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Lee KM Pallatina (951 KP) rated the Xbox One version of Friday the 13th : The Game in Video Games

Dec 5, 2021  
Friday the 13th : The Game
Friday the 13th : The Game
2017 | Action
7
7.1 (19 Ratings)
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Happy camping
The 80's spawned a tonne of supernatural horror movies and in doing so a bunch of video games followed.
Most of which were hit and miss.... No let's be honest, they were all a miss... Jump forward a few decades and another jab at them has begun.

Friday the 13th is a third person horror game based on the franchise of the same name which puts horror legend Jason Voorhees against a group of (clearly unqualified) camp councillors in a kill or be killed (or just run away) deadly game of killer cat and mouse.

A tremendous improvement on the original outing but with one small yet major downfall... There's no story mode?

Given that today's videogame industry is the biggest its ever been with zero signs of slowing down, its disappointing that something like this could and has happened.

Apart from the missed opportunity, the game itself is pretty much online only, the game regularly cuts out, there is an option to play against CPU's but that takes the fun out of it.
The game is fun when playable though

There is a hint of more to come hidden within the game, so there's hope... But we'll see.
  
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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2352 KP) rated On Thin Icing in Books

Jan 22, 2022 (Updated Jan 22, 2022)  
On Thin Icing
On Thin Icing
Ellie Alexander | 2015 | Mystery
5
5.0 (1 Ratings)
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Thin on Plot
Jules Capshaw is thrilled to be catering the board retreat for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival at the Lake of the Woods center in the mountains above Ashland, Oregon. However, the weekend doesn’t go nearly as smoothly as Jules hopes. First, her estranged husband shows up, proving to be both a help and a distraction. Then the center’s bar tender is killed and stuffed in a freezer. Now, as a winter storm rages, Jules can’t help but wonder if she is catering to a killer.

Obviously, this is a classic mystery set up, but it failed to fully deliver for me. The mystery was too thin, and the book covers with too many cooking scenes. Still, Jules does piece things together, and the ending is logical. I also appreciated the time spent on Jules’s relationship with her husband since that’s been in the background in the first two books in the series. Obviously, we don’t get all the series regulars, but everyone at least gets a cameo, which makes me happy since I do like them. We get seven recipes at the end, and they range from dinner options to plenty of pastries and desserts. I hope the plot in the next in the series is stronger.