inserts standard HOG game complaints
this one doesn't really have a hey you won screen… I finished it… clicked next and was back at title screen

nomnomnom delicious anime trash.
Of course I will prefer the fox girl over the childhood friend… why? Tail and ears!

another puzzle game, another its just to easy for me :/

Now I have to wait for a long time for Vol 5.
but all the girls are extra adorable this volume, and we have a new cutie!
Azuki still best girl.

decent little choose your own adventure game, it just wasn't interesting enough for me to go through the chore of 100% completing and unlocking every scene. Managed to get the Hero route on my blind playthrough

Door to Phantomile: the 1st game… overall a disappointment, most of the levels are very easy then suddenly a large difficulty spike nearing the end(didn't try the bonus… it looked like a PITA), bosses are a joke or just annoying.

Lunatea's Veil: much much better than the 1st game, you can tell they saw the issues of the 1st and improved upon them, there were a few annoying aspects to it… but nothing major. Bosses were still way to easy… also game you don't need to tell me how to do everything before I get a chance to figure it out :/

This was better than I thought it was going to be be.
what you see on the store page is definitely what you get.

I have my issues with it(what game do I not?)… fake saves on some things… expecting me to deal with a horde of undead on a location not well suited for it(at least once you fail 3x your offered a skip which auto kills them)… AI snipers have perfect aim and can take out the engine of a motorcycle boosting through the area at max speed totally wrecking the engine, forcing you into combat quests without giving you a chance to change your loadout… but hey the game never crashed, pretty impressive for a AAA game these days.

Overall I had a great time… wish the heavy machine gun was…. just better… a SMG was doing so much more for me in all cases… yes even against a horde of undead… a SMG was beating out a heavy machine gun in clearing them out.

+1 SG win beaten!

Its more Higurashi… what else can I say without spoiling anything?
plenty more chapters to go, I own the next 2 atm… hoping the others steadily get to the 50% discount to make them worth buying.

Technically speaking I haven't beaten everything yet… I am at the point of just grinding out the characters that start with evolved weapons and grinding out the last bit of gold… need to figure out how to get the 2nd item when you picked its to easy/hard as well.

But I have done enough to be happy with marking as beaten, might grab some of the DLC when it goes on sale… might not and just play the other games that played with this game formula(I want to pick up deep rock survivors… its sooo tempting)

Protect the nekos!
aren't they all so adorable when they are smaller

only volume 4 left… before the big pit of despair known as waiting for volume 5

there are some gameplay elements that aren't great here(mainly the "sailing" and the robot asking we done can I teleport us out being semi random and not forceable but overall I enjoyed this.

I have my complaints… to much back and forth and some things necessary for progress are hard to see(even when using button to make interactable things flash), but overall I enjoyed it.

I am never playing a game where you play as a snake again.
anyone have the number for a therapist that specializes in snake pass related cases?

ok… this game stole my attention… I intended to slowly chip away at it over a couple months as it is my POP very long game…. here I am a few days over 2 weeks with it 100% completed.
Base game and Legends DLC content(well… ignoring NG+) on Warlord for my blind playthrough.

if you have played any Fire Emblem game and loved them this game is 100% worth your money and time.

NG+ has some pretty neat looking customization options to make a playthrough harder(and a few things for easier, but most of it is geared towards making it more difficult). Debating what I want to do for my NG+ run… turn the options to slightly easier but play on ludicrous? turn the difficulty up and do another warlord run? The choices

now… to go finish the black eagles routes in Fire Emblem 3 houses(im post timeskip church route… need to do the other route on max difficulty to.)

ancient SG win… from late 2013 finally played.
simple puzzle game, although even the hardest levels weren't that hard, only one really gave me a challenge and that was more a visibility of the level issue that the puzzle design.

apparently there was a key command for in extreme mode… to turn those 8hr waits into 5 seconds… I discovered it to late.

loved this… made me cry some(hit a bit close to home on some things), and since it took place in the US… I knew the locations(haven't visited them IRL yet though… some are on my list to visit)!

waiting on the story DLC to go on sale to truly be completed… but well its not on sale at the time of this review

I enjoyed my first playthrough quite a bit, and the questlines for everyone on the 2nd/3rd… didn't really enjoy the overly similar/repeat stuff in each run.

in proper VN fashion, follow a choice guide and always 100% where reasonable(glares at highway blossoms 1 real world week to do without time skip for a single achievement)

Note: none of my screenshots really spoil anything, just shows off the amazing art this game has.

I feel like really saying anything about the story will spoil it, especially after having seen the endings. I would follow the route guide in the community hub(normal ending first, then bad, then true ending), it definitely felt the best way to experience the great story.

I definitely have my complaints about this game….
"you are in a mission so you cannot manually save", drifting while unlocked fairly early… is not early enough… combat is far less enjoyable before you get the ability to drift or a combat rite… to name a couple.
but the story is good, overall gameplay was fun and I had a great time… no idea how I was beating HLTB time for main story… when I did basically everything.

