I never “really” played Monster Hunter. I’m pretty quick to make a judgement on games, so a new franchise has to impress me fast. In the case of Monster Hunter, I played the first one and gave up real quick, I didn’t “get” it after doing some early small monster hunts. I gave it another chance on PSP, but I gave up on that one even faster and I never touched the series again.

So the demo for Rise came out, and since it actually made you play the real core of the gameplay in a way, actually getting you to hunt big monsters, I figured I’d give it a chance again (I’m sure some other MH demos did that too, but that was when I was in “gave up on MH” mode so I paid no attention). It took me a bit, but after trying out different weapons and figuring out how I was supposed to play, I became able to kill the demo monster, Mizutsune, pretty reliably (didn’t play the second demo that had Magnamalo). And I was enjoying it. So I figured… let’s jump into MH for real this time, unlike my original “attempts” with the series.

So yes this is a review not at all from a fan of the series, but a newcomer. So I don’t really know what’s new in this one except a few elements, I don’t know if it’s better or worse than any of the other games, I’m judging this as if it were a whole new thing. If you want a review from a veteran, you’ll have to look elsewhere. Let’s see how a newb deals with his first MonHun!

I really liked the first Bravely Default (with the job system and interesting battle system), up to a point. That point was the “twist” of how the story works in the second half (or so) of the game. At that point I ended up losing track of what I was supposed to do and eventually gave up. I didn’t play the direct sequel Bravely Second. This one is kinda like a new Final Fantasy, where it’s not really related, story-wise, to the previous games, so I was excited to check it out.

Let’s go and talk about it!

Sometimes I go back and review older games. Usually because I jumped into them late. Project Warlock has been on my Steam wishlist for a while, and I recently finally grabbed it. Must have been on sale. So of course I finished it and I’m gonna review it!

There’s been a few of these in recent days, FPS that look and play much like Doomlikes of old. I’m all for that, as it’s a style of gameplay that is still absolutely valid and great. I revisit DOOM and Wolfenstein 3D and Super 3D Noah’s Ark all the time, amongst others.

So let’s go and see if this classic DOOM-inspired game is good!

Persona 5 was a pretty good time. Great visuals and hud elements (weird thing to compliment but they did look awesome and were very animated), fun characters, great fighting system and way too much talking in-between actual gameplay, but it works in its favor, mostly. I skipped Royal because… I’m not interested in playing most games a second time… I might have double-dipped if it came to Switch, but it hasn’t so… meh.

Strikers was announced some time ago, it feels like it took a while to release… and looking at release dates, we got it a whole year after Japan, so yeah, we waited a bit. I was under the impressions that this was gonna be a pretty random musou game using characters and enemies from Persona, but after playing it I see that I was mistaken.

So let’s go and see if this is a good follow up to Persona 5!

The Wii U is a bit of a weird thing. It sold like crap but it had several games that sold extremely well considering the low amount of units out there. Super Mario 3D World is one of those examples, with 5.86 million copies sold, which is impressive considering only 13 million Wii U units were even sold.

At this point the Switch has basically every noteworthy Wii U game ported to it and outselling their Wii U counterparts easily (~8 million Mario Kart 8 copies on Wii U compared to over 33 million on the Switch, for example), so it was only a matter of time before 3D World made its way to the platform. That way people might actually be able to play this game, since so few even had the console to do so in the first place.

What I wasn’t expecting was that it would have actual noteworthy new content. Mario Kart had the DLC and a battle mode no one cared about, Tropical Freeze had Funky Mode, Pikmin 3 had the DLC and the Piklopedia, Hyrule Warriors had the DLC, Pokken had characters that were previously only in the arcade version… It was basically nothing major, or new. Mario 3D World though? It gets a whole new GAME. That’s pretty meaningful.

So let’s go and see if this is a package worth getting!