Recent reviews by shadow wizard money gang

Game feels great to play, really hoping this leads to a full Pro Spirits release outside of Japan.

Best shooter of the decade.

Easily one of my favorite games of all time, who knew that Tetris could give you this many feelings.

Team Ladybug has done it again, absolutely beautiful art and tight action gameplay.

Bite-sized imsim with just the right amount of mechanic density. Each level is a wonderful little puzzle box to unravel and the whole thing is propelled by an amazing sense of humor and tight storytelling.

10/10 would exchange emails with cats again.

What can I even say at this point, this is one of the best games of all time.

Persona 3 is a truly great JRPG. The game is carried by a very strong thematic core and great character writing, which is an area where later Persona games stumbled. It's amazing that something written almost 20 years ago still feels this fresh and relevant.

It's almost hard to recommend something this long nowadays, but I honestly can't think of a more well-written game I've played in the last few years.

This is easily one of the best games of this year. It's refreshing to play a game influenced by STALKER that has actual game design (I love STALKER, but I would never actually recommend it to anybody to play, lol)

Pacific Drive takes ideas from the aforementioned STALKER, roguelites, "simulators" and survival games, and instead of feeling like a genre mishmash it all comes together beautifully. The driving feels great, you really feel it when a tire blows out, and it's endless fun to keep swapping out parts on your crazy frankenstein car to keep it going and deal with the challenges of the Zone. Everything that can go wrong will go wrong and you just have to keep truckin'. It's awesome.

I've been waiting a long time for another game to make me feel the way Skate did. Just pure freestyle bliss. You can attempt missions or just freestyle a cool line. There's nothing like bombing down a slope and hitting a perfect flip. The controls feel fantastic. The music is surprisingly awesome too.

It's not perfect - the UI is awkward, sound effects are weirdly broken sometimes, colliding with obstacles or rails feels goofy sometimes. But that's easy to forgive when the rest of the game feels so good to play.

Hate to give this one a negative review after how much I liked Reverie under the Moonlight but this is game is a mess. It feels like the game completely runs out of ideas a few hours in. There's so much contradictory design. Why is there a stamina bar? Why are so many sigils useless or overlapping? The companions do very little and are visually distracting, especially because some of them use the same sprites as enemies. Enemies drop tons of currency but there's almost nothing to spend it on. The level design is by-the-numbers and the areas are bland. The art and animation is still great, but these little inconsistencies and contradictions overpower what is otherwise a very simple game. It doesn't feel like there's a vision bringing the game together, just a bunch of elements cribbed from Castlevania and similar games without a feeling for why those mechanics work.