Fantastic artwork, disappointing gameplay. Doesn't respect your time, punishes you too much for dying, making progress painfully slow.

Wonderful game. My first Yakuza game. Has a few issues for sure, but those are well overshadowed by just how much there is to love about it. Some of the most entertaining side-quest nonsense I have ever engaged in. Not many games make me laugh out loud and this game had me doing it all the time.

Played it on Parsec with some friends. Game has some obvious flaws but it was a blast to play regardless.

A lot of cool stuff in here but I think it's really hampered by the need for some significant quality-of-life improvements. Spending way too much time going back and forth between menus to select stuff, with the repetitive nature of the gameplay that stuff should be more streamlined.

Relatively simple city building type game with an interesting concept of the land constantly shrinking. Graphics aren't really my taste, and I wish the music had more variation. Campaign is surprisingly robust though and the writing is surprisingly funny. Definitely worth playing in my opinion.

Beautiful game. Really like he concept, I'm just a little disappointed there wasn't more. More than worth checking out though, since it won't take much of your time, I recommend playing it on a rainy night if possible.

2022

Really interesting and cool game, but it would benefit tremendously from a manual or even just a few tips. In my first attempt I ran into serious problems that by the time I understood them I couldn't really reverse them due to the scarce nature of resources.

The one big tip I would give is to harvest and store as many resources as you can early on, particularly steel, as you need that not only to build things, but you need a constant stream to keep your ship repaired, you can end up real screwed if you build too much too fast.

It's kinda Fights in Tight Spaces with a more retro style of graphics and bit less polish. Had a fun time with what I played of it.

Really cool game that felt like exploring a fantasy novel. Never played anything quite like it, very well written.

2021

Fun and interesting little game. If a psychedelic-horror Pikmin-like sounds like your jam, then you should definitely check this out.

Darker in tone than Earthbound. Excellent and a bit understated. Episodic like Live A Live probably due to the involvement of Nobuyuki Inoue.

Nothing really extraordinary here gameplay-wise, but they nailed the Warhammer 40k aesthetic perfectly. Controls feel good. Blast some freaks for the Emperor and have a good time.

Very strong "we have Blasphemous at home" energy.

I also played this on the NES.

Day one: real fun. Day two: got pretty repetitive pretty quickly.