Cultic: Interlude and Chapter 2 review

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, it's not often I do an updated review on something. I strongly felt it was necessary for the classic, Cultic. I didn't realize I didn't cover Interlude yet. I recently gotten Chapter 2 myself. I figured why not cover both of them together.

Here's a link to my review on Cultic prior to these newer levels down below...

https://jackred1989.blogspot.com/2022/11/cultic-review.html

Cultic: Interlude (2023)

Before I talk about it I simply love the concept behind it. Many similar style FPS games don't make in between levels. In particular levels that act as a direct means to connect campaigns together. So when I saw this last year I was surprised. Officially it's one huge level packed with stuff.

I don't recommend skipping the first campaign to play this. There's so many enemies with a lot going on. I also recommend try going slow for the most part. You easily can get ambush in this level at many locations. I'm glad this level exists it helped people to wait to play Chapter 2.

I know some felt this one bridging the gap level was a little too big. Honestly it was a clear idea how much more ambitious Chapter 2 going to be. Thankfully you get this level free through an update. After awhile you'll figure stuff out with some taking a little longer than expected.

Honestly, Interlude was a great but risky idea. This easily could've went south. I should mention at the end of the level. This isn't a short level by any means either. There is a boss fight that may challenge you. I loved how everything came together the way it does.

Cultic: Chapter 2 (2024)

I know some people who are familiar with my Cultic review. Probably rather know my thoughts on Chapter 2 right? I waited since 2022 to play this. I knew as soon as I started. This was going to be a vastly different ball game from the first campaign. I was proud to buy this newer campaign.

Everything was a massive step up in comparison. I'm not trying to say the first campaign sucks by any means. If you haven't played Cultic at all. You're really missing out on a truly fantastic FPS game!!! I loved just like the first campaign. We get a good variety of locations to explore.

Some could view this as being heavily inspired by Blood the classic DOS FPS game. This newer campaign felt like a modernize Blood experience. The animations including the newer enemies were amazing. Chapter 2 plays notably more into horror.

I really gotta mention I thought some of the levels in the first campaign were big. Nah these levels were quite massive!!! It's so easily to get lost or confuse what to do. I did like some of the surprises. Like tie in another game the developer has on Steam called The Bonerooms.

Keep in mind, one guy made all of this!!! The soundtrack to Chapter 2 is absolutely amazing!!! This quickly justifies it's price making it a sell when discounted. I actually watched a few YouTubers stream this. This is already among my favorite FPS games ever!!!

Of course, there's a couple boss fights through out the campaign. Easily out doing Episode 5 of Duke Nukem 3D in the newest version. If I was mind blown by the first campaign. I probably no longer have a head at this point. This newer campaign was among my favorite 2025 runs of the year.

I'm even considering making an exception for an December blog entry for this. Chapter 2 is a true master piece. You may die a lot on the way. You often get overwhelmed by the enemies. Especially in very difficult to see spots. This was such an refreshing FPS experience.

Chapter 2 truly delivers in what it sent out to do. You're getting a couple hours long campaign. Some truly amazing artwork through out the levels. None of the levels felt like stuff we done before. The boss fights for the most part stands out.

This is exactly why I love Cultic so much!!! The solo developer put out some truly impressive work here. I started writing this prior to Blood: Refreshed Supply announcement too. All of a sudden, Cultic picked a great year to fully come back.

You also gotta get use to facing several different enemies at once. Majority of them fires weapons at you. But you got an handful that has a few ways to attack you. Other enemies forces themselves at you with such little time to react.

There's times you get a good mix of most enemy types. I also gotta say Train Station level I was mind blown by it. I won't fully spoil why but this is how you make an FPS level for sure. You also could upgrade your weapons to help a bit.

I also gotta say the final boss was the toughest by far. I just love how it starts out. The cult leader speaking before he turns around. Suddenly gets shot in the head to become the final boss. It's best to think of him as this game's Shao Kahn.

Just more about blood than souls in that regard. I will say a huge step up from the first campaign's final boss. This was a rather challenging campaign. But it also was so satisfying to finish after everything. Honestly Cultic: Chapter 2 was worthy for an award in my December blog.

I will confirm I don't wanna hear you're giving something to Cultic. Don't worry it may not be within the lineup of Games I played this year. At the same time, this newer campaign was worthy of such an lineup to get such an honor.

This campaign was worth every penny I spent. I would've paid double that price honestly. Not to give the developer any ideas lol. For it's price we're getting this campaign. Along with an handful of levels for another mode was a great idea.

Futurama review (1999-present)

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, Family Guy started up a weird trend among animated sitcom shows. An handful of them gotten canceled a few times. Somehow they kept coming back with newer seasons. I will be reviewing one of my favorites among those shows.

Futurama

Original run (1999-2003)

Second run (2008-2013)

Current run (2023-present)

Before I even begin discussing the show. I gotta mention the confusing seasons set up. The first five seasons were fine. Seasons 6 and 7 started throwing an huge monkey wrench. These seasons were aired in two sets. Which ended up happening for Disenchantment on Netflix funny enough.

Another animated sitcom show by Matt Groening. This led to which do you consider for how many seasons Futurama has? Let me explain do we go by how many seasons aired on television or do we go by how many actual seasons it has? If we went by how many seasons aired on TV, it's technically thirteen seasons.

But officially it recently had Season 10 on Hulu. All because two particular seasons aired in halves. Both Seasons 8 and 9 aired episodes like normal. Despite being streamed on Hulu and Disney+ on a few bundle deals. Season 10 flat out dropped the entire season in one shot.

Actual review section

Futurama is a spiritual successor to The Simpsons. They crossed over a few times including an full crossover episode on The Simpsons. Since then, it confirmed along with Disenchantment takes place in the same shared universe. Which is ambitious by itself.

The show centers on an space delivery company. They often find themselves in many rather unique situations. It reminds me of The Flash (CW show) in that regard. I would be lying to say this show been consistent it haven't. I would say most of the seasons are great though.

We had a former pizza delivery boy frozen in an machine for an thousand years. Literately just the first episode no less. He has a best friend, an robot named Bender. Bender always been my favorite Futurama character. You could view this as the modern take of The Jetsons.

Considering both had an famous red haired man among the most cast. Not to mention, an famous robot character that's close to them. Both shows are an unique perceptive about the future. I would say that's right on the money. Some of the logic really goes over your heads.

I am still feeling that with the most recent season finale episode. To a degree I actually consider an funnier show than The Simpsons. The Simpsons is filled with creativity in it's own right. But Futurama truly embodies the concept. You just never know what you're getting with the show.

This is exactly why I dislike Season 5 the most. The show works best when each episode within an season presents different situations. This particular season was virtually four movies. Two versions the original movie versions or the later broken into four episodes each versions?

Basically four major storylines across an entire season. This also led to two additional seasons. Thankfully Seasons 6 and 7 was like most of them. Maybe I prefer having more of a variety within the story telling. Futurama works best with that set up in mind.

Futurama always been a somewhat witty comedy show. Similar to The Big Bang Theory in that regard. At the same time, always been way more ambitious with it's concepts. In a lot of ways Futurama made the future rather exciting. But in other ways, I really hope some of those doesn't end up happening.

You know people get so into these futuristic concepts. They become desperate to make em an reality. Futurama always had such deep lore in things. Some of the more recent ones caught me very off guard. I do enjoy the What If machine episodes.

Virtually Futurama's answer to The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror episodes. Some of the characters asks questions. This AI recreates exactly what would happen. I wasn't crazy for episodes that just change things though. I will give credit to a particular season finale episode.

Meanwhile is not only one of the finest Futurama episodes. But also one of the greatest animated sitcom season finales I ever seen!!! This particular episode was a huge surprise among it's entire second run. It was a surprisingly decent well written episode.

At the same time, they left the door open for possible newer seasons. For anyone that haven't seen this Futurama episode wow is all I gotta say to you. I actually felt Futurama may actually be the greatest thing Matt Groening ever created!!! Even as a huge Simpsons fan, I can't argue ways Futurama is better in.

