hopeascendchaos
2017
It’s fun and gorgeous to look at, but this felt more like playing with a collection of pretty toys than progressing through a fantastic video game experience. I enjoyed my time with this but I wish I understood more of the acclaim of this being the best game of the franchise, or even of all time. There are plenty of more difficult Mario games and even other 3D platformer games I’ve had more fun with anyways, as the easy difficulty of this didn’t engage me very much.
2023
This review contains spoilers
Another Pokemon Game, but more importantly; A Good Pokemon Game.
Visiting Satoshi Tajiri in this game recreated the feeling I had to finding Red in Pokemon Gold as a kid.
Visiting Satoshi Tajiri in this game recreated the feeling I had to finding Red in Pokemon Gold as a kid.
2001
I’M A TAX PAYER
Despite being a sequel that builds from the utmost simplicity of the original’s precursory role for rhythm-based video games, implementing encouragment of free-styled input and cleaner presentation, everything about this is ridiculous. The story is ridiculous. The characters are ridiculous. The writing is ridiculous. The art direction is ridiculous. The gameplay is ridiculous. The music is ridiculous. However, listening to the music despite it’s ridiculous song-writing reveals this trick with a twist of actually being beautiful. The backing instrumentation is meticulously crafted with heart. I think about growing bigger and getting older and how there’s no turning back from the days of being a baby playing this beautiful ridiculous series. Pushing the buttons along to the magical music to see more of these hilarious characters engage further with their absurdist comical adventure, brings me back to times of being so young before growing back again. It’s weird to still find this as entertaining as I did back then before I grew Big all the sudden.
Make me small again…
Despite being a sequel that builds from the utmost simplicity of the original’s precursory role for rhythm-based video games, implementing encouragment of free-styled input and cleaner presentation, everything about this is ridiculous. The story is ridiculous. The characters are ridiculous. The writing is ridiculous. The art direction is ridiculous. The gameplay is ridiculous. The music is ridiculous. However, listening to the music despite it’s ridiculous song-writing reveals this trick with a twist of actually being beautiful. The backing instrumentation is meticulously crafted with heart. I think about growing bigger and getting older and how there’s no turning back from the days of being a baby playing this beautiful ridiculous series. Pushing the buttons along to the magical music to see more of these hilarious characters engage further with their absurdist comical adventure, brings me back to times of being so young before growing back again. It’s weird to still find this as entertaining as I did back then before I grew Big all the sudden.
Make me small again…
TBD
Looking inside the left side gift box in the Party Room was so cool! I highly recommend playing it to see what’s inside.
2021
Now this is a real fuckin’ video game.
2022
It would’ve been better if every chapter he says “Not bad for a WHITE guy, huh?”
1991
COPE
2010
Hahahaha. The main protagonist of this indie RPGMaker game is a bed-ridden, big crybaby man trying to change the world. This game has been aging like a fine wine.
1994
Definitely the most difficult game in my collection.
Jojolion deserves better
Edit: TOORU
Edit: TOORU
Kanna
1998
Game is clearly rushed to knock off from the success of Pokemon yeah yeah who cares theres some crazy shit in this game. I love the sprite work and the adventure no matter how much the shitty coding annoyed me sometimes. (Examples being the long loading in the menu selecting and the lack of decent hit-accuracy balancing.) Say what you want but there’s definitely some fun personality (I’d argue even moreso than any mainline Pokemon to be honest.) spliced into the quirks of it’s time. Recommended if you love shitty old games made by weirdos like me.
The art of knowing when to stop
This review contains spoilers
If Kurumizawa is the 25th Ward does that make Dr. Juvenile Travis Strikes Again?
2022
In this age of indie game storytelling, we are understanding the balance between the power of conciseness in favor of each of our precious time and getting to the point of what makes an experience full in our heads. Franken brought us an entire complete, glorious experience in under an hour. 365 Birthdays questions our perception of time to the point that it brought us an entire BEYOND with its surreal world of understanding in how we should age with confidence through this unknowing of what our mortal response to our perception of time and it’s consequences are; But most importantly, to celebrate it. The universe is unknowing. It’s complexities are individual stories with their own Gods to confront as we live our limited moments of time. If our time is limited, why not celebrate it? What stops a day from being a special day? There’s someone who’s experiencing a special day today. What are you doing with your special day?