Guardians of Greenheart

Guardians of Greenheart

I am appreciated for the high-difficult enemy that required careful planning to ensure victory with minimum cost. The art is beautiful and the story is straight to the point.

However, over the first hour of my playtime, the grinding has became too much. In the very first battle, you will be pitch against a big bad enemy that can one-shot (in which it did) your character should you had not debuff them. Beating that big bad was hard, but that okay, no problems.

However, when that very same kind of big bad which would reappeared in the next dozens of battles, the game became too much monotone and boring, for by the 3rd battle, you have already mastered what combo should you use.

Real player with 0.9 hrs in game


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Guardians of Greenheart on Steam

Mahjong Dimensions 3D - Fantasy Anime

Mahjong Dimensions 3D - Fantasy Anime

6/10

Real player with 4.5 hrs in game


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I played the first few levels and find it so very boring that I stopped playing and don’t think will do so again later. The only good thing about it is that it doesn’t cost much but still I would have rather saved the money for a game that is more enjoyable.

Real player with 0.1 hrs in game

Mahjong Dimensions 3D - Fantasy Anime on Steam

Crimson Core

Crimson Core

Kenji, a normal every day college student, was supposed to be meeting a very lovely acquaintance in the hopes of sparking a new and fruitful relationship. However, Kenji has the worst of luck. Stood up again and looking into the night sky, he hears the cries of someone calling out for help. Not the type of person to abandon someone in desperate need, Kenji rushes to the rescue only to find himself being the one that needs rescuing.

All Hell Breaks Loose.

Featuring:

-A Deep Original Story


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Crimson Core on Steam

Anime puzzle

Anime puzzle

Anime puzzle is a “template flip”, that is to say, it’s a “game” that has been produced by copying a game template from GameMaker Studio, changing a few things, then dumping the barely functional “product” on Steam as a cheap, nasty cash grab. In this case it was a GameMaker Studio template for doing a simple “jigsaw” puzzle with 30 stock/ripped off pictures of manga cartoon girls.

GameMaker Studio is a very poor quality game construction kit, and results in terrible games like this one.

No professional effort was made in terms of game development, using a game construction kit requires no game development talent, and unsurprisingly produces products that have little to no value as games, especially when compared to the work of professional developers who create genuine products for gamers. It’s almost as bad as an outright asset flip.

Real player with 0.0 hrs in game

Anime puzzle on Steam

Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky DX

Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky DX

I literally waited years for this game. I am so glad that they ported it to pc.

As true as I’m standing here, Escha and Logy are by far the best main characters of the Atelier series!

Don’t be afraid of the time limit. It is pretty generous in my opinion. You can do everything without having to worry!

A pretty special thing in this particular game is that you can choose between two main characters. The only thing which changes if you choose one over the other, is the point of view you see the story from, some soundtracks and a few events)

Real player with 67.0 hrs in game

Regardless of how good or bad the game is, this port is too bad.

-Your system data gets randomly “deleted”. Essentially means, all your global progress, like unlocking costumes, filling the extra mode with images and so on, will NOT work on the long run. This is a critical and known error where I have no idea how this gets so completely ignored.

-Vsync is broken. If you tab out of fullscreen, the game goes max fps. If you are in fullscreen, the game struggles actually keeping constant fps and fluctuates between 58 and 62, leading to choppy gameplay. This does NOT happen in windowed, but..

Real player with 65.2 hrs in game

Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky DX on Steam

fault - milestone one

fault - milestone one

Fault: Milestone one is the first VN game of the Publisher ALICE IN DISSONANCE and is the start of an evolving series.

We start the Visual Novel in a dark night where the country of Rughzenaide and its capital is being attacked by an unknown paramilitary assailant. Suffering heavy losses, this unknown force is invading the Kings Palace, where they intend to kill Selphine the princess because she possesses a greater power that could put every military force to falter.

Being cornered and unable to escape, the Princess’s life guardian resort to a last hopeful escape through a special mana current, but for some reason this mode of escape did not go the way it was intended too. They were able to escape, but not to the actual destination they planned. Instead, they were sent to the other end of the world. To make matters worse, all of this is in a zone where is no mana to be found in the surrounding area, which is necessary for them to be able to use their manakravte.

Real player with 41.5 hrs in game

I wasn’t sure what to expect from this kinetic novel. I bought it solely because of the first minute of the trailer.

It was one of the best decisions I’ve made.

Looking at it now, from a critical standpoint, I can freely admit that Fault Milestone One has quite a few flaws. Much of the story is told through flashbacks and, as with any VN, there is quite a bit of exposition.

But for the fifteen hours it took me to devour this, purchase the sequel on the spot, and devour that too, I was utterly entranced.