The Simpsons may shown you the world. But Futurama went bigger than that by showing off the universe and beyond. The main characters are so rememberable as well. An handful of times, they dive into the multiverse. Thankfully this was before more franchises started doing a lot of related shows. To the point, they aren't doing well right now.

You get to learn a lot about everything. None of that ever comes off being boring either. Sometimes it's surprisingly funny at times. They also done several variations of concepts that effects time. Some of the main cast are ridiculously older than you would possibly imagine. Time is among the weirder topics of the show.

Of course, we can't forget such moments as Fry indirectly gotten his grandfather killed in the past. Then he slept with his grandma effectively becoming his own grandfather yes I'm not making this up. You could argue this is a more serious show than The Simpsons. But a couple episodes simply comes off being funnier in comparison.

Stuff like that is purely up to debate honestly. There's some rather impressive animation as well. The intro barely changes much with a classic theme song. You can tell they took some stuff from The Simpsons. Then they went the full distance with them. I been really wanting to review this show for a long time

I gotta talk about Bender, he often steals the show. I will attempt my best possible explanation of Bender's character. Imagine a much lesser human and more selfish Homer Simpson. Bender is an robot originally designed to bend things a huge surprise right? His full name is among the longest in history of anything Matt Groening ever created I'm very serious!!!

What I love so much about the character is in many situations. A lot of us easily could've done stuff he's done to a degree. I'm not implying we're all secretly bad people either. I just meant he comes off as that negative voice in our heads. Bender virtually does whatever he wants. For the most part without a single care in his systems.

He also ends up being one of the more interesting members of the crew. People remembered the times Homer used to say D'oh on a daily basis. For Bender, "Bite my shiny metal ass!!!" Wow such an catchphrase for an animated Sitcom character. He ends up being the most neutral character of the show. At times puts him at odds with the crew.

Like Homer, he drinks liquor to a degree. A major difference is robots must drink it or they get rusty. Which actually was showcased in a particular episode. Suddenly an character that drinks any form of liquor like this being more dangerous. There was some fans worried for the third run of the show. When his original voice actor wasn't confirmed to come back at the time.

They ended up bending to the fans to get his original voice actor back on the show see what I did there? Fry always reminded me of Bart that's more kind hearted and a bit more brave. Also because he often wears a red coat while having spiky hair. Leela is virtually this show's answer to Lisa. But a way more awesome female character in comparison.

A lot of the crew reminds me of several classic Simpsons characters. I love they just go for such out there ideas. I felt two of the three runs were quite funny. The current, third run felt like the original run of the show. It's safe to say this out doing Beavis & Butt-Head respectively. Futurama always been ahead of it's time lol you knew that was coming.

This show felt like the perfect showcase to the future. I know such an statement could easily spark controversiality. In my defense, Futurama really reinvented the wheel on that. Futurama quickly differ itself from The Simpsons. Futurama always been possibly the craziest of Groening's animated trinity. I know eventually Disenchantment will get it's own review.

Futurama is heavily centered around an futuristic New York City. They called it New New York they do explain it in an episode. I always welcome they go to other planets on the show. Every time a new planet shows up. You instantly know what we knew about to change fast. This is exactly why I always praised Futurama for a long time.

Even during it's original run this show had such a major impact on people including myself. Right now I really can't compare anything to this!!! Futurama is possibly one of the most unique shows I ever gotten into. I can't wait for Season 14 in the near future. I felt Futurama has potential for some truly amazing stories left in it.

Call of the Void (2025 Quake II mod)

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, GOG been directly supporting mods. You can get em for free. But you still need to buy the original games they're for. For a few months I started seeing stuff regarding a new, ambitious Quake II mod. I was more surprised it gotten onto GOG.

Call of the Void (2025)

This is essentially an fan sequel to the newest Quake II campaign. A rather interesting what if scenario bridging the first two Quake games together. Majority of the enemies is like compositive of both Quake games' designs. Somehow it worked wonders I was impressed.

When you go to select the mod campaign. I liked it gets added among all the other Quake II campaigns. Personally that's rather cool the team pulled that off. After playing this Quake II mod I felt it belongs in there!!! This felt like an actual expansion to those Quake games.

Similar to the newer campaigns of Heretic + Hexen honestly. There's six huge levels packed with surprises. They didn't repackage anything from the main game or it's expansions. The intro has you going through a void. Such a cool visual the team pulled off.

I won't spoil the ending I sure didn't expect it though. I also liked some Quake 1 weapons showed up as well. You get more weapons than before. Yet it's still surprisingly balanced. You never felt overpowered that's a good sign. Your compass is virtually useless though.

Then again once you start to figure stuff out. Suddenly you don't care about that anymore. There's a lot of enemies on the way to deal with. I loved how they attempted to mess the two Quake games' level designs together. This was among my favorite aspects of the mod.

GOG knew something great was coming. You can count being an fan of either Quake game. They'll enjoy the hell out of this mod. This is such an unique experience. Just differs enough to be it's own thing. Sometimes I forget how impressively mods can truly be.

Honestly I am hoping Bloom shows up on GOG soon. This was made by the same team. Bloom is one of those mods I really wanna play!!! Combining Doom with Blood is a match made in Hell!!! Although this is a close second to that. You really can't go wrong with this mod.

The campaign is a few hours long. I don't want people getting the wrong idea about it's length. I will give em a lot of credit pulling this concept off. This easily could've gotten south too. I would say among a few mods I played from GOG. Easily among the finest I played to date it's a huge recommendation.

More thoughts about Decision Legacy Collection

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I know so soon with another Decision blog entry. But for the time being it's going to be the last one for awhile. A few hours ago today I finally gotten the last two achievements. Now I can help give some people a much more clear idea what they're really in for. Especially if they plan to fully achievement hunt this.

For starters, you're going to do a lot of things so often. By the end of the process you'll memorize them all in great details. There's eighty overall in game achievements you'll need to get. If you want the hardest actual achievement this collection offers. You really gotta do everything across four flash games. These aren't short in length either.

You can expect a couple hours at best. This is to be expected for all four Decision games. This differs from many flash game theme compilation games. Where either all of them are short in length or one of them being a few hours longer than the rest. This is critical you got to be very aware about missable achievements in the first two Decision games.

Unlike Decision 3 & Medieval, you will be forced to fully restart from scratch among missing em. Which can be quite annoying I recently had such a set back in Decision 1 yesterday. Very few in game achievements has glitches that could prevent you from getting em to a degree. The one glitch you should avoid is buying store glitch.

Although you could use it to help speed up getting the upgrades. Just make sure don't get the final upgrades. Unless you plan to do another mission right afterwards. If you buy those upgrades then exit game your saves. You maintain your in game money amount but prevented getting those achievements. This also recently happened to me.

A large amount of the in game achievements is really grindy at it's core. You gotta kill enemies in many ways. There's a few obstacles with each of those kill achievements. In Decision 1, any kill achievement you got left. I strongly advised before completing out sections of the map. You replay the missions until unlocked em.

Also don't fully max out towers and factories. This will prevent you from fully completing out those sections. When you do complete em you no longer can do Clean-up missions. In other words any achievements requiring missions like that done. Suddenly prevents you from getting those particular achievements.

Thankfully this isn't an issue with the rest of the lineup. I noticed while looking online for a few achievements. In particular finding ATMs and store houses. I got two major advices for this. Make sure you absolutely check everywhere. If you destroyed ATMs they will respawn. Even the ones you already claimed.

Along with store houses in Decision: Medieval. There's these sections outside the route of the map. Two missions across three of the games. Which you could miss unlocking if you aren't careful. Their icons on the maps is an red enemy head. You also gotta search these locations for those. I was quite surprised when I found em during these missions.

Just in case anyone was wondering yes this also applies to finding hiding spots as well. I actually considered finding those more frustrating in comparison. Although the last two Decision games made that process much easier. Again you gotta take your time with a lot of stuff. Especially you want the hardest achievement this collection offers.

Up till recently I took it upon myself to write an guide how to get Reconnoniter achievement in Decision 1. Don't worry I will be linking down below. I also added some stuff earlier in today. I can confirm this guide quickly helped me get right back where I was. I just hope this helps more people getting such an frustration achievement.

