Magicka 2
My experience in Magicka 2 vs Magicka 1.
I’ll start it off with the first time I played Magicka 1. The moment I started to grasp the concept of regular combinations, element combinations, and the special spell combinations, thats when I begun to experiment on so many spells (be it regular spells or the special combination spells, or both), and found it absolutely fun at how I can play the game differently each time and would still enjoy it nonetheless.
Thats when I absolutely fell in-love with Magicka. It promised a sort of freedom to your utilization of these spells. And the better you got at utilizing regular combos or utilizing multiple special combination spells, the more satisfying the gameplay was.
– Real player with 75.8 hrs in game
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WARNING! Don’t listen to negative reviews here or on Metacritic. The game is light years ahead of the first game in almost every area. I’d say PcGamer’s 79/100 rating is about right, although they were complaining about the difficulty of the game too which I don’t necessarily agree with. Well, although initially it was frustrating, after I got the hang of it, I was steamrolling my enemies even at the final fight. It’s actually almost impossible to (permanently) die now because you can resurrect your fairy and you’re pretty much immortal. This also means that the first games infuriating moments of losing your hard-earned staves upon death are solved, because you drop your staff on death and you can pick it up on resurrection. You just need to let go of your anger/fear about dying, and maintain a relaxed, observant mind to easily be able to make accurate snap decisions about what elements to use, what vulnerabilities your opponents likely have. There are tons of clues about it, you just need to let go of your fear of dying and the constant anxiety that makes combat much more difficult than it should be. As I’ve mentioned, death is meaningless now and you are almost guaranteed to die every 10 minutes or so, even if you’re a legendary player, and it’s okay. Or every 20 seconds, if you’re not, and it’s okay too. Relax, and you’ll start improving rapidly.
– Real player with 49.9 hrs in game
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
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“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
If you play with the restoration patch, I’d surely recommend the game.
The story itself is pretty decent, and it has a good quality, yet, I’ll agree with everyone who’s complaining, the normal version is really bad. I don’t know what they were thinking when they decided to bring such an incomplete game. This isn’t one of those eroge that you can easily play without the H-scenes.
With that said… I’ll give a review because I played it with the restoration patch.
First of all:
-If you decide to buy it, do it when it’s like 50% off, don’t even dare to buy this game at full price
– Real player with 66.3 hrs in game
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Target Audience: Those needing a smile, or want good characters to connect to
Summary:
While I understand the controversy surrounding the “cut content” dealing with the console versions and the licensed work from Japan, I believe the strength of the game’s core story ends up overcoming that regardless: because it’s a series of characters that are easy to connect to, and touching scenes and moments in the story that end up pushing Stray Cat into a must get in the romantic comedy visual novel pool. Yes, the game may have reasonable line work, alright music, and can be all over the place, but it’s the charm that lifts it to new heights. There’s something down to earth despite some of the super natural elements of the game, and it’s thanks to some EXCELLENT voice acting that the game is able to sell the ridiculous yet emotional elements of the game. I’m going on record that the japanese voice acting is some of the best I’ve heard, especially from Yuuki and Michi. Which by the way, Michi is best girl and no one can tell me otherwise.
– Real player with 46.0 hrs in game
Cartomante – Fortune Teller
A short but fun game set in a fantasy/modern setting where you play a witch who earns her living telling peoples fortunes.
The game has a beautiful art style and does a great job at world building. It has interactive dialog that succeeds at being mysterious, intriguing and often times funny. The game is short but very replayable with various different readings you can get for each person that results in different and often unique outcomes, you can play the same day over and over with different results each time.
– Real player with 5.9 hrs in game
This is a really good game. Short, but incredibly charming, an absolute steal for the price.
The dialogue is extremely well written, and it manages to be funny and thought provoking. If you’re like me, you’ll keep replaying it (and reliving the same day a la “Groundhog Day”) until you get the best (or worst) possible ending for all your clients.
Definitely do not sleep on this one!
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
Magicka
Do you like magic? Do you like killing monsters? Then this is a game for you to play. I’ll try my best not to spoil any of the story, since the game’s highlight is the story. You have a choice of 8 different elements you can combine into a spell, including Magick, which I will get to. Many of these spells have different effects and can be used differently. If you become experienced, you can perform these spells without an issue. The 8 different elements are water, life, shield, fire, lightning, death, earth, and snow. Already you can imagine some of these elements have opposites and combine into different elements. You are exactly correct. For instance, water + snow = ice. Also an example of opposites are earth and lightning. Earth and lightning cancel each other out. You can use these different spells you come up with in many different ways. You can use it by just using left click, you can press shift + left click to apply it to your melee weapon (which I will explain later), and you can apply it to yourselves by middle clicking with the scroll on the mouse. You think that’s it in combat? NOPE. You start off with a staff and another weapon which you use by clicking shift + left click, that’s also how you use the spell you apply to it. You can find different kinds of staffs and other weapons (which most are melee) that have different effects. Then, there’s the Magicks. These books can be found in the different levels. There’s a certain amount in every level that does things that you cannot do with normal spells. I’ll leave it at that. The combat capabilities alone shows that this was well thought out.
