it's an odd game for sure, but nicely thought provoking. i'm glad i went into this blind without knowing what to expect, because otherwise i wouldn't have been able to enjoy it the way i did

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i finished this game the day it came out, practically eating up all the content i could get. at first, i was a bit dissappointed by the ending of the game, especially since everything else was so perfect. but i think after reflecting on it a few days, i can accept this ending.

i would've loved to see everyone happy and together again, especially noah and mio. but we do know now that they're reunited. we might not see how they meet each other again, but there are so many clues at the ending of both games that they'll meet again. there might not be a canon way how they meet again, but i think everyone has their own ideas how it happens and we can all pretend like it happens the way we want it to.

aside from that, the fanservice in this game is absolutely insane. colony 9, the curry, the gem man, all the decendants from the characters from the first two games that we love, the music, hell even the references to xenosaga or xenoblade x!

i even got some of my personal, rather unrealistic fanservice wishes granted! seeing klaus's world and getting to walk around in it, even if it was just a few meters was insane. and seeing alvis again, even if his situation is rather complicated now... the mentions of pneuma and logos! all those things are just crazy.

i think my expectations for this game were too high and no matter what, monolith could've never met them. but i think that i can learn to love the things they gave us. even if it's not all that i wanted and more, i can learn to love all the things i did get instead!

not sure if i like the game or if i've been stockholm syndromed into liking it

but on a more serious note, i think the game has some great moments and some not so great. i was never a fan of Q team. an amnesiac, a serial killer and some whiny "nice guy" isn't the best combo. but i pushed through those fragments.

the highlight of the game was d team. i loved phi and sigma in the second game and i adore diana. every scene with those three was amazing.

c team had great moments and some i did not care about that much. but nothing negative that comes to my mind right away.

some of the games scenes were very funny, without even intending to be that. and i love the fun easter eggs the game has to offer or small lines when you tap on certain things in escape rooms.

the decision aspect of the game was very fun. i enjoyed seeing which choices would get me killed and which ones were the right ones. i probably shouldn't have trusted sigma as much as i did, since that usually got me killed–

the different endings were all decent. some better and some just not. i even enjoyed the true ending / final ending, despite the cliffhanger. because even if you had gotten to make a final decision, would it really have mattered? it was a lose-lose situation. or at the very least, you wouldn't gain anything from doing anything. you lost and you won.

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i did not expect to love the game THIS much! i loved the original twewy on the ds and i thought this game was going to be good, but not live up to the original game's heights. i'm glad i was wrong!

it really took a while for me to get adjusted to the new characters, as well as the battle system. but man do i love them now! the characters are great, even the ones that aren't playable. sure, by the end of the game a lot of characters from the first game show up but honestly, that's great! it's amazing to see an older version of rhyme or to finally get the real shiki!

the battle system was very fun as well, even if i was constantly underleveled. i still managed to get through the game but had to sometimes stop and grind to catch up and have a chance at certain things.

the ending was great as well! my gods did i love everyone reuniting. shiki and neku. shoka and rindo. even seeing more of the sibling relationship between beat and rhyme or nagi and fret's friendship.

i haven't beaten the extra day yet, nor have i gotten the secret files. but i fully intend to 100% this game! i really love it and the characters absolutely mean the world to me <3

it's a fun game i can play while watching an anime or listening to music. it doesn't take much focus and it's just a simple and fun game

all of the three games are great! the third one was my favourite by a lot, but it couldn't have been as great as it is, without the first two games laying the foundation. the last case of the third game was very satisfying and a perfect ending for the trilogy! i do have a few minor nitpicks, but nothing that really sours my experience with the third game!

the first game was very great as well! miles edgeworth is iconic and my favourite prosecuter. i feel like almost all the original cases are very iconic in this game (case 1, phoenix's first case; case 2, maya's introduction; case 3, steek samurai and case 4, the von karma one). case 5 was a nice extra but as someone who only played those three games so far, i got no idea who all those new people were. maybe after i play apollo justice, i'll know? either way, case 5 just was a case i can barely remember anything about anymore

the second game is my least favourite one, but still a very good game! meeting pearl and learning more about kurain is great and the last case has a great twist! but the circus case really wasn't it and franziska von karma is a character i sadly never got very attached to. also, this game had some characters i really hate with a burning passion (i am looking at iny mimi or whatever her name was and the hospital director-- i couldn't stand them)

all in all, great series! i'm sure i'll get a lot of enjoyment out of apollo justice as well and if i manage to get my hands on the great ace attorney chronicles, then i'm certain i'll enjoy those as well!

