Nioh By Oliver Staley

                                  Nioh


    Nioh starts as a run around the London dungeons as you traverse your way to the top to fight your first boss and at first you go in thinking you've got to batter the Executioner to bits to rid off him but you soon realize it's a tactical approach more so than bare violence of bashing the attack button, So you go back to the top and try again and you realize that Eric The Executioner runs at you and crashes into the wall leaving him open to you to attack him twice then retreat, that seems to work and it does the game kindly stops half way through the fight to show you a cut scene where your companions gauge has filled to unleash a hefty slice to Erick enough for you to win the fight. Then your whisked of to Japan to help put an end to two notorious leaders who want to rule the land. The first level feels like a light tutorial a round a fishing village where enemies hide around corners teaching you that by attacking them will use your Ki gauge which put simply is the same as a stamina bar which means finding time to wait for it too refill. I worked out about halfway through that if you wear light gear then the Ki gauge refills faster so I compromised used a medium build and found lighter weapons which were a lot more effective and got me through the level a lot quicker. The game has a lot of nods to Dark Souls there's this comparison that ends when you realize that Nioh runs a lot faster than Dark Souls and at the end of the day the settings are completely different. But it retains what Dark Souls does so well so if this is the last time we play Dark Souls then thank the heavens for Nioh feeling it's shoes it does a fine job but it's not as solid as Dark Souls so if you like your hack and slash games running at a fast pace then Nioh is definitely for you. Overall it's a great game and has potential and there's leveling to work on and other adjustments you can make to your character William, Dark Souls with a twist.

Review By Oliver Staley

9 (Excellent)

Resident Evil 7 By Oliver Staley

 Resident Evil 7

       I don't know about you but I've felt like I've waited too long for Resident Evil 7 but you know when it's finally arrived when you get presented with a beautiful game that's obviously going too be great, and that's what it is a great game set in no time near any of the other events of Raccoon City, it's a official game set as one of the series sequels and it's in first person and it's bloody scary, The story goes you get a video message from your long lost wife who tell's you to stay away but your instinct tells you she's in danger so you travel to Louisiana and find your self winding up at a plantation house inhabited by the residents known as the Bakers you've got mom pa sun and aunt as the family members but the things I'll inform you about is they'll be segments in the game where you're going to have too face each member as a enemy and there not nice people I can tell you. The graphics are so atmospheric and creepy Capcom's done a fine job of creating a scary house of horrors for you to be terrified off and those puzzles from 1996 are back, everyone thought the series went wayward with 5 & 6 and so Capcom's obviously taken note of how the player wants to feel again. With simplistic puzzles and a great mansion full of secret areas to traverse round. I think it's a clever way off answering the players prayers with a whole new outlook on things it seems too have worked a treat with this inclusion too the series. You'll love some of the locations in the game there timeless as to where you'd love these to be in Resident Evil and not some other game. If only other developers used how first person can be used too great effect like Resi 7 instead of run and gun games like Call Of Duty, there's things you can implement with first person that third person feels your to far away from the scene's message if your looking at it through the persons eyes then your there dealing with the situation. A side from that Resident Evil makes a grand return in another form that you've got to try apparently it's even scarier in VR that's the only way too experience it for it's shock surprises.

Review By Oliver Staley

9 (Brilliant)