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Persona 3 Reload
2024
This review contains spoilers
I have never cried this much at anything ever. This game is just beautiful man.
I found myself avoiding finishing the game near the end and I just knew what would happen and I couldn't avoid it all the same. The bonds you make, good and bad, just really got me fucking ugly crying. These people are here for you and you're here for them. I cried talking to nearly every single one of them. I've never felt like this before, but it was such a great experience.
This game really speaks to me and I'm so glad I got to be here for it. I want to be there for my friends, family, and loved ones. Tell them you love them. I'm crying again just thinking about it. Thank you.
I found myself avoiding finishing the game near the end and I just knew what would happen and I couldn't avoid it all the same. The bonds you make, good and bad, just really got me fucking ugly crying. These people are here for you and you're here for them. I cried talking to nearly every single one of them. I've never felt like this before, but it was such a great experience.
This game really speaks to me and I'm so glad I got to be here for it. I want to be there for my friends, family, and loved ones. Tell them you love them. I'm crying again just thinking about it. Thank you.
Persona 3 Reload
2024
P3 is a game that meant a lot to me so to see a remake this immaculate where it fleshes out the characters (such as ken and strega) and makes the gameplay THIS much fun is a dream I didn't expect to be real. Going through everything all over again was something else and the ending destroyed me again. It was already perfect before but somehow they made it even better. All timer.
Persona 3 Reload
2024
This review contains spoilers
SPOILING LITERALLY EVERYTHING. DOUBLE WARNING!!
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this game means so much to me. there was so many moments in this game that just left me sobbing and crying, leaving me to think about MY own life in the process.
i spent so much time with this game man. so many major scenes were done so tastefully and beautifully from fes. this game visually is so gorgeous, seeing port island like this is still so crazy to me. the music in this game dude? FUCK bro they were COOKING so fucking hard. i know there is like alot of thoughts on certain reloaded versions of songs but i personally grew to love them or heck, love even more than the OG like changing seasons for example like god what a good song man. but the new tracks like color your night and its going down now? new favorites with color your night ESPECIALLY being on top 3 levels in persona music personally speaking. overall, music is #GAS #ALLTIMER
the gameplay was exactly what i expected and its so much fun. tartarus had now become a blast to run to, making personas and creating builds using a fan calculator, its all here and i love it so fucking much!
this game's loop becomes so addicting and i love how it just gets going rather quick too. the much needed dorm hangouts were such a fun way to add more life to the dorm, but also SEEs as a group. link episodes were also an incredible addition, giving characters like ken much needed development and personally has now become a character i love a lot. i also just love the fact every slink in this game is fully voiced. even though some slinks in this game while not the greatest, (except maya she is #foreverwashed) i still appreciate the extra push and im glad that this will probably be an ongoing standard for future persona games. gotta give flowers to yuko, maiko, mamoru and akinari especially for giving so much life to these already fantastic slinks.
i was just having the funnest experience going through the first half of this game as it slowly introduces new stuff in the process. but once october hit and onwards, it just became an emotional rollercoaster that i will never forget. shinjiro and chidori's death were something that i knew would eventually happen but, god those moments hit so much harder in this game. again, the voice direction is just incredible in this game. akihiko's awakening was so gut wrenching, EVERYTHING with junpei and chidori was just so beautiful man. aigis' voice progressively becoming more human as the game goes, all of it is just amazing. the voice cast is unbelievable. everyone did an incredible job, especially aigis and junpei for me were huge standouts. dawn and zeno were just amazing.
i remember hitting the very last stretch of the game. january started and the dorm's living with determination begun playing, thats when it truly solidified that this is one of the best games i've ever played. and once i beat nyx, march rolled around and i literally just sat there, tears down my face for an hour straight going through every character, every npc and what they had to say.
i was terrified about 3/5 especiallly, considering how i was reacting to the rest of this entire game bro? (crying alot) i knew i wasnt ready. but once it happened, it destroyed me man. makoto and aigis' final scene was absolutely gorgeous, heartbreaking, hopeful and so much more. the fact that they went out of their way to create exclusive sound effects and such a unique way of displaying makoto's dialogue choices in this scene was such an incredible touch to an already incredibly perfectly done ending in fes.
this game is everything i wanted for a persona 3 remake. p3's story touched me like not many stories have and seeing this game being a thing is such a surreal thought to me still. this game is in levels of xenoblade 3 and kingdom hearts 2 for me specifically on how they all have a special place in my heart. thank you for this game, im truly grateful for it.
hug your loved ones!!!!!!!!
