DeemonAndGames
2015
No matter how much time passes, masterpieces remain masterpieces, and Undertale is one of those games that will go down in the history of the medium as an incredible milestone, a work of art in every sense of the word
2021
I feel like that talking fully about Everhood with the respet it deserves its almost impossible, but I'll try anyway. Some people would call it pretencious, but that would implie that the game pretends to be more than it really is, and Everhood has a lot of interesting things to say. It feels proud to be a videogame, with all that carries: being a happy experience and a sad one, funny and scary, relaxed and challenging... And it tackles the theme of death and how it gives meaning to life, albeit being a pretty common theme in certain movies and books, unlike any other game I've seen.
Does anything I'm saying make sense? I don't know, nor I care, but please, play Everhood, even if you don't end up seing its themes and story the same way I do, it's still a fun an unique experience, on that should be at least tried by everyone.
Also the gameplay it's incredibly fun, challenging and the music is out of this world, I almost forgot to say that
Does anything I'm saying make sense? I don't know, nor I care, but please, play Everhood, even if you don't end up seing its themes and story the same way I do, it's still a fun an unique experience, on that should be at least tried by everyone.
Also the gameplay it's incredibly fun, challenging and the music is out of this world, I almost forgot to say that
2022
The serious technical problems hold back what could have been the best Pokemon entry since Black and White, plus there are some designs problems, such as the map and how the mons interact with the world, but overall, the glitches and poor framerate REALLY stop this game from being something more than ''kinda good''.
Originally, my plan for this review was gonna be making some lame joke and giving the game 5 stars, 'cause at this point I got few to add to the conversation and I didn't want to sound too reiterative... but fuck it. This has become one of my favourites games of all time, so let's give it the respect it deserves.
The Metroid Prime series has always evaded me, it wasn't a matter that I wasn't interested in the games, in fact I'm a huge 2D Metroid fan and had always heard great things about the Prime trilogy, but I never got the chance to get any of the games for the Wii and I never had a Wii U, so my only interaction with the series was playing Prime Hunters on my cousin's DS when I was a kid... and now, Metroid Prime Remastered arrives for the switch, and sufices to say that I bought it as soon as I could, and now here we are.
I wanna start talking about the visuals, since the visual upgrade is whats meant to sell the game to a lot of people, as already practically everyone has said, they are outstandind, especially for the hardware. This is the best Remaster I've played in my entire life in visuals alone, its a huge upgrade, and makes every enviroment, area and enemy feel alive, anf it amounts to a game that seems like it has an entire living world inside of it, and keep in mind, the gamecube original already looked good for the time, but this? This is just incredible. Plus, the new options and the dual stick control scheme make this a really easy game to pick up, with so many ways to play it that everyone can control it at its own like (tho for me the dual stick controls are the best by far).
But those are the changes implemented today, in the year 2023, so the question is, do the mechanichs and design from a game released in 2002 hold u- yes, of course they do.
There are a lot of games that show their age in design alone, Metroid Prime is not one of them. Talon IV is, alongside with places like Hallownest and the Lands-Between , one of the most vibrant and alive world I've seen in any form of media; all of the areas, from the beautiful yet haunting Phendrana, to the agonizing and opressive Phazon Mines, are unique from one another, yet all of them are incredibly well designed and have masterful visual story-telling, anf everything realated to the space pirates blends incredibly well story wise and gives some amazing set pieces. Every enemy and even plants have descriptions, which just adds to the feeling of this being a foreing planet with its own fauna, affected by the influence of the Space Pirates or by the Chozo that inhabitated the planet long ago. Its just amazing and honestly plain surprising that they managed to pull all of this, considering this was the first game of the team at the time and to this day much experienced teams still struggle to pull out this kind of thing.
Gameplay wise, the way Samus moves just feels right, the movement is way slower than its 2D counterpart, but it feel perfect for the 3D enviroment and all of the abilities, visors and beams add both to the way you approach the combat as well as exploration, in fact some upgrades make you travererse more easily the world without the use of violence wich works very well for the themes of the game.
Samus becomes more armed and destructive as the games progresses, but this destruction is only really used against the Pirates and the Great poison that has taken the whole planet like a virus. There's a clear message about imperialism and the perversion that intelling minds can have over the nature, and the contrast between the Chozo and its architechture that seemingly blends with the areas and the metallic and devouring Pirates and the horror of the Phazon its just... perfect, it tells a story both visually and with gameplay, something that all games should strive for.
The game isn't perfect, some boss fights can be a little slow paced the first time around (tho some of them are amazing, especially the final boss, and all of them work very well with the story and messages of the game, and the build up for the major fight is incredible); its true that some of the Chozo artifacts can be a pain to find, even tho some of the were a blast to look out for, to me at least; and honestly, backtracking sometimes could be a little to time-consuming and tedious, and I really belive this game would have benefited greatly with some form of fast-travel.
