Longinus

Ides of March

After Persona 3 Reload arrived in my Steam library, I got another game on sale… We Love Katamari Reroll! It turns out that the same summer that I discovered the Persona saga… my now-wife and I played a lot Katamari Damacy’s sequel! Is it fate? Am I so old that I see coincidence everywhere?

Half-Life 2
Burn my dread

Persona 3 Reload

9/10
124.1 hours
48 of 48 achievements

I'm nostalgia fodder. I've loved playing this game again with updated graphics, but it's not going to get a 10 for several reasons:

A) The improvements that were implemented in Persona 3 Portable have not been used: neither you can choose a female character, nor cameos like Vincent's appear.
B) Atlus has cheated us again: now it turns out that they will add the Aegis chapter in DLC… So, when they could not cut the game into pieces by releasing a great game, they have decided to make us pay again. Unless they give it to me for free, it seems to me that this time it's not going to work.
C) Despite the improvements in the combat (which are many) the dungeon crawl is still monotonous.

Even so, I enjoyed the game a lot.

Half-Life 2
We REALLY Love Katamari

We Love Katamari REROLL+ Royal Reverie

9/10
1.7 hours
2 of 35 achievements

I simply love this saga. It's fun, it gives very good vibes, you can play it in split screen with a friend… What more can you ask for? Ah, the King of the Cosmos!
This saga of becoming a dung beetle is the best thing that ever happened to videogames.
It gets a 9 only because you can't play multiplayer online with several friends.

I also tested the beta of Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes for those who participated in the crowdfunding campaign.

Half-Life 2
Well... it's only the first beta-impression

Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes Playtest

6/10
8.0 hours
no achievements

A beta a month before its release and with a bitter aftertaste due to the death of Yoshitaka Murayama has not been a good combination.
The game looks good, but it gives the impression that the launch is very rushed and that it would have been better to be a year in early access as happened with Baldur's Gate III.

Good news for me is that, after a year, I resumed Greedfall and I finished it! I really don’t like that feeling of leaving things half finished so I’m very happy with this.

Half-Life 2
Conquest of the new world

GreedFall

8/10
44.4 hours
50 of 63 achievements

A great action RPG. The atmosphere is great and the background of the fantasy world mixed with historical fiction is brutal: it is the conquest of America by European and Asian states but with a magical background.
That simile of the black plague that strikes the "civilized" world and whose only hope is a mysterious island discovered in recent decades where the local tribes seem to have a unique connection with nature.
I didn't really like the gameplay because it was a bit Souls-like but I loved the story. Fortunately there's an easy game mode… The only thing it does is lower the life bar of the monsters and raise your defense, so you're still going to get hit if you're clumsy like me.

And for that mania of mine of not giving up halfway through, I’ve returned to Yakuza: Like a Dragon, my unfinished business.

Half-Life 2
I keep trying

Yakuza: Like a Dragon

7/10
47 hours
41 of 63 achievements

Seriously. It's not that I dislike it, but I'm not getting passionate about it either. Maybe I had too much hype, I don't know. But, well, I'm going to keep going to see if I'm missing something more than an ambiguous story, with a typical anime protagonist (ie: childish, dreamy and quite silly). Really, I'm trying to like this Japanese comedy… but it just doesn't click for me.

Arbiter Libera

Eiyuden is definitely on my radar. Perhaps not necessarily a Day 1 purchase, but certainly not long after.

Zelrune

Congratulations on your assassinations!! ᓚᘏᗢ
Admittedly I’ve never been able to get into the Persona series, the game’s too weird; same for Yakuza.
Eiyuden is unknown to me, and I’ll keep an eye on it as it is released and people review it more.

Longinus

Don’t say weird, say schedule your day very well in this school visual novel with dungeon crawling with folkloric Pokémons 😂
Eiyuden is supposed to be the spiritual successor to the Suikoden saga (in fact, the sadly deceased Yoshitaka Murayama is the creator of both sagas). It’s a classic turn-based combat JRPG using 6 to characters at a time (the title is supposed to refer to the fact that there will be one hundred obtainable characters).