Thanks secret santa… I probably wouldn't have picked this up any time soon on my own. Would consider 100%ing... if a couple achievements weren't hella grindy

unfortunately my first abandonment of the month. Feels bad as it is a win to.
this game is a tough precision/puzzle platformer with awkward controls(I mean your playing as a frog!),

its normal for me to not finish precision platformers because of skill checks that I don't want to put the time in to master… usually closer to 2/3 through the game(like Celeste it was in chapter 6 or so where I started to struggle and used accessibility mode to finish it)… but here it was in chapter 4 of 20… which is closer to 20% through the game…. I shouldn't be skill checked so hard so early, especially when you know what to do… but executing it takes forever.

game has voice acting when you run into NPC's… but I don't find it very good(might be intentional as its not humans talking), personally would rather just text over what is in the game.

if you love precision+puzzle platformers you would probably still enjoy this game.

this a neat racing game… I never did actual races…. just the "story" mode(more of a tutorial+story for the game, bit different than what I was expecting. I enjoyed the challenge that alot of the levels had.

fast paced requiring somewhat precise jumps/rotations and other tricks to navigate the courses, you will at many times have to do a jump and rotate 90-180 degrees to get on the track. also has good visuals. Game also features custom levels

its not what I am looking for out of my racing game that I want to lock in as my racer of choice, so not doing the harder campaign mode or races against AI and such.

inserts standard hidden object game complaints

but this one has a parrot wanted for stealing bullets and biting crewmen!
no achievements for completing either the main story or the little bonus chapter

I like the visual style, and it appears each character has their own story mode(even if its a minimal story)…
but I have a problem making this unplayable… the game stops recognizing controller input after 1-3 minutes… both my wireless xbox elite series 2 controller(via BT) and my old official wired 360 controller. Anyone know a solution? Would rather not have another win in won't play because of technical issues.

old classic puzzle game, its fun!.
Only got 4th place on the default high scores, of course gods will be better than me.

another win done!

Auto mode does not work…. Well it does… for one paragraph after it's enabled making it pointless.

translation : acceptable… but it needs a native English speaker to really pass over it for notable improvement, quite a few grammar, sentence structure(words need to be in different positions in the sentence here and there)… there was a line or two I wasn’t sure what it was trying to say at all but I believe I could figure it out with the context of everything else. The DLC/bonus chapter ANOTHER SOULS has NO English translation(so I can't decide if I should have this marked as beaten or completed :/). No character has a proper name in this(at least in English).

Visuals: not good enough imo, there is a mix of real life photos that appear to have been put through a filter and some ok artwork… and a select few very good pieces of art(screenshotted).

Audio: music is fine…. Some of the SFX added is fine, The rest is … disappointing,,, for example… background chatter? Loops after a few seconds(like 5)… yea other VN’s loop things like that to… but they loop it after 30+ seconds…. What makes it worse that it’s playing for many minutes of reading straight… making me not just want but to actually mute the audio while I read.

Story: Good, not great, I did enjoy it

Overall: do not recommend it unless you enjoy light novels, as this does not really take advantage of the visual element VN’s have. Also the bonus chapter not being translated(it does appear this was added much later than launch). If you can read the Chinese languages it supports it might be even better.

Its goofy.
I have taken all the ladies to prom so far.
plan to play more casually in the future, this isn't something I can sit and do a ton of at once(thanks ADHD).

<3 Nekos.
Azuki still best girl.

forget the main character, protect the fox girl!

I can't call this game good.
Its ugly, store is serviceable, combat is janky. Part of this is due to the games age.
This is the definition of a rent from blockbuster kind of game.
But I had fun… that's all that matters right?

cute little short preview VN, there is a longer one sharing similar name so IDK if this is a prequel, a teaser or what.
9 minutes 100% title for those who want something super short

its a hidden object game… not much to say about it.

One chapter a day keeps the Fire Emblem withdrawal away.

Loving this game so far, playing on the "hard" setting(only one higher… not doing that) with no permadeath(generally with the newer FE's I do higher difficulty no permadeath, or lower difficulty with permadeath).

I could feel how much longer this was compared to 1, I definitely preferred the setting of 1 more.
I can't decide on the story.

Chiaki best girl

the game mocked me for the difficulty I picked… I still sucked at the game

I think I have technically beaten this, just not gotten the true end yet.
needs guides, has another chapter coming eventually

definitely better than I thought it would be, some of the dialogue isn't great… the english VA at the start… shivers

its maple and cinnamons turn for fun times.

oh god the chapters are long!!!
I was going to try and get chapter 3… or at least alot of it done yesterday… many many hours later I finished chapter 2.

I will beat this game this month.

this will be eating a large chunk of my game time for a bit.

Final bosses
what do you mean you have 5ish seconds of iframes when I hit you and you hit like a truck during that? Got GG relics on my gold grind run so was able to beat the game on that run, now I have the post game content left still

house rules were used to reduce grinding… guess what reducing enemy damage is like… grinding out extra armor/life upgrades, reducing enemy life…. that is like grinding out extra damage upgrades.