Not even these otherwise minor nitpicks stain what otherwise has become for me one of the crown achievements of the whole industry, it's not my favourite game, but dam does it come close, its just outstanding. I understand that for some the Metroidvania genre can be a little heavy at times, but trust me, this deserves all of time you can put into it, it's truly a work of art.
The Metroid Prime series has always evaded me, it wasn't a matter that I wasn't interested in the games, in fact I'm a huge 2D Metroid fan and had always heard great things about the Prime trilogy, but I never got the chance to get any of the games for the Wii and I never had a Wii U, so my only interaction with the series was playing Prime Hunters on my cousin's DS when I was a kid... and now, Metroid Prime Remastered arrives for the switch, and sufices to say that I bought it as soon as I could, and now here we are.
I wanna start talking about the visuals, since the visual upgrade is whats meant to sell the game to a lot of people, as already practically everyone has said, they are outstandind, especially for the hardware. This is the best Remaster I've played in my entire life in visuals alone, its a huge upgrade, and makes every enviroment, area and enemy feel alive, anf it amounts to a game that seems like it has an entire living world inside of it, and keep in mind, the gamecube original already looked good for the time, but this? This is just incredible. Plus, the new options and the dual stick control scheme make this a really easy game to pick up, with so many ways to play it that everyone can control it at its own like (tho for me the dual stick controls are the best by far).
But those are the changes implemented today, in the year 2023, so the question is, do the mechanichs and design from a game released in 2002 hold u- yes, of course they do.
There are a lot of games that show their age in design alone, Metroid Prime is not one of them. Talon IV is, alongside with places like Hallownest and the Lands-Between , one of the most vibrant and alive world I've seen in any form of media; all of the areas, from the beautiful yet haunting Phendrana, to the agonizing and opressive Phazon Mines, are unique from one another, yet all of them are incredibly well designed and have masterful visual story-telling, anf everything realated to the space pirates blends incredibly well story wise and gives some amazing set pieces. Every enemy and even plants have descriptions, which just adds to the feeling of this being a foreing planet with its own fauna, affected by the influence of the Space Pirates or by the Chozo that inhabitated the planet long ago. Its just amazing and honestly plain surprising that they managed to pull all of this, considering this was the first game of the team at the time and to this day much experienced teams still struggle to pull out this kind of thing.
Gameplay wise, the way Samus moves just feels right, the movement is way slower than its 2D counterpart, but it feel perfect for the 3D enviroment and all of the abilities, visors and beams add both to the way you approach the combat as well as exploration, in fact some upgrades make you travererse more easily the world without the use of violence wich works very well for the themes of the game.
Samus becomes more armed and destructive as the games progresses, but this destruction is only really used against the Pirates and the Great poison that has taken the whole planet like a virus. There's a clear message about imperialism and the perversion that intelling minds can have over the nature, and the contrast between the Chozo and its architechture that seemingly blends with the areas and the metallic and devouring Pirates and the horror of the Phazon its just... perfect, it tells a story both visually and with gameplay, something that all games should strive for.
The game isn't perfect, some boss fights can be a little slow paced the first time around (tho some of them are amazing, especially the final boss, and all of them work very well with the story and messages of the game, and the build up for the major fight is incredible); its true that some of the Chozo artifacts can be a pain to find, even tho some of the were a blast to look out for, to me at least; and honestly, backtracking sometimes could be a little to time-consuming and tedious, and I really belive this game would have benefited greatly with some form of fast-travel.
Not even these otherwise minor nitpicks stain what otherwise has become for me one of the crown achievements of the whole industry, it's not my favourite game, but dam does it come close, its just outstanding. I understand that for some the Metroidvania genre can be a little heavy at times, but trust me, this deserves all of time you can put into it, it's truly a work of art.
It would require me a ton of paragraphs to talk about everything I want so say of this game, but I'll be brief, as I don't want to spoil anything: It's an agonizing experience, in the best of ways: a haunting work of art, one I'll never forget.
Kirby as a game and a franchise of couse cannot be compared to more narrative and/or challenging experiences, but some games are masterpieces for their own reasons, in this case, Kirby and the Forgotten Land is a beautiful, fun, imaginative 3D platformer that everyone can enjoy, and its level designs makes me wish that Kirby made the 3D jump a long time ago, 'cause this is simply jaw dropping. It's a kids platformer, one full of charm and heart, and one of my favourites platformers of all time
2012
How the hell haven't I done the review of this game yet?! It's one of the best games I played during 2022 by far! Oh well, better late than never I guess, here we go:
Kid Icarus Uprising is not only the (in my opinion) best game on the 3DS, but is genuely the best revival to a franchise that I have ever played. The story is incredible, tho in itself its pretty simple, the sheer amount of chapters and arcs the game is divided make the adventure a lengthy one, and the characters are criminally charismatic and lovable, I really didn't expect going into this that Pit and Palutena would become some of my favourite Nintendo Characters, and the villain one of my favourites in gaming period. The dioligue is whitty and dometimes campy, but in a really charming way, and it knows when to get serious and when to get the fourth wall and be really funny.
The gameplay is what at first scared me, it looked clunky in the ground and a reallyy cumbersome way to control the game, but... no, it takes a bit to get used to, but once it clicks, it's smooth as butter, the boss fights especially are really fun and intense, but just traversing throught both air and land is the most fun I had with handheld game in my life
There was so much love put into this game that is palpable, the amount of content and replayability is insane and its full of surprises in bot its narrative and gameplay, and I didn't get into the amount of side modes and possible builds.
Soooooooo yeah, this is fucking great, I didn't expect it to be this good but I'm really happy that it was, I can't wait to see if it gets some kind of port, or better yet, a sequel that that doesn't take 25 years as Sakurai said. Really recommended, it's really freacking amazing.
Kid Icarus Uprising is not only the (in my opinion) best game on the 3DS, but is genuely the best revival to a franchise that I have ever played. The story is incredible, tho in itself its pretty simple, the sheer amount of chapters and arcs the game is divided make the adventure a lengthy one, and the characters are criminally charismatic and lovable, I really didn't expect going into this that Pit and Palutena would become some of my favourite Nintendo Characters, and the villain one of my favourites in gaming period. The dioligue is whitty and dometimes campy, but in a really charming way, and it knows when to get serious and when to get the fourth wall and be really funny.
The gameplay is what at first scared me, it looked clunky in the ground and a reallyy cumbersome way to control the game, but... no, it takes a bit to get used to, but once it clicks, it's smooth as butter, the boss fights especially are really fun and intense, but just traversing throught both air and land is the most fun I had with handheld game in my life
There was so much love put into this game that is palpable, the amount of content and replayability is insane and its full of surprises in bot its narrative and gameplay, and I didn't get into the amount of side modes and possible builds.
Soooooooo yeah, this is fucking great, I didn't expect it to be this good but I'm really happy that it was, I can't wait to see if it gets some kind of port, or better yet, a sequel that that doesn't take 25 years as Sakurai said. Really recommended, it's really freacking amazing.
1992
It really feels like the first entry on the frachise, fun, but extremely simple, in both mechanics and level design (tho the extra mode is actually challenging).
It's only barely an hour long, so you don't lose anything by playing it, tho I vastly prefer Adventure as an entry point to the franchise.
It's only barely an hour long, so you don't lose anything by playing it, tho I vastly prefer Adventure as an entry point to the franchise.
A really pleasant surprise! Extremely fun and well designed game for the handheld, and its clear that a ton of heart and creativity was put into it. By far the best Game Boy game I've played, what a treat.
2021
What to say at this point, is a masterpiece of the genre. Incredibly well designed (both its areas, bosses and combat), enterntaining, intriging, really scary in the areas with E.M.M.Is (especially in the beggining) and the sensation of progress is the best in the series (at least in the 2D games, that is). It's an absolute gem, one that has to be remember as one of the crown achievements in the metroidvania genre, and a miracle that it ended up being a reality.
2019
Cute and neat visual style, but not much else. it's perfectly functional game, but it's very simple in its the designs, and maybe makes it a perfect introduction to the metroidvania genre, but as it is, it's nothing special on it's own.
2022
What could I possibly say; aside from some technical problems when I first played when it realesed, it's one of the best experieces I've ever have with a game, one of those art pieces that changes a medium: an incredible and living open world, full of misteries, characters and oportunities, simply and outstanding piece of art. I'll admit that it does some things not as good compared to its SoulsBorne borthers, but it's just incredible, and the best thing to come out in 2022 by far.
2021
A really entertaining and cute experience. I loved the visual style, as well as some of the quest, and the amount of different locations and the nice level design realy improve the experience. I am really glad to have chosen this out of the various options in the ''photo-taking'' genre, this was a really fun time.
A short and haunting game, really recommended, but tackles some serious topics and themes, so be weary of that before going in.
The first RPG I've played, tho it wasn't until 2020 that I finally completed the whole way through, and just wow. This is the best pixel art I've ever seen, the most fun that I've ever had with a RPG period, the best of the franchise and my favourite Mario game in general. Its simply an incredible adventure.