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Ghostpia season one is the first part of a kinetic novel that is supposed to be a two-part series (if the sequel is ever released).

The story takes place in a fairly original setting: you follow the adventures of Sayoko, an outcast in a snowy "ghost town" where the inhabitants are immortal and can only live at night; a town where new arrivals are supposedly non-existent.
Time having become an almost abstract notion for these "ghosts" under the impression of having lived for more than 9999 years, Sayoko can't remember the exact nature of this place, or even who she really is and why she's here. It might seem like a classic case of an amnesiac protagonist, but in this world, this vagueness is something quite common and shared by the majority of characters, despite the fact that Sayoko appears to be more affected than the others, struggling with the feeling of being an outsider, of being out of place, and notably not receiving much sympathy from her neighbors. She is treated as a rebel within a system ordered by an authority referred loosely to as "The Church", which views her presence in a negative light. Sayoko is not entirely alone, however, and has two friends of her own, Pacifica and Anya, with whom she has set herself a goal: to cross the immense snow desert that surrounds the city to discover what lies beyond the horizon. Is this town truly an afterlife? Could civilization, that of mortals, still exist? Many questions without answers.
They tried to leave once before, but it was a failure, and the memories of that day remain both etched in Sayoko's mind, yet hazy when it comes to the most crucial details. Even so, from that moment onwards, Sayoko's life seemed to make even less sense, until one particular day something unprecedented happened: the arrival of a new "ghost", an anomaly, and the opportunity to form a new bond.

Ghostpia centers around Sayoko's encounter with this newcomer, as well as her relationship with her friends, with whom she has previously experienced failure. It is about friendship, love, loneliness and the meaning of life when you're unsure about yourself. It's a slice-of-life story wrapped in a mysterious, unusual atmosphere.
Unusual because it ranges from the melancholic to the cartoonishly childish, with its appealing visuals, characters that speak like they do in Animal Crossing and carefully crafted staging emulating the style of a dynamic comic strip. There are also moments of wonder and confusion, and even action scenes with a hint of violence.

As a result, what Ghostpia makes you feel when you read it isn't exactly easy to describe: what's touched upon is pretty self-explanatory, but you cannot necessarily say the same about how all the story beats tie together, and yet when you take a look back at what's already been told, you have something that's already pretty packed in just 8-9 hours of reading.

I personally enjoyed it a bunch, as I like this kind of unique experience in terms of atmosphere, while the story itself has a lot of heart, despite still being incomplete.
Yet it is rather criminal that this VN currently has so little exposure. If you're not afraid of a purely reading visual novel experience, I urge you to let your curious mind do the work of discovering this curiosity.

its so sad a game as good and cohesive as this one gets ignored so much

This game is quite simply tied with FF6 as being the definitive Final Fantasy experience. The combat is simple but solid, the story is emotional and is supported by phenomenal characters that all take place in one of the most interesting medieval, high-fantasy, worlds I've seen.

This game is really disappointing. The gameplay in the trailers looked really flashy and fun and the concept for the story sounded like it had potential. While the game lived up to the gameplay expectations imo, The story, characters, and overall writing fall exceptionally flat on its face. The story is boring after the 4 hour mark, the world is also boring after you've done all the activities like once and the characters range from annoying and unlikable to straight up forgettable. There's a lot of potential here but it didn't do anything to realize it at a $70 price point

its good, but if you were to put a gun to my head and force me to play flower, sun, and rain again, id say shoot me

Untitled Danganronpa Game is my favorite Danganronpa game

bought this for my bro for christmas and im not happy giving money to EA so i have a right to give it this rating fuck EA fuck this game and fuck all u dumbasses who keep buying it, go to shcool, be successful, do something else, fuck, not this tho

all of the three games are great! the third one was my favourite by a lot, but it couldn't have been as great as it is, without the first two games laying the foundation. the last case of the third game was very satisfying and a perfect ending for the trilogy! i do have a few minor nitpicks, but nothing that really sours my experience with the third game!

