I am just so done with this. Anyone who knows Coffee Talk well enough knows that you have to pretty much master it to get the complete ending, and episode 2 makes that a chore. And that is a severe understatement. I have replayed this SO MANY TIMES. And I still technically didn’t get the Cat Shelter Ending. It takes at least 40 minutes to replay every single time. I’ve finished all the story arcs and gotten every single other achievement. I’ve done all the things for the phases but I think in the wrong order?? So I’d have to do that all over again, but who knows if it would actually work? I really loved this game, but trying to get the true ending ruined it for me. This is infuriating. It’s just way too much to do and I’ve done EVERYTHING. But I did it in the wrong order. There was no indication from the game either. I don’t get why it needs to be this complicated. Absolutely ruined the game for me. I basically did it, I don’t care I’m counting it as mastered. Not worth wasting my time on this anymore at this point as I’ve seen everything!

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I can’t believe I realized only like 5/6ths of the way through that I was feeding Rusty CHOCOLATE DONUTS. He LOVES them, and it was at Rusty Jr.‘s suggestion. I don’t know what to make of this. Couldn’t it have been like strawberry or something instead? Why dog-killing chocolate? Is Rusty immune to dog-killing foods? Is he the chosen one? Or is it gonna be like Phantom Thread but like with chocolate donuts. I mean there is apparently an alien invasion that happens after the events of the game, so who knows? This game rules.

Look, it’s rough around the edges, yes, but it’s just so much fun. I got to date HANGMAN ADAM PAGE IN THIS GAME. (Yes he did leave me for Thunder Rosa, but we’ll ignore that part). I really love how they handled Road to the Elite, it’s not too long to beat (which is refreshing compared to how long and dragged out WWE My Rise is) and it has some slice of life/management elements and it’s just so much fun! Learning about all the different food staples at the different restaurants, going on a date with Hangman Adam Page at said restaurant, getting booped by Kris Statlander, ya know? Is it buggy and unpolished? Yes. But did it make me somehow fall in love with AEW even more? Also yes.

Just feels absolutely awful to play compared to the original version. Like you’re both weighed down and have too much momentum at the same time (but it somehow doesn’t balance each other out). The original version has its own issues too, but it’s still better than this.

2023

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Tchia cut off a dude’s hand, jumped out of a plane, and gave him the finger on the way down. IM NOT JOKING. This game is wild.

I thought I was like solid at Tetris, but in order to actually enjoy this game I think I need a very easy mode cause 10 speed starting 60/90 lines in ain’t working for me. (Especially when it takes forever to get there.)

My heart rate seemed to stay stable, but I was also just dying too much for it to be a nice experience?

Edit/Addition: Really do think there should be a chill difficulty because I was not able to enjoy this game the way I wanted and I was suffering through it getting stuck every few levels. With a game that’s supposed to be a meditative journey, why not have a chill difficulty?? Having challenge for the other difficulties is perfectly fine, but why does changing the difficulty to easy literally change nothing!? I’m a complaining baby, but I think I still make a valid point. I was expecting a relaxing chill experience, kinda as advertised and ended up getting really frustrated and annoyed (not to mention some of the music really takes you out of it (by some I mean all of the ones with vocals)). It’s bad (like pretty bad) cheesy pop and I’m saying that as someone who enjoys very basic pop. All electronic instrumentals would’ve be fine, no? Either that or Madeleine McQueen should’ve been the one singing 🤷🏻‍♀️ Video game soundtrack QUEEN!

Why put all those characters in front of player 2 and then only let player one play as them? Don’t really care for generic purple reaper dude.

Honestly I would’ve been happy if this was just power washing the manor? That was a lot of fun. Power washing a dinosaur was pretty cool too though.

Really liked most of the levels, but that last one that was all nooks and crannies and details on one robot that was very hard to traverse was annoying.

What an interesting game. The worst Xbox port I’ve ever seen, in fact! Yet, this game cast a spell on me. This version (and just the game in general) is very flawed and glitched out, so much so that new game + doesn’t even work! Two achievements won’t pop no matter what you do. And this game is hyperspecific about some things and weirdly vague about others! But, despite its many, many flaws, many crashes and a broken game mode, I love it. The story is simple, sure, but the characters have so much charm. The art is incredible, and don’t even get me started on the music. This game hooked me like not many games have. It was so ingrained in me that I was dreaming about back attacks and combos! This game may be very, very flawed, but I love it nonetheless.

That princess peach cake level is hell.

The best Sonic game I’ve ever played.

I just find this game too frustrating to continue. I’m usually pretty good at not getting too annoyed at video games, but not with this one. It feels like there’s way too many variables in each round, and it doesn’t help that you have access to 5 people at a time to move. In Into the Breach it’s only 3 pilots you’re moving at a time, and it works in that game’s favor. Adds challenge, but works in perfect balance with the rest of the game. Here, I’m not really sure if it adds anything. It also doesn’t help that one wrong choice of who to move first could basically KO you in a way that seemed impossible (like pushing you five spaces into the void).This game also isn’t really meant for console either; the text is small, the game zooms out after like a chapter and it’s very disorienting (I couldn’t figure out how to zoom back in either).The tip menus also cover up the half of the screen, which makes me not want to use them. It also doesn’t help that the game basically randomizes your crew after every battle, which ended up costing me a quill (life), because I expected it to not just randomly change my MVP snail out of the crew!!! I was really looking forward to this, so I’m kinda disappointed with how it turned out. Maybe I’ll go back to it, but I doubt it.