing ability to not only stay alive, but also hilariously miss you (Sorry Kate #TeenAspect) which brings the game to life. Also, the different classes make the game a lot of fun with the heavy been able to soak up damage, scouts moving quickly and leaping around like idiots and scientists which regenerate your health.
Overall, the game is fun once you get into it, and it is always fun with friends and if you have never played a worms before so you don't already have previous controls engrained into your skull.
7.5/10
Welcome to Pessimistic Review
Hey there! Ill be starting my blog thanks to much help from my friend, Kate over at The Teen Aspect, I recommend that you go over there and have a look at it, she deserves the support.
So, what will I be posting, if my title or description doesn't give it away, I will be doing reviews on various games with my general expectation that the will be a crock of elephant shite, and with my expectations being absurdly high and over proportioned. This is more or less because I am sick of the gradual incurrence of terrible games into various distribution services, and yes I am using big words and yes I do know what they mean. So I will be trying to keep my blog up to date without much actual planning, more because I don't have a constant influx of games and time to review them and its totally not because I have the work ethic of a sloth with his feet nailed to a brick (He Lied).
Anyway, I look forward to seeing all of you once I begin my first review, which to be honest knowing me could be done by the time humans are becoming extinct (Ill work on it now). Hope you enjoy your time on my blog.
So, what will I be posting, if my title or description doesn't give it away, I will be doing reviews on various games with my general expectation that the will be a crock of elephant shite, and with my expectations being absurdly high and over proportioned. This is more or less because I am sick of the gradual incurrence of terrible games into various distribution services, and yes I am using big words and yes I do know what they mean. So I will be trying to keep my blog up to date without much actual planning, more because I don't have a constant influx of games and time to review them and its totally not because I have the work ethic of a sloth with his feet nailed to a brick (He Lied).
Anyway, I look forward to seeing all of you once I begin my first review, which to be honest knowing me could be done by the time humans are becoming extinct (Ill work on it now). Hope you enjoy your time on my blog.
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