Sea of solitude: captivating game, nice and short and a beautiful story, was totally engrossed by the melancholy soundtrack and thoughtful story. highly recommend it, its currently on sale .

Call of Juarez: Gunslinger - Damn good Western.

Splatterhouse
Enjoyed it a lot better the second time around, very short game though.
The jumping sections are still extremely frustrating!!!
The PS3 version has the original 3 Splatterhouse games!

Super Mario Odyssey - Awesome, if somewhat too easy.

A bit late to the party, but finished Bloodborne. Amazing game, highly recommended.

A plague tale innocence- finished it last night, brilliant game, characters are amazing, ost is incredible, graphics are beautiful, fantastic game and highly recommend it.

God of War: Ascension.

Just Cause 1 (the back-compat Xbox 360 version)

I feel like I shouldn't complain as it cost R10 on sale but what a waste of some good ideas. Someone was clearly a big fan of GTA3 and figured it would be awesome in a tropical island setting, and then accidentally used the design docket for 1997's GTA 1. For 2006, the world is huge but the quality of missions is abysmal and repetitive to an absurd degree. Mercifully, you can just push forward with the main missions (something I did after 5 hours), with the safehouses offering you all the gear you'll need, but the liberation-base sidequests are so formulaic I feel I should apologize for every bad thing I've said about a Ubisoft game post-AC1.

The simplistic design (kill soldiers, blow up roadblock 1, kill soldiers, blow up roadblock 2 etc.) is probably meant to be offset by the ability to use vehicles/planes/your grappling hook, etc. but the controls suck and the game has weird balancing issues that discourage anything other than combat on foot. Soon as you hop into a vehicle/aircraft, enemies start using rockets which are, 99% of the time, an instant kill; On foot, so long as you're moving, you can soak up dozens of rounds and like 3-4 rocket strikes. Were the game makes the most sense is when you're on a main mission or liberating a large settlement, and revolutionaries and government forces are battling it out around you, with troops/vehicles/aircraft exploding everywhere.

That said, I'm looking forward to seeing how the second game improved the formula (and it only cost me R15).

Resident Evil 3 Remake
Short, but sweet!
Lots of action, lots of fun. But could have been better.

Completed Horizon Zero Dawn Complete edition for all the trophies (all the DLC and NG+)

Amazing game and great story. Something I find great is how much story you will miss if you do only main story and skip all the other side quests, errands and hunts.

I completed all the quests and everything even for Frozen Wild DLC before going for NG+
So for the NG+ run , i only did the main quests and when I got to the end on Ultra Hard it hit me that great quest designers know how to build world and meaning into the game. 4 Hour NG+ vs 78 hour main game and Frozen Wild. This is an amazing game and love the build-up to the 2nd one!

Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands - The combat hasn't aged well, but the platforming and level design is still wonderfully devious. I honestly can't see current Ubisoft making a PoP game as good as this and the Sands of Time trilogy again, sadly.

Tomb Raider Legends

A great reboot for the IP (coming from someone who like Angel of Darkness) but distinctly "breezy". My hard playthrough of the game, for the first time in years, took 5 hours, and that included finding a good chunk of the collectibles. Perhaps a few too many gimmicky sequences (anything with the bike or QTEs) and simplistic combat, but I enjoyed the puzzling and traversal, even in the manmade settings.

Tomb Raider Anniversary

Given how many remasters and remakes we've seen since this launched, I sometimes forget what a great example it is. From the way they've balanced a mix of classic and updated areas, to the way they've introduced new collectibles but also kept a few secrets in exactly the same spot as the original. The Legends style traversal makes for more interesting puzzles (way less block-pushing/pulling or trying to figure out which ledge you need to jump to), though the "adrenaline" combat system trivializes a lot of encounters. Everything just looks stunning too - especially Egypt which was and remains my favourite levels. It's also a far more substantial experience, clocking in at 8-9 hours on hard, and I enjoyed how the tweaked aspects of the story to tie it into Legends/Underworld.

However, as it's a remake of TR1, that means it has Atlantis sections, which somehow remain as irritating as the classic version, especially when the new controls start fighting with the traversal sections, and the game stops being consistent about what jumps/grabs are allowed.

Mafia 3 DE - got it for free on Steam as I owned Mafia 2 and I was asked to review it. Still fun but buggy.
https://invisioncommunity.co.uk/mafia-3-definitive-edition-review-a-re-release-more-than-an-upgrade/

Got the platinum for Horizon Zero Dawn. My first platinum ever. Such an awesome game, and now I get to play the Frozen Wilds DLC

Tomb Raider Underworld

What a strange experience. I can't help but wonder if Crystal Dynamics were obligated to wrap up the trilogy but given minimal time to do it?

The idea of "underworlds" being elaborate subterranean tombs holding mythical artifacts is a great one, and the settings and puzzles are fantastic - way more ambitious than TR Legends and even larger in scope than parts of TR Anniversary. The visuals, for the most part, still hold up on the Xbox One back-compat version.

However, everything else feels half-baked or buggy. The story beats are rushed, and this ensures character deaths and the resolution to events started in TR Legend/Anniversary feel underserved (apparently the Xbox 360 exclusive DLC fills in some gaps - but it's not available on our storefront...). Then there's the twitchy camera, twitchier animations, boring combat, and bugs galore. Exploring areas out of sequence can break puzzles, Lara got stuck in the terrain repeatedly (thankfully button mashing could get her out), and the camera - which Lara orientates herself too - meant I was missing jumps and plunging to death more frequently than I did in the PS1-era games.

As such, I'd still rate the first Crystal Dynamics trilogy: TR Anniversary > Legends > Underworld

COD: WW 2.

A Plague Tale: Innocence

Great game, though the marketing is a little misleading. Despite the setting and the thrilling first third of the game that leaves you feeling helpless between the rat plague and Inquisition, it delves into pure fiction and become more of a typical action-adventure as it progresses., with nefarious villains and an increasingly empowered protagonist. I'd compare it favourably to the structure of an Uncharted game - lots of set pieces between story beats, with traversal and gunfights replaced by stealth and light-based puzzles. I did enjoy the fact the game had few insta-fail moments and lets the player decide if they want to go full-stealth or psychotic 15-year old sling-killer (I was not merciful).

If you enjoy mostly linear, narrative-driven adventure games like Uncharted or The Last of Us, this is well worth your time.

Portal 2
Awesome game!
Short, but a bit longer then the first one.
Great humor & voice acting!

Call of Juarez: The Cartel

At this point, I think my taste in video games has hit rock bottom, but there was real potential here. Drug wars across the US/Mexico border are a great modern setting for a western-themed game and even though the gunplay sucks, the scale of the environments, atmosphere, and particularly the music impressed. I even think the story about a trio of untrustworthy, self-serving US agents could have worked well if they had the budget for better animation work during cutscenes.

Not great, but not as bad as I expected, and at like R5/hour of gameplay, it was more amusing than blander sections of much bigger games.

God of War III Remastered.