when i first saw the dragon i was like OMG WHOS A GOOD BOY YOURE SO CUTE AND ADORABLE AND cries now after 99+ attempts at beating that piece of shit the mere sight of it gives me some very nasty and traumatic war flashbacks which is very weird for my experience with this game since i beat a couple of bosses first try and i actually think The Devil™ took me less attempts but anyway what do i know i suck at this game and it was a blast nonetheless

by the way in italian the devil is called satanasso which isnt a word per se but is composed by satana + asso which respectively mean satan and ace in italian because... yknow the whole casino gambling cards aesthetic the italian translation team deserves a very long kiss on the lips

i cried in the ending i cried a lot i cried like a bitch i cried like a baby i cried so many tears i felt like i was gonna pop my eyes out and this is fairly due to the emotional story conclusion but also because kirby music always delivers a range of emotions that i cant even comprehend i swear i dont understand to this day how are the composers capable of inserting so many layers of feelings into the ost of a game like this . not saying that the kirby series doesnt deserve this level of professionality for the music composition department but bear in mind that this series is known for a pink ball protagonist who is always after some food and ends up on a journey defeating some kind of deity or biologically hazardous entity so if i were a new gamer i would expect it to have childish fanfares or cute little platform osts but this game presents a variety of musical compositions that you hardly find anywhere else in this videogame landscape and i cant get enough of kirby i really cant get enough of it

and also i know the composers do heavy drugs you cant just make some of the best music ever made and expect me to believe that you didnt use some sort of psychotropic substances to reach artistic enlightment you just cant change my mind

the game in itself is competent as fuck i loved every aspect of it but the main point is . when the waddle dees told me i could evolve my abilities i was in so much ecstasy i couldve dropped dead in that exact moment i always dreamed of this mechanic in a kirby game and when i saw it without notice i thought i was gonna pass out
really the fact that theres only 12 abilities (which in reality are 10 because one is sleep and the other is the bomb™) didnt really matter to me because i would be able to upgrade them to 2 different abilities so honestly i was having a fucking blast

waddle dee town is stellar theres so much stuff to do even finding waddle dees around the world was fun maybe ill even come back to this game and try to 100% it because its THAT fun
the level design is unmatched and entirely built around kirbys abilities and the art direction is groundbreaking i will dream about the little animation that plays when you enter a new world area for some time and the characters are cute and the lion is hot as fuck . umh who said that i meant the lion made me wet . no sorry i meant

meta knight is also hot and tempting and

THAT FUCKING FINAL BOSS FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK I GOT SHIVERS ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE FIGHT THE OST IS GLORIOUS

anyway this is a masterpiece of 3d platforming sorry

and to the haters: tell me another game where you defeat the final boss with a fucking truck . ill wait

I don't want to sound like a moralist or exercise armchair activism, but how long can you continue defending a game that has ended the careers of so many workers? So many devs abused while Nintendo and Mercury Steam get the accolades for creating another continuity metroid.
In case you don't know, mercury steam did not credit several devs who were dismissed improperly or were forced to leave the project due to force majeure, such as poor mental health or, I don't know, THE FUCKING PANDEMIC.
There is plenty of information on the internet about this and, hey, probably several of my favorite games were developed through Overworking, unfortunately in Japan it is common and surely, there will be similar or worse cases than that of metroid dread, but at a time when The fact that social conscience and mental health is such an important and controversial issue, I find it inconceivable that so many praises are given to a game perpetrated under the worst business practices I have seen in years, it is pure meritocracy.

Please, if you love a game, its perfectly okay, but do not defend it that if has been created under bad praxix and has screwed up the careers of some of its devs, on the contrary. Do not stain anyone's memory

last year i marathoned through almost every metroid mainline game in a week and spent the rest of the month playing metroid prime trilogy . that being said i had humorously persistent withdrawal symptoms because of the sudden absence in my life of fat ass samus so i feel like this game was made specifically by nintendo for this incurable disease of mine which astonishingly doesnt have an official name as of yet

well after a year or so i ended up being reunited with my naughty annihilator girlfriend who is now a dna genome fuckfest and spent something like 6-7 hours daydreaming about her using her big strong thick cannon on me . also the raven final boss was very hot i have to admit it like when he tore his own wing off . birdie im sold get to my house asap this saturday which is today

anyway this is a good game a great game even idk why im here writing a review like this but my feelings for samus aran had to be written down somewhere in the infinite stream of the internet

no, this wasnt supposed to be left in the drafts

yes, i am gay

Stylish, weird, snappy, extremely fun. This is just one of those games where you look at it and you know its going to be a rad time, its a rhythm platformer, and it looks like that. And the game lives up to that concept with some amazing electronic beats and tight level design, as well as a very touching story. This game reminded me a lot of, of all things, Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective. Both games really take advantage of the idea of death, both are weird cult hybrid mash-ups of different genre, and most importantly, this game takes the biggest thing from the ending LOL.

