[for the demo]

red flag when your only two female characters are designed specifically to appeal to the kind of indie airhead who wrote them

however the movement tied to the cards feels v good! could see the puzzles requiring strict solutions / less player expression than i'd like as the game goes on, but using purify to jump around obstacles was enough to sell me on the idea

imagine paying a monthly fee to work for the opportunity to pull a slot machine with the hope it lets you do the stuff you're actually paying for. would say this couldn't be me but alas, once again

i always thought i was an outlier here, in that i never enjoyed the gear grind that mmo players assume is there to "get your money's worth" (i could not believe my eyes when i saw people clamoring for the return of daily quests over weeklies,) but i'm realizing these people are broken and this design is prohibiting a different audience from forming, for reasons that anyone who's been turned off from playing one already understands

these games feature genuinely interesting blends of cooperative puzzle solving and choreography you can't get elsewhere, and it's all locked behind the most bloated tedium you could possibly imagine. it's so frustrating to not be able to share this kind of experience with others. once again asking for a saint to prove you can do it without the trappings of this garbage

might be sacrilege to jsr folks but I've never really cared for hideki naganuma (or his music hehe). fortunately the tracks here are varied enough and not outright trying to crib his style, in part because a good chunk of them were not made for the game. can't say as much for its visuals, which, just from the menus alone I can get that you guys like designer's republic (me too!) but y2k is so worn out that I'd like to see something go beyond just replicating it. weirdly has a very late barebones pc port feel to it that I find kind of charming. game's fine too I guess