LABYRINTH OF TOUHOU - GENSOKYO AND THE HEAVEN-PIERCING TREE
where do i start on this game’s review? heck if i know but i’ll try to leave it readable
the fun i have had in this game exceeds that of over 99% of rpg games i have ever played the combat is excellent its kinda like active time battle but each time you or the enemy gets their turn the atb bars stop increasing until everyone who has their atb bar around 10000 or so had their turn then atb bars resume increasing up to 10000 then those characters or enemies have thier turn rinse and repeat
the difficulty with the bosses is legendarily hard even by dark souls standards you will die a lot of times and when i say a lot I MEAN YOU WILL DIE A HEAP OF TIMES (assuming if you dont over power yourself because lets face it overpowered characters negating the challenge is less fun then stepping on the edges of lego pieces barefoot) joke aside the some of the bosses will take every single bit of knowledge you have from this game and any other similar role playing games to even have a slight chance take it from me i have been party wiped so fast i didn’t even have time to say darn i got shredded and owned lol (i party wiped so many times though not once have a rage quit because of the boss’s difficulty it happens because i made the blooming mistakes that made the party wipe happen oh for those fans of a certain super hard rpg game im not going to say who it is but all you need know is a certain npc appears from that series somewhere in this game when i saw them i was like nooo….. can it you are you really them? no blooming way its them (yes it was them i can tell because i played a good bit of that game series myself
– Real player with 292.1 hrs in game
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Wowee I sure can’t wait to finally play the LOT2 Plus Disk with an English translation, sure hope no nerf hammers hit
! Byakuren
_ ! Byakuren:
All
! Sutra skills: 14% - 12%
! Skanda’s Legs: SPD buff (11+SLv)% - (14+SLv*2)% / No longer states the buff gets higher if she kills an enemy
! Sutra - Duplicating Chant: Overwrites target’s de/buffs with
! Byakuren’s - Applies a buff equal to (36+SLv*4)% of
! Byakuren’s buffs_
– Real player with 154.5 hrs in game
Monster Crown
The Good:
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Deceptively huge variety of monsters to encounter and breed.
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High level of customization allows you to personalize your team to your heart’s content.
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Extremely receptive developer.
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Plenty of hidden secrets to improve replayability and give extra things to do.
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Charming retro GBC aesthetic that varies just enough from other titles on the market to be unique.
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Relatively active community dedicated to exploring and finding secrets.
The Bad:
- More bugs than could possibly be listed.
– Real player with 107.1 hrs in game
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*Note that this review is for version 1.0.24
Playing status: 100% achievement
Grindy Achievement(s): No.
Optional Achievement(s): Yes (~7 achievements).
Difficult Achievement(s): No.
Intro
Monster Crown is a monster-taming RPG with breeding at its core. It offers an open-world area, allowing you to visit the towns in any order that you want to find as many monsters as possible for your breeding purposes.
Pros:
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2 endings
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Extensive breeding mechanic to breed the monster that you want
– Real player with 38.5 hrs in game
Coromon
A new day dawns on Velua, a new day for the world and a new day for you, a freshly minted battle researcher of the global research society known as Lux Solis. Lux is dedicated to peacefully harnessing the potential of Velua’s unique wildlife for the benefit of mankind.
Pack up your belongings, board the train to the campus, and be ready for a career in the field: Catch Coromon, train them, then unleash them on the world to push back the boundaries of science!
A New Take on a Classic
Coromon is a new take on the classic monster taming gameplay, combining old-school battle mechanics with a robust RPG system.
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Each of the 120 Coromon is defined not just by its type or number, but also by statistics, available skills, potential, and more.
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Help them grow through countless battles and gain priceless knowledge for Lux Solis, investigating the six Titans and their essence.
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A mysterious danger awaits in the depths of Velua, a danger that can undo the world! Will you be able to save it?
A World to Explore
Venturing out the door is the first step in a great adventure. By its end, you will explore the whole of Velua together with your Coromon.
Explore different biomes, from freezing glaciers to blistering dezerts, from high-tech towns to the deepest of forests, fighting both wildlife and other trainers looking for a challenge.
Solve puzzles using tools and information provided by Lux Solis to keep your investigation on track.
