Thanatos
2010
The combat is pretty nothing. The quests are mostly tedious. The story starts really good but the string of twists after Route A ruins it for me. I love the excessive bloom and aesthetic of the world and characters. The atmosphere and feelings you get running around the game world make the game worth playing above all else. The music has some great stuff but most tracks are too short and loop too often.
All the pieces are in place for me to love it but every element just needed to be way better. The game is an exciting start and a dull slog by the time you're reaching for the true ending. Route C and D ask way too much of you for what little new content there is.
All the pieces are in place for me to love it but every element just needed to be way better. The game is an exciting start and a dull slog by the time you're reaching for the true ending. Route C and D ask way too much of you for what little new content there is.
2018
Cool thing about emulation is getting all the GBA games and finding something you forgot you even once owned and going "oh yea I knew everything about this game"
Its also scary how a game I learned back to front over like 2 years just completely left my memory. It makes me belive that there are definitely entire childhood friendships I have completely forgotten as well.
Its also scary how a game I learned back to front over like 2 years just completely left my memory. It makes me belive that there are definitely entire childhood friendships I have completely forgotten as well.
2001
This game really delivers on giving you that early 2000s feeling of watching a chill anime late at night on Toonami and having your mind blown that cartoons can have solemn emotions.
That is all it provides. Everything else is traaaash.
It feels good to fly and swat at bad guys I guess but it's so boring. And the boss fights are boring.
All the characters are boring too except Rock Thunderheart.
That is all it provides. Everything else is traaaash.
It feels good to fly and swat at bad guys I guess but it's so boring. And the boss fights are boring.
All the characters are boring too except Rock Thunderheart.
2017
Opening the chests gave me some really good SNES jrpg feelings. Good time.
All action RPGs should rip off the damage scaling that Kingdom Hearts 2 had. The combat in this game can be pretty fun if you just rush through the story and keep the enemies within 3 levels of you. But if you're a bit too underleveled its nothing but chip damage. A bit too overleveled and everything dies before they even have a chance to register your presence.
Good for Taro getting to include lots of actual cool SHMUP sections throughout the game. He loves SHMUP. Just a shame that they made the SHMUP sections so easy that they become busywork. SHMUPs are usually challenging. Almost unforgiving. And Nier Automata taught me that they're probably built like that because otherwise theres nothing to them.
Story is fine. 9S is one of my favorite characters of the this gen.
All action RPGs should rip off the damage scaling that Kingdom Hearts 2 had. The combat in this game can be pretty fun if you just rush through the story and keep the enemies within 3 levels of you. But if you're a bit too underleveled its nothing but chip damage. A bit too overleveled and everything dies before they even have a chance to register your presence.
Good for Taro getting to include lots of actual cool SHMUP sections throughout the game. He loves SHMUP. Just a shame that they made the SHMUP sections so easy that they become busywork. SHMUPs are usually challenging. Almost unforgiving. And Nier Automata taught me that they're probably built like that because otherwise theres nothing to them.
Story is fine. 9S is one of my favorite characters of the this gen.
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