Lackadaisy
2020
Cute game that desperately needs more content. As is, it feels like its missing 70% of the finished product. Regardless, it was a fun Animal Crossing-esque experience that I got for free via Xbox Games with Gold.
I tracked my deaths to Sister Friede. She mercilessly killed me 43 times, giving her a higher kill count than practically any other boss in a Fromsoft game. Never once did a death make me feel cheated. Each time, I felt more inspired to get my ass handed to me. It was my destiny to kill her. Every minute I spent fighting her felt like a dance against death - a beautiful battle against my selfish hubris. My heart pounded whenever I inched closer to seeing her die by my hand. I first fought her before beating the base game, and yet I didn't beat her until two days after I beat the Soul of Cinder. Sister Friede is a landmark when it comes to Fromsoft bosses.
I paid $5.00 for this and Sims 4 physically on Xbox One. Because of this, I enjoyed my time with the content. It's just a vacation world themed after Star Wars. It probably shouldn't be in the Sims 4, but, hey, it's fun content if you can find it on clearance at your local Walmart. Otherwise, it's overpriced like all the other game packs and its new additions only go so deep.
The best dialog in gaming, period.
2016
I have tried to beat this game twice. Both times I reached the halfway point. It's not that this game is bad or has any real issues, it's just that it doesn't hit as hard as Persona 4 did for me. I'm not a fan of the JRPG genre and I have only played a few to completion. Persona 4 hit differently, at a time in my life where it was just what I needed. The small-town nature of 4 paired with its intoxicating friendship hit home for me, while 5 fell flat both times. It's just harder to relate or care about "outcasts" who happen to be quite privileged. They're good characters, but their dynamics and struggles just aren't as relatable to me as, say, Chie's and Yukiko's friendship or Kanji's identity crisis and Ryuji isn't as likable a fool as Yosuke. Even with the jaw-droppingly beautiful aesthetic of 5, which is the best in the series, it just hasn't been enough to rope me entirely into its hundred hour adventure. I understand why others enjoy it so much, but for me it doesn't live up to the PS2 version of Persona 4.
The game makes very clear within the first ten minutes that your choices mean nothing and it doesn't care about your input.
The second half of the first game. If you buy it physically, you get both it and the original, which makes it one of the best deals around if you like generic JRPGs with nice looking armor. Just make sure to level Leonard as much as possible before the finale.
It plays both like a game from 2007 as well as Naughty Dog's first foray into realism, and for what it is, it gave us some amazing follow-ups.
2015
I've played worse mobile games.
2004
The quintessential Gmod experience is not being able to see some rando's anime waifu skin but instead getting a giant red error. It is, in a word, peak roleplay.
2020
For the life of me, I couldn't find the content.
Scored this cheap with all of its DLC as of October 2021 and the game felt full and was very enjoyable as a simulator. However, I would have been incredibly underwhelmed if I had just gotten the base game, what with there only being two maps and no ATVs.
This game probably doesn't deserve five stars on a technical level, but, there just ain't no greater feeling than mercilessly slaughtering hordes of my enemies all so I can establish an empire doomed to collapse to micromanaging.
2008
Got this before Warband so it was awesome, and back in the day the Star Wars mod only worked with it.
Better than Skyrim, but back when I played it the game was so buggy that I had to clip through the map to force a main quest to work, and even then it failed and I had to use another console command to force complete it. Besides that, it's Skyrim except the characters don't suck, the story is engaging, and it requires a tiny bit of brainpower to play.