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’m a very new MH fan. I didn’t really get into the series before Rise. I tried a few (mainly on PSP) and it just didn’t click with me at the time. But Rise really got my attention and I loved it. But as such, I missed the first Monster Hunter Stories on 3DS.

But I saw a bunch of this game (Capcom was REALLY pushing this game a lot) and it looked really fun. So I picked it up. And I played through it and started the post-game. So time to review it I guess. Spoilers: I like this game.

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!

I was pretty interested in this game when I first noticed it, for a pretty simple reason. This is made by Richard Garfield, designer of great board games like King of Tokyo, Robo Rally, Netrunner, and a little-known project called Magic: The Gathering. I figured his involvement in a card-based video game would be pretty cool. Otherwise the game looked pretty interesting, and after pre-ordering I could download the demo, which was interesting enough but I hoped the full game would go a bit deeper.

So let’s go and see if it’s good!

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!

Well E3 2021 is done. It mostly sucked. There’s one part that didn’t.

So time to rant about E3 as a whole! There’s not even that much to talk about here, but I think I can use that fact as a platform to talk about stuff anyways.

I’ll be grading each presentation, and talking about what bothered me about them and maybe get to the core of WHY all these presentations suck.

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!

This was in the recent Humble Bundle. I picked up the bundle mostly for this, and also Neoverse which… I don’t think I’ll end up playing anywhere near enough of to review.

It’s a card-based RPG in the SteamWorld Universe. Not a universe I’m super familiar with, the only other SteamWorld game I’ve played is Dig 2, which was pretty good. This is a bit of an older game, but I do try to review everything I play. I like going back and trying things I missed from time to time, so here’s one that’s been on the wishlist for a while.

Not much else to talk about in the intro, so let’s go!