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Shooting your load of balls have never been easier, really cool graphics and cute sweet things for people like me and people like you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0RFp63ligU

The base is there for an amazing experience, sadly the game is not done enough. It's simply too early to be put on Early Access. This game is like pre-early access. I know people will hate me for this review, but there's not a lot of content at all. There are so many bugs and it's really a stretch to play it after 30 minutes. The price is extremely high for what it is too.

The developer should have maybe ran an open beta instead of trying to cash in already. I also dislike how the trailer makes the game seem even better than it actually is.

I really wanted to love this game, I really wanted it to be great but at this current moment in time, it's still WAY too early. That's not to say I won't be updating this review in 6-9 months time when there's some more content. I really just can't recommend this in the state it's currently in.

I understand it's all been made by a solo developer. It's a great achievement and I really hope Nils can push forward with the project and complete it.

Thank you very much.

While I would have loved to have played the game, Anti-cheat stopped me from launching the game. Not sure which program was causing that, whether it was Skype, Discord or any other program.

The launcher re-directs you to a help page on the "Easy Anti-cheat" website. The problem is, this URL is broken and doesnt work. From the rest of their site they just boast about working with clients like Robocraft and such.

What a huge upset. Was looking forward to this game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeQ7xSDuN_w

An RPG Maker game with lots of Monster Girls involved.

It has a bit of a frustrating start being overwhelmed with tutorials, but once you get past it and understand it becomes fun and humorous. I enjoyed talking with the Monster Girls and 'capturing them'.

Oh yeah, Kappa Girl is the best Girl. :awoo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_woRBknbp8M

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana has you participate in the story of Adol and Dana, the two main characters, while being able to alternate between them and a multitude of other characters in order to unravel and experience a deep and memorable plot involving the fate of the world. The cursed Seiren Island is an open world environment you can roam while taking down various monsters and enemies. Players meet new friends along with exploring and collecting materials for use in crafting healing items and stronger weapons.

The game opens with you, as Adol, on-board a famous ship, the Lombardia, which sadly doesn’t get to the destination he was headed for. The player crashes near an unknown island (called the Isle of Seiren), where they struggle to survive and unearth many mysteries while saving people scattered around different locations.


The majority of the time you are in control of Adol, but there’s a period of the story-line where you go travel through time in order to relive Dana’s life that led to her becoming the Maiden of the Forest. This adds to the backstory and depth of the plot, making the world feel detailed and fleshed out as it allows you to play it rather than simply explain Dana's backstory through dialogue. Throughout the whole playthrough, the plot evoked many emotions that were flowing within me. Whether it would be happiness to the extreme or the contrary being extreme sadness. The story in this game provides you with a beautiful journey and emotional roller-coaster.

You’ll meet a wide range of characters, from ones you want to hug to others which you want to punch in the face. Normally, you’d wish the annoying characters would not exist but Ys VIII does a great job of eventually making you attached to everyone, even the ones you dislike. You learn more about them as Adol includes more into the party from either his fellow castaways or residents of the island, and realize that each has something to contribute to exposition for the plot (such as Laxia, a noblewoman, providing information on Eternia).

The musical score in Ys VIII is simply outstanding and superb, the team at Falcom and Yukihiro Jindo (the composer) has produced music which has left a mark on me months after playing. I often find myself listening to the official soundtrack and humming Dana’s theme to myself when I’m working on various tasks. Each song and sound really enhances the experience during gameplay and provides a perfect complement for the fantasy nature of the world.

The Isle of Seiren doesn’t skimp out with places to explore and different varieties of locations. There’s one point where you can even go underwater thanks to a handy relic which takes it beyond just land-based combat. There’s huge mountains, dense forests, dark caverns, boggy marshlands and so much more which really adds to the immersive nature of the open world genre. The variety of beautiful locations makes you awe in the design of it all, as well, as you can tell that the team at Falcom really wished to convey a sense of nature-meets-magic.

Lacrimosa of Dana provides a real in-depth story and lasting narrative. Fortunately, at no point did the story feel like it was dragging on and it flows nicely through the course of 30 hours or so; yet, neither did it feel as if it was too short or left with any kind of cliffhanger. Ys VIII also provides a true ending for completing most of what the game has to offer, so it gives you more motivation to go through every nook and cranny of the Seiren Island.

Upon crashing onto the Isle of Seiren, you’re automatically plunged into a scenario which brings you back to having nothing. With the survivors, you can gather items and materials to build up the base and defenses as well as helping survivors with their quests and needs. This is a great amount of content that's been integrated into the Seiren Islands and gives the player lots to do to fill up gameplay. It wasn't too overdone and quests weren't repeated too much to make the game feel padded and instead felt organic as any hero adventurer traveling through a fantasy universe would since helping villagers and solving mysteries.


Every time I got engrossed and wanted to explore more, the little parrot would beep up and say “Alert! Alert! Camp is under attack”. While I believe you don’t have to do them, I didn’t want to take any chances and found myself constantly teleporting back to a ‘defend the base’ type mini-game, which I’m not really a fan of. That being said, if you enjoy 'defend the base' type missions, this may be a positive for you. This may seem like nitpicking but when something detracts away from my exploring to do a mundane task such as this then it has a negative impact on me.