– Real player with 132.5 hrs in game
Magicka is a wonderful game full of challenge, joy and an interesting plot as well as lore for those willing to see through the light-hearted nature of the game. the mechanics are solid and fluent to move through to the point where movement within the game becomes so second nature to players so quickly that you’re playing fluently by the second level for myself and the majority of people I’ve played with.
Missions are thoroughly enjoyable with destructive magic and magical combinations which make you feel truly powerful and a good balance of characters with great connections between characters. all named characters vital to the plot are memorable for either their battles or personalities respectively. The game feels like it gives the player all the power from the start whilst maintaining a great learning and difficulty curve which allows for learning and enjoyment of game mechanics.
– Real player with 117.9 hrs in game
Adventurer Liz and the Erotic Dungeon
Love the humor, really a gem here, recommended! Great work!
– Real player with 13.9 hrs in game
Not bad.
Okay scenes and story.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Pixel Game Maker Series ISEKAI QUARTET Adventure Action Game
now don’t get me wrong i love all of the characters in isekai quartet and have watched all the shows and read most of their mangas i love supporting them but good god this game is horrific it drops to like 2 frames every time its in game achievement threshold is hit and just isn’t fun at all god i want Albedo to beat me to death. if you want to waste $15 that’s on you bud i got to level 6 in about 50 minutes
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
HaremKingdom
9/10
20 hrs for a fast reader
18+ Patch: https://www.johren.games/games/download/haremkingdom-dlc-en/
For:
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People who want harem routes:
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People who want a light hearted comedy
Not For:
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People who want a deep story
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People who want a 1 on 1 relationship with a character
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People turned off by incest (half-sister)
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People annoyed by minor bugs with the VN system
HaremKingdom is the 2020 Smee game, winner of a 2020 pink award from Moe Game Award, the 4th officially localized Smee game, and the 1st one to be localized by Shiravune. Like in typical Smee fashion this is a very light hearted comedy featuring virgin heroines, but this time Smee uses the recently popular Isekai setting and features harems instead of single pairings. Also in typical Smee fashion, this is better than every Smee game that came before it, imo, but that recommendation comes with a lot of caveats.
– Real player with 67.2 hrs in game
I swear Japanese can actually make good comedy when they try, HaremKingdom is the proof. The game is absolutely littered with over-the-top humor and intentional ridiculousness, it takes tropes from isekai and fairytale fantasies and twists the shit out of them to fit into the game’s crazy story. Comedy is all about subverting expectations, after all. When it comes to jokes, well, it’s almost always the delivery that sells. And yeah… This game does deliver. Seriously, HaremKingdom is legitimately the funniest game (VN) I’ve played (read) this year, no contest. Royal Seal of Approval.
– Real player with 32.6 hrs in game
Kitsune Kitchen
Quite standard visual novel, it probably takes 1 hour to be 100% completed.
The novel itself is about a chef that has to create the perfect BLT (bacon, lettuce and tomato) sandwich and of course, it takes place in a kitchen.
The graphics overall are quite nice and there’s a lot of humour, although the game’s too short and yeah most of all one has to deal with the parodistic/humorous aspects of this all. There are no naked girls, couples to meet, romance or whatever else.. it’s way more down to earth.
– Real player with 13.3 hrs in game
My point of view on it - review
You know the phrase this was so bad it’s good?
That would apply here for me, although I didn’t consider it bad, just good.
It was so good that it was good!
For the little price fee this game has you can enjoy the humour of hitting on kitchenware with hilarious endings that includes decent music that you could get in dlc’s for free at the time of writing this review. Therefore I would recommend it, no matter how wrong it is, the humour and laughs are definitely worth it.
– Real player with 2.4 hrs in game
LEGO® Harry Potter: Years 5-7
First of all, I love both LEGO and most TT games (especially the STAR WARS games) and I grew up with Harry Potter.
Storywise, there is some really good, typical, visual humor and the Story is of course amazing, if you enjoy Harry Potter.
The big deal with this game is however, that the raw gameplay is fantastic. Of course, you have to own a controller, because the game is, in my opinion, unplayable without one. But if you’ve got that figured out, there is nothing between you and an amazing game.
– Real player with 77.0 hrs in game
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (Action-adventure)
Notes: Controller highly recommended! Ginormous snake warning!
I’ll skip the usual options and general gameplay description since I covered it all in my review of the first Lego HP game HERE . There are a few changes to the core of the game besides the expected changes in scenery.
First off, the graphics are more complex than in the first installment. The changes help to illustrate the growth of the characters, both in physical age and in maturity. Those familiar with the HP series of books/movies know that eventually we move away from Hogwarts and into entirely new areas. LEGO HP handles these new areas very nicely, and they manage to tie everything together in a way that feels both isolated and connected at the same time.
– Real player with 76.4 hrs in game