Fairy Lands: Rinka and the Fairy Gems

It's incredibly hard to recommend something sentimental, it's as if you're putting out a jam jar that has "Do not recommend" written on the label in big, bold letters. Jam jars that conceal feces as nutella hazelnut spread, bull semen taken from some farmer's old fridge labeled as coconut oil, and whatever your dirty consciousness could interpret as a true form of whichever product the label has. You can pull a practical one and give it to your friend, watching him carefully fiddle around, deciding whether or not to put two of his fingers in for a scoop of its colorful substancea, all of whichs is incredibly amusing, especially if you've stumbled upon it accidentally, and now you've completely passed the rensponsibility of what truly lies within the jar to another person, thinking of all possible situations, whether he'll choke and go "EEUGGH!!!" or have an unsuspecting combustion of internal fluids flowing out of his butt later, all examples are endearing to your visible schadenfreude as two horns magically project to contrast the evil grin you are giving. Your friend looks at you, cautiosly swiping the insides, puts it into his mouth while you freeze with anticipation, watching …

"Fairy Lands: Rinka and the Fairy Gems" is a Russian ClickTeam Fusion shovelware game that plays like a kind of Match-2 Tetris game. You fire blocks horizontally at an approaching block grid, matching any colour will pop any connected blocks of the same colour (you get the idea). You lose health if the blocks reach you as you fight through a variety of encounters (or don't, because this really is a terrible game). From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. The artwork here is terrible, it's a blend of old retro pixel "art" used as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics, and some of the most amateurish MS-Paint style drawings I've ever hurt my eyes on. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget to arrange someone who can do graphics properly, or lack of talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result of these decisions. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right o…

Horribly bad graphics for the eyes

So I was looking for a good doujin 2010-inspired game and stumbled upon this in a recommendation from a friend. Knowing him to be a big Touhou fan, I leaned into it and decided to give it a try. And yeah, this is basically a Touhou-inspired doujin project. While the gameplay itself is a match-two hybrid, the story pacing and even the design of the characters is half goofing around, half serious deep-dive lore (which I'm more than sure no one dived into). Jokes here are a special highlight. Those are hilariously one-dimensional and always circle back to one or two things. Music is on par with everything else here: a hot pot of what seems to be clueless composers that are trying their best. So why is this review positive then if everything is so bad? Well, I WAS looking for a doujin project, and this is really REALLY close to a found-footage forgotten game. So all the flaws are working for it perfectly. If you are looking for an old-school doujin game, I think you found one! P.S. Reading older reviews, it's amusing how all those complaints about paint-style art and music are actually a good thing now because of how tired people are of the same AI stuff over and over.

Simplicity and complexity in one flask, approved

Look, it was a nice try to make a unique match-3 (but actually match-1) RPG fighting with decent graphics and seemingly hand-drawn characters/scenery but there's just one too many things wrong with it. - The game crashes every time I go out of the pause menu, meaning I mustn't pause it. - Using Markiza's special attack sometimes glitches the game; firing the gems just go past the stack and the game just goes on and on and I can't do a thing about it. - <(o)> Mode...is purposely meant to be a severe pain; I was LUCKY to have finished before having to leave for my actual part-time job because there were too many phases to the regular Gem Battle with Psycho-fairy Aumegidna. And that Dream Organizing Gadget sky fight with her was a @#$%ING PAIN; for one thing, shouldn't the attacks from a deactivated Power Gem be deactivated too instead of continuing? - The Steam Achievements meant for the Time Attack mode is the deal breaker, as the final fight's a Dream Organizing Gadget sky fight with Trash-fairy Putrida Cramy, which is even worse than <(o)> Mode because losing means going through all those other fights over and over again. Needless to say, I'm simply not good enough, to the point…