Whitetrashistory
Ok this doesnt give a good reason for the downgrade in abilities from the prior title and the first two chapters being just reduxes of the first game felt like an error. Points for having a time travel plotline that doesn't fall apart when you poke a hole into it.
2018
So this game does a great job of giving a good reason for the game starting from ground zero again with the character moving. The 'Merican Yokai were a fun insight into the stereotypes that Japan associates with the US and the X Files refrences were a nice nod to the millennials playing this children's game; however the second protagonist was a tad annoying which was sad since her mascot yokai called back to the tragic background some yokai had in the first game. Its another example of a game drawing on elements of the first game that were spat on in the sequel to remind the trepitatious why they like this series.
It was nice of nintendo to release a time consuming game at the beginning of a global pandemic. The slow pacing of the release of content was a put off and although my island is under martial law, it did pass the time when I couldnt leave the house.
2014
Tour de force and upgrade the combat in the best ways from the original and links the convoluted story together in a way that seems complete, even if it doesn't always make sense. Also the Sapphic undertones were great.
Its an okay farming simulator as a whole but in this post stardew valley era it felt empty and boring over all.
2018
Easy as hell, and not much memorable about it, once you get a special buddy the game practically plays itself.
The game is fun and a good level of difficulty and is excellent in the pacing of puzzle difficulty throughout but god the art style is just not it for me. Link looks like he's a meeple from a random board game
The last bastion of the old way of monster hunting, sometimes I return to this game to remind myself how tough monster hunter used to be and so I dont get soft having to bring my own wetstones, not being able to move drinking potions, getting knocked back into a different zone so now there is 2 loading screens between you and the monster, having to throw a paintball to find the monster on the map, ect.
2021
I wanted this to be good but I fucking hate the seiges. The style is great, the japanese title skits when you meet new monsters is amazing, but the seiges suck, the armor sets are boring for new monsters and I don't find myself wanting to get through it to get to the sunrise content
Its a my hero academia fighting game, it delivers what it says on the box and if you find yourself wanting then you had higher expectations than it advertised.
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This was an amazingly fun atlus game with dungeon crawling that felt reminsecent of the later persona games with a new cast member joining each chapter and having a new dungeon to conquer as well, but the ties to Fire Emblem were so second thought and feeling that even the special costumes you can unlock are Atlus properties not Fire Emblem. When they start singing about Fire Emblem in the finale I fucking cackled because it felt so forced like "oh shit this is a cross over. Make the protagonist look like Marth and lets fight a dragon or whatever."
2021
The characters were ok and this is one of the few games where we see women friendship interactions for the better, but we never get a reason why the Heroine has this power, and there is a very rushed twist of like "suprise your dead brother isnt dead" or something that was so bad I blocked it from my memory
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Such a glow up and a great means to expand the plot of Final Fantasy 7. Is the Angeal stuff kinda odd, absolutely but seeing the pieces begin to fall into place for the main act of 7 is great. Plus the ending where your interactions with your friends flash before your eyes as you're being executed was so poignant I was in tears.
They took the most annoying side minigame of Danganronpa V3 and made it its own game. You can get a terrible roll and never advance well with a character at all
The story for this was paced incredibly wierd. You are part digital yourself and do a bunch of digimon work to save the digital world from viruses and data eaters, but there is also a chapter about human trafficking which is just left open ended and implying that one person was already harvested for organs; and then the next chapter is such a change in tone that its jarring