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In a nutshell, this game is ov*rwatch, but high fantasy, with a little bit of sci-fi.

This game is still in the early stages, it's pretty new, and feel like there is much room to improve. Overall, I like the gameplay, it's fun even if the gameplay is not entirely unique. The unique aspect of this game is, that you can become an immortal (OP chara) once every match, in certain situations this feature can turn the tide.

Even if it took a significant amount of time to learn to use a character in this game, I won't say that this game is heavily skill-based. It is true that skill has a significant impact on the chance of winning, but in this game, I think that teamwork is more important. Because, no matter how skilled you are, if you are outnumbered in this game, it is hard to win, even if you become one of the immortals.

Because this is new, the cosmetics are still basic, it's not worth buying in my opinion. However, the battlepass is worth buying since it gives you cosmetics for some characters. and the current battlepass gives you a sick Martyr's skin. And lastly, kudos to you smoker player, thanks for all the heal you guys provide.

A little insight from this game. Choose your waifu wisely.

If you bought this game, that means you sold your soul to Larian for 1-2 weeks, you will be cursed by the urge to finish this game as soon as possible (while still enjoying every content this game offers).

Jokes aside, this game is really fun and addictive, the story is enjoyable whether it's main story or just a simple side quest. The role-playing aspect is really strong in this game, you can feel that almost every choice that you make is impactful to the story. Every allies that you found, every relationship that you made, it makes your gameplay much more exciting. Your choice is actually have an impact to the world, even a small detail could lead to a butterfly effect.

every companions have their own unique personality, from the racer Lae'zel with her githyanki supremacy, emo goth girl Shadowheart with internal dilemma, Karlach a happy-go-lucky girl with a ticking bomb inside her, Gale who is obsessed with exploding himself, and other companions. The interaction between those unique companions makes the game much more exciting, especially since in the story, they have their own opinions and it could help your decision-making process (or even could lead to hours of dilemma). In addition, your presence in their life is really impactful for their character development.

Combatwise, the combat is very long. However, the combat music makes it much more intense. With the combat music on, I lost sense of time in the combat. Every combat abilities have their own uniqueness, some are game-breaking if you know how to use it efficiently. In combat, there might be some unexpected thing that could ♥♥♥♥ up your combat, so I advise you to save your game on every turn, the game offer quick save and quick load feature (I didn't know this until I was on the final battle)

In a nutshell this game is worth-playing, if you had the time, try to enjoy it to the fullest, take it easy and try to do every quest before you progressed to the next act, because most of them have an impact on the late game.

At the start of the game, please name your daughter carefully. You might regret it if you named her as "xKhaleesix"

Ok, Volcano Princess. Before I bought it, I don't have any clue about this game, but this game kept appearing on my recommendation so I gave it a try. My first impression on playing this game was "oh, maybe this is some kind of otome game that I read in novel/manga/manhwa, I'll just try for below 2 hours before sleep and then refund it laa". At that time I don't have high expectation for this game, then I stopped playing not because it's near 2 hours threshold, I stopped because sunlight already appears on my window.

From the very first minutes, the game's beautiful music instantly drew me in, creating a captivating ambiance. The interaction between the daughter and the father is very sweet, the progression is reinforcing. I really like how I, as a father in this game try to min max my daughter but still keeping her happy because there is a penalty if the daughter's mood is below 50. By playing this game, you could watch the progression of your daughter from childhood to adult, and most of your decision in nurturing her would affect the ending.

The romanceable characters in this game is a lot, from typical otome game male lead to Mark the regular guard. Even there is a yuri ending here, so there are many options that you could choose.

The negative aspect of this game is, the save system. It only save your data at the beginning of the month, even if you save your data in the middle of your activities. So it's frustrating if you want to stop playing, but you still in the middle of your activities.

In conclusion, Volcano Princess delivers an emotionally satisfying journey alongside a developing daughter . It's a game that surprises and delights, with a variety of choices and outcomes that will keep players coming back for more. Whether you're a fan of otome games or just looking for an engaging and heartwarming experience, this game is well worth your time.

If you want to play a short game at night after tiring days at work, then when you want to go to sleep you look outside from the windows and said "oh ♥♥♥♥♥, it's already morning" then this game is for you.

Total War: Shogun 2, one of the total war series and an upgraded version of total war: shogun. It's a typical total war games, with a great mix between turn-based and RTS. The game setting is on the Sengoku Era, which is the civil war between clans in Japan. What I like the most about this game is its japanese setting, because personally i'm a weeb and it fascinates me. However, the variety of clan exclusive unit is not that much, almost every clans has the same unit type even the expertise is a bit different and it is historically accurate (for example, the Takeda clan took pride on their cavalry unit and their cavalry unit has some extra stat bonus). However, I still like this game a lot and the RTS aspect is so satisfying, especially if I won the battle even if I'm outpowered.

Now the most frustrating part about this game is Naval Battle, the pace is very slow, the control is hard (yeah I need to git gut), and the last thing that is very disappointing for me is, if someone got the black ship, they will control the sea. Because of the slow-paced gameplay I tend to auto battle almost every of my naval battles.

Overall, I think that even if this game has some negative aspects, it is still worth playing, especially if you are a big fan of strategy game. I would recommend this game 8/10.

