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Surprisingly robust and fun resource management sim. There's a lot more below the surface in this game. Definitely worth it if you like the genre.

This game was a hit that no one was expecting. A Sonic game so good it feels like an HD remake of a classic rather than a new thing. The team behind it was perfect and I hope Sega has the smarts to bring them back again.

Genuinely one of the best puzzle games and/or dating sims out there. The puzzle element is fun and solid but the real staying power comes from the characters. Every character is incredibly memorable and well written. I haven't played in a long time but I still remember every character's name, interests, jobs, and personality. The writing is really much better than it needed to be for a game like this.

WATCH OUT! WE GOT AN ARTSY ONE OVER HERE!

This game is really petentious. I got a laugh or two out of it but god is it predictible. I could see everything that was comming before it came, Beyond that, while I felt like I was roleplaying at first, I never really had the agency I wanted as it went on. I also was never able to really learn about Emily in a way that was meaningful or useful to make decisions in the game.

This game is built for men who think there is a way to "win a woman's heart." There are so many obvious lines and goals that it just felt more like a white night simulator than anythng else.

Must enjoyable aspect of the game was my username was SwagMasta420, my name was Gay, and I had an Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind icon.

This is not game. It's a short story or possibly even a short film. Either way it isn't a game. You're a girl, Nina, and you go to a bar because your friend told you to. Your friend is late and you get sexually assaulted. Then it ends. The player has no agency or choice in anything. That could possibly be the point though, as in the lack of mechanic is there to mirror the lack of choice the character has as well. The feeling of helplessness is mirrored in the fact as a player you cannot help her. But, the problem is, you don't really care about the character. For a short story, short film, art game, whatever this is where the entire point is the story you should have to care about the characters. This game has no back story, no character building, no world building. Nothing. The most you really learn about Nina is she drinks long island ice teas. I think the game relies on the fact you will feel bad because it's a true story. To be fair, I did feel bad through the assault but that has nothing to do with the game. I'm just a human being with empathy and sympathy and I will feel bad for someone who is assaulted. But this game did not truely shape my feelings. Thinking about it, this game relies solely on that ending scene of the assault. Without it the game is nothing. Without those outside feelings, the game has absolutely nothing.

I do not recomend this game. If it sounds interesting to you, then maybe. The game is 5 minutes long, shorter if you're a fast reader, but it holds no substance. I am a person who usually enjoys slow empty short stories where maybe one thing happens and nothing much. In other words, I tend to love vignettes, but this game is just not a well written one. It's just not worth it.

Boring and poorly written. Show don't tell was apparently something the author was never taught. The author also seems to imply that a few issues are depression only. Like how the option to move in with your girlfriend is crossed out. The crossing out of options was ment as a display of things people with depression cannot do. In that situation, a lot of people without depression also might have trouble with the exact same thing. This game was particularly bad.

And no, it doesn't matter that it was free.

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1... 2... 3... KICK IT! (Drop That Beat Like an Ugly Baby) has been abandoned by the developers. Do not purchase this game because it will never be finished. The developers did not know what to do with the game, did not know how to develop what they invisioned, and changed it multiple times. Almost every time I booted the game, it was radically different. The developers really couldn't figure out what they wanted. They've gone silent. The game is currently in its worse verion with no ability to play older version. I'm not even sure if the photos on the store page are accurate. Dejobaan has ruined their name with this game.

Skullgirls is one of the greatest fighting games I have every played. I picked it up for the animation alone. I suggest buying this game. It is unique and worth it.