Recent reviews by Kyubai

Disregarding the crashes and optimization:

I think this is a good and fun game, but it doesn't scratch my monster hunter itch.
While I don't mind the base game being "easy" for someone who has played multiple monster hunter games, the combat doesn't feel quite right.

It's super smooth and fluid and focus mode lets you turn 360 degrees and even has a magnetism effect, which "pulls" you towards the monster while attacking.
This isn't the kind of game I was looking for though.

Several weapons feel very streamlined and they removed or shortened many akward animation locks.
There are very few bad hitzones allowing you to hit the monster mostly wherever you want.
In multiplayer hunts the monsters barely even gets to move and you just gets hit from stun to KO to para to wound stagger, etc.
The down times between attacks are big enough I barely ever felt the need to use my weaker attacks.

I like monster hunter, because to do cool stuff, you have to master the clunky combat.
This game is a step away from this, but I'm curious to see whether my sentiment changes with more challenging monsters or a G-Rank.

If you're having fun with this game, I can also see why and I wish you many good hunts to come.

Cured my Guilty Gear addiction

Couldn't get past the first level

This is an incredibly unique rogue-like.

The formula is quite "simple", but incredibly well balanced so every run is engaging and presents you with many difficult choices.
You will face different bottlenecks for your resources and struggle to identify and eliminate them every mission.

While the meta-progression does change your power-level a lot it doesn't feel like it's stopping you from progressing and feels more like a method to keep players from being overwhelmed with options early on.

I've been following this game since Early Access and it truly does get better with every patch.
The developers keep reworking straight-forward choices in the game to remove tedious busy-work and replace it with more interesting choices.

I can't recommend this game enough to anyone who is invested in rogue-likes even if you're not a fan of building sims, since I'm not either and this game rocks anyways.

Surprisingly the soundtrack absolutely slaps

I like it and I won't let you judge me for it