Valma
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26yo | ENG/FR/Learning 日本語 | She/Her | RPGs | My backlog is too big help | Eternally curious | pfp:
LEGO VOYAGER Cute experience to do with a friend, 25 dollars is a little bit much for around 2 hours of game but I guess that's the price of the LEGO brand.
WORD OF FINAL FANTASY MAXIMA Time capsule of weird PS2 title made by Square Enix and using the brand of a bigger series to promote it. I have no idea why how they came up with the idea of "what if you literally stacked monsters on top of your head". The writing and localization for this game are 🔥
In better news I've been playing WoFF, for the unaware it is basically Final Fantasy's attempt at Pokémon and honestly it's pretty neat. The "pokédex" entries are also very fun:
REFIND SELF THE PERSONALITY TEST GAME Cute short game where you go in for the fun experience of playing a video game personality test and end up staying for the sweet little story it tells you.
GRANBLUE FANTASY RELINK ENDLESS RAGNAROK I cried and screamed for this DLC to happen and Cygames delivered me everything I ever wanted out of it, this dlc has absorbed my life since it released and I'm so happy about it. I hope Cygames make more games using the GBF IP.
MARIO IN THE MULTIVERSE 3.5/5 A very nice romhack that does things you do not expect Mario 64 to do at all, of course this features many many nods and references to other video games (duh), it's a fun time and it's only 120+ stars, so pretty short if you know how to play SM64 well.
STARFOX '26 4/5 Played only the "hard route" but that's all I need for an opinion really, it's a pretty great remake and the new cinematics try to make you show you more of how the team became close during this (chronologically) first game. I hope this can light the way for the future of Starfox.
THE LEGEND OF HEROES TRAILS THROUGH DAYBREAK II 3,5/5 I had a good time with this game, with the majority of it in fact, the only point I was really bored about was the Marchen Garten sections feeling like slogs to go through, somehow the enemies felt like insane HP sponges. Quatre is awesome.
MINA THE HOLLOWER 5/5 Finally we escaped from the Shovel Knight hell and Yatch Club Games still got it. You can clearly tell what everything this game was inspired by, and yet it is its own self. I had so much fun playing that I honestly fail to see anything I would call bad about the game.
BALDUR'S GATE 3 4.5/5 Fuck Larian CEO, the game is awesome and it brought back some childhood memories of watching my brother play 1 and 2. I hate Wyll but at least he made one good thing so I'll spare him from years of hate.
NINE SOLS 5/5 Magnificient game, somewhat basically Sekiro in 2D, a breath of fresh air to see a game using an under-represented culture in the games media. Pretty challenging with the difficulty curve being just right, Story mode is there for an easier time. You SHOULD play this game.
FINAL FANTASY VI 4.5/5 Yes I know, I should have taken the time to finish it sooner in my life but never had any will to, until recently. Pretty good video game as you can imagine, it's almost like this game is loved for a good reason y'know ?
STARFOX ZERO 3/5 Not as bad as what most people say on it, the bad parts are basically only the lock-on phases and Gyrocopter ones, everything else plays more than fine although the looking at 2 screens part is a bit crazy but I can see what they thought they were cooking.
STARFOX ASSAULT 3,5/5 Good game with really good ideas, poor voice acting, visually awesome and actually pretty difficult on hard. Controls are a bit strange and not everything feels as good as SF64 for example. The aparoids are really great and they give that "Kirby Lore" feeling.
STARFOX ADVENTURES 3/5 It's fine really, people really hate this game but it's just "fine" it has issues and of course its history is complicated (like the part where it was not even a Starfox game to begin with) but you can still have fun, it also gave us Krystal.
STARFOX 64 4/5 One of the few I already played fully, a big childhood game for me. it's certainly the best game so far, although it is somewhat partially a remake of Starfox 1
STARFOX 2 4/5 Basically a straight up improvement of what the first one was trying, another piece of history with this game too. Pretty enjoyable even as of today !
STARFOX 3/5 Nothing much to say other than impressive game trying to exist wayyyy too early. I would probably never play this version of Starfox 1 over the later ones but that was a nice piece of history !
HADES 2 5/5 It's basically more Hades, it's good, it's fun, art is still gorgeous, soundtrack is banging. I played after all the patches so even the conclusion to the story was nice, the old version really was... not great lol. Cannot wait to see what's next for SuperGiant !
TUNIC 4/5 My brain was challenged with this one but it was very cool to figure out most of the stuff, although there's maybe a bit too much of a repetition in some puzzles but it's still very cool