Earthbound is probably one of the best SNES games of all time. It's a super fun and wacky turn based rpg where you play as Ness, a kid who wields psychokinetic powers. I'm gonna try to be brief with the story here. When the game starts, Ness is sleeping away until a sudden meteorite lands nearby. As the curious young kid you are, you decide to check it out. While you do, a strange bee from the future named Buzz Buzz reaches out to you, warning you about the invasion of Giygas and how you and 3 other kids must save the world. He is then later killed by your mother because she does not like bugs. And well, now you set forth. It's a turn based rpg, so you'll find equipment along the way, go to shops, talk to NPCs, fight enemies, etc. Despite all this normalcy, the combat is satisfying. Landing a critical hit in this game feels better than most real life excitements. The weird enemies you encounter is also funny, with crap like a walking mushroom, trees with faces, and one enemy that is just a noose. Each battle song that plays also depends on the enemy such as Battle Against a Weird Opponent and Battle Against a Machine. The songs in this game are very literal. Pokey Means Business is definitely my favorite song in the game though. It starts off as an 8-bit song, which is kind of jarring at first, but after almost a minute it suddenly picks up and gets super epic. The moment it transitions like that will hit you like a truck. The game also has useful items outside of healing, such as bottle rockets, MP stealers, a freaking bazooka, and something that literally turns you into a dragon. YOU CAN TURN A LITTLE KID INTO A DRAGON AND HAVE ANOTHER SHOOT A BAZOOKA. Anyways, the combat is super fun and there's even some weird status effects as well, such as turning into a diamond, mushroom, or even just catching a cold, just the game's version of poison. And guess what, on your journey Ness gets homesick so you have to call your mom to feel better. This game is beautiful.

Superliminal is a "puzzle" game created by Pillow Castle. I say "puzzle" because lots of people label it as that, but I just don't think that's true. Sure, it has puzzle elements, but I feel as if this is more of an experience of a game, rather than a sole puzzle game. You play as an unnamed protagonist who is going under some kind of dream therapy by a company of the name Somnasculpt Therapy. Their purpose is to just try to help their patients by putting them in a dream state, and they will figure out a bunch of their issues from there, since the human mind can hide nothing. This game's whole kind of motto is "Perception is reality" and that basically sums up the game's main gimmick: perception. You will be faced by a great deal of optical illusions and you are also able to pick objects from any distance, and depending where you set them down, they will either shrink or expand in size. It's all according to what the human eye can see. So on to the story. It's really just about your character being lost in the dream world, and starts having dreams within dreams, and the people at Somnasculpt try to get you out, but they just can't. That's as basic of a summary I can give. Then each level has a unique theme as well, and I'm gonna talk about each and every one of them. First, we start on the tutorial level by the name of Induction. It's real simple, and it just shows what this game is gonna be like. After that we have Optical, and you wake up in a hotel room with a beeping alarm clock. This is how every level afterwards is going to start. This level is mainly based around, you guessed it, optical illusions. You will find paintings of objects on the walls and you have to line up the paintings and grab the object it forms into. You are also introduced to the second and last character in this game, Dr. Glenn Pierce, the head of Somnasculpt Therapy. For the third level we have Cubism, where you'll mainly just be picking up dice of different shapes and sizes, a very basic level. Afterwards, we have Blackout, a level that while in reality isn't that scary, presents a really spooky atmosphere. There's one instance in the level where you're walking towards a door, and you see a face staring at you through the door's window. But when you cross the doorway, you see it was just a big chess piece. For the fifth level we have Clone, and this levels main gimmick is, you guessed it, cloning objects! The sixth level is called Dollhouse, and this level's main premise has you making small house-like structures, such as a dollhouse or bouncy castle, and making them large enough for you to enter them. And inside those places, is basically another level! Sometimes you have to make the houses bigger or smaller, depending what size YOU need to be as well. For the seventh level we have Labyrinth. This is my favorite section of the entire game, as this is when you realize just how lost in the dream world you are. You start off in the hotel room as usual and you turn off the alarm clock, but as you walk you here the alarm going off again, and you're back in the room. This happens 2 more times. When you try to walk away for the third time, you end up in a dead end at the hotel. After looking around in your room, you see that a painting om your wall can be picked up and walked through. As you go through this entire level, it seems that your "reality" is just collapsing before you. For the final level we have... Whitespace. While you are farther in the dream world than anyone else has ever gone, you still hold on to hope and try to get out. This level is a good last moment of the game, and is kind of hard to describe honestly. Before I end this off, I just want to say that the music in this game is super chill and just relaxing to listen, and it kind of just sets the mood that you are dreaming. The music in Labyrinth is especially good just because it's the most dramatic.

Twewy is probably my favorite jrpg of all time. It has a unique battle system where you equip pins with their own unique attack function, each performed by different movements made with the stylus on DS, or by touch on Switch or mobile. But, it's not like you can equip an overpowered pin and ONLY use that, no. Every pin has recharge time in battle, when you use up an attack, you must wait a few seconds so you can use that attack again. The game also has almost zero random encounters, the only time you get them are on the very last day of the game. Instead, you choose your encounters by using the Reaper Pin. On DS, twewy utilizes the dual screen mechanic by allowing you to control two characters at the same time. You control your partner on the top with the d-pad, and Neku with the stylus, a system that actually works very well. In the later entries however, you just control your partner with the touch screen. Each and every character design is great as well, all with their own unique looks. From Neku, to Beat, to Mr. Hanekoma, to Sho Minamimoto, each and every character is written so well that makes you want to listen to them some more. The soundtrack is also one of THE best video game soundtracks I have ever listened to! Twister, Transformation, Tatakai, Hybrid, Someday, etc. and etc! The whole overworld of Shibuya is also pretty nice, with each section having something unique to it, but there's usually not much to explore in them, unless you want to find a rare Noise. The game should also take you about 30-40 hours to beat as well. To finish off this long review, I just want to say that this game has an amazing story to tell, and I highly recommend playing it if you haven't.