My first experience with The Legend of Heroes series and damn, what a game.

If you're looking for a fresh JRPG with some of the best writing, this is what you want. Literally every NPC has thought-out dialogue that changes throughout the game, making the world that much believable. No more ignoring every person because they blabber on about nonsense. I made an effort to talk to everyone to make sure I didn't miss a thing.

I also think this has some of the best character development in JRPGs when it comes to the party. Learning about small details of the crew and seeing them bloom and grow in a playthrough made seeing their individual growths and journeys that much more impactful. I'm also finding it hard to pick a favorite character as I've grown to love them all.

As for the story, obviously can't say much, but starting as a lil rag-tag group of people helping around the small town to evolving into the final moments in the game is batshit crazy.

Anyways, go play this. It's far worth the sixty hours-ish. I promise 😘

In my opinion, this isn't the best step forward for the new generation of Silent Hill. I think if this game didn't have the Silent Hill title on it, it would be a fine indie horror game. Granted, I also wouldn't of thought highly of it still, but I don't think I'm the target audience for it.

The Short Message deals with a teenage girl who suffers from some pretty serious mental health issues, so as a 31 year old dude, I find it difficult to talk about since I've not been in the same situation as the one portrayed in this game.

I think they laid it on quite thick with really hammering it home this girl has some issues. To a point where the elements of the story becomes a little hokey because they're not giving the player any credit. I don't need thousands of sticky notes with words like LOSER, DUMB, SLUT, LONER, etc to get the point that she doesn't think too highly of herself. I can gather that by the way she holds herself, how she thinks, etc. and that's really my main complain here. The themes are so in your face 24/7 that the value of learning about the darkness of this girl's mind and her hardships are lessened, to an extent.

The beauty of Silent Hill for me is how well story elements are portrayed in the environment, enemies, situations, etc. You can always pick up something new you didn't see or notice with additional playthroughs. I will never play this game again and if I did, I don't think I'd get anything out of it.

Lastly, the combat is just running away from a dude in narrow hallways with slight rng or poor patterns (I can't tell tbh). These parts suck and they've nothing of note.

Overall, for a free game, it could be worse. For the first new game in a beloved franchise since 2012, it's abysmal.

I didn't realize how much Resident Evil DNA is within the first Onimusha game, but now it is one of my favorites! Between the puzzle-solving and navigating a dense map, this really feels like the developers went "What if Resident Evil was set in feudal japan?". The game is originally from the PS2 and has all the elements that comes with that, which I personally love.

Overall, definitely a fantastic experience and I wish the other entries on the Onimusha series stayed with this formula, but they did not.