Recent reviews by MegatokyoGuy

As far as I'm aware, and I'm not someone who has their ear to the ground, this "game" is following in the footsteps of Vampire Survivors. All you really do is move around and choose powerups while facing a never-ending onslaught of enemies, occasionally choosing a powerup to make your survival a little more certain, even if only incrementally.

Now, no hate for this "game," but I use quotes because it's way too early to call it a game... I understand, OF COURSE, that it's early access, and I'm interested to see where it'll go from here, but as of right this second, I probably won't play it after today until it has an update.

It's a great proof of concept, don't get me wrong, but there isn't nearly enough to do...

You're told, right from the main menu, that there might be bugs and deficiencies, and that a use for the coins you can collect inside the game is "coming soon." Okay, that'll be interesting. You can walk around the relatively small map and find a single chest with coins inside it.

The powerup descriptions are just a little bit of a mess. They could stand to be a touch more descriptive so I know what they actually do before I pick them, but hey, if I've got time to kill, it's easy enough to figure it out, right? There's only so much to do so you'll end up seeing the same powerups at some point in time.

Now, I've never played Vampire Survivors, but I've watched at least one youtube video of it being played, possibly when the devs or publishers were streaming through Steam to advertise it, and from what I remember, the enemy spawn rate was a lot better. A lot more gentle. Again, early access, I get it, but... it's almost a shame to put this out in this shape, y'know? You start with a slow trickle of enemies before the waterfall starts dumping them on your face. I think I made it to 7 minutes or so before the enemies spawning made a beeline for me and took any of my remaining health in a heartbeat...

Argh, TL;DR!
It's nice, but it's obviously rough. Give it a try to maybe figure out if you like this "genre" of game and then come back when it's had a few updates...

I can't recommend this game enough. The level of polish is out of this world, everything flows really nicely from one puzzle into the next, and it's got such good presentation and a (somewhat) basic but intriguing story that you'll want to play every game in the series, like I did.

I've recommended it to all my friends and convinced at least one of them to buy it so far. It's not the kind of game you sink hundreds of hours into, I've got less than 10 on record, and there isn't really much replay value to speak of once you've solved all the puzzles, but it's a fantastic ride from start to finish and absolutely worth any price you buy it at, doubly so if you get it at 85% off like it is at time of writing!

Get it, get it, get it! You won't regret it if you're into these kinds of games.

A great little 20-25 minute time sink, the cats are cute and both easy *and* hard to find. They're all "real" cats, so no cats made of clouds or anything like that here, not that there's anything wrong with that...
If you wanna kill 20 minutes and 100% a relaxing game, why not give this one a shot? It won't cost you a cent cause it's free.

A super-cute cat-finding hidden-object game, it won't take you too, too long to find all the cats if you've got a keen eye — they aren't hidden or conceptual or anything (they're all flesh and blood in universe) — I managed to see all the cats and get a few of the Easter eggs thanks to a friend of mine in about 20 minutes.

It's free and I'd definitely recommend it!

What a complete and utter waste of time this was...

I thought I remembered this being recommended as a good puzzle game, but there was no real puzzle to speak of. It's a yarn and cork-board simulator.

The idea behind the "game" — and I'm using that word in the loosest sense here — is that you're doing some research old school — with index cards — to figure out SOMETHING. Not only do you NOT really figure that something out, there's no challenge, nothing interesting, no "aha!" moment to speak of compared to other puzzle games. It's boring, unsatisfying, and has zero replayability based on what I've read in other reviews — which I really should have paid more attention to before buying this on sale, not playing it for months, finishing it in about two hours, and not being able to refund the nothing-sandwich that it is.

The gameplay loop involves looking at some of the highlighted terms on a newspaper clipping, business card, recept — that kind of thing — finding a name, year, geographical location, and walking out into a hallway, finding a drawer with a specific year that belongs to that geographical area, and then flicking through the cards in what should REALLY be a smoother and more satisfying experience before walking down to the basement, picking up a box, taking it back to your "office," opening it, getting ANOTHER thing with ANOTHER name, year, and location, and doing all that over again until the "game" ends...

Based on the way the game ends, and another incident that I didn't personally experience in my playthrough because I wasn't looking out the window at the right time, there's absolutely nothing to this game. I'm more than a little mad at it, in case you couldn't tell. It has some jump--scare-like audio cues that do NOTHING and go NOWHERE and freaked me out way more than they should have because I was expecting so much more...

