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The amazing world and writing of the Utawarerumono games totally **** me in from beginning to end. The SRPG battles really helped to set in the story, were unique, and never grindy like most others on the market. Absolutely would recommend to people who want a JRPG with writing > gameplay.

This game is extremely boring with an inorganic story that just comes off as anti-establishment, anti-white, and anti-American. It's basically oppression porn for people disconnected from reality who want their beliefs reconfirmed by anything. The graphics are cheap as can be, the music is uninspired, gameplay is minimal, and the voiceover is low-quality. I would only recommend LiS2 to people who want to laugh at it, but ep. 2 and 3 are really slow and low-stakes.

These characters are awful, unlikeable and do not grow. The models are like playdough, the music is unbearable and the story is a big nothingburger where you run errands for terrible people and avoid the parents that are trying to steer you away from drugs and alcohol and try to please a manipulative girlfriend. The worst part is Chloe, who has zero redeeming qualities and 50 reasons why anybody over the age of 21 would hate her attitude.

These characters are awful, unlikeable and do not grow. The models are like playdough, the music is unbearable and the story is a big nothingburger where you run errands for terrible people and avoid the parents that are trying to steer you away from drugs and alcohol and try to please a manipulative girlfriend. The worst part is Chloe, who has zero redeeming qualities and 50 reasons why anybody over the age of 21 would hate her attitude.

Unrealistic, poorly paced, with poor VA and bad storytelling. Good for a laugh at its expense but not much else.

Nexus was just the way for Atlus to make a buck and not have to trash the assets they made for Untold 3. If they actually took the standout labyrinths from EOIII then there would be the Porcelain Forest instead of the Undersea Grotto. This game is also extremely overlong and the strata that are unique to Nexus have all of 2 environments. Seriously, this game has too many plain green forests. Every game has it's introduction forest included. All in all, Nexus just feels like a cobbled together cashgrab in a desperate attempt to reuse assets and squeeze out a few sales from anybody who doesn't have EO burnout. Oh, and if you were expecting Nexus to make improvements on gameplay from EOV, you've been misled.

Berseria is a step in the right direction for the series. Where Zestiria had me doing my best to avoid double-encounters, Berseria made me seek them out. Battling is so much fun and wandering around is so comfy. The story is unique and the characters are funny and interesting. This is easily one of the best Tales games. I hope ToArise is even better!

Ever since version 4.0/the introduction of Main Power Up the meta has been ass. Oftentimes getting splatted is more "who's cheesing the game" than anything else. Even the casual Turf War mode is full of people who waste time slapping the ZR button instead of playing the game. Get rid of snipers and rebalance the game and it'll be great again. See you in Splatoon 3, I'm letting my Switch Online lapse. I have had enough of Salmon Run too, ever since version 5.0 every rotation of that mode has been awful.

It's not unfun but it's altogether lacking as a package. The bulk of what you do is explore and it's just not enough. I'm a fan of Story of Seasons and this is about the equivalent of SoS if you strip away 85% of the content.

I had basically given up on Atelier after playing Shallie, but I've been playing this and I'm excited by how much they really went out of their way to improve in this game. They should stop with yearly releases and keep up the good work they've started with this game.

Way too direct of a remake. Has all the negative holdovers of an older game, without enough positives. A Link Between Worlds (2013) has 5X as much content as Link's Awakening and it's wrapped in a better package. If you were expecting more like ALBW; don't. Link's Awakening itself isn't such a bad game, but it's not 1993 anymore. We don't need straight remakes of 1993 games.

It has good moments and an earnest message, but the whole package is boring and about 90% of dialogue is exposition.

As a big fan of mystery dungeons and big boobies, this is the game for me. I just wish it was longer. This isn't the king of mystery dungeon games, that is still Shiren the Wanderer, this is one of the better one's I've played. The low score is probably from angry twitter users who don't think sex and video games should ever go together.

Pretty fun, there's a bit too much randomness that can break your runs but overall it's a good time.

A fun and quirky game, good lewd artwork and fanservices, decent writing, alright music. People who like weird Japanese games and good anime tiddies are likely to enjoy Moero, my problem with the game would be that the encounter rate is too high, though escaping is quick so it's not a big deal.