For those that doesn't know Reconnoniter rushes you to get through the entire map within 40 days. Following my guide you'll be in the final section by Day 38. I also recommend at least three towers being each weapon. Later on you can easily swap em out if you want. These sections are great for getting more kills for the bigger kill count achievements.

https://jackred1989.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-i-gotten-reconnoniter-achievement.html

If the meters is too high on those sections. Make sure you're upgraded enough to do Clean-up missions instead. Two of the games has two enemy armies you'll deal with. Despite how similarities Mutants acts to Orcs. Not to mention the Werewolf enemies originally on zombies' side in Decision 2. I also recommend those outside sections or Clean-up missions helps with mastering out weapon skills.

This excludes the original Decision 1. You still can upgrade by buying em in that game. I also love both Medieval and 3 has New Game Plus. Which does carry over your achievements. Preventing you from restarting fully from scratch. Decision 3 forces you to constantly manage people around. You gotta locate people within the missions or bases.

This by itself notably slows the game down a lot. It's critical you gather up a lot of people. Especially builders, captains and engineers respectively. I really wish I known this much sooner. I finally realize too late into an run that's what you're suppose to do. Three of these Decision games has people you'll need to locate then escort.

They bring several upgrades you can go for. Although a particular master in Decision: Medieval could glitch among finishing out that mission. Which actually happened to me twice. If this happens you could try again in your next run. Keep in mind, New Game Plus runs are automatically on Hard+ difficulty.

Not having any of them limits what you could do in the game. An handful of skills are very critical to have. It's a little tricky to have those skills upgraded twice early into the runs. A little research you'll know which skills I'm talking about. Mostly Engineering, Hacking and Unlocking respectively. You also need to figure out how to get sections unlocked.

This by itself could cause confusion. Not to mention, slows you down. More directly speed bumps above everything else. Don't worry these games will let you know when you gotten those sections. Sadly they won't tell you what you need to do to unlock em. In all honestly you quickly get used to that. The difficulty will noticeably spike at times.

Yes I'm looking at you Decision 3!!! This Decision game loves being an constant pain in your buttocks. You often get stun locked by enemies. The later portions will have a lot of tougher enemies including Trolls. Which is also true with Decision: Medieval. Expect a series of endurance matches. Decision 3 also has two top monster bosses.

I highly recommend being close to or simply get maxed on every upgrade. Trust me you're going to need it against those bosses. Those sections I previously mentioned has em too. Thank god they don't force you to face both boss monsters at once. I also recommend taking notes to prevent future major set backs.

You also need to keep track of your in game money as well. It's the easiest to keep track of in Decision 1 since it's just your money that's it. Two of the later games requires more than money to get stuff done. This heavily plays into managing people in Decision 3. I also recommend the first two Decision games try to stay on top of most enemies within tower missions.

You might be focus in one spot with a lot of enemies. But you may notice your meter starts to go down. Suddenly you're force to make a choice. Stay focus where you're at or take a huge chance to deal with another spot filled enemies? It also depends how high the meter on each section is. It's very low then these missions should be incredibly easy.

If they are around half way to higher. These missions can be quite challenging to complete. If that ever happens I recommend doing Clean-up missions. At least if you fail it's more on you than the game being incredibly cheap. Not to say the game couldn't be during Clean-up missions either. Most of them has people you'll need to train.

Some of them also allows you to buy mercenaries or personally select people within your team. Which is kinda awesome Decision 3 does that!!! Just don't expect the dream team to own everything. A lot of times they easily get owned themselves. Then again if you're upgraded enough you should be fine. I hope all of this information helps someone get every achievement within Decision Legacy Collection.

How I gotten Reconnoniter achievement in Decision Legacy Collection?

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, on the side I been trying to get every achievement within Decision Legacy Collection. At this time I finished three of them fully achievements wise. Three out of four Decision games for the hardest achievement. However a particular achievement in Decision 1 ended up being a huge obstacle.

I just gotten glitched out an achievement I briefly had. I forgot about the famous buying store glitch. Which works against getting all weapons with upgrades achievement, Full arsenal. Make sure you buy em then quickly do any mission to properly keep em. Thus, you don't end up having this happening to you.

I tested out an theory using that glitch. It turns out if you don't buy the last of the upgrades. You can still go for those achievements. Only attempt this if you know how the glitch works.

I wrote this because I couldn't find a guide that reached the final section within 40 days. After some failed attempts I managed to put this following guide together. This process will take a couple hours to finish.

Reconnoniter

This achievement forces you to rush procession of the game. You have to explore all seven sections of the map before forty days. This required some careful planning with a few curve balls. If you do it just right every missable achievements you'll get as well.

I will try my best to explain how I pulled such an frustrating achievement off. I will label strategies with Days to make it easier to keep track. Which is what exactly I'll look for in other people's guides especially video playthroughs. I'm also aware some of these following instructions may get a bit confusing.

Before anything you do an training section. Simply kill ten zombies to move on. There's not much else than that. I just recommend get your prefer controls. I prefer using the ASD controls set out myself. I hated the default one that automatically moves you forward to a degree.

Day 1

I recommend getting the shotgun for 300 gold coins. It's critical you also pick up Engineering I for 250 gold coins. This particular skill is required for later on. You should have 350 gold coins remaining. Beyond this point the amounts you could have going to differ to a degree.

Next we're going to start Northwest area with Recon. You have to recon all seven sections of the map regardless. Thankfully you can take your time with this mission. Also going a little slower to get more use of the controls. Later on it's critical you master them.

Among completing the mission you'll receive 500 gold coins.

Day 2

I recommend upgrading your shotgun for 450 gold coins. The best your default weapon the easier things going to be. We're slowly getting line up to make a lot of gold coins. I also recommend doing Clean-up. You should be aware once you 100% that section.

Clean-up missions are gone for good. Which isn't an issue in the other Decision games. This plays into another missable achievement, Explorer. Again just worry about taking out all the zombies. No real rush but destroying barrels goes towards a few achievements.

Among completing the mission you'll receive 740 gold coins.

Day 3

I recommend upgrading your shotgun again. This time we're going to do Tower-capture. You better get use to these missions. You gotta locate the locations then claim em. Which means a lot of zombies heading your way. You start with the easiest by default.

You got to protect generators. Which is similar to Capture Tower missions. Both of these are essential to do in the game. The difficulty will notice increase as well. The right upgrades can go a long way here. This is still early into the process. One mistake could easily derail the entire process.

Among completing the mission you'll receive 1220 gold coins.

Day 4

A little risky I recommend doing Assault position. You use towers that's armed with one of three weapons to kill off the undead. This is important to keep your eye on while continuing on with the game. These missions can get over whelming as well. All I could say is simply do your best to not fail em.

Among completing the mission you'll receive 1040 gold coins.

Day 5

By now you unlocked both North area and West area respectively. Roughly half the map unlocked by this point. I actually recommend starting with West area. A particular missable achievement, Private Dexter there. You simply need to locate his corpse for the achievement.

I also recommend for another achievement, Master of Melee. Buy Self-defense I it helps a lot in defending missions. Melee attacks is automatically allowing you to focus on reloading your weapons. At the same time, you aren't defenseless when they attack you now.

Obviously you will be doing Recon mission in West area. We don't wanna miss finding Private Dexter after all. This is also where you may notice how important the upgrades are. It's critical you explore the maps as much as possible. You won't be able to once any sections reaches 100% completion.

Among completing the mission you'll receive 1920 gold coins.

Day 6

A bit risky I recommend upgrading both your Stamina and Agility a level. Trust me this may do wonders later on. To locate Private Dexter for the achievement. You'll need to do Clean-up in West area. Don't worry I'll try to give directions to his location.

Go down then head right pass an army vehicle towards the bottom. Just ahead of that vehicle is the body of Private Dexter you are welcome. You could take a huge risk to go look for him first. Before taking out a lot of zombies. By this point following the guide it should've been an easy mission.

Among completing the mission you'll receive 1220 gold coins.

