Lorazx
2024
I'm going to fucking cry.
This is everything I wanted. Persona 3 is the best of the modern Persona games, and this is the best way to experience it. It completely changed my life when I played it for the first time, and it's still one of the greatest experiences I've had with games.
Play it. It's worth it.
This is everything I wanted. Persona 3 is the best of the modern Persona games, and this is the best way to experience it. It completely changed my life when I played it for the first time, and it's still one of the greatest experiences I've had with games.
Play it. It's worth it.
2011
Janky tank controls aside, this game has definitely earned its rep as one of the best games of all time. Loved every moment, never felt overwhelmed, and the gameplay really sealed the deal.
PC ver has some weird FoV issues, but otherwise, this is a banger.
PC ver has some weird FoV issues, but otherwise, this is a banger.
2024
I played this on Gamepass and I still wanted my money back. Completely soulless piece of nothing made of the stitched together parts of other games, Palworld is made for streamers and people who are deeply obsessed with 'owning' Nintendo at the expense of taste or integrity.
Seriously, if you want to play a not-Pokemon Pokemon game just go and play Digimon. It's right there.
Seriously, if you want to play a not-Pokemon Pokemon game just go and play Digimon. It's right there.
I still really like this duology, but I just can't get past the constant long-ass grinds and kinda whatever story. If you've never played this before and you're upset at Game Freak or whatever I do recommend this, but it is hard for me to play again, even considering how difficult I find replaying things.
Gomamon best mon, btw.
Gomamon best mon, btw.
I want VV to read me poetry while she- huh?
Uh, really, really bad combat and the necessity of a unofficial patch mars this otherwise brilliant CRPG. Come for the writing and vibes, enable god mode for everything else.
Uh, really, really bad combat and the necessity of a unofficial patch mars this otherwise brilliant CRPG. Come for the writing and vibes, enable god mode for everything else.
Not nearly as bad as other people might say, but it is still completely pointless. Nothing of value was gained or lost, other than maybe some slight QoL changes. Went in one ear and out the other.
Bobble-head Cyrus is hilarious.
Bobble-head Cyrus is hilarious.
2023
Minus some floaty combat and uninteresting bosses, BRC is easily my fav game of 2023. Stylish and exciting, this is what JSR is in the minds of those who played it, including myself.
Hope we come back to this world another time.
Hope we come back to this world another time.
TBD
Not oging to rate this since it's only got a second demo out, but from what I've played this might soon be my fav Disco Elysium-like.
Fun writing, great music and a evocative art style had me hooked for the half an hour the demo took to play. Looking forward to this greatly.
Fun writing, great music and a evocative art style had me hooked for the half an hour the demo took to play. Looking forward to this greatly.
2016
While I initially had issues with the movement making me feel sick, once I got the hang of it I realized that this is easily one of the best shooter campaigns in recent memory. It short, sweet and action-packed, and even managed to make me fall in love with a giant robot.
I can't speak for the multiplayer, but I'm sure it's just as much fun.
I can't speak for the multiplayer, but I'm sure it's just as much fun.
2022
What's here is super cool, and it's easily my favourite of the post-Harvest Moon farming sims (it beats out Stardew with it's ease of introducing concepts and appealing artsyle) but Jesus Christ this thing should not have released as a 1.0.
At least on Series S, it's buggy, prone to crashing, laggy, and there are numerous features and plots that just aren't finished. I understand wanting to release this, whether due to pressure from the publisher or the increasing demand for a finished game after a long period of early access but like, what is this? Who would willingly spend money on this if they hadn't already?
At least on Series S, it's buggy, prone to crashing, laggy, and there are numerous features and plots that just aren't finished. I understand wanting to release this, whether due to pressure from the publisher or the increasing demand for a finished game after a long period of early access but like, what is this? Who would willingly spend money on this if they hadn't already?
2023
A really cool rpg/rhythm game about making up for your previous life mistakes. Had some issues with the skateboarding sections being a little clunky and the lack of unique locations, but the decently fun combat, stellar art style and really great character writing made up for it.
A decently charming B-Level romp from Platinum that captures the charm of the original G1 cartoon. I wish the weird mini-game esque sections didn't exist, and the backtracking could get kind of annoying, but the combat felt great so I'm inclined to forgive.
2023
Not going to lie I don't know about this one. I think if you're a real diehard for this genre, Bloodborne especially, and are willing to put aside some really baffling design choices (enemy patterns, system decisions, etc) and at best mediocre writing, aesthetics and performances I'm sure you'll get something out of this.