Locate and confront the mighty Titans, solving puzzles and defeating their guardian Coromon, to collect their essences!
A New Experience, Each Time
Coromon is all about putting a modern spin on a classic genre. That includes playing the game just the way you want.
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Pick from scores of options when creating your battle researcher. Lux doesn’t care about how you look, merely about how you perform in the field.
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When you’re done, you can fine-tune the difficulty level to your heart’s content. Go easy, go hard, go insane, or pick a random difficulty that might be completely unpredictable!
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Want more? Go online and battle your friends' Coromon, testing your squad and sharpening your tactical skills!
A Word from the Developers
We’re honored to be able to provide Coromon to you, a game we’ve poured our heart into. Coromon is our tribute to the classics of the genre. While staying loyal to the core gameplay, we wanted to add new gameplay features but also keep the retro look, with a modernized pixel art style.
Thank you for playing Coromon. We hope you will enjoy the game as much as we enjoyed creating it!
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Start! Heart Thief | 出发吧！偷心盗贼 | 出撃! ルビー | 出擊！偷心盜賊
been playing it for 1 hour and still doesn’t get it,it need tutorial or main quest i don’t get a single clue about how to find key or the rogue
– Real player with 6.5 hrs in game
At a Glance
| (Adult) Content | No. |
| Censorship | Not applicable. |
| Hours of Gameplay | Three or more hours. |
| Modding Support? | No. |
| Patch Available? | No, not necessary. |
Start! Heart Thief | 出发吧！偷心盗贼 | 出撃! ルビー | 出擊！偷心盜賊 is adventure/thief game about a orphan who wants to find her long-lost parents. . . and decorate her house too.
– Real player with 5.5 hrs in game
Crystal Project
Explore the world, find Crystals, and fulfill the prophecy to bring balance to the land of Sequoia.
…Or maybe you’d rather spend your time collecting neat equipment and artifacts? Or tame strange creatures and fill out all the entries in your archive? Or perhaps you’d rather hunt down every monster and conquer the world’s toughest bosses. Or maybe you’d rather travel to the farthest reaches of the land and uncover the world’s greatest mysteries.
The choice is yours, as it should be! Or is it? They say that those who stray out of line will be punished, killed, or worse. Maybe it’s for your own good that you stick to collecting Crystals, just like everyone else. But where would the adventure be in that?
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No random encounters!
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Manage Threat to control which party member a monster will attack.
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No hidden information. Preview turn order, damage, and probabilities like in TRPGs.
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Discover and unlock new classes.
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Assign sub-classes, pick passive abilities, and equip all kinds of special items.
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Invent unique team compositions, or stick to the MMORPG Holy Trinity.
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No missables!
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Seamless transitions between zones with no loading screens anywhere.
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Uncover the mysteries of the world all on your own.
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Metroidvania-style progression.
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No invisible walls! Try to jump and climb anywhere you want.
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Overcome platforming challenges to discover neat loot… and other stuff.
Farm Dungeons
Farm Dungeons was a fun experience. At a glance, it appears to be another piece of rpgmaker shovelware, but it further investigation will show that this game has time and effort put into it.
For years, I thought that a dungeon-crawling farm simulator would be amazing! The closest I have found to such a game is the Rune Factory series, which is really fantastic, but not quite what I have searched for. When I found this game, I decided to give it a shot.
Pros:
- The Dungeon is well balanced and fun to explore.
– Real player with 14.3 hrs in game
Short and sweet Indie made with RPG Maker MV -
There’s farming, cooking, pets, and item crafting (through merchants) and repeatable bosses which is a nice spin on the traditional JRPG fare.
Bonus points for allowing The Dog to not only join the party, but lead it (if you put them first in the roster). You will gain multiple party members and can swap them at the beginning of a round without sacrificing an action; combined with auto battle (basic attacks only) this meant a minimal grind while also making the back benchers relevant to buff or debuff.
– Real player with 12.5 hrs in game
Temtem
I’ve played over 600 hours of Temtem and read through some of the reviews today and like most games with thousands of reviews think there’s some valid feedback and some not valid feedback and I figured I’ve play enough to give an adequate opinion.