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this game means so much to me. there was so many moments in this game that just left me sobbing and crying, leaving me to think about MY own life in the process.
i spent so much time with this game man. so many major scenes were done so tastefully and beautifully from fes. this game visually is so gorgeous, seeing port island like this is still so crazy to me. the music in this game dude? FUCK bro they were COOKING so fucking hard. i know there is like alot of thoughts on certain reloaded versions of songs but i personally grew to love them or heck, love even more than the OG like changing seasons for example like god what a good song man. but the new tracks like color your night and its going down now? new favorites with color your night ESPECIALLY being on top 3 levels in persona music personally speaking. overall, music is #GAS #ALLTIMER
the gameplay was exactly what i expected and its so much fun. tartarus had now become a blast to run to, making personas and creating builds using a fan calculator, its all here and i love it so fucking much!
this game's loop becomes so addicting and i love how it just gets going rather quick too. the much needed dorm hangouts were such a fun way to add more life to the dorm, but also SEEs as a group. link episodes were also an incredible addition, giving characters like ken much needed development and personally has now become a character i love a lot. i also just love the fact every slink in this game is fully voiced. even though some slinks in this game while not the greatest, (except maya she is #foreverwashed) i still appreciate the extra push and im glad that this will probably be an ongoing standard for future persona games. gotta give flowers to yuko, maiko, mamoru and akinari especially for giving so much life to these already fantastic slinks.
i was just having the funnest experience going through the first half of this game as it slowly introduces new stuff in the process. but once october hit and onwards, it just became an emotional rollercoaster that i will never forget. shinjiro and chidori's death were something that i knew would eventually happen but, god those moments hit so much harder in this game. again, the voice direction is just incredible in this game. akihiko's awakening was so gut wrenching, EVERYTHING with junpei and chidori was just so beautiful man. aigis' voice progressively becoming more human as the game goes, all of it is just amazing. the voice cast is unbelievable. everyone did an incredible job, especially aigis and junpei for me were huge standouts. dawn and zeno were just amazing.
i remember hitting the very last stretch of the game. january started and the dorm's living with determination begun playing, thats when it truly solidified that this is one of the best games i've ever played. and once i beat nyx, march rolled around and i literally just sat there, tears down my face for an hour straight going through every character, every npc and what they had to say.
i was terrified about 3/5 especiallly, considering how i was reacting to the rest of this entire game bro? (crying alot) i knew i wasnt ready. but once it happened, it destroyed me man. makoto and aigis' final scene was absolutely gorgeous, heartbreaking, hopeful and so much more. the fact that they went out of their way to create exclusive sound effects and such a unique way of displaying makoto's dialogue choices in this scene was such an incredible touch to an already incredibly perfectly done ending in fes.
this game is everything i wanted for a persona 3 remake. p3's story touched me like not many stories have and seeing this game being a thing is such a surreal thought to me still. this game is in levels of xenoblade 3 and kingdom hearts 2 for me specifically on how they all have a special place in my heart. thank you for this game, im truly grateful for it.
hug your loved ones!!!!!!!!
This is the best way to conclude a trilogy i have seen in a good while, how it ties everything together from story world gameplay and its music motifs should be studied thank you takahashi !!
I decided to start with definitive edition for the xenoblade games go and the best way i can describe it would be humble begginings definetly a lot of meat to it but not enough to not reach the bone and see its cracks
I really wish i could love this game more than the first one most of this game is #REALGAMING but the issues this game has are here troughout the whole playtrough and it isnt something that you can just ignore i found myself still loving this game i just wish halfway trough the game a lot of its issue picked up like the story does
Listen i love Avatar as much as the next guy but please, make an actual good game with them because good lord this was not it
Xenogears
1998
One of the greatest stories ever told and a flawed gem of a game
Bayonetta 3
2022
This game started pretty strong and just started to fall off the more you played the game. This game feels like they were trying to recapture the Bayo charm but failed.
