2015
Falsos patriotas dirão que não existem jogos bons feitos por brasileiros
Totono fans explain why their VN is good without mentioning DDLC challenge
"I might be into cuck porn, but unlike you peasants I'm not a DDLC fan!"
"I might be into cuck porn, but unlike you peasants I'm not a DDLC fan!"
Objectively speaking, this is an absolute step up from 1 in scope, themes, visuals, and soundtrack. But Jesus the gameplay, what did they do to you?
Instead of the focus system from the first it has this weird risk vs reward system where you need to stay closer to the enemy to get the Fatal Frame ™ (get it?) but it's more like jank vs reward given how there were plenty of times where the ghost was in the frame but it didn't registered arbitrarily, which is not a problem since they spam you with healing items and film to the point where it's impossible to die until the late game where they start spamming enemies and the instakilling Sae to balance out the difficulty spike.
You really feel the padded out game time since there are only so many times they can write "And then Mio and Mayu got separated again" without it feeling contrived. Aside from that the ending is the most rawest moment in horror and you should check it out just for that alone.
Instead of the focus system from the first it has this weird risk vs reward system where you need to stay closer to the enemy to get the Fatal Frame ™ (get it?) but it's more like jank vs reward given how there were plenty of times where the ghost was in the frame but it didn't registered arbitrarily, which is not a problem since they spam you with healing items and film to the point where it's impossible to die until the late game where they start spamming enemies and the instakilling Sae to balance out the difficulty spike.
You really feel the padded out game time since there are only so many times they can write "And then Mio and Mayu got separated again" without it feeling contrived. Aside from that the ending is the most rawest moment in horror and you should check it out just for that alone.
2016
Star Fox has 1 game in it's entire franchise above mid and somehow Nintendo got gaslit into thinking we care about Star Fox because of the amount of furries that still jack off to Krystal.
We don't need another copypaste of 64, try rebooting a series that people actually miss like F-Zero instead of these one-hit wonders
We don't need another copypaste of 64, try rebooting a series that people actually miss like F-Zero instead of these one-hit wonders
2001
These ghosts get way less scary when you think any Instagram hoe would solo ghostbust them. They're lucky this is 1980 or else this would turn into Luigi's Mansion very quickly
I beg you Fnaf kids to go play a real horror game series
1995
Some birds decide to invade an island where Tails is napping at so he decides to fucking blast them with napalm bombs and that's honestly more metal than anything Sonic will ever do in the main series
2011
A very good argument against freedom of artistic expression
This review contains spoilers
Will be updating this as I finish the chapters.
Chap 1: I like the art style, the OST and the overall vibe but kind of a snoozefest, ngl. I get trying to naturally build your lore but being in the POV of 3 snotty nosed brats doing the most cliche anime hijinks possible won't really make your worldbuilding more interesting over their history lessons. Can't believe it took until they got raped and killed for the story to get interesting, Rip Bozos.
Chap 2: Talk about a step up! Here I was being clickbaited by the promotional art and other Nitroplus VNs thinking Kageaki was going to be this ultra edgelord but him and his relationship with Muramasa are the best part of this ordeal. What keeps his lone wolf samurai shtick from being played out is how much of a goofball he is when he's not fighting. Dude's just a tired adult with no social skills and that's something most people nowadays can relate to. The fights on this are really hype, and having read The Book Of Five Rings recently this is definitely been written by someone who's done their homework on kendo while adding some mecha twists on it. Good cast, good premise, good fights, and good character dynamics.
The Affection meter's showing me I'm on Kanae's route which is pretty cool, big tits for life.
Chap 3: Nah bro what is this goofy hoo-haa shit? You're gonna follow the kino that last chapter was with a dollar store Formula 1 spoof with mushas for over 5 hours? As someone who is a big fan of Formula 1, this was a wildly boring read. This is where Kageaki starts hanging out more with Ichijo and Kanae which just makes me wish he kept by himself for the rest of the game. It's the most uninspired anime love triangle banter on this side of r/cringe. I can get behind Ichijo having a crush on Kageaki since part of the last chapter was about her being saved by him and growing to appreciate his distant behavior, but Kanae's ara ara~ mommy gf shit gets grating stupidly fast. Having more affection points was actually a blessing in disguise since Kageaki kills her annoying ass thanks to the law of balance bullshit later on.
What a waste of a chapter. What, am I supposed to believe that Kageaki was a circuit race nerd this entire time? That I was supposed to be caring for Ayrton Senna's rule 64 persona when her backstory is exposed 5 minutes before her death? Because I sure didn't. They had plenty of time to flesh out those characters if they felt like it, but I guess they thought having a gangbang scene where she farts cum bubbles out her asshole counted as more of a defining character moment.
