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!

Time for another slightly older game. I had wanted to play this before, but my old PC was just not wanting to play it even though it was more than strong enough. I think I had a weird bottleneck going that just made the game unhappy, maybe the CPU, maybe the RAM, definitely not the GPU. But when I originally bought this, I’d get roughly 3 seconds of gameplay, then the game would legitimately freeze for 10 to 30 seconds, then would give me another 3 seconds where I could move… calling it unplayable would be putting it lightly.

But with my recent PC with a pretty beef GPU and a pretty beef CPU and RAM that has lights on it, I can run this game on ultra at a very high framerate and no weird freezing. So finally I can play it!

I’m late to the party, but let’s check out a Star Wars game!

I was interested in this game when it was announced. Pretty simple reason: it’s made by People Can Fly, the same people that made Painkiller and Bulletstorm. So they have a pretty good track record for great games, Bulletstorm being one of my favorite non-DOOM FPS games.

But quickly red flags were showing up for this game. It just… looked strange. It finally ended up getting a demo. That demo… removed all possible hype for me. But I did notice some people saying it was good, and it’s possible that I just chose a character class that’s not fun to play. So with the current Epic Game Store sale and the constant 10$ coupon during the duration of the sale, this ended up being half-price. So I figured on friday that I’d grab it and it’d be my long-weekend game (it was Victoria Day weekend in Canada). And boy do I feel like I wasted my time.

Let’s go and talk about why! No, this is not a review because I’m not done with it, and I don’t want to play any more of it. If you want to treat this as a review go right ahead because this is the closest I’ll get to it.

Got a few reviews posted in May, and I actually have 2 more that I’m writing right now and a few games that I’m playing as well that I’ll review… not counting all the stuff I’m getting in June. Things are going pretty great writing-wise.

So June is E3 month, and E3 isn’t being skipped this year. I already talked about how weird it is for E3 to exist anymore. I have basically no excitement for E3 or its weird app thing. But hey, there could be some fun announcements. So there’s possible hype there, maybe. I prefer to go in with zero expectations.

Other than E3, June is a pretty exciting month games-wise this year, surprisingly. I’m buying at least 7 new games, with still a few “maybe” games too. It’s actually pretty crazy. So in June we’re gonna be seeing: 11 multiplats, 6 Switch releases, 3 PS5 releases and 3 PC releases. There’s some really cool 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.

This is a game I knew basically nothing about until a bit before it came out on Switch/PS4/Xbone. It was a bit of a random buy on my side, and it ended up being a decent pickup for just before Famicom Detective Club came out. I never even noticed it on PC when it came out last year.

It looked pretty fun, so I figure I’d grab it… in-between like 6 other games… so it took a backseat and I’m only able to review it now. Let’s go!