This isn’t the greatest game I’ve ever played. There’s a lot that’s objectively wrong with it: its translation is kinda shoddy, its battle system is overly simple and doesn’t do much different from its contemporaries, it’s a short RPG, its graphics and effects are somewhat lackluster, its story is fun but not especially chock full of deep layered characters, and it can be pretty clunky at times.

Yet despite this, I think Okage: Shadow King is a fantastic experience bursting with passion, humor and creativity.

Its art style and character designs burst with a nightmare flavor to them, and with the fairy tale way the story is framed, it makes sense to model them as such. They’re charming and unique. The characters themselves are fun too, while not deep, they’re hilarious(something shared with the game as a whole), and the story is surprisingly layered and intriguing.

Even the gameplay I enjoy. I like it for its relative simplicity, even without diversity in character builds, min/maxing or anything like that, it’s still fun in its simplicity I feel.

Okage is a definitely a game without a place to belong, made too soon for many to appreciate its humor and soul, and too late to be considered a classic in its own merit.

I think it’s a definitive cult classic, a strange, surreal, but heartfelt RPG journey that you wouldn’t be remiss in trying out if any of that sounds fun to you.

I quite like the first Borderlands. I dig it's wasteland feel, I dig is relative aimless feel, and I like how it makes you feel like the Vault Hunter you are, this lawless land needs a lawless hunter in it and I like how the game does that. Shooting is great, the series signature humor isn't as over the top in later games, but it's quirky enough to enjoy it. Shooting and looting is a ton of fun, the core loop is pretty addicting. The story is meh, but it's still neat enough to push you through. Check it out and see if you want to continue playing through the series, cause the games do get better after this.

"It's cute that you all think you're the heroes of this little adventure, but, you're not."

Borderlands 2 is a really fun time. Classes are diverse and fun to experiment with, the gameplay and abilities are hella fun to use, and there's tons of great characters to hang out with here. The story ain't half bad too, with a great driving antagonist that I'm sure everyone knows about. It's just such a fun time to shoot, loot and repeat and keep collecting stronger weapons, it's a great loop and it makes the neurons in my gamer brain go off like a tornado siren. Good stuff.

This game is so goddamn fun, if you put me into a empty room with this game and a bucket, I'd eat the bucket, and play this game for days. It's short, on a take your time playthrough, it's about 6 hours. But in this case, it's by design. It's meant to be replayed so you can get better and better. The gameplay is like a third person bullet hell, and has tons of hidden mechanics and strategies for shooting and punching the shit out of robots and looking stylish as hell while doing it. The story is there. It's more of a reason to give you the game to play, though I do like our main character, think there's a lot of charm there. If you love action games, you owe it to yourself to play Vanquish.

It's funny, despite how my tastes with games change over time, Shadow of the Colossus stays stuck in my brain over and over again. Something about it is so mysterious and enigmatic. The Forbidden Lands(the main setting of the game), feel alive but filled with mystery, the main narrative in minimalist but profound, and the feeling you get when seeing the first Colossus, this massive towering thing, is a fantastic experience. Play this game, it's worth everything you've heard. Words can't fully describe it.