i enjoyed my time with this game but the bright colours genuinely gave me such a bad headache that i could never play it for longer than an hour or maybe two on a good day. i haven't touched it in a few years and might do so again in the future. hopefully this time without the headache--

i got this game on sale with a group of friends. we played for like a week and i haven't touched it since. i did enjoy watching let's plays of this however. actually playing it myself was okay but it's just not really my type of game. but it's not bad either

i basically played through everything this game has to offer, got every item, every dog at least once and all houses (except the space station--). looking back on it, i think this game is responsible for my completionist behaviour nowadays

i borrowed this game as a child from a friend of mine and enjoyed it so much that i actually bought it now that i am an adult. this is purely my nostalgia speaking and i am very well aware of it. however, i still enjoy the game, especially the cooking mini games

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first things first: pretty good game but my god is it overhyped--

i enjoyed my time with this game and there aren't many things i can critized about this game. however there still are a few and i absolutely will go on and complain about them

first things first, that fricking okumura boss fight. if it hadn't been on a time limit, it might've been alright. but it was on a time limit and even if that had been removed, that boss isn't possible first try if you aren't using a guide.

i also wasn't a fan of the wakaba boss fight. it takes way too long to recharge that catapult and i ended up just waiting for like twenty turns, just so i could do damage for like 1-2 turns. this isn't good game design, it's literally just a waiting game.

i have minor complains about some other fights as well. some fights against enemies with no weaknesses took way too long since, you know-- they got no weakness? just putting on rush for them wasn't very fun.

another complain is haru. she is a very sweet girl but she was introduced way too late in the game. and even then, you gotta max out your knowledge to even talk to her? i genuinely think she shouldn't have any requirements after being introduced this late.

now, let's get to what i actually liked about the game.

i really fricking liked kamoshida. he was such a good villain and no other villain could reach his heights again after that. given that he was the first villain of the game, that's kinda sad. but the other villains weren't terrible, just kamoshida was my favourite.

i also like the bad endings in this game. hell, even the good / true endings aren't what i would call a "happy ending". which, i understand, is the point of them. but the bad ending where you give into maruki's reality is by far the best ending in the game. this is the sort of happy ending i would've wanted for the game and knowing it wasn't a good ending at all is just such a gut punch, i love it.

the battle system is really fun as well! it's very fast and i'm happy that it's not just spending time in menus for most of the time.

the ost is great too! i'm easily distracted so i was nervous about vocal songs playing in the background, but it honestly worked very well. some of them even found their way into my everyday playlist. but the instrumental songs are nice too. not all of them (i am looking at you, mementos--) but there are some decent songs! i especially like the song that plays during the last palace in the true ending. an absolute banger!

over all, i really enjoyed my time with persona 5 royal. it was a bit too long for my liking or rather it felt a little too long, due to you not having as much freedom as you have with other jrpgs or open world games, since the entire game is locked to a schedule. and despite it taking me quite a while to beat it and leaving the game multiple times for some months, i finally did it. and i'm glad i did.

persona 5 royal is a pretty good game. it doesn't reinvent anything, but it got a fun battle system, a nice story and some decent characters!

this game sadly was quite the dissappointment.

the legions in the game reminded me a lot of blades from xenoblade chronicles 2, which is why i had high hopes in this game. surely they would explore the legions in a fun way and at some point make you realize that-- you know, you got this living being you are essentially just using as a fighting slave? despite the very serious tone of the game, this didn't come up however. i would've liked for the game to adress that subject but sure, whatever.

sadly the gameplay wasn't much better. it's not really bad, but-- i don't know it never felt satisfying. i let my legion do most of the fighting since it was way more fleshed out. i believe the mc only has like three weapons themself? one gun and two similar looking sticks.

the graphics or music weren't much better. it was rather bland and repetitive. i ended up putting on my own music or even full on youtube videos while playing the game, so i could at least do something fun while trying to finish this game.

the characters never really get fleshed out, which sucks. i bet characters like marie, olive, jin or even yoseph could've been a lot cooler if given more time.

this game sorta felt to me like it wanted to be too much at the same time. it wanted to have a deep story but it also didn't want to have too many cutscenes so you can always get back into the gameplay quickly. they wanted to have some double fights with you and your legion, but the legion ended up doing most of the work. they wanted to have puzzle aspects and they also wanted to have realistic sections where you work as a police officer. but it just doesn't really work together. they never found that great mix between all of those things. in the end, the puzzles, the police sections and the fights all fell flat for me. i couldn't really enjoy any of them.

i sadly did not enjoy my time with this game and it felt too much like a chore after a while. i wish we had at least gotten to see more of the characters, that could've made the game a lot better in my opinion. but without it, i just can't bring myself to give it a good rating.

not sure if i ever was as conflicted about a game as i am with fire emblem: engage...

i bought it day one and had watched a few of the trailers before, so i knew what i was getting myself into. that this game might not be as good as some other fire emblem games, that it would be more "anime".

it's clear that this game is a downgrade from what was fire emblem: three houses.
while three houses voice acted literally every line in the game, engage doesn't do the same. after battle dialouge or the characters reactions to food you cooked for them aren't voiced anymore, which is a shame.

