My computer does not like this game, I'll be back one I work out a solution that lets me play this without crashes and glitches!

It's awesome though, you can see why its so beloved, its an extremely fun game with well thought out design and aesthetics.

I really like this game, the early gameplay really draws you in and blooms so beautifully as you go.

You go from crafting every recipe and struggling to produce unique reagents to recording massive amounts of potions and haggling back and forth trying to find the best ways to produce lots of quality potions.

It's a bit of a shame that it doesn't have an ending (as of yet) but it almost feels on brand for the game to just keep going or for you to hang up your cauldron stirring hat when you've had enough.

Think I'll be back sometime for that 100% but for now I've had a whale of a time.

Pikmin 2 has been on my backlog for a long time and this felt like a good opportunity to finally get to it.

I remembered Pikmin 2 being a bit of a slog back in the day and spent a lot of time trying to build up a load of pikmin to make the game easier which led to me never actually bothering to finish it.

Years on this really hasn't changed much, I really do like 2, but it's a brutal game and I abused the ability to just quit and reload the cave level a lot because my god it's easy to stumble into a bad situation by the sheer number of fearsome critters the game just slams into every cave, especially late on.

But for all that I really did still enjoy my time with the game and found it a lot easier to enjoy the game if I accepted that sometimes I'd lose a lot of Pikmin, something I feel all the games try and gently teach you, you're supposed to care if they die but bear the burden of losing a good 80 in a day as long as you have the reserves to carry on.

After finally finishing 2 I felt it was only right to revisit the first game and found myself (not unpleasantly) surprised by how short it is, easily completed in a few sittings and full of interesting little niches, shortcuts and some optional bosses that I don't remember and wonder if I ever saw, overall its weird how much like a trial run the first game feels.

Overall I'm so glad that the first game has held up so much compared to my cherished memories of it and while I'm not sure I'll ever be eager to play 2 again I don't think I dislike it's sometimes brutal difficulty as much as I feared I would.

2019

A lovely game, it's got some rough edges but it's got spirit! I really dig the idea of having to switch to different animal parts to do different things and think this would have been fantastic with a bit more to do and to see.

That said Woven definitely feels like its meant to be story book-esque and the length and simple but fun puzzle suit it down to the ground.

I'd definitely give a sequel a go.

I'll likely not go back to this, its all right but its missing something, feel like the regular monster hunter play is vital to this sort of gameplay loop of fight monster, get materials and then improve and repeat.

Without the more deep skill based gameplay the simpler skill based gameplay in this condensed mobile game just doesn't give the same feel.

This game has grown on me massively since I abandoned it early in its release, its a lot better than I initially gave it credit for.

I still dont like the dash system, despite the practice from playing through I still struggle to pull off the rythms needed to take full advantage.

Overall though its a neat game and I finally get why so many people are very fond of it.

I'm totally over-rating this game but honestly its just the right amount of naff to be a lot of laughs and fun in a group setting.

Like with a lot of Mario entries I've enjoyed this a lot more the more Mario games I've played, I definitely want to give this one another go in the future since I accidentally discovered the games warp pipes and skipped half the levels.

It's definitely a much harder Mario Bros.

Until Odyssey I never really clicked with mario games (apart from the 6 golden coins and super mario world weirdly) but my love for the series has been growing with each one I've gotten myself to play and each time I find it easier to get hooked.

Three is at least when I've heard about it, been highly regarded as one of the best in the series and I can see why now, the overworld is a lot more fun when you are a (less) ham handed adult instead of a (more) ham handed child and its powerups, secrets and minigames really keep everything fresh, and being able to store an absolute armory of powerups for the later worlds was wildly fun.

I'll definitely be revisiting the mario games I've played when I can find the time I think. They really have more than earned their place as some of the most famous and well regarded games around and I feel like a fool for having missed out for so long.

A relatively relaxed puzzle game, I played the game with the guide that tells you if a part is solved the whole time because I was oblivious to what the remove guide symbol that was used meant.

Definitely my preferred way to play, just enough of my smooth brain used to make me feel accomplished while being a fun time.

The different mechanics used in the puzzles as you progress were awful fun and I'd love an expanded version.

(I promise I'll play it without the guide, I swear, keep your eyes peeled for the mastered log of this lol)

I've been playing this with friends and my god it's complicated but fun. Despite having completed the games main goal and getting the ending screen I honestly feel like I barely scratched the surface, there's so many layers here what with efficiency options, ideas for bases you can try etc.

If you enjoy logistic games you'll get on great with this I think.

I've always loved the pikmin series since I played the first on GC and this game sure didn't disappoint. The refinement of the seeming goal of the games to encourage multi tasking and efficient movement has been honed here to perfection.

I have to admit I wasn't a massive fan of 3's character switching approach to this same idea, it wasn't bad just difficult for my soup brain to get it right in the time trialy optional segments.

Here however I can see myself trying to get all the platinum medals on challenges eventually, its so fun to play and the controls so nice to use.

Fantastic little pico8 game, love the concept, its nice and chill.

As fun as the first and just as difficult, didn't end up getting through it, but thoroughly enjoyed it despite the frustration!