illyria
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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.
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
2018
Yammerzaki my MC......
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
2023
Decent collection of short stories! Huntsman, Abandoned Automaton, and Showman were more up my alley than the other three. Only about 2 hours long, but I wish it were longer... game would have been served well by just a little bit more fleshing out of each universe & character choices changing the outcome
2023
Cute art, charming little game! Saw every ending in about 30 minutes.
This game is responsible for me literally carving holes in my 3DS' lower screen when I was young. Good game though.
2001
Not finished with this game, but it has a unique problem where every time I boot it up I end up thinking to myself "I could be playing Berwick Saga right now". They're both similar, but Berwick is noticeably more polished & I think I spoiled myself a little by playing it first. Lots of secrets in this game though!!! They don't make them like this anymore for better or for worse
2003
game for insane people
I've not played too much of this game as of writing this review, but the whole time i've been playing i've been imagining the probably impossible scenario of this game being someone's first suikoden game. i think i can say that it's definitely something only made for diehard suikoden 2 fans - (completely disregarding the drastically different gameplay & story changes, even though i think changing the story a little out of nowhere makes the game worth poking at a little), the teeny sprites of all the characters bring me joy but the card game gameplay was hard for me to personally mesh with... if i wasn't starved for suikoden, or if i had never played suikoden, i'd probably put this game down faster. as a big fan of suikoden 2 i am having fun because i get to see a very tiny viktor. he looks like he fits in the palm of my hand. it's all i need.
2004
played while extremely sleep deprived. not sure if better or worse off for it...
delightful! but very short. don't think it is worth the full $50 price tag but this is how you do a remake and i hope the other 'early atelier' games get the same treatment eventually
2021
Mean Girls/Heathers for people who are into visual novels (despite what the developer claims about this being an anti-vn). Forgot this is just how people spoke back then but still would have ate this up in my freshman year of high school. Ate it up in the year of 2023 regardless. Voice acting has no right being this good?!
2023
Fantastic presentation and the story really intrigues me, but the lack of a lot of quality of life features + the shaky translation brings this game down.... maybe later down the line i will come back to this game because i really do like what i've seen but i think reverse: 1999 needs to find its footing first
2021
scratched an itch i've had since i was 10 years old that i had forgotten about. its a simple life sim game but i need to figure out how to send this game back in time because i know i would have loved it back in the day