Etrange Overlord

Etrange overlord is a very charming tale of a rather crazy eccentric lady called Etrange, and how she bumbles around and dishes out her own brand of justice over with a silly no nonsense other than my nonsense attitude with a pretty fun and colorful cast and a nice soundtrack this is a very boring, grindy, button masher game that i had to take slowly, there are some interesting ideas for an objective based beat em up game but the lack of fun combat and rather simplistic enemy AI who just walk in front of you and do a telegraphed attack even on the hardest difficulty made it hard for me to enjoy my time with this game not to mention the rather poor localization by NISA who are living up to their reputation of being unprofessional hacks who take lots of liberties with the script of the game, some stuff not even being translated, the refusal of properly localize certain things (replacing words, and altering context of certain scenes due to some of the changes in the text) i know a fair amount of japanese and the sheer number of times the game made me Forrow my brow due to the subtitles not matching the words uttered by the japanese voice actors really made the experience a bit u…

I was excited for this game as a sort of spiritual successor to the Rhapsody series and I can happily say that for the most part, I was not disappointed. Etrange Overlord carries on the spirit of the Rhapsody games in its charming writing and presentation. Every character in this game is pretty delightful, and I was pleasantly surprised by how much screentime everybody receives, given the relatively large cast of characters and the short playtime (I finished the game in just over 13 hours, not exactly 100%ing it, but at least completing all of the optional mission challenges). The narrative goes places, I don't want to spoil anything, but watching Etrange's almost psychotic levels of ambition get her into continuously increasing higher stakes scenarios is probably the most fun part of the game. The actual gameplay is frantic, simple, and at least in my opinion, pretty fun. Each level involves you running around trying to complete an objective while fending off waves of enemies, it's straight forward, but pretty satisfying, especially if you try to complete the optional challenges that are on each stage as you go. It is pretty easy to be overpowered by the end of the game, but he…

Etrange Overlord is flawed but a really fun game full of comedy, random musicals out of nowhere and surprisingly good action segments that feels out of some arcade game. The good things: - The comedy is spot on, I never going to get tired of the bit of characters being hurt in the cutscenes and the random "999" damage numbers showing up. - The Soundtrack - The game go to some crazy and unexpected directions, tell me how many games have the message (Spoilers) [spoiler]"God can now be used in battle."[/spoiler] But the game also have some flaws here and there: - The game lacks Post-game content, once you defeat the final level that's it, there is nothing else to do, which I find strange because the developers could have easily added some random extra hard challenges reusing old levels or something. - The ending is a bit awkward, there is a lot that ends up unexplained, and SPOILERS: [spoiler]The redemption of Angelina feels too forced after all she did, also she never have a plan at all? The Heroes, the wedding, etc all of that wasn't part of a big plan and it was just for fun? That was... kind of dumb honestly.[/spoiler] I want to mention that Etrange's Seiyuu Kaori Mi…

I like some things about this game but overall it's just too basic. The whole game felt like a tech demo or an alternate mode for a different game. Every character only has one attack combo that can't be upgraded or altered in any way. All characters have a special move but it can only be used if you collect an item for it. There's items floating around each battlefield and you are 100% reliant on using them. One is an attack boost, one lets you use your special, one is a bomb, one heals you or the team, and the last item is basically a battery to power certain stage props. Some stages have like turrets you can fire up and others will have like a black hole that controls crowds of enemies. Outside of combat is where this game falls completely apart for me. You can upgrade the items you pick up to increase their effects but it becomes quite a grind to get these leveled up. Thankfully you don't need to fully upgrade everything to beat the game. It would've been cool if you could customize which items appear so you could pick the best ones for each battle or if you could add additional effects when you get the items but instead, all the upgrades are just generic stat increases. Th…

Giri-giri warukunai Sweetia

Very fun game. Story and character are what you'd come to expect from a NIS game. Combat never feels stale. Each fight feels interesting. A solid choice to pick up. Quick Edit: My only complaint is that there is no endgame content! Other than that great game.