HiveMind
2009
its ok
2016
Before league of legends infected my life, this was my most played game of all time. Probably my favorite simulator game, hours upon hours of fun and so much to do.
this game will kick your ass
2013
ourgh
2016
I've got... a lot of issues with this game despite how high I rank it. Simply put the reason I enjoyed myself this much is because the gameplay felt good to move around in. It felt good to hit, it felt good to fight, it felt good to explore. My biggest issue with this game is the lack of a map. I always found myself lost, and couldn't explore without backtracking and checking every nook and cranny because the game refused to tell me where I was at any point. When I got a powerup, I didn't think "oh! I can check out all those areas this would be useful in!" because i was too busy trying to think about where I can go next at any point without this powerup, trying to store all this information was impossible, at least for me. On the topic of powerups, they're mostly not great. The two torch ones, while interesting, are bogged down by using the torch feeling clunky, the wall jump always felt a little off, but the air dash felt amazing to use and loved it. The bosses were mostly all ok. Mainly easy but I enjoyed my time with most of them, save for like 2. I had no idea the final boss was the end of the game, he was kind of just a dude. I had fun, but this game is very flawed in my eyes
This game may have the best alignment choices of any SMT game, tge gameplay is fun and interesting, the story, setting, and characters are near perfect, the only issue I have is the difficulty spike near the end, where at earlier points I felt like I could just fuse and get better skills, by the end I was so insanely underleveled by playing the game correctly that I had to grind for multiple hours, which was not fun. That is honestly my only issue with this game though.