ammybaba
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Granblue Fantasy
2014
Didn't get grand sandalphon, if this review exists know that it still hasn't changed or that I forgot to update it
PokéRogue
2024
Addicted. Pretty easy to figure out what absolutely waterboards the game. Floor 195 is a bit much, though. And adding a gameplay benefit to shinies never won’t be cool.
Whoever sold me my GameBoy Color on eBay whenever I was a kid and had "Mystery Game Included!" in the title, you both broke my heart and taught me an important lesson about trust
This review contains spoilers
easily my favorite yakuza game but if i were masato arakawa i would've simply not gotten stabbed at the end tbh
Class of '09
2021
Needy Streamer Overload but for feminism instead of Borderline Personality Disorder
Neon White
2022
I’ll keep coming back to this for years to come. Mechanically it’s one of the most tightly designed, fluid games which encourages speedrunning whilst still being friendly to the casual player. It goes balls to the wall in how it asks you to tackle and experiment with its gimmicks and mechanics/physics, despite their simplicity. It’s fast paced and your decisions come on the fly, but it’s never in the sensory overloading way. The game is smooth, quick to let you reset and perfect your run and walk back your mistakes. It’s made with the same understanding of its playerbase and demographics that Celeste was, so despite the intensity or perceived difficulty, it never grates. The amount of tech you can pull off by the end is as impressive as it is fun. While I’ve seen the story be ripped into online, I’d like to say that’s some of the point. The developers wanted it to be cringe in the way it was what you’d think was cool in middle school, and I think that it sticks the landing due to a full blown commitment to camp. Not that it’s what you play the game for, there’s a skip button loudly placed in the top left of your screen. But I think it’s a case where you can embrace the cringe or easily ignore it. Most overblown critique. It’s not like people pretending Fire Emblem Engage’s story was actually good, when it lost the entire campiness midway through.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
2013
My wife: i like sonic
Her sister: i dont
Me (full of wife’s penis): mmhghhfff
The chairs:
Her dead husband:
Egg man: i hat that hedgehog
Her sister: i dont
Me (full of wife’s penis): mmhghhfff
The chairs:
Her dead husband:
Egg man: i hat that hedgehog
So, so good. Took time to adjust to the new Peter face, but eventually I did, though it looks far better in cutscenes than in gameplay like in Otto’s lab or F.E.A.S.T.. Game is great. Movement is fluid and rewarding and fun. Enemy types do feel samey at times though. I don’t hate the MJ missions like everyone else, but they do fluctuate some in quality. Still, really enjoyable, especially toward the end. This is NOT including the DLC packaged with it, but just the main story.
Tales of Berseria
2016
This was really really good. Berseria easily had one of the best stories and some of the best characters I’ve seen in a game recently; the overall message and themes heavily resonated with me.
Velvet is an all time protagonist, and her internal conflict and struggle was for sure the highlight of an already stacked story. She feels like a very realistic portrayal of trauma and despair and her deeply self destructive nature illustrates those traits well. Her dynamic with the rest of the party, them pursuing their own struggles just like she does, creates a deeply fascinating cast that I love to death. I really do want to give shoutouts to every character in the group but I feel like I’d be here all day talking about each and every thing I love about them. Every character had a nice arc and a satisfying conclusion that highlighted their way to live. I do want to bring up as strong as Velvet was, my favorite of them had to be Eleanor. I definitely saw a lot of myself in her.
As for gameplay, I’ll skim over that but I would like to bring to attention I thought it was the lowlight of this game. It felt kinda clunky to me, maybe that’s just a product of me never playing a Tales game before, but it did bring me out of it a bit. The combat was probably what my biggest issue was in regards to it; I mostly found myself using Velvet and just button mashing my way through a lot of fights. I realize I probably would have enjoyed it more if I had learned to get better by using other characters but I never really felt motivated enough to do so. There’s definitely a lot to like about what I saw but as it stands I wasn’t all that huge on it.
