I never really cared for weapon durability so I don't mind it not being included and magic costing HP seems like a fine enough system. The dungeon-crawling is very underdeveloped and might as well not even be in the game. There are a lot of weird aspects to the game like dungeon crawling and magic costing HP. The artstyle and character designs are great and I really wish the artist worked on more FE games.
Even though I prefer 3H and awakening it's nice getting the classic FE vibes back once in a while and echoes provides quite well in that respect. The game also looked fairly nice for a 3DS game.įire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia I think the game kind of overused the switching of front and back layers since DK already thoroughly explored that, but some stages were more fun like the car segments and remote-controlled kirbys. I'm not a big fan of how kirby controls since he's floaty but the robot felt better and it kinda just made me wish they made a new IP where you play as the robot without the lame kirby baggage. Solid but had a really strong unimpressed feeling of "Yep, that's kirby on the 3DS" like with Super Mario 3D Land.
Having to line up jumps and dashes with the beat is satisfying most of the time but in the more difficult sections it can feel like a frustrating limitation, particularly when the beat suddenly slows down at certain points in each song breaking the sense of rhythm and almost always resulting in a quick death which really hurts the flow. The gameplay is a little bit of a mixed bag for me. The game had a nice earthbound-ish "enter your name" moment as well and I always appreciate those. Mad Rat's character development isn't anything groundbreaking but it's still pretty heartwarming watching him come to terms with his fate and use his last day to help people. The artstyle and story are very charming and the music is great (as it should be, since it's a rhythm game). Very nice and soulful rhythm platformer.Jam's voice in particular pretty much makes her unplayable for me. My only standout issue with Xrd is that some of the voices are annoying for me like May and Jam's. Arcade mode is pretty much what you expect but MOM mode is a bit too complicated for me.
I also really love all the work put into characters intro/victory screens and instakills. The tutorial also has a lot of work put into it that I really appreciate even if I knew a lot of it already. One of the best artstyles in the industry, a wide variety of cool and unique characters, and of course super satisfying combat. Nier Replicant ver.1.22somethingsomething.I pretty much cleared out my backlog in 2020 so I don't expect to have nearly as much on my list this year but hopefully there's plenty of good new releases to look forward to.
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