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3D Dot Game Heroes
I originally played this game in 2014-2015 and it kind of blows my mind that more time has passed between my first playthrough and my second than the time between the game's release circa 2010-2011 and my first playthrough. It's a fun love letter to older games, particularly 2D Zeldas. I think the game is mostly carried by the novelty of creating your own character and having a ridiculously large sword, but the underlying game is still solid. I think it would have been better with more quality of life features though like being able to scroll and zoom in on a map, a compass to show item locations, a checklist and tracker for items and quests, the ability to drop pins and markers, and less tedious level design. The amount of time sensitive events is ridiculous too. It's way too easy to miss things especially in a blind playthrough. I actually ended up getting the bad ending during my first playthrough because of this. Overall, it's probably my favorite 2D Zelda that isn't actually Zelda, although it's not like I've played very many of those.
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Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade
This review contains spoilers
I really like the FF7 world a lot. The characters and themes are so strong. I love how fleshed out the characters are in this game specifically, particularly AVALANCHE. The combat is another strong point. The partner AI is very passive, but at least they aren't getting themselves in danger like the partners in FF15.
The things I didn't like: the pacing. I don't mind that a small portion of the original game was expanded on, but a lot of this game feels sluggish. There's a lot of watching or walking/talking/waiting instead of actually playing. Another thing I didn't like were the whispers. They represent fate in tangible form and I'm honestly not a big fan of fate being so literal like that.
For the Intermission specifically, the story is almost a waste of time. The gameplay is great though, I was surprised to find that Yuffie was my favorite character to control in the entire game.
Really excited for Rebirth to come to PC. I'm really interested to see where the story is going because it seems to deviate from the original timeline quite a bit.
Edit: I could’ve also done without the moral ambiguity. Please just let me feel like I’m doing the right thing, I can’t take the emotional turmoil. Also wanted to expand a bit more on what I liked about the writing. The characters feel closer to each other than they did in the original and cloud becomes like able a lot earlier.
The things I didn't like: the pacing. I don't mind that a small portion of the original game was expanded on, but a lot of this game feels sluggish. There's a lot of watching or walking/talking/waiting instead of actually playing. Another thing I didn't like were the whispers. They represent fate in tangible form and I'm honestly not a big fan of fate being so literal like that.
For the Intermission specifically, the story is almost a waste of time. The gameplay is great though, I was surprised to find that Yuffie was my favorite character to control in the entire game.
Really excited for Rebirth to come to PC. I'm really interested to see where the story is going because it seems to deviate from the original timeline quite a bit.
Edit: I could’ve also done without the moral ambiguity. Please just let me feel like I’m doing the right thing, I can’t take the emotional turmoil. Also wanted to expand a bit more on what I liked about the writing. The characters feel closer to each other than they did in the original and cloud becomes like able a lot earlier.
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