This game is maybe the only RTS game I care about. A wonderful mix between Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy Tactics, put on a an active battlefield, and sprinkled with Final Fantasy 12's gambit system if it felt good to use. Like a good amount of games with large casts and playable units, a good amount of depth of character is lost for many of the individuals you can recruit and I do wish there was more of that to invest into. You do get some affection rate based conversations between units but it's nothing crazy. I haven't finished yet, but making teams in this game feels like crack and I will rock this out to it's end some day.

This game has a lot the charms of suikoden, as it was promised to have, but something about it is still not exactly there for me. And I say this even considering it as it's own thing as well. I love the battle set up, I think the additions to the six space team format is very well done, as well as giving each character some sort of unique action like dodge, defense, and other more personalized ones. I don't think the wide array of characters has major depths, but they are very charming in their own way and well designed enough that when I do come around to finishing I will be thinking of playing again to use a whole team through it. The side content is funny and neat, nothing life chaning or stunning. But good fun when you want to stary from story for a moment. It's a solid game and worthwhile fun, maybe less as a revival of suikoden and more as a continuation of Eiyuden Chronicle.

Very sweet game. Has a very unique and fun humor to it, and the platforming is very well tuned. There are some moments that I felt a little frustration, specifically with the larger areas. But overall this is a great collectathon. I wish it kinda had less stuff - I'm generally against the movement to have more collectables ala Super Mario Odyssey because it ruins the value of a collectable. The amount of gears in this game (and how easy it is to find them) creates a feeling that they are worth a little less. I kinda wish more gears were tied to doing specific tasks rather than doing a speck of difficult platforming in order to offset this feeling. It's still a great game though, with gorgeous visual style and wonderful music/sound design.

Oh man, do NOT sleep on Lorelei and the Laser Eyes! One of the finest puzzle/escape room games I've ever played. Having a game to tear into with pen and paper is something I really needed even after Animal Well, and I was not disappointed in the slightest. There are very very small issues - the amount of backtracking was a little tedious, and there is no back button in the menus of the game. But if these are things that are unlikely to bother you, then I wholeheartedly recommend giving Lorelei a shot. If you plan on playing this, stop reading reviews. Run don't walk to the Steam page!