It's a good enough game but when you figure out one effective strategy for battle you don't really need anything else. Stay alive and hope the enemies don't out-regen your strategy or shuffle your party too often and you're golden,

More overrated anime tripe from Atlus. Persona games always tackle a controversial topic just enough to get asspats for it then drop it like a ton of bricks or not actually say anything meaningful. Good for waifu-slobbering sexless manchildren and teenagers, but there's not much else.

The only real improvement in this game over Fashion Forward is the much more developed story mode. There's small things but overall this game is a disappointment. If you've played Fashion Forward then there's no real reason to play this one.

A first question one must ask when buying this game: is it more or less expensive than the DS version? The original is perfect as is, making this games was an absolute waste of resources on Atlus's part, though I'm sure it was developed by a B-team to keep the cost as low as possible and rake in as much money as possible from sales.

Sub-par and unnecessary remake of the DS game. Atlus just wants to make quick money off of small-brained fans of their branding and total newcomers to their games instead of making new games.

Incredibly lackluster and middling Etrian game. They tried to change too much while also going back to its roots, which doesn't make much sense from the get-go. The writing is off-tone for the series as well. It seems to have been written by a below-college age fanfiction writer with phrases like "you see this monkey with what can only be described as a **** The music is also very derivative and boring, Koshiro has run out of ideas for this series. The character art is messy and are mostly uninspired, boring-looking headswaps. Battles have too many gimmicks and flat-out the game is unbalanced. All around shoddy design choices.

This game really does not deserve much praise. You go around Japan doing what JPs tells you to do while all sorts of stupid anime characters spaz out around you. The gameplay itself is no better than Overclocked and the writing is worse. How people like this one, I just don't know.

One of the most addicting games I've ever played. Quality of life enhancements smoothe the experience without killing the feel of the game. As ever, these games do a better job at having dating elements than a lot of VNs or Personas or what have you. This is the kind of game anybody can enjoy to one degree or another.

I recommend watching videos of this game before trying it yourself, that said, it is oh so weirdly **** and all characters and *things* that can be made into Miis have been and just taking it easy and going with the flow of Tomodachi Life is truly enjoyable. If you have an active and dramatic imagination for making up stories, this is the game for you.

Play any other 3 Tales games and you'll see what goes wrong in Zestiria. The writing is atrocious, characters are one-note *except* for when their character arc are being barfed out (and later forgotten), the battle system took what they had been building with the Xillia games and made it more obtuse and irritating, aramtization is absolutely broken, playing as a seraph isn't fun because almost all the enemies will resist you, the A.I. is **** and always dies, dungeons are flat and pointless, and the music is the same old boring Tales generica. Play any other game in the series.

Overrated waifu filth. Easy as hell with **** for payoff at the end. Terrible bosses, annoying characters, flat world, and boring school segments. Irritating fetch quests, lame dungeons, ugly graphics, and stupid story pacing. The music has okay tracks. But that's it.

This is a very inventive and unique take on the genre. The environments are flatter than Connie's chest, but the music is amazing, the world is well-built (while still not the very best), and the characters aren't just cut-outs of different waifu stereotypes (well, they kind of are but at least I can't predict everything they're gonna say 5 textboxes before they say it). MeiQ is engaging to the player due to its surprising depth, so I hope people go ahead and try it out!

The writing is absolutely terrible, the gameplay is an improvement, but the narrative is just flat out stupid. Apocalypse basically goes out of its way to push along with a Firnedship is Magic narrative while also pretending to give players choices that mean anything. Any time you take the 'mean guy' choice because a character is just being annoying or whatever, the dialogue flow stutters for only a second before it goes to acting like what just happened did not in fact happen. You can be completely mean the entire game and everybody will be surprised in the end when you pick Dagda's ending. The dungeons are okay, lots of boring rehashes of locations in SMTIV, and the last dungeon will make you curse the game for not having a way of knowing where warps will take you. All in all I don't think it's that great of an experience. The gameplay is only a bit better than SMTIV, and the story is a *lot* worse. Worse, I think, is if you played the two games in succession then SMTIVA would confuse you with retcons and changes while also boring you with the same dungeons and locations.

I was surprised by how great of a pickup this was! I heard it was welcoming to people who aren't good with platformers, and it's been years since I've played one, so I went on a limb and got Fire & Ice. It was immediately fun and engaging. I 100%-ed the game and loved every bit of it. Sonic is the absolute best character and there's no reason to use anybody but him unless you have to switch, and the game is on the shorter side, but I think Fire & Ice deserves the praise of a 10 for making a decidedly positive turn for the series.

