Lackadaisy
This review contains spoilers
The game is fun for a singleplayer MMO, to the point I platinumed it, but as a Dragon Age game, I can't help but be disappointed with it. Dragon Age II, for all its faults, set up an interesting political conflict between the mages and the templars. I waited years to see it play out in III, and what I was given was absolute trash. It gets wrapped up by the end of the first act with a choice that amounts to little more than an altered finale to the act. Instead of an interrogation of one of the most interesting and complicated factional conflicts in RPGs, itself wonderfully built up over two games, we get a boring power-fantasy where the player becomes God and faces off against an antagonist with the charisma of a toilet paper rack. So, whenever I think of Inquisition, I think more about what it could have been, instead of the serviceable grindfest that we got. Truly tragic.
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.
I played this a few years ago and fell through the floor of the bank elevator. I hadn't been spamming manual saves, so my most recent save that wasn't bugged was many hours behind. So, I abandoned this lackluster follow-up.
2016
Super boring in practically every regard, especially when it comes to the cardboard cutout anime characters. Honestly, at this point, it might be time to retire the immortal corpse that is Final Fantasy.
Delete shrieking legiana, pls
2018
My first Mario Party. It's really fun with friends, but four boards is unacceptably few.
This was my first Metal Gear Solid, what made the franchise one of my favorites, and it's the one that's 50% fan service. Utterly confusing.
2020
For the life of me, I couldn't find the content.
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.
2017
This was my first Pokemon game and I couldn't stop playing once I started. I now understand the series' popularity.
2019
Oh my lord, I cannot adequately explain my hatred of this game's Twitch streaming antagonists.
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.