Leo Faria

São Paulo

Founder and Writer at Way Too Many Games

Founder / writer at @waytoomanygames. Stanning Castlevania 64 and Limp Bizkit to the very end. Tweets in English and Portuguese

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Articles

Review - PaperKlay

2 weeks ago | waytoomany.games | Leo Faria

Here’s a pro tip to any PR reading this review: if you want to draw my attention faster than a meerkat, just mention that your game is a 3D platformer with collectathon elements. Having grown up with a Nintendo 64, this subgenre is grafted onto my brain, with titles like Donkey Kong 64 and Banjo-Tooie being some of my favorites of all time.
Review - Dune: Awakening

2 weeks ago | waytoomany.games | Leo Faria

Dune is actually one of my favorite literature franchises of all time, and I couldn’t have been happier with the fact the damn thing has finally become mainstream and socially acceptable after having been considered the utmost nerdiest crap for the past sixty years. I am eternally grateful to Dennis Villeneuve and his amazing movies for changing the franchise’s perspective amongst the general populace. With mainstream popularity, come memes, merchandising, and, of course, licensed games.
Review - Scar-Lead Salvation

3 weeks ago | waytoomany.games | Leo Faria

Returnal is still one of the best games available on the PS5, even if, deep down, I don’t like how it managed to steal the thunder from so many other roguelikes, just due to the fact it was the first high-budgeted roguelike to be made by a console manufacturer. It’s still a really fun time, and highly replayable, due to its exciting presentation, great controls, and arcade-like structure.
Review - Haneda Girl

3 weeks ago | waytoomany.games | Leo Faria

One of the many, many, MANY games I reviewed during the pandemic was Narita Boy, a slick action platformer set in a Tron-esque virtual world. It felt like the whole world had fallen for that title, but in my opinion, it was… fine. Not amazing, not bad, just fine. It had a neat presentation, an amazing soundtrack, but its gameplay was average at best, and it was plastered with a truly ludicrous amount of seizure-inducing strobing effects.
Review - Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny (Xbox One)

3 weeks ago | waytoomany.games | Leo Faria

I was wondering how long it would take for Capcom to start remastering the remaining titles of the Onimusha franchise.
Review - Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon

4 weeks ago | waytoomany.games | Leo Faria

Adapting tabletop games to a videogame setting, usually increasing their size and scope, is not exactly a novel thing. One doesn’t need to be reminded that Cyberpunk 2077, now lauded as a masterpiece after CDPR spent its time fixing all of its bugs, is actually based on a tabletop RPG from the 80s. Thus, the videogame adaptation of Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon had potential to become a hit. We’ve reviewed the tabletop game in the past, and gave it a massive thumbs up.
Review - Cubic Odyssey

1 month ago | waytoomany.games | Leo Faria

The core gameplay loop behind Minecraft is so well-put and so iconic it’s actually really hard to make a game based on it without just feeling like a blatant clone. That goes to show how creative and unique that game was, and still is to this day. As a matter of fact, I think Dragon Quest Builders was the only title to truly take the Minecraft formula and create something unique with it… or so I thought until now.
Review - Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freeks

1 month ago | waytoomany.games | Leo Faria

I will be honest with you: as much as I was immediately enamored with the concept of playing a Mad Max-inspired vehicular combat game themed after Warhammer 40,000, and as awesome as it was to see a publisher deciding to remove microtransactions altogether prior to launching the game out of Early Access, I was ready to give Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freeks a woeful score at first.
Review - The Midnight Walk

1 month ago | waytoomany.games | Leo Faria

Man, when I saw the first trailer for The Midnight Walk, I was stoked. Even if adventure games with limited gameplay aren’t exactly the type of title I look forward to the most, the vibes, the setting, the visuals… everything screamed “a playable Tim Burton movie”. I really wanted to give it a go, despite knowing very little about it as a game per se. With it finally out, and after giving it a go, I was definitely very impressed with its absolutely sublime presentation.
Review - Deliver At All Costs

1 month ago | waytoomany.games | Leo Faria

The prospect of yet another original IP published by Konami was already quite interesting in its own, but once I read about Deliver At All Costs and its premise, I found it to be borderline ironic… Konami releasing a story-driven game about doing deliveries in an open world. Sound familiar? Well, thankfully, this is where the similarities between Deliver At All Costs and Death Stranding end, as both titles couldn’t have been more different in terms of tone and gameplay feel.