TWEWY og was a little mashy with how you could just kinda scribble around and roll the D-pad to get by but SHit man at least it was NOVEL with that weird ass DS as hell multitasking game it asked of you and wasn't just some lame and conventional button mashing arena fighter type shit where your guys flew around and auto locked onto the enemies for you.

I hardly have to even PLAY the fuggin game dude scrEW this. it's just not WEIRD anymore. what's the POINT. BOOOOOOORING.

SHOULDA NEVER LEFT THOSE DUAL SCREENS.

Kinda weird and unwieldy!! JUST the way I like it!!!! A fun little auto-battler optimizing adventure but DAMN is the language sure fucked!!!

"Add50" ?? "Left Bchip Attack" ??? WHAT are you trying to tell me with all these vague keywords...And wHY is the Speed Stat for moves just... HIDDEN from you!!??? Use your text better!! There was TOTALLY enough room to fit all the key information without truncating it into nonsense!!! Rough!!!

The chip control mod that lets you manually pick your attack routes instead of it all just being RANDOM is an absolute MUST for proper engagement and decision making fun. Emulator speedup too! Watching the same animations over and over... yeahyeahyeah you can imagine what that's like. Geez! SOUNDS like a bit of a mess, right? Fair decent amount of good ideas though! I might just steal a few.....

Leave it to Ring! :D

The first full moon boss STUNK and if that's the kind of experience all my compulsive life sim dungeon-ing is leading up to, I don't wanna stick around!

SERIOUSLY we're talking a fight with all the usual non gameplay RPG staples:

-It's got NO WEAKNESSES, so all that earlygame promoted ONE MORE/SHIFT stuff you've been playing with until now just ISN'T INVOLVED OR TESTED! It's just a basic damage sponge! Overly simple! Uninteresting!!

-It summons MOOKS that WHILE APPEARING LIIITERALLY IDENTICAL TO DUNGEON ENEMIES YOU'VE FOUGHT ALREADY - all have totally made up and impossible to discern weaknesses unique for the fight! Have fun THINKING you've identified an advantage just to NOT GET IT for some reason!!! Cool!!! (It's NOT cool). Arghh!!! I'm not gonna get invested in your stupid video game systems if I know you're just gonna lie to me randomly!!!

-Aaaand the killer! The OLD FAVORITE! Status ailment moves that worked before during regular gameplay just! DON'T! Anymore! Of course they don't! They never let those things work when it would matter or be interesting!! Not even on the lesser goons the boss spawns! For just no reason at all they do not work! Forget they exist and go back to spamming regular attacks and healing sometimes!!! Yay!!!!!! I mean.... LAME!!!!!! I. am. not. Problem solving!!!! Die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeahyeahyeah babybabybaby it's fucking PERSONA 3. It's SATISFYING and understands BREVITY in the pacing of its simple fun well enough, but LIKE - I don't wanna hang out with a thing for x number of hours just to not actually end up using any big brain RPG power!

Minding my biz, so mind your own biz!

(Shoutouts to the XBOX GAMEPASS and not spending 70 dollars on ps2 games!!)

deranged psychopath game where you get to bear witness to the apex of media obsessed brainrot and enter a world where slavery turns out to be cool and pretty women should become items in your inventory. a BIZARRE compilation of ANY AND ALL the trite or gross tropes you've ever heard having to do with 'accepted anime storytelling'... It's pretty wild a time.

the kind of 'SOCIETAL CASE STUDY'-esque experience I get out of running through these unapologetic love and madness fueled psycho projects now and again is sorta WHY I play video games. rex being a gigachad carried some too, but that goes without saying

play it with THIS to clean up that infamous grind and kill the annoying effect checker ticking thing and it's that more challenging sequel to Sacred Cards we always wanted!

it's even kinda funny! classic YUGIOH as fuck dialogue straight outta the show!! There's no way you can beat Kaibaman. You shouldn't even try!!!

jus be sure to keep a chart handy for remembering the wacky type advantage stuff and you should be good. fine game

piece of shit henry "yugi" tudor is a real gaming scumbag I never should have sided with him and his wannabe kingly ass. my dude christian "seto kaiba" rosenkreuz of the white roses of york actually DELIVERED on the promise of sending me back to the future and didn't just FORGET about my existence the moment I finished winning the card game war for him and bagging all the special super roses goddamn. christ what an asshole.

just WHAT is the yugioh game trying to tell me???

ERMM yeah otherwise itsa surprisingly solid lil grid action strategy game experience. I wish the deck building turned out more interesting; as a loootta the lineup - no matter the archetype - is dominated by noneffect filler monsters and redundant 'negate attack' style traps or some impractical power-ups you don't wanna bother with. Kinda boring in that way but eh - dealing with those WEIRD rules involved with the movement and grid action side of things carries well enough~ so it's cool! we like our yugioh games where the rules are a bit fucked up like this :) play it with some mods to maybe spruce up that map design and the cards in your opponent's decks for added funsies tho.

"MAN IS BORN TO DIE", "A CARD! A CARD! MY KINGDOM FOR A CARD"... man wtf were they on making this shit. it's YUGIOH...... (kinda love it)

LOVE me a good loathing! our mc hedwig is just so MISERABLE; it's delicious. she's so angsty, so judgy, so wishy washy and ANNOYING. and yet equal parts the opposite! wonderful human specimen, that one. to the "enigmatic woman in the wall"! you're awesome.

