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I'm the biggest reverse meatrider of this game.

Not gonna refund it tho soundtrack slaps, props to the composer you're incredible.

I just have to do it.

I'm this game's biggest hater.

Just play Bug Fables instead this game costs more and has less (and worse) content.

Less strategic, less in depth, side quests are WAY worse, combat is mindless, overworld exploration is boring.

Music is beautiful, graphics are beautiful, but this game relies on it's beautiful art style, occasionally witty writing and awesome soundtrack way too much, because the actual "game" part of this game is straight up mindless garbage.

Again, play Bug Fables instead, if you're looking for a fun turn based RPG based on Paper Mario. Already played Bug Fables? Well do it again, a replay is worth your time more than this game.

I waited 4 years for this, and the game was even delayed by 4 months, and the end product was complete dogwater. The final chapter is literally 3 rooms long, and the final chapter enemies have 10HP, how did they mess up this badly.

No shade to the developers personally, they're incredible and lovely people, but this is a criticism of the game, not the developers, and the game is not worth your time, or money.

Also, some of the achievements are straight up broken. I had to SAM in Physiologus and Well-Traveled because they straight up can't trigger. Also a lot of times the game world straight up unloads right in front of you, particularly in chapter 3 inside the manor.

This game is not finished. Wait a few months/years for balance changes, bug fixes, and overall improvements, but I feel like no matter how much they improve, they can't change that at it's core, this is a shallow and boring experience, that doesn't live up to it's inspiration, or it's competition.

Not reccomended.

Edit: It took them half a year to finally patch the game to be in a state where it's completable without cheats. That's actually really pathetic. I feel like if your game isn't even COMPLETABLE for HALF A YEAR it should NOT have been sold TO BEGIN WITH.

I really hope this dev team learns from this and actually properly playtests their game in the future to ensure that they are at the very least complatable by the playerbase. The fact that it took half a year for even a single person to get the platinum trophy on console, and for the game to be 100%'able without the use of steam achievement manager is genuinely so depressing,

Synopsis:

Wandersong is an incredible game with a deceptively simple story.

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The story:
(Spoiler free discussion)

I was intrigued by the initial concept of a game about the world ending, and having to stop it even when you probably can't.
It sounded like a good baseline premise for the story, a good motivation for the events of the story to unfold.

What I did NOT see coming however, was this premise essentially BEING the story.
The world is ending, and there's nothing you can do about it, and yet you have to try.

The game's world is incredibly nihilistic, and the characters get more and more pescimistic as the game goes on, except for the main character, the bard. I did NOT expect to love the Bard as much as I did. They're an adorable ball of pure positivity, he's very naïve and very optimistic and a complete pacifist. He just wants to make the world a better place with song, and this mindset of his gets challenged over and over again as the game goes on, and yet he perseveres.

It's an incredible game about not letting your pescimism shape you. About fighting for that light at the end of the tunnel no matter how hopeless it may seem.

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The story:
(Spoiler discussion)

All of what I've said above is just a basic spoiler free overview of the story, I haven't gotten into any of the minutia, and the MANY twists and turns and surprises that the game throws at you. I would reccomend you to NOT unspoiler any spoilered text until you've finished the game yourself. Now, onto the spoilers!

I ADORED Audrey Redheart (The Chosen Hero) !!
Her entire existance is left a complete mystery to the player until the very end of act three, and she completely shakes up the rest of the story, and adds some MUCH needed conflict.

In a game where seemingly everyone wants to work with you, a character like her who straight up takes advantage of the main character's positive worldview, goes a long way. Up until the 5th act, everything goes your way, you just sing your problems away. But she throws a massive wrench into this. She's the only thing in the game that can't be overcame with just song.

I also love the fact that she's clearly not actually evil. She's a hero, chosen hero at that. She's just doing the task she was intended to fufil, but seeing this dorky little bard succeeding where she fails breaks her down. She'd rather fufil her duty and end the world than give up the title of the chosen hero and help actually save the world, out of no reason but her inflated ego. I like to believe that she died at the end of the game. Stuck in the old world while everyone else moved on to the new one.

Speaking of the world, the other characters are all delightful, alongside the locations they inhabit! I love how the locations the bard visits are almost like a reflection of his curent mental state. For example, Chismest being the bard at his absolute lowest.

Miriam is an incredible supporting character, and at first acts as the straight man to the bard's optimistic shenanigans, but she soon grows into a very layered character who got a lot more development than I initially expected. The scene with her at the crater being not just the best scene with her, but one of the all-around highlights of the game.

