why do vanillaware titles always cause so much melties LMAOOOOOOO, notice how none of the review bombers have actually talked about the gameplay.

anyways, this shit is really good (so far - only 11hrs in), so if you're on the fence about picking up a cool srpg - i'd strongly say go for this.

also i carnally need berengaria so bad

https://imgur.com/YqULlub

if this wasn't your sole takeaway after playing unicorn overlord, YOU DIDN'T BEAT THE GAME.

the great filter of 2024, almost every single (overtly) negative review on steam can be summed up as a simple issue of skill.

all this has told me is that umihara kawase (and other platformers that dont immediately hand you a million bing bing wahoo jumps without having worked for it) will prolly never see the light of day again.

edit: ...i will say though, that yeah, there is a mild amount of jank in here. nothing to really spoil the experience, but it's there.
editedit: okay, with all the complaints about bugs that i'm seeing, yeah i think i just got lucky with my playthrough.

one piece if it was actually good

traced artwork (https://imgur.com/a/oWAcIXg), embarassingly childish responses to genuine criticism (https://steamcommunity.com/app/691790/discussions/0/3812911758581127372/), with extremely shallow gameplay and an uninspired cast - only shit like this can make me spout /v/-tier essays of sheer disdain. im honestly struggling to think of any positives i can say about this game aside from an okay couple of music tracks.

to anybody that backed this on kickstarter and had to wait six entire years of little to no updates at all for THIS - im so sorry.

some of yall have gone so far deep into anti-gamefreak rhetoric (which yeah, is wholly valid) that you've shifted the pendulum in order to defend this slop. is palworld really the hill you want to die on?

literally just play spectrobes instead

at least its shitmons look exponentially better than whatever tf temtem was doing (by virtue of just putting gamefreak designs through stable diffusion)

metroidcels and hollowknight-babies can't compete with true kino

thank you esteemed youtube channel @Transparency for introducing me to capcomkino

anyone who engages with boykisser media should lose their human rights tbh

thank you tatsuya izumi for kickstarting an entire decade's worth of witch suffering with this game

(TWATHK isn't particularly good, but you can't actually convince me that most game journos actually finished it - or even played it past that mice scene - before reviewing it. truly, master lia's game was doomed before it even released.)

incredibly sovlful artstyle, it ended up growing on me after repeatedly watching vanilla alice get obliterated in my countless attempts to clear TLB

(my GOAT shigatake also drew vanilla alice, which means you should play her game.)

2023

forever grateful that tevi and rabi-ribi's artstyle keeps filtering so many people. it really is like firing gunshots every now and then to keep the rent low

2023

EDIT: HOLY SHIT ITS KINOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NEVER LISTEN TO MESSAGE BOARDS FOR ANYTHINGGGGGG
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earlier thoughts before i reached enlightenment:
so does the game get worse later on or is it just weirdly pedantic people being obsessed over the fake bnuuys or the the artstyle shift etc. ???

(speaking as a huge fan of rabi-ribi, i cant see anything wrong with this game so far, its just pure fun.
if something does feel off towards the end, i'll mention it in a future edit. otherwise, im already liking this game more than the first one)