HeeHo
11 reviews liked by HeeHo
This game is solid but not flawless
first of all gaemplay it's absolutely fantastic it's probably the most balanced Fire Emblem period wich is crazy but also it doesn not sacrifice class (not unit) identity somthing that IS itself is struggeling (look at modern theif classes) but like you noticed i didn't say unit identity well while bases are great personal skills 9/10 are kinda pointless and growths are comically similar not THAT similar but is a bunch of 40s and 50s 20s for defense cuz onlly Great Knights (shoutouts to Stina) and Armors can have defense is not that big but still is somthing i felt vision quest is a fair game more than any other fire emblem personally as a player and a hack creator i like unfairness as a matter of fact Thracia's unfairness and luck dependency help it's ludonarrative but overall the map design is fantastic enemies strong and your units too some of the best FE gameplay
now story it's really good but i don't think it's better than the best of Fire Emblem tellius outdoes them in worldbuilding and cool factor but mainly why i can't say is a great FE story is becouse it "this guy hunts dark mages so his resistence growth is high" but still not even in the hardest maps you get somthing like getting your 4sshole teared open trying to defend your castle from a siege i will say early part 1 and 3 have such tight resources that you feel pressured but not as much as Thracia early game maybe becouse your units always feel kinda competent and the game being SO iron man friendly (wich is not inherently good but the game wanted that so it is)
i'll say this my main issue is the music and not in the "gba sounds bad!" way the ost alone? is so good but like it's comically unfitting it feels like they tried to just put songs that loosely fit just becouse they liked the song shit is comical like why is Seaside Hill sounding after we defeat a cheif trying to kill young animals becouse his tribe is literally starving??? im sorry but the music is an absolute disaster if the teams tries to do anything again please think of ambience first i know there are many good songs you want to use but holy shit find a place
anyways shoutouts to Bulan and Stina gotta be my favorite lesbians behind my oomf!
first of all gaemplay it's absolutely fantastic it's probably the most balanced Fire Emblem period wich is crazy but also it doesn not sacrifice class (not unit) identity somthing that IS itself is struggeling (look at modern theif classes) but like you noticed i didn't say unit identity well while bases are great personal skills 9/10 are kinda pointless and growths are comically similar not THAT similar but is a bunch of 40s and 50s 20s for defense cuz onlly Great Knights (shoutouts to Stina) and Armors can have defense is not that big but still is somthing i felt vision quest is a fair game more than any other fire emblem personally as a player and a hack creator i like unfairness as a matter of fact Thracia's unfairness and luck dependency help it's ludonarrative but overall the map design is fantastic enemies strong and your units too some of the best FE gameplay
now story it's really good but i don't think it's better than the best of Fire Emblem tellius outdoes them in worldbuilding and cool factor but mainly why i can't say is a great FE story is becouse it "this guy hunts dark mages so his resistence growth is high" but still not even in the hardest maps you get somthing like getting your 4sshole teared open trying to defend your castle from a siege i will say early part 1 and 3 have such tight resources that you feel pressured but not as much as Thracia early game maybe becouse your units always feel kinda competent and the game being SO iron man friendly (wich is not inherently good but the game wanted that so it is)
i'll say this my main issue is the music and not in the "gba sounds bad!" way the ost alone? is so good but like it's comically unfitting it feels like they tried to just put songs that loosely fit just becouse they liked the song shit is comical like why is Seaside Hill sounding after we defeat a cheif trying to kill young animals becouse his tribe is literally starving??? im sorry but the music is an absolute disaster if the teams tries to do anything again please think of ambience first i know there are many good songs you want to use but holy shit find a place
anyways shoutouts to Bulan and Stina gotta be my favorite lesbians behind my oomf!
Silent Hill
1999
Lived up to its reputation but I gotta say I didn't fully understand the scene where Harry looked straight at the camera and explained why circumcision as a practice needs to be abolished
Pokémon Shield
2019
Name one game that looks better. YOU CAN’T! One of the best looking games of all time with great commentary on deforestation through its tree models. Subtle social commentary on Brexit due to its culling of the National Dex. One of humanity’s best achievements. Intelligent allegorical discussion of corrupt Reddit moderation is provided through Team Yell as well. An amazing ludonarrative that draws parallels and uses allegory and metaphor to represent our real world with its Pokemon.
Worse than alone / Exiled.
The second game in the Persona series sets out to build and improve upon everything found in the first game. Admittedly the game was very hyped up as being the best the franchise offers, and I can certainly see why. The game is dripping with symbolism trenched deep into a plot involving some of the craziest scenarios in the series, but one that ultimately has a heart at the center of it all.
