Clock
2024
i could tell you about all the shortcomings this remake has, from lack of difficulty compared to the original, to the prerendered cutscenes lacking bite in some areas, to the removal of femc, ect.
none of those really mattered to me by the time i finished. the original persona 3 is one of the most important games of my life, a game that ended up changing how i viewed life and my own existence in it. reload was never, ever going to be anything less than 5 stars from me if they managed to stick the landing.
well, i'm typing this through tears after spending the last 30 minutes sobbing after the ending played, so yeah they stuck the landing. every emotional beat from the original hit me just as hard as they did when i was 15, and that's all i ever wanted. everything else i got was just a bonus.
memento mori
none of those really mattered to me by the time i finished. the original persona 3 is one of the most important games of my life, a game that ended up changing how i viewed life and my own existence in it. reload was never, ever going to be anything less than 5 stars from me if they managed to stick the landing.
well, i'm typing this through tears after spending the last 30 minutes sobbing after the ending played, so yeah they stuck the landing. every emotional beat from the original hit me just as hard as they did when i was 15, and that's all i ever wanted. everything else i got was just a bonus.
memento mori
2022
nintendo treat game freak like human beings and give them more than 5 minutes to make a game challenge
this game feels like it was made by people who wanted to create a truly great pokemon game, that wanted this game to be so much more and so much better than the last few games. but no game company is capable of creating a finished game with this little time. this game is not finished. it is buggy, ugly, and runs like ass.
despite it all, i still adore this disaster. it's the first time i cared about the plot of a pokemon game in years, i loved a lot of the new pokemon for the first time in years, and it's just a very cozy and relaxing game. i love my stupid dinosaur motorcycle with my life.
it's frustrating to know that this release won't change nintendo's tactics. why would they? i'll keep buying this anyways.
this game feels like it was made by people who wanted to create a truly great pokemon game, that wanted this game to be so much more and so much better than the last few games. but no game company is capable of creating a finished game with this little time. this game is not finished. it is buggy, ugly, and runs like ass.
despite it all, i still adore this disaster. it's the first time i cared about the plot of a pokemon game in years, i loved a lot of the new pokemon for the first time in years, and it's just a very cozy and relaxing game. i love my stupid dinosaur motorcycle with my life.
it's frustrating to know that this release won't change nintendo's tactics. why would they? i'll keep buying this anyways.
shez!
it's SOOOO close to achieving greatness, but the fact that every route doesn't have an actual ending is. a choice, i suppose. honestly, i was expecting dlc releases to come and give you the "true ending" for each route, but considering we're now well over a year after release, and not even a hint of dlc in sight, i don't think that'll happen.
real disappointing, because otherwise i enjoyed it significantly more than i did the first fire emblem warriors.
it's SOOOO close to achieving greatness, but the fact that every route doesn't have an actual ending is. a choice, i suppose. honestly, i was expecting dlc releases to come and give you the "true ending" for each route, but considering we're now well over a year after release, and not even a hint of dlc in sight, i don't think that'll happen.
real disappointing, because otherwise i enjoyed it significantly more than i did the first fire emblem warriors.
2022
This review contains spoilers
major disappointment. i was a big fan of until dawn, which i thought was one of the best games of this ilk. this feels like a step in the wrong direction.
chapter 7 is where i think it all falls apart, as the cast of characters that you had spent the first few hours getting to know and possibly kill is sidelined by a character that hasn't been seen since the prologue, with a personality of stale bread, which you proceed to spend the next hour doing a flashback chapter with. all the momentum that the game had been building up is gone, and the game is now about this new character.
it's just frustrating. i wanted to like this game a lot, but it just falls on it's face.
chapter 7 is where i think it all falls apart, as the cast of characters that you had spent the first few hours getting to know and possibly kill is sidelined by a character that hasn't been seen since the prologue, with a personality of stale bread, which you proceed to spend the next hour doing a flashback chapter with. all the momentum that the game had been building up is gone, and the game is now about this new character.
it's just frustrating. i wanted to like this game a lot, but it just falls on it's face.
2023
bethesda's house of cards finally crumbles. i see glimpses of ambition in some parts of this game, but their ambition is far outstripped by their own lack of ability. i think a lot about how the space sections just feel like glorified loading screens.
might return to this in a few years after the modding scene gets a chance to develop, but considering what i've heard about the difficulties modders are having with getting anything done, i don't know how much they'll be able to fix.
might return to this in a few years after the modding scene gets a chance to develop, but considering what i've heard about the difficulties modders are having with getting anything done, i don't know how much they'll be able to fix.
a flawed sequel. the gameplay is solid, the performances by the main cast are excellent (yuri lowenthal, who put on the performance of his life in the first game, is even better here), but the open world feels like there's less to do and while i liked the core of the main plot, i have major issues with the pacing. feels like it's going at a breakneck speed, which is confirmed in game when people start saying that the events of the game had taken place over the course of one week by the third act.
i hesitate to call a game like this unfinished, but it felt like it needed another 6 months, maybe even another year. the first game was fantastic, and left me wanting for more in the sequel. it's frustrating that i still feel that way after the sequel.
i hesitate to call a game like this unfinished, but it felt like it needed another 6 months, maybe even another year. the first game was fantastic, and left me wanting for more in the sequel. it's frustrating that i still feel that way after the sequel.
2018
everything they said about this game is true
how the FUCK did it take this long for someone to remember how to make a proper tony hawk game.
case 2-4 is by far the best case in the series but man there sure isn't a whole lot else to it huh. 2-2 is fine. 2-1 is bleh. 2-3 is horrific. still gets 4 stars
just a complete disaster. barely playable. i spent hundreds of hours on it.
you ever play a game and you know something is horribly, horribly wrong with it, but you just can't place what it is? that was my experience with this game
who did this game appeal to, because it certainly wasn't me
2009
never fucking again stardy
2018
what if we made the prototypical ubisoft sandbox experience and then slap on the worst ending possible for it
2012
abandon all hope ye who enter here