Recent reviews by Mirby

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As a longtime Battle Network fan and Digimon fan, this little idler game demo scratches itches for both. Controlling your little BIT (akin to a NetNavi) to go into the net and bust viruses and find materials is great to have going on in the background. And if you want a bit more control you can choose the chips yourself for battle.

And speaking of chips, those are generated via various Helper Bots who hatch from eggs, much like Digimon, and much like Digimon you have to keep them fed with their favorite food and also of course clean up their waste. Getting different eggs and seeing what would hatch and what chips you'd get is great and always exciting when you saw a new bot hatch that you hadn't seen before so you can test out their chip.

Really looking forward to the full game. Might even have to work on a custom sprite for that as well so I can have my own custom BIT going around.

I was interested in this game because of its premise, but was unable to back the Kickstarter at the time due to financial issues. So I ended up getting it recently and... it was worth the wait.

It takes a lot from Mega Man Battle Network and also Star Force, wearing those inspirations (especially the latter) on its sleeve. The music is also fantastic too, really sounding like new takes in the same style used for Star Force. Very enjoyable, and there really isn't a single track I'm not fond of as they're all bangers. Especially the battle themes.

As for the gameplay itself, battles are great and enjoyable, and once you get more skills and stuff you're able to shell out some MASSIVE damage. A lot of the skills also have their own action command inputs to use properly and those are nice. As for dodging attacks, sometimes it takes place on a grid a la Battle Network where you gotta move around to dodge, and sometimes it's more like Undertale where you move your heart around to dodge the bullet hell-like storm of shots. You do have shields to block in both situations though which is nice and helpful. You also can attack Support Skills to your Active Skills (think like the Atk+10 chips and such of BN that you put after chips to add effects) and the Invisible one is great too.

The storyline was also fantastic, taking inspiration from those games with some nice twists and turns. The worldbuilding is nice too, with each location being distinct and memorable and filled with great characters and some homages to other games (both indie and otherwise) so seeing those references was always fun.

All in all I HIGHLY recommend this game, especially since post-launch content is coming. Especially if you're a fan of Battle Network or Star Force.

Truly a great love letter to old school gaming. I quite enjoyed my time with it, with the difficulty mostly being fair with occasional spikes. The music was also pretty great too. The level design was also pretty top notch, with the stages being nice interconnected sections where you often find the boss door before the keycard you need to get in, and thus needing to find the keycard elsewhere. There's a minimap too, which helps. Every stage has either a health or weapon upgrade hidden somewhere too, and the paths to those are marked with a unique color on the minimap. Some seemed cheap to get, but still rewarding to seek out.

I've seen other concerns regarding the penultimate stage being too long, and I would agree since it's a giant sprawling complex where you have to find 9 specific spots for story reasons, and progress being lost on game over, but as the level is fairly generous with extra lives that does balance it out. Also when you game over and restart, what is kept is your map progress so you can find where those are again if you located them before running out of lives.

My biggest issue is the final boss, as there is a mechanic that in retrospect makes sense but I didn't think about on my first attempts resulting in a lot of deaths. However, knowing this mechanic (after the main dev told me it) made the boss more bearable. Still hard but since it's the final boss I can live with that.

I recommend this game if you like retro-styled games and great soundtracks because this really is a love letter to NES era Nintendo hard games without being nearly as hard.

It's a rather classically styled puzzle game. Get the ball into the cubes in the right order. Unlike many others, though, there's no time limit. There's no penalties for screwing up. Maybe that reduces the thrill a bit but that's fine by me. Very enjoyable, if not short.

While it still is very much in the vein of Pokémon, Temtem does enough to set itself apart from the long-running franchise to stand on its own. Instead of moves having PP, each Temtem has a Stamina stat (think MP from other RPGs) that is maxed at the start of each battle and recovers a bit each turn in battle. There are 12 types with their own interactions and names. Temtem don't evolve at set levels but instead based on how many levels they've gained overall.

All in all, it's already off to a great start. Sure there are a few issues, but that's to be expected with an Early Access title. I look forward to seeing how the game evolves from here.

Such a great game. The music is great, the environments are fantastic, there's secrets everywhere, your items are upgradeable and it's non-linear so you can explore the island at your own pace. Definitely a well crafted game.

Oh and it gets updates too, like that fantastic Halloween DLC that's free. Also great because new areas are being added from time to time, so once you get everything there may end up being more stuff added.

Also bunny.