Recent reviews by CS1

Woah, you hit your head pretty hard there. Huh? Microtransactions? Live service games? Balance patches? What are you talking about? It's Summer 2004 and we just found out how to completely break this new wizard game. It's awesome! Come on, let's go have some fun!

Generally when people recommend Ace Attorney or Danganronpa there'll be an asterisk attached to warn you about some of the more questionable parts of the game; whether that's the plot getting too silly, the logic leaps being too strange, or the game crawling to a pace as you have to spend 5 segments walking through a line of reasoning you already figured out an hour ago. There's plenty to like in those games, but even the most die-hard fans will have parts that they wish were different.

of the Devil is the game you get when those parts are different. The worldbuilding is extremely tight and intricate while still feeling natural. The characters all feel suitably fleshed out and act like real people rather than surface level tropes. The plot respects your intelligence and the logic sessions never start wasting time so that it can hold people's hands.

This game isn't just on par with its AAA counterparts; it's completely exceeding them. On both style and substance, there's nothing here to fault.

Grab a drink. Go in blind. You'll struggle to find anything else of this quality at this price point.

Fun game which scratches the activity itch (both solo and with friends). The dev seems committed to weekly updates, which helps a lot, since there's always a reason to come back every few days.

The good:
-All around improvement over the original. If you enjoyed the first, everything you liked is back and better
-Main cast has a little more spice to them (for the most part). They're still very clearly pure-of-heart-good-guys, but Temenos and Osvald have way more going for them than the fairly plain characterisation Ophelia and Cyrus had in the original, for example.
-Not that you'll need it for the main game, but grinding has been improved a lot. 100% here is a lot less demanding than the original, and even if you do want to go the extra mile, it's easier to do so.

The bad:
-Villain writing is very classic JRPG. There's a significant amount of bad guys who are evil and want power with no nuance to it. I'd argue that things are even more black and white in this game than in the original, which is saying something.
-Crossed paths are good but there's still not an awful lot of interaction between the cast. For the most part you're still playing 8 individual stories that are tangentially related. If that was your biggest gripe with the first game, that's not really fixed here.
-Difficulty balancing is pretty haywire. I'm honestly not sure what the "intended" path is, since it's really easy to overlevel if you explore everything, and easy to underlevel if you flee from everything. It's still fun, but I'd say it's even less challenging than the original, which many people already thought was too easy.

Overall it's still arguably one of the best JRPGs released in recent years, so if you like the genre, you'll get your money's worth here.

Look man, I love Yugioh, but the modern game revolves around using one of several specific meta gimmick decks to basically win in turn 1 before your opponent can even do anything. You have to be a special kind of person to enjoy this.

This game scratches the same itch that the original Binding of Isaac did in terms of "you get a broken good build, steamroll the game, have a ton of fun doing it, and then start another run to do it again"

solitaire but more stress!

i lov master cheif

This game lets me live out my idyllic dreams of living in rural england, getting drunk and riding on a sheep, and being violently mauled to death by a badger

The game is a lot shorter than you'd think (100% completion only takes about 7-8 hours), but what's there is a fun and solid concept.