Recent reviews by Embers

Even in it's early access stage, PoE 2 is poised to become the trend-setter for all future ARPGs.
The gameplay flows smoothly, the progression advances in substantial steps, and enemies present a meaningful threat.

PoE 2 presents a massive selection of ways to gain power and optimize your character while also giving tons of ways different options to play that same class.

Once again GGG blows it out of the park with incredible voice acting, world building, and art style. Though some parts still need polish (this was written day 2 of early access) it's clear that the baseline is significantly elevated from the previous game.

I look forward to how this game will grow and improve over the coming years and strongly recommend it to all RPG fans.

A uniquely addictive and challenging game with very clear vision of its gameplay.
Factorio will have you researching and studying logistics and scalable designs for your forever growing factory without getting too monotonous or boring.

The music and art style are very charming and blend nicely together to make a cute and fun package that can provide you hundreds of hours of entertainment.

Get it now! This game does not go on sale and only increases in price!

Atelier Resleriana attempts to monetize the Atelier franchise by giving you something that has very little to do with Atelier games.

The characters we know and enjoy are all hidden behind their (many many) gacha banners.
Progress and growth is gated behind a stamina system.
For a franchise that started on consoles, releasing Atelier Resleriana without controller support is just negligence.

Atelier Resleriana feels nothing like an Atelier game; instead of adventuring the world, you do most gameplay through menus.

This is not Atelier game, save yourself the effort and try out the other, non gacha releases.

SoC is a cute, modern, and well-polished RPG.

Despite it's excessive monetization and pay for power in-game shop the game provides plenty of power and resources to regular players for free.

The art and music are incredibly well done. though vast swaths of the game's content remain without voice acting.

Content updates (temporary and permanent) that expand the story and roster come in at a regular pace for now.

While I wouldn't recommend a p2w gacha to everyone out there, those looking for pixelart RPG with wonderful character design (not just scantly-dressed women) will likely enjoy this title.

Path of Exile is an excellent game with limitless content, creative ways to gain character power and comfort all while keeping a very user friendly monetization system and it's original dark fantasy vibe. I love it.

Overall average game, has few things that make it standout and desirable. Generally, there are more fun options in the genre than what NEXON is offering here.

Katalina looks wonderful in this dress and I adore her. Thank you for this blessed DLC.

An absolutely delightful experience. Relink nails the combat, characters, music, and vibe of a fantasy world.

Combat provides different toolkit to experiment with since each character plays differently, while also keeping a shared overall mechanic where the current party coordinates a link attack. There's several sizes of mob enemies and a decent number of boss fights with more planned later tin the year.

The Characters are all voiced by their original actors and actresses giving them a nostalgic sense of authenticity. Skills, abilities, and dialogue are consistent with how these characters are depicted across the Granblue Fantasy universe, the developers have clearly expended a lot love and hard work to achieve this.
A small criticism here is that the English translation team rewrites some of the dialogue into cheesy and corny throaway lines, I wish they would take community feedback and revisit their translation policy.

The art of stages and backgrounds have a charming painting-style that blends very well with the shading used on 3D anime models. Menus for options, vendors, and gear are all carefully crafted. The game also features a "Lyria's Diary" collection of menus that shows lore, character/enemy models, music tracks, story videos and much more.

Music and sound will take you on a rollercoaster ride with how explosive and grand tracks get during boss fights compared to the relaxing and chill melody of Folca village. Weapon sounds, ability sounds, and interface sounds all live up to a very high standard of crisp and clean, thoroughly vetted audio track clearly the works of experienced professionals.

I hope, reader, that my little review encourages you to support this franchise or at least sample it for a little. Granblue Fantasy Relink deserves all the praise I wrote and more.

One of the most fun shooters I've ever played, shifting goals from KDA to team objectives and getting your titan makes matches a total blast.

This game also has a 4 player PvE survival mode with its own titan upgrades and unique mechanics.

Despite it's obvious aging graphics, X DiVE Offline has tons of characters to enjoy and weapons to level up. Don't expect much more than that however, the story is pretty dull and the event storylines are also a few paragraphs and a stage to clear through.

This game is purely for grinding to unlock, level up, and clear stages with your favorite characters from the franchise.
For the humble price it asks, I feel comfortable recommending this one.