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Excellent writing and a believable world with intriguing lore and just enough gameplay to keep everything fresh for the amount of story that they were aiming to tell, with enough roots and seeds to think beyond. It was a little heavy handed at times, but felt real in terms of it's weight of grief when it's especially pronounced. The contracts as a meta mechanic gave a real link as a symbol between tools of oppression in the story as it does in our world, and the juxtaposition of concepts that applaud or detract Oni from their violence and mission for justice felt weightier than a lot of similar games I've played. I hope to see more from this universe or at least these writers.

And it's got a little opossum village themed around bones! Loved them. And the individualistic speaking styles of the characters along with broader accents portrayed

This is what Artaud pictured when he created the Theatre of Cruelty

Genuinely a great work of Neo-dada art. I’m not joking, even a little. This technically runs on steam deck. I view this like I view LSD dream Emulator

Pretty environments, a decent aesthetic, but the game's story was a fucking drag to get through. Not much was interesting, and the ending invalidates the game preceding it. I was going in and getting excited at first, but finally it just died a bad death. I've since sworn off this dev's games, and judging by some other reviews I've encountered, for good reason

2024 edit: I will always remember this as one of my most hated games for how bad it felt despite mainly just being generic

I have no clue if this is still the last bastion of our culture war or if it’s too woke now so I’m giving it a 5/10 to average those two possibilities out

Mechanically speaking, the game is great and has a lot to play around with and easily break the game itself. The characters are nice, however, the story didn't engage me at all, so I kind of played on auto mode and I couldn't care for it too much...sad.

Yeah i mean it obviously didnt age well but its a interesting look at the beginning of RPGs.
Also the Cover art goes hard

Absolute Trash. Barely worth the effort just to beat the first stage. Very little reason to play this at all.

Worse than the PC-88 version because everything runs extremely slow and I'm not a fan of some of the monster redesigns.

People out there have beaten this game and I am genuinely astounded as to how, this shit is impossible

I'll give it props for inspiring Ys and Legend of Zelda but this is so shit to play

If all they can do is program a stick figure knight on a maze of snot green against a blue backdrop, then why did they bother making the cover look so cool

Good game but Shin Megami Tensei I did the whole enemy recruitment thing better.

I played this game in a single sitting the same way someone would eat an entire one-pound block of extra sharp cheddar cheese on their day off because they’re depressed: I knew that I shouldn’t do it, I knew that I wouldn’t even enjoy it in the moment, and I knew that I’d be paying for it later on, but I did it anyway

Amy may not be a baller - figuratively and literally, - but getting to play as her in the best 2D sonic is a treat either way.