Mar 2023: This Month's Games
a public journal of everything i've played this month
any notes should be treated as "first impressions"
any notes should be treated as "first impressions"
24 Games
the most Theater Kid game i've played this year. i understand why some people wouldnt resonate with this but i love it to death
snake style fucks so hard
have been attempting to craft a review for this game for literal months - maybe one day it'll be out! - but in short i think this is a fantastic samurai game marred by the inclusion of too many vestigial systems. if you have to access a feature with the menu then it can probably be cut out of this game entirely
replaying this and it's good, but it strengthened my conviction that it's not the best game in the series
greatly prefer this to Stardew Valley (and any other game that tries to be this much like it) even though it's a little light on features for it to feel like a full experience atm. this is the first time i've found romanceable companions that feel more interesting than picking a favorite color, even though 50% of them seem to have the same personality.
every time i come back to this game i want SO BADLY to like it, but i always have a hard time gauging if i've built my character poorly or if i've just hit a difficulty spike. skill issue? maybe
neat little terraforming puzzle game! apparently people have complained about it being short for a game with its price tag but i felt it was just right
another game from MSCHF (the people who made Tax Heaven 3000, among other things) but I'm afraid this one might be a little too subtle in the point that it's making, because unless you come in with knowledge of MSCHF then this probably blends right into the background noise among other shovelware simulators
there is no way to play this game after yakuza 0 where it doesn't just feel like one big, sub-par DLC
one day, people will do the "no they've added quite a bit, it's actually good now" thing and i'll fire up a version of this game that doesn't feel like a roblox rip-off of a better game
enjoying the battle system more, enjoying the characters less
Review
Review
i think it's the small scale that makes this whole thing unsatisfying? ultimately it feels like i'm pressing the same 3-4 buttons each game to balance some numbers until the timer is up and my park-sized province wins or loses the game. i know this is basically a phone game so i'm not going to deduct too many points for this, but i don't really feel inclined to go back either
as much a "world war simulator" as TFT or Powder Game 2 is
still hilarious to me that there's a comment box for basically every element of the HUD and 40% of them are full of westerners going "what the fuck is going on" about the Five Phases
Running into the same problem that I ran into with Phantom Doctrine where I really like managing spies on the world map and doing the espionage, but I really don't care about the other stuff. I just want to manipulate governments and stuff
