Faye
2013
Rough around the edges but there's a diamond in there. Imagine if it was remade to be better and more polished... Now that would be crazy.
2019
A great title, even better with friends. It could use some quality of life features that modders have figured out, and the "last boss" is very frustrating. Stick to looping - once you get a worthwhile build going, there's something exceptionally engaging there.
2001
Very fun and dripping with charm. Something about seeing those little tanks sliding around and blasting each other... And let's not forget indirect weaponry, my beloved. There's actually a surprising amount of replayability and content in this game if you enjoy the gameplay loop. The campaign plot is a bit too silly for me, but the characters are fun. I'm excited to play the sequel soon.
2018
Wonderful game. The story carries great weight and the gameplay is addictive, though I don't have the patience to go for mad completionism tasks like strawberries and B-sides.
Played it with a friend. I'm honestly not the target audience, so I'm not going to rate it.
Not crazy about the time mechanic, but it's a classic for a reason.
Some would say this one is too easy, and it is, but - honestly, that's part of its charm for me. Touhou excels with how much variety goes on in terms of mechanics and difficulty between games. And of course, the themes are excellent. Yuyuko, my beloved.
It's been years, and I really want to replay it before I give it a proper rating, but this is a classic and a joy to play.
2003
A childhood game, which is why you're seeing it on my list at all. It's janky as hell and very slightly sits in the uncanny valley, but I have fond memories that prop it up in my mind.
Animal Crossing: An Experiment in Merchandise
Fun for a bit. A short bit. I have Numbers-Go-Up disease, which kind of helped.
2019
An engaging tower defense combined with incredible novels, of which new ones release every few months. The lore of Arknights's world is breathtaking and an inspiration, the characters are wonderfully complex, and the OST is full of bangers. It's just such an incredibly pity that all of this good -- all of this greatness, even -- is stuck inside a gacha game that wants to suck out all of your time and your money.
Spend any large amount of time in this game and you'll feel the rot flow through you like you've also contracted the rock cancer. This is not a recommendation. I can't recommend any gacha game in good faith. If you ever find yourself Berenstein Bear'd into a grand reality where Arknights is a timeless singleplayer joint tower defense-visual novel game franchise, please play it then.
Spend any large amount of time in this game and you'll feel the rot flow through you like you've also contracted the rock cancer. This is not a recommendation. I can't recommend any gacha game in good faith. If you ever find yourself Berenstein Bear'd into a grand reality where Arknights is a timeless singleplayer joint tower defense-visual novel game franchise, please play it then.
2016
It's cute, it feeds both my Numbers-Go-Up and Collecting brainworms, but it's a gacha game, and aggressively grindy, so any and all satisfaction from feeding either of said worms is starved out.
2017
I haven't played since the launch year, and I can only imagine how much worse it's gotten since. As with any gacha game, you shouldn't play it.
Charming in some ways, but I'm not big into the idol genre when it comes to storytelling, so all that's left to sustain me is the rhythm gameplay. It's fun, but the gacha elements makes it so grindy and extrinsically-motivated that it chokes out any enjoyment I'd get from just playing the songs. My being a completionist probably also has something to do with it.