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Coming from a person who have zero knowledge or insight about the universe of the work, This game is super flarking amazing. If only the developers invested more time and work and changed some aspects, this would have been easily one of the greatest games this generation. 9.5/10
Blasphemous
2019
This game is hard really HARD. I really liked the catholic aesthetic and the fantastic dark post-rock ost. The game is basically a Castlevania with Hidetaka Miyazaki storytelling.
Mass Effect
2007
Interesting game. Really enjoyed my time with the game, felt kind of short for an RPG but still rich, even though my playthrough was mostly focused on the main scenario and fairly just scratched the surface of the side quests. I liked the cast of characters and the idea of crossing multiple life races with different backgrounds, really gave each character some weight, and the sci-fi setting is executed fantastically. The gameplay was amazing not to say it was perfect or revolutionary, but something new and fresh, If I would be more elaborate I can say it's like a new soil that can be bred into a full garden. The plot was moderately good, but not all the way there were some ups and downs. There is not so much to say, I was really invested in the characters and the gameplay and not so much in the whole plot itself. Really looking forward to playing the sequel. 9/10.
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Spider-Man
2002
This game is so bad.
FNaF World
2016
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Sonic Adventure graphics. Combat is fun, but holy shit does the ai sucks.
This review contains spoilers
One step forward two steps back
Yakuza 8 saw Yakuza 5's messy ass plot and said, yeah, I can beat it.
The positives are abondant. Mainly in all things concerning gameplay.
-Combat is massively improved from 7. I'd actually say it really comes into it's own in this game in a way it never really did in 7.
-Side stories are overall pretty good
-Yamai. Just. Yamai.
-I didn't dislike Adachi in 7, but I think he really shines here, he's hillarious.
-Seonhee is hot.
-The game has decent, if a bit on the nose commentary on social media, manipulated news stories and fame culture.
-Kiryu's souvenir thing is a lot fun, I greatly enjoyed doing them, even if some of them were a little contrived.
-Takaya Kuroda's best performance to date, by far.
-Soul, this game has plenty and more. Whatever it's flaws, I can say this is a game made with passion and love for the characters and universe, and with AAA games nowadays, that is excedingly rare.
But oh boy is it messy.
-The great "Ichiban and Kiryu teamup" that was advertised, is a lie. Ichiban and Kiryu are toghether for a couple of chapters and after that, they go their seperate ways, with their own seperate parties, stories that connect only very loosely.
-Which leads me into this point, this feels like it should be two seperate games, "Ichiban looks for his mother in Hawaii" and "Kiryu's real real final stand (forget Yakuza 6 was a thing)". The way they each have their own seperate final bosses, one feeling like a parody take on JRPG God monsters and one feeling like a generic yakuza final boss in the Millenium Tower.
-While this might not be a problem /inherently/, it becomes one when you realise that way more effort seem to have been put into the Kiryu portion of this game than Ichiban's. Thus, Ichiban feels like he's playing second fiddle to Kiryu in what is only his second game. This game almost feels like the fan reaction to Ichiban was negative and the devs are attempting to course correct. But that's just not the case, Ichiban is probably the single most well received sucessor protagonist I've ever seen. So I find it a huge shame that RGG seems to think he can't carry a game by himself and needs Kiryu to prop him up.
-The ending is insanely abrupt. With Ichiban just being made into a butt monkey and Kiryu's.....just not being an ending.
-The pacing is honnestly god awful, its as bad as Final Fantasy XVI. The forced tutorials for the mini games are truly a chore. Look, I respect Sujimon and Dodonko Islands, I'm sure some people got lots of fun out of them, but I don't care, that is not why I play Yakuza, and I dont feel I should be forced to do so.
-The villains suck. Bryce starts up interesting and menacing but they go too far. Him being like 100 years old with no explaination, having a giant squid in his lair just makes him unbelievable. It also makes the framing "Palekana is good actually, Bryce corrupted it" kind of moot when everyone currently alive who are part of it are indoctrinated within Bryce's worldview.
-Ebina is even worse, he is genuinly the worst villain in the series by far.
-It ruins 7 as a decent starting point for newcomers. Having Kiryu feautred so heavily makes it impossible for someone who only knows Ichiban's story to follow.
-While I'd like to believe this is Kiryu's final game, fact is: He is alive at the end of this game, and Yakuza 6 was supposed to be. Therefore, I can't truly trust RGG not to bring him back again for some stupid reason.
All and all. I have no hate for this game, it was fun. But its an absolute mess and pales in compairson to its predecessor.
Ps: releasing this game next to Persona 3 reload is certainly a choice. I thought P3R was gonna be overshadowed by Y8, but tbh, no, the opposite happened. Releasing the best written persona game with an improved gameplay experience really does this game no favor.
Yakuza 8 saw Yakuza 5's messy ass plot and said, yeah, I can beat it.
The positives are abondant. Mainly in all things concerning gameplay.
-Combat is massively improved from 7. I'd actually say it really comes into it's own in this game in a way it never really did in 7.
-Side stories are overall pretty good
-Yamai. Just. Yamai.
-I didn't dislike Adachi in 7, but I think he really shines here, he's hillarious.
-Seonhee is hot.
-The game has decent, if a bit on the nose commentary on social media, manipulated news stories and fame culture.
-Kiryu's souvenir thing is a lot fun, I greatly enjoyed doing them, even if some of them were a little contrived.
-Takaya Kuroda's best performance to date, by far.
-Soul, this game has plenty and more. Whatever it's flaws, I can say this is a game made with passion and love for the characters and universe, and with AAA games nowadays, that is excedingly rare.
