Continuing where we left off. A much weaker showing this time, with a lot of games I couldn’t even finish.
Category: RPGmaker
HEARTBEAT
I heard a lot of people praising this game as a unique twist on the jRPG formula with a lot of UnderTale inspiration and great female characters. Then I heard that the developers were TERFs, which just made me even more curious while also killing my desire to give these people any money. So I pirated it.
The game is. Bad. So, so bad. Trying to understand it sends me into a brain-killing fever. But let’s try.
Games for Racial Justice and Equality (Part 3)
N through P. I got distracted splitting my time with my Christmas games, so this is shorter than the previous posts. Some interesting RPGs in this one.
Trash Planet
Trash Planet is a game by the creator of HELLBOUND. It’s a very different game, taking a hard shift into post-apocalyptic science fiction and more difficult, resource-management gameplay. Much like HELLBOUND, I enjoyed a lot of it, but the gameplay was very janky and ran into a lot of standard RPG design pitfalls.
Teragard
Another RPG by the developer of Sojourner. I had hoped he had learned some lessons and improved from last time. He did not.
Games for Racial Justice and Equality (Part 4)
Sorry it’s been a while! I’ve been distracted by all the other games that have come out recently. Only three games on review this time, but I had a lot to say about each.
Lisa: The Painful
This is a sequel to LISA, which Farla reviewed a long time ago but which I’ve never played. It seems pretty self-contained though. The game follows Lisa’s brother Brad following an apocalypse that causes all women to disappear from the world. Brad stumbles across a baby girl and chooses to raise her as his daughter. She inevitably gets kidnapped, so Brad must go on a journey to rescue her.
Quick Recs
Inside: Soulstice, Silksong, OMORI.