Quite an engaging time! I loveloveloved it. suppose it's potentially a lil anachronistic feeling in the way the cast talk sometimes and the mystery aspect can comeoff a tad slow moving but whogivesashit. i'm here for the VENOM and enduring horrors behind human conversation. (also the ghosts(?) and the sicko ambience; that shit rocks too).

DAMN fine little anime air hockey thing. Feels great in the moment just wackin the ball around all MOBA game/arcade like, but its ALSO got cool PROGRESSION MINUTIA to think about for upgrades and blocking guys off from getting the things they want type fun. Good, simple fun!!! We like it.

Oh HMMM IT DOES have your token, 'FUNBUCKS' ridden microtransaction shit for outfits and other superfluous things that IS deserving of being made fun of though. Let's go over that for a bit:

I TOTALLY GET IT like - I'm sure these teeeny tiny little indie devs or whoever wanna easily keep their lights on and pay for their COOL ANIME OP BY STUDIO TRIGGER™ that you only ever watch once. I GET IT! ...But I don't like it >;)

Like - $10+ for a single skin tho? ALONGSIDE that BATTLE STRIKER PASS you can already buy??? AND you can't even just buy the outfits outright, you have to buy higher priced SET AMOUNTS OF FUN BUCKS FIRST?? What is WRONG with video games these days...... Those beach outfits they made don't even play the 'BEACH MUSIC' variants of each character's theme song they bothered to make for the summer event when you wear them! What a WASTE..... WHO IS ACTUALLY GONNA FEEL INCLINED TO BUY ANY OF THIS SHIT IF IT AINT IN A MEGA GAME LIKE FORTNITE. WHY IS IT LIKE THIS??? ARE THEY STUPID????

ehem ah I JEST. It's CORNY, but I'm at at least thankful the bulk of that stuff is obviously just for silly cosmetics you don't need. In the beta you had to buy the GEAR UPGRADES for your characters, and there was this overcomplicated 'deck-building before a match' aspect to it all.
Good riddance I say! The way things turned out ended up being faaar more intuitive and naturally engaging.

For giving me a smart grind-y game to get absorbed in and for getting me to finally quit what remains of fuckin OVERWATCH, I give this one crazy props!! And also for the lack of voice chat! Surprising props for that too! I LOVE not having to talk to bratty people in my competitive video game settings, yepyep! A thumbs up emoji to project my sportsmanship is ALL I NEED..

OOHH~ It's COOL to appreciate corny live-service moba things when you know they're not super popular and are as good as DEAD cuz the devs are bouncing off to other things~~ We had a good run!!

There are certain video game feelings you can only evoke through an explicit LACK of detail.

I'm hoping a lot of the fun 'abstract interpretation' nuggets I've derived aren't solely meant to be ZeroRanger references going over my head, but even if! - Powerful! MEANINGFUL game!

Them block puzzles are damn nice too! (as well as the pretty gameboy women!!((obviously...)) ). My sadness is mine and you WILL enjoy repeating basically the same bits of content over and over!

P.S: YEA I CAN HEAR YOU

OOPS it kinda went and DESTROYED any goodwill I felt back for the original release. hard to still appreciate those glimmers of 'PROMISE' and ''''POTENTIAL'''' that maybe shined through before when on this big chance at a do-over they give us that same unpolished, dlc typical "the game, but worse!!!" treatment (in this case tho - A LOT WORSE!!!! :O ).

Even that ever potent Sonic "SOUL" factor you'd wanna see manifest DOESN'T HIT thanks to all the plot happenings looking like shit and coming off so RANDOM and abrupt in delivery. Not a very cool time!!

we cannot trust these old names to carry on the will of our beloved memories! their time has come and gone!!

a chaotic and mindless sort of fun. THOUGH I LIKED IT QUITE A BIT I feel it doesn't truly incentivize the same level of focus somethinglike my favorite battle network moments demand, and therefore isn't as engaging!

with soo many movements and effects flickering around at once - you kind of just default to big AOE spams and focusing exclusively on the obvious 'INCOMING ATTACK ON THIS SPACE' warning lights after awhile. as opposed to ya know attacking with consistent PURPOSE and more naturally darting your eyes from yourself and the tangible enemy hitboxes to dodge things. I never like that! that kind of simplicity your gameplay can all boil down to is like cheating at game design!!!!!!!

killing anime people is also morally WRONG??? gimme a break...

the meme-y flavor text and meta tongue in cheek shit also sends me pretty hard into the "this is corny and lame!" groan zone!! why would you forsake having more of your own identity for some ez references instead??? a little lame,,,,,,,

seemingly pivots its unhealthy painting of CHUUNIBYOU-ISMS and such as actually totally alright and not worth examining at all. shut up and wield your magic sword; there are pretty women out there who LOVE YOU for no reason!!!

it's all fun and games about getting into the headspace of a real anxiety ridden, delusional NEET boy and maybe identifying we should better ourselves..... at least until the thing decides to just LOSE its fucking mind and totally forgoes that potentially relatable human feeling shit for an unironic power fantasy about ACTUALLY saving the world from evil mind-control corporations.

seriously tho??? even when the story already SHOWED US just how stupid it sounds to be so paranoid and self important thinking????? It WASN'T ironic??????? what a fumble...

i think every so-so vn I've ever read has been bolstered up a few points now that I have this real nothing burger of an experience to compare to. you are NOT valid in your delusions, kids. grow up and learn how to talk to people. please!