Incredible mood, tight combat, punishing but rarely feels unfair until you get into the late game. Its themes of stagnation and thematic moulding are really interesting and well-executed. Just an all-around stellar action RPG
I played maybe a dozen hours of this game, and while fighting with your team was fun, it had a lot of holes. Some of the advancement systems like items and power-ups were not intuitive, and it demanded coordinaion with your team in a way that i didn't often find very satisfying. Had fun with it for a little while, but was pretty content leaving after too long
I really want to give this game a 9, it's strengths are unbelievably strong. The nature of its language-decoding puzzles, its sense of exploration both of new moons and the ancient past, the rich art direction and voice acting, its really astounding. It's gotta the best space-archeologist game out there as far as actually feeling like you're peeling back layers of history to get to the truth of things. BUT the game's painfully slowwalking speed and sometimes-awkward camera controls really limit the down time in between language puzzles, to the point that it can be hard to stay interested as you do minor work. Will almost certainly play again.
A strong central story with consistent and universal themes, a really great and varied expansion to the pokedex roster, interesting characters with their own motivations, and a lush and expansive region to explore. They say your favorite pokemon gen is your first, and this was mine. It has some gaps that later get plugged and improved on in emerald, but is still an excellent game
Really clever little game! It hides its secrets well, and youre always finding either pages or routes that are incredibly useful but were always there all along. Combat is simple but fun, has a really lovely aesthetic, and is just generally a good fun game.
It's oblivion, which is awesome remastered pretty well! It has most of the strengths of oblivion, its far more beautiful than the original ever was, and it has great quality of life features.Includes all the DLC so was good value over the top. It does inherit the same weaknesses though of somewhat mindless combat and repetitive dungeons, and loses points for originality
The aesthetic of this game is incredible, surfing on dunes of sand and snow never gets old and feels amazing. The story is simple and beautiful, but ends a little abruptly. The sense of speed and momentum you get in this game is wonderful, and turning deserts into seas is always a breathtaking experience.
This game is rich with potential that will unfortunately never be reached due to abandonement by the devs. The concept **** gardener is brilliant, and watching the beautiful portraits advance through the ages and develop both culture and technology in unique ways is a lot of fun. However, the moment to moment gameplay is simple and slowed down by an awkward control scheme, many of the choice results are strictly cosmetic (and textual at that), and the game is poorly balanced so certain end states are far too common. There's stuff here to enjoy in brief bursts, but ultimately potential alone is not enough to carry what's here
An awesome, simple roguelike with a killer power fantasy. While it can be slow to start, once you get some permanent upgrades and unlock some weapons, your character goes absolutely mad with power as you cut through hundreds of enemies at a time. Its pretty simple mechanically, but it has a surprising amount of depth to the maps and weapon combinations. Good fun that's easily worth its low price point.
A fantastic mobile game. Love the roguelike elements and the creativity of the jokers means that you are often finding and putting together strange combos. Sometimes cards are simple and striaghtforward, others are obtuse and weird, but both are equally useful. Its a well balanced roguelike with entrancing VFX that just **** you right into the experience for hours at a time. Good for a few rounds while waiting for an appointment or for diving in for hours at a time.
Really fun and satisfying 3d platformer. It looks and feels so smooth, and while normal collectathon levels are relaxing and creative with some amazing concepts, the challenge levels are difficult enough to keep things interesting. The game has a surprising amount of mechanics so the gameplay feels fresh, and movement mechanics have a great flow to them. Soundtrack is forgettable bar one or two tracks and character cameos get a bit old, but the bots have character! Definitely recommend, and will probably play again
A beautiful and creative puzzle game about gravity and perspective. Levels that all loop back upon themselves make for really creative traversal and problem solving. It has a beautiful geometric aesthetic that borders on gothic or brutalist sometimes. A very elegant short game that ends just as it starts to overstay its welcome
High quality platformer full of secrets! The mechanics are simple but they're widely applicable so a lot of hunting for the game's many secrets is a matter of puzzling out your own solution. The atmosphere and art of the game is amazing. That said, the map is absolutely godawful and some of the late game puzzles/secrets are absurdly obscure. The game overstays its welcome in a big way once you get into the super-lategame.
This game has the most beautiful aesthetic, I love the vibrant deserts and the architecture within it. The drop-in-drop out anonymous multiplayer is incredible, and my first playthrough created a stronger connection with a stranger than most other games ever come close to.
