probably one of the best games you can get on a mobile app store and the only one I've ever felt compelled to spend money on. that being said it's still very much an app store game

I really recommend playing this casually and ideally on a college campus or downtown in a big city. if you live somewhere rural with little to no Pokestops I am so so sorry but you will not enjoy this game in the slightest

plus it's pretty cool to see Shadow Pokemon again after a 10 year absence, even if it's not as cool here as it was in Colosseum/XD

if you're starting on Yokai Watch for the first time, I definitely recomend you start with these games (or Psychic Specters, since that's the definitive version). it follows the plot of the first Yokai Watch movie so if you've watched that you won't be surprised by the story but it's still worth a playthrough

it's pretty fun and beefy! again, lots of great characters and content, and I love how you can walk with your favorite Yokai if that Yokai doesn't happen to be Whisper. the music's phenomenal and memorable, too

anyways I kind of abandoned the game because I couldn't get past the bosses before the final boss. maybe one day I'll return to it but I think my backlog is so big and I was satisfied enough with my playthrough that I don't really feel the need to complete it anytime soon

a really cute game that pushed Pokemon to be better with its Gen 7 games even if their similarities begin and end with "monster collecting game with cute characters and an elementary school kid". the monster design is quirky and memorable and the world is bursting with things to do around every corner

I find this game to be a bit of a hard sell when its sequels exist and build on the game's concepts much better, but it's very good to play if you want a game-sized TV show. you might be in for a shock if you've only watched the anime though

anyways I will never forgive Hasbro for fucking this series over so bad that we'll never get Yokai Watch 4.

please note I haven't played past the first dojo yet and this game is not complete yet. I do intend to return to this game soon and I hope this game surprises me in some interesting ways. anyways anyone telling you this game is better than Pokemon is lying to you

I've always resisted the idea of a Pokemon MMO in fear that it'd just be.... kind of bad. admittedly, this game both confirms and deconfirms these fears

it feels very much like a poor man's Pokemon in so many aspects. the creatures outside of stars like Pigepic are horrendously bland, and the game occasionally has mechanics and concepts that even Dragon Quest and Pokemon considered old hat 10 years ago or are needlessly more complicated than they have to be. Pokemon could occasionally get hokey at times but at least in those cases it was genuine - Temtem feels irony poisoned as it shamelessly copies Pokemon's story beats

I can't say I hate it though - I signed up for a monster collecting game, and I sure as hell love monster collecting games of all kinds. and I absolutely do appreciate that I can simply play single-player in a way if I really wanted to... I just kind of wish this game had a stronger identity than "poor man's Pokemon but, like, make it an MMO", because if it broke away from the formula it's shamelessly copying I feel it could be great. even if I still have to sit through some incredibly bland monster designs

it really is a shame that Capcom refused to ever officially translate Gyakuten Kenji 2, because it's absolutely one of Ace Attorney's best showings, especially following up from the worst game in the franchise

every single case is a great addition, every character is great and memorable, and past characters aren't shoehorned or overstay their welcome the way they occasionally would in the first game. the cases are all well connected to each other in sometimes surprising and unexpected ways

the only real complaint I have is that Logic Chess stresses me out because of the time limit but that may just be a personal thing. either way just read the summary for the first game and then play this one. it is very worth your time, especially if you love Ace Attorney

my least favorite Ace Attorney, but still not too bad. most of its problems come from the sometimes.... interesting jumps in logic. Case 3 of this game is notoriously awful and feels outright unfinished (and I'm still upset that a theme park murder got wasted on this horrible case), and Case 5 drags on far longer than it needs to be. but the characters are fun as always and the writing is fun, so whatever

plus my friend and I made an inside joke out of Defendant's Fresh Milk so I'll give it that

I'm not big on Zelda games, but the fact that this doesn't have a lot of the DNA of most Zelda games outside of the first means that I enjoyed this far, far more than any Zelda title before

the game is genuinely engrossing in ways that I had hardly played in a video game before. it was legitimately fun to go around and find food and weapons, attack campsites, talk to the residents of Hyrule, and discover brand new places without feeling like I was being railroaded from one dungeon to the next. I know a lot of Zelda fans may dislike shrines, but the fact that shrines were bite-sized dungeons meant I actually had the patience to do them compared to what even early-game pre-BOTW dungeons liked to do

it's not perfect. story might be pretty weak compared to what I've seen in other Zelda games and sometimes you do get hit with locales with absolutely nothing to do, but I'd argue that simply comes with the territory with open world games. weapon breaking and slots I don't mind compared to some other inventory management solutions like Skyrim, but I do wish there was at least some other way we could keep our nice weapons without having to wait on a blood moon. sometimes fighting higher level Moblins would turn the Switch into a Powerpoint presentation. those are the only really negative things I can say about this game, and those feel like little blemishes in an otherwise excellent game

genuinely, probably one of the worst video games I've ever played in my life. the story and the aesthetics are cute but that isn't enough to save it from its middling gameplay, limited lives system that's entirely based on how many Yoshis there are, no real explanation for anything, frustrating platforming design, and the fact that if you wanted to try out a different level on the same section of the story you'd have to play the entire goddamn game again. borrowed this from a friend in community college and I still felt ripped off. don't waste your time on this and just go play Yoshi's Island instead

I'll be honest - I'm not a fan of most Zelda games. I don't know what it is about them. I had hoped that Majora's Mask 3D would get me there and I'd finally love a Zelda game, but I think I walked away with more negative feelings.

the music is great and the atmosphere is incredible - that I will not deny. the characters, all with their own problems, really helped to make the areas in and around Clock Town feel like real people

however, the three-day cycle felt frustrating, and the general lack of love I feel for Zeldalikes felt more concentrated here as I tried to go for 100%. also the Gorman Brothers race sucks and knowing I will never have to do it again gives me great joy