Day 7

I recommend doing Recon mission in North area. Thankfully it's not like the later entries. You can breath for a bit longer. Just the usual stuff taking out more zombies. Again explore the map to a degree. Any missable achievements make sure. You do any of those while you still can.

Among completing the mission you'll receive 2820 gold coins.

Day 8

I recommend doing Clean-up in North area. Just making sure you done that before the opportunity goes away. By now you should know how these missions goes? I also recommend try saving up enough gold coins for Engineering II upgrade. Otherwise you will be stuck until you do.

Among completing the mission you'll receive 1600 gold coins.

Days 9-12

Now you got Tower-capture and Factory-capture across two sections you gotta do. Sadly these will take a few days off to fully do. There's no right order to go about em. Just defend generators from a lot of zombies. We're slowly approaching half way through.

To clarify I'm talking about West area and North area in this portion of the guide. Either way you need to make sure all of this gets done. We're getting set up for the end game. Not to mention making most missable achievements easier to do. Of course that's up to what you wanna do?

2200 gold coins

2000 gold coins

1660 gold coins

1820 gold coins

Among completing the missions you'll receive 7680 gold coins.

Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.

Day 13

I recommend buying Engineering II upgrade. Now you have another huge decision. Three of the killing achievements involves towers. You will need to figure out any combination you want. Personally I kept Northwest area the default weapon choice I chosen to rebuild tower in North area to Rocket.

Stuff like this there's no real order how to go about em. Rockets is more destructive with a slower firing rate. Please keep that in mind with using em. They're great for quickly preventing enemies from escaping the area. You'll be racking up gold coins in no time.

Among completing the mission you'll receive 1780 gold coins.

Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.

Day 14

I'm going to change tower out for Cannon. Virtually defending an generator again. It's very important to do these missions. This may actually be my favorite of the three weapons. Just exactly who I want the weapon to be for this style of missions. Later versions will be a bit tricker though.

Among completing the mission you'll receive 1980 gold coins.

Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.

Day 15

I recommend to upgrade Tower in Northwest area. This also lower the meter down a bit to prevent losing time. Thus being forced to clean the section out with tougher enemies. Staying on top of this issue will be a god send. Just don't rush to complete em or you'll quickly die.

Among completing the mission you'll receive 2600 gold coins.

Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.

Days 16 & 17

I recommend upgrading the towers in the following sections as well. Then we should have enough days to do this process with the factories. You will start to notice the difficulty getting higher. It'll start to test your determination for this achievement.

1600 gold coins

2080 gold coins

Among completing the missions you'll receive 3680 gold coins.

Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.

Day 18

I chosen to do another Assault position in Northwest area. Partly to lowering the meter down a bit. But you also get a lot of gold coins doing those missions. Again as a reminder I'm using the default weapon here. Quickly kill a lot of them while preventing too many from escaping.

Among completing the mission you'll receive 1700 gold coins.

Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.

Days 19 & 20

I recommend trying to save up money for Engineering III. For right now in two sections do Factory-upgrade missions. These can be a bit challenging to do. Same concept as before defend generators. This also will give us more additional money from factories to help improve our chances.

2280 gold coins

1660 gold coins

Among completing the missions you'll receive 3940 gold coins.

Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.

Day 21-23

I recommend doing Assault position across the three sections of the map you have. This would be a lot easier than doing Clean-up missions. They go notably quicker for faster money earning. They also help keep the meters down long term here. This is what I felt works best at the moment.

1660 gold coins

3620 gold coins

4920 gold coins

Among completing the missions you'll receive 10,200 gold coins.

Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.

Day 24

On Day 23, Center area should've became available. Which means you're on the right track following my guide. You should have enough gold coins to buy Engineering III. This will come into play later on. Now we can start with Center area.

You got to do Recon before anything here. This is roughly where the half way mark of the game. From this point on your strategies gotta be bigger. The ultimate goal is reaching the seventh & final section of the map. It's critical to put a lot of extra thoughts into the next series of moves.

During Recon you'll encounter your first boss fight. Thankfully this huge zombie uses an melee weapon. He's also quite predictable making him quite easy to deal with. Simply take your time you'll be fine. Then claim Main Street after he's defeated. I had more trouble with some of the zombies firing guns honestly.

Among completing the mission you'll receive 4980 gold coins.

Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.

Day 25

Right off the bat do Clean-up to help get process on another missable achievement. The difficulty may be spiking a bit. The objectives always remains the same. Simply clean out the area that's it. We are slowly getting ready for the bigger moves.

Among completing the mission you'll receive 2660 gold coins.

Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.

Days 26 & 27

I recommend doing both capture missions after each other. Both will help you out to some degree. You will need all the help you can get to reach the last section within forty days. I just hope this made the entire process more straight as well as a bit easier to understand.

1960 gold coins

3120 gold coins

Among completing the missions you'll receive 5080 gold coins.

Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.

Day 28

You got a few choices what you could do in Center area. I felt doing Assault position may help continue things along. It's also your choice which weapon this tower uses. I partly need a little more money for my next big move. We should be close unlocking two more sections of the map.

Among completing the mission you'll receive 2860 gold coins.

Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.

Day 29

You should just unlocked both East area and South area respectively. I recommend doing Recon on South area first. This will quickly lead to finding Private Stan. Don't worry his corpse in one of the following missions in that section. I also recommend buying Stamina II and Agility II.

The second boss shows up on your way to claim Main Street. This boss has an shotgun making him quite damaging. I highly recommend deal with him as soon as possible. It will take a little while to put him down. But you don't wanna chance things with him running away.

Among completing the mission you'll receive 9600 gold coins.

Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.

Day 30

I recommend doing Recon mission on East area. Otherwise the game can't properly go forward.

Among completing the mission you'll receive 9220 gold coins.

Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.

Day 31

I recommend doing Clean-up in South area to simply add to procession of that missable achievement.

Among completing the mission you'll receive 4400 gold coins.

Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.

Day 32

We quickly do it again in East area for the same reason. You'll get use to all of this faster than you realize.

Among completing the mission you'll receive 4020 gold coins.

Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.

Day 33

Upgrade your shotgun three times. You should be close to max with that lineup of firearms. Private Brian directions if you wanna locate his corpse. Virtually an reverse capital L you're going down. Then you wanna continue all the way to the left. His corpse surrounded by metal stuff mostly vehicles.

This is in South area to help prevent confusion. You'll need to do Factory-capture to locate him.

Among completing the mission you'll receive 4080 gold coins.

Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.

Day 34

I chosen to do Capture-factory in East area.

Among completing the mission you'll receive 4280 gold coins.

Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.

Days 35 & 36

Now we're going to Capture-tower in the two newer sections we unlocked in a row.

3200 gold coins

4780 gold coins

Among completing the missions you'll receive 7980 gold coins.

Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.

Days 37

I recommend if you have enough gold. Buy both Stamina III & Self-defense II. Both will work well together for the later portions. I felt you should consider doing Assault position in South area.

Among completing the missions you'll receive 2820 gold coins.

Not considering additional gold coins earned from Factory profits either.

Day 38

You should finally have access to Southeast area. Make sure to find Private Stan whose surprisingly easy to find. Simply go down from where you spawned. Then carefully turned to the right to see his corpse. It's a little pass a blockage on the way down.

On your way to the factory is another boss. This guy will throw grenades at you. Not to much a lot of tanky gun wielding zombies here as well. Make sure you are upgraded enough to attempt this mission.

Among finishing this Recon mission finally give you Reconnoniter achievement.

I Am Your Beast (2025) review

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, hard to believe I'm already back with another review of a game I played through Game Pass. Like My Friendly Neighborhood, it took some time. Before today's game gotten onto consoles a few months ago. Although it was more recently added to Game Pass. I will be reviewing I Am Your Beast on Xbox Series X.

I Am Your Beast (2025)

This is an indie fast pace FPS game. You play as a man with skills further confirm later on he was the best among them. A lot of the story centers on two major plot points. Your former employer an general kept trying to get Alphonse to take one more job. Of course, he kept declining while staying out in a forest. As expected the general kept doing whatever he could.

