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Protostar Twilight
2024
This review contains spoilers
Unserious review: please stop praying for grandpa. he’s getting too powerful. He just killed a sage and a hydra and tempus can’t stop him
Serious review:
Finished in about two hours :)
Pros:
- Great dialogue for Bettel in particular. Had a big dumb smile on my face every time he opened his mouth
- Act 3 was great fun juking the alligators with Axel and getting hat trick for Bettel
- I keep talking about him but there were some real wholesome CGs for Bettel and Phantom :)
- Really, really liked the artist for Act 5 and Act 7, very happy that there are credits for the writers and artists at the beginning of each act
- Also, really liked Flayon’s portrait artist :)
- Lots of little secrets, like stumbling on a “check” dialogue box in the secret ending and finding a corruption record secret item
Cons:
- Ran very slowly on my computer but this is probably just a personal issue
- Found the mouse to be more responsive than the keyboard when moving around the map (mouse usage had some issues/glitches but developer says not to use the mouse so that is not an issue on the developer)
- Couple other glitches, I occasionally had to switch between the “a” and “b” buttons and the mouse to progress dialogue, I also Do Not Know where the “mask” item for Axel went after we defeated the alligators. Bettel got it put into his inventory when it dropped but it was gone the next chapter
- Little bit too easy! Got a laugh out of the final boss saying “time for round two” and then Altare dealt 99 points of damage to him, downing him instantly
ALL THAT SAID this game is completely available for free and it was a good way to spend my morning, I think it worth checking out for someone new to strategy games especially
Serious review:
Finished in about two hours :)
Pros:
- Great dialogue for Bettel in particular. Had a big dumb smile on my face every time he opened his mouth
- Act 3 was great fun juking the alligators with Axel and getting hat trick for Bettel
- I keep talking about him but there were some real wholesome CGs for Bettel and Phantom :)
- Really, really liked the artist for Act 5 and Act 7, very happy that there are credits for the writers and artists at the beginning of each act
- Also, really liked Flayon’s portrait artist :)
- Lots of little secrets, like stumbling on a “check” dialogue box in the secret ending and finding a corruption record secret item
Cons:
- Ran very slowly on my computer but this is probably just a personal issue
- Found the mouse to be more responsive than the keyboard when moving around the map (mouse usage had some issues/glitches but developer says not to use the mouse so that is not an issue on the developer)
- Couple other glitches, I occasionally had to switch between the “a” and “b” buttons and the mouse to progress dialogue, I also Do Not Know where the “mask” item for Axel went after we defeated the alligators. Bettel got it put into his inventory when it dropped but it was gone the next chapter
- Little bit too easy! Got a laugh out of the final boss saying “time for round two” and then Altare dealt 99 points of damage to him, downing him instantly
ALL THAT SAID this game is completely available for free and it was a good way to spend my morning, I think it worth checking out for someone new to strategy games especially
This review contains spoilers
Beautiful presentation and beautiful prose. It is rare to read anything written in second person, especially second person handled so well. I wish this level of style was used elsewhere though...
The repetition of “you sowed your own fate” really means nothing at all when there aren’t any choices I can make as the player to alter fate, aside from picking a route. All the routes including the true end, ultimately, are the same (meet one lonely lesbian who traps you somewhere and kills you), so I can’t help but feel that this message is at odds with the rest of the storytelling. Oh well! Can’t really go wrong with a cute mermaid girl.
The repetition of “you sowed your own fate” really means nothing at all when there aren’t any choices I can make as the player to alter fate, aside from picking a route. All the routes including the true end, ultimately, are the same (meet one lonely lesbian who traps you somewhere and kills you), so I can’t help but feel that this message is at odds with the rest of the storytelling. Oh well! Can’t really go wrong with a cute mermaid girl.
The two hardest problems in computer science are naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors
The Last Promise
2013
I could be saying this because I started to listen to linkin park when I was 11 and it altered my brain chemistry permanently, but I don't mind the tightfisted, blatantly edgy prose... once you start reading between the lines here, there's something genuinely engaging and unique that mainline fire emblem has not touched before or since and I think it's wonderful.
It really doesn't matter to me how "good" or how "bad" the gameplay is, it's a technical marvel for its time and I appreciate it regardless. The Last Promise is just something special and it's something I would point in the direction of fire emblem fans looking for something more
It really doesn't matter to me how "good" or how "bad" the gameplay is, it's a technical marvel for its time and I appreciate it regardless. The Last Promise is just something special and it's something I would point in the direction of fire emblem fans looking for something more
Fire Emblem Engage
2023
Incredibly fun game in maddening til chapter 22. Story is wathever but the cast has some pretty charming characters in it.
I wonder if Japanese writers know of the existence of philosophers not named Nietzsche
Triangle Strategy
2022
Very fun unit design makes up for the fact that a lot of the maps are pretty bland. Plot takes a while to kick in and can be a bit inconsistent but has strong moments and a solid main cast.