strawhatninja
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2005
My first beat em up as a kid. It’s fun but simple I like how you have to use the Titans for their unique abilities and for certain enemies. It’s simple and short
2004
Fun tennis game. Really like the power ups and how snotty all the characters are to each other.
2004
As someone who really likes the anime, it wasn’t a surprise that I really liked this. The characters are the star of the show and each one gets their time in the spotlight. Sunohara and Tomoya’s friendship is one of my favorites interactions.
Kyou and Tomoyo are the best girls but all of them are great. Lots of heart and a good story!
Kyou and Tomoyo are the best girls but all of them are great. Lots of heart and a good story!
Played it back when it originally came out on PS4 and still as good today! I really enjoy just playing this game. Moving around the city is great and the combat feels so good. The story is a lot better then I actually remembered and has some truly good twists. The side content is good but I wish they did the random crimes a little differently. The dlc is fine but nothing great I just did the Black Cat one. Overall it's a great game and I can't wait to play 2.
Space and time saved by two 3D platform heroes
Why do I like this game? I don't know I like the actual card game and I'll give them credit you get to meet characters from the show, but man these graphics are garbage.
Really fun game
A fun simple platformer. It's pretty easy but still enjoyable and I really liked the art style. The boss fights were pretty good too.
All the Aladdin games are great and the main reason to own this collection because they are still fun games. Lion King isn't my favorite but it's okay. Sadly I have a lot of experience and finished the Jungle Book games which are hard and not fun
Thank you Toriyama-sensei for all you did for us
2024
I just absolutely adored this game and could not put it down. I love tactics games and this unique turned based hybrid real time was just perfect for me.
Lets start with the story. There are some good twists overall but it's a pretty simple fantasy storyline of good vs evil which I really enjoyed. The characters are great and I love how involved with the story most of them are. They also have dedicated support conversations for every characters which fleshes out all the characters nicely. You are able to choose a partner in marriage which plays a big part in the story with a nice fully voiced proposal scene. The support conversations reminded me a lot of Fire Emblem which you can see this game has heavy inspiration from.
The gameplay as I mentioned combines turned based strategy with real time. Throughout the game you will earn honor points which let you upgrade how many units each battalion can hold. You only start out with 2 units per battalion but you will eventually get to twelve units with 5 characters per. This sounds confusing but it all gets introduced slowly and is easy to wrap your head around. You move these battalions in real time but can pause at any time. You setup what characters and what type of moves you want them to do most often or for specific circumstances. There is a ton of customization and it's a lot of fun to experiment. They have a bunch of different difficulty options which give you different levels to find your perfect comfort zone, and it can be changed whenever.
The world map is the biggest and best surprise about this game. It is fully interactive with tons of resources and secrets to find. Each village you build up with increase your honor score and then you can assign a guard which will auto gather resources for you. The graphics are just gorgeous in typical Vanillaware fashion. The characters always look great and the battles are super flashy.
Overall I just adore this game and can't say enough good things about it. Vanillaware you did again!
Lets start with the story. There are some good twists overall but it's a pretty simple fantasy storyline of good vs evil which I really enjoyed. The characters are great and I love how involved with the story most of them are. They also have dedicated support conversations for every characters which fleshes out all the characters nicely. You are able to choose a partner in marriage which plays a big part in the story with a nice fully voiced proposal scene. The support conversations reminded me a lot of Fire Emblem which you can see this game has heavy inspiration from.
The gameplay as I mentioned combines turned based strategy with real time. Throughout the game you will earn honor points which let you upgrade how many units each battalion can hold. You only start out with 2 units per battalion but you will eventually get to twelve units with 5 characters per. This sounds confusing but it all gets introduced slowly and is easy to wrap your head around. You move these battalions in real time but can pause at any time. You setup what characters and what type of moves you want them to do most often or for specific circumstances. There is a ton of customization and it's a lot of fun to experiment. They have a bunch of different difficulty options which give you different levels to find your perfect comfort zone, and it can be changed whenever.
