I actually played this when it was brand new because I thought it looked like some mindless action RPG fun but found it to be so unstable and bogged down in game-as-a-service bull that I ended up refunding it. Turns out while I was away the publisher let the whole game die and just gave up one it. This is usually where a game like this would just vanish but these devs did something really admirable. They took back their game and totally reworked it into a normal-ass video game!

It's still just a generic mediocre action RPG but I never really needed it to be anything but that. The way this game has transformed though really speaks to how monetization and live service integration is ruining so many games. This game should have been lost forever but instead there's actually something pretty fun here. I'm having a good time just running around doing some serviceable action combat and picking up loot and exploring a decently sized open world. It's good!

I really hope we see more free2play bombs go this route.

Outside of some very minor gripes with ways that updates/monetization has been used (seriously why all these world tour cosmetics please add actual costumes and color palettes) I have absolutely no complaints about this game. It's the perfect fighting game in my book. A great single-player campaign, stellar online play with fast matchmaking and a wide variety of skill in the userbase. The modern mode finally let me get to the core of what makes Street Fighter fun in a way I've never felt able to and being able to use Modern controls online with no restrictions is fantastic. It's visually great, the whole cast (besides Lily) are winners. It's great!!

Played this in 2016 when it was new. Heard about some Paper Mario event going on it in through and thought maybe I'd missed this game actually receive major updates and decided to check it out again.

No? They've added like a handful of cosmetics for your overworld in the 8 YEARS since launch? Like not even a single new level huh???

Anyway this game is okay. The asking price is too much for how few levels there are.

There's a parallel timeline where Gameloft are one of the most beloved developers in the industry. Every single time I play a Gameloft game i'm blown away by how fun they are to play and how good they look and how they run really well on basically any hardware. They're a really impressive studio.

They also have some of the most aggressive microtransactions in video games, and they're not subtle about it. Most free games kind of slowly lure you into a cash-based grind but Gameloft literally jumps directly into the deep end. It sucks. This game is really fun but it has the exact same awful monetization as the Asphalt games.

I hear if you play the local mode it actually unlocks all the characters and stages and you can just play it like a free Mario Kart alternative and I do think that's actually really nice. If you wanna check this out, do it for that.

Was a defender of the original version of this game before the devs took it down and pretended that was always the plan. That was annoying, but hey, giving the game a year or so extra to cook and maybe working on some of the bad feeling progression would probably do the game a lot of good, right?

No.

Everything is worse. The gameplay is way slower and clunkier, even less balanced and filled with infinites. There's somehow still no SBMM or ranked play? Microtransactions and monetization is even more unreasonable. The battlepass is somehow less fun and even slower. Personally my controller support was entirely broken and I ended up having to switch to a keyboard to even play which felt awful. This game is a disaster. It's a real shame too. Tons of potential just absolutely wasted.

I love games that sync up actions to music, so of course I had to give this a shot. Unfortunately very disappointed. In the slightly less than 2 hours I spent with it I found very little variety in weapons I was finding resulting in me using basically the same build every attempt. Game seemed really reliant on a parry mechanic that for the life of me I could not make consistently work. Custom music was okay but the editor was really sloppy. Felt insane you couldn't just tap to the beat of the song to set up the bpm quickly. Ended up refunding.

Wildermyth is just behind Baldur's Gate 3 for me in terms of replicating the feeling of a TTRPG, but while Baldur's Gate does it with a high budget and intricate combat and interactions between a well-designed party, Wildermyth recreates the feeling of watching a table of PCs change as they move between sessions. It's really cool.

There are a lot of campaigns to play through and they're pretty okay as stories, but the highlight of the game is the way you'll grow attached to your collection of randomly generated heroes and watch as they go through randomly designed arcs of their own and with each other. Long campaigns will have your starting characters grow old and sometimes retire while leaving behind children to continue as new characters or having trained the next generation. My favorite feature is that at the end of a campaign you can turn your characters into 'legacy characters' allowing them to keep appearing in future campaigns. Eventually you'll have built a full cast of mythological heroes who all cross over between eachother's (sometimes incompatible) stories like a proper myth. It's really cool!

The new Rougelite mode is pretty neat although i'm maybe having the most trouble with it's story mode. The writing in this game is generally good but occasionally falls into unfunny memes or long tangents into unreasonably self serious complicated lore that makes me want to turn off the game and nap.

Tried this after enjoying Rabbit & Steel so much and I see where a lot of the dna of that game came from. This a cool little mix of a touhou bullet hell and a fighting game. It's pretty fun although I feel like there's some control issues I really dislike. I played a character that was really incentivized to spam a certain move but there was no option to simply hold the button to keep shooting it, instead I had to constantly tap the button. That sucks.

Aesthetically really cool. Nobody was playing online but I heard it has actual rollback which is sick. It's neat.

Mixed bag on this season. Some of the god mythics were pretty fun and loved playing with the air dashes in particular. The Avatar crossover event had some really unbalanced but fun items to use too. The Star Wars crossover was really mediocre though. The map barely changed and then didn't change at all again for the whole season which is pretty boring. XP rates were nerfed really bad and made me not bother actually even finishing the pass this time, and most of the BP skins honestly were bad. (Artemis looks cool though.)

If it weren't for how fun waterbending was during it's brief availability this would be a flat 2 1/2, but it gets the extra half star literally just for how fun bending was.