Cthulhu Saves Christmas
At first I was really into it. It was funny, combat was fun and showed promise, music was great, the writing and scenes kept me interested. But it quickly died down. This is not a bad game. But not only does it not improve from previous games, which would’ve been important, it’s even a step down from previous games overall, especially coming from Cosmic Star Heroine.
First, minor tech issues: the game has an overlay glitch at 1440p, possibly appears at other resolutions too, that doesn’t happen at 1080p. It’s not major, but it’s a blemish. There is also an issue with characters following you going out of-sync above 60FPS. Doesn’t pose any problem otherwise though.
– Real player with 13.7 hrs in game
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I picked this up back around Christmas, and took only a little over 12 hours to finish it. Its only now I am getting around to reviewing it, so lets begin. I do recommend this game, but barely. It didn’t click with me totally like some of Zeboyds previous titles.
The concept is simple. Cthulu wakes up and is told Santa has been kidnapped. Why should he care? Because Santa helps everyone get what they want for Christmas, even dark gods. If Santa isn’t rescued, Cthulu can never conquer the world. Oh no! And so you set off to battle the League of Christmas Evil and save the holidays.
– Real player with 13.2 hrs in game
Castle of the Underdogs : Episode 1
This game has an awesome Suikoden vibe going for it that you just don’t see often in other games. With it were longer though. Looking forward to part 2!
– Real player with 11.7 hrs in game
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I played through the first chapter in EA and THIS WAS FUN! The sense of humor here is unique and makes the game charming… left me wanting to run right into the second chapter. I hope to see the next one soon! I am kinda sad that the first chapter did not have more of the recruiting and castle formation stuff, but it is forgivable as long as the content continues and we can keep playing along.
– Real player with 6.8 hrs in game
Epic Battle Fantasy 5
Just a note, I recieved a beta key, but I have bought this game for friends who also wanted it.
I played a ton of the free beta for this game (a couple hundred hours) and helped out on the discord a lot, so I think I have a pretty good idea on what makes this game good. It’s an RPG that’s fairly lighthearted that makes fun of things like how the player tends to be a kleptomaniac stealing everything not tied down translating to the characters being kleptomaniacs. Unlike previous entries though the characters actually are more than just caricatures and act closer to real people as well as being funny parodies of stereotypes.
– Real player with 519.1 hrs in game
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The Epic Battle Fantasy series has been a childhood pastime of mine ever since I discovered EBF 3 on Kongregate. From the humorous dialogue, to the many hidden secrets, to the intense strategy required for epic mode, this game was a heck of a ride and probably Roszak’s best game yet.
The story was definitely a step up from previous EBF games. The dialogue and flavor text was as hilarious as ever, with my favorite line being from a report in den of a conspiracy theorists referencing Alex Jones’s “turning the frogs gay” comment. I really enjoyed the arc with
! Lance as the main villain, since his regime provided an urgent threat and a mini-climax of the story earlier on in the game rather than only building up to the climax at the very end. I also enjoyed Matt’s occasional fourth-wall breaking since it fleshed out his character in comparison to his dumb muscle portrayal in previous games. I also found that part near the end where the people you did quests for come to help and encourage the party very heartwarming, The last phase of the final boss fight
! where the Devourer deletes the world, becomes an epic race against time that was really enjoyable.
– Real player with 303.7 hrs in game
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
Let’s get straight to the point.
Pros:
-Incredible soundtrack on par with AAA games and even superior
-Game aesthetics is consistent and the transition between various levels feels natural while very clichè
-Lots and lots of references to classic RPGs and games like Pokémon and Metal Slug but also anime like Gurren Lagann
-Gameplay is fun and intuitive for both new players and experienced ones, no huge walls of text to describe every single thing that most RPGs do, rather you can test in-game what is better and learn from it
– Real player with 41.7 hrs in game
The resolution, style and UI navigation give away that this was originally a flash game from 2010. If this bothers you or you don’t like cute things, this game might not be for you, but to everyone else I can strongly recommend this game.
Don’t let the aforementioned aspects fool you - the gameplay in Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is extremely solid and despite the simple, easy to pick up turn-based battle system, there’s a surprising amount of depth to it. There are no boring throwaway battles like in many RPGs, where you just have to spam normal attacks to win. Every fight requires thought and strategy - especially the boss fights (these can get pretty long, by the way). In general, the difficulty is well-balanced, always giving you a reasonable challenge without overdoing it. I played on Normal, but there are 4 levels of difficulty in total (Easy, Normal, Hard, Epic), which should cover just about every kind of challenge people could want from it.
– Real player with 39.4 hrs in game
Epic Battle Fantasy 4
Epic Battle Fantasy 4 (EBF4 for short) is the fourth installment of popular jRPG-esque series
that originated as web browser games. The series is basically a parody of famous Japanese RPG games (mostly Final Fantasy). If you want some more preview on the older games, I suggest you read my review on previous game, EBF3 (which is also on Steam), if you haven’t already.
But to keep things short, I’ll just give you a small preludium:
the series started as free browser games that were made for fun and played to kill some free time, and even EBF4 itself can be played via your browser, but there’s also an expanded, paid version (AKA the one I’m reviewing now), and it’s not exactly cheap, 11,99 USD. Some professional games cost as much, and thus, the game will be judged like one.
