Ys IX: Monstrum Nox
Ys IX - Monstrum Nox does not reach the level of masterpiece that is Ys VIII - Lacrimosa of Dana, but it is still a solid, great fun adventure to dive in, and a good stopping point to look back, reflect on how far the series has evolved before the next stage.
For newcomers, I think you should wait for sales, for the price to properly reflects its quality, as you pay more than VIII yet receive lesser. But Ys fans? Well, it’s up to your generosity whether to hit it now or later.
Final Score is 8.5/10 – Great
– Real player with 200.1 hrs in game
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I cannot not recommend this.
1- It’s a Falcom Game and all their games are labours of love.
2- It’s the next installment of the Ys franchise and Ys is the Gold standard for Action-Adventure Games. That means it’s got fast-paced combat, exploration and a ton of quality of life stuff to keep you from getting bored.
3- The Falcom Sound Team jdk have another fantastic music score, check out their Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz7eke4JGlbtc11_6mmA7ew
As for things more specific to this game in particular:
– Real player with 94.9 hrs in game
Errand Boy
Follow an adventurous little creature throughout the lands of Ashure with the hopes of helping everyone in his path, and maybe even, save the world from an imminent disaster. Errand Boy is a fantastical action adventure game told through 5 interweaving adventures and heroes with one overall purpose: Save the town from the imminent disaster.
Help others by:
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Delivering errands
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Using magical powers to help the townsfolk
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Exploring the lands and defeating mythical creatures
Errand Boy is still under development. More to come soon!
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Sanatorium «Anthropocene Retreat»
Sanatorium Anthropocene Retreat
cons:
lack of instructions.
no sound.
no options.
sucks.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
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Elisius
Adventure in this fantasy land, built by the ancient and powerful Time Lord. This mysterious entity has brought some of the greatest warriors from many different times on Earth to a realm of his own creation, named Elisius. He means to observe and study them, and then using his godlike powers, rule over earth. You are one of these warriors, and it is your job to defeat the Time Lord by destroying Elisius, before it is too late.
The nature of Elisius grants every warrior special abilities, which let you harness the Time Lord’s magic to access powers beyond your wildest dreams. Use the money earned from your quest to upgrade your armor and weapons, buy new ships, and explore the islands of Elisius. Whether fighting monsters as a Viking, Cowboy, Samurai, and more, Elisius will always be an entertaining, story-driven experience.
Explore Girl · Rope Sprite
Pretty good dungeon crawler game, cute girls with arms bound by sprites. Interesting idea, limit the girls to ferocious kicks and doging.
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
It’s not as good as Bondage Girl by the same creator, but despite the glitches and bad enemy mechanics it is a playable game.
It has a girl and she gets tied up a lot. What else did you buy this for? Getting tied up when you lose works and fighting your way through to the end works. So overall the game works.
– Real player with 2.3 hrs in game
Lumione
Nice hardcore platformer.
Very hard, i would NOT recommend this game to people bad at platformers, who never played one before, or looking for some relaxing gameplay.
For anyone seeking a challenge, this is the game for you.
The floaty jump requires some getting used to. At first i didn’t like it too much but now i think it’s fine. Makes for a unique twist i guess.
Every “section” has a new mechanic and after a couple “tutorial” rooms to learn you’re thrown into a very hard challenge right away.
– Real player with 10.3 hrs in game
In short, veteran players will likely greatly enjoy the challenges of the platforming in Lumione.
Edit for clarity: This game is nothing like Ori or Hollow Knight besides the aesthetic. It is not a metroidvania. It is completely linear. The challenges are completely platforming-based. The gameplay is much more akin to Celeste, but the level design is very unique and more difficult than most of Celeste, C-Sides included.
In-depth review below:
Lumione is a very challenging puzzle-focused platforming game. You play as Glimmer, a Fairy of the deep sea. Quickly you are introduced to your main mechanic: A short flight, recovering whenever you touch ground or a bubble. The controls are somewhat floaty, and momentum felt very weird to me at first, but as the difficulty ramped up I started finding that the floaty controls and momentum allowed for very interesting design and challenges in each screen.
– Real player with 9.7 hrs in game
MidKnight Story
MidKnight Story is a story driven adventure action-RPG set in a steampunk & fantasy open world.
The game focuses on three core gameplay experiences: Exploration, combat, and story.
The player will take control of Paran, a young scavenger, who’s able to explore the game world in its entirety, climbing up buildings and towers in the main city, swimming on the surface and underwater to reach wild islands and grottoes, gliding and dashing with a special sword, sneaking into tight spaces, and breaking through walls with explosive barrels.