Really the gameplay really is the only thing holding this back from being a 10 for me, but man that story and those characters are something I’m gonna be thinking about for a long time. I picked this up on a whim, started this on a whim, but I’m so glad I did and I wouldn’t be surprised at the end of the year if this was still one of my favorites. Way to start the year right. Velvet Crowe, I was moved.
Velvet is an all time protagonist, and her internal conflict and struggle was for sure the highlight of an already stacked story. She feels like a very realistic portrayal of trauma and despair and her deeply self destructive nature illustrates those traits well. Her dynamic with the rest of the party, them pursuing their own struggles just like she does, creates a deeply fascinating cast that I love to death. I really do want to give shoutouts to every character in the group but I feel like I’d be here all day talking about each and every thing I love about them. Every character had a nice arc and a satisfying conclusion that highlighted their way to live. I do want to bring up as strong as Velvet was, my favorite of them had to be Eleanor. I definitely saw a lot of myself in her.
As for gameplay, I’ll skim over that but I would like to bring to attention I thought it was the lowlight of this game. It felt kinda clunky to me, maybe that’s just a product of me never playing a Tales game before, but it did bring me out of it a bit. The combat was probably what my biggest issue was in regards to it; I mostly found myself using Velvet and just button mashing my way through a lot of fights. I realize I probably would have enjoyed it more if I had learned to get better by using other characters but I never really felt motivated enough to do so. There’s definitely a lot to like about what I saw but as it stands I wasn’t all that huge on it.
Really the gameplay really is the only thing holding this back from being a 10 for me, but man that story and those characters are something I’m gonna be thinking about for a long time. I picked this up on a whim, started this on a whim, but I’m so glad I did and I wouldn’t be surprised at the end of the year if this was still one of my favorites. Way to start the year right. Velvet Crowe, I was moved.
Resident Evil 4
2023
remake of a really good game i still think i prefer the original though. played on Steam Deck OLED and PC
This review contains spoilers
While the first DLC expansion was a great time revisiting the albeit buggy world of Paldea and visiting the Kitakami section, going into this second DLC chapter was actually exciting.
Heading into the outskirts of the Unova region by visiting the Blueberry Academy, battling the BB League Elite Four and becoming Champion there to dethrone the radish head that is Kieran, whilst also exploring the depths of Area Zero to find Terapagos. This was all incredibly fun to play through, especially the Terapagos fight at the very end.
The DLC's main area this time is the Terarium in the underwater dome at the academy, allowing you to travel through four biomes to catch Pokemon and fill out the new Pokedex here. Along the journey, you'll spend time doing Blueberry Quests, BBQs for short, that net you BP to upgrade your league club room, add more Pokemon spawns in each biome (mainly the starters from gens 1-8), and even an Item Printer that can give you any item or Poke Ball based on what materials you give it and the BP for them. If you're going for everything, do the BBQ's in multiplayer as they net you so much more in comparison to doing them solo.
Alongside that, in the postgame, you can also invite anyone over from Paldea such as gym leaders, your friends from the main game, or the elite four members. While it doesn't offer you much, it was a fun addition to the DLC, where you can trade Pokemon with them, or even battle them for rewards. One thing I most definitely didn't expect was a new type to be added for combat, but only locked through Terastallization; the Stellar type. A new type since gen 6! It was alright when exploring and battling with it, but in Tera Raids, they are the best possible type to have.
Another new set of additions were the ability to control your leading Pokemon, which was admittedly charming at first, but afterwards, why do that when auto-battles are more quicker to do. Plus this also kills shiny Pokemon whereas auto battles don't. Yikes. One big change I welcomed was the ability to fly with Koraidon. Huge game changer for transport and exploration easily.
