Recent reviews by ffrasisti [ARG]

You have my money, sure. But you also have my contempt. Hope it was worth it

This is not a review of the surely good content. It's a review of Sega's business practices
Dont blame Atlus, had the same problem with LAD8. It's Sega.
And be careful, SEGA. The Sammy side is showing. And unlike with Actiblizz, they didnt even have the decency to put their name first after the merger, so YOU are gonna take the heat.
You already had one franchise destroyed by DLC with Total War.
I honestly feel like I've been robbed of 35 bucks after I already preordered a 100USD game because otherwise the game I paid for would be incomplete despite me buying the full edition.

The game stops dead in its tracks on a terrible chapter 8, which not only has a puzzle that requires you to comunicate the specific pitch and beat of multiple sounds (if you are deaf, the game is literally impossible to finish, the subtitles do not give you the info you need), it doesnt even communicate to the player well this is what they have to do, and after we somehow figured THAT out, it glitched an item and ruined the playthrough. Its a shame, but whomever designed the audio puzzle needs a class in accesibility and puzzle design before ever being allowed to work on games again

Atlus, you had the excuse of the original being single platform, but I hope you guys undestand this is THE LAST TIME you can rerelease a full game instead of selling a DLC EXPANSION. YOU GET THAT, RIGHT?

Finally Atlus has gone all in on pc as the rest of SEGA giving us a definitive version that, as is Atlus law, comes with more story and a new waifu that ties heavily into the plot.
Also we now have evil demoness waifus so there's more of the good stuff.
More demons, powers, QOL and UI improvements, a much better story (Canon of Creation, the original story is not worth playing anymore, in my humble opinion but its nice that it is there for preservation) and the most important QOL improvement, the game is no longer trapped on the Switch where it ran terribly.
Ironically this version runs better on Switch, so it might have not just been the hardware, but it's too late to care why it ran poorly.

Also, JPRG FANS, MASTER DETECTIVE ARCHIVES: RAINCODE is also being released from Switch Jail. At this point, no longer believe third party devs when they say something is switch exclusive. It's timed, fortunately.

Keep rescuing stranded games! Too many good games are still stuck on the Gamecube, PS2 and 3DS

Yes. This is how you remaster a 3DS game and rescue it from being stranded. Now we need Atlus and Level 5 to do this as well as Capcom is. Beware the long and meh intro. The real game begins when you depart the first village.

It's not a bad idea on paper but the narrative aspect is weak, shallow and loaded to the brim with blatant progressive malarkey. The racing is too simple to be fun for sustained periods of time and you may find yourself wanting to skip it as frequently as possible. The resource/time/travel management roguelike would be more fun if the story segments were longer, more frequent and your decisions had an actual impact the consequences of which you could see beyond a single line of text at the end and a change in resource values.
It's not a good VN style game, it's not a good travel management game (80 Days this is not) and its not a good racing game. It reminds me of things like Night Call, but that game knew to fully lean into the story even if it was also politically loaded with bs. No part of the game is particularly good and in tandem they dont really mesh that well or amount to anything that interesting. Could have been so much better. Avoid.

It's as if Neon White and the movie Crank had a baby that liked Fist of the Nothern Star

My only con so far is that rooms repat too much but at the breakneck pace they might have done it so you dotn get lost?
Beware you wont have much time at all to take in the sights, its always a rush and thats the point

An adorable little 'Untitled Goose Game' inspired game about an indoor cat on a small adventure around his little neighborhood.
Short and sweet but full of purrsonality.
Gamefies "being a cat" really well, its funny and the animations are cute.
Half the fun is testing whether stuff will work Yes, people slip on bananas. Yes, you can drop phones on toilets. You can knock every little piece of a chessboard. The dog hat gets you past dogs. lol

So far the concept seems interesting, but there seems to be too much about personal/national identity conflicts in the Hong Kong/China divide that frankly, I at least could do without.
You know "The Last Human" trope? The final icon of our species, beloved by a future society of succesors (be it robots, clones, other races) for being an impeccable embodiment of our virtues, an icon of what made us great?
Yeah, what if she was a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥?
And you had to bear witness to their ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and how that revelation could impact your fragile society that is all that remains after an Arrival/Roadside Picnic style alien aproximation to earth killed all of humanity.
It's an interesting 3d exploration adventure narrative game with a few dialogue options that so far have not offered me any control of the narrative. Will update when I finish it

I wish the devs were given more time to polish and expand but whats here is solid AA material. It got rushed because of Embracer's BS but hopefully the devs can keep making stuff like this.
The "visible seams", so to speak, are the jank of the melee, and the lack of variety between enemies and campaigns. It's hard not to imagine a much better game if this had a bit more money and maybe another 8 months of dev time.
But like I said, solid enough, luckily.
Hopefully there's a bigger sequel.
Also, Jodie Comer should be in more games.