it do be fun tho
sometimes I feel like I get a little dizzy from trying to follow the upcoming buttons though

the antithesis to "they don't make 'em like they used to" of anime fighters. they do, they're just a bit harder to find.

I just really fucking like playing yuzuriha, man
her weird slide and hold shit just appeals to me for some reason

I like da fish

imagine making a melee character in a shooty game and NOT making said character trash, revolutionary

difficult but fair platforming and quick retries upon death make for a game that makes me never want to give up. also god tier soundtrack.

it's aight but I don't really believe it was necessary to gut character movesets to make a tag game. not to imply the game doesn't have sauce but, it's undeniably less than it could have.

the only reason I can't give this a full 5 star rating is I really have a strong distaste for horror in general and I do not enjoy the meta spooky moments whatsoever. but for everything else I love the game to death and toby fox's humor lines up with mine perfectly.

very good music

gameplay balance wise it felt like a wildly teetering seesaw between various elements, including the difficulty, trying to avoid blatantly overpowered chips, an extremely generous dodge maneuver, and being under/overleveled depending on how many sidequests you do. I never found myself hitting a sweet spot or feeling satisfied with the combat personally, and most bosses were just alright. I never felt like I was compelled by an encounter to play in a more interesting way than just dodging and smackin dudes with my lil crit sword, and all I got out of turning the difficulty up was being punished harder to an annoying degree whenever I'd react to an attack cue slightly too late, rather than not changing my playstyle.

I don't really have anything to say about the story. I had trouble following things as I couldn't get myself as invested in the characters as much as I did when playing NieR: Gestalt, and sort of checked out on the B ending playthrough until I decided to amuse myself by getting through it by using exclusively hacking in every combat situation.

some good ass mods, some fun old times in RP servers when I was a kid.

fucking based, but if you REALLY want a good time (especially if you've already played through the game) you absolutely should do yourself the favor of playing with the "One Vision" mod. the balancing is greatly improved and it provides more viable options for building characters.

I liked 2d sonic when I was a kid but to be honest now I only enjoy the music of 2d sonic games. Freedom Planet though? love the music AND the gameplay.

while it is jank and a lot of the enemy attacks feel kinda bullshit in how hard it is to react to them, when you really take full advantage of the game's mechanics (the cancel mechanic in particular) it can make it difficult for enemies to even get a hit on you. actually has a good amount of combo flexbility, though boss design is kinda wack and the way enemies can literally instantly grab you with no time for you to react whatsoever is extremely rude design. still fun regardless, especially messing around in training mode.
I often see comparisons to fighting games but I'd say it most resembles a platform fighter in the way it handles, as there are normals to cover each direction (including nair, fair bair, and the up air and all) though the special cancels are something seen less often in the more prominent platform fighters.

all I wanted was amber c2
I did everything available and threw every free primogem at wishes and got two 5 stars I wasn't even looking for only to get enough glitter for amber at the very end of running out of content to squeeze gems out of

I got amber c2, and she still sucked
b r u h

been playing just short of a decade, and this game has been worth it even before arks layer had everything translated. and then they went all out on keeping this game translated and easily playable for overseas players year after year anyway, arks layer is absolutely based

if I'm to say anything about the game itself, it's that it does "action combat" better than the rest of them with the only other notable runner up being dragon's dogma online (rip).