And like Ghost Trick, this game is just a tight short but extremely rewarding experience. I had a blast just tearing through levels and listening to those tunes while getting my ass beat. I wish this game wasn't just stuck on PS4 and Switch, because this is an experience worthy of everyone's attention.

while i gather my final thoughts about echo for a review i decided to play this little prequel (probably clocks in at around a hour) about events that are already told in the main game but here are revisited and explained better (the house in fata morgana a requiem for innocence type beat if you know what im talking about) and if you want to read some more about echo (im positive you will) this is a good addendum

as for the game itself its about things you already know starring characters you already know and music you already listened to a hundred of times and honestly im good with that

narrative wise its pretty straightforward they just put a slice of life mood over everything and just go with the goofy story with some horror-ish elements here and there to remind you that this is in fact still echo

im assuming you already read echo when you get to this and i can say that seeing the characters in wholesome friendships opposed to what they live through in echo is very nostalgic and somehow bittersweet when you know how they will inevitably stray away from one another in the main game

as a standalone expansion to the story i do think this is a competent one (better than benefits for sure) so i guess theres no reason to not check this out if youre curious

that being said i wanted to talk about something more personal here to the 3 people that will read this review

the main story plot in this prequel revolves around chase trying to cope with his homosexuality after his parents caught him watching gay porn on the laptop (what a cliche) and trying to tell his friends about it basically coming out

as a gay guy these themes struck with me closer than they shouldve and i was brought almost to tears during a lot of scenes here and there

again this aint like the best written stuff in the echo universe or even the deepest but something about it made me so sad and reminiscing and in a way even wish i had friends like these or even a supportive boyfriend like leo growing up

everything chase does and thinks sounded so personal to me his anxiety for something that was and is generally considered shameful (even more in a small and closed town like echo) the stigma of being gay growing up as a "different" human being from the others his need for affection that led him to make contact with online people the terror that made him flee from his home due to the possible reactions that this would cause his parents and the isolation that he feels in a world where queer people are nothing more than something to just "put up with"

thanks to his confrontation with and support received by his friends and leo he learns how to live with this step by step in a motion to accept his sexuality as a whole and move on with his new boyfriend even accepting to discuss this situation with his parents

at the end of this game i felt a lot of weights on my chest and i needed some time to fully recover from it and even now i still am somehow startled from everything in here

maybe it was because im still very emotional about all the stuff in echo or maybe its because i love leo a not so normal amount but i hope the events unfolding here will resonate with any lgbt pal out there or this is gonna show how much of a crybaby i am

to this day i still struggle with my sexuality and its something im not proud of and reading stuff like this gives me a catharsis of some sort to just pull through and be happy

i grew up a in situation like chase: gay and alone in a small little town with nobody to talk about this stuff and nobody like me to share a teenage young love with so i know what this vn is trying to convey and i see it

echo is definitely something that i will remember forever for talking about the most human stuff and also the worries that people like me have to endure on a day to day basis and i wish i couldve read this vn when i was around the main characters age so i could just tell myself that theres people out there who understand what i went through and am going through and that it gets better somehow (i have yet to find an hispanic extroverted wolf bf who calls me estupido and puchica but that doesnt sound so hard to do)

i havent come out to my parents yet in my 20 years of life span but maybe someday i will have the phone call that pulls the theatre curtains to this short story and who knows how it will go

in the meantime im glad i experienced something that had such a massive impact on my life as echo

didnt expect to write something like this for a gay furry vn but the tenderness that oozes from every single dialogue is something that few things managed to accomplish in the videogame landscape

i hope everyone who reads this has someone supporting them through life and i hope you enjoyed echo as much as i did

ok back to my normal self this review is so fucking long shit and its not even the main game i can only imagine how much time i will spend on that one damn

leo why arent you real