PvP is the best part of this game and is one of the best turn-based strategy game I have ever played. Unfortunately, you (as of today) need to complete the story and grind very heavily in order to be able to sufficiently access this. In competitive matches, you have a team of 8 temtem and go through a draft/ban phase before the start of a match and end up battling opponents with 5 of your 8 tems. You and your opponent each get to ban a tem, then pick your two tems to lead (battles are 2 vs 2 at all times) then each get to ban another tem, and then draft 3 more. This phase alone requires quite a bit of strategy as you need to quickly be able to read counters to your team, and draft effective opposition to your opponents picks, and also means you have to have a well rounded and thought out team. Simply picking the best tems in the game or best tems on your team in a draft usually isn’t enough; you need well thought out win conditions, strategies, and tems that synergize with one another to accomplish shared goals get you there.
– Real player with 638.6 hrs in game
To be fair, I shouldn’t compare this game to Pokémon, but it honestly does so much stuff better than most games from that series, SPECIALLY when it comes to combat mechanics, it trully makes me think a lot more about my overall team composition instead of focusing in each individual creature, plus you can fully customize moves at any time if you need to experiment and all. And most important of all: no RNG in combat, thanks goodness.
I have yet to reach the endgame, but I currently am on the 4th island of the game, and seems to be a pretty good game overall.
– Real player with 72.6 hrs in game
Zodiakalik
Welcome to the world of Zodiakalik!
Join our intrepid adventurers. On a journey around 8 Kingdoms. It will be a journey of great adventures, suspense, terror, joy, comedy, humor, battles, drama, and much, much more.
-Some elements of Zodiakalik:
- Enemies are fully visible on the battlefield. Yes! Forget the hassles of random battles! In Zodiakalik, you choose whether to battle or not!
-EDD system:
- The EDD system (Enemies Don’t Die) provides something new: enemies, even after being defeated, remain on the map. But don’t worry, they have a delay of more than 1 second, enabling a safe escape. This method is great for training!
-Almost 40 new songs!
- Almost 40 songs made by me. Enjoy a wide selection of tracks and styles.
-Too much to search!
- Search each corner. It is not known what will be found out there!
-Powerful bosses!
- Imposing and challenging bosses. Try not to train or use worse equipment to increase the challenge.
-Fully 3D and different camera angles!
- Zodiakalik presents a fully 3D world! Change the camera angles and enjoy the beauty of this world. Also, there is a First-Person view (FP Mode).
-Various charismatic NPCs!
Several characters await you, in different ways, on this adventure.
-Many items to collect!
Let’s get everything!
Welcome to your adventure! Zodiakalik!
Disc Creatures
Haven’t done everything yet, still missing a few creatures (~92% done) but i’ll share my thoughts so far:
Pro:
+A good roster of 200 creatures, with fun/interesting designs
+Varied Locations, having the colour scheme change according to locations is nice.
+A decent story, not all that exciting but did it’s job alright.
Con:
-Too little difference in stats for early game to late game/rare/hard to get creatures
-All creatures you get starts at lvl 1, so getting creatures at later locations are actually worse than getting them at the first point they are avalible, also makes the grind to get a creature you think looks nice discouraging.
– Real player with 132.8 hrs in game
One of the better monster collectors I’ve played in awhile. This game is everything I love about Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry’s Wonderland and Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow both for the GameBoy Color and yet miles improved compared to both.
The overworld encounters make it feel like getting through an area is less of a hassle compared to the random encounters of the above games.
Having a huge skill pool for each monster to switch between makes it so you can deal with far more situations as opposed to the limitations of TMs and relearning moves in Pokemon games or inheriting skills in Dragon Quest Monsters games.
– Real player with 71.5 hrs in game
Mutiny Island
This game could be so much better. I have warped to grey screen death countless times. I camped while being attacked by a skeleton, woke up on Davy Jones' ship surrounded by the undead, and glitched to the starting warp. Jumped through many stone walls diagonally, and fought tigers from vantage point because of it. In my short time with this piece i have seen so many classic mishaps that that in itself is making me appreciate it more.
It’s $8, buggy as hell and absolutely wonderful.
– Real player with 16.5 hrs in game
I received a copy of this game to Let’s Play it and I loved it quite a bit. This is a really fun open-world game with a lot of stuff to explore and experiment around with!
– Real player with 13.8 hrs in game