Phasmophobia: the horror game that could fill the horror atmosphere with laughter with your friends

This game is a great multiplayer games, specifically if you play with your friends. However if you join a random lobby with strangers, it would have 3 scenarios. The first one is playing with tryhard veteran that playing this game as a daily chores and do not have any fear, the second one playing with randos that don't even use mic to communicate so it's like playing with NPC, and the third one is playing with cheater that could guess the ghost without entering the investigation area. Overall, it is fun to play with friends, however most of the experience of playing with strangers would be sucks.

This game is fun to play with friends, it stills scary, but playing with friends made this game feels fun to play. Because you could joke around in the game and even have a quality time with your friend. However, playing this game alone is not fun, at least for me. The gameplay is very repetitive, and it became boring after playing alone for dozen times. I think people who play this game solo is either adrenaline junkie or streamer (yes this is my stereotype to those solo player, it is not really valid).

In conclusion, I recommend you to play this game with your friends, if you feel you don't have, are you really don't have? if you really don't have a friend, try to find a friend to play from some discord server, maybe you could get a friend that is long-lasting.

10/10 because it has s*x scene kekw.
excluding that scene I would rate 8/10, it has astonishingly great story, but the UI and the control is sucks, especially the strategic view.

All hail the inquisitor, herald of Andraste... Those are the cringe title that you will hear again and again throughout the story until it is not cringe anymore because you feel that those title carry so much thing in it, responsibility, power, fear, and hope. Storywise, the beginning of the story is pretty confusing either for player character and for player itself, the mystery will reveal itself by progressing the main quest. The game depicts a more realistic political situation than the other games, and the political decision that player made will have an impact to the ending. When I was reaching the end of the story, I was shocked by the twist that I did not expect.
The main story is amazing enough, even some of the side quests have a great story especially the companion story. in the story, there will be many dilemmatic situation that will face you, in some of that situation, it took me minutes or even hours to think and contemplate to reach the best decision based on my moral compass.

Gameplaywise, for me this game is suck, which game that use "A" and "D" key to move camera? The grinding is pain in the ass, the level progression is very slow, some of the quest reward is not rewarding enough and make you think "oh my god, I spent hours only to get this? really?" However the open world adventure was enjoyable, and I do really like the banter of companion during the adventure, it made my adventure become more fun and enjoyable. The combat was enjoyable at first, until I was tired being a double dagger rogue then I changed to bow rogue that AFK left-clicking while my companion fight with their life on the front line. Lastly, if you play this game, I suggest you to create a save data as much as possible if you planning to replay the game to get different ending.

In conclusion, I had a great time playing this game, even though sometimes this game is frustrating but it worth the time to play until I reach the ending. Can't wait for the next series of this game :prayge:

Note: This review about this cute game contains nihilistic views that might cause existential crisis and even crippling depression. Read at your own risk.

This game is classic. When I was a kid with optimistic views of the world, I liked this game because it makes me spend hours wondering about human evolution. But now, when I play this game, I think about "oh so we started as tiny cell and evolved to human" then "oh so we killed other species to survive, is our purpose of life only to kill?" then I started thinking about the war history of humankind. Then after progressing through the game, I thought, "was I born too fast? are we alone in the universe because we are one of the first creatures that started to think?" "what will happens in the next few hundred years or thousands years?" those thought really hit me deep right now.

Anyway, let's talk about the gameplay, it's interesting, not too hard but not too easy either, you gotta think what should you spend to progress further. it's fun but it's pain in the ass when you want to socialize with other creature but you don't have the skills that you need.

It's a war and there is no winner in war. Valkyria chronicles 4 is a game where you command a squad of anime characters in a war. And for me, this game is not a winner in my library.

Gameplaywise the game offers satisfying strategic gameplay which is balanced between hard and easy. However, 1 grave mistakes could make you lose the mission and lose some hours of your life to replay that mission again. So if you decided to play this, I recommend you to reserve some cp and save the game before ending your turn.

Story: The story is great, it's a typical Valkyria games, the dark side of the war come at the late part of the game. Sometimes the story is illogical, especially in the late game where there is a plot twist. I don't really know what is the moral compass of the characters because they easily forgive a grave mistake.

UX: It's irritating that everytime you go to the headquarters and open the command room, training room, etc. there is a redundant dialogue that happens every freakin time. IDK if there's a setting for this or not, but it's irritating.

Character: Oh my goodness, the main character's personality is so awful that I quit the game. I don't really mind with Claude, he's just a typical mc protagonist with ideal view. However, here's a guy that called Raz, he's a musclebrain that really noisy and think that he is invincible. I won't spoiler anything, but in the late game you might hate him even more. The worst part is, most of the side characters have better personality and interesting story than the main characters

Overall it's a great game if you want to play a strategy game, but I don't recommend you if you can't stand annoying characters. Or you could just play the game and skipping the story.

Solid 10 because you can ride a sabertooth in this game. Anyway, the story isn't that great, but when I play this game I wonder what if I were alive in that era, I might be dead before i'm reaching adulthood kekw, progressing through the story gave me existential and spiritual crisis. however there's some aspect in this game that I don't like, the villains is sucks, the motivation behind them is not really meaningful. 8/10