Recent reviews by Logicomix

The game's premise, that the protagonist has a disease and the only way to afford treatment is to write code as his life depends on it (because it does) hits too close home for me.

Now that you know I'm biased towards the game, you can understand the reason why I'm giving this game a super thumbs up. The gameplay itself is very fun and, while it's "not real programming" the puzzles are engaging and with open solutions. Most of the puzzle games have rigid restrictions where the maker of the game requires you to do something in a very specific way. Not here. And this means that you can get super creative with your solutions, and it only opens up the more you dive in.

Now you'll think: If you are a programmer, why on Earth would you play a game that feels like programming instead of doing the real thing? And the answer is: Because puzzles are fun!

Extra credit goes to Matthew S. Burns who's done an AMAZING job with the soundtrack, in order to deliver instrumental pieces that immerse you in as you forget the passage of time and engage in the creative problem solving process that only Zachtronics puzzle games can effectively recreate in a managed environment. You can listen to it here https://zachtronics.bandcamp.com/album/exapunks-ost (and if you like it as much as I do, support it *wink*).

I also highly recommend this game for anyone who's bored of the usual puzzle games, because this is far from it.

Revisiting this version. Online features are compromised by hackers who will either use third party tools or glitches to make your life miserable, and reporting them is meaningless since they can circumvent whatever penalty they throw at them.

If you want to play offline, the game is still the best Dark Souls game.

After seeing the rating as "mostly negative" I was prepared for the apocalypse or something.

Well, it's not classic Pac-Man but it's still super fun to play and I can see myself replaying it a lot. Leaderboards are full of hackers tho, so rely on your Steam friends if you want to compare your scores. And if you don't have anyone, add me.

Lmao they added fast forward and rewind for the generation of kids who can't handle losing a life or restarting a level, because "everyone must be a winner and buying the game entitles you to complete it". Miss me with that "QoL" stuff.

Whatever little amount of "nerd cred" kids used to have for completing a game just said no and left.

But hey, it has an achievement system so you can do stuff like

"What are the Buttons?
Golden Axe - Use Magic When No Enemies are Present"
(actual achievement)

for the epic "platinum trophy"!

I like what I'm playing so far. I heard the game is on the easy side so I opted using the Nixperience band to not cash out my experience gains whenever I'm resting, so the combat is fun. If I ever grow bored I'll cash out all the accumulated experience in some hotel that offers a decent exp multiplier and just ♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ up lol.

On the downside, Square-Enix sucks balls yet again and the optimization of the game took a giant nose dive with the latest update, giving random freezes that last 1-2 seconds whenever the game feels like it, only happens in the full game and not the demo, and the stuttering doesn't care about your great PC specs, it's pure luck. People have been petitioning and bothering them to fix it for months but you know Square-Enix and how they treated Nier: Automata, right?

So, I'm recommending the game (I'm weirdo and liked the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy if that tells you something), but screw the port quality. Oh and if you choose to play this, watch the Kingsglaive movie before you start the game or before you complete chapter 1. Makes things better.

It's a very fun fighting game, the online so far is way more stable than anything Arcsystemworks that I've played.

Pixel art is beautiful and eye candy compared to the hyper realistic 3D models we get nowadays just because companies want to milk costumes.

The downside is, like any old game, the training mode is super basic and there's no in-game tutorial outside of movesets (no recommended punish combos etc.) so you may have to Google stuff a bit. There's also a Garou Discord server.

Aside from a game which I explicitly had HUGE ping value (300+) the online experience is close to offline and nothing as bad as Street Fighter V (which I am forced to pick a specific stage otherwise the game lags) or DBFZ (where the delay swings around and I drop combos). My point is, If you put this netcode in every SNK game, I'm gonna be a day 1 buyer.

Thanks.

My VN experience is very small: Danganronpa, Zero Escape, Phoenix Wright. You get the idea.
However, my JRPG experience is big. PS1 era and after, with some retro games.

Story-wise it felt similar to a fast Trails of Cold Steel game. It doesn't pad but when it does it's only to introduce
the world and the characters better. It has a certain 3-4 hours timespan where the pacing is kinda off, and the writers
just decided to put a lot of "slice of life" events in a single chunk. This was for me the slowest part of the game. But overall the pacing is very good, especially from halfway and until the end. I also heard that the pacing remains great for the direct sequel, Mask of Truth, which I haven't yet bought because I want to 100% the achievements here first (unless I get a bug).

Like most of anime stories it has its share of tropes, but I found them entertaining. The characters range and it's a matter of preference but personally I enjoyed them all, with a few exceptions which I will not name because it's spoiler territory.

The SRPG elements are simplistic, but they're not "Shining Force 2 simplistic". It also has an infinite rewind feature that also lets you choose which step to rewind back. In the normal game duration I tried to use it sparingly, and besides there's no such thing as a permadeath so why bother rewinding? There's also post-game content which, as you might have guessed, more battles and no plot, so people who play this for the plot may not care. But I enjoyed both the story and the gameplay.

Given that the game has infinite rewind feature you can safely start on the hardest difficulty. It's almost about as hard as Fire Emblem: Three Houses on Hard, meaning "Hard = Easy/Normal".

Outside of the 30 fps lock I had no other problems performance wise.

I recommend this game to anyone who played Trails in the Sky and Trails of Cold Steel because the world building, tropes and pacing are *somewhat* similar, except I like this story more on many things which would be again a spoiler if I say.

Highly recommended.

As of 17/1/20 blessed Durante saved the port. Best Ys, best port. Highly recommended.

I'm a big fan of Dragon Quest, but not of Minecraft. And when a friend of mine said that he's having fun playing this game on Nintendo Switch I was skeptical because I know his taste to be odd.

I was bored today and noticed that there's a demo available on Steam, so I downloaded it to check it out. "It will be for 20 minutes tops" I thought. And here I am, 3 hours later, stranded on an island, making the usual houses with doors, beds, gathering, cooking and exploring the next island already.

I like this. It's pretty comfy.

I haven't played much at the time of the review, but I already see things I love in JRPG's:

1) Heavy focus in combat and gameplay systems (crafting, techniques, formations)
2) Turn-based combat but with visible turn order (better than the Trails system, imo)
3) Some voice acting but again it's light on the text (so far!)

The downsides:

1) It looks dated because it was a Vita game that came out in 2016, so graphics might turn you off
2) English only dub (there's a way to switch to Japanese but it's not supported officially due to licensing - same case with the Trails games until 2018)

Give more SaGa games please.

Edit: I have to mention that some big brain developer decided to slap the opening video in your installation folder AND YOU HAVE TO WATCH IT FROM THERE. The file name is OP_SaGaSCARLETGRACE