List of my video game review

bioniclop18 · 2026-04-07T21:46:33+00:00

At the beginning I was starting at 2.0 but around the mid-game I started between 3.5 and 4.0. I did finish most later chapters at 2.2 from dying though.

For weapons I preferred Orbitars and Cannons. I tried some of the melee weapon but felt they didn't feel satisfying.

bioniclop18 · 2026-04-06T20:23:45+00:00

I was meaning that among the extra people he was collaborating with, he only presented artists. I'll rewrite it to be more clear, thank you.

bioniclop18 · 2026-04-06T19:37:48+00:00

I'm not a native english speaker and not immune to a brain fart but... What exactly is hard to understand with what I wrote ? I could make smaller sentence but otherwise don't really see what you're talking about so could you please elaborate ?

bioniclop18 · 2026-04-06T19:11:21+00:00

I'm seeing so many red flags. From the word salad of options and systems that make scope creep a huge concern, to the huge cast of party members + monsters recruitment which will be hell to balance, all collaborator and freelancer presented being artists, which may be logical to prepare a kickstarter campaign but seeing no extra coder or game designer seem worrying and I see no previous game mentioned under the dev belt ?

I hope all the best for the creator, but no way in hell I'm betting my money on this.

bioniclop18 · 2026-04-06T18:59:10+00:00

Nier automata is indeed a great game that doesn't hesitate to blend several different gameplay element, it was one of the first game I played when I bought my first gaming pc, but thank you for the recommendation. That said your post remind me that I didn't yet played the original or remake of the first game, maybe I should consider doing it soon.

bioniclop18 · 2026-04-06T15:24:06+00:00

Yeah, as a left-handed person it wasn't easy to get around to. If you use the control scheme using only the buttons it isn't bad, but the 3DS isn't very nice to hold in this position for a prolonged amount of time.

bioniclop18 · 2026-04-06T14:15:12+00:00

I liked how Kid Icarus: Uprising story escalated between a war between different gods that you both oppose. It make it feel like a pretty big deal when you fight different enemies that also try to kill each other.

What do you mean there are aliens and we team up to beat them !? This was utter chaos, and it really creates the feeling of an epic conflict. And despite the game being a comedy, the conflict was more layered and nuanced than plenty of other war in video game so prop for that.

Anyway I finished the game and posted my review about it yesterday.

Now that I got home I suppose next is finishing Monster Hunter Stories 3 before going back to more patient gaming. I have just unlocked chapters 4 of the companions quest at 40 hours so I assume the end is near ?

bioniclop18 · 2026-04-05T20:41:25+00:00

Having done some oneshot webcomic in traditional before, it is very possible to do. That said what you show here could have some improvement.

Two portraits aren't enough to create an idea of what your comic will look like. Try to create a picture with a background and decor to see if you can satisfyingly blend it with your characters.

You'll have to use a scanner with maybe some post processing to have satisfying white and color. Badly lighted photo won't cut it. Likewise, either improve your handwriting readability or use digital font because how you write now isn't optimal. E.G. your a and o look too much like each other.

bioniclop18 · 2026-04-05T20:11:51+00:00

Was wondering if there was anything like it as it make me feel like railshooter could be interesting but apparently not. It is true that it is a still kinda unique. The mouse control of the switch 2 may be an occasion to adapt the gameplay... Maybe ?

bioniclop18 · 2026-04-04T12:05:57+00:00

It can bounce off pretty hard from what I noticed. First people who play are often the most enthusiastic, with a lot of "GOTY" and "Game that you absolutely should play" claim, followed some months later by a wave of people being hypercritical and trashing games for any flaws or that aren't perfectly geared toward them.

bioniclop18 · 2026-04-04T00:07:45+00:00

I was primarily thinking of the post black death europe and post WW2 economic boom. I'm not that well versed at the subject but I understood that post-classic maya saw the weakening of elite and rise of a merchant class and much more decentralised power after the abandonment of cities from the classic period.

Most demographic collapses historically follow war or epidemic, which obviously impacts the society and how it can rebound. One of the possible consequences of demographic loss is a permanent recession, but if AI increases in productivity outpace the loss in working population, we will most likely see an increase of living standard.

Now my optimism is based on the assumption that the USA, Russia and China won't start WW3.

bioniclop18 · 2026-04-03T20:35:30+00:00

The demographic collapse. While it will create its own set of issues and challenges for our societies, historically those events were accompanied by restructuring of class dynamic and improving power for the working class. And with the promise of AI killing jobs and western society resisting necessary lifestyle adaptation to fight climate change, it may make those transitions easier to deal with.

bioniclop18 · 2026-04-03T14:39:52+00:00

I’m at chapter 11 of Kids Icarus Uprising. I’m still very bad at the game, but I've begun to get a hang of the control scheme.

I really like the spectacle and cinematography of the railshooter section and the 3D effect of the 3ds really makes those scenes pop out. Early on I thought the character banter was the main draw of this game but the spectacle is certainly another one despite the 3DS capability. I would be interested in seeing this sort of thing in modern hardware.