In terms of combat, Paran can approach his nemeses hidden and launch a surprise attack, or he can throw himself into battle head-on. The choice is up to the player. He will also need to alternate between using his sword and pistol to best defeat each enemy.
In exploring the world of Numia, and defeating the enemies he finds there, Paran earns Cogs and collects ammunition, potions, and experience points. To collect these XPs, he must use the special capabilities of the sword. Like in many classic RPGs, experience points are needed to level up and improve Paran’s stats.
By discovering secret places and defeating the most formidable enemies, Paran will earn rare treasures to keep in his collection.
MidKnight Story’s adventure begins when Paran discovers the sword called Durindana. The legendary sword will serve him in more than just combat against enemies, in fact it will be the very key he needs to unlock the world of MidKnight Story and to reach new levels within it.
The sword will be upgradeable to unlock new abilities, with features such as the propeller that allows Paran to glide from place to place and reach areas previously unexplorable.
Transistor
Transistor is a sci-fi themed RPG action game, developed and published by SuperGiant games (the same guys who brought us Bastion), releasing on PC in mid 2014, and then later in that year on PS4, and then got a further port to IOS in June of 2015.
Game play in Transistor takes a lot of elements from Bastion. The camera angle is in an isometric point of view as you control the main character, Red. You traverse a series of locations fighting enemies, known as the “Process”. A nice feature which has been added which is where Transistor differs from Bastion, is that you can either fight in real time, or in a planning phase. The real time plays very similar to how any isometric action game would play out, however the planning phase really adds an element of strategy to this title; you have a limited number of commands you can carry out before needing to recharge, these commands include moving around the scene and casting your various spells and abilities.
– Real player with 25.5 hrs in game
Transistor is a pretty interesting game, though definitely confusing. You begin the game “in media res,” with things falling apart and jumping into some uncertain combat with some creatures known as The Process. Your character, Red, seems to have lost her voice, which is odd, and I will get to that later as a criticism related to Supergiant Games. The only thing that speaks to you (as the character and player) for most of the game is actually your weapon, the Transistor itself.
The story is not all given to you. In fact, you must piece a lot of it together - what the world is, where the people in it are, who the people you meet along your journey are, and what you are actually doing in the first place, among many other questions. Supergiant was very lightweight on what they give you, as you only learn small pieces here and there, with a few side details as you explore and find items such as terminals, which have news posts or recorded audio.
– Real player with 19.4 hrs in game
Apprentice Arriving
I am going to have to say….wait. I am not even sure what this is. I beat the EA content already and there was honestly very little to do or explore.
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
This game has great potential !!! But for now … see more in the review
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– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Ember
Not sure why Ember is getting poor reviews. I’m a tremendous Diablo II, Planescape Torment, and Torchlight II fan. I’d say that Ember is a lot of fun too. Sure, I’d make some minor changes, but overall, it’s excellent for what it is. A basic, isometric, single player RPG.
CONS: I would complain about the controls – but the keys can be remapped. ….(2) There’s a LOT of elaborate lore, but honestly, it’s not necessary to read all of it. To trim inventory, you can store/toss the books you find, but I understand that some people find them interesting. ….(3) In battles, it’s somewhat irritating that your followers may get in the way. Sometimes there’s a crowding situation where you cannot get a solid shot at the bad guys. ….(4) And nearly every thumbs-down review mentions that you need to click to a visible point on the screen to enable your main character to navigate to that place. Then you click again. You don’t “steer.” Instead, your main character goes to that point at a good rate, and your NPC sidekicks dutifully follow. ….(5) Limited active skills. …(6) Crappy unlocking chest model. …(7) Not substantial choice consequences. …(7) Limited character variety. … (8) Limited skill paths. …(9) Lastly, sometimes I couldn’t order my characters to act successfully. Not a valid target? Sorry I can’t clarify here, but there’s clear opportunity for improvement.
– Real player with 83.3 hrs in game
I’m going to cover the important points of this game but keep it brief. Now I’ve played a TON of arpg’s, crpg’s and…rpg’s in my life but this is a bit of an odd one.
At first glance, something doesn’t quite add up, you look at the price, look at it’s popularity and yet notice that the reviews are very positive from users amounting to….well not even in the 1k area.
Here’s the thing…hardly anyone knows about this game. I was a bit flummoxed when I saw this pop up on the new release list thinking of how I could have missed something that looks like it appeals to me. Because of the “oh so cheap” price, I got it straight away, I mean why not? What’s another game in my 200+ backlog?
– Real player with 53.5 hrs in game