hermanbloom
2017
2016
2022
Played through with my Son over the course of two hours or so. We both really enjoyed it. Excellent music, looks great, combat has some thought required but also nothing full on (at our level anyway). Can't see us replaying it, which I know it was kinda designed for but very much enjoyed one playthrough.
2023
My first Pikmin game and absolutely loved it. Controls great, characters are adorable, really has the "one more game/day" hook completely nailed. To nit-pick, the end, end game boss was a pain in the backside but outside of that it's brilliant. 100%'d all the areas bar the final one, which says it all really as who had the time for that stuff normally?
2021
Close to being an amazing game. I really liked the story, emotionally I feel like it hit the right tone for dealing with loss. Characters are interesting, gameplay is Pikmin-like and therefore great. I feel like it didn't need the second round of "go find things" though, just over-stretched the mechanics and travelling for me. Overall though, great.
2022
Been watching my son play through this. It's half a "my first 3rd person adventure" and that part is neat. But there also is a lot of reading/text which he struggled with, and eventually got bored with and by the end he was just clicking through the talking. EDIT - I then played through it myself and it's just adorable. So if goes from three stars for him, to four stars from me.
2020
2022
Hadn't heard much about this game but I enjoyed it. Every attack takes bullets/stock so even a basic attack you have to think about. Normally that would turn me off these days but I actually enjoyed the mechanic. It's a pretty basic, but enjoyable RPG. Not the longest either, think I was about 10 hours, so a decent break from the 60+ mammoth games out there.