Improves over the first game in every way. Great voicework, visuals, tight music, etc. There's less party members but the S & M system and the writing don't make you miss them.

Beautifully refined is what Shiren 5 is. Well-balanced, well-made, wrapped up in an attractively quaint package. All the years of making the Mystery Dungeon series into the best of what it can be shows in this game.

It glitches and lags very often, and it's pretty damn easy. The only difficulty stems from your permanent partner, Kuu. It's pretty good beside that, but I'd only really recommend it to people who have an itch for rougelikes they need to scratch.

Fashion Forward is a bit of a mixed bag. There's a lot more expansion in the items, with the detriment of most of them becoming more pixelated, most everything is made more childish...I dont mind that as much as I mind the lack of draw to keep playing beyond some of the story elements. You don't really get rewards for anything. I love making outfits and the ability to now do people's hair and make-up, but the designer and modeling parts were bare-bones and unnecessary, plus the way you get more colors in your overall palate is by taking photos of random stuff. Yuck. Fashion Forward is a proper sequel, that's how I want to put it. It has some give and take, it needs to be polished more. The game before it can still be seen as better in a lot of ways. It doesn't wholly copy paste and refine Trendsetters, and I wouldn't want it to. I'm satisfied but I want more. If that makes much sense. =P

Operation Abyss is a pretty good game, or it would be if it wasn't bogged down by its atrocious UI. Seriously, almost nothing in this game follows the basic rules of how the simplest of menus should work. Trying to check your status or buying items from the shop will leave you blundering around checking and trying to understand every option. It feels like Operation Abyss tried to be unique, but didn't realize in time why the UI conventions we have exist in the first place. Don't even bother trying to look in the manual for how to do what you're looking to do because you'll be sent in circles trying to understand the ridiculous jargon. The story isn't enough for me, a serial FFWD-er, to pay attention to. The character designs and art direction are just passable, and the battle system is about as senseless as anything else. It being a simple (aka, hard mess up) genre saves it from destruction, and it has its own enjoyable moments, but I'd say to skip it. The frustrations aren't worth it, it's too hard to *really* get into because it is so incomprehensible.

I spent hours and hours on this game. There's so many ways to do things, it's not a matter of easy or hard, it's a matter of designing rooms to the best of your ability and keeping it fresh by changing how you think. I always loved doing my house in Animal Crossing and Happy Home Designer is everything I loved about doing that and more.

I greatly enjoyed playing this game. The story is genuinely interesting and all the choices you have to make can require a good deal of thought. The characters/writing are charming. Everybody has both good and bad sides, and the mushy romance scenes had me laughing, swooning, etc. Great game, and an all right introduction to the genre. It's difficult to get the good endings, but in the end it's worth it.

It fills the voids in the heart of a poor girl like me. Ever since I started playing it I haven't had any of those depressing shopping dreams. Looking forward to playing further installments.

This game is wonderful. A total throwback to Luminous Arc made with lots of love from the original developers of the Luminous Arc trilogy. I don't get why main character death has to be game over for this title, but it doesn't detract TOO much from the experience. Imageepoch really went out with a bang with this wonderful game.

This should be the go-to Katamari game for everybody. It has tons of content, cool music, and some nice bells and whistles. It's not really anything new, it's more like an updated collection, but there's really nothing incredibly wrong with that depending on how you come into it.

It's light on content but it's pretty enjoyable. The controls are at their best for the series, and the new backpad touch thing that lets you change the shape of the Katamari is amazing. Get it on the cheap and play it when you watch TV or something. Not much more to say about Katamari.

This game is brilliant. The party building is wonderful, the dungeons are complex but not *too* difficult, the visuals are great (esp. the pretty grills), the story is interesting, etc. All around a great dungeon crawler any lover of the genre can enjoy. The only complaint I can come up with is that the interface could be quite a bit better.

It makes a lot of small improvements but it makes too many steps backwards to be as good as its predecessors. Dumb story, spongey FOEs and bosses, horrid 5th stratum, unbalanced classes, and an updated soundtrack that disappoints in its remakes of FM songs.

Re;Birth 2 is ultimately better than Re;Birth 1, but it doesn't fix enough of the flaws (ex. not saying where you got a material from within the materials menu, and not detailing enough about items until you already unlock them) to get much praise from me.