For starters, I think the gameplay is an improvement of Persona 1's in every aspect....but that still doesn't mean it's the best either. Dungeons are the worst example; they're largely monotonous and too long for their own good at later points in the game. Combat is certainly unique and challenging, but I can't help but feel like it's not all that engaging. A new mechanic that I actually really like is the Rumor System; it has more depth than I was expecting, and I love how it's an extension of the main narrative itself. While you're going around town, spreading rumors, or buying items, the game's excellent soundtrack is also there to keep you company, and I love the instrumental variety featured in the OST.
Worse than exiled / Dead.
Ultimately, I think the strongest part of Innocent Sin lies in its narrative. The storytelling method is quite different from the first game, and I think it works for the story they're going for here. An ever-longing pain emanates from each of the main cast from your first encounter with them, and their struggles were very explored very well. I do think there are some hiccups though, as I can't help but feel the last party member that joins is never given enough interaction with the rest of the cast for me to get a proper handle on what kind of person he is. His struggles were laid out well, but I think the game could've benefited from having a few more scenes with him.
Besides that, I think almost everyone is well-written, and I love the moments where we get to know each character. Whether it be Maya's messy room, Eikichi's dreams of becoming a rock star, or Lisa's habit of blurting out Cantonese phrases, I loved getting to know these characters and exploring the town of Sumaru City. This game reminded me why I fell in love with Persona and Megami Tensei years ago.
Worse than dead / Forgotten.
The second game in the Persona series sets out to build and improve upon everything found in the first game. Admittedly the game was very hyped up as being the best the franchise offers, and I can certainly see why. The game is dripping with symbolism trenched deep into a plot involving some of the craziest scenarios in the series, but one that ultimately has a heart at the center of it all.
For starters, I think the gameplay is an improvement of Persona 1's in every aspect....but that still doesn't mean it's the best either. Dungeons are the worst example; they're largely monotonous and too long for their own good at later points in the game. Combat is certainly unique and challenging, but I can't help but feel like it's not all that engaging. A new mechanic that I actually really like is the Rumor System; it has more depth than I was expecting, and I love how it's an extension of the main narrative itself. While you're going around town, spreading rumors, or buying items, the game's excellent soundtrack is also there to keep you company, and I love the instrumental variety featured in the OST.
Worse than exiled / Dead.
Ultimately, I think the strongest part of Innocent Sin lies in its narrative. The storytelling method is quite different from the first game, and I think it works for the story they're going for here. An ever-longing pain emanates from each of the main cast from your first encounter with them, and their struggles were very explored very well. I do think there are some hiccups though, as I can't help but feel the last party member that joins is never given enough interaction with the rest of the cast for me to get a proper handle on what kind of person he is. His struggles were laid out well, but I think the game could've benefited from having a few more scenes with him.
Besides that, I think almost everyone is well-written, and I love the moments where we get to know each character. Whether it be Maya's messy room, Eikichi's dreams of becoming a rock star, or Lisa's habit of blurting out Cantonese phrases, I loved getting to know these characters and exploring the town of Sumaru City. This game reminded me why I fell in love with Persona and Megami Tensei years ago.
Worse than dead / Forgotten.