I haven't played this game in many years, but I recall it having fun platforming and an interesting setting.b I loved the ruined kingdom environments, and I like the dynamic between the main and supporting character. The main character is a little bland, and the game is ridiculously easy, but its enjoyable! I like how the platforming in each level changes depending on what levels you've completed
This game really caught me offguard, its an excellent metroidvania with fluid traversal, a huge map full of useful collectibles and challenges, and fun combat. It scales a little strangely: the platforming difficulty spike is huge while combat doesn't really grow from the early game, while the narrative is a bit unfocused and straight up forgets about a character, and bosses are (mostly) forgettable. But for 80% of the game it is addicting and fun. The real star is the platforming and the enormous map, coupled with a ton of great QOL changes.
It's an interesting visual novel with novel and creative characters, and the writing rarely feels immersion-breaking. It's ultimately not that memorable and its adult aspects do end up feeling like they hold it back to some degree, but if you're into visual novels this one is still worth your time
Amazing soundwork and incredibly novel controls, but not much depth. It doesn't feel like it reaches its full potential. The world portrayed is imaginative and well-realized, but the story is disappointingly vague. You really get invested in the mystery of the world and the journey but it falls flat delivering on that mystery. It's also a short game for 25$, fun to play but not sure its worth the value. You can play with a little blue buddy though!
It's an adorable little game with some simple but fun mechanics. Characters are interesting but grounded, and the story has a deceptive amount of heart. It's worth playing, especially for the finale and the veiws that come with it, but while a quality game it doesn't have that much going on
Snappy gameplay and a setting that oozes style and character. This is just an excellent metroidvania that's a lot of fun to play through. The soundtrack games and gameplay, particularly traversal, is unexpectedly engaging
Fun and challenging metroidvania. It's unique style really puts it ove rthe top. Gameplay is satisfying, from combat to traversal, but gets increasingly punishing to the point where I stopped enjoying the game in late-game areas. It doesn't need to be any easier, but I think the controls should be a little tighter.
Overall good for some fun. It has a charming style, its collectibles are fun to puzzle out, and its map design is decent and interconnected. Overall though it just completely failed to grab me, some maps are way better than others to play and the powerup mechanics are mediocre. i suspect that 3d platformers just aren't for me.
It's a pretty good game that overstays its welcome. Combat and traversal feel amazing, I have a ton of fun just swinging around interrupting crimes. However, they never really evolve over the course of the game, fights play out nearly the same way 20 hours in as they do 5 hours in. Audio design is top notch, and visually the game is gorgeous aside from some uncanny valley. All of this is doing its best to carry one of the emptiest, most nonsensical stories I've ever played. It's really bad, to the point it reminds me of mid-2000s shovelware. The gameplay carries it well, but there isn't enough side content to make avoiding the main story viable.
I did enjoy this game somewhat when I played it, but it's also the game that taught me jrpgs are not for me. The turn-based combat was fun and worked for me, but the environments were bland, characters forgettable, and story exceptionally standard.
It's a running game. It gets credit for being among the first to modernize the genre onto phones, but ultimately its straightforward and lacks real depth. It will keep you coming back until eventually you realize there are easier and better ways to fill time on the go.
It's simple and straightforward, but a super fun arcade game nonetheless. It lacks for content, but the gameplay loop is satisfying enough to keep you coming back when you have time to kill on the go.
The game is absolutely beautiful, the voice actors great, and the combat is vivid and exciting. The plot is interesting when it's progressing, but moves at a glacial pace with tons of pointless and boring downtime between story beats. The huge maps are lifeless with little of value worth exploring for, and combat never really progresses or deepens from it's early parts.
Genuinely had an absolute blast with this game. playing with my brother, aiming for high scores, and being introduced to a lot of classic and contemporary rock as a teenager... this game had a lot going for it and deserved its reputation at the time.
This was revolutionary for its time, taking the tamagotchi formula and expanding it into adorable digital dogs. Nowadays it isn't anything fancy, many of its mechanics are considered basics of "pet minigames," but that's because the formula here was so solid. The dogs had real character and it was fun to take care of them, which is really all you can ask for
Classic for a reason. Timeless music, reactive gameplay with creative puzzles and combat do to the "absorb" mechanics, and a smooth difficulty curve culminating in a satisfying boss fight! I might rate it higher if I could remember it better.
