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2020
Final boss is El Sicko. Otherwise pretty good!
2017
Perhaps one of the lower grades I'll give to a game I finished without much hesitation, but man the wind kinda got taken out of my sails by the end. The combat (interacting with enemies at all, really) was the worst part of the game, and the increased emphasis in the closing hours just felt real bad.
Actually exploring and getting powerups was fun for a while though
2016
Fine time killer
Enough quirks and rough edges to not be a revolution for me as a vanilla experience. Still the best elder scrolls
2022
Botched monetization on a fun game
2004
Y'know I don't think the game is actually that great but I did finish the NFL gauntlet as the Chicago Bears in 2023 so y'know there's a certain amount of respect I must place on it
2021
Rating for the Freelancer mode as part of world of assassination
2022
Really had a quality time, endings just didn't really come together for me, and the tedium of the inventory management wore me down
2018
Could not fathom sitting down to play this as the sole activity, but it's a great little steam deck game while I'm watching something
2021
Lots of weirdo discussion surrounding a game that's just a mobile game but with MTX replaced with a $5 buy-in. It's a steam deck time killer and it's fine
Action games still firmly are not in my wheelhouse, but this was a good one!
A pretty dramatic improvement over D/P, more so than mid-gen upgrades in the previous games.
The Nuzlocke experience is hurt by some difficulty spikes pretty early on along with the computers tendency to confuse ray and self-destruct
The only other issues are native to gen-4, with typing distribution being pretty uneven, but it's improved somewhat here with some changes to routes
1993
Banger tunes, basic everything else
Mashup of a bunch of keyword mechanics in a disgaea-esque art style, it's a bit much
2007
Wild arms make an okay story challenge