Recent reviews by Jayk the actual factual

#BalatroSweep

It is good, I like it.

It's short. It's cute. The story is nice. The bosses are decently clever, although you've probably seen the formula before.

Seem to be some issues getting the settings to save. Unclear what the point of the difficulty settings is if there are no associated achievements (not much of an achievement hunter nor interested in higher difficulties, but figured I'd point it out). The puzzles aren't particularly interesting for what I've seen of other Rad Codex games.

That's about it. It's less than 2 dollars. I really like Rad Codex in general.

(Says I have ~5.7 hours in the game, but it actually took 45 minutes to complete. I just forget to close things sometimes.)

Good bit of historical fiction. Interesting decisions, interesting narrative. Great character designs.
Very text heavy, obviously. At some points it did feel like a bit of a slog, but overall it was very easy to get lost in it.

It's fun

Probably the most engrossing of the Zachtronics catalog. A good entry to end on.

Pirated a lot of games. I'm pretty sure solitaire is rigged. I spent like an hour assembling/painting a digital plastic model.

10/10.

Notable improvements, mechanically, over the original. The domino power and Emily are pretty great additions to the formula. Narratively not as compelling, I think, but it's perfectly adequate.

Good story, tactile and varied combat system. Wish there were fewer waves of enemies and I was a bit lost once or twice (at one point went to a higher level area by accident and didn't realize that wasn't where I was supposed to go for like 20 minutes), but these are kinda minor complaints.

It's alright I guess.

Do not play 8x8. It will bring nothing but pain, perhaps for days. Otherwise, good game. Really like it. I mean, It's actually 4D, but what, am I going to ask for a refund over it? No. That's the answer to that question.