Aphelion
Crash land with two astronauts on a frozen planet and 10 min into the game you wish they died. No interesting personalities and no subtlety as they say everything out loud. So often that I wonder if this a second screen game experience. My favorite is when one of them find a map with an area marked the Source and she say 'This place, it must be the Source'. It's also reaction shot, the game so you are forced to look at the stupid face all the time. Why 'Show, don't tell' when you can tell and close-up the person telling you.

Gameplay is walking, sliding, balancing, climbing and escape sequences simulator. Linear and buggy that let you die at random.

Recommendation is 'Ignore, don't play'.


Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Set in North America in 1695 take on the role of a pair of ghost hunters. They are a couple and things don't go well. The female dies and return as a ghost. Use them to explore the world, fight evil spirits and banish ghosts. The end goal is to destroy the malevolent spirit that haunt New Eden and resurrect or ascend the sassy wife. I choose love and in the end sacrificed more people then the plague to get her back. Very romantic and a bit mass murder where the excuses to kill people for theirs souls get worse over time.

I liked the setting and the character and gameplay was fine but a bit simple. Completed the whole game at least so better then the other Don't Nod games.