You should watch The Lodger (1944)

The Lodger is a parallel story, or is it, to Jack the Ripper about a man with an assumed name moving into a room in a house owned by a husband and wife and their adult actress daughter. It's moody, creepy, and evocative with  camerawork that puts you in the heart of the action and great sound design that reminds me of Italian giallo movies from the 70's. It's also somehow a musical and fans of Disney animation from the 60's will be happy with the casting choice of one of the leads. 

8 out of 10

Witch's Pranks: Frog's Fortune CE Review

 It's not often I can't wait to get home to play something these oh so jaded days. For some reason this is the one that did it for me. I don't know if it was the pleasing art or that I was able to make progress in the little bit of time I had to plays this in. So, if you like goofy and cute read on even if you are a gamer tm, branch out and have fun. 

 WP:FFCE has one of the worst names but it is kind of par for the course in the Hidden Object world which this game is most like. I say most like because it heavily leans on Adventure game logic and moving around to different scenes much like old ZX Spectrum games would back in the day. You'll end up traveling through a mirror to different inventive and frankly stunning worlds trying to transform frog princes back to just princes and probably have it completed in under 4 hours.

My only complaints are the fmv footage is fuzzy and stutters like an old PS1 game and I wish it had one more story in it since they didn't make any more of these. 

10 out of 10

Signalis - Review

This is the game I would tell me to play if they have never played a horror game before. It's such a good example of doing everything right and not doing the things that drag this genre down. It has just the right amount of gunplay but also let's you run around and not kill most things. It's perfect for Halloween. 

10 out of 10

Below is unfakeable proof my Tiktok video on Signalis had 666 views. 

Endless Fables: The Minotaur's Curse (Review)

 I will start with the positive and then go to the negative because the positive is very good and I don't want you to run away. The puzzles in Endless Fables are very well done. They are challenging but also extremely well laid out with lots of variety and they won't bore you. 

Okay, now let's talk about the constantly getting stuck because everything looks the same and oh my god I've been here thirty times already I'm just going to click hint, oh I'm in the wrong place, I'll just go back a screen and I'm still in the wrong place. This game likes to make the walking around it's world a slog. 

Also, FMV graphical issues due to how old it is I'm guessing. Basically, they were blurry and hard to make out even when they weren't blurry. Outside of Fmv problems the game was par the course for the time with good art that you can mostly make out.

Now story was fairly boring to me and not the least bit compelling. I was constantly trying to remember where this game even started and how we got here and should I care. 

5 out of 10

Endless Fables 3: Dark Moor (Review)

 Well, well, we'll, if it isn't my old friend HOPA. How are you my addictive but also low effort pal? Good let's begin.

If you like hidden object games than I will cut to the chase and say this one of them and it's very nicely paced and not too long, especially the second story. It's got good voice acting and great art. It's not too hard except for one very long and annoying puzzle that begged for the skip puzzle button and after 20 minutes I obliged. I knew how to solve it but at that point I couldn't be bothered to go through the paces on it. Big also here, I need these games to either let me go back to collect everything or let me know I missed something before I leave an area.

For people that don't like these kind of games stay away but for us weirdos this a solid one.

9 out of 10

Pinball FX - Swords of Fury (DLC)

 I love this table and I don't even play it right. It's my zen friend that I can go to and camp in the top left with my little flipper slapping the bad guys in the face over and over. Multiball is fairly easy to start even if I drain them almost immediately and most of the shots are fairly easy to hit as well. Everything has a weight to it like a great beat em up. It's like if Conan was a pinball table.

10💪 out of 10💪

Pinball FX 2023 (Steam Review)

 I am a big fan of Pinball FX from the beginning playing the first one on Xbox 360 and I had high hopes for this one being a more refined version of Pinball FX 3 but it's a different beast altogether. Let me elaborate.

I stayed away from the game until recently because of the not being on Steam thing and the not letting us move previously purchases tables to the new version. Making the decision to jump back in was fairly easy once I decided to only purchase tables I didn't already own and truth be told I'm probably going to stick with that until they decide to make the ball physics more accurate to real life. Dead balls are a major problem.

With that laid out, now I'm going to list some of the things this does right and then complain a lot.

Things that are good:

The events are really good and even if you don't have the tables listed for the events you can still play some of them and earn decorations and skins.

The game feels more grounded with a ball that floats around the field less.

Things that are not good:

Ball physics that make you lose a ball because the game decided to Bork your progress.

The menus are a big step back from the Pinball FX 3 and I find myself getting very lost with where things are placed and when I earn something I have no clue what it will be listed as which means I am left going to random areas and clicking until I find the thing I just received. 

Unless I'm really wrong, the amount of challenges on each table has been extremely simplified to the point of turning everything into a high score race which doesn't interest me. I want to do all the fun things on the table not do three things over and over until I have a top score. One of my favorite tables is in this game and I see know reason to play it once I get the last two items I need from it.

With that said I give Pinball FX 2022-23 

7/10