Still playing but got my first win so I'm ready to review. I think deck building rougelites are a cool idea but I've always been absolutely terrible at them. Something about the concept just doesn't click in my head. Balatro managed to break this for me. Something about how straightforward and ingrained poker hands are to me makes the idea of manipulating them make a ton of sense. The visuals are really simple but they're so polished and the visual flair of watching multipliers pile up feels amazing. Balatro surprised me with how much it hooked me.

I will say, one minor complaint is that it feels like it has that Binding of Isaac problem where you know whether your run is dead within about your first 5 minutes playing and it's easy to get into a pattern of having to restart over and over until the rng gives you something actually useful.

I think Tetris is a fundamentally perfect game, and I think this is the best version of Tetris that exists. It elevates everything about the experience of Tetris and turns it into something transcendent. It boldly pushes forward the idea that 'What if Tetris is actually a universal shared human experience that connects all people and all things' and it really should come off as pretentious, but it makes me believe it. Maybe Tetris is the most important piece of art ever made??? Honestly, like, maybe. It might be.

This is one of my favorite games ever made. It's perfect.

Played this on launch on my HTC Vibe way back, but only recently grabbed it again as a Quest 2 title to play the new Daft Punk DLC. In my mind this is THE essential VR game. Owning a VR headset without this game just doesn't make sense to me. There's a reason this game is offered bundled with new Quests. Now after multiple years of updates the included list of songs is really good and there's a huge variety of quality dlc packs to grab. There's tons to love here.

My one complaint that I've held for years at this point is that the menu ui is awful. It seems built more for showing you things you can buy than for actually letting you find music efficiently. I shouldn't have to go through multiple steps to just see a list of songs I own. I also really wish the game gave a better estimate of how difficult songs are. Playing $100 Bills and ANY saber Camellia track on Expert are worlds apart in terms of difficulty, but there's no easy way to actually know that.

Fell off this one before I could get to the end. Really wanna come back to this when they fix the performance issues and maybe drop the equivalent Dark Arisen type expansion.

Really mixed on this. The original DD was this inspired but jank and unfinished masterpiece. It was this peek into an impossibly ambitious game that broke so many traditional rules of triple-A RPGs at a time when other games were playing it so safe. This one? Well, it's sort of the the exact same janky unfinished game and now it's competing with a gaming landscape that's got a lot more going on.

I'm a little disappointed, I can't lie. The promise of this game was 'Dragon's Dogma but finished' and instead we got 'Dragon's Dogma, but bigger, and still unfinished' and that really sucks. It still takes a lot of really cool interesting swings but they're just not as novel a decade later when now there's so many indie RPGs and even big Fromsoft games doing things just as interesting.