HoloSona5

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A fan-created RPG based on Hololive, drawing inspiration from contemporary ghost thief games. Your objective is to rescue "Poitter" from the clutches of a wealthy antagonist. This turn-based game, lasting between one to two hours, allows players to navigate dungeons and take advantage of vulnerabilities during combat.

"HoloSona5" is pure, weaponised cringe. It's a fan-fiction game made by the developer who is a big fan of Hololive. If you're not sure what Hololive is, it's basically a bunch of e-girls and a bunch of middle aged fat bald guys who pretend to be anime girls online streaming anime games. It's inspired a lot (and I mean a LOT) of utterly cringey high school tier fan-fictions like this where the developers pretend the streamers are dating them. Cringey. What do you do in the game? Cringe, really. It's a godawfully badly done "mini-RPG" slapped together badly with Unity with no value as a real game. There's no English translation for the game, but that's okay. The language of bad games is universal. The graphics here are particularly awful, so bad that it actually stands out as one of the worst looking games on Steam. Quite an accomplishment. It's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, they must understand that it's not an area for compromise. This is "free" enough, at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this,…

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HoloSona5 is a really cute little fan made RPG that immediately wears its inspiration on its sleeve, but I still had a good time with it. I play as Subaru Ozora, Koyori Hiroi and Miko Sakura as they try to stop a billionaire from taking control of the social network Poitter. The modern phantom thief influence is extremely obvious, but I liked seeing that formula adapted around Hololive characters and a much smaller scale adventure. The turn based combat is simple but surprisingly satisfying. I choose actions for the party and try to exploit enemy weaknesses, with knocking opponents down giving me extra opportunities to attack. When I manage to knock everyone down, I can launch a full party attack, which gives battles a nice little rhythm. I enjoyed paying attention to weaknesses rather than simply selecting the strongest available move every turn. The dungeon exploration has its own small twist too. I move around the map square by square while using things like jumps and dashes to get around efficiently. These movement abilities make the dungeon feel a little more interactive than simply walking from one battle to another. There is also a shop where I can purchase equipment and i…