Not giving this a rating since I only played for a few hours. This game's combat is just weirdly unsatisfying, mainly I find that getting card breaks feels not fun, and actively makes me not want to learn the gameplay, along with making this already convoluted and weird combat even weirder in how combat is paced, having odd bursts of using cards instead of just more flowy combat that I felt when I played KH1.
I love deckbuilding, and from my short time playing and making some decks, KH:ReCOM still hits that mark in making fun preperations and decks. In general, this game has interesting concepts, but it just hurts to play, albeit it might just be me unwilling to rewrite my muscle memory after playing KH1. I'll just watch cutscenes and move on to KH2, don't think I'll revisit this game.

Didn't expect to enjoy this one as much as I did. really reminds me of all the games I used to enjoy as a kid and really brought me back to that period of time where games like these were like the peak of gaming to me, and this would've easily been at the top if I had played it back when I was like 10.

The combat of KH1 feels so fun and was a surprise to me when I started playing. Despite my button masher self, I still found it super engaging and satisfying to just hit enemies, and definitely ended up with me grinding a bit just cause I find it fun to hit stuff. The mix of magic also was done perfectly, as usually in hack and slashes I end up not caring about buffs or magic or anything of the sort and try to be as barebones as possible, but utilizing things like thunder and aero were fun as all hell and somehow got me to go out of my comfort zone. Its crazy how well they got it back in 2002.

Yoko Shimomura's compositions are so fucking incredible, and each song I hear is just entrancing or mood setting or just plain fun to listen to. "Dearly Beloved" might be one of my new favorite title tracks ever with how beautiful it is. Easily my favorite part of the game.

Thematically, KH1 connects to me personally through just the process of growing, and being thrown into a world and trusted to just figure it out, which definitely has reflected my current transition into adulthood. Connecting with the media I loved as a kid, and going beyond it and letting them stay in their bubbles and not interfere with those memories I had or the lessons I was taught, but rather enjoy those moments and apply said lessons was something I found reflected directly in the general structure of the game, and I love it for this. Might've been unintended, but I still find it such a personal and impactful theme that I think was presented excellently here, as I continue moving through adulthood, and as Sora learns how to live with these new friends in this new world. Even if some characters like Kairi lack character, the story was solid, and those themes it got to portray did really get to me personally. This game makes me wanna be a kid again, but like Sora, I have to move on and grow up.

Kingdom Hearts was a wonderful experience, revisiting childhood favorites and getting caught in this joyous area of fun and nostalgia was a welcome experience in this transitory period of my life, and I really appreciate it for that.

really torn on this one. The writing and storytelling are so good along with its ludonarrative inserts throughout the game, and its ending sequence being one of the best I've played in a game, and thats not even mentioning the heavenly music. So much to love about this game that it surely would've been a 10/10 for me but it just wasn't. I still give it an 8 for how much I liked and enjoyed some segments, and like I can definitely recommend to other people. This game just ended up not hitting as hard for me in comparison to the many people who do cherish this game. Slightly disappointed with Automata, but overall, was a pretty good time.

I tend to get pretty irritated with a lot of older games, and especially older RPGs, but FF7 really does have that magical charm that kept me from being annoyed and rather had me entranced throughout its entire runtime.

The opening hours of Midgar might be one of my favorite openings to a game ever, as Midgar just has such a spark to it that had me intrigued and immersed at every moment during those first few hours of gameplay. The heavy atmosphere of the covered roof slum is genuinely so immersive and paired with great characters, it all made such a wonderful time exploring Midgar.

The characters are pretty charming and I liked most of the main cast throughout my playthrough, but I do feel like there could've been a bit more progress on Sephiroth's characterization, even if he is really good at being intimidating, I never really felt like he was some character, but rather just some menacing force, and this did leave a bit of a sour aftertaste as I didn't feel his presence as much as I expected.

And the music. Fucking fantastic from start to finish, Uematsu really shows off his prowess and like GOD everything was SOOO fucking fun or emotional or powerful in this soundtrack, I adore it front to back and really am looking forward to playing the other FF games to hear more of his stuff.

FF7 is really a timeless game that I have some issues with, but that magical feel to exploring such an interesting world with really great characters shines over that beyond everything, and it really deserves the masterpiece title for holding the test of time and my own ADHD-ass attention span whilst being this old. Damn good game.

Persona 3 Reload is a fantastic remake, of a very flawed game. Everything bad, the tedious nature of Tartarus, the meh writing of the first social links in the series, and just generally odd creative and writing decisions like the hermit social link (awful social link) are still all here, just in a fancier and more tolerable coat of paint. That being said, that coat of paint does wonders. The presentation is beautiful, and really gives its own personality which really helps it separate itself from feeling like Persona 5, and it is incredible that they pulled that off considering how distinctly stylish P5 is, and how much Atlus loves that game and heralds it as their golden child.

Even with the bad being said, this game still is Persona 3. The story brought me to tears, and is something very close and personal to me, and I truly do cherish it. It's an incredible experience and is what scores this a 10/10 as it got a remake that was so well deserved.

Such a great remake, just a shame they didn't change some of the more problematic things that they now had the ability to do so all these years later, and they didn't change tartarus that much, just made it more tolerable. I still love this game.

Infinite Wealth carries the whole legacy of the Yakuza series on its back, and it handles it with elegance. Seeing a true culmination of these past 8 games and actually taking the trip down memory lane provided this catharsis that is just genuinely unparalleled to anything I've felt before.

I am so glad to have been here to play all these games, crafting this one of a kind experience, and I think this truly cements yakuza as a series that will forever be close to my heart, knowing i got to witness genuinely two of the greatest characters in all of gaming.