Great game that looks absolutely amazing on the XB360. I had to keep reminding myself I wasn't playing on a PS4 it looked so good. Really great run and gun gameplay that is clearly inspired by the Uncharted series. Some of the crumbling wall climbing sections and reverse camera angles while running over exploding bridges was pretty much shot for shot remakes of what you can find in those games. But, to be fair, Lara was first to be raiding tombs for ancient treasure, it just took her until this game to look and feel like a movie while doing it. Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery and as a huge fan of Uncharted, I really had fun with this one and will probably get around to the sequels eventually. Fun stuff, check it out.

Essentially the alchemy version of Stardew Valley. Potion Permit is essentially a game where you play a budding chemist sent to the town of Moonbury to treat the mayor's daughter. Most of the ingredients you need for creating potions are done by going into the forest and harvesting plants, rocks and trees, or even by killing monsters.

The only thing I didn't like is that time seems to pass really fast, and you have to do everything yourself. I'm still early in the game, so hopefully, there will be some automation or even people you can hire to go into the forest on your behalf in the future.

The game design is reminiscent of the old RPGs from the PS2 gen, and gives a nostalgia kickback to those times. Played it on the Switch and on Steam. Probably because it's in the early phase still, there is some dropping of framerate at different points of the game.

Overall, give it a 9.5/10.

I believe this is the better Gen 5 game, which I believe is conceptually the definitive generation in the series. While the story lacks the momentum which BW1's third act had, the fact that it isn't as "in your face", at least after gym leader 2, means that the player is thankfully left to their own devices. That being said, the story itself still has the first game's "preachiness".

The game has much more polish than everything before it, and rivals Platinum and HGSS in terms of content. It gets to a point where one could even class the main campaign as a tutorial. Oh, and almost every new track slaps.

This was recommended (re: forced lol) by my fiance as my first Pokemon game to play. I wanted to try some of the RPGs she seems to like much and Pokemon is apparently supposed to be the easiest of this genre!? Well this game was hard as heck man. I did not beat a single gym on the first try and don't even get me started on how long it took me to prepare for fighting the champion. But all this did make me feel quite close to my cute little companions, we ended up spending quite a lot of time together and beat up a crap ton of other Pokemon. I appreciate how much I cared about my team in the end.

I have mixed feelings towards this game.

On one hand, I loved the atmosphere, the visuals and the audio all blended in so well together to create a very immersive game. The story was interesting, making our way through Yomi was a pretty good adventure to experience, one that I actually enjoyed.

But on the other hand, the combat felt very basic and not that rewarding. You spend a great part of the game fighting enemies, but as you progress it just gets stale. You discover new abilites aswell as combat moves, but in the end it doesn't provide you anything exciting. The enemies just start to vary when changing chapters, but they don't provide any challenges, nor do the bosses, its just very dull.

And during combat, alot of times the controls felt unresponsive, which just made an already bad combat experience, even worse.