Every single boss fight on Ys VIII is extremely predictable in terms of when they will show up. I found myself knowing and stocking up before each and every boss on the game. This took away from the element of surprise and made sure I was fully prepared for each and every encounter as there is no point at anytime that I was caught off guard. If there were more unexpected boss battles then it would add to a more challenging gameplay instead of ensuring I was always prepared. Many players may feel like this is a sort of hand-holding.

When I unlocked the tailor I got extremely excited upon hearing of character customization. Excluding the DLC, the customization was a major let down as the different outfits were just color swaps of their regular uniforms. While I understand being limited on the physical side of character customization, I really wish that the outfits actually changed instead of being just a simple color change.

I found that when playing on PS4, to activate a special ability you need to press L1 and R1 together to activate it. The control scheme also has the dodge button on L1 and block on R1, which could cause the player to accidentally activate the special at times when it's not needed. This, during more action-packed fight sequences, was a bit frustrating due to the fact that special attacks took a while to build up and could also save you from potential death situations in a pinch.

While this is a more technical point to the review, many people who have played the PC ported version thus far are having issues with it being buggy, crashing, glitching, and not acting how it should. I’m one of the fortunate few who’ve encountered zero problems in either version of the title, however, I felt it was worth noting here -- for anyone considering to get it for PC -- that many have noticed this and that it's still unknown whether it has to do with the build of your computer or some other yet-unrealized software issue.


It’s not often you come across masterpieces, but Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana is simply breathtaking and provided a voyage which has left a lifelong and emotional mark on me. There is minor annoyances to be mentioned for the game but none have seriously impacted my love for it as all the positives far outshine the negatives. From the wide range of characters to the scenery and an out-of-this-world musical score, I highly recommend this as a purchase to anyone who enjoys action RPGs that contain an in-depth story and fun gameplay.

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana is simply one of the best games that I’ve ever encountered and played in my life.

This game is almost like it's an early build of Yandere Simulator.... Oh wait.... :-)

In Steam we trust. Thanks for not cluttering our store with asset flips, scammers and dodgy developers. I totally feel safe reaching out to developers professionally.

Thanks for having wonderful genre filtering in the store. I'm super glad that Steam Direct was a huge success. I'm glad that removing trading cards got rid of all the fake games. I'm also glad to not see VR games in store section too when I've filtered them out!

2018 is amazing. <3

Video review -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXj4vueSgDQ

Building your indie game around an online experience with a high initial price is more often than not suicide. This game suffers the same fatal problem many other online based indie games face - A dead playerbase, even upon launch.

This pretty much turns this game into an expensive drift sandbox. I’d rather recommend GRID series instead or any other game with drifting and single player. There is no real single player mode to this game, just a simple practice mode where you’re alone doing drifts and to even include DLC is absolutely absurd. Yes it’s only visual, but what is the point of that? The price is already through the roof as it is.

Without online all the game falls down to being is an offline sandbox of pointless non-objective based drifting. That being said, I could’ve had miniscule fun drifting around pointlessly for a bit but sadly I couldn’t even have that, as the game didn’t even include controller support.

Game lasted almost as long as I did.... (not very long)

Short content and I didnt even stay for the plot. (It was too boring... normally I stay for the plot!)

The elf also has a weird breast. Not sure what's going on there.

For those interested seeing it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iDbnvbIndk

Shark Dating Simulator XL (SDSXL) has a lot of potential but ultimately falls short and we see SDSXL sink to the bottom of the reefs quite quickly. Uninstalled and forgotten.

Comedy is a skill which very few people grasp and doesnt just mean being random and putting random things in for the sake of it.

The skeleton of the story and general direction of it I enjoy, the actual content is mostly cringey and forced humour which tends to be either very hit or miss. Talking of content, there really isnt a lot of content to the game which was quite unfortunate as the store page reads as though there would be a multitude of routes and options thus leaving my excitement and hype for SDSXL very short lived.

Unfortunately, as with most Early Access games this has been released far too early. From all the delays and setbacks just for one part of the story which was twenty minutes, I'm very doubtful on the "early 2018" goal being hit. Hopefully with a few more updates this game will be set back on track and will be recommendable, but until then, I feel very short changed and let down.

That's quite surprising, considering SDSXL comes in at a very low price. Hopefully the initial wave of "OMGBESTGAMEEVER" and "ILUVSHARKS" will die down and SDSXL will get the valuable feedback it requires to be a good visual novel but until then, I can't quite possibly recommend it.

EDIT: I've played longer than 2 hours. I've played 48 hours on Xbox One. That brings a total of 50 hours. So before you comment "you'only played 2 hours" please think again and realise Steam is not the only way to play games. I also state I HAD A LOT OF FUN IN ARK.



By all means a fun game with lots to do.

However, I do not accept paid DLC when in Early Access. I do not accept unnecessary price hiking and I certainly do not accept greed and milking the consumers for every little cent they have.

We need to stand against this, being milked by dlc, season passes, pre order bonuses and suits who don't understand gaming from the consumer side of things. Suits that only have interest in figures and numbers.

I have not bought DLC for a long time now and only plan to support DLC when it's needed WELL AFTER release date. A good example would be Witcher 3. As for day 1 DLC...Pfft. Will never touch with a barge pole.

That being said, I love gaming, I grew up gaming and will be gaming till I die. I enjoyed triple-a titles only but all of the milking has turned me sour on AAA Games and I really don't enjoy them as much as indie games now.