Final Stardust
Choose Your Element
Final Stardust is an anime like JRPG that aims to bring a new perspective to turn-based battle systems by introducing many new features such as Saiments, Synergies, Turn Effects, Dynamic Music, Voice Acting and more!
Synergy
This is how you deal the “big damage”. Every synergy has a cost and you need to consume stacks to be able to cast it. You get a stack by using a spell and its element will be the same as the used spell, meaning that if you use a “Mars” spell, you get a “Mars” stack. After multiple turns you will get enough stacks to cast a powerful spell, a.k.a synergies!!!
Saiment
You can’t use items in battle, only saiments. Saiments are similar to items but they have their own system. At the end of every turn you draw a saiment(randomly from your deck). Every saiment has an “effect” that you can use instead of casting a spell/synergy. Every saiment you use is consumed and you can’t use it again(unless you start a new battle)!!!
Sealing
Sealing new monsters(a.k.a Planos) isn’t about luck but about strategy. You need to use “Sealing” saiments and survive long enough to be able to fill up the “Sealing” bar to 100% and acquire the new Plano!!!
Anime Moment: Ultimate Draw
Final Stardust is filled with anime moments and this is one of them. This mechanic allows you to get any particular saiment you want from your deck(can only be used once per battle). If you are a fan of anime, you are in for a treat!!!
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition
Amazing JRPG, honestly good storyline but if you don’t pay attention to the walls upon walls of text in the game then you might get lost between doing missions or how to get the next mission.
Amazing game and decent soundtrack too.
– Real player with 293.1 hrs in game
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After playing this game for 166 hours, struggling collects all achievement replay again and again. but I’m just very satisfied with this game. whether the story makes various cases And what I like the most is the Digimon battle scenes. It reminds me of my childhood. When I sit and watch Digimon through cartoon programs on television in the morning. This game really reminds me of my childhood. all charming of Digimon evolution. how overcoming difficult enemies, Everything is doing very well. I recommend it for those who like Digimon.
– Real player with 166.3 hrs in game
No!Ah!’s Ark
Fun game, limited scope, fairly simple to understand and enjoy.
– Real player with 7.4 hrs in game
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I liked the game very well, the story of the game is very short, but that’s it, the game is beyond perfect.
– Real player with 4.4 hrs in game
Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX
Full review (including score): https://youtu.be/YI-pcCdmMU8
Written review below!
These two may not be full-on remasters, but an enhanced port available on modern platforms is more than we have already.
Note: Trimmed review to fit character limit, check video for full version!
Gameplay
While I may have been familiar with this series, this would be my first crack at it. And I gotta say, I went in expecting something like Digimon or Pokémon (two games this franchise gets compared to A LOT), but got something completely different. It’s much less a full-on adventure RPG and more so a life simulator RPG.
– Real player with 30.1 hrs in game
One of the best PS1 games is back after many years.
Monster Rancher is a great series and the 2nd game is probably its most solid entry. Released originally in 1999, the game stands strong and provides a good monster rising experience that was surprising for the time and one that you still don’t see this well executed nowdays. It has a lot of depth that, hopefully, may meet its full potential with the online features that have been introduced.
This port needs some work, but in no way it gets in the way to enjoy those two games. Also, Monster Rancher 2 has an added “fast-forward” option that really saves up a lot of time and allow you to rise quickly your monsters. The introduction of the “database search” is also a nice way to make the disc stone concept work today and allows everyone to get all the monsters that we couldn’t back in the PS1 era.
– Real player with 8.9 hrs in game
New Town Needs Tamer
Become a champion tamer for a newly formed town, full of people eager to meet you.
Settle down into the tamer life, going out on adventures to tame all kinds of creatures and becoming acquainted with the people of the town.
Features:
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A number of creatures to tame.
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3 Alternative looks for each creature, plus 2 color schemes for each.
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12 Dateable characters.
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6 Zones to explore.
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A number of minigame moves for your creatures.
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Over 300 customization items for your character.
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3 Different UI styles for you to choose.
Expect to see more as development continues…
Nexomon
Do I Recommend This Game
The answer is YES!
–-{Graphics}—
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ Paint.exe
The graphics are pretty good from where they came from, as this game originally was a mobile game. The nexomon’s art and uniqueness was pretty good!
–-{Gameplay}—
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It‘s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Starring at walls is better
☐ Just don‘t
It’s a Pokémon-like game, but has a stamina system instead of a usage per move system. Definitely makes you think more of what you can do versus how many times can I do it. It’s a fun experience figuring out what work well vs what as it can make a huge difference in the big fights throughout the story.
– Real player with 68.4 hrs in game
Oh man, a Pokemon clone ported from mobile made that originally had microtransactions? Sounds like a disaster in the making, but don’t write this game off so quickly…
There’s no doubt about it; Nexomon is very similar to older Pokemon games. While unique enough to have its own merits, there’s definitely a large overlap in target audiences. It may not seem fair to compare an indie game with a small team to the largest media franchise in existence, but it’s inevitable for any game in the creature collection genre. In the case of Nexomon, I find these comparisons are mostly favorable.
– Real player with 57.4 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
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
Re: Summon
In the world of Re: Summon, humans and monsters have a unique relationship. They form contracts with each other and live alongside each other in their daily lives. In a Contract, the human side is referred to as a Summoner, with the contracted monster being called as a Contractor. Re: Summon is an excellent blend of the monster taming genre and a JRPG. Experience a compelling story, face off other summoners, solve puzzles and become the best summoner in the world of Re: Summon!
Form Contracts with monsters and become The Greatest Summoner!
Game Features:
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An Epic Story to play through: Experience the journey of Weiss and Gemini in their adventures to become the greatest Summoner
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Over 100 Contractors to form contracts with!
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Lots of towns and cities to explore
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Choose your battles! Monsters roam the overworld so you can choose whether to fight or run! Featuring a fun and engaging battle system
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A robust fusion system to fuse your Contractors
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Fishing!
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Engaging puzzles to solve
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Full Keyboard/Controller Support
Rune Factory 4 Special
The Peak of Farming RPG Game
Having played the game for countless hours in 3DS and the Switch, RF 4S is easily the best in the series and is the best RPG Farming sim out there, rivaling even Stardew Valley and easily outclassing the series this game is based on: Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons.
Besides as a Farming sim, the game is a great JRPG with nice and fluid combat, there are several weapon type which has different gameplay each such as short sword which is decently fast and will have 100% of your shield effect but it’s range is limited or dual knife which is extremely fast and have lots of DPS but the range is very short and you cannot have the shield benefit at all, my fav is great sword since it has a lot of damage and great reach but it’s slow and only have 50% of the shield effect, but you can use other weapon skill while benefiting the greatsword’s range and damage, yes you can use different weapon skill even if you’re not equiping the corresponding weapon but you’ll get double the MP cost penalty which is annoying early on but once you have lots of food to restore your MP it is not a big deal.
– Real player with 35.1 hrs in game
Full video review: https://youtu.be/9EKIHS4j-tI
Written review below!
I was a bit iffy going into this one. Harvest Moon type games have always been a bit hit or miss for me, but with Rune Factory 5 coming out soon, I figured I’d give this one a shot.
Gameplay
Despite the simple graphics here - RF4S is a bit of a beast in terms of content. Not only is there the farming stuff, but you’ve got dungeon exploring, this extensive crafting system, a large map to explore, and a dating and marriage system on top of that. Up front, it seemed like I would get lost in all of this, but the game actually does a really good job easing you into it through its request system.
– Real player with 34.1 hrs in game