The other side-characters are great too! I especially loved the pirates in Chapter 3, and the gang you cobble up in chapter 4. Not all of them are incredibly memorable, but the memorable outweigh the forgettable!

The very end of the story made me shed a tear too. And I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ LOVED the final boss. The role reversal is incredible, YOU'RE the final boss that the hero has to defeat, you, Miriam and the Dream King. And the fact that it doesn't even work, and the Hero slays the dream king anyways, leaving the entire world in Limbo until you harmonize it all together with one last song, genuinely incredible, and it shows Audrey's insistance on being the chosen hero to her literal grave.

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The gameplay:
(Spoiler free discussion)

The gameplay is where wandersong slightly falters a bit more, although that's not saying it's bad at all. I'd say it's "slightly annoying" at it's worst, and "incredible" at it's best.

Most of the gameplay consists of using your 8 directional singing wheel to sing songs and solve puzzles. The game gets a lot of mileage out of the singing wheel to be honest. Though I wish that the wheel was used for more than JUST singing. Such as the intro segment where it's used to hold a sword. More segments where what you use the wheel for was changed, would've been great.

The singing mechanics themselves are great though! They took some getting used to, but by the end of the game I was singing entire sonatas no problem. I love the way you can freestyle with it too. I'd often just break out into song for no reason other than that I was feeling like it! It helped immerse me into the world, and made me feel like a true bard!

On an unrelated note, the game is pretty buggy. Nothing game breaking at all, I never got softlocked and the game never crashed. But there were tons of moments where the game was clearly doing things it was NOT supposed to be doing. Chapter 3 seemed to be the glitchiest one by far, everything afterwards was mostly fine though.

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The gameplay:
(Spoiler discussion)

From the very moment you start the game, the singing is already fairly interesting! Using it to defeat ghosts, and sing the overseer song are very pleasant. And I love the way it's incorporated into the platforming of the first chapter, with the birds and the plant platforms that move with your singing.

Every chapter has unique gimmicks that utilize the singing in creative ways. My favourite area by far is the Moonscape, not just for it's banging music, but also for the way the singing is implemented into it's platforming. Side note, love that entire area. Easily the best area in the game, it just has to be experienced to be understood.

After the Moonscape, my LEAST favourite area does come though, the sunscape. It's not bad by any means, most of it is really great and atmospheric, it's just the final chase. It was scary the firts 3 times, but after that it just became annoying, as I had to fight against the game's controls that were clearly NOT designed for fast paced platforming like that. But once I got a hang of the controls it wasn't that bad, just kinda annoying.

The game does also feature a couple boss battles! And they're all really good! The ghosts, the monsters in act 3, the Queen of Winds in the Act 4 intermission, all incredible stuff. Nothing mindblowing, but the bosses are all consistenly high quality, and were all fun to fight!

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The music and graphics:
(Vague spoilers, but nothing to worry about)

The music was generally really good! While I personally did not actually find most of the soundtrack all that memorable, I will admit that it's all very quality stuff. The songs get better as the game gets on though! Every song past act 3 ranges from really good to incredible in my oppinion, and the game's final song is deserving of it's title (you'll see it when you get there).

Graphically, the game is quite good aswell! It has a VERY "Night In The Woods" esque style to it, with lineless 2D characters in a lineless world. I don't think the style is as stunning in Wandersong as it is in Night In The Woods, but the game DOES have a lot of stunning areas and setpieces, you're sure to remember at least one by the end of your journey!

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Finishing thoughts:

Wandersong is an insanely underrated game that has NOT garnered the media attention it deserves. Our world often feels hopeless and trapped, but Wandersong reminds us that no matter what, we need to keep fighting. Give this game a shot, and stick with it!

Highly reccomended.

This is genuinely my favourite horror game ever. The monsters all have inventive designs and mechanics, all the little dumb details in the enviorement are great, the DLCs being bundled in for free with the HD renovation is amazing, and the DLCs themselves are so damn good...but you can't sex spooky so gotta knock down a few points for that.

For the love of god please use the wiki while playing this game, or at least a map. Yeah I know I know, the magic of Rain World is exploring it for yourself, but not everyone enjoys aimlessly wandering about for a bunch of hours waiting untill progress happens.

All rain World playthroughs after my first (including the DLC campaigns) were SIGNIFICANTLY more fun and