Don't get this walking simulator if you like solving puzzles. The story is practically nonexistent since it leaves it up to YOU, the player, to figure absolutely everything out and come up with your own conclusion about what happened...

Skip, skip, skip, get yourself a satisfying puzzle game instead.

Got this in a pack through Humble Bundle, if I'm not mistaken, but I'm not a fan.
The poor reviews I saw were a warning flag, but I pressed on. Played some co-op with a friend.
It's a nice looking Diablo/Isaac/Whatever type game, but it's BORING. Even with the difficulty cranked to max, I got to level 31 or 32 and it's BORING. Enemies were either walking slabs of meat when I attacked with my weapon, or went down in fractions of a second when I used my AoE clearing skill. I thought lumberjack was interesting, but there wasn't enough to it to keep me interested. Based on what I've played so far, I'm not gonna bother trying another class.
Apparently it used to be really good? What a shame I couldn't try it back in the day. I'm not a fan of the current weird business model where there's a premium currency you can buy (crystals, if I'm not terribly mistaken) and you can get chests you have to buy keys for with real money, a la TF2... Ehhh, no thanks, I'd rather not. Good thing I got all the DLC for free, cause I sure as hell wouldn't want to have to buy a class individually for a buck or two on sale.
I don't think it's worth full price, even on sale, you'd be better off getting something else. It's a skip for me.
Oh, and I really didn't like that "unsocketing" an item just destroys the gem inside. No option to either keep the gem or the item. Frustrating.

A fun little game that wasn't terribly expensive on sale, I'd 100% recommend changing the audio to get the Japanese vocals since I couldn't stand the English audio.
You play as Parin, a little girl that gets a DRILL and fights MONSTERS to help OTHER monsters because she's bored, I think, and her mom's a deadbeat? I don't remember how the story started at this point. Some of the platforming is a little jank where I'm at, but mostly the good kind. It's got a good amount of depth for what feels like a relatively small game.
Pick it up if you're looking for a dungeon-crawler type game, I guess? Worth trying it out at the very least.

I'll echo the sentiment I saw in another review and say that this is 100% NOT worth its full retail price. On sale? Maybe, but I'd honestly say skip it.
Initially, I foolishly thought I would be getting into a more Professor Layton type logic puzzle game, but this is just a watered down Portal experience that far too often boils down to playing "hot potato." Just go play Portal and Portal 2 if you haven't already instead.
There are 70 test rooms altogether, plus some "optional" secret type rooms that the game just offers you for a little more lore/backstory, in which you end up juggling energy balls of different kinds, plugging them into power sources to manipulate the rooms you're in to access the exit, and where the game seems to throw a new mechanic and corresponding tutorial room at you far too often to be properly enjoyable. While it appears to have some decent length to it, very few rooms pose any real challenge, or scratch the Eureka! itch with satisfying solutions.
(I will say, however, that one of these optional/secret rooms, the Boolean Logic room was my favourite room in the entire game, though I did have some background knowledge of the "mechanic" involved so it wasn't terribly difficult once I figured out what was going on, at which point I had a lot of fun with that room, as simple as it turned out to be at that point.)
The story, while it seems convoluted, didn't seem to go anywhere especially satisfying. A concrete ending would have been nice, and since I ended up streaming/playing this with a friend and discussing the story as we progressed through it (with him watching and me playing) I feel like I invented a more satisfying ending all on my own.
The game likes showing off the Unreal Engine by letting you pick up and spin around objects in the world every now and then, but I can't remember a single one being necessary or actually doing something. On a couple of occasions, doing so ended up just breaking the model or the world overall by making the glass/plastic invisible, for example.
While I guess I can't say I regretted playing the game, I certainly wouldn't recommend it, and I could have put the eight or so hours to better use playing something else. :/
You can easily skip this game and not miss out on anything.
Oh, and the audio logs don't have any FREAKING SUBTITLES! What the hell!? The rest of the game does!

Both fun and fiendishly frustrating at time, my only real gripe is with the "puzzles." Definitely challenging, but I can't help but feel like there isn't any room for experimentation or alternate solutions. There is ONE (1) designed solution, and if you don't find it, you'd better restart, because you'll run out of moves one step from the goal. Other than that, definitely worth a play, the art is beautiful.
It's free, too, so why not give it a shot?