Recent reviews by Bears, The Porter

Absolute PEAK JRPG and a quintessential JRPG experience.

- Fun turn based combat with a lot of customization of weapons, abilities, spells, formations, and party makeup.
- Cool family generation system and permanent death is also really interesting in giving it sort of a JRPG XCOM feel.
- Quest choice and decisions that can alter progression and outcomes -- unlocking things or locking them.
The original game was definitely ahead of its time with its system of allowing the player to make choices that alter quest progression and what's available, so this game fits right in with the current generation of RPGs.

The story is pretty linear and sparse, but it gives the player a lot of room for their own headcanon of events, who they choose as their emperor and their party members, and what happens each generation.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ KINO, HAIL THE EMPEROR / 10

Great game and RPG with a really cool mature protagonist like Yuri from Vesperia.

Localization and dub is woke trash though, so I won't be supporting NIS America with future purchases.

3/5 of the way through the game, giving my two cents after learning they ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dubbed a main character with a non-binary male voice actor with a deep male voice when the character is a reverse trap/intersex. HOLY.

Still a good game, so I'll play the sequels. Recommended, just play with subs.

An amazing game and experience, this sequel is even better than the first, which was one of the best action RPGs ever made. The post-game and true ending in this are also fantastic -- the fact that "Dragon's Dogma II" doesn't actually start until the post-game is actually pretty sick.

There are some technical issues in the main capital city, but everything outside of there is fairly smooth and runs fine. I hope an expansion adds more enemy types, but asides from that, I can't complain about much else.

Wind pushed me again and I flew into free / 10

No JRPG has this amount of content and things to do, this game is an absolute banger and is very hard to put down.
Not only is it Persona with boomers (an absolutely amazing thing), it literally has Animal Crossing, Pokemon, Crazy Taxi, and Pokemon Snap as side content.

Boomer Persona 2 is even better than the previous with major improvements to gameplay and quality of life changes. Honolulu is also the best city they've ever made.

This game is up there with Yakuza 0, Yakuza 7, and Gaiden as the best in the series for me.

Infinite / 10

the servers are ass and the missions are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ trash with less depth compared to the previous games.

The game even has less missions than Payday 1 and Payday 1 at least had very fun and very lengthy missions.

edit: this game still sucks

In the grimdark future, all men and women are old and look horrible -- which is why you play as an ogryn.

A really nice and cozy game to vibe to.

Kinda short, but an overall good game.

another large scale war game without any players...fug

10/10, a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ masterpiece and one of the greatest games ever made. It's also one of the only games to capture the feel of an actual long journey and adventure.

From the creators of Evolve: Soulless garbage