Lots of returning Pokemon which were great to see, including the GOAT Whimsicott. But also some new ones here too, much more than Teal Mask had which was a huge improvement. Notable ones were Archaludon, Hydrapple, and the four Paradox Pokemon. But on top of that, I already mentioned the starters, and in the postgame, you can also hunt 25 legendaries from the franchise. Big downsides are that you can't shiny hunt for the legendaries, which is incredibly lame, and you can't catch every legendary. In comparison to Sword & Shield's DLC, where everyone was available, this is missing a few like Zacian & Zamazenta, Zygarde, Yveltal, Xerneas, and the Ultra Beasts.
If anyone is wondering if the DLC is worth it, now that I've played both packs, it's a neat addition to play if you could bare through the hiccups gen 9 has. Once again, frame rate and pop ins were not fixed, so there's that answer if you hated that. But this isn't done because, as of the time I'm writing this, an epilogue has been announced for the base game and the DLC, so this is truly not over.
Heading into the outskirts of the Unova region by visiting the Blueberry Academy, battling the BB League Elite Four and becoming Champion there to dethrone the radish head that is Kieran, whilst also exploring the depths of Area Zero to find Terapagos. This was all incredibly fun to play through, especially the Terapagos fight at the very end.
The DLC's main area this time is the Terarium in the underwater dome at the academy, allowing you to travel through four biomes to catch Pokemon and fill out the new Pokedex here. Along the journey, you'll spend time doing Blueberry Quests, BBQs for short, that net you BP to upgrade your league club room, add more Pokemon spawns in each biome (mainly the starters from gens 1-8), and even an Item Printer that can give you any item or Poke Ball based on what materials you give it and the BP for them. If you're going for everything, do the BBQ's in multiplayer as they net you so much more in comparison to doing them solo.
Alongside that, in the postgame, you can also invite anyone over from Paldea such as gym leaders, your friends from the main game, or the elite four members. While it doesn't offer you much, it was a fun addition to the DLC, where you can trade Pokemon with them, or even battle them for rewards. One thing I most definitely didn't expect was a new type to be added for combat, but only locked through Terastallization; the Stellar type. A new type since gen 6! It was alright when exploring and battling with it, but in Tera Raids, they are the best possible type to have.
Another new set of additions were the ability to control your leading Pokemon, which was admittedly charming at first, but afterwards, why do that when auto-battles are more quicker to do. Plus this also kills shiny Pokemon whereas auto battles don't. Yikes. One big change I welcomed was the ability to fly with Koraidon. Huge game changer for transport and exploration easily.
Lots of returning Pokemon which were great to see, including the GOAT Whimsicott. But also some new ones here too, much more than Teal Mask had which was a huge improvement. Notable ones were Archaludon, Hydrapple, and the four Paradox Pokemon. But on top of that, I already mentioned the starters, and in the postgame, you can also hunt 25 legendaries from the franchise. Big downsides are that you can't shiny hunt for the legendaries, which is incredibly lame, and you can't catch every legendary. In comparison to Sword & Shield's DLC, where everyone was available, this is missing a few like Zacian & Zamazenta, Zygarde, Yveltal, Xerneas, and the Ultra Beasts.
If anyone is wondering if the DLC is worth it, now that I've played both packs, it's a neat addition to play if you could bare through the hiccups gen 9 has. Once again, frame rate and pop ins were not fixed, so there's that answer if you hated that. But this isn't done because, as of the time I'm writing this, an epilogue has been announced for the base game and the DLC, so this is truly not over.
Gay World
2018
Disgusting example of false advertising. Why is it called “Gay World” when to me, it’s just a Normal World?
Gay World
2018
I 100%’d it in 2 minutes but a friend gave me it for free so I guess I’m not upset.
Sonic Mania Plus
2018
It’s still peak, and still amazing that 2 characters and encore mode are only 5 bucks. Modern dlc practices would sell all of them separately for 5 bucks, and get away with it. We’d probably even let them. Also absurd that the stage transitions and revamped Metal Sonic fight are all just, free in the update for this. 5 years later and it’s still just a stellar game made better, what more do you want me to say.
sadly, ACAB includes sonic.