Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time is filled to the brim with great new ideas all around that had the potential to outdo the already masterful first game, and even a few better executed stuff than the first game (mainly plants like Blover and Cactus). However, the scummy amounts of microtransactions and artificial difficulty ultimately undercuts the game's strengths and makes it rather tedious and not really worth coming back to. Meanwhile, the soundtrack is noticeably weaker and the Versus mode is an uninspired bore in every way. EA can fuck off.

i've been realizing that most things i could possibly praise undertale for are all things that were done much better (to me at least) in other titles before or after, most of them before. it was a very important game to me when it first came out and i was a young teenager, but nowadays i can't bring myself to praise much outside of a few songs. hell, even toby himself has made it hard for me to have too much nice to say about undertale now that deltarune is out and is just better in every conceivable way.
i guess retroactively i do like mad mew mew quite a bit and in terms of music the dummy theme and the genocide-exclusive tracks (especially battle against a true hero, probably my favorite toby fox song) are all marvelous, but in 2022 having played a lot more games than i had before 2015, undertale is just very okay. it's not bad and is a really impressive game in a lot of ways, but i don't enjoy it anymore and i will probably never play it again.

i'm also very mixed on how i feel about undertale's impact on indie rpgs but i won't get into it

Don't be fooled by the screenshots - this looks more arcane than it actually is. It's a tightly-designed, fresh take on the adventure puzzler. The combat is snappy and dynamic, but forgiving. The puzzles are rich, even if a bit top-heavy - you might often walk into a room and mumble "oh jesus" until you make sense of the noise. The dialogue is stunningly well-written; if you've spent time in MMOs, there's a lot of smart jokes and banter to catch. I even found myself invested in the story.

80 hours in, I did eventually get bored and never beat the game. The puzzles and dungeon combat just became too much of a chore. I knew what I needed to do and how to beat them, but felt exhausted when I walked into another huge room full of triangular blocks waiting for me to route a pinball for an hour. that's okay, though. I still had a blast with this game and feel glad for the time I spent with it.