What can I say about DAEMON X MACHINA? Not much, honestly. I wasn’t impressed when it was revealed, I wasn’t impressed by the demo, and it turns out these things run in threes – I wasn’t impressed by the game itself either.
If this were a Gundam series, it’d be closer to Reconguista in G than it would Zeta.
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Assassin’s Creed is a series that I had pointedly ignored and avoided for years, ever since I played the original on the 360 and hated it. Then I played Odyssey in 2017 (ten years later!) after watching a gameplay video.
Holy crap.
Immediately one of my top 10 video games of all time. I don’t know if it was the depth of the lore and worldbuilding, the dramatic and emotional narrative, or the extremely entertaining character of Kassandra, but I loved it. So much so that I decided to have a closer look at this series. Maybe it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was after all.
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I have very fond memories of Luigi’s Mansion on the Gamecube, and replaying it last year on the 3DS was a delightful nostalgia trip. It’s aged, and it still has the same flaws (mostly it’s too short and way too easy, and there is a lot of backtracking which becomes tedious in the latter half of the game) but overall it’s a pretty enjoyable, relaxing experience.
…which leads me to wonder how on earth they could have ballsed this one up so profoundly.
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From something long, to something (disappointingly) short! Fairune is a game that I have had on my to-do list for what feels like forever. I had always intended to buy it on the 3DS and give it a try but never got around to it. So when the Fairune Collection popped up on Switch – and then halved in price in a sale – I decided that now was finally the time to buy it.
I then ignored it for…six months? Something like that.
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It’s fitting that the first game I finish in the 2020s is the one that I spent the majority of the 2010s playing, first on the 3DS, and then later on the Switch. Finally, after close to 1000 hours, about twice that many hunts, and a complete Guild Card and shiny gold crown over my online name, I think I can finally put this game down.
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