I liked it! I think I stepped in every single bear trap in the game.

I'm not every good at it. I'd never made it past the entrance to the castle in the original version.

2022

Wow this game ruled!
This game is like finding a missing piece to a lot of indie games that would follow it. Its hard to describe how big this game feels because of its impact despite being like an hour and change long. Which I think is a perfect length for it. Great to play in one sitting!

I finally finished this game. I started it in 2020 and just fell off one day. I really wanted to finish it before the new one came out so I got to it.

I think this game is very, very good! I love a lot of things about it. Just as many things as I find kinda frustrating. But I think the sense of place and the character of this game are stronger then my feelings of nit-picks here and there.

I'm very interested to see where the "story" actually goes from here, because I felt like I was just really starting to get invested in the idea of it at the very, very end.

Okay, so. I already reviewed Katamari Damacy (ps2) and called it one of the greatest games of all time.

That's still true. I loved playing through it again with this version over a weekend. Endlessly charming and fun to play. Can't wait for We <3 Katamari reroll.

This is one of the first mario games I ever played. I think 3rd actually, as a kid. And replaying it now I loved it a lot for so many reasons. I think its oozing with charm, and that charm is by far its best point. I love all the different ideas for worlds. BRING BACK PUMPKIN ZONE PLEASE!!

Though, its pretty short (Its a gameboy game I'm not mad about that) and the levels for the most part are extremely easy, then you get to the final level and its a meat grinder.

I think this is like THE dictionary example of "more then the sum of its parts"

Real great game. I think the style is extremely good and I hope they revisit it in another game one day.

That said, I think if I ever revisit this game again I'll just be replaying the gameboy version.

Even though this game has a lot of game play moments that made m put my head in my hands. None of that really matters to me because just moving around the world as Kat is so much fun. She's such a awesome character and I love her to death, she's dumb as hell, gets a big head when she thinks people are complementing her, quick to get angry and she gas a great heart. Raven is rad too!

I could play as Kat forever just collecting pink gems.

One of my favorite games ever. The ending made me cry.

I really enjoyed my time with this game! Gave me a lot of the same brain feelings as floating around in gravuty rush and collecting the purple orbs there but here they are yellow. I think one of the best things I can say about this game is at a certain point in the second level I didn't even have to think about the controls anymore they just all came so naturally.

I'm also very happy with the length. I was actually a bit worried that there was going to be another level at the then cause I felt like I'd gotten the exact amount of time I wanted out of it but I was pleasantly surprised.

If I had one minor in most ways but at times did feel major to me criticism of this game it would be I felt like the main characters constant unchaining cocky smirk in all and every situations felt really weird to me. I don't know the vibe of it would just throw me off sometimes.

I gotta say, I had a blast with this game. Played it over the course of about a week and a half. I haden't reallllllly played a pokemon game in a very long time. I'd given a shot to sun and moon but I honestly checked out pretty early so I gave up on pokemon again till I knew I was in the proper mood for it.
When S/V came out I was feeling it but I didn't really want to buy a new game when I already had this one kicking around sooo...

I was so charmed by this game. I liked its little sports anime story and its charming little characters. I think a big part of what helped me really get into this one was actually role playing a character rather then just playing how I would. I ditched the starter before the first gym which I've never done before and started building the story of this girl who seemed to attract dark type pokemon. It was fun! I'm a big Umbreon fan now where before I was like "eh?".

When next I do play another pokemon game again I will definitely be taking the same road of just role playing the character.

Just barley scraping by against the champ with one pokemon each, my Umbreon vs his Charizard felt so good. I'm really happy I was not able to just wipe the floor with him.

Character designs are also A++

Ya' know, Its fun! I like it a lot. For every level where I was like "eh..." there was 2 of my all time faves. The ninja castle level is like a top 10 all mario level to me now, Its so cute!

Bowser's fury was also good! I liked how nice and brief it was. I think mud bowser probably could have spawned a little less frequently but its not that big of a deal.

This review contains spoilers

There's nothing I can say that hasn't already been said surely but here are some thoughts I remember having while playing.

Kim is the best

I guess even if our world was fucked up like this we would just go on living daily life and it would be some sort of okay. Wait our world IS fucked up like this. Maybe actually WAY worse. We may not have a space that's slowly expanding and will one day consume all we know to nothing but we DO have climate change which would fuck us all the same.

I love Kim

As I entered an encounter that there was no turning back from I thought "I hope I can still make the secret Communist meeting" and thinking that actually sort of snapped me into focus that I need to just actually finish this game because if I dwell on every little thing I would just end up not finishing it.

Played a board game with kim :)

I could listen to those depressing yet strangely hopefull horns all day.

I'm so glad this game is fully voiced. My ADHD eyes would not have made it this far without that.

"Heartbreak welkin"

There are people with good ideals that do wrong but there are people with bad ideals that only do wrong. Even if they mask it with a pleasant demeanor and way of speech.

Kim really is the best though.

We only have each other. No one is coming to save us.

2018

One of my favoruite "I got a bit of time I'll play something" games. I don't super love rogue likes but the art style and fast game play keep me engaged and the charming characters keep me coming back.

I didn't want to write anything about this untill I'd at least cleared it one time. I'm not very good at the game so I did end up using the "god mode" which I avoided for a long time because I thought it just made you invincible and I didn't want NO challenge. But what it does is really interesting I think it just slightly raises your defense each time you fail to escape which I think is pretty cool (mine was at a little less then 30% when I cleared).

I don't know if I'll ever play enough to see all the little conversations between the characters but I think it says enough about them that I'm even thinking about playing more after beating it just to hear more between them.

Extremely fun and good! the platforming feels perfect. I loved every second of those levels! The ones where you have to use the different suits, less so but they weren't horrible just way less fun then the regular stuff. I'd love to play a whole game like that.

It's also just super cute.

I played this game twice, once through the normal route and then again fully with the revelation mode. I really really loved it. I'm not gonna be out here saying its perfect. But I don't think thats a good metric to have for anything. I found the story super engaging and I really loved where it went. I can see why people might not like the ending but I just adored it.

Haruaki is such a great protestant, he's such a freak.

I think this might genuinely be in my top 10 games. Though I don't know if I'm quite VN pilled enough for that. But I do feel it in my heart.

The best video game I've ever played. Its not even close.

I said in my SHB review that if I could give it an 11/10 I would but this is a 16/10 (an extra point over 10 for each time it did something I truly could not believe they did/pulled off)

I cried literally 35 times.