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submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Hello everyone. This week I've been playing more Balatro and Nightreign. I've now completed 50% of all decks in Balatro, and just need to find one more joker for 100% collection. Hope everyone has a good week ahead

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Cavalry girls is honestly such a good game. At its most basic level, the mech combat is fun to control and satisfying. Lots of mechanics, but they do a really good job of introducing them over the course of the campaign, so it's not too overwhelming and they come in to heighten the core loop as it gets more routine. The mech customization is pretty in-depth and I feel like there's pretty good opportunity to try out a variety of builds and team compositions. The management layer isn't spectacular, but it serves to break up gameplay pretty well and there's a hint of something more to the relatively simple story.

The translation is not good, but excluding a few confusing item descriptions it's not hard to tell what's being communicated. There are maybe a few too many things to do in the management layer and I've found that there are some things I've been able to just ignore.

The character designs and intermittent comic sequences are fucking hilariously boobed up. To the point where it's more comedic than erotic to me - though I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to be a parody. Generally the tone of the game is fairly light and slightly humorous despite dealing with rather grim subject matter - although anything particularly awful is generally alluded to rather than confronted directly - and this plus the massive hoonkstangos can be a little dissonant.

All in all I'd recommend it if you're looking for a twin-stick shooter with character building and light management aspects. It's pretty cheap and the game shows you what it's about basically immediately, so it's worth a tryout if it sounds fun.

Also always interesting to see games out of China and their particular conventions and styles.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Watched the trailer for this since it sounds kinda fun:

Excuse me, miss, could you move over a bit? I'm trying to look at the robot.

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