The combat starts pretty strong but ends up being formulaic and repetitive. The thing I don't like about Musou games is that, at the end of the day, it usually devolves into mindless button mashing with characters/weapons being reskins of the same mindless button mashing. There's no weight or importance to different characters in Musous, they're all the same outside of animation differences. This game has the same issue.
I tried every (10 or so) weapon(s) the game offered me and did my best to experiment, but they all ended up playing virtually the same, and it got repetitive. Even the main guns of Bayo don't feel very interesting, as they too follow the same formula of gameplay.
The concept of giving you new weapons to experiment with starts off cool, but as the game progresses, it gets to the point where you are getting new weapons in almost every chapter, and the chapters aren't long enough to warrant experimenting with said weapons. It also doesn't help that you are limited to two weapons at a time. In a game with so many weapons, it feels like they don't want you to use all of them.
The dodging also feels bad in this game, which sucks for it being Bayo's main gimmick, Witch Time. To compensate for kaiju summoning, the camera pans out to very large angles, and the telegraphs for dodging feel nonexistent or difficult to see. Despite this, I do think kaijus are probably my favorite aspect of the combat, and getting big meaty hits in and having them extend your combos, defend you, or just straight up beat the hell out of an enemy does feel pretty cool.
Conceptually, this game's combat is cool, but it just doesn't end up being as satisfying as the previous games' combat. As those games had a much smaller variety of weapons, but felt much more focused.
As far as the story goes, this game doesn't have the same outlandish, wild, goofy, and extravagant charm the previous games had. It does have its moments, but overall it feels like a watered-down Bayonetta. The story was never really my focal point for these games, so I can't say I was really giving my 100% in analyzing it, but I still believe it's not much of note.
As of writing this review, I am at chapter 13 out of 14. My great friend Tony suggested a Pre-Ending review, as everyone seems to despise the ending. I've only gotten a glimpse of what it could be, but I sure don't like it. I will edit this review upon my completion.
Cont: You know what, the ending isn't that bad. It did kinda just happen but it doesn't like ruin the entire series for me like people were hyping it up to. Still staying a 4/10.
The combat starts pretty strong but ends up being formulaic and repetitive. The thing I don't like about Musou games is that, at the end of the day, it usually devolves into mindless button mashing with characters/weapons being reskins of the same mindless button mashing. There's no weight or importance to different characters in Musous, they're all the same outside of animation differences. This game has the same issue.
I tried every (10 or so) weapon(s) the game offered me and did my best to experiment, but they all ended up playing virtually the same, and it got repetitive. Even the main guns of Bayo don't feel very interesting, as they too follow the same formula of gameplay.
The concept of giving you new weapons to experiment with starts off cool, but as the game progresses, it gets to the point where you are getting new weapons in almost every chapter, and the chapters aren't long enough to warrant experimenting with said weapons. It also doesn't help that you are limited to two weapons at a time. In a game with so many weapons, it feels like they don't want you to use all of them.
The dodging also feels bad in this game, which sucks for it being Bayo's main gimmick, Witch Time. To compensate for kaiju summoning, the camera pans out to very large angles, and the telegraphs for dodging feel nonexistent or difficult to see. Despite this, I do think kaijus are probably my favorite aspect of the combat, and getting big meaty hits in and having them extend your combos, defend you, or just straight up beat the hell out of an enemy does feel pretty cool.
Conceptually, this game's combat is cool, but it just doesn't end up being as satisfying as the previous games' combat. As those games had a much smaller variety of weapons, but felt much more focused.
As far as the story goes, this game doesn't have the same outlandish, wild, goofy, and extravagant charm the previous games had. It does have its moments, but overall it feels like a watered-down Bayonetta. The story was never really my focal point for these games, so I can't say I was really giving my 100% in analyzing it, but I still believe it's not much of note.
As of writing this review, I am at chapter 13 out of 14. My great friend Tony suggested a Pre-Ending review, as everyone seems to despise the ending. I've only gotten a glimpse of what it could be, but I sure don't like it. I will edit this review upon my completion.
Cont: You know what, the ending isn't that bad. It did kinda just happen but it doesn't like ruin the entire series for me like people were hyping it up to. Still staying a 4/10.
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