– Real player with 202.9 hrs in game
Well first let me tell you that I have followed the series on Kongregate while it had only released Epic Battle Fantasy 1 and to be honest the first and second game wasn’t that great but then the third instalment came to the series and it changed everything becouse it had absolutely everything an JRPG could offer for a flash game.
I played Epic Battle Fantasy 3 about 5 to 10 times and when beating the game it gets a bit repetative so I usually came back for it every other month or so. Even when I had played it 9 times it was still as fun as it was the first time I started the game. But years passed and one day in 2013 just before I was about to turn off my computer I just wanted to check my Kongregate and there it was, Epic Battle Fantasy 4.
– Real player with 82.7 hrs in game
My Isekai After Life is an RPG!?
The game was very nice at first i thought the game won’t be good for me or even fun to play , but after playing it for a while now ,i actually loved it and it was super fun while it was short im actually looking forward to the DLC . i highly recommend giving it a try
– Real player with 6.4 hrs in game
– Review written for 3 Point Play –
A pretty small, pretty chill, little game about living some sort of after-life which most weebs know of, that is, the isekai resurrection thing. Featuring some cutesy pixel graphics and easy mechanics, I think this particular game here can be appealing to anyone who enjoys anime and is not that much into gaming, since, once again, everything is pretty much entry-level mechanic-wise: you click people to interact, you click objects to collect materials, you move in a standard fashion with the WASD keys, and you do your combat stuff with WASD + Enter.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Penny Arcade’s On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3
This quickly became one of my favorite RPG’s as well as my personal favorite game in the PAA series, and with good reason. There’s quite a lot I’d like to say, so let’s get to it.
The game takes place 2 weeks after the events of Episode 2, but what’s neat is that you don’t need to have played it to understand the story going into Episode 3, as they immediately give you a summary of prior events upon talking to one of the statues in the Detective Agency. That alone makes Episode 3 easy to pick up and play, and the gameplay will keep you around for the long haul.
– Real player with 105.9 hrs in game
This game was an enjoyable throwback to 16bit turn based RPGs, but with a twist. They improved the combat system by adding some complexity without making it overly complicated. Since the core of all these turned based RPGs is mostly how well and fulfilling the combat is, the majority of this review will go over that section in detail to give you a greater understanding of how the game plays. I broke down the review in bold sections so you can read what is most important or what is most interesting to you in order of importance.
– Real player with 16.2 hrs in game
The Throne of Bernicia
This was a wonderful game (and it was totally free). The characters changed expressions that coincided with the dialogue (like smiles, closed eyes, wide-eyed looks) and you could see them immediately, just like they were real people. It had a good amount of side quests. You had choices on what your responses could be and most of the time your responses would result in different outcomes. The story was well written and the dungeons were not all the same. It was not predictable so several times I was surprised with what happened. The battles had different backgrounds. There was comedy as well as drama.
– Real player with 17.2 hrs in game
I was looking for a random Indie JRPG to play, and happened to find this one yesterday. It’s absolutely free, without ads or in game purchases!
I’ve already beaten this game. While I wish a screen with controls would have been useful, it wasn’t too difficult to figure out. Use Z to select, X for back (or menu), arrow keys to move. There are some other buttons, that are repetitive to these, but this felt the most natural. It has some typo errors, but nothing over the top. The biggest bug I encountered is that Ghosts do not give experience or gold. There is end game gold exploit, but honestly at that point it didn’t matter for me. There are also 2-4 chat screens with an error for the speaker portrait and naming.
– Real player with 13.1 hrs in game
TRATRITLE
TRATRITLE: trap, trip, little master and his maids is a role-playing game developed by INAZUMA SOFT (いなずまそふと), and published by OTAKU Plan
STORY
A little master lived happily with his maids.
But what bothered him was that the maids were too naive and simple.
One day, he received a letter from his father. He thought he could solve the current problem… But unexpectedly, another succubus maid came.
What earth-shaking changes will take place in his life? Will he still be a good boy or turn into a bad boy?
FEATURES
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Various interactions with the maids
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Maids who can move freely have their own rules of action
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Time management
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Rich story
William’s Love Prelude
Man, I had this game on the backburner for quite a bit. I finally decided to pick up the game, and play, after a bit of some bit of time to kill, and enjoy some Kemono content on Steam. While the game was overall pretty alright, it’s far from being bad.
(Because I would be updating my review, and the review character limit is dumb, I’ll add additional comments in the.. well, comments)
Art
The art of the game is pretty cute. The main menu screen having a uniquely cute forest sprite with a very pretty lighting effect, but I wished that would’ve been the style of backgrounds used for the game. The menu art of the game is pretty cool, being a more storybook style. The character’s designs are pretty simple, which thanks to that does allow for all of the background character sprites to be unique from each other without having too much details being added to them. In combat, your character sprites are also pretty simple, but are animated based on their condition, their stance, and their attacks. It’s all pretty neat stuff, so it’s not just a static sprite. The enemy sprites are a bit weird, as they are portraits than sprites, but it’s not much of a problem outside of that and it does compliment the more cutesy style of the game for all the regular enemies, and the boss sprites do at least look more menacing in contrast.
– Real player with 40.3 hrs in game
–-{ Graphics }—
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
—{ Gameplay }—
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It’s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don’t
—{ Audio }—
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I’m now deaf
—{ Audience }—
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☐ Adults
☐ Grandma
—{ PC Requirements }—
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
—{ Difficulty }—
– Real player with 6.3 hrs in game