jennifer
2020
genuinely the worst rhythm game engine ive ever experienced in my life. i feel bad for shitting on it cus i know this games for beginners and i have 300 hours across osumania, etterna and quaver but like. unmodded this game uses ARROW KEYS/WASD WITH NO OPTIONS FOR REBINDING? YOU LOSE HEALTH FOR PRESSING BUTTONS WHEN THERES NOTHING ON SCREEN? not to mention how awful latency and input dropping is. literally no one makes rhythm games like this anymore what the fuck is this. i know theres mods that fix this but you shouldnt need to mod the game to even make it playable
1992
i love how ambitious this game was for its time but jesus christ walking through a dungeon in this game is like driving through new york city but everyones a suicidal jaywalker
this happened to me
1996
"the saturn doesnt have games worth playing" Eat My Fucking Ass
the fact i had to make a separate review for this, the nes version and the gba version cus ive beaten them all makes me feel mentally ill
This review contains spoilers
the transition from persona into homoerotic gundam at the very end hit like a truck
WHO THE FUCK THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO MAKE IT MANDATORY TO TALK TO A CACTUS TO BEAT THE GAME
please no matter what do NOT touch this game i repeat myself do NOT EVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES PLAY THIS GAME this is a WARNING this game will make you curse the day you were born and you will start walking on the walls while your eyeballs turn to the back of your head out of the rage this game will induce after playing it PLAY DAWN OF YS INSTEAD PLEASE I BEG YOU PLEASE JUST PLAY DAWN OF YS
1994
"oh im bored i guess ill try out super metroid for the 5th time mayb ill like it this time idk" - me, 2 days ago, clueless and stupid
having to watch my golbats evolution animation cancel itself every single time it leveled up is the most evil kind of cocktease ive seen in a videogame
this happened to me irl
i hate this game so much that i fell in love with it
this is without a doubt my favorite ys game ive played so far (im currently playing through 6 so this might change) i dont even care this game isnt canon i love this game a LOT
im a huge sucker for games with 90s anime-style cutscenes and this game delivers that in spades, the spritework done in this game is probs straight up my favorite in a game from this console generation, the portraits and cutscenes are a HUGE stepup from 1&2
i know this game isnt canon but the way the story was presented in this game is just superb (which just made mask of the sun so much worse when i played that after this one), unlike in that game the sages and villains are ACTUALLY REOCCURING CHARACTERS and FEEL SIGNIFICANT and the way this game introduces characters feels so much less forced than in mask of the sun (MASK OF THE SUN MINIRANT OVER)
this game is a blast to play, unlike 1&2 i pretty much never felt lost in this game until i got to the teleport maze near the end of the game, the dungeons arent too simple to mindlessly walk through them but theyre not too obsurd to work your brain around and it makes for a really fun experience
bump combat was PERFECTED in this game, you have no idea how good it felt first time i found out this game lets you move DIAGONALLY :OOO (unironically), the combat in this game just flows so beautifully and this game offers up super fun boss fights too
just like 1&2 this game also has a killer ost (which is pretty much what ive come to expect from the pc engine at this point (SHOUTOUTS TO RONDO OF BLOOD)) and even remixes a few songs from 1&2
UNFORTUNATELY i couldnt get the english fandub patch to work so i cant comment on the voice acting in this game, but id assume its rly good :)
i dont even care that this game isnt considered canon anymore (or ever rly) this game is so great its STILL worth playing and im so glad i did <3
im a huge sucker for games with 90s anime-style cutscenes and this game delivers that in spades, the spritework done in this game is probs straight up my favorite in a game from this console generation, the portraits and cutscenes are a HUGE stepup from 1&2
i know this game isnt canon but the way the story was presented in this game is just superb (which just made mask of the sun so much worse when i played that after this one), unlike in that game the sages and villains are ACTUALLY REOCCURING CHARACTERS and FEEL SIGNIFICANT and the way this game introduces characters feels so much less forced than in mask of the sun (MASK OF THE SUN MINIRANT OVER)
this game is a blast to play, unlike 1&2 i pretty much never felt lost in this game until i got to the teleport maze near the end of the game, the dungeons arent too simple to mindlessly walk through them but theyre not too obsurd to work your brain around and it makes for a really fun experience
bump combat was PERFECTED in this game, you have no idea how good it felt first time i found out this game lets you move DIAGONALLY :OOO (unironically), the combat in this game just flows so beautifully and this game offers up super fun boss fights too
just like 1&2 this game also has a killer ost (which is pretty much what ive come to expect from the pc engine at this point (SHOUTOUTS TO RONDO OF BLOOD)) and even remixes a few songs from 1&2
UNFORTUNATELY i couldnt get the english fandub patch to work so i cant comment on the voice acting in this game, but id assume its rly good :)
i dont even care that this game isnt considered canon anymore (or ever rly) this game is so great its STILL worth playing and im so glad i did <3
i refuse to believe this is a pc engine game
2009
bump combat chads how can we stop winning