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Be warned, the Blueberry update for this game effectively ruins the flow of gameplay. Still a great game but I don't know if I'll ever go back to it after the changes they made

Top five game audio design of all time -- it's truly special. The visuals are unique and excellent, and the narrative hints at itself in a mysterious but charming way. The gameplay is tight and rewards you with punchy audio/visual juice as you chain kills together. Super fun and highly recommended.

My Lovely Daughter is a grim management simulation and narrative-driven experience that explores grief, obsession, parental responsibility, and the disturbing consequences of treating living beings as tools. Developed by GameChanger Studio and published by Toge Productions, Neon Doctrine, and Raw Fury, it places players in the role of Faust, an alchemist who awakens without his memories and discovers that his beloved daughter has died. Rather than accepting this loss, he becomes determined to restore her soul through alchemy, beginning a cycle of experiments that grows increasingly unsettling as the true cost of resurrection becomes apparent. The central gameplay revolves around creating homunculi, artificial daughters brought to life through alchemical experiments. These beings possess different personalities and characteristics, and Faust can interact with them while developing their abilities and emotional connections. The disturbing element comes from knowing that they were not created simply to be cared for. They ultimately serve Faust's larger objective, and progressing toward the resurrection of his real daughter requires exploiting and sacrificing them. This creates an unu…

Death greets every step Strange worlds bloom beyond each fall Hope returns again

You can't shoot up, but most of the enemies fly above you. You barely jump too

Ugh...this game has some ♥♥♥♥♥♥ mechanics. Some enemies purposely move at awkward angles. Plus if enemies are too close, your weapon fires past them. Enemies are also bunched up in awkward groups meant to overwhelm your stiff linear movement. I mean I understand why. The game seems to use randomly generated rooms/areas which makes their layout lame and boring...so it tries to introduce challenge by making the enemies obnoxious and annoying. I regret buying it and letting it sit in my backlog...