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!

This came out in 2019 and I never heard about it until the recent Switch version was announced. The one trailer I saw for it looked pretty interesting. So I grabbed it. Now I’m reviewing it. I’m very good at intros.

Let’s just go! This may be a pretty quick review.

So March wasn’t quite as busy post-wise as I was expecting, but that’s largely because some of these games took me a while to go through. I’m in the process of writing 2 reviews right now, for Cathedral and Bravely Default 2.

And I have some other stuff planned. I’m getting started on Monster Hunter Rise which is my first full-on try at an MH game (so the review will be from the perspective of a newb), I have some other games that recently came out I want to get (Kaze and the Wild Masks, Ghost ‘n Goblins Resurrection, a Record of Lodoss War metroidvania (might have to watch the anime too, I missed that one back in the day)… maybe some other stuff), there’s some older games I started playing (such as BPM and Remnant and Creature in the Well), there’s new games I want coming out in April… and I want to make every console fanboy mad so I am planning a series of posts about last-gen. Specifically the main post will be about the great games that came out in the generation, and I’m hoping to do 3 side-posts about why all the consoles sucked (the PS4 one is particularly spicy because people think that’s a good console for some reason).

So ANYWAYS, I need to stop talking about the blog for a second and actually to get to the real meat and potatoes of the post. April is in a few days and I need to do the monthly list of games coming out.

We’ve got: *12* multiplats, 2 Switch games, 1 PS5 game (whoa!) and a PC game. There’s several in there that I’m getting, just in case my current game list wasn’t big enough already.

*EDIT 03/29: ADDED A MULTIPLAT THAT LOOKS REALLY COOL*

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. 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.

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!

I mentioned this in my intro post, this is a type of post I’ve done monthly since 2008 on my previous site The Save Points. I just highlight upcoming games, give my impressions on them based on currently-known info like trailers and demos and such. This includes games I’m interested in, games that may be/become popular whether or not I care about them, and random stuff in-between… Basically anything I feel bears mentioning for any reason. Obviously I can’t tell the future but I will try to somewhat keep this up-to-date as interesting games get release dates and remove games that get delayed at the last minute.

I also like to use these posts as a quick update thing, talk about recent and upcoming stuff, you know… I mean, I made a new site, posted several reviews, changed a bunch of things in the design and functionality of the blog, all has been going well on that end. And I got my second cataract surgery so I CAN SEE, without glasses… that’s pretty cool! I do have a bunch of reviews upcoming, right now on my currently-playing list I have Cathedral and Persona 5 Strikers and Bravely Default 2 and Ghosts ‘n Goblins Resurrection… Curse of the Dead Gods looks kinda cool too so that’s a maybe… and there’s some stuff coming out in March that I’m getting… so I’m not running out of things to post for a while.

So March 2021… it has a couple of the year’s biggest heavy hitters. I’m counting: 11 multiplats, 4 Switch games, 1 PS5 game, 6 PC releases and 1 PS4 game. I’m buying a couple things in there, it’s a decent month.

Well, let’s go and see what March has in store for us! I was gonna post this a bit earlier but a State of Play was announced so I decided to wait, just in case something happened. Nothing happened, so no reaction post. Sony sucks. Maybe I should do a new “Sony is not a good game company” post for the lulz. Did one last year after another shitty State of Play.

*EDIT 03/01* Had to remove a PS5 game that I didn’t notice got pushed back yay!

I was gonna review this on The Save Points but I never got to it before deciding to close down the site. And it’s one that I took some time figuring out exactly how to talk about it because it’s definitely weird.

Let’s go!

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!

I was really hyped for this game, I’ve been following it for a while. There’s a lot of these 8-bit-style games around but this one looked really interesting. For a second I actually mistook The Messenger for this, quickly realized they were different games… The Messenger is kinda similar but has different gameplay focuses, I recommend it too.

Let’s go and see if my hype was warranted!

This was previously on Apple Arcade, a platform that you can’t convince me actually exists. It went from there to Switch a year after its Apple Arcade release,  so finally actual people could play this.

I wasn’t excited for it after it popped up on some Nintendo indie presentation, but it seemed I was in the minority. People on twitter were really hyping it up, and everyone that played it seemed to really like it. So I figured… eh, why not!

So read on and see why not! Yes, this is my first negative review on this particular blog. I never want to be negative about games, but it happens. More than it should. But it’s important to figure out why some games fail to reach expectations.