Recent reviews by Salvia

Sometimes it takes a cozy game to remind you to stop burning the candle at both ends. That it's okay to stop and let yourself breathe instead of focusing on the things that need to be done. And sometimes it's important to ask yourself if the thing you're chasing after is something that you really want or if it's okay to let go.

And sometimes, you just want to feed tea to penguins. Which is really nice too. Thank you, Ivy Road team.

You play as a cat. The cat can be nice by helping out all the animals in the city.
Or be mean by tripping humans, steal their phones, bagels, and bread. Then catch birds by pouncing or laying bread traps.
It's everything I ever wanted in a cat game.

I loved the first one, love this one. The only problem I've run into is loading previous saves and importing characters and stats from the previous game.

The story of Dishonored 2 lives up to the goodness of Dishonored. The characters are genuinely likeable or detestible, making you want to protect or destroy them. If you didn't play the DLCs for Dishonored, like I didn't, there're a few things that you might not immediately get, but overall, I'd say that on the design side, Dishonored 2 is more than worth it. The powers that Emily and Corvo get are different enough that there's definitely replayability value, and I'd dare say that Emily's side is a bit more difficult for stealth, if only because Far Reach's targeting is difficult, and it pulls rather than teleports, but domino makes up for it by making one knockout affect others, saving you on effort and sleep darts.

But techwise, it's an unoptimized piece of crap that just doesn't play very well on PC. I had to pull out a book whenever I turned Emily around and sometimes I had to reload just because the game was being clunky (stealth + clunk = rage.) I also ran into a bug where I couldn't save for a while and had to replay a segment because of it. Framerate can drop down into the toilet.

Overall, buy the game later when it's lower price and optimized, because it'll be well worth it then.

Bethesda has a way of making games that completely consume your life and soul.

I grew up playing the Harvest Moon games, and Stardew Valley has the feel of Harvest Moon, from the music, replayability, characters... If I didn't know it was an indie game/ if it wasn't for the graphics, I'd even mistake it for one.