Chap 4: Is this gonna be a thing where every odd chapter sucks ass and every even chap is fantastic? If I were to be cynical I would say that the overall Muramasa experience is a very mixed bag between interesting political commentary on the shogunate and the morality of the average peon vs a war's general mixed in with several things I don't give a fuck about, but the highlights definitely make it more exciting than it's lowlights. Someone will definitely oversell this as a "kamige" and it's definitely not as lifechanging as VN Nerds make it out to be, but when it's spitting it's spitting.
The Law of Balance really is a curveball as to what people are used on doing when it comes to a visual novel, instead of growing attatched to the people you want to pursue in a route for, you have to remain distant or neutral towards their affection or else you risk Kageaki's rule of killing a friend for every foe he slays into a dangerous reality. Given how long this shit is I don't see myself doing more endings than the one I'm going for now but I definitely see this working as a commentary on which ideological side you think Kageaki is better suited as the man he is, and that's a lot more interesting than I was giving it credit for
Chap 1: I like the art style, the OST and the overall vibe but kind of a snoozefest, ngl. I get trying to naturally build your lore but being in the POV of 3 snotty nosed brats doing the most cliche anime hijinks possible won't really make your worldbuilding more interesting over their history lessons. Can't believe it took until they got raped and killed for the story to get interesting, Rip Bozos.
Chap 2: Talk about a step up! Here I was being clickbaited by the promotional art and other Nitroplus VNs thinking Kageaki was going to be this ultra edgelord but him and his relationship with Muramasa are the best part of this ordeal. What keeps his lone wolf samurai shtick from being played out is how much of a goofball he is when he's not fighting. Dude's just a tired adult with no social skills and that's something most people nowadays can relate to. The fights on this are really hype, and having read The Book Of Five Rings recently this is definitely been written by someone who's done their homework on kendo while adding some mecha twists on it. Good cast, good premise, good fights, and good character dynamics.
The Affection meter's showing me I'm on Kanae's route which is pretty cool, big tits for life.
Chap 3: Nah bro what is this goofy hoo-haa shit? You're gonna follow the kino that last chapter was with a dollar store Formula 1 spoof with mushas for over 5 hours? As someone who is a big fan of Formula 1, this was a wildly boring read. This is where Kageaki starts hanging out more with Ichijo and Kanae which just makes me wish he kept by himself for the rest of the game. It's the most uninspired anime love triangle banter on this side of r/cringe. I can get behind Ichijo having a crush on Kageaki since part of the last chapter was about her being saved by him and growing to appreciate his distant behavior, but Kanae's ara ara~ mommy gf shit gets grating stupidly fast. Having more affection points was actually a blessing in disguise since Kageaki kills her annoying ass thanks to the law of balance bullshit later on.
What a waste of a chapter. What, am I supposed to believe that Kageaki was a circuit race nerd this entire time? That I was supposed to be caring for Ayrton Senna's rule 64 persona when her backstory is exposed 5 minutes before her death? Because I sure didn't. They had plenty of time to flesh out those characters if they felt like it, but I guess they thought having a gangbang scene where she farts cum bubbles out her asshole counted as more of a defining character moment.
Chap 4: Is this gonna be a thing where every odd chapter sucks ass and every even chap is fantastic? If I were to be cynical I would say that the overall Muramasa experience is a very mixed bag between interesting political commentary on the shogunate and the morality of the average peon vs a war's general mixed in with several things I don't give a fuck about, but the highlights definitely make it more exciting than it's lowlights. Someone will definitely oversell this as a "kamige" and it's definitely not as lifechanging as VN Nerds make it out to be, but when it's spitting it's spitting.
The Law of Balance really is a curveball as to what people are used on doing when it comes to a visual novel, instead of growing attatched to the people you want to pursue in a route for, you have to remain distant or neutral towards their affection or else you risk Kageaki's rule of killing a friend for every foe he slays into a dangerous reality. Given how long this shit is I don't see myself doing more endings than the one I'm going for now but I definitely see this working as a commentary on which ideological side you think Kageaki is better suited as the man he is, and that's a lot more interesting than I was giving it credit for
Why is Wario murdering Sonic on the cover art
2000
Fuck blind mazes
All my homies hate blind mazes
All my homies hate blind mazes
1994
Kinda mid tbh? I dropped it around where Joshua got to the promised land and while I've skimmed some parts of the new testament arc and it's clearly an improvement in writing and philosophy, the early parts are just too much of a slog to stomach for a required understanding of what's to come.
I'd read Muramasa any day over this.
I'd read Muramasa any day over this.
2021
Rance se fosse bom
2022
SMT fans will tell you to "Play a real Shin Megami Tensei game" and then you do and it sucks ass.
2018
So I gotta beat the game 10 times just to see the "true" ending? What is this, Ghosts 'n Goblins?
Seinfeld laugh track
Seinfeld laugh track