The world map is the biggest and best surprise about this game. It is fully interactive with tons of resources and secrets to find. Each village you build up with increase your honor score and then you can assign a guard which will auto gather resources for you. The graphics are just gorgeous in typical Vanillaware fashion. The characters always look great and the battles are super flashy.
Overall I just adore this game and can't say enough good things about it. Vanillaware you did again!
This game is really good. Great level designs and boss fights. It calls back a lot of what made the original Donkey Kong Country trilogy great. The bonus and levels have clear inspiration from that and since I love that series I adored the call backs. Highly recommended and wish they would another game.
2024
What an absolute masterpiece. All versions of Persona 3 before had some flaws. It was either you couldn't control party members or the visuals were turned into a VN style game.
This game first of all is just gorgeous and they added some much needed things from Persona 5. The biggest thing for me is they made the social links a lot better you don't have to date all the girls now and the boys have events you can do too. While the side characters are mostly lacking compared to P5, the full voice acting for every social link more then makes up for it.
The combat is improved vastly thanks again to P5 and it's baton pass now called shifting. Tartarus was good before but it's even better now with lots more to do do and visual differences for each sector.
The story is of course amazing. The big thing to take away is this game is dark and the story isn't afraid to get super dark with consequences that make every moment hit. I won't spoil the ending but it still really shocks me and Persona has replicated this type of ending to this day.
Go play this amazing masterpiece right now if you haven't. This is the version you have been waiting for
This game first of all is just gorgeous and they added some much needed things from Persona 5. The biggest thing for me is they made the social links a lot better you don't have to date all the girls now and the boys have events you can do too. While the side characters are mostly lacking compared to P5, the full voice acting for every social link more then makes up for it.
The combat is improved vastly thanks again to P5 and it's baton pass now called shifting. Tartarus was good before but it's even better now with lots more to do do and visual differences for each sector.
The story is of course amazing. The big thing to take away is this game is dark and the story isn't afraid to get super dark with consequences that make every moment hit. I won't spoil the ending but it still really shocks me and Persona has replicated this type of ending to this day.
Go play this amazing masterpiece right now if you haven't. This is the version you have been waiting for
This was one of my favorite games on the gba so I was excited for the remake and they largely did not disappoint. The visuals are way better obviously it looked pretty bad even on gba originally and the new levels are some of the best ones in the whole game. The story is non-existent as expected and it probably was a little over priced for how short it is, but I had a lot of fun and will be playing this version from now
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What an amazing game this was. RGG has nailed the gameplay this is the best any Yakuza game has played. They improved on LAD and made me really like this combat system even compared to some of my turned based favorites. Defending is something that needs to be in every turned based rpg and class system and abilities are just masterful.
The mini games are better then ever Sujimon League and the island are amazing. I enjoyed my time with both and just had such a blast.
The characters we know and love are back and the new ones are great as well. The biggest thing they did was pay respect to Kiryu in the most amazing way possible. Seeing past people from all the games through memories and catch up was amazing.
There is only one reason this game didn't get a 5 and it is that the story just didn't quite pay off like some of the past Yakuza games. I wanted one of two things to happen by the end. Kiryu should have died or Ichibon got together with Saiko. Sadly neither of those things happened and left things open ended. I also didn't feel like the villains were as strong as past games other then Bryce who I really liked as a villain. Overall I just love this series more and more with each entry.
The mini games are better then ever Sujimon League and the island are amazing. I enjoyed my time with both and just had such a blast.
The characters we know and love are back and the new ones are great as well. The biggest thing they did was pay respect to Kiryu in the most amazing way possible. Seeing past people from all the games through memories and catch up was amazing.
There is only one reason this game didn't get a 5 and it is that the story just didn't quite pay off like some of the past Yakuza games. I wanted one of two things to happen by the end. Kiryu should have died or Ichibon got together with Saiko. Sadly neither of those things happened and left things open ended. I also didn't feel like the villains were as strong as past games other then Bryce who I really liked as a villain. Overall I just love this series more and more with each entry.