Eventually he decides you are better dead than alive. I won't spoil how the game ends but I didn't expect this outcome. The other plot point is an ally among the enemies giving you intel. You actually get to meet him in the most peaceful level of the entire game. You don't even get to kill anyone either. It's a purely story driven section of the game.

I also won't spoil what happens to that guy. I will say he's among my favorite characters behind Alphonse. When I hear that name I often think of Alphonse Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist. Yeah just imagined this possessed armor attacking soldiers lol. Virtually every mission takes place in the same forest. I know what some of us might be thinking.

Just imagine if John Rambo kept declining Colonel Trautman's offers for jobs. Maybe we could've ended up with an Rambo movie like this. There's a notable thing I can't help shake off. Parts of the game felt a bit similar to Mullet Madjack. I never was going to label this as a rip off by any means. I do wanna explain why I felt that way though.

In both those games you gotta move fast adapting to situations on the fly. You could do a lot of similar stuff to enemies. Going by Steam release dates from last year. Mullet Madjack gotten release first by four months. On most platforms Mullet Madjack gotten released first including Game Pass. Unlike Mullet Madjack, you don't have aspects of an Rogue like game.

It's actually somewhat a bit more realistic. Oh okay you can survive long falls except down pits. You constantly got to pick up stuff. Weapons like traps or rocket launchers all share the same slot. But you can only take one at a time. To be fair, those are among my favorite weapons. There's a good variety of weapons including melee.

Even throwing weapons at enemies was strikingly similar. Yes I checked both were developed by different teams altogether. Neither sharing the same company either. I still prefer using melee weapons in Mullet Madjack more. You also don't get any actual power ups unlike Mullet Madjack. It's still satisfying to throw your weapons knocking down or killing enemies from longer distances.

You even could take a little longer by punching em out. But why do that if you could easily kick em then kill em with the same button? There's a little gore but not the kind that upsets people. You still could blow people's heads off. Literately giving a new meaning to blow their minds!!! The audio as a whole I strongly felt was one of the strongest aspects.

The music just gets you into playing the game more. The sound effects are quite amazing with rather interesting voice overs. You get cutscenes with voice overs but that's all you get. You mostly see these imagines of the forest moving in closer. Sometimes the texts changes color you might not notice though. I love how cocky some of these enemy soldiers are.

I felt most of my favorite voice overs are split between these cutscenes as well as from enemies within the levels. In that regard, it kept reminding me of UnMetal. In a few major ways it's similar to that. What triggers all this madness is a few soldiers killed a bird I'm not kidding. Alphonse gets upset to take em out.

It's meant to be a bit mess up but also as a joke. Some of the enemies' accuracy especially snipers is god like. Yes there's only one real boss fight in the entire game. As difficult of a pill to accept it's true. You get to face an helicopter with only rockets damaging it. All of a sudden I'm reminded of Duke Nukem Forever.

Almost every boss within two campaigns of that can only be harm by explosives. Then again it's an attack helicopter with a lot of enemy soldiers on the ground. I will try to explain roughly which types of levels you play. I will be saving my personal favorite for last. You get destroy satellites don't worry you don't go up in space.

Satellites are these smaller machines for their intel. You also gotta quickly make it to the hatch. Actually among my least favorites especially forced Bleeding condition ones. Kill all the enemies easily my second favorite by far. My personal favorite as surprisingly it may be is Surviving waves of enemies. Sorta like Resident Evil's The Mercenaries but done a bit differently.

You can't add time since those are point based levels. Which I recommend going for an S rank to unlock the last story missions. There's a set number of enemies that differs. The last of these actually the last level you get to play. I knew very early on playing that level it's going to end up as my favorite level. Yes I still think it is indeed.

Surviving waves of enemies has possibly the most set number of enemies in the entire game. Some levels enemies just keeps on coming. To end majority of them you do the objectives. Then escape through hatches it's as straight forward as it sounds. They made S ranks in most of the levels so little time to get em.

Suddenly I'm reminding of going for Gold in The Gentleman within Swords & Souls Legacy Collection. Yes it's roughly similar little amount of times you gotta finish em in. There's a few other modes I didn't play at this time. I'm sure I may enjoy em to a degree when I do. I didn't expect to have so much fun trying to beat this.

Yes it quickly becomes rather repetitive. But not the kind of repetitiveness that turns me off from playing em. You can tell they expect people to quickly get their game down. Snipers can be quite frustrating simply due to their placements. I gotta mention my new favorite usage of a beartrap within an video game.

You could place em on the ground giving you points. But the actual method I love using was throwing em at enemies. The animations all tie in to this is wow I wasn't expecting that!!! They are quite easy to use with that method. Plus I can quickly fire or swing my weapons afterwards. I hope you like a snowy forest because that's all you're getting with this game.

I know some won't like that because they felt the developers being lazy. Easily altering things to make it seem differently. A lot of games uses mostly one location for entire campaigns it's not a new concept. I will confess it's quite easy to die in this. There are some options to help your changes within the levels. Unfortunately activating any of those in particular prevents you from getting S ranks.

By the way, yes the game directly tells you this within the settings. We are talking taking less damage to the timer moving slower to auto aim. It's among the easiest head shotting FPS games I ever played!!! No I didn't use those options during my 1st playthrough. I did use always sprinting since it helps a lot in those style of games.

You also could do bonus objectives to spice things up. Some of which you gotta do to unlock more story missions. No you don't get any upgrades at all. There's twenty six levels despite it stating twenty seven of them. The last one is the final cutscene section with ending. I also felt the length of the levels may differ a little bit.

None of them truly over stayed their welcome. Some are just trickier to finish than others. All of this happening within a single day according to the story. I'm amazed Alphonse can still stand after everything. The controls are absolutely perfect for this. I Am Your Beast is a huge recommendation to play I loved the game a lot.

Gears of War: Reloaded (2025) review

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I been around a couple Gears of War games. Now I played through three versions of the original game. I recently gotten Game Pass back with this among the first games I wanted to play. I might be adding more we will see though. As a Gears fan more of causally playing the single player campaigns I had to check this out.

Gears of War: Reloaded (2025)

I played the entire campaign on Normal by myself. I previously done the other versions alone. This is essentially an enhanced port of Gears of War: Ultimate Edition. The one technical change I kept noticing was faster loading periods. Which is great when you die a lot. Exactly one of several things you gotta get use to.

When you play any Gears game for that matter. The highlight feature is adding in Crossplay with PlayStation 5. First release of the franchise on that platform. Multiplayer always been a huge deal for this franchise. Personally I still can't help my disappointment. I rather had a newer version of Gears 2 or the original Gears trilogy for that matter.

I strongly felt Gears 2 should've been the ideal choice to do such an concept with. In all honestly what truly was the point doing a third version? Especially when it doesn't bring as much stuff to the table. Ultimate Edition brought in levels from it's original PC port. Which was a huge deal for the time. Not to mention a nice redone of the actual graphics.

Yes there's some notable changes within the cutscenes. But nothing that alters it in a major way. To me that felt like the true definitive version of the original Gears game. I'm even more convinced after playing Reloaded version. Maybe I also didn't care for the title as well. In a way I'm glad it's not just called Gears of War.

At the same time, adding Reloaded to the title wasn't the best choice. Suddenly the game felt older than it should be. At least with Ultimate Edition that came off like you're getting a better version. Which is exactly it truly delivered on. The controls are virtually identical to those in Ultimate Edition. The actual campaign didn't even feel different at all.

I played a lot of remastered versions. This is more on the forgettable side of that. Let's take Heretic + Hexen now that went way beyond what anyone was expecting. Sadly this underperformed in comparison. Microsoft tried to hype this up just didn't live up to it. I personally wasn't never hyped by this. I had a gut feeling it wasn't going to be as good as Ultimate Edition.

Let's not even compare this to Gears 2. A way better Gears game I love with a huge passion. I don't wanna say they barely done anything that's it. I will confirm they done a little more than that. It's technically more than Decision Legacy Collection. Then again it's an challenge to change stuff within flash games.

