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Lost Judgment
2021
This review contains spoilers
Don't you love a sequel that improves in actually everything the original was going for
In terms of gameplay it’s easily a contender for the best one so far, years and years of refinement are crazy noticeable so being unbalanced is nothing compared to how fun and broken every fighting style is. Same goes for every other mechanic here though! Chases, climbing, stealth and investigations don’t feel wonky anymore, gotta love seeing how many of these ideas are finally realized properly after so much ngl. Lastly even the game progression is great too! Barely felt slow and the side content never felt like a chore
Writing was peak! And I can’t really conceive thinking otherwise. Extremely weak to character focused plots like these, especially in a setting that constantly gives them something to do and highlights how much they’ve grown and can bring to the table. None of this was perfect of course, and rrg still has a lot of work to do with how they handle these serious topics, this is their best handling of them yet but the bar is so low that I don’t feel like praising them for at their worst getting my eyes rolling.
Overall it's really up there as one of their best tho, if i went on about every aspect of its storytelling that would be a whole other movie so trust me when i say it's peak yagami-sensei itsumo arigato gosaimasu and all that
In terms of gameplay it’s easily a contender for the best one so far, years and years of refinement are crazy noticeable so being unbalanced is nothing compared to how fun and broken every fighting style is. Same goes for every other mechanic here though! Chases, climbing, stealth and investigations don’t feel wonky anymore, gotta love seeing how many of these ideas are finally realized properly after so much ngl. Lastly even the game progression is great too! Barely felt slow and the side content never felt like a chore
Writing was peak! And I can’t really conceive thinking otherwise. Extremely weak to character focused plots like these, especially in a setting that constantly gives them something to do and highlights how much they’ve grown and can bring to the table. None of this was perfect of course, and rrg still has a lot of work to do with how they handle these serious topics, this is their best handling of them yet but the bar is so low that I don’t feel like praising them for at their worst getting my eyes rolling.
Overall it's really up there as one of their best tho, if i went on about every aspect of its storytelling that would be a whole other movie so trust me when i say it's peak yagami-sensei itsumo arigato gosaimasu and all that
Outer Wilds
2019
(Score: 10/10) A trascendental experience. A meditative reflection on our own mortality, the wonders and horrors of discovery, and what it truly means to belong in this universe. One of the few games to ever actually make me full on sob, and it happened in a seemingly random moment where the reality of what I was playing finally hit me and fully set in. This is a game I wish everyone would play, even non-gamers, and it should be one of the first examples people bring up in the "are video-games art?" debate instead of TLoU (not a diss on that game even though I find it really overrated, but there's simply something about the way Outer Wilds reveals its story to you that can only be achieved through an interactive medium like video-games, whereas TLoU's story could be told through many other different mediums). This game is the first massive leap in storytelling in videogames since Dark Souls and Undertale, and the story it tells is profoundly contemplative and life-changing. An unforgettable experience that I wish everyone could live the same way as I did. The only flaw this game has is that you can only play it for the first time once, but in a way that's also its biggest strength.