A little note about parries in soulsbornes:
I understand wanting to do a parry system, Sekiro is cool and great and that parry is crucial to it, but this and Wo Long both miss the core aspect of it feeling extremely satisfying to actually do. In DS, a parry is met with a sound effect with some weight, a noticeable stagger and attached opening for a cool finisher. In Lies of P, we instead get the perfect block system, which is close, but the payoff is a red light, a kinda-muted klang, and then a stagger that requires a follow up attack (that can miss and still lets the enemy attack you) and then ANOTHER attack, which for me at least sometimes didn't work. All of this for a limp canned animation. The payoff just isn't there, and that's kinda demonstrative of this game as a whole; cool stuff, but the payoff is missing or limp.
A little note about parries in soulsbornes:
I understand wanting to do a parry system, Sekiro is cool and great and that parry is crucial to it, but this and Wo Long both miss the core aspect of it feeling extremely satisfying to actually do. In DS, a parry is met with a sound effect with some weight, a noticeable stagger and attached opening for a cool finisher. In Lies of P, we instead get the perfect block system, which is close, but the payoff is a red light, a kinda-muted klang, and then a stagger that requires a follow up attack (that can miss and still lets the enemy attack you) and then ANOTHER attack, which for me at least sometimes didn't work. All of this for a limp canned animation. The payoff just isn't there, and that's kinda demonstrative of this game as a whole; cool stuff, but the payoff is missing or limp.
2023
This is so deeply whatever. Bethesda has managed to find a way to tell a story about the beauty of discovery and space while making the actual exploration of space so deeply boring and tedious all at once, what an achievement.
Space traversal is a loading screen and fast travel nightmare, the environments manage to be completely empty and yet somehow so cluttered it's hard to move around, necessitating the need for a detective vision, which is... certainly a thing in the game you can use, no matter how completely useless it is otherwise. The menus are unbelievably cursed as well, a maze of layered clunk that make inventory management a pain, which is unfortunate because doing inventory management is about 50% of my playtime. Also why is there crafting? What's even the point?
The writing is bland and the characters were mostly boring and flat, with kinda whatever voice acting. I liked Sarah a good amount, and Barrett was okay, but otherwise the characters could've just been signposts for quests and I would've gotten the same experience. My real issue is that there's no RPG in the RPG. You go through the whole process of deciding a backstory and all it amounts to is a single dialogue prompt every few hundred conversations and a minuscule % bonus to skills that didn't even feel useful or apparent (e.g. having high persuasion didn't make persuading people easier, it just meant that the system that randomly decided if I won or not sometimes didn't matter at all). Dialogue is just clicking 'yes' or 'yes (but ooh aren't I a scamp!)', because saying no doesn't actually lead anywhere interesting. Sidequests are going to a place and fighting some dudes, which you think would be different for the main quests, but it's not.
I know that some people are going to say that this is all the Bethesda charm, and that the gameplay stuff will be fixed with mods. But if it wasn't for gamepass I'd be spending $100 on this, and even if it wasn't, why should I have to wait for other people to fix the game for the devs? Skip this unless you can't imagine a world without 'Fallout 4 but with even less personality somehow'.
Space traversal is a loading screen and fast travel nightmare, the environments manage to be completely empty and yet somehow so cluttered it's hard to move around, necessitating the need for a detective vision, which is... certainly a thing in the game you can use, no matter how completely useless it is otherwise. The menus are unbelievably cursed as well, a maze of layered clunk that make inventory management a pain, which is unfortunate because doing inventory management is about 50% of my playtime. Also why is there crafting? What's even the point?
The writing is bland and the characters were mostly boring and flat, with kinda whatever voice acting. I liked Sarah a good amount, and Barrett was okay, but otherwise the characters could've just been signposts for quests and I would've gotten the same experience. My real issue is that there's no RPG in the RPG. You go through the whole process of deciding a backstory and all it amounts to is a single dialogue prompt every few hundred conversations and a minuscule % bonus to skills that didn't even feel useful or apparent (e.g. having high persuasion didn't make persuading people easier, it just meant that the system that randomly decided if I won or not sometimes didn't matter at all). Dialogue is just clicking 'yes' or 'yes (but ooh aren't I a scamp!)', because saying no doesn't actually lead anywhere interesting. Sidequests are going to a place and fighting some dudes, which you think would be different for the main quests, but it's not.
I know that some people are going to say that this is all the Bethesda charm, and that the gameplay stuff will be fixed with mods. But if it wasn't for gamepass I'd be spending $100 on this, and even if it wasn't, why should I have to wait for other people to fix the game for the devs? Skip this unless you can't imagine a world without 'Fallout 4 but with even less personality somehow'.
2019
I've beaten this with every character, but have only gone further with one. This game is amazing. Tightly designed, infinitely re-playable for short or long sessions, and not bogged down with unnecessary bulk.
My only nitpick is that occasionally the buttons prompts can lag a little, making me misclick and ruin a potentially potent run, but that would be making mountains out of molehills if I said that it 'ruined' anything.
My only nitpick is that occasionally the buttons prompts can lag a little, making me misclick and ruin a potentially potent run, but that would be making mountains out of molehills if I said that it 'ruined' anything.