The campaign is a few hours long action packed. Of course it can get a bit gory to a degree. A good variety of weapons that's mostly fun to use. My copy of Ultimate Edition is on disc. Which means I don't automatically get the newer version. Simply because my copy is physical not a digital copy I don't got it.

I even felt MediEvil Remake on PlayStation 4 done a lot more as well. They even included as an unlockable the original PS1 version. Any Gears game you play with an squad taking on creatures from within the planet. There's plenty of enemies through out the game with enough ammo. Berserker is the most recurring boss you'll face.

Two of three encounters you have to use the Hammer of Dawn. An device that activates a laser from satellites. Imagine a giant magnifying glass on a few huge monsters. I usually struggle on the final boss fight against General RAAM. Who appeared as one of the guest characters in Killer Instinct (2013 game). 

I recently found out if you can get past him. There's an turret you could use on him. All these years I died the fewest on this run to him. I actually had more trouble with a boss fight pulled from the original PC version. The story is told well that never over stays it's welcome. I felt like I'm reviewing Ultimate Edition than the newer version.

Yeah not a good sign reviewing a newer version of a game. To be fair, this version still a fun game. Every rememberable moments still presented. They don't change much that easily could've taken away from it. I just had more respect for a few newer versions of games. Marcus' voice actor also voiced Bender from Futurama.

Both are among my favorite roles he's done. The difficulty spike can be a little high at times. The game on lower difficulties is quite doable. It's the higher ones that might cause a possible mental meltdown. I actually gotten told how difficult General RAAM was on the hardest difficulty. Let's just say I'm not even considering punishing myself that much to attempt it.

I also should point out some of the Gears games also on Xbox Anywhere program. Which means along with Cross progression in Reloaded version. I could play any version maintaining my process across several versions. Then again not many people will notice neither care to do that. I also noticed sometimes when I load in.

Usually following cutscenes parts of the game were off to a degree. I didn't fall through the game though. You can easily tell signs they rushed this out!!! I'm done pretending that wasn't on my mind. I may be onboard with Microsoft getting some of their games on other platforms. However if they end up like this.

Then someone in Microsoft needs to make major changes to fix things before it gets bad. I do get a party of their strategy to increase numbers of people playing Gears 1. I just felt if they would rethink things a bit. Given the team more time as well as resources to work with. We actually could've ended up with something much better.

It's not by any means the worst Gears game I ever played. Yes I'm looking at you, Gears of War: Judgment. It's a little better than Gears 4 to me. Gears 5 absolutely destroys all those Gears games though. Obviously not my favorite version of the game. I even had more reasons to like the original version more.

At the time, it was quite impressive what the original team delivered. Which that version still available to buy as well as to play through Game Pass. Same with the Ultimate Edition as well. Although you can only buy it's Deluxe Edition digitally online. I'm excluding physical versions I been done with those. Two better versions of the same game you easily could play.

Which brings me back to a question I asked earlier why was this necessary? I'm glad they didn't pull an Rockstar removing GTA trilogy move. Based on what I seen of those remasters, Reloaded version way better. It's not a bad choice to start playing the franchise with. Especially if you wanna begin with the original.

My personal recommendation the best version to play is the Ultimate Edition. On a technical level it simply better programmed. The major changes from the original Xbox 360 version were a big deal. Microsoft had exactly what they needed to make a superior version they didn't!!! Obviously not my Game of the Year choice lol.

I didn't even expect much before going into Reloaded version. In fact, within the first few minutes. I already felt like I'm replaying Ultimate Edition didn't help things either. As a Gears fan I wanted to give some support. I just can't back a version that isn't the true definitive version. In all honestly, any version of the game is a lot of fun to play.

If you played the previous two versions you aren't missing anything. I heard several achievements were changed to a bit. Otherwise it's virtually Ultimate Edition again that's it. Even Conker: Live & Reloaded done way more than this!!! Especially with a new multiplayer mode having it's own campaign. We're talking about a remake released in 2005.

Virtually twenty five years ago now that's sad!!! End of the day, it may make you happy from all the fighting. Just don't compare it to the previous versions. Also I watched an friend streamed Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater on Twitch. A remake of an 2004 game done way better than this too. For me this felt like a major missed opportunity.

If they really wanted to bring Sony fans into the franchise. They should've went a lot bigger. Yes more time as well as money would have to go into something that ambitious. Plus they would have a lot more to work with on marketing side of things. Now doing the original Gears trilogy with that strategy could've given em millions!!!

I really wish I could say every major version gets better. But that would be lying regarding Reloaded version. They nailed framerates which both versions of Dead Rising 2 remastered versions failed to do. Almost ten years ago those weren't not all bad. Yet I still had more fun playing those over this!!! Not every newer version of a game going to be great.

It's technically better than Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Ghoul Patrol (compilation game). Which I had bigger issues with in comparison. Still among my most disliked compilation games to date. At Reloaded's core they nailed the game play near perfectly. Honestly, Reloaded version felt like I wasted my time following an playthrough.

Yes even considered all the fun I had. Reloaded just failed to feel like it's own version of the same game. Let's take some Resident Evil remakes for an example. All of them vastly differs from the classic versions especially true in RE4's case. I was more impressed by both Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy & Spyro Reignited Trilogy respectively.

I know some might not like I suddenly brought those into my review. Essentially the entire point was making a newer, improved version of an older game. I didn't see the issue with doing that. Yes I know I'm being really critical about Gears of War: Reloaded. It's a bigger disappointment compared to other games I played through Game Pass this year.

Which also includes Heretic + Hexen. At this time, I only played the GOG version of the game. Now that absolutely destroys Reloaded version badly. You want a version that blows your mind to a degree. You really aren't going to get that here. I still could recommend this version of the game. Even outside Gears series there's some decent third person shooters more worth your time.

I really hope Microsoft focus on fixing up the AI. This issue actually impacts the game play. I noticed several enemies not attacking when I'm close by em. I had team mates that didn't move or help much. At times they kept going right into spots with a few enemies. They are virtually guarantee to get downed by the bosses.

We're talking faster than the usual rate they fall in the previous versions. They aren't the stupidest AI in an game I ever seen. I'm very sure they were a bit smarter in the older versions. This even could get you killed within the levels. It may not be considered game breaking. But this issue could cause a lot of people to drop the game maybe for good.

This also going to affect it's placement in my upcoming list in December. This by itself was a huge disappointment to see during the game play. Otherwise the rest of the campaign is what I remembered. I didn't play any multiplayer matches prior to this review. I wouldn't be an multiplayer Gears expert anyway.

Where it stands Gears of War: Reloaded is among my least favorites I played this year. Considering what currently is my Top 5. All of those absolutely wipes the floor with this game!!! It's a great game because it's a remastered of a better version of the same game. Just not the true definitive Gears 1 experience.

Two Saints Row blogs in one

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, recently leaked scrapped plans for what Saints Row reboot originally going to be. Let's just say now this would've been something the fans wanted. I also was considering a different Saints Row blog concept. Then I had an idea since I really wanted to talk about the franchise again.

Why don't I make this another two in one blog entries? You're getting two Saints Row theme blogs in one entry is a pretty sweet deal that costs virtually nothing. I also wanna do some SR comparisons why the reboot just doesn't work at all? Either way you can tell how much this franchise meant to me. It's a shame we don't know when it'll return following Volition closed down.

1. My thoughts on original fifth Saints Row plans

The original title was going to be Saints Row Cinco. Cinco is the Spanish/Portuguese word for the number five I looked it up. The original Saints would've returned. They were planning to change the story earlier within Saints Row: The Third's story. Which prevents any further events of that plus SR IV from happening altogether.

To be honest, they also could've recreate this through simulations following SRIV. But I also felt more SR fans would've welcome that more. A lot of people didn't like Gat supposedly killed off in SR3. They would've left Steel Port for Santo Ileso instead. I do like they were going to include a secret mission to confront Dex.

This would've been fitting regarding SR2's secret mission. Where Dex through the company attempted killing off the two men led the gang in one shot. It also would've made up for him being such a forgettable side missions in Gat Out of Hell. A lot of SR fans wanted Dex to get taken down.

