This game bangs!

It has:

excellent in-motion pixel art

excellent music

a very dark plot

most of the characters have very memorable looks and personality (Wylfred, Auguste, Fauxnel, Reinhilde, Lieselotte, Gwendal especially),

most of the in-game voices are superb

It is a strategic game with a very unique twist: dynamic reflex-based siege battles, where you have to time your characters attack by just pressing the matching button on the DS console.

Very easy to learn, but difficult to master the gameplay if you want to reach the safe threshold for 99% of the battles you’ll fight (if you don’t reach it, Miss Hell is going to give you massive disadvantages in later battles!)

It incentivises multiple playthroughs and experimentation and has a MASSIVE post-game.

If you can, give it a try!

  • Grangle1@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    This game is one of the most brutally difficult games I’ve ever played if you want to get any sort of good ending. It’s quite thematic in that way: the player is trapped in the curse with the main character, forced to meet unreasonable demands, but aware of the consequences of using the most effective tool to meet them. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. I could never attempt it without giving up still relatively early on. That said, I still own my copy so maybe one day I’ll try again if I feel like a true test of my patience.

  • mnth@ani.socialEnglish
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    9 months ago

    reallyyyy good game, im still need to finish it, but was memorable for sure.

    • Yots92@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Anytime the “Emergency Slash Line Stream” battle theme starts, it never gets old and pumps you up for the fray!

  • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Man I swear I could have a lifetime of gaming moments with my DS alone.

    I am currently playing (replaying actually) The Last Window, the sequel of Hotel Dusk (because when I re-played HD Another Code Recollection announcement dropped, so thank me (?)) and still my backlog is huge, but I can’t stop re playing some awesome gems I did enjoy in the past.