But oh boy is it messy.
-The great "Ichiban and Kiryu teamup" that was advertised, is a lie. Ichiban and Kiryu are toghether for a couple of chapters and after that, they go their seperate ways, with their own seperate parties, stories that connect only very loosely.
-Which leads me into this point, this feels like it should be two seperate games, "Ichiban looks for his mother in Hawaii" and "Kiryu's real real final stand (forget Yakuza 6 was a thing)". The way they each have their own seperate final bosses, one feeling like a parody take on JRPG God monsters and one feeling like a generic yakuza final boss in the Millenium Tower.
-While this might not be a problem /inherently/, it becomes one when you realise that way more effort seem to have been put into the Kiryu portion of this game than Ichiban's. Thus, Ichiban feels like he's playing second fiddle to Kiryu in what is only his second game. This game almost feels like the fan reaction to Ichiban was negative and the devs are attempting to course correct. But that's just not the case, Ichiban is probably the single most well received sucessor protagonist I've ever seen. So I find it a huge shame that RGG seems to think he can't carry a game by himself and needs Kiryu to prop him up.
-The ending is insanely abrupt. With Ichiban just being made into a butt monkey and Kiryu's.....just not being an ending.
-The pacing is honnestly god awful, its as bad as Final Fantasy XVI. The forced tutorials for the mini games are truly a chore. Look, I respect Sujimon and Dodonko Islands, I'm sure some people got lots of fun out of them, but I don't care, that is not why I play Yakuza, and I dont feel I should be forced to do so.
-The villains suck. Bryce starts up interesting and menacing but they go too far. Him being like 100 years old with no explaination, having a giant squid in his lair just makes him unbelievable. It also makes the framing "Palekana is good actually, Bryce corrupted it" kind of moot when everyone currently alive who are part of it are indoctrinated within Bryce's worldview.
-Ebina is even worse, he is genuinly the worst villain in the series by far.
-It ruins 7 as a decent starting point for newcomers. Having Kiryu feautred so heavily makes it impossible for someone who only knows Ichiban's story to follow.
-While I'd like to believe this is Kiryu's final game, fact is: He is alive at the end of this game, and Yakuza 6 was supposed to be. Therefore, I can't truly trust RGG not to bring him back again for some stupid reason.
All and all. I have no hate for this game, it was fun. But its an absolute mess and pales in compairson to its predecessor.
Ps: releasing this game next to Persona 3 reload is certainly a choice. I thought P3R was gonna be overshadowed by Y8, but tbh, no, the opposite happened. Releasing the best written persona game with an improved gameplay experience really does this game no favor.
Absolute perfection. This feels like 10 games in 1, and all feel so polished and engaging, whilst still embracing the wackiness of the franchise. Aside from a few story fumbles that felt frustrating, this is an incredible game that everyone should experience.
The Messenger
2018
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This is a great love letter to the 8bit and 16bit eras of platforming. Exploring and movement feels great. Imagine playing Ninja Gaiden on the NES, only the controls aren't horrible. To add to it, there is a twist halfway through that helps keep the game feeling fresh. That said, there are a few parts that they should have spent some more time on.
The bosses feel horribly unbalanced. The Demon General was so frustratingly hard that I nearly dropped the game right then and there. But after pushing through him, the rest of the bosses took me at most three attempts, many of them one. Clockwork Concierge and the Demon King were far too easy and only took me one attempt on each. It was harder getting to the Demon King than it was killing him. Having the hardest boss in the middle of the game was a poor decision. That said, I still love this game and am looking forward to playing the DLC in the near future.
The bosses feel horribly unbalanced. The Demon General was so frustratingly hard that I nearly dropped the game right then and there. But after pushing through him, the rest of the bosses took me at most three attempts, many of them one. Clockwork Concierge and the Demon King were far too easy and only took me one attempt on each. It was harder getting to the Demon King than it was killing him. Having the hardest boss in the middle of the game was a poor decision. That said, I still love this game and am looking forward to playing the DLC in the near future.
Easily the best single player Call of Duty campaign, and quite possibly one of the best FPS games ever. It does not get 5 stars though, simply because it still struggles with the kill boxes that all CoD single player campaigns struggle with, where regardless of what you try, you get repeatedly surrounded and gunned down by enemies you never see coming.
That said, the story and the pacing, as well as the gun play, are all top notch. I don't care for multiplayer, so I haven't touched it, but the single player is well worth the time.
That said, the story and the pacing, as well as the gun play, are all top notch. I don't care for multiplayer, so I haven't touched it, but the single player is well worth the time.
Coral Island
2023
This game is a mess of glitches and unfinished quests. 1.0 came out recently, but it really should have been labeled 0.7. I have heard that the devs were forced to keep the 11/17 release date due to the publisher, Humble Games, going through rough financial times, but that doesn't excuse the radio silence they have gone on and multiple ways they have screwed over their original backers by doing things like changing the PS4 version of the game to the PS5 and refusing to let people change the version they picked over 2 years ago. There are numerous quests with "TBD" on them and won't let you finish them. The NPC dialog is repetitious and doesn't change regardless of how far you progress your relationships. When the game crashes, and it will crash often, the Unreal crash reporter will also crash forcing you to restart your computer. I really wanted to like this game, and it still has a lot of potential. I plan on picking it back up in about half a year or so to see if the devs bothered to fix anything.
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the castle turns out to be upside down? ridiculous!!!!!
Literally it doesn’t get better than this. Best game ever made