I played this game in 2012 or 2013, don't remember the exact year but it was a pretty great experience and I immediately understood the magic of simply being in a block world mining and crafting. There wasn't a whole lot to the game and The End is pretty bad, but it got the basics right. Seeing what it has become is quite depressing, and I don't just mean the community; Mojang is god awful at managing this game and tries to take control of what mods can and can't be made while censoring many things and doing votes where the losers are never seen again. And while big fans of the game are likely to excuse this, I won't, because I don't even play this game anymore (my most played version is the 360 one). For me, it's not about the community as I was never all too involved with it, but instead about the game itself.

All of this could've been prevented if they just added the Moobloom.

Game's pretty damn good actually. Better story than 5, less random unnecessary mechanics than 5... but there's a catch. See, the post-game is the catch this time. It's not too bad, except the first 10 million in stats (this is Disgaea, get used to it) are obtained by class mastery or through the new Hospital Gacha system. At first the system is fine, but once you get a unit to 9999 you can quite easily abuse it, and once you do that you can keep abusing it more and more. This would be great, but I'm just mashing some buttons, there's no real "grind" to that. And the other 10 million is through class mastery. That wouldn't be a problem if classes automatically switched once you mastered one... but they don't.

I'll keep it brief with the Item World this time: It is not at all necessary. I managed to OHKO the flagship superboss without a good piece of equipment. Unlike in 5, evilities have no stat increase cap in this game, which rewards figuring out the best ones to use, but you're best off using a guide for that which kind of trivializes it all. It's a shame too because they spent a lot of time reworking how items work, but I couldn't even tell you all of the changes. The Item World has 30 floors max now, rather than endless, and you gain item levels through doing certain things in any of these levels, this also means levels are (assumably) limited to each run you do, and with item reincarnation you can do some wacky stuff. Unfortunately only movement and jump matter all that much in an item and so this is all kind of a waste of time; Disgaea tends to have some of that though (extracts in 5 are way too tedious for the 10 million to matter that much when items actually ARE useful).

3.5/5 anyway because I actually thought the story was neat and I can respect the grind not taking that long. I hope 8 does what 4 did with 3 and improves on this game in every way, including cameos because I miss those, please give me Prier, Gig and Marona back.

EDIT: Sure, I'll give it a 4 why not. That'd make it an 8 and that's good enough.

I was going to make a review for this, but don't worry! Super Mario RPG drops November 17! Listen!




I was never book smart I'm money smart

Sumireko is actually a genius character and ZUN definitely knew what he was doing. See, she's not one like the hardworking miko or the ass-kicking magician. She's a zoomer who visits a magical place in her dreams without paying rent. She visits, rent-free, to the place that's shrouded in secrecy. And she does it with such glee, even going as far as to demystify Gensokyo by sharing the magic to her Instagram for outsiders to see. She is the perfect representation of an unwanted tourist, which is a good reminder to all Touhou players of what lies beyond the CAVE we inhabit.