the characters aren't as deep and developed as they were in three houses. they seem very one note, though i didn't bother to get every support conversation and only watched all alear supports and a few others mixed in. speaking of supports, they are-- alright? some of them aren't very good and just boring, while there are a few hidden gems. celine and alcryst have a very sweet and serious set of supports. over all, alcryst seems like one of the better characters in this game, just judging by the supports i saw of him.

the emblem supports are very dissappointing. they each say a line and that's it. i understand that if they did more, it would've been a ton of extra work, but i'd rather not have any supports with emblems than this.

the emblems themselves are fine. they are fun to use in gameplay, but it sucks that you don't have all 12 of them until the very end of the game. i understand that storywise this makes sense, but it sucked to have the one fun part of the game be taken away from me at a certain point.

somniel and all its activities didn't really interest me. the ring gacha mechanic lowkey sucked, simply because it costs way too much to forge an s rank ring. the food thing was alright but i much prefere the three houses version of it. i only did the work outs once and they were too easy and at the point i finally unlocked harder difficulties, i had lost interest in it. fishing wasn't fun either; again, the three houses version was better.

a positive is that you can marry whoever you want, no matter your characters gender. i watched three s supports and honestly, i would've prefered a more explicit "i love you" instead of the "we are allies forever"

the story very much reminded me of awakening and i'm sure i wasn't the only one. though, awakening did it better. especially chapter 11 (i think? maybe 10 or 12 even--) reminded me of a specific awakening map.

the emblem trials were fun at first, but got repetitive after a while. i didn't play every fire emblem game, so not all were equally interesting to me. though i do think they could've picked other maps from the respective games. especially celica's map was a bit underwhelming, but that might just be me.

the soundtrack is pretty decent though. i loved all the solm tracks and the credits songs. the four hounds had a nice theme as well.

speaking of them, they were BY FAR my favourite part of the game. i didn't expect anything from them going into the game and thought they would suck, but i was pleasantly suprised. the last scene griss and zephia share with each other is my favourite in the entire game and it made me very emotional. marni's backstory made me very sad as well, simply because she told it so casually. mauvier is alright too but was the least interesting one from the start (and of course happens to be the only one of the four hounds you can recruit--)

the final boss was very dissappointing. it was not just easy, but i actually expected more when they introduced the villain emblems. but they weren't even voiced, nor did they actually look like their respective characters.

i'm also very upset we never saw the emblem of origin and that we learned of it literally in the last five minutes of the game. i'm worried they might've actually cut that content and decided to put it in the dlc story.

one good thing about the final boss though, is the bad ending. it's one of the cooler scenes of the game and a very nice punch in the face if you actually get it.

overall, i can't help but compare this game to it's predecessor. i know that fire emblem can be better. both three houses and shadows of valentia are such great games, so it hurts to see this game not even get near their level of greatness.

still, i didn't hate my time with the game. yes, it was dissappointing. but there were a few good moments that made it worth it. but i do hope that the next fire emblem game we get actually does better...

this game was my introduction to the atelier games and i have to say, i really did enjoy my time with it. the first few hours i was a bit worried i might not enjoy it as much, but after a while it just sorta clicked.

the game is sweet and relaxing. it's not really like other jrps with super dark and serious stories and the end of the world being near, but rather about the few main characters and their personal struggles, that are all very relatable. i really did like every character in the game, even if monika and oscar sorta became useless to me by the end of the game as they weren't in my party, nor did they provide any useful services like leon or cory did. i even enjoyed the side characters such as pamela or elise, who also got small but sweet story bits.

the combat is rather easy, but i still did avoid it for most of the game, meaning i got my ass kicked whenever i really did need to use it to advance the story. crafting weapons, armour, items and consumables is really fun and it helped me to go from being underleveled and weak as fuck, to being able to beat pretty much anything in my way, including the final boss.

i'm glad the game has a bit of post game content, even if i didn't get around to finishing that yet. post game just feels like a must for this sort of game.

the music is very nice as well and i'm especially glad i get the chance to listen to older games soundtracks. the digital artbook that comes with the switch version of this game is great as well and i loved looking at the characters in their silly little outfits.

overall, i really enjoyed this game and i hope that atelier sophie 2 will be just as much fun!

i'm usually someone who much preferes a good story over fun gameplay, but with this game, i didn't seem to mind things being the other way around. the story is one that you've probably heared before and the game doesn't reinvent anything, but the gameplay is tons of fun!

most things about this game are rather average. the soundtrack is nice, but sometimes i found myself putting on my own playlist and muting the game. the characters are nice, but there are a bit too many to spend time with all of them. i never once used caius, felton, rose or a few of the others, because i didn't have the time to try out new characters, knowing i would get new ones in the very next level. many characters may work for a game with permadeath, but a few of the later characters felt a little unnecessary. the support conversations were alright. some were really fun and some i didn't pay much attention to.

overall, the game didn't stood out to me in any particular way, but i still had tons of fun with it. if you don't care much about the story, you can get a lot of enjoyment out of the gameplay!