Recent reviews by cfrydlewicz

A really fun and relaxing game to play, especially on the Steam Deck.

Super cute, fun Slay The Spire vibes without being too similar. For me, the dialogue is probably my favorite part. I am definitely Riggs. 🤣

A beautifully made, delightful RPG that feels closer to Chrono Trigger than anything else I've played. I especially want to recognize the writers who managed both unique and lovingly made dialogue and several interesting plot points in a story that danced around other media and the meta with tact and lightness. Loved it. Indie game of the year!

Everyone already knows this game is amazing. Why are you even reading this review?

One of my favorite indie games. Somewhere between A Link to the Past and Elden Ring.

Using a standard Xbox style controller, the game feels overly sensitive to the tiniest touch on the control pad or thumbsticks. It makes navigating the menus and some of the movement a bit annoying.

I personally don't care for the animated cutscenes they added in the remaster. I think the SNES sprite graphics are beautiful and often better.

Otherwise, this is a faithful reproduction of an excellent game. If you don't feel like tracking down an SNES cart or ROM, this version is fine.

One of the best Metroidvania titles ever.

Yup. Good as people say.

Well. I gave it a shot. While I love the style of Persona 5, the game feels like a miserable slog to me. Just under ten hours in, I defeated the first major boss and closed the first small story arc.

I like the characters and the story is interesting. Despite that, I found myself blasting through dialogue out of sheer impatience. I know time is a theme of the game and mundane daily routines between action is another sort-of theme, but it made me care less about the good things in the game when I was spending 3-5 minutes clicking through dialogue that adds nothing to the story and just boils down to "Who do you want to get a +1 relationship point with?" or "Which stat do you want to go up by 0.1?"

Nearly everything I've done so far has had one path to follow. If I even try to explore the world outside of that path a little bit, I get stopped by invisible walls and some dumb dialogue from my character like "I shouldn't go there yet" though my character usually has no reason to know they shouldn't go there. He's new in town and somehow already knows where everything important and unimportant is?

Yet I still need to listen to 20 minutes of exposition, explanations, and tutorials between every [non-]decision point. Speaking of which, every decision point I've seen so far is a choice between:

a. Hell yes!
b. Well… OK
c. Yes, but say something dickish for no reason

There's just so much fluff.

Nothing I do feels like it matters. I don't discover anything on my own. I'm dragged to every solution for every problem. The entire game feels like it's on a rail. Maybe later on I can lean in one direction or another and it might matter, but I have no reason to believe that based on my first 10 hours.

I value my time too much to keep dumping it into this.

I'd rather just watch an anime. It'll take much less time to get to the point and probably tell a more interesting story. So that's what I'm doing now. Watching other people play the rest of the game on YouTube.

An incredibly fun time for such a great value.