riddle me this shatman, what do you get when you combine intelligent systems(fire emblem, advance wars, paper mario), saru brunei(a defunct company that had like 4 games planned but none released but a handprint left on this), and atlus(etrian odyssey, Oh My God!, Karate Kid NES, and that one relatively unknown franchise that i think is about jesus or something, who cares)
as a publisher
with the thumbs up by nintendo

you get.. ...

THAT!...

I GUESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!................

cubivore is immensely fascinating to me as a game because its position as a video game feels like something id play in the twilight years of Roblox before the economy would crash and tix would get axed, but robust (ENOUGH) to feel like it wouldnt Exactly fit in with roblox games. I mean this in a complimentary way ofc,
This game has you going through a variation of a reincarnation mechanic where after your character eats and eats and eats to be top of the food chain and wind up having a huge animal orgy to create a sort of Junior Offspring type fucker to carry on as with a bit more capacity to DO shit

the bulk of this game aint around the environments really but the silly nature documentary esque writing, some of the scoreee and even the weight and feel it is trying to tough it out against enemies thatre bigger than you anD OH. MY. GOD. there's a lot of fuckers thatre gonna be bigger than you out here.... you cant even technically SEE the last bit of content this game has to offer unless you get atleast 100 diff transformations/combinations in this game otherwise unless you lock-in and channel ur inner apex predator i guess...
My saves got fucked up for this though! so even though id already gone through numerous cycles, I feel as though thats close enough. if u dont? thats okay, because i think of 800 games ive played before this i think i can forgive myself for going off a technicality for a game that ultimately got really frustrating by the end and taking a pretty good bit to actually get all my shit in gear for again.. and again.... aaaaaaaaaaaaand again

final thoughts: its a pretty cool survival strategy game COMPLETELY diff from anything atlus OR intsys has ever done really, uhhh its gonna cost u and arm and maybe your kidney to get this shit complete in box, definitely a white whale thing to collect and im sure as shit not gonna be up on those seas hunting it but I enjoyed it ENOUGH to tell you to get up on Dolphin and enjoy it if any of this sounds like your thing :) later bitch

Reviewed on Feb 27, 2024


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