SteelRotom
I've rewatched this game like 8 times now and it genuinely gets worse every time I do (I gave it a 9/10 at launch). Genuinely one of the worst sequels ever.
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Some bigger spoilers for this one so tagging it
OK yeah sure it was good like everyone said it would be but also like... I don't think it was "peak of the series" good. Everything from West Zemuria Trade Conference to the prison break was really good but it feels like the game kinda just lost the plot a bit after that. The section where you go around collecting the SSS members reeks of filler and genuinely (as a huge mastermind trope enjoyer) the "real mastermind" being Grimwood was kinda garbo. He really did all that evil stuff only to fold at the slightest questioning of his ideals at the end lol are you kidding me. Sure you could argue Bell was the true mastermind (and even then subverting your expectations by subverting the original subversion is kinda... anticlimactic?), but basically everything the game tries to do involving Grimwood from his reveal to his eventual incapacitation kinda blows. Actual D-Tier mastermind.
OK yeah sure it was good like everyone said it would be but also like... I don't think it was "peak of the series" good. Everything from West Zemuria Trade Conference to the prison break was really good but it feels like the game kinda just lost the plot a bit after that. The section where you go around collecting the SSS members reeks of filler and genuinely (as a huge mastermind trope enjoyer) the "real mastermind" being Grimwood was kinda garbo. He really did all that evil stuff only to fold at the slightest questioning of his ideals at the end lol are you kidding me. Sure you could argue Bell was the true mastermind (and even then subverting your expectations by subverting the original subversion is kinda... anticlimactic?), but basically everything the game tries to do involving Grimwood from his reveal to his eventual incapacitation kinda blows. Actual D-Tier mastermind.
Cold Steel IV Taste So Good When U Ain’t Got A Bitch In Ya Ear Telling You It’s Nasty
This game has a pretty good main story but the most engaging part of the game is when it decides to be a Star Wars encyclopedia
On the one hand the plot is kind of a mess but on the other its still kinda peak kino cinema so yeah imma give it a 9/10
Xenoblade 2 ripped off this game (they are both peak)
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Xenoblade 3 is really, really, really good for the majority of its runtime and feels like the culmination of everything Monolith learned from their previous games and has possibly one of the single best sequences in the entire series in CH5/6 and has so many loveable and memorable characters and then falls off in like the last chapter hard. It's not like it's terrible or anything but man I really hope for the sake of the story that the DLC is an epilogue (and is also good). Still a fantastic game overall.
This game has Randy.
We're so back.
Peak Steel III shits all over Cold Slop II.
We're so back.
Peak Steel III shits all over Cold Slop II.
This is a really weird comparison but this game reminded me a lot of Kirby's Return to Dreamland and I mean that in the best way possible. There is a particular vibe that I have only ever felt playing that game as a kid and this one now. Kinda peak ngl.
Randy is just T-rated Kaname Date send tweet
Takes a while to get going but it's a fun time once it does. Everything after the final boss is what gets this game its high score tbh, already over halfway through the series and I still don't think there's been a cooler ending than this one.
Investigations' gameplay is actually more fun than mainline AA but this game doesn't really do it justice because every case in this game is painfully average. It's enjoyable seeing returning characters in this fashion but other than that there really isn't much interesting going on in this game.
BY FAR the best AA game. It's absolutely insane going from AAI1 to this. Some of the best new characters, returning characters, and cases this series has to offer. The only game in the series where I can confidently say every case is fantastic.
This game nails the vibe but besides Case 3 has some fairly underwhelming cases. Works much better if you think of it as the first 5 cases of a 10 case game with GAA2, because that's pretty much what it is.