I enjoy this game so much. Sometimes it feels as if it's working against you because a character won't offer up the right spells, but I kinda like having stuff out of my hands for once. It allows me to be more adaptive and feel like I'm in a tight spot. That's possible in other games, but Criminal Girls offers a fine take on battle and dungeon crawling.

I very highly enjoy this game. It's like a gift that keeps on giving! Have to take some off for somewhat clunky interface and horribly dumb party AI though.

Everybody always told me this game was complete ass, but I wanted to give it a chance so I popped it in my PS3. What I found was a really good game that gets pulled back by some weird visual presentation and sloppy/ downright lazy animation. There's no denying this, but taking a look at the rest of the game, the battle system is unique and engrossing and playing it I found myself genuinely caring about the main characters and getting involved in the wedding. Oh, and the music. The music was largely composed by Yuzo Koshiro, and as usual for Koshiro, it's pretty great. There are a few lackluster tracks, but they get outweighed by amazing ones. The "dungeons" in the game aren't really special for the most part, but the lighting and coloring can be really striking. Other than that the visuals aren't anything special. The main heroine has a neat design and animates alright (she's the most well done in the game, no surprise there,) but that's really it. Bringing it back to the battle system, it's different from your usual JRPG. You face an enemy one-on-one in real time, alternately shooting from a distance or using a knife in melee combat. It's kind of repetitive, all enemies of the same type pretty much do the same thing, but I find it to be more so engrossing as you have to keep everything in order and be quick on the draw. In a way it's like a real time version of Fate/Extra on the PSP (same developers.) I wish I could use the D-pad instead of the L-stick in battle, but I guess it works fine. As does the rest of the game. I have not encountered a single glitch or bug.

This game is broken beyond belief. Playing it is like trying to keep a marble from rolling off of a board as you're trying to hold it. Sonic 06 is an insult.

Persona Q lacks the music, atmosphere, balance, and party building compared to other dungeon crawlers. The characters barely make up for it, as they are almost all incredibly gross caricatures of what they were in their original incarnations. Atlus tried painting over Etrian Odyssey with Persona and added a few flares to make it better and to make the paint less noticeable, but they failed at recreating what Etrian Odyssey does to make itself amazing, so we have a game that rubs the wrong way in almost every respect. Speaking of respect, Persona Q does not respect the intelligence of it's players. Every time it has an opportunity the characters will launch into a 2 minute conversation just to point out the painfully obvious, like how the spiked floor tiles will damage you or the moving tiles will move you. As if that wasn't bad enough the characters are always announcing every single treasure chest in front of you or telling you that a party member got poisoned in battle. Seriously, nobody playing this game needs this much hand-holding. To compare more to Etrian Odyssey, the F.O.E.s in this game are poorly handled in comparison. They work okay in that they are used to make you seriously consider where you go, but bad in that they have too much HP and give too small rewards for fighting them. In that respect, F.O.E.s are there solely to act as puzzle elements and should never be encountered with the intention of beating and getting good EXP from them or judging your overall power. Persona Q is a poorly executed game in every aspect but its visual design. One more thing, this game has no business having a horror dungeon in it. The Persona series has no horror to speak of, so people will be playing this game and suddenly get to an unannounced serious horror section that is more or less just there because it has to be because spook houses are a cliche of Japanese culture festivals. If you want to have horror, fine, but don't put it in a game whose series is not horror in the slightest. Nobody would have missed it if it wasn't in the game.

This game is really just an amazing ride. It's beautifully executed and wonderfully challenging. The demon negotiation system is at an all-time high for the series, being both as complex and simple as it has to be. Demon alignments play a large role in the gameplay, but don't limit you regardless of what path you take. The characters and story are splendid. They'll make you seriously consider the situation and can change the way you view the world. Atlus' portrait of humanity's downfall, the stress of keeping calm during the mission, and how your crew mates slip away from themselves are a testament to what a video game can achieve. I think this game will serve as an amazing game-changer for people for years to come. It does not hold back in any respect, so players have to be prepared to bite back when picking up this gem.

The dungeon visuals are flat and drab, the demon loyalty system is a pain, Magnetite is just an annoyance, demon fusion limits inherited skills, Zoma fusion is also a pain, heck, most of the mechanics are just a pain in the neck. It's an alright game, but it's definitely the worst MegaTen game I've played. Only get it if you like the series in general.