2023

Really great score, great idea, and the best movement system in any game ever!

Playing a Ubisoft style Open World thing without being bogged down by SYSTEMS is just really chill! I'm sure the story is great but I lost interest in it so quickly sadly.

Won't win any awards but it's just really... nice! (Also it's obvs got a great Dev story behind it)

Good fun! Quite satisfying but I've hit a roadblock near the end of the game and I think the game wants me to minmax so I'm boosting.

There's a really interesting thing here where you can connect your game to your Twitch stream and the more subs you get, the better boosts you get. But you can literally input anyone's Twitch. So if you REALLY want to, you can speed up a lot of the game by connecting to xqc. Sure it's cheating but SO FUN to see everything come in.

Really great! I never thought I would but I actually got good at the combat!

Was gonna go for the 1000G but the trophy list is really stupid so I'll be back at some point.

Still great (and I'm getting faster)

This would be such a great first Yakuza game if the story wasn't basically Avengers Endgame.

Short and sweet! Probably my least favourite of the ones I've played so far but that's just because it was a lot shorter and felt like something to tide us over before Infinite Wealth.

Great ending too!

Took me ages to review this but yeah it's really good obviously. Think I had too high expectations that it didn't meet but this was such a joy to play.

Also has one of the funniest moments of the year it came out (First time trying to get the Master Sword)

2023

Absolutely beautiful game, the story is 100x better than the gameplay but you can literally almost smell the food so I'll excuse it.

Release the cookbook DLC!

Really simple but really fun! Managed to get the Platinum in 3 hours and had a blast. Probably will never go back to it though. Think a roguelike/incremental mode could have been great!

The 3.4 average here is crazy I'm sorry. Just did not like anything here which is such a shame after that long buildup. Story is eh and none of the jokes did anything for me. But the combat couldn't save it. Genuinely feels like it could have came out in 2016. Dying Light exists!!!

I really love this. Just a super simple gameplay loop paired by likeable characters and a decent story. The score is incredible too and I'm really excited to play Thirsty Suitors purely for the score!

Think I prefer it to the first game but it didn't do much for me to be honest, really like the different environments and the puzzles have improved I think.

Also even if the story falls slightly flat for me, I really appreciate that they TRIED. Kinda feels like if they had a bigger budget then this could be an all timer.

However I do kinda wish this was just a linear game. No spoilers but there's a small section where you play as another character and it's an on rails linear section and is quite clearly the best part of the game.

Feels clunky at times which is a huge issue but otherwise it feels great + looks great. Absolutely stunning game.

Jacob Geller says the story is good too but there were far too many notes for me to read. Liked the basic Journey-esque stuff though

I think the combat is quite bad and would honestly prefer if this was a proper narrative game but everything else is absolutely amazing and the fact you can actually feel that it was made by humans is incredible. Such a triumph in so many ways. Really excited to play the NG+ and the DLC's that will be coming out.

Won't lie I teared up at all the messages from the devs in the credits, what a game!

This was really cool but I was expecting so much more! Kinda reminded me of Cult of the Lamb where everyone was raving about it, but because I play so many incremental games, this was just another one of those to me! Fun to see big budget (relatively) ones though!

Just really really didn't like this. A step down in almost every way for me. Can't really explain WHY I feel this way, but now I'm not looking forward to 3.