Not gonna be the madman and 100% it like I did the first one… mostly because Thanatophobia/Thanatwophobia/Rogue Rogue Legacy are just…. going to be way to hard, the beat it in X run achievement for the first game got added after I had 100%'d the game and they let us just unlock it for free.

Lucy is our loveable idiot and she 100% has problems.
must protect.

slowly but surely I will 100% this…
someday… maybe

xmas DLC done!

This was a win from CJ's event(the first one I participated in… barely made the cut off… and didn't even think I was going to be able to do it until I looked over my games and realized I was almost done with a few days left.

This was also my first time playing a ratchet and clank game and I really did enjoy it alot. I am curious now if the older games are just as good and worth trying to play if I can.

This game went from never heard of it, a path of exile streamer played it so it got fed into my recommendations… to me immediately being interested and buying it day 1.

This is a lovely mix of Hades, Vampire Survivors and Diablo.
can't wait to see how development progresses on this.

my initial post… I was missing the no hit run… but I managed one(with no added difficulty options), I have 100%'d early access!… now to do difficulty 30 on all the characters, so far… I have done it on 2/5.

pretty sure I can manage to do it on 2 others… but I not smart but big axe hit hard might be a challenge.

Finally got a chance to play old classics that got remastered, I had played one in the past as a kid when I stayed over at a friends house so never really saw alot of the game. I have now beaten 6 games of this franchise… and 3 of them are in this trilogy.

Spyro The Dragon: Good old first game in a franchise greatness, I mostly disliked the boss stage as any little mistake meant redoing the entire level. Won't really complain to much about some of the other jank, that is classic game goodness! Only one major bug… caused by enjoying more than 30fps, I am glad modern game design doesn't tie as much if anything to fps.

Riptos Rage: More of the same, but not as good… and it introduced underwater levels! the 2nd bosses predictive targeting took me to long to learn… and Hunter is a traitor and deserves prison time for feeding Ripto power ups. Technically there is a few levels I didn't touch as I was able to just walk over to Ripto and do the boss when I got to the final area.
This is the one I played as a kid, I remember the first hub area and one of the first levels.

Year of the Dragon: Would have enjoyed this one more if it wasn't for the other characters you control, Spyro is fast and fun to play… the others are slow and tedious. I avoided doing things at them where possible. I felt the portals allowed lazier level design since they could just make another map to get more collectibles in.
Bosses in this one are a joke with how easy they are.

Overall I had a great time, thanks for the gift, I will let you out yourself if you want to :)
overall average was around 70% completion of all collectibles.

overall enjoyed this… I just want to know who packed the boxes for the final level… why are baby blocks in separate boxes… these are solid cubes, stack them and put into a single box!.

also don't look forward to the day I have to merge belongings with someone… I have quite a bit of stuff.

also please don't look at that moving box in my closet, yes its been there for a decade and I am not going to unpack it… I swear though if my Gamegear is in there…

The way this game tells its story is great, the horror tag had me worried for a bit but it really wasn't scary for me at all.

I recommend giving this game a go if you have it. Its only a couple hours, closer to an hour if you follow a walkthrough(don't… maybe reference one if you need a guide!)

I enjoyed the concept of this game far more than the game play… mostly the stealth segment with the apple cart I did not enjoy… only time I really enjoy stealth parts of games is when I am given the option to skip the stealth and blast everyone… or I am far away with a sniper rifle.

rest of the game was really enjoyable though

Fallout series side story, this time the vegetables are coming to life!

Time to rip everything up for achievements, I will start with all the books from unpacking.

I did enjoy how the story is told… but the gameplay… point and click adventure game nonsense… but double it.

Wait this releases Dec 1st 2023! Welcome to reddit giveaways, dev was looking for testers/reviewers and I raised my hand.
I did my job and reported some spelling/grammar issues. So those will be fixed up for those who actually spend money on this when it releases(hopefully its only a couple of dollars).

2 character routes, 2 sex scenes, a secret ending that isn't a harem ending(sadge), no VA/animation, good for those that enjoy their simple short visual novels, but if you want a great story, or amazing tier artwork you will need to look elsewhere.

Technically beaten on easy… but its an action roguelike so there is still plenty of game time worth of unlocks and challenges to do.

great game, I do have a few complaints about it… mostly between color scheme/the zoom/character size I occasionally lost where the player character was on the screen mid combat. Nothing that really took away from the overall enjoyment of the game though.

if there is ever a sequel I look forward to it.

the combat didn't click for me, don't know if I just wasn't in the mood for the turn based combat or if I just want to play Golden Sun again.

Fortunately there is story mode… which automatically 1 shots everything so you can focus on exploring and the story which is the other big parts of games like this and I definitely did enjoy those aspects.

Cute girls, good story!
DLC scenes… not as good as Nekoparas, but hey I won't complain, I am here for the story anyways, everything else is just extra

This is my first dive into this franchise(never owned a playstation and my friend never owned any ratchet and clank games).

Did the introductory segment, seems fun

have only done the prologue for a vibe check so far, will likely read through this much later in the month.