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Kye Reviews
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Приєднався 15 тра 2014
Video games are big part of my life, and these videos are a way to share that with the world and you :)
RKGK / Rakugaki | First Impressions | 45 Minutes of Gameplay
* Disclaimer * Audio is a bit wonky in this video. My monitor for my voice recorded into the same track, and the game itself is just overall kind of quiet. I figured it was better to preserve my actual first impressions rather than try to re-record. Sorry if it makes it unwatchable!
RKGK / Rakugaki is a game that caught my attention immediately with it's art direction and theming around what appears to be a cyberpunk world with a focus on graffiti. Further investigation showed it was a 3D platformer with speed running potential, so I was curious to see how the game executed on it's movement and level design.
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RKGK / Rakugaki is a game that caught my attention immediately with it's art direction and theming around what appears to be a cyberpunk world with a focus on graffiti. Further investigation showed it was a 3D platformer with speed running potential, so I was curious to see how the game executed on it's movement and level design.
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Gestalt: Steam & Cinder Review | A Good Mix of Genres
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Gestalt: Steam & Cinder, developed by Metamorphosis Games is a 2D action platforming game with RPG elements and a splash of the metroidvania genre. Gestalt first and foremost sets out to tell a story, and I can appreciate the creative direction taken by the team behind the game. While there are some areas that could be improved, I think the game overall is a success and am excited to see what t...
Gestalt: Steam & Cinder | First Impressions | 60 Minutes of Gameplay
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Gestalt: Steam & Cinder is a game that I've had my eye on for a while, and it's finally out. Marketed as an action platformer with metroidvania elements, I was curious to see what kind of experience the game delivered. From the promotional material I can tell there is a focus on the story elements of the game, which admittedly has me the most interested after recently playing games with weaker ...
Inkbound Review | Full of Meaningful Decisions
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Inkbound, developed by Shiny Shoe, is a turn-based tactical roguelike game where you fight off enemies in arenas. There are tons of roguelike games that have decent gameplay, but tend to miss what makes stand-out roguelikes a success. Beyond gameplay I think it's important to have engaging decisions that allow the player to decide what they think is best for their current situation. Personally ...
Inkbound | First Impressions | 60 Minutes of Gameplay
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Today I'm checking out Inkbound, a turn-based, tactical, roguelike from Shiny Shoe, the studio that also developed Monster Train. At first glance Inkbound looked like it was themed around storybooks and characters coming out of them, which caught my interest on top the turn-based combat structure. Being yet another roguelike game, I was interested in seeing how Inkbound establishes it's own ide...
Berserk Boy Review | Strong Start, Weak Finish
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Berserk Boy, developed by BerserkBoy Games, is a fast-paced action platformer that I think takes tons of inspiration from series like Mega Man and Sonic the Hedgehog. The game is fun and engaging, but as more and more abilities are added I felt that Berserk Boy started to be held down by it's own weight. While it's first impressions are strong, I think that it is held back by some design decisi...
Oaken Review | Failed to Take Root
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Oaken is a turn-based tactical roguelike card-battler developed by Laki Studios. While it has deck-building elements, the focus of the game is managing units on hex-tile grid to dispatch waves of enemies. While Oaken has some good ideas, it failed to excel in it's promises, and had many shortcomings that compound to make the game, in my opinion, too simple and disengaging. Thanks for watching! ...
Berserk Boy | First Impressions | 45 Minutes of Gameplay
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Today I'm taking a look at Berserk Boy, a retro 2D action game that came up on Steam. I'm a big fan of 2D action games having grown up playing a lot of Mega Man and Mega Man X, so I'm excited to see what Berserk Boy does within a genre that I'm very familiar with! Thanks for watching! Support me on Ko-Fi ❤️ ko-fi.com/kylesansl #berserkboy #kyereviews #videogames
Oaken | First Impressions | 60 Minutes of Gameplay
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Today I'm taking a look at Oaken, a roguelike tactical card battler. Oaken caught my attention on Steam because I'm a fan of card battling games, but also because there appeared to be an array of hex tiles that act as the game board. At first glance this makes me believe there is a heavier tactical element to the game, so let's see if my instincts were right or wrong! Thanks for watching! Suppo...
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Gunbrella | First Impressions | 60 Minutes of Gameplay
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Ummm most soulslikes are action RPGs, and the soulsborne games are made by Fromsoftware, a Japanese developer, thats why ppl call these types of games "soulslikes", because they are "like" the souls games, Sekiro is literally the only soulsborne game that isnt a RPG, as well as a handful of soulslike games like the Surge 2 and Remnant From the Ashes but the vast majority are action RPGs
This is such a great review, man! I really want to like Anno’s story, but I was LAUGHING at the crazy things that were thrown in at the end. They felt very shoe-horned, but I still ended up liking the game. One thing that I liked about the story was the character interactions. The moments that we had with Ann and Ayane were probably my favorite in the game. The rivalry between the doctors C and the others is pretty fun, and I even liked the little dialogue-less interactions we got with Castor and Melissa after they are sucked into the big portal. As a big fan of pixel-art and cyberpunk aesthetics, I think it’s a solid experience. It’s not the greatest thing and I wasn’t mind-blown, but it was fun nonetheless!
That game looks so cool!
Easy to recommend.
There's no way out!
Thanks.
