Recent reviews by Jimmy D

i like to press the medium kick button with kimberly

i just played this game for 19 hours straight by accident

I would recommend this to every new FG player. Footsies isn't important to learn immediately, but it's a difficult thing to wrap your head around when you actually want to add it to your skillset. The Arcade ladder of this game teaches footsies incredibly well.

I thought I'd love this but I got like 30 mins in the other day and couldn't handle it anymore. The weirdest part is that I can understand *why* a lot of these design decisions were made, I just can't stand them in this game.

- Moving is weirdly mushy/floaty compared to other games with the exact same movement (Played Crystal Project right after this, and it's much better)

- They put in BOTW stamina, but stamina usage is so high that you can only run for about a second before having to walk for 5. It's worse than not being able to run at all because it "feels" awful knowing i could be moving faster but can't. BOTW stamina works because the slow movement makes you plan your path through the world. This game is good looking, but with the top-down perspective i'm not seeing any beautiful vistas on the horizon to seek out anytime soon.

- The writing is marvel quality, almost verbatim from the first NPC and PC: "Wow I'm catching monsters! In cassette tapes!? That just happened!" and I absolutely hate it.

- The music has loud lyrics, like TWEWY, which is awesome, but idk for some reason i really hate it here. TWEWY has really simple areas so the music helps you zone out while moving around. This game has pretty areas and doesn't need lyrics, so it winds up being Too Much.

-On top of that, NPCs all have a loud one-word noise they make when you talk to them. It normally doesn't bother me in other games, and i can turn it off, but this along with the last two points added up to me dreading anytime I had to interact with anyone because the dialog/music/text is all a big jumbled mess. Text noises and lyrics need to be off by default.

I can't even talk about the monster battles because I've only done a couple of simple ones. The game is too annoying for me to wanna play to the point where it gets good 😕
Same with movement, I'm sure i'll eventually get some kinda movement abilities that make stamina more fun to play with, but at the start it feels terrible.

First impressions are important.

This has been the best old school turn-based RPG I've played recently. it doesn't waste your time with long animations for stuff, and the controls are tight, the combat is fun and smartly done. Big recommend

Its funny and interesting, but too often it makes you do precision platforming and the game is really not made for that. The "slug jumping" required to try and collect a few wickerlings is the worst movement mechanic i've ever had to do in a video game, it's purely random a lot of the time. Surely there were better ways to implement that, like letting the player hold a direction when exploding the bomb to go in that direction, or the opposite of that direction.

you can beat the game without engaging with that mechanic, so i'll still recommend it.

I can finally play my favorite game ever, for the first time 😌

Djeeta cool, shrimple as that

this is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ incredible and keeps getting better. beautiful game, feels like infinite value already with a gargantuan variety of cool boss fights. yes yes yes, get it.

Top 5 favorite games of all time, ignited my passion for fighters as a genre. The one i compare everyone else to.