August Sum-Up

If you like to watch anime, well, you'll enjoy the storytelling. The story is told from two perspectives, and you get to control one of two characters per playthrough - you need to play the game at least twice to get the whole story. You can skip the last few episodes though since the story are similar for both characters. I hated the combat. Enemies are too bulky even at the easy mode, side quests are annoying despite the meager reward, and then the last few dungeons are too long for its own good. The only thing that keeps me going was the story because I liked the theme that much. I won't tell you what it is though since it's only revealed starting from the middle of the game.

Okay, I didn't expect this. I thought it's some dark game like Danganronpa or Zero Escape. Well, it's dark, but it's full of jokes (porn jokes to be exact) to lighten the atmosphere. If you hate the jokes and unrealistic thing like someone beating up a lot of people that uses guns or fights being centered around porn mags, you'll hate it, but personally, I enjoy the comedic take on it. The song at the end of the game also leaves me wanting for more. However, I found it to be weaker than Danganronpa or Zero Escape. It's basically a visual novel - although there is a murder that you need to solve, you just need to watch until the murderer reveals themselves. The gameplay where you are going through people's dream to find clues are also too vague to understand. I had to do trial and error just to solve them.

It's like the first game, but without the annoying platforming sections like Meat Circus in the first game. I enjoyed collecting all the collectibles, although I liked how they display the figments more in the first game. All same-looking figments are grouped up in this game so it can be hard to find the one that you are looking for if you miss some. Boss fights are still unique, but it's not as tricky as the first game. Well, I'm going to continue comparing this with the first game if I keep going, so I'll stop. If you haven't played the first game, it's a collecthathon game. It's fun.

It's short, puzzles are tricky, and you need to figure out how the mechanics work at every level. I enjoyed it at the first few levels, but it soon becomes annoying since I tend to not know what the game wants me to do.

The first chapter is superb - the twist at the last scene really got me. The rest? Not so much. I think the game was rushed to completion, and the dev cuts corners. I don't mind that the game that has some clever puzzles in the first chapter turned into a whole visual novel style with bunch of dialogues and illusionary choices with walking in between, but the story isn't as engaging as I thought. It's enough to keep me going, but the ending pretty much disappoint me. The game keeps on building mysteries over mysteries, but everything isn't explained at the end.

If you didn't notice it like me, it's a children's game. The game was easy - you basically can spam your attack button to kill most enemies, although there are some enemies that can give you trouble if you are not careful. It still doesn't matter though since you'll just respawn in the same area if you die. The side quests also can be repetitive, especially since you only can take up to 3 quests at once. If you want to buy it for your child, beware, there is one dialogue that can be harmful - it talks about how everything will end if they die. It was passed on as a joke, but I figured it's better to let you know.

I always wanted to try a deckbuilder game - I like card games, but I noticed that most deckbuilding games have roguelike element in it, and I hated that so much. I was thinking to try this game out to try the genre, and much to my surprise, it actually don't have any roguelike element at all (yes, it seems I can't read the store tag very well). Anyway, the game is a mix of turn-based tactic and deckbuilding, and as someone who is bad at turn-based tactics, the difficulty is alright. There are some that give me trouble, but there are ways to build an invisible deck. I liked the challenge mode the most though. You are given a deck and an objective; and you need to figure out how to clear the objective with such limitation. It reminds me of those challenge puzzles in Yu-Gi-Oh! games, and I was hoping that the game has more of them.

The first time I know OPUS was from the android game, and I found it boring. I have been avoiding the series for a good while after that, but since I heard some good things about the game lately (especially with how it has a nice story), I caved in. Well, I didn't regret it. I almost cried several times while playing the game, and the ending… let's say that I used my tissues. The voice overs are surprisingly well done for an indie game. That and the music help to bring more emotion to the story. I kinda hated the gameplay though. The game has this traveling and resource management thing between the story, and most events are based on RNG - I had to use Alt+F4 several times just to get the best outcome. You can just ignore it, but my perfectionist self kicked in at the worst moment. The minigames also can be confusing - I was supposed to heard a song, but the song is either too low or not noticeable enough. I ended up guessing most of them.