Real player with 27.4 hrs in game

fault - milestone one on Steam

Rebels - Under the Spell of Magic (Chapter 1)

Rebels - Under the Spell of Magic (Chapter 1)

I found Rebels very entertaining! The character and story is very detailed and I was able to immerse myself in the rough world (slaves) which is full of wonders (magic and fantasy creatures). A personal gimmick I found was the options for the main character’s activities or the paths he should take. I was so interested in the story that I temporarily saved each of them in order to be able to read the various options.

I liked the main character’s facial expressions best ;D I love Folken’s facial expressions and have had to laugh a lot, there seems to be a lot of work in character creation and portrayal here.

Real player with 9.0 hrs in game

YESSSSS! This is a fine specimen of a story. It reminds me of anime/manga, particularly “HXH” (“Hunter X Hunter”). No, I am not saying that’s what it is… But the fact that it reminds me of it… Means it’s interesting and worth looking into! Oh the story comes with achievements! So hurray for that too!

Okay well… It kept my attention and was really unpredictable, but at one point or another I wanted to know more about the world, characters, races, monsters and so on. I liked the CGs and the funniest to me was when the main character did his brilliant smile. If I have to pick a character which one looks the best - it would be… “Number 1”. He is probably highly evil, but yeah… (I am not good with names, but he has such fuzzy ears!)

Real player with 3.5 hrs in game

Rebels - Under the Spell of Magic (Chapter 1) on Steam

Tales of Zestiria

Tales of Zestiria

When reviewing this title, I tried to stay as objective as possible, knowing that I’m a fan of two other Tales of titles. Of course, I will end up having a few subjective opinions about the game, but I will try to break down and separate it in a way that allows someone interested in reading the facts vs feelings towards the game.

[Graphics]

(Objective) The game is utilizing the same engine Xillia used, and at first due to being a PC player, as well as console, I found the graphics to be “Okay.” Not truly amazing, but not terrible, either.

Real player with 318.7 hrs in game

I´ve just finished the game after 140 hours (all vanilla content cleared at Chaos difficulty and all side-quests completed, with the exception of the last bonus dungeon). I consider myself a big fan of the Tales series and I didn´t miss the opportunity to get this title with the last discount.

For me it was a great experience, from the very beginning this title introduces a very nice and complex battle system which will require some hours to get used to. The story starts well to keeps you glued to the screen. At the middle of the story It gets boring for some punctual moments (Coinciding coincidentally with the moments of more freedom of exploration…) to after suddently improve at the end until reaching the brilliant climax with a beautiful ending. Anyway during this first playthrough I found lots of little details that I didnt like at all, which stain the great qualities of this game. Let me summarize all of them:

Real player with 266.8 hrs in game

Tales of Zestiria on Steam

The Goddess of Time and the Ice Princess episode 1

The Goddess of Time and the Ice Princess episode 1

The story follows Catherine, a single girl that lost her parents when she was very young and had to take care of the family’s book store. Even though she had a calm life, her world changes forever when she starts to develop confusing feelings for her mysterious classmate Sabrina.

For better or worse, Sabrina holds the key information about the disappearance of Catherine’s parents, and their relationship with the Ice Princess.

Wanting to know more about her parents, Catherine sets off on a journey to meet the Ice Princess accompanied by Lily, Victoria and Sabrina.

The Goddess of Time and the Ice Princess episode 1 on Steam

The Princess, the Stray Cat, and Matters of the Heart 2

The Princess, the Stray Cat, and Matters of the Heart 2

This game is even better than the first game.

Some new elements is added but not much. Can be ignored but still it is an improvement. There are some animation added to the game, a driving mini game is added.

The characters are lovely and have their struggles and backgrounds. It’s very attractive. My favorite main characters from the two games ranged as

Sachi Lucia Iris Patricia Nobuchina Asuhara Kuroki Euracia

The only thing need to know about the background is the main protagonist became a cat when kissing a female and it is caused by Patricia who is from the netherworld to destroy the world that humans are living in.

Real player with 39.1 hrs in game

“Again happy cat experience, it’s a nice sequel! ヽ(=´▽'=)ノ”

+ Point: All ages, but you can experience it at a reasonable price.

[1] Intro

The Princess, the Stray Cat, and Matters of the Heart 2. (Original Title: Nora to Oujo to Noraneko Heart 2) It’s a Japanese anime style visual novel originally released by Harukaze in 2017. Its R15+ version was released in February this year as the PS4 and Nintendo Switch titles. As you may know, there are the R18+ contents in the original Japanese version, but this global version is for all ages such as Trinoline(MangaGamer).

Real player with 33.8 hrs in game

The Princess, the Stray Cat, and Matters of the Heart 2 on Steam