They were going to do more of the classic SR style with just enough The Third style. Basically not what the reboot done. I actually felt if that's the right ratio. The actual game play would've been a contender for one of the best in the franchise. Pierce's voice actor had voice overs recorded for the scrapped SR game.

THQ Nordic didn't like any of this. Forcing Deep Silver to come up with a different story. There's even another confirmed scrapped SR story. Again rejected by THQ Nordic possibly for some of the same reasons. This version also would've brought the original Saints back.

Ultor would've returned now that easily could've been interesting. Marshalls seem like a cheap set in for them. Also I never understood why they were treated as one of the main gangs of the reboot either? Obviously they were security above everything else.

Skill Tree would've had a few sections to spice things up. They were going to bring back Body Shields. However Deep Silver felt that was going too far. Criminal Ventures originally going to heavily impact the city itself. Now this easily could've been a rather cool concept.

Proclamation system could've been somewhat interesting as well. Just imagine some YouTubers abusing such an system lol. They originally were going to have Full Cribs with customization for them. Now this personally was a huge mistake to cut from the game.

You can't make several bigger cribs feel like home without customization. It also sounds like you could've went full customization this time. Even the church wasn't off limits to this. Buying furniture from furniture stores could've been interesting. I'm assuming NG+ is short for New Game Plus.

Why would you consider cutting away possible replay value like that? Some people would love to go through the campaigns again with upgrades. Suddenly some of their least favorite sections during their 1st playthroughs is a bit more enjoyable. Cheats would've been an endgame feature.

Although you have to discover an secret massive Genki pyramid. The same line of text in the famous post stated. I can't even believe I'm going to include this in here. "Final game shipped without cheats at launch." Now let that stick into your heads for a moment.

Not only that's a huge sign whatever we ended up with was notably rushed out the door. How did something like this happened in the first place? In some games' cases, having cheats makes em more fun. Some games can just be rather unforgiving at times.

Simply not having cheats in there should've been a crime. The entire larping concept in the reboot was originally going to be just one mission. To be fair, these ended up being surprisingly "better missions." I never said they were a master piece. If it would've been just one mission.

I strongly felt people probably forget about it within reviews or ranting on the game. When you gotta deal with something like that more than once. Especially in a heavily criticized game people going to keep mentioning it. All of this info came from a famous YouTuber named MrSaintGodzilla21.

Whose a huge name within the Saints Row community. According to the famous post, this guy was shown the scrapped version. Mostly described within this long post. I felt pressure played a major role in this. THQ Nordic execs were desperate for success.

It's also possible they weren't familiar with the franchise. Going by all of this it's fair to assume they didn't know Saints Row period. Another huge possibility came into play when Embracer gotten involved. It seems following SR2, the team's control over their franchise kept getting smaller.

Let's be honest if all of that was the main scrapped SR5 game. I probably would've absolutely loved it!!! I would've be fine with retconning SRIV. Where it stands even Gat Out of Hell better than the reboot. I know it's sucks things played out like this. At least we now know what almost could've been despite things.

2. A few Saints Row comparisons

I been putting a lot of thought into this. There's two particular Saints Row games I wanna compare to the reboot. I know most of the internet called it Saints Row 2022. Just to differ it from the original I just prefer Saints Row reboot myself. The first Saints Row game going to be Saints Row 2. I know some might be mixed why not the original?

We can agree SR2 simply done everything better than the original. Therefore, I felt it was a better choice for this. In virtually every possible way SR2 absolutely destroys the reboot. I can't even pick one small positive either. In terms of the story, not even close!!! In the reboot it's about the new Saints. They had to pay their student loans with three previously members in the three main enemy groups.

If it sounds bad already we still got more to cover. Later, The Nahualli attempts to kill the Boss while stealing your closest allies. Of course, the Boss ends his life after a lot of fighting. The Nahualli had his own group you gotta deal with. This is excluding the DLC taking on an actor. A very poorly done story DLC for that matter.

I don't plan to cover any story DLCs in any comparisons. Even if I were going to the reboot sucks period!!! Let's compare that to SR2's story. Following the events of the first Saints Row. Playa aka the Boss by members in the same gang became their new leader. Three more rival gangs shows up in Stilwater.

In classic Saints Row fashion, you gotta wipe em out. I know I gotta discuss a rather important thing before I dive further. At the end of the first game, Playa gotten blown up on a boat. Possibly being the only survivor of that explosion. It turns out the former leader of your gang, Julius attempted to kill Playa off.

This gets revealed in a well hidden story mission leading up to confrontation with Julius. After the rival gangs fallen, the Saints directly takes on Ultor. This organization that's been involved to a degree with the events of the game including both story DLCs. In the end, a high ranking member within Ultor Dane gets taken out by Playa.

Funny enough just for reference purposes. He becomes a surprise ally in Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell. We all can agree SR2 had one of the finest stories within the franchise. The Saints were absolutely amazing in that. Unlike the newer Saints that's kinda lackluster not to mention suck to a degree. They just did not work for the game at all.

The Boss just doesn't work at all. Customization can only get ya so far here. You have a nerd friend that's obviously the smart one. A bi DJ friend that used to be with the Idols. Another friend whose in a gang whose all into cars. All of them are room mates no less. The main reason they started up the gang is paid off their student loans a rather stupid concept for a game like this.

I also gotta mention, the Boss doesn't kill one of the leaders. I gotta clarify several things it's a little important. The Idols has six leaders that could be killed in the game. Some appeared in places you wouldn't expect a huge hint on that. You get the choice to kill the guy who ran Marshall or just fire him. Either outcome they moved away while you reclaim your gang legally.

The last major leader Sergio gets taken out by the Nahualli during a mission. This simply was a horrible idea to allow in the game. Usually the Boss aka Playa kills majority of the leaders. Now officially Killbane gotten killed offscreen confirmed in another SR game. He still was mostly defeated by Playa prior to that.

Another reason that was fine is in a few ways you could kill him. There's a sci-fi movie ending where he's the final boss. There's the other ending you prevented Killbane's escape to end him. But at the cost of Shaundi's life. I still liked they designed it to allow us to play both these endings. Instead of being forced to start a new game to do that.

There's no real point to compare anything else. You already know how much SR2 a way better SR game before reading any of this!!! Now the assumption comparison would've been the reboot against Saints Row: The Third. Which there's some truth to that logic. However I felt some might view it like me. Where you gotta compare the reboot to the previous entry.

In this particular case I mean comparing that to Saints Row IV. Once again not even close!!! Saints Row IV had some strong criticisms from fans as well as critics. Back when critics actually played the games they're reviewing not sorry. The story for Saints Row IV is quite a weird one. The Saints became the main staff running the United States.

This also means Playa was the President of the United States. So we went from a street gang to an corporate empire to this!!! I know that's already a lot to take in. Sadly I got a lot more to cover. The actual weirdness about to show up. Usually the Saints takes on rival gangs or bigger in The Third's case. They ended up facing aliens I'm not kidding.

I'll try to summarize a large amount of the story. Each member of the Saints with some of their allies were forced into simulations. Eventually they gotten free to finally take the fight to Zinyak in the real world. Of course, a lot of crazy moments happened on the way. The most important being Zinyak destroyed the Earth!!!

Saints Row IV was as far away from reality. You actually use super powers in the game play. Mostly in simulations unless stated otherwise. There's an end game loop hole with a suit allowing super powers in the real world. Playa ends up killing Zinyak to take over his empire. Originally that would've been the ending.

Unfortunately there's an stand alone expansion Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell. This differs in terms of being more important to discuss within the actual comparison. The other story DLCs simply could happen within the simulation being more side stories if anything else. It was Kenzie's birthday sometime following the main campaign of SRIV.

Suddenly Playa gets sent to Hell forcing Johnny and Kenzie to go rescue their boss. They get some rather interesting allies you wouldn't expect. All of this led to Gat taking down the Devil!!! The true monkey wrench is regarding the five endings. At this point we can only assume one or two of these endings happened in some form.

