Recent reviews by AzureSage

I got the true ending on Game Pass a while ago, but I had to immediately buy it on Steam once the dlc dropped so I could do it all over again and play the new content. This is by far the best non-From Software soulslike game out there.

This is a generation defining RPG. The masterpiece that is Clair Obscur is the new bar for this genre. The story, the combat, the characters, the environments, the music... all of it is top tier, and from such a small, but obviously very passionate, studio. This is already my clear pick for game of the year, if not game of the decade. Do yourself a favor and play this game, even if RPGs aren't normally your thing. This game is too good to pass up.

A fun, fast-paced tac-shooter with great maps, characters, and its signature mechanic: shard cards. In a very saturated hero shooter market, FragPunk manages to be fresh and polished enough to stand out, and hopefully that compels people to stick around and make this game last.

This game is exactly what it claims it to be on the store page. It's super fun to just hop in and try stuff, die, and try again. No super long tutorial to hold you back, just read the in-game help guide at the start of your first run by hitting H, and then just learn as you go from there. Experience is the best teacher once you understand the controls, which are super simple. If you're looking for a magic-based traditional rougelike that's bite-sized, do yourself a favor and try this out. It's a blast! It's supposed to be a hard game, so need to to listen to the whiners about the difficulty. The game is just either for you or it's not, but it's not supposed to be easy.

This game has major potential. It has fun combat and exploration, and it is quite challenging, as it is intended to be.

The one thing I ask for is some introductory story to be put in place. That's cool that there is a story that I can slowly uncover over time, but Heart Machine needs to give us some initial motivation. I was expecting to be immersed in this world like HLD which has one of the coolest intros to a game ever, but instead I was just dropped into the base camp with some tutorial text. Any sort of cutscene to set the mood of the game and put in place an initial mystery would help this game immensely.

I'm recommending this game because it is fun and there is good content there, and I want to support Heart Machine so they can make this game great.

A very, very fun ARPG that has an insane amount of depth.

There are many valid criticisms of this game, but even if this does end up being one of the worst Trails games, it's still a pretty good JRPG and it pushes the story of Zemuria forward nonetheless.

This is definitely the slowest intro to an arc so far story-wise, but it was still very enjoyable. While it can't compete with the story of other games before it, the combat is the most fun it's been (even with the oversimplified quartz system), and of course it's the first Trails in full 3D which was an awesome transition for the series.

Very fun, fast-paced movement and gunplay! The open world seems like it will hold my interest for quite a while. What you get for the price is fantastic. Play the demo for an hour, and buy the full game if you like it.

Duality is a unique mechanic and the gunplay is fun, but the game failed to make a good first impression and is beyond saving. The majority of my issues with this game comes down to poor map design. Sprinting was introduced to the game, which would be totally unnecessary if the maps were designed better. Map design limits what you can do with duality as well. Want to put your other self somewhere high? Nah, that cover can be pre-fired and now you lost your other body. The map design decisions make no sense and ruin what makes the game unique. It's not that this game is terrible, it just comes down to poor design choices and the fact that it can't compete with other popular tac-shooter because of the devs' design choices. Also, crews are a completely useless mechanic that they decided to focus on before a match history page. That speaks volumes about their prioities.