THEREALDMAC'S PROFILE

Hahaha I appeared in this! Madness!

Dang it! He was successful in trolling. I logged in and was like "A NOTIFICATION! THE PODCAST IS FINISHED AT LONG LAST!" Lolnope. I'm honestly more curious to see whether the judges had similar experiences to my own with the games than how irritating they found my ticking clock at this point :P.

So I just noticed you took some inspiration (and one or two songs) from De Date a Live! I've never watched that show but after clicking on related soundtrack links forever I stumbled upon it. Maybe I'll check it out lol.

You have multiple let's plays and you wanted me to review it? I'm honored and/or confused :P. I really will get around to playing this someday though. Eventually. I'm still working on my own project that I'm only like 20% done with and trying to finish FFVI and SMT IV while dealing with real life in the meantime lol.

I haven't played this game so I don't know if the game sucks or not, but what I really don't understand is why this exists as a review and not a post on the game page. I will now provide you a crappy review of your crappy review to help you understand what I mean. How meta.

Would you believe me if I said I was editing the review while you were writing this? I've been meaning to do so since this morning. How's THAT for meta.

Your review doesn't work as a critical analysis because you're wishy-washy on a lot of points and it's hard to tell what you really think about any given aspect of the game because you say stuff like 'it's not good or bad' until the summary at the end where you give it a 3/5 and say you didn't enjoy it all. Uh, what? If I was your teacher in an English crit lit class I'd give this an F.

That wishy-washiness is exactly why I gave it a 3/5. I was admittedly unclear in the review - my lack of enjoyment was due to my own awful luck, by not giving it a terrible score I was conceding that the flaws weren't as egregious as my own experience would make them seem.

Additionally, as a reader of this review, I can say I learned almost nothing about the game from it - the only things I really know are that the main character is Aluxes, status effects are important, it has RNG like most RPGs and that the last boss is hard and takes 10 minutes to kill, which is... pretty short for the final dude? So it also makes for a pretty poor book report.

But... spoilers though! To say much more than I did would legitimately spoil things. Also according to Craze the whole game is 30 minutes, so 10 minutes is a long time. The frustration came from dying at minute 9 three times, twice because of horrendous RNG luck.

So if it's 1) not a useful reference point for deciding whether or not I should play it, and 2) it doesn't offer actual insight into why the game does or doesn't work, why does it exist? 1.5/5.

Because I went insane and decided I absolutely had to review the only RMV game (that hadn't been taken down/rejected by my computer's hatred of VX) that I hadn't done yet, even if there was no badge for it anymore. Now that I'm back to normal I admit these are the ravings of a madman to some extent lol.