So this was always a kinda weird series. The first game was mostly a retelling of the original NES game, with some extra stuff (specifically more characters). 2 had its own original story, where Jason, Eve and Fred the frog go to space to fight the mutant problem, joining up with more tank pilots. Generally I found both games to be quite good. So I was excited for the third one.

So because NEO TWEWY was so long it took me a while to finally get started with this game. And then it was over in what felt like an instant.

So let’s go and see if it’s as good as the last two!

Well I sure didn’t post a lot since the last release list post. NEO TWEWY just took really long. And I’m playing through Great Ace Attorney right now, I’m almost done with the first game in the pack. And I didn’t get time to play that much else though there’s a bunch of games I do have on my “must-get” list. I still gotta get Blaster Master Zero 3 and Axiom Verge 2 and No More Heroes 3… And more, less “urgent” stuff… and that’s just recent ones, there’s a bunch of older stuff I eventually want to grab. And of course September has a couple games I want. I’m definitely not running out of things to review.

So this month I’m highlighting: 19 multiplats, 6 Switch games, 1 PS5 game and 2 PC games. There’s some good stuff in there too, I’m at 3-4 games I’m getting for sure, and like 5 maybes. Definitely a decent month.

*EDIT 09/10: removed a game that is not coming out this month that searching on google still has the wrong date lol*

Let’s go!

Disclaimer: I only list games that I think are worth mentioning. This includes games I’m personally interested in, games that will likely be popular, highly advertised games, small interesting ones I may notice and such. Not just games I care about myself, I highlight as much as I think makes sense. And of course I can’t see the future, so I may be missing games and I may be listing games that may get delayed.

So The World Ends with You was this pretty good DS game. I remember liking it. I remember exactly nothing about it though because it’s been so long since I’ve played it, and I never replayed it. It was 14 years ago, pretty long time to wait to make a direct sequel, but there you go.

So there was a big pause in-between posts because… this game is fucking long. And I wanted to finish it before I reviewed it, and… yeah I’m not happy about actually doing that.

Let’s talk about why I didn’t like this 😀

July has been a great month so far, and there’s still games coming this week, with the Great Ace Attorney collection and NEO TWEWY and Blaster Master Zero 3 (and I’m curious about The Ascent so that’s a maybe). I reviewed a bunch of stuff in July, and ranted about the Steam Deck, and I have plenty more to go. August is a bit of a quieter month, so maybe I’ll get to some time to play other things I had skipped in the year to play the more high-priority stuff… Or not. Definitely a few games I skipped that I want to play. I’m not running out of games to review, that’s for sure.

So in August we’re getting: 9 multiplats, 4 Switch games, 2 PC games and 1 PS4 game. As for heavy hitters, there’s a few, but I think the more interesting games this time are smaller releases. There’s actually only 2 “for sure” purchases for me, but there’s a whole lot of maybes. So lots of potential reviews.

*Edit 7/28: Added a multiplat game*

*Edit 7/29: Removed a multiplat game because it was delayed lol*

*Edit 2 7/29: Removed another multiplat that was also delayed… you should’ve known a while ago about the delay, why wait until 2 weeks before release to announce it?*

Let’s go!

Disclaimer: I only list games that I think are worth mentioning. This includes games I’m personally interested in, games that will likely be popular, highly advertised games, small interesting ones I may notice and such. Not just games I care about myself, I highlight as much as I think makes sense. And of course I can’t see the future, so I may be missing games and I may be listing games that may get delayed.

I haven’t played every game in the Ys series, but I did get to a few and I hope to play more. Ys is always an interesting series because they’re fairly standalone so the fact that it’s a sequel doesn’t really matter. All you need to know is that Adol is an adventurer who gets into some wacky world-ending shenanigans wherever he goes. I had a lot of fun with Ys 8, so I was pretty excited for more of it.

Let’s gooooooo!

I’ve been a Disgaea fan since the first one on PS2, and it was also my intro to Nippon Ichi Software as a whole. Been a fan of the company since, though they have been a bit disappointing of late with some of their titles (like The Princess Guide and Lapis X Labyrinth), or releasing merely “okay” level games (like Void Terrarium and Mad Rad Dead). And there’s a few of their recent games I missed like Poison Control (I want to check that one out but other games took priority). They have released some REALLY good stuff recently-ish though, such as Labyrinth of Refrain (and that’s got a sequel that will hopefully get localized… but it didn’t come out on Switch for some reason, so who knows if they’ll even bother).

Disgaea 6 marks a whole 6 years since the last entry in the series, with the series being in port-hell in-between (Disgaea getting a bunch of ports is normal, but usually there’d be main games a bit faster). The usual gap between Disgaea releases has been 2-3 years, so this was particularly long. So I was pretty hyped to finally get more Disgaea.

Well without further ado, let’s talk about the lastest game in the series!

I like my animu weeb BS. And seeing some gameplay for this, clearly I was in for all sorts of animu BS. I skipped the demo but watched a few people play it, it looked fine. So I picked it up!

I also didn’t really try watching the anime… I figure that, since I’m playing the game, there’s no reason to watch the anime. Watched a few seconds and figured I wasn’t getting anything from it that I didn’t get from the game already.

Anyways, let’s see if it’s good!

Well that’s that for June. Got a lot of E3 posts out complaining about the worst E3 ever, that was fun. And I got a few reviews posted too (and 2 non-reviews, though the Outriders one kinda counts as a review if you want it to be). I’m thinking of a rant right now, not sure it’ll go anywhere but it could make some particularly stupid people mad so… It may be brewing. And I have a few other games I’m playing for review too, so yay. And July will be pretty busy.

So July, which is usually not a big month, is a strangely big month this year. There’s many (hopefully) great games, combined with some end-of-June games that are also big boys to plow through like Scarlet Nexus and Disgaea 6 which will take some July time.

So for releases in July I’m highlighting: 14 multiplats and 2 Switch releases. Might not sound massive but there’s some really good stuff here.

Let’s go!

Disclaimer: I only list games that I think are worth mentioning. This includes games I’m personally interested in, games that will likely be popular, highly advertised games, small interesting ones I may notice and such. Not just games I care about myself, I highlight as much as I think makes sense. And of course I can’t see the future, so I may be missing games and I may be listing games that may get delayed.

I WAS going to review this. I just finished it. It’s really really good and I do absolutely recommend this game if you haven’t played it before. It holds up super well, though I will say it’s easier than people give it credit for as long as you strategize. But I’m not gonna review it.

Why I’m not reviewing it is pretty simple… I’ll be reviewing SMTV this year and I feel the reviews would be very similar in content since the gameplay seems pretty similar. So I’m holding off. I’ll exclaim my love of SMT franchise then.

Simple enough. The game is good. I recommend getting it at some point. No need for a full post!

I know absolutely nothing about Warhammer 40K. I know it exists, I know there’s space marines and the name of certain races and groups in the universe, and some of the chaos gods, but that’s really just absorbing random meaningless info from people I watch on the youtubes that like it. So I didn’t go into this game as a 40K fan. I just watched some gameplay videos and it looked fun.

So let’s go and see if it was, indeed, fun!