Persona 5
2016
is a mediocre megaten game but a bad game
Dark Souls III
2016
Is kinda fun and has so good build making the story is fine the level design can be frustrating at times but late game of this game is amazingly game early game is absolutely awful in repeated playthroughs
would be 4 starts but my brother keeps yelling slurs at 1AM while playing im DONE
would be 4 starts but my brother keeps yelling slurs at 1AM while playing im DONE
I have not played it but it's garbage and Priam is dumb
Kaga would NOT be proud
Kaga would NOT be proud
This review contains spoilers
While i personally enjoyed this game more than Path of Radiance and consider the story slightly better overall part 1 gets really affected from not being a full game as we don't really see a lot of Daein's suffering honestly
after chapter 3 the whole "Daein is getting fucked over by Begnion after losing the war!" is gone and is replaced with a liberation arc that is nowhere near as good as the one in Path of Radiance i wish they explored more of that honestly the first 2 parts get hurt for being too short due to the game being multiple parts the second not as much but like with Daein we need to see more of the chaos in Crimea
The story takes a MASSIVE quality leap once you enter part 3 but imagine the confrontations with the Dawn Brigade if instead of just having a glipse at what got them there and how they sufferd we got to see a good amount of their struggle to live after the war
regardless as villains the Dawn Brigade and the new Daein work fantastically BUT yeah they could been better seeing how patriotism puts good people like Sothe Micaiah Nolan and the poor innocent idealistic Edward to assist a nation they DESPISED in genocide just becouse their loyality to Daein would been so good instead we got the blood pact puting Daein as "they are forced to" wich is much less interesting than "they are good people but they blindly serve their country" we see Micaiah reflect on that in one base conversation saying that "she doesn't care if she gets compared to the Ashnard she will fight for Daein anyways"
chapter 3-12 is one of my favorites becouse it shows how the war is changing Micaiah to the point of doing somthing as fucked up as almost burning an army in a trap (wich i don't know about war much but im pretty sure thats a war crime) Micaiah's patritism is toxic and it's turning her into a horrible person becouse in her mind Daein is above everything and thats amazing imagine if they went further with it instead of using the blood pact as an excuse to make her look like the good girl still? they could have made her arc in part 4 growing out of that and learning to stop fighting for a country and instead fight for it's people no longer blindly following what her king and country say but instead what she knows and feels is right
is honestly such a waste of potential to both not show us more of Daein suffering (and Crimea's conflict but that a little less) and also the blood pact making Daein "still good guys tho!" when fighting good people that are too patriotic to a sick degree i would have rather if they went with the direction
i will say tho asides from the Dawn Brigade problems part 3 is perfect and absolute kino part 4 has even less flaws my main problems storywise is the wasted potential of the Dawn Brigade outside of that is peak fiction
the difficulty maps wepons and overall gameplay is so much better in this game is more fun than Path of Radiance and the game is mad fun team building and strategy are way more engaging and hard
also Ike and Soren are even gayer so everything is forgiven except for Micaiah being a shit lord 4.5/5
after chapter 3 the whole "Daein is getting fucked over by Begnion after losing the war!" is gone and is replaced with a liberation arc that is nowhere near as good as the one in Path of Radiance i wish they explored more of that honestly the first 2 parts get hurt for being too short due to the game being multiple parts the second not as much but like with Daein we need to see more of the chaos in Crimea
The story takes a MASSIVE quality leap once you enter part 3 but imagine the confrontations with the Dawn Brigade if instead of just having a glipse at what got them there and how they sufferd we got to see a good amount of their struggle to live after the war
regardless as villains the Dawn Brigade and the new Daein work fantastically BUT yeah they could been better seeing how patriotism puts good people like Sothe Micaiah Nolan and the poor innocent idealistic Edward to assist a nation they DESPISED in genocide just becouse their loyality to Daein would been so good instead we got the blood pact puting Daein as "they are forced to" wich is much less interesting than "they are good people but they blindly serve their country" we see Micaiah reflect on that in one base conversation saying that "she doesn't care if she gets compared to the Ashnard she will fight for Daein anyways"
chapter 3-12 is one of my favorites becouse it shows how the war is changing Micaiah to the point of doing somthing as fucked up as almost burning an army in a trap (wich i don't know about war much but im pretty sure thats a war crime) Micaiah's patritism is toxic and it's turning her into a horrible person becouse in her mind Daein is above everything and thats amazing imagine if they went further with it instead of using the blood pact as an excuse to make her look like the good girl still? they could have made her arc in part 4 growing out of that and learning to stop fighting for a country and instead fight for it's people no longer blindly following what her king and country say but instead what she knows and feels is right
is honestly such a waste of potential to both not show us more of Daein suffering (and Crimea's conflict but that a little less) and also the blood pact making Daein "still good guys tho!" when fighting good people that are too patriotic to a sick degree i would have rather if they went with the direction
i will say tho asides from the Dawn Brigade problems part 3 is perfect and absolute kino part 4 has even less flaws my main problems storywise is the wasted potential of the Dawn Brigade outside of that is peak fiction
the difficulty maps wepons and overall gameplay is so much better in this game is more fun than Path of Radiance and the game is mad fun team building and strategy are way more engaging and hard
also Ike and Soren are even gayer so everything is forgiven except for Micaiah being a shit lord 4.5/5
Best game of all time Ike is awesome and the best video game protagonist ever also he's gay and thats very cool methinks
for a begginer (me) the game was not that hard even when i played on hard BUT my Ike got rng blessed so idk the story is peak also don't support anyone with Ike unless is Soren trust me
for a begginer (me) the game was not that hard even when i played on hard BUT my Ike got rng blessed so idk the story is peak also don't support anyone with Ike unless is Soren trust me
If the destiny plume was real I would use it on my friend to learn the 'erectum enlargus' tactic