This was the king zoo tycoon for over a decade for a reason. It isn't the most complex game, but it gives you a tremendous amount of options for large, expansive, diverse, and humane zoos. Combined with the marine and prehistoric expansions, it really allowed your imagination to run wild with animal exhibits. It's mostly held back by limitations in actual park design, which felt very lacking compared to enclosure design
Fantastic game good for hours of fun. The level of creativity it offers is surprising to this day, and it deftly combined sims-like studio management with the creation of actual in-game movies! To this day I am impressed with the amount of options it gave you, i think someone older and more experienced could create some really interesting projects in it. But it is a little limited in gameplay depth, and the movie options you have are a mile wide but six inches deep.
If there's any one game that got me into video games it's Halo: Combat Evolved. But if there's two games, its that one and LEGO Island. It was simple, it was straightfoward, but it also blew my mind as a kid and is iconic for a reason!
I remember this game fondly. It was a good time as a kid and I made it quite far, but ultimately it lacks meaningful gameplay depth and was very difficult (as gba platformers of the time tended to be.) It's forgotten for a reason, it's largely just shovelware on the platformer trend, but it wasn't entirely without merit!
Absolutely timeless, a banger of a racing game that is fantastic solo but especially with friends. The tracks feel amazing, power ups arewell balanced, and different racer classes hadmeaningful differences in handling. An all-time-great party game
I remember this game having a great sense of speed, pretty decent characters and style, but ultimately not having the depth or sticking power to keep me playing for long
Very high quality arcade hockey game. It's just fun to play, it doesn't take itself too seriously but doesn't compromise much on satisfying gameplay with some depth. The custom team looks never got old, sharks vs velociraptors all day!
Absolutely fantastic RPG with an obscene amount of quality quests, build depth, and exploration to do. The magic customization and high-quality DLCs really stand out, as do the variety of quest lines and howthey expect you to play. What holds the game back from a 10 are it's pretty monotone environment and that it's visuals haven't aged well at all
It has all the ingredients for greatness but it's underbaked. It tells an engaging story, provides flexibility in relationships, and has great questing content. I love how reactive the world is to your choices. But the the third act is over in a flash and the simplified magic system is forgettable
It's fun but it hasn't aged very well. The gameplay is basic and the visual style is sometimes almost painful to look at. But it does retain a lot of its unique charm and setting and it isn't offensivelydull.
The best cRPG I have played in a long time, the way it presents it's story cinematically hasn't been seen since the Dragon Age days and I've never seen a game react to and accommodate player actions like this one does. The world feels alive in a rare way. Character and quest writing is superb, and turn-based combat is addicting and so much fun. Highly replayable. Only held back by significant bugs, crashes, and framerate issues.
It's okay. The art style and music are the clear standouts, and I love the concept, but it feels underbaked. Cult management and combat are fun but the game lacks any of the real depth to **** me in. It has all the right building blocks, there just aren't enough of them to create a really great game.
Short and sweet. Mechanically simple but tells a really engaging mystery with a lot of style and substance. The gameplay of putting together details to figure out what happened to everybody is inspired, The game also has a unique sense of style that works really well and leaves a strong impression. Some of the puzzles are extremely difficult to solve naturally tho, and the game starts to overstay its welcome near the end
Very weird platformer with an unusual design style and sense of humor. It can be pretty difficult but I love the messaging and the personality it has, and its long fun and challenging!
Its a fun novelty but there isn't much substance and after a few hours youll move on to a better balanced, more intuitive, better designed game. Its a fun cash-in game and that's about it.
I really do not like anime stuff, I think it tends to be cliche. This game really surprised me, I went in very skeptical, expecting to the game to be a vehicle for lootbox characters. And it was, but what surprised me was that the heart of the game was actually in the world and the gameplay. It offers a world that is genuinely fun to explore, and the rapid character swapping creates a really interesting and dynamic combat system that you are always adjusting. I played all the way to the end of the release content before i had my fill, and I haven't been back. I know a lot has been added and I won't speak to anything since, but if you're like me and expecting an empty gatcha money pit, know that there's actually a really solid game in here that is lovingly constructed.
I think this game sits in an interesting niche, agents can radically change the way you play but at the end of the day there's no substitute for quick reflexes, good aim, and situational awareness. The ttk is too high for my tastes, but i love the creativity in agent design and i like the carry potential.
Good for a few rounds occasionally but the strategy around positioning is hard to grasp and RNG can be extremely punishing or beneficial. Not usually so much so that it feels unfair, but not never either.
This game lives and dies by the quiet moments of tension when you aren't sure if youre alone, and the sudden bursts of violence and noice when you realize you aren't. Its a riveting gameplay pattern and with a variety of vehicles and tools to use rounds always feel different. I was terrible at this game but still a lot of fun with friends.
