BoltGSR
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2021
very earnestly felt like an interactive fiction game from 2006, but sadly i mean that in a bad sense this time
There's a lot in this game that I love love love love love. The final few days are the kind of JRPG climactic stuff I live for, and it's just so satisfying to revisit this world and its aesthetics.
My big issue with the game is that a lot of the main story drags - there just isn't a sense of forward momentum, and even the final week has a few days that are more about you running around taking care of what feels like busywork because obviously the plot stuff can't take place until the last day. The time travel days are also pretty dull, and Scramble Slam is just a nightmare of a time-waster.
My big issue with the game is that a lot of the main story drags - there just isn't a sense of forward momentum, and even the final week has a few days that are more about you running around taking care of what feels like busywork because obviously the plot stuff can't take place until the last day. The time travel days are also pretty dull, and Scramble Slam is just a nightmare of a time-waster.
2015
I've really been sinking time into this one recently, but I can feel I'm starting to fall off of it. Unless you really really get into city design for aesthetics's sake, there's just not a long tail to any given scenario, and every run starts feeling pretty much the same.
Also, the in-game Twitter is a nightmare. Some of it is just "I guess a flash mob joke was slightly more relevant in 2015", but there's no excusing the "Rastafarian accent" "jokes" you get if you legalize weed. You can turn it off, but then you lose a source of notifications that something's going wrong in the city.
Also, the in-game Twitter is a nightmare. Some of it is just "I guess a flash mob joke was slightly more relevant in 2015", but there's no excusing the "Rastafarian accent" "jokes" you get if you legalize weed. You can turn it off, but then you lose a source of notifications that something's going wrong in the city.
2019
I mostly had a good time with this, but I think its design leads to an unavoidable dip around the 70% mark where you're just doing run after run without really getting much progress, even using the "give me settings with events" button. A fascinating concept with a fun true ending, but just a little too constrained by its design for its own good.
A really solid VN, imo! I love the aesthetics of it, and I think it does a good job of telling a multigenerational tragedy. It sags a bit in places, but as someone who doesn't play a lot of straight VNs I ultimately enjoyed my time with it a lot, and its division into multiple doors with (mostly) independent scenarios helps keep things fresh enough.
What a blast of a game. I think RE7 still beats it in terms of aesthetics and tone, but Village married the RE7 style with the gunplay of something like RE4 or RE2make better than I thought was possible. I also appreciate the focus on buying persistent cross-playthrough upgrades, and having a max difficulty balanced to that.
It's an old game with a fresh coat of paint through and through, but by that same token I was pleasantly surprised by how much it has going on. It's a lot of fun to play it and think about how it influenced the murder mystery game genre going forward, and I dug the voice acting a lot.
But like everyone else has said, it's also wildly unintuitive in places. Just save yourself the trouble and play with a guide.
But like everyone else has said, it's also wildly unintuitive in places. Just save yourself the trouble and play with a guide.
1994
you have found an enchanted ring of stamina
you have found a cursed chainmail of stamina
you have died
you have found a cursed chainmail of stamina
you have died
1994
oh you know i'm grabbing the first review and "played" for pickle wars for the ms-dos
anyway, don't play this game.
anyway, don't play this game.
frankly this is a 3.5 with how floaty the mechanics are but the absolute ridiculousness and charm of the subspace emissary cutscenes pushes it up to a 4
1996
super mario y'all... Super fucking mario!!!
2021
Started off strong but by the time I got to the Quidditch mini game in hour 15 I was yelling "End. End!!!!!" at the screen
2012
This is long overdue a replay, but I remember at the time being baffled by how the game is actually just linear for the first 2/3rds and it's only in the last segments that your choices start to matter in any way.
2000
(guy who's only played Nox playing Diablo for the first time) getting a lot of Nox vibes from this
1993
i played and completed plok on stream in the year of our lord 2022. reader, do not make the same mistakes i did. it isn't too late. you can choose a better timeline