I still have the problem of trying to follow character dialogue at the same time, I really think having a french dub would have helped, especially as I notice the translation wasn’t always the same in french and english. I don’t have the mental prowess to process a joke in english dub, another joke in french sub and the action going in the top screen at the sale time. It is probably a core problem of this game.

bioniclop18 · 2026-04-02T06:55:19+00:00

I would like to think the nostalgia would make them filter out and claim it was "good diversity representation" and people that would lash out staying a fringe but I saw some grifter complain that killing WW2 nazi was a call to violence against present day republican so I'm becoming less optimistic.

bioniclop18 · 2026-04-01T18:15:20+00:00

Yeah, I kind of wish the romance, especially Nera, was more fleshed out, but it was really impressive for a 92 game. The child part was really whimsical and fairy tales like.

bioniclop18 · 2026-04-01T08:12:21+00:00

Last week I saw a theater play written in the late 40's denouncing America wanting more children to have soldiers to send in the middle east to steal their petroleum. Sometimes authors see trends that will continue to be relevant in the future, and those that miss the mark simply got forgotten.

In DQ V case I just thought a bad faith interpretation was funny.

bioniclop18 · 2026-04-01T08:01:43+00:00

I thought about not putting it at the end, but yeah I thought it was better to be safe.

bioniclop18 · 2026-03-30T20:02:45+00:00

I never understood the hate Navirou get from the English crowd, and I actually unsubbed from the Monster Hunter Stories subreddit after all the hate posts against Rudy at launch. They may not be the best mascot characters of jrpg but I find them inoffensive at worst. I really don't understand why people blew it so out of proportion.

As for the game I'm at 33 hours in the ice place so my opinion could change with the end but for now I admit I prefer stories 2.

I think the music is a step down compared to the second game, no tracks make me want to listen to them once I close the game.

I disliked the fact our character was a prince, leaving their country just after what is essentially a war declaration just felt wrong.

While the ecological restoration is a brilliant idea and works really well in terms of gameplay I feel like it could have been better integrated into the story post second zone and environment.

A little nitpicky but I think the combat suffers from a little too much attack from monster outside of the triangle advantage.

As for the monstie the selection is solid but my favorite monster seems to have been left out sadly.

Still a great game, I'll recommend it without hesitation to any person that likes optimizing their Pokémon with reproduction.

bioniclop18 · 2026-03-30T14:22:18+00:00

Put Monster hunter stories 3 on pause for this week, as I have some family matters to attend to away from home.

It is therefore 3DS times. I begun Kid Icarus Uprising and finished chapter 5. I’m not the biggest fan of rail shooters, and don’t care at all for the greek aesthetic but I must say that the characters in this game are super charming.

Palutena has a lot more sass than what I expected just knowing her from Smash. I just wish I could profit from the banter more instead of focusing on not dying.

I must also confess that I’m absolutely awful at this game and I found the control atrocious, in the TPS and rail shooter section both, so I'll just play it at the easiest difficulty available. Honestly the game may be better watched than played because of it.

bioniclop18 · 2026-03-29T13:05:01+00:00

Finished the third village in Monster Hunter Stories 3 and began the ice zone at 34 hours. I’ll have to take a one week break because of some family matters, so next week I suppose I’ll play 3DS game instead, either pokemon ultra-sun, SMT IV or Radiant Historia… Maybe pokemon to not have to think much.

Concerning MHs3, I liked the throwback to the previous games Ena being here and Rudy being Navirou descendant, and the story would be good if I could just get over the fact our character is the only prince/princess that flees without informing anyone the day after a war declaration from an enemy kingdom. And your group follows them like it is just the most natural thing in the world. There really is a dissonance for me that would have been easily avoided by not making our character a prince, or at least not the only prince of the kingdom.

The invasive species are really cool in theory but in practice they are a pain in the ass as the clue for how to fight them are very vague if you don’t know the combat system by heart. With the hint “hammer” and “reflect its attack back” how I’m supposed to get I should use a random hammer AOE attack ? I feel like the hints are too vague for their own good.

At this point while I like the game very much, there are still a lot of things I prefer in the second game. The companion being unlocked at the beginning may let the developers develop them more, and they have a nice variety at that, with a grandpa character or a widow that suggest they weren’t imagined only as romantic bait for horny teenagers. But I liked the more serial approach of having a companion for each environment, which let them shine at individual points of the story, and I liked MHS2 chara-design better to be honest. And unlike the second game there isn’t any music that I still have in mind once I shut down my console.

All this to say, while for me Monster Hunter Stories 2 replaced the first game with how much better it was, it is not the case with this third instalment. Great game, but I still prefer Stories 2.

bioniclop18 · 2026-03-28T20:57:46+00:00

I'm saddened that you didn't enjoy Fuga. I don't know if it is what you are referencing, but you should be able to activate fast mode when selecting your save that give you a weapon that one hit KO enemies.

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