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1 person found this review helpful
559.8 hrs on record (541.4 hrs at review time)
Play it with the bros. Capcom is kinda boomer so playing the main story line together with your bro gets a little silly, but you can deal with it— homies are worth it.
Posted 12 May, 2023.
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1.8 hrs on record (1.8 hrs at review time)
Simply beautiful. Don't look it up— the game is pretty cheap and it will be less than 2 hours of your time, so just go ahead and play it. Damn, I even cried a little.
Posted 25 November, 2022. Last edited 25 November, 2022.
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2.9 hrs on record (1.4 hrs at review time)
Triggered some nostalgia on me I didn't even know I had. Pretty nice bullet hell game— the mechanics are pretty straight forward, some dialogues made me laugh a bit here and there, and the music was a blast. The game supports mixed gamepad and mouse inputs, so it plays really nicely on my Steam Controller too; that leads me to believe it shall also be a solid experience on the Steam Deck.

This game is not particularly difficult, but I do believe it may prove challenging to some players who are not used to employing their peripheral vision a lot; big part of the difficulty curve of the game—specially with bossed—seem to rely a lot on splitting the player's attention between aiming and the color-shifting mechanics.

Basically, you can switch your ship's color between red and blue with the press of a button. All enemies are also colored either blue or red, and so do their projectiles— if you get hit by a projectile of the same color as your ship, you absorb the impact; otherwise, you take damage. So far so good, but things start to get crazy as some bosses are capable of switching projectile colors themselves, spawn energy barriers with variety of patterns that you have go trough in the right color whiles not loosing attention to aiming and shooting, and big-d cruise ships with mixed color weaponry.

Although it may look repetitive at first, the game does a pretty good job on throwing new challenges at you to give your progression through its plot proper variance. Controls feel responsive enough so nothing really feels unfair, an so far I haven't bumped across game-breaking bugs or glitches. Some scenarios in the game are pretty complex when you have the chance to stop to take a look. Of course, the visual direction will click much better with you if you also come from the era of early 3D games like the ones on the N64 and PS1.

Now, on the flip side of the coin, some things I believe are weak points of the experience: the color palette of the game lacks some contrast, specially in regards of separating the enemies clearly from the background and all the other stuff happening on screen. Particularly on the free-flight segments of the game, you may find yourself loosely flying around trying to spot the enemies you haven't taken down just yet; there is a prompt on screen—presented in the form of red arrows around your ship—that helps with this a lot, yet you may still struggle to spot some enemies right in front of you. Something else that can improve is how the whole tutorial is presented, as all mechanics are explained trough in-game dialogues you can miss easily within all the action.

In general, I think it is a really fun game. Its shortcomings are negligible when put in the context of the whole experience, in my opinion.
Posted 9 November, 2022. Last edited 9 November, 2022.
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7.2 hrs on record
Beautiful game. Lots and lots of introspective on human nature and the worth of life. The localization was terrible, though— the plot already does quite a lot of mental gymnastics and cryptic monologuing; so the often broken, sometimes plainly incomprehensible grammar—and God knows how many typos—renders the experience a bit more taxing to follow than necessary. I know the game is cheap, but there's also a time investment of over 7 hours to consider.

Still, if you've got the time and the patience to overlook its more evident problems, the topics it reflects on are well worth a proper shot.
Posted 29 October, 2022. Last edited 29 October, 2022.
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9.2 hrs on record (2.0 hrs at review time)
Juego qlo weno
Posted 2 October, 2022.
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1 person found this review helpful
27.0 hrs on record (6.7 hrs at review time)
Best Half-Life ever. Just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ amazing.
Posted 13 May, 2021.
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1 person found this review helpful
105.1 hrs on record (104.3 hrs at review time)
A game made with love.
Posted 25 November, 2018.
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1 person found this review helpful
3.3 hrs on record
Beautiful story; incredible experience. I have no other words to describe it: how immersive this game gets can only be experienced firsthand. At the end of the day, you may even end up reflecting on the meaning of love and how we should think about it.

The best achievement of this game? Just think about how Kaitlin would feel exploring all that happened in that house and how you feel when following her steps.

Look for your headphones, turn off the lights, and just let this piece of art absorb you to its story, just like only a video game experience can.
Posted 20 November, 2017. Last edited 29 October, 2022.
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223.3 hrs on record
I'm still installing Skyrim from time to time, even when I already piled up almost 200 hours playing it. No matter if there are new Bethesda games out there, the epicness of becoming the "Dovahkiin," killing over-powered dragons (well, they're pretty weak actually), exploring ancestral ruins, and writing my own legend will keep luring me back to spending hours and hours on that fantasy world. In fact, I've spent more hours playing this game alone than playing an MMORPG— that's sad, you know?
Posted 26 November, 2016. Last edited 29 October, 2022.
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31.2 hrs on record (20.5 hrs at review time)
I have to say, what a beautiful and inspiring game. I've never experienced a game universe to make me feel so comfy and, at the same time, interested in what's next. Even though I'm not the visual-novel-gamer type, this piece of art made me spend 20+ hours just reading dialogues and mixing drinks. Yeah, maybe the nostalgia of memes, Japanese culture, and Reddit references share a great part of the responsibility.
Posted 22 November, 2016. Last edited 29 October, 2022.
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