Just saw your Steam review and it brought me to this video. Honestly, thank you for probably one of the most high-effort reviews of Cantata. As a creator, seeing people engage with your work like this, positive or negative, feels great, and I appreciate that you clearly took the time to say something meaningful and speak from your own experience. It's also great to see people really "understand" how the game operates, and you clearly got it and knew how to accurately critique it. Thank you! A few notes though! - Popups can be "frozen" by clicking the middle mouse button (instead of just waiting for the timing). In the game settings, you can toggle this on, or change the delay time for the timer lock, etc. - You can multi-select and move units. It never made it into the tutorial, but if you ctrl+click multiple units or ctrl+click and drag to select multiple units. You then move like normal and will see previews of the units that can move. Not sure if you're planning on returning to the game but hope this makes things easier! The story gets better and better with each chapter (imo!) so if you decide to go back hopefully this smooths things out. But again, thanks for the video!
Thank you so much for the kind words! It's very validating that my review left the impression that it did with you, as when I started making videos my intent was to provide more critical analysis than I was seeing in modern "review" content. Again thank you so much for the feedback it truly means a lot. Also thank you for the notes on some pain-points I had with the game, I will certainly keep them in mind should I decide to revisit Cantata!
A METROIDVANIA LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
As of 8/1/24, the things I talk about @5:05 have been patched and reduced to a lower amount (on Steam at least). While I do think this change is positive and improves the game overall, I feel that it doesn't affect my other criticisms.
oh no i inked
Bonk
Not the whiff 😂
When I wasn't fighting the controls it was fun. Turning off aim assist didn't do much on Nintendo Switch. I might play it more on PC. The controls seem less janky on mouse and keyboard.
I had a similar experience using a controller. Not terrible, but mouse and keyboard felt much more natural.
I finished lies of p and after a few weeks i started this, i just recently finished it and holy shit. Ofbcourse the gameplay is great but what i really care about is the story, its fantastic
It really is!
Thanks for the review
I hate how overused the term "soulsborne" as become, just because a game has stamina management that doesn't make it a soulsborne
Great reviews, keep them up!
Thanks! I appreciate it 😁
Very detailed and insightful. Thanks!
Honestly the only issue I have with the game is that it has contact damage. Otherwise I love this game, definitely one of my favorite metroidvanias.
Thanks for the in-depth review, you made very clear points and helped save me time as this game doesn't seem like it's for me. No offense to the developers but there's only so much time in the day so I gotta be picky. The hard line for me was what you call the "subtractive" nature of the game, it sounds like the game rewards you with shortcuts through overly empty spaces rather than rewarding you with new areas to explore, and even then has a lot of dead ends.
I'm glad you found it helpful :D
Is it offline games or not?
It's a single-player offline game
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Great review. I'm gonna check this game out
Great quality review. So smooth and professional. Good luck. Maybe one day Youll hit a millon.
Great video!
Thank you!
Beautifully done review! Well put, organized, and to the point! Thank you so much for making this
Thank you for the kind words, I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😊
The visuals and voice over are very professionally done! Overall very high quality work. If I might offer a suggestion, it seems strange to talk about the meta progression first before talking about the moment to moment game play of a run, and in the review was very light on descriptions of most of the actual city building mechanics, focusing a little too much on the overall progression and events. Even with that being said, I enjoyed watching this review, and look forward to more in the future!
Thank you for the feedback!
Really great review! Gonna check out the game. Hope your channel grows
Thanks so much!
Does this game have maps, and we can go outside? Or it’s just a card games?
You can leave your shop and do other things, but it’s all handled through the menus and the user interface rather than moving a character around a map.
There actually is an option in the settings to adjust the aim assist, and it really does help a lot.
Ahh that's great to know. Next time I'll have to look harder 😅
Great review! I hope more people end up seeing this.
Thanks so much! <3
this game is seriously incredible, it's pretty unfortunate that it's not very well-known outside of Korea
Honestly this game wasn't for me at first but when I actually decided to play it I loved it
Glad you ended up enjoying it!
this game looks cool but i wish there was a bit more flare to the unit combat, not super exciting to just watch hp numbers go down when fighting in a strategy game imo good review tho this helped me figure out if i wanted it or not :)
Yeah it ends up being very shallow imo. Glad you found it helpful!
thank you so much for the review its so helpful! i think i will try it out myself! :) ps- your voice and the way you narrate the vid sounds like those narrators in true crimes docu ahaha
Haha I'm glad you liked it!
One of the most concise and informative reviews I ever saw, with a very pleasant presentation. Well done
Thank you so much! ❤️
Kye, I don't know what to do with my life anymore. Since you came along, I think the only option I have left is to become a Stonemason since you have me so bricked up.
bonk
This game was great until the ridiculous difficulty spike
I recall I encountered something similar, but was able to get through it by switching up my build to use a different unit family. I'd try that if you haven't already!
What you think of Grime?
Haven't heard of it, I'll have to look into it
@@KyleSansL if you like dark souls and Metroid you will love Grime.
Looks interesting
It's definitely a solid game if you're a fan of tactical RPGs
Starting this video off with "This game sold me 100% because of some character animations in a 10 second trailer" legitimately made me close the video. Basically admitting to everyone "ignore everything I'm saying".
How so? What about it left you with that impression?