Griffinin
Bio
“Lucky there’s a man who positively can do, all the things that make us laugh and cry.”
- Genesis 19:9
“Lucky there’s a man who positively can do, all the things that make us laugh and cry.”
- Genesis 19:9
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Gamer
Played 250+ games
Busy Day
Journaled 5+ games in a single day
Loved
Gained 100+ total review likes
GOTY '23
Participated in the 2023 Game of the Year Event
Best Friends
Become mutual friends with at least 3 others
2 Years of Service
Being part of the Backloggd community for 2 years
Well Written
Gained 10+ likes on a single review
Gone Gold
Received 5+ likes on a review while featured on the front page
Listed
Created 10+ public lists
Liked
Gained 10+ total review likes
Roadtrip
Voted for at least 3 features on the roadmap
Noticed
Gained 3+ followers
GOTY '22
Participated in the 2022 Game of the Year Event
Organized
Created a list folder with 5+ lists
N00b
Played 100+ games
Favorite Games
258
Total Games Played
011
Played in 2024
178
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One of the funniest games ever, the comedy is like the perfect mix of Looney Tunes crossed with Key and Peele, it’s fantastic.
It’s also super sweet and it just made me happy to play.
It’s also super sweet and it just made me happy to play.
This game is clearly ambitious and has some interesting ideas, but every inch of it is infested with the feeling of an amateur.
Firstly, the game is technically quite nice. The storybook aesthetic is complimented well with the physically flat characters, and the backgrounds are simply gorgeous. However, the characters are also a bit over-designed in a way that renders them a bit bothersome to look at. Something about the art style also makes these characters extremely hard to relate to. I’m not quite sure why this is, but I found it very distracting and not at all immersive. Not to mention the load times reaching 20-30 seconds just to enter or exit a battle. This is admittedly probably the fault of switch optimization, but there’s really no excuse when hardly any RPG has load times into battle PERIOD.
The story was fine, if underwhelming. I played for a couple hours and found it serviceable but uninteresting. I had zero interest in where it was going. The voice actors I found grating but they aren’t really doing a bad job.
The battle system is clunky, annoying, and feels like missed potential. Being able to send enemies to the past and present is a pretty cool idea, but for some reason the past is locked to enemies to your left, and same for the future on the right. The time gimmick isn’t even that fun anyway, some enemies become young and weak when you send them to the past and if you plant poison on an enemy in the present they’ll get poisoned in the future. It feels like it lacks depth that should’ve been thought out more as the main mechanic of the game. The menus in combat are controlled with four arrow directions, seemingly trying to replicate intuitive UI like Persona 5 or Yakuza, but this just missed the mark and felt like I couldn’t see my options, and I very often went to click on an enemy only to accidentally hit one of my party members. The opposite of intuitive.
All in all, this game feels like nothing more than good practice for a starting indie dev, and they are clearly quite talented. It just seems like they lacked the experience to make the ambitious game they wanted to.
Firstly, the game is technically quite nice. The storybook aesthetic is complimented well with the physically flat characters, and the backgrounds are simply gorgeous. However, the characters are also a bit over-designed in a way that renders them a bit bothersome to look at. Something about the art style also makes these characters extremely hard to relate to. I’m not quite sure why this is, but I found it very distracting and not at all immersive. Not to mention the load times reaching 20-30 seconds just to enter or exit a battle. This is admittedly probably the fault of switch optimization, but there’s really no excuse when hardly any RPG has load times into battle PERIOD.
The story was fine, if underwhelming. I played for a couple hours and found it serviceable but uninteresting. I had zero interest in where it was going. The voice actors I found grating but they aren’t really doing a bad job.
The battle system is clunky, annoying, and feels like missed potential. Being able to send enemies to the past and present is a pretty cool idea, but for some reason the past is locked to enemies to your left, and same for the future on the right. The time gimmick isn’t even that fun anyway, some enemies become young and weak when you send them to the past and if you plant poison on an enemy in the present they’ll get poisoned in the future. It feels like it lacks depth that should’ve been thought out more as the main mechanic of the game. The menus in combat are controlled with four arrow directions, seemingly trying to replicate intuitive UI like Persona 5 or Yakuza, but this just missed the mark and felt like I couldn’t see my options, and I very often went to click on an enemy only to accidentally hit one of my party members. The opposite of intuitive.
All in all, this game feels like nothing more than good practice for a starting indie dev, and they are clearly quite talented. It just seems like they lacked the experience to make the ambitious game they wanted to.
The intro to this game is so fire
The rest is really solid, pretty much what I expect from a square enix game with this much effort, nothing less but nothing more
The amount of side quests and meandering can become a bit much at times but when the story beats hit they HIT
The ending is great too, all around just a great showing from square, but nothing that particularly blew me away aside from scale, especially those boss fights.
The rest is really solid, pretty much what I expect from a square enix game with this much effort, nothing less but nothing more
The amount of side quests and meandering can become a bit much at times but when the story beats hit they HIT
The ending is great too, all around just a great showing from square, but nothing that particularly blew me away aside from scale, especially those boss fights.