June Sum-Up

I liked the music. I liked the fights. I liked the game. Fights can be hard but I enjoyed it. You can adjust the difficulty by buying or not buying upgrades, but even if you buy all upgrades, the last few bosses will still provide you with some challenge.

At first I was confused about what to do, or what the game's objective is. Why you only got limited shots per day in a photography game? Why the game won't record all dog types that I have captured? I wanted to catch them all! But I eventually realized that the game is more about quests. You take photo of a dog that is doing something, and that's it. I eventually got obsessed and addicted solving quests after quests since I'm a sucker for quest-oriented games.

You are nobody. Nobody can change into different forms. Each form can level up by solving quests. As someone who like quest-oriented games, I also got addicted with this game. Quests might be repetitive since it requires you to do a certain skill x times or even use a skill within a certain condition. You might be forced to clear dungeons based on what the quests told you, but it encourages me more to revisit the dungeons and finish the said quests. All quests aside, the game actually has a lot of areas to explore, different forms that have different perks, and many more. It's fun.

A fun and short game where you control a hole and put everything in it. Characters are cute and the dialogues are wholesome.

Good story, bad at everything else. I just hated the boring combat. Enemies are so bulky and it takes a lot of presses just to use your comrades' skills. And then there are those QTEs. I don't mind QTEs, but the game forces you to watch unskippable cutscenes whenever you fail. One of them was too vague to finish. Well, on the good side, the story is good and fun. It's not based on the movie though and characters might talk too much sometimes.

After finishing Marvel's Guardian of the Galaxy, I don't think I'm ready for another story-heavy game. I thought Mind Scanners wasn't one, but it still has a lot of texts to read. It consists of some minigames that you can play to cure a patient's sanity. Using a machine to trigger the minigame too many times can remove the patient's personality, though. There is another machine that can prevent it, but I found that I kept on forgetting to use it since the indicator isn't obvious enough. The game drags too long for me - I was getting bored after playing it for a while. The story has a lot of moral choices and different endings that you can choose, although I don't think it matters much except for sating your curiosity.

Again, I didn't think I was ready for another story-heavy game, but I started this one anyway since it was short. Got hooked for it until the end, especially regarding one story. The game has 3 stories, separated into 6 chapters, which are told from 3 different people and focused on different topics. Everyone will then meet each other in the final chapter to conclude the story. To be honest, the story might not make sense since it covers a lot of alien topic but didn't explain it in detail. I'm more interested in the essence of the story, though. The first story is so heartwarming about people who are becoming close to each other. I didn't like the second story since they make me hate the protagonist rather than liking her. The third one is alright.

It's beautiful. You need to figure out how to proceed the game yourself most of the time, but sometimes the controls are a bit off. The game is way too slow for my taste though, and I hated walking simulator. This isn't one, but it feels like it due to the lack of gameplay and beautiful scenery.

It has a nice concept. You have 3 days to save 4 spirits and prevent a calamity from approaching. You can revert the day to day 1, which is usually be done after you save a spirit, to gain more access to other areas and meet new people. The game becomes a bit repetitive towards the end, although it's still alright.

A puzzle game in a layered comic book layout. You need to connect 4 pieces of paper together to proceed the game, although the way you connect them isn't as obvious as you think. It's a nice "think outside the box" type of game. It's short too.

A turn-based RPG game mixed with QTEs. You have some skills and most skills will require you to execute a QTE, which is unique to each skill, to land a crit. The game can be grindy if you allocate the stat wrong, and it can take a long time to backtrack if you don't know what to do.

Pick up items, use them at enemy to kill them, and chain combos. You die in 1 hit and so is your enemy. It's mostly a fast-paced game where you need to be careful of enemies' attack and time your attack right, and then memorize your move if you fail. The game can be challenging at times, to the point where I fed up with it, but it was still satisfying whenever I cleared each area.