the first game was very great as well! miles edgeworth is iconic and my favourite prosecuter. i feel like almost all the original cases are very iconic in this game (case 1, phoenix's first case; case 2, maya's introduction; case 3, steek samurai and case 4, the von karma one). case 5 was a nice extra but as someone who only played those three games so far, i got no idea who all those new people were. maybe after i play apollo justice, i'll know? either way, case 5 just was a case i can barely remember anything about anymore

the second game is my least favourite one, but still a very good game! meeting pearl and learning more about kurain is great and the last case has a great twist! but the circus case really wasn't it and franziska von karma is a character i sadly never got very attached to. also, this game had some characters i really hate with a burning passion (i am looking at iny mimi or whatever her name was and the hospital director-- i couldn't stand them)

all in all, great series! i'm sure i'll get a lot of enjoyment out of apollo justice as well and if i manage to get my hands on the great ace attorney chronicles, then i'm certain i'll enjoy those as well!

I don't like to go hard on games like this, but as someone who is ostensibly the exact target audience for this(ex-tumblr lesbian jrpg fanatic), its awful and basically the exact opposite of what to make a faux-jrpg as.

To start, lets get the combat out of the way. Its a mix of Paper Mario and Battle Network, except somehow lamer and significantly slower than either of them. Even trash encounters take 3-5 minutes because you spend an inordinate amount of time walking up to hit the guy only for them to jump away immediately. Combined with the generally low combat numbers and high HP pools of enemies, in addition to the action button combat making it so you can't speed up combat its just a miserable slog. By the halfway point of the game, I just turned on the "instant win all combat" button, except that STILL makes you wait until the protagonist's turn in-combat to activate so you're still sitting there 30 seconds each fight waiting. That alone killed any momentum in the game for me.

Next, the world. You'd think a Magic School would be a slam-dunk setting for a jrpg--lots of fun themes and tropes you can choose from, quirky npcs to encounter, etc etc. Ikenfell does a very bold move here and makes the entire map a dungeon. Besides one tavern at the start of the game(and ceases to be relevant 10% of the way in), there is no real "towns" or calm places. You walk into the school courtyard, which is a dungeon, which leads you to the dorms, which are a dungeon, which leads you to the botany labs, which are a dungeon, and so on. There is functionally no "downtime" from the combat portion of the game, you are just shuttled from dungeon to dungeon to dungeon. There also aren't really any npcs to deal with, no sidequests to handle, nothing of the sort. Just large dungeons bereft of anything interesting or exciting. This game is honestly a masterclass in how not to pace your game, the constant slog of enemy encounter after encounter just removes any tention or interest the game could have.

But surely, I thought, this game should be heartfelt. Perhaps to someone younger, it might be, but I could not connect with any of these characters. The most interesting one is the hot-blooded lightning lesbian, in part because she does something besides mope around the entire game. The writers focused so much on either the grander Plot stuff or the traumas the various characters have that any sense of comradery or fun is lost. And like, you can make characters who just mope around all the time--I recently played Tales of Berseria, where the main character is a deeply traumatized young woman who spends 80% of the game with coping with that trauma, but there she's surrounded by people who don't take things as seriously and the game isn't afraid to clown on her from time to time. The plot itself is also generally whatever, its basically just a collect the macguffin plot to lead you from place to place. It doesn't even really use the setting in any interesting way.

An odd note as well is that there's three vocal themes in the game, all of which belong to later-game party members who's function is just not plot-critical. Which, its fine, I love hip hop and am a huge sucker for vocal themes but its a weird choice. None of the main characters, just these three weirdos. It feels like a bit of a waste of dosh, but like sure why not.

What actually gets me is one of the songs has a lot of references to real life figures like Martin Luther or Bob Ross, and it took me out so much. Like, the game pretty expressly does not take place on Earth so..???? Petty concern, for sure, but its actually funnily enough the thing that stuck with me the most.

All in all, a waste of talent and time by all involved. I feel bad because every lesbian-themed western indie jrpg seems to disappoint(even Christine Love's Get in the Car didn't hit the marks it should have), and I don't want this to be the case because, well, thats me.

But that's the world we live in. Its a pity.

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