Star Ocean is a series. It has games. Some of them are good, namely the first 3, and I remember having fun with the fourth even though that one was rather disliked overall. The fifth, on PS4, is one of the few RPGs I gave up on after less than 5 hours played. I don’t even really remember it, I just didn’t like it.

So this new one was kinda announced out of nowhere, I think in a Playstation Direct, and to basically no hype at all… So I picked it up at launch, finished it weeks ago, started playing and reviewing other things, and now I’m finally reviewing this.

Well, let’s go and talk about this video game!

Well, there’s a new Pokemon! I tend to not really review Pokemon unless something new is done. I mean, you’ve reviewed one Gen 7 or lower Pokemon game, you’ve reviewed all of them. That’s why I didn’t really review the Diamond and Pearl remakes in my post about them, but I did review Legends Arceus, because that was a more unique spin-off.

And in this case, it’s different enough to be worth reviewing… so yeah. I played the story and did some post-game shit, I’m about done with it myself though. I will do things a bit different than usual reviews because the usual format doesn’t work for this.

Let’s talk about it!

Bayonetta is a great series. The original took the fast-paced well-designed action gameplay of the Devil May Cry series and added a coat of magical, sexy, camp paint to the mix. The games featured great gameplay, a fun character that liked to dance, and crazy boss battles against massive enemies, to a scale unlike most games before, with the first game ending with Bayonetta destroying literally God in the Sun.

This game has been announced probably too early, in 2017 as it had only recently started development. It took a while to get any new info, but it did eventually come, and the hype was pretty high. So yeah I got the game and finished it in 2 days, then took weeks to finally write this review.

Let’s see if the series continues to be very good!

Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle was a really weird one. It actually had rumors but it sounded fake because who would believe rumors about a strategy RPG featuring Mario and Rabbids. Well, marketing material popped up and… this looked like a decent idea. And then we saw it and it actually looked fun. It became a huge seller at 7.5 million copies sold (most probably at pretty low price, because Ubisoft), so clearly people thought it was interesting.. But people wondered anyways if a sequel may happen since it was a pretty unique project.

Well, it happened. It looked cool, of course. So I got it, and played the poop out of it. Let’s go and see if the sequel is as good as the original!

I actually have 3 other reviews that I’m writing right now, taking my time on them. In the meantime, I started playing this thing and… well, this impressions post needs to take precedence.

I had no expectations for Sonic Frontiers because the marketing has been crap but some things looked okay. But I was worried when it looked like it was going for an open world angle. Because basically every open world game is shit. But I still wanted to give this a chance because, despite most post-Genesis Sonic games being bad games, I always give him a chance. I always hold hope that, one day, Sonic will be back to his former glory. Spoilers: he’s not.

After almost 6 hours of playing this game, I think I’m done. This is not a game I want to finish playing. But I still want to talk about it, so let’s do this!

This is NOT a review, since I’m not done with the game. But I won’t be done with it, so this is the most I’m putting out about this game.

I find this a weird nostalgia bait thing. Like… Kids cared a little bit about this back in the 80s, and it even got a really crap movie because of the success of the cards, but I dunno if all that many people really look back that fondly on Garbage Pail Kids, beyond it being a product of its time. However, I’m kinda into this concept of making new games for old systems, especially now if you make sure to, you know, make them available on modern platforms too. One of the best examples of this is Battle Kid, a game that was stuck on NES for a bit but is now available on Xbox and hopefully will come to more platforms.

So I figured I’d grab this on a sensible system so I got the PC version. It will come on an NES cartridge later if you like spending like 7 times more than the game costs to get a collectible version of it… Yeah, not a fan of that price point.

So let’s see if this is a good NES game or whatever!

Atari is a company in a constant state of confusion. There’s times they’ve release good shit (like Yar’s Revenge, which is a Star Fox-like), but they’re very much focused on meh remakes of classics, and collections. They have this console I’ve not heard of anyone buying, it’s not very interesting.

But the trailer for this one definitely caught my attention, because it wasn’t just a collection of old Atari games again, but it did some interesting things with the concept. Namely, it’s kinda like NES Remix, where it takes the classic games, but remixes the gameplay and visual elements. Looked like it might be a good time. So I grabbed it.

Let’s see if it’s good!

It’s Pokemon. But not! There’s a few of these Pokemon-likes coming out recently like this, Coromon, Nexomon and probably a bunch of others I’m forgetting. This one seemed to be a bit more competitive-focused, with some small but interesting changes to the formula. It’s also been in early access for a while but I decided to wait until full release before getting it.

I actually took a lot of notes while playing this one. So I may address notes in this review more than usual since this is a game that can be described very quickly. Also I’ll just call Temtem, the creatures themselves, Pokemon. Because they’re Pokemon.

Well let’s talk about this!

I like digging a bit to find some interesting games, and this was certainly interesting. It had a demo that was pretty fun, but it had some issues to it, namely the controls being garbage with a mouse and keyboard. It was a pretty cool roguelite deck-building game, pretty similar to Slay the Spire.

Well I grabbed it when it came out and now I’m gonna review it… yay!

Let’s go!

The Pac-Man World series is one I missed entirely back when it was ongoing. Some time back on Youtube, I did notice a few smaller game review channels being really big fans of these games (especially the third), so I was pretty interested to finally try one of them out.

So let’s see if this classic game is actually a classic!