The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

TOO MUCH STUFF...SO MUCH FUN!!!

I WAS EATING MY BREAKFAST!

This caption pretty much describes Skyrim. One minute you could be eating your breakfast and the next, a dragon decides it wants you for breakfast. Welcome to Skyrim, where everything can and sometimes will kill you before you can shout FUS RO DAH!

Skyrim is basically a role-playing game but in its heart it is just so much more than that, in fact so much so that you can get so immersed with your character and his/her life that you forget that you have a life of your one and since very few games can actually do that, Bethseda immediately deserves a round of applause for that. And that is just the beginning.

The game begins with you starting as a prisoner, which is nearly cliche of an Elder Scrolls game now, on your way to be executed by the Imperial army but instead of getting executed a dragon decides to say hi and burn down the entire town. Simple. Yet it isn't. As soon as you start you have a choice to make which will effect on how people view you straight from the start and that is something the game continues on right up till the very end and it makes for some truly amazing conversations with people.

Please don't hit me.....

While playing this game you start to realise how messed up Skyrim is and how much this place needs you to decide its fate but for your hero, it is honestly just a little problem from which can be solved by just pissing off as many people as you can while doing missions/quests for the Stormcloaks or Imperials or you could just rob people blind by joining the Thieves guild or just kill people marked for death by joining the Dark Brotherhood or even just being a muscle for hire at the Companions which reaps it's own reward at the end....just not on a full moon.

There is just so much stuff to do on this game that unfortunately there are multiple downsides such as getting bored and slowly. Boredom is one thing but getting bored slowly is just painful but lucky the game saves itself by making you forget how bored you were and going back to it a couple of weeks later because not much can compare to it. Even the new skill tree looks absolutely beautiful and truly makes you feel that you fully aware that is this your character and you can change him and mold him to however you want. Sadly though it is a long grind to unlock the things you want to level 100 and master everything but it also feels rewarding when you finally do it and it also give you bragging rights between friends (if you still have any).

Another downside is probably the glitchy system which Bethesda has tried to patch yet some little things still remain after a few years such as on the PC version you can still get sent flying across the map when a troll hits you or that you can still magically get stuck in walls when you get through door, although the door one is quite uncommon it can still happen when you least expect it which adds to a little annoyance. Other minor glitches can happen such as your weapon magically disappearing in your hand and the game freezing on the load screen, but all are minor because in the grand scheme of things, Skyrim gives you something most games of this generation cannot and that is the stability to give you consequence of your actions and that is what makes this so beautiful is that no matter your action, something always follows after it.

OVERALL  9.5/10
Other than a few minor bugs this game can still compete with the big boys that are coming out to play which makes this game still my overall favourite game of last generation.

  

Mario Kart 8

THE WII U JUST MIGHT FAIL MORE...AND BRING MARIO WITH IT



This was the game that was meant to safe the Wii U but sadly with sales slowly going even further down into the abyss one game cannot save it...Can it?

Sadly no. While Mario Kart 8 lives up to all the hype the Wii U still fails and it is a shame since this game is pretty solid for a racing game and a Mario game while bringing back customization of vehicles which were in Mario Kart 7 and introduces a couple of new elements such as the anti-gravity racing (yes, this is actually pretty awesome) and gives you a few new characters to play around with such as the koopalings, Baby Rosilana and Pink Gold peach while also giving you some new weapons such as the Boomerang flower which may sound rubbish but really is fun. The piranha plant which is just destruction in a plant that attacks everything, from enemies to just barriers, it just destroys them.  

But while there are some new features, there are also some problems with the online where it can sometimes just stop working even though you could be right next to the modem and while with online you can customize tournaments with friends, do you really want to do so on such a lack luster console, surprisingly you actually do. What the Wii U fails at, this game makes the fails excel into greatness and offers such a fun family experience that you actually forget the small little problems and just enjoy the game because this is a family style game so you nearly forget it has an online as you just enjoy the sheer excellence of what could of made a failing console a surprise hit but sadly with the Wii U sales declining, this could be one of the few Mario games which are forgettable which of course would be a awful shame as this game is bold and beautiful and makes the Wii U go into fun mode.



OVER ALL 8.8/10

Fun and enjoyable for all the family and friends. Must buy on this console!