Recent reviews by Felipepepe

This game is a triumph. It has some technical issues and could use some polish, but it's brilliant at what it does: to be a video game documentary of the political struggles in 1920s Mexico.

It starts a bit slow and confusing, but it's so full of style, emotion & passion... by the end, I was moved.

If you're interested, it's a 3-4h adventure game. There's audio & subtitles in Spanish and English (but do play with Spanish voices, they're great). Knowing some Mexican history helps, but you play as a someone slowly uncovering what is going on and documenting this era, so you'll be introduced to everything.

A Chinese Drama RPG, that delivers gorgeous visuals, romantic moments and some fun battles, but also a lot of jank and bad pacing.

The game's biggest flaw is its extremely slow start. It is a bore to play the first 2-3 hours, when you only play as the extremely naive/dumb kid. Things greatly improve once you recruit Wangshu. From there, you the plot, romance and combat mechanics shift into gear, and you'll have a fun time until the last few hours, when it starts to rush things out and gets a bit overly dramatic. Still, it was worth the playthrough.

Definetly not for everyone, but will be a blast for anyone into RPGs and C-Dramas. My playtrough lasted 32 hours, I used the "Small font" version of the English Translation mod on the Steam forums.

Terraria + Din's Curse, SOLD!

While not a bad game per se, I wouldn't recommend buying it, especially in 2024.

It's just too uninspired. The dungeon levels, the encounters, the equipment, the races/classes... nothing stands out or gets used in a clever way. I explored 8 dungeon floors before geting bored and didn't experience a single interesting maze area or battle. I barely even got any status effects, just one or two poisons from chest traps. Wizardry 1 was released in 1981 and understood better how to use these to create tension and drain player's resources.

If you want an old-school dungeon-crawler / DRPG in the classic Wizardry style, there's far better options - get Wizardry: Five Ordeals, Undernauts or Elminage Gothic/Original here on Steam, or emulate Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land for PS2.

A fantastic homage to old From Software games. It doesn't quite reach the scope, cohesion and immersion of King's Field IV: The Ancient City, but it's also way more accessible and concise, with many quaility of life features that makes it perfect for newcomers.

Definetly a niche game, for sickos who like to map their dungeons by hand (or using apps like Grid Cartographer).

But if you're one of those sickos, this is a great take on the dungeon-crawling formula - it's Wizardry-inspired, but not derivative in any way, also taking inspirations from the SaGa games. Difficult and sometimes frustrating, but extremely atmospheric.

Heroes of Jin Yong is a 1996 open-world RPG created by Taiwan-based Heluo Studio. It tells the story of a modern-day gamer who gets trapped in a world composed of Jin Yong's (one of China's most famous writers) novels. To escape, he must explore this world, meeting and recruiting various characters from Yong's stories while making morally-based choices along the way.

Most people in the West have perhaps never even heard about Jin Yong, much less of this game. But it's one of the most beloved Wuxia RPGs ever made, which to this day inspires several fangames, spin-offs, mods, and spiritual successors. Hero's Adventure is one such spiritual successor, and to have it available on Steam in English is like a portal to a whole lineage of RPGs many never got to experience. It would be as if you'd never played a JRPG and someone gave you Chained Echoes or Octopath Traveller II.

The game itself plays like a mix of Suikoden and Fallout; you first create a character, then go out to make a name for yourself in the martial arts world of ancient China. The game's world is vast and reactive, with plenty of factions to help, sects to join, rulers to serve, friends to recruit, legendary items to collect, and secret arts to master.

There's also a bit of Way of the Samurai in it. The game is truly open, with no fixed playthrough path. The list of possible goals and endings ranges from retiring as a farmer to achieving enlightenment as a Taoist to becoming Emperor of China. Some endings take a few minutes, some endings will probably take dozens of hours. And each time you beat it, you unlock something new for the next playthrough.

A platforming-focused metroidvania that feels like a lost PS1 game. Combat is very basic and there's barely any story, but the platforming is fantastic and more than makes up for any shortcomings. The short length also helps, it ends before it gets tiring.

One of the most unique FPS/RPGs out there, it's like an immersive sim made by French artists obsessed with Warhammer 40k, Ghost in the Shell and Deus Ex.

E.Y.E is not just janky, weird and poorly translated, it operates on an entirely different logic - things like dying, getting ammo or doing side-quests all work in alien ways. If you're ok with weird games that experiment with gameplay and meta-narratives, this is a must-play. The visuals are still striking, gunplay feels amazing and you can have a lot of fun in co-op.

But if all you want is a safe, by-the-book Deux Ex clone, this might not be for you.

If you want to get into classic dungeon-crawlers, I would suggest first playing something like Etrian Odyssey III HD, Undernauts or Labyrinth of Refrain. HOWEVER, if you are a veteran Wizardry player willing to hand-drawn maps, this is a fantastic game (if a bit pricey).

This is classic Wizardry, but with a great UI, fast battles, great enemy art, support for custom portraits and many modules to play. The base game comes with 5 adventures, plus many fan-made modules made with the original Japanese editor (this is a remaster of a 2006 Japan-only release). The English editor should be available soon (is why it's in Early Access still).

Just be aware that it will be an online editor, and the devs are openly asking people not to make Wiz 1-5 remakes or things like that. They will delete those from the download server.