Even comparing Gat Out to Hell beyond the story is way better than the reboot. Despite how much shorter the campaign is. Going back to SRIV, a lot of past moments from the first three SR games gets referenced. This was largely was I chosen SRIV for this comparison. Some view SRIV as an expansion or The Third with some notable changes.

At the same time, SRIV despite getting rushed out turned out absolutely amazing!!! It's not often you could praise a game with rushed game development like this. Which was another notable factor for this comparison. I simply felt stuff like this made comparing the two SR games make more sense. You actually get to care for the old Saints in comparison.

They were forced to relived not pleasant moments digitally recreated. The way the story plays out in SRIV is way more interesting. If you're playing this for an first time not knowing anything. What an experience you're about to receive!!! Sadly I really can't say the same for the reboot. I'm only comparing the stories here.

There's virtually no real point to go beyond that in either SR comparisons. We all can agree the reboot really missed the mark. It just wasn't "Saints Row" at all!! It felt more like a cheap generic GTA clone than anything else. Even The Simpsons: Hit & Run was way better than this!!! I felt I made my point the reboot fails so hard at virtually everything.

I know SR2 fans that believes beyond SR2 the franchise sucks. Even some of them shown some of the other SR games much more respect. The length of the campaign or just the story portions within the reboot really over stayed their welcome. I don't even like the new Boss either yes I tried. We all can agree it's the true worst Saints Row game period!!!

My thoughts on Chainsaw Man Part 2 so far

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I'm still awaiting on stuff I really wanna talk about. I figured to discuss my current thoughts on Chainsaw Man Part 2. I will try to not spoil much which will be quite tricky to do so. I do wanna say this is easily one of the most eye opening manga stories I ever seen!!! You would have to see some of this with your own eyes to believe!!!

Chainsaw Man Part 2

I know I talked somewhat about Part 2 before on here. A lot of crazy moments occurred within the story since then. The more I read this, the more I wanna personally thank the author for writing this. A lot of people doesn't realize there's multiple things going on at times. Some of which speaks volumes for what ends up happening later on.

This is a notably different tone from Part 1. Part 1 was more over the top violent story with more lighter moments. It's not Jujutsu Kaisen light moments though. Part 2 is a much darker story in comparison. Everything going towards a horrific future for humanity. I already revealed Denji is in Part 2 a lot. At the time I did previously minded that simply because it was meant to be Asa's story.

Overtime it actually gotten me to like him even more as a character. Denji kept going through major changes as the story goes on. I also realized some of the previous Joestars were presented in other Parts of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Which meant my previous criticism was unfair or more directly wasn't right at all.

I personally felt Part 2 is a much crazier story than Part 1. I'm deeply amazed so many moments gotten into the story. I'm actually talking about such risky stuff. A particular arc goes fully off the walls insanity. You suddenly witness concepts existing to no longer exists or came back into existence. Some of which was truly the stuff of nightmares.

Up to a point, the one devil we kept hearing about. All this time was already revealed much sooner than any of the readers revealed. To me every one or two chapters is WTF did I just read? No really you get such moments you can't believe just happened. The more recent chapter at the time writing this is Chapter 213.

I also liked we get to see a notable different take being possessed by a devil. It's a different ball game from Part 1. Denji was killed to ended up getting revived by Pochita revealed to be the Chainsaw Devil. From that point on, Denji maintains full control over his devil powers despite being a berserker type. Asa gotten possessed after agreeing to War Devil's offer in order to save her life.

As Part 2 goes on, more of War Devil's personality gets revealed. War Devil is a vastly different beast from Chainsaw Devil. In some ways, she's more terrifying. The side characters are used quite differently from Part 1. The main ones were almost like an family to Denji. Over the course of that, Denji loses em. Which he still going through many things in the story.

In Part 2's case, the side characters were trying to prevent the end of the world from happening. Whatever they gotta do at any cost. This also means some of their allies was an temporary agreement thing. By now a lot of people knows some members making up the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were the main antagonists of this story.

All of them are all female devils being sisters. Part 1 had it's fair share of WTF moments. But that pales to the truly mess up stuff within Part 2. I would be deeply surprised a lot of it doesn't get censored. They are going this slower movie route with animating the story still in Part 1 for that matter. Clearly if they continue that path they got plenty of time to figure Part 2 out.

Assuming they actually get allow to do it at all. I really wasn't kidding Part 2 went the distance being a rather disturbing story. I'm even amazed Chainsaw Man didn't get labeled as Seinen. Which is for older male audience with some notable changes from Shonen. It's possible for an manga to get labeled as both like JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

The point I'm trying to make is Part 2 gets very personal at times. The kind of personal usually shown within Seinen stories. Part 2 even went as far to present some truly dark stuff that nearly happened. We had a particular deal with one of the top tier devils that actually put chills down my spine!!! I still can't even believe such an concept made it into the story.

There's not as many light moments. Of course being a mess up story. Such moments are short lived probably more so in Part 2. The truly darker moments shines in the darkness. Just when Gun Devil terrorizing it's way in Part 1 was dark. We're talking hundreds of names written as confirmed deaths by this thing.

Even that pales in comparison to some of the darkest moments Part 2 has. We're currently in the final arc of Part 2. This by itself where it stands been one hell of a roller coaster ride. There's a lot of death within Part 2 possibly more on the way. The mess up moments just kept coming at this point. Chainsaw Man is a constant guessing game what's going to happen?

So far I properly guessed one chapter the entire time reading Part 2 no joke. I knew the real antagonist twist was coming. When it did the following chapter I called it from start to finish what's going to happen? Part 2 is heavily playing off of the possibilities than anything else. There's still plenty of great surprises from those that fully seen Part 1 played out.

Up to a point, Part 2 was notably a bit slower. When the pacing changed it kept going faster. It's not going so fast I wish it'll slow down. But we might reach that point before the end though. A lot of people didn't realize there's more than what's on the surface. Chainsaw Man may be labeled as an Shonen series.

The author more directly focusing on the emotional moments as well as deeper story telling. Which may disappoint the more action focused fans. At the same time, we're getting such an rememberable story. Parts of the action we're getting despite how shorter it may seem still gets very crazy at times. Especially when crazier twists gets thrown into them.

Part 2 won't hold your hand to make sure you're safe. No it rather throw you straight to the wolves!!! This really isn't for children I highly recommend to parents don't let em read Part 2. You will thank me later doing so. Part 2 is an inspiring story in so many ways. The personal growth of a few characters ends up being incredibly interesting.

Some might view this being a bit boring to a degree. Which I do see their point but both of them are rather mess up people. All this hell going on somehow both of them are becoming more decent people. Stuff like this means there's always light within the darkness. There's always going to be some form of hope in the end.

Chainsaw Man kept entertaining me to similar degrees as One Piece. It's nearly getting closer to as great as that for a more darker story. I'm not trying to upset anyone by saying that. Just like the author of One Piece, you can tell there's more actual depth in everything going on. Sometimes you might have to reread an chapter or two to properly understand things.

This story kept getting more difficult to predict. Considering how Chapter 213 ended I promise no spoilers. Let's just say moments like that is exactly why I respect the author so much. This person isn't afraid to go for such concepts knowing how attached we gotten to several characters. Part 2 is going to stand out in a great way.

There's a huge chance an YouTuber or two with their reflection on Part 2 videos might convince people. I can tell a lot of people are marathon reading to the point of confusion. I also can tell they don't understand since Part 1. Chainsaw Man always had these intentional sexual moments. I previously discussed an sexual moment people gotten upset over in Part 2.

Part 2 already setting the end game as we speak. I'm quite interested to see how it all ends. Even if we end up getting Part 3. Which I'm on board with if it happens. If we surprisingly don't I'm quite happy with Part 2 already. Eventually the conclusion to the Dark Trio going to happen. Such a dark day that's going to be in Shonen history.

Chainsaw Man truly deserves more respect than it's getting. I also notice some amazing fan animations of the series. I know this meant so much to a lot of people including myself. I really can't wait to see how Part 2 plays out. I'm very sure whatever emotions I'm going to feel. Exactly the same emotions the author expects most readers to feel meaning he's done his job very well.