2022
This review contains spoilers
overall a really intriguing visual novel! completed akane's route and bad ends (my first route) and aoi's route and bad ends on 11/11/22 and kiika's route on 11/12/22 early in the morning. i love how this visual novel seems to follow the format of a typical horror film, they even reference the horror film format and sadako in the game!
though it is a black cyc game and has gore in the title, shockingly it's not as gorey as i expected so far. the intense squicky gore in the game seems to be in kiika's route. on the topic of gore, i love gore himself and he's fucking hilarious. i'm usually not one for dark humor involving death, but that one scene in the game with sashimi and the teacher absolutely obliterated me. i also think that yuuka and gore are an interesting tag team. there's still mysteries that i haven't found in the game (like what gore and yuuka are) but i'm hoping to uncover that as i play more paths today!
though it is a black cyc game and has gore in the title, shockingly it's not as gorey as i expected so far. the intense squicky gore in the game seems to be in kiika's route. on the topic of gore, i love gore himself and he's fucking hilarious. i'm usually not one for dark humor involving death, but that one scene in the game with sashimi and the teacher absolutely obliterated me. i also think that yuuka and gore are an interesting tag team. there's still mysteries that i haven't found in the game (like what gore and yuuka are) but i'm hoping to uncover that as i play more paths today!
1992
a pretty decent bite-sized kirby game, rather similar to kirby's adventure. my only gripes are that i feel like it's a little short (you can finish it in less than an hour) and you can't obtain abilities in this game.
the graphics in this game are astonishing but the controls are HORRID
1990
pretty campy (in a good 80s sorta way) and overall a fun rpg game, though near the end it's pretty difficult.
1987
this game is so clunky, awkward, and hard for no reason. it's basically amagon with a disney skin on it. plus why is the villain from sleeping beauty kidnapping alice???
1984
the game with the weirdest controls known to man
1991
kinda too easy, but it had its moments. love how you can tell this was definitely made around the cold war era because they decided to make it seem like the ussr (more specifically russia at the time) was your big enemy
1992
my favorite retro mega man game to date. the level set up is pretty fun for the most part, i also like some of the enemies and think they're rather creative (the hen and the train guy for example). also gotta love how a bird can literally save the world
1993
dr wily goes to jail and eventually breaks free with key man, who he built from random objects in prison
1996
its incredible to me how i can play this game so many times yet never get sick of it. similar to um jammer lammy it has a weird input system though
TBD
had potential to be a better knuckles chaotix
a visually charming video game, i enjoy the art style of the 'clay' graphics and games that the company attempted. the characters for this game are pretty fun looking as well. sadly, the controls are a little clunky and the computers can be brutal. though i don't know if this is because i suck at fighting games, or that's just how it really is.
1994
god the controls are horrible. even if you are winning it's not good that you have to depend on drifting in order to be first. even then you can't heavily depend on it or else it fucks you over.
if you wanna play a retro sonic racing game PLEASE play sonic r it's programmed a lot better than this
if you wanna play a retro sonic racing game PLEASE play sonic r it's programmed a lot better than this
there's some potential in here, like the haunted mansion (just a castlevania reskin) and the pirates of the caribbean mini games. but this game is not without awkward control issues, the timer can be the worst thing ever if you're playing pirates. i think that 30 minutes is too short for a game too, imagine you're buying this in the 90s for full price
2023
trans rights! this was so cute