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a real game... oughta be a little stupid.

2030 Game of the Year. No game will mean more for our future.

I'm Kevin "The Deep" Moskowitz and I approve this message.

Trust me if you had to live in Québec for 18 years you'd also turn out like her.

Mahoyo's one of those stories that I found at the perfect time of my life, but either way I think it's themes would've been relevant for me at any point in my life - that just made me love it even more.
And I genuinely believe that's one of it's main strengths, too - no matter where you are in your life, it's safe to assume you're gonna find yourself in one of the three main characters. It might be a story of 3 weirdo teenagers learning to love eachother - but the stuff they're going through is something just about anyone can relate to and hell, perhaps even differently later on in their life - which makes me really excited to get back to this in a few years and see if anything's changed in that regard.

It's.. absolutely incredible. One of those stories that really has you nodding along to anyone who's ever told you it's great, because goddamn, it really is. There's a lot I'd love to say about it, but I rather keep my reviews spoiler-free - all I'll say is that I can't recommend it enough.

The story, cast and OST are absolutely fantastic, but it's the presentation this game has that stands out to me most. As someone used to older, relatively more basic VN's, it's absolutely mindblowing.

Even 10 years later, it's.. genuinely magical. Can't think of any other way to word it.

This game is so good I am genuinely, really, really fucking tired of praising it


Xen is such an amazing level man

Unarguably the greatest competitive game of all time. You simply can't look at old Flash vs Jaedong sets without feeling like you're in the presence of gods.

The more removed I get from my playthrough of 3rd the more I realize Kevin is a singularly amazing protagonist. I miss him so much.

I've seldom given less thought to a game after finishing it; as soon as the credits rolled I booted up the already-installed CS3 and didn't look back, just kept on going forward, relentlessly.

Icey

2016

Practically all its flaws, including its disappointing meta narrative, shallow implementation of Lovecraftian imagery and lack of any real distinguishing identity are all but rendered void by its ephemeral length and what remains is a satisfying 2D hack and slash with a ridiculously addicting dash system.

I don't have the time to play anything longer at the moment so being able to get the high from beating this in one evening was a real life-saver

This was just a really fun time, classic experience of shouting at friends and trying your hardest not to throw the controller at those backseating your ass from the comfort of their couches. Feels like it'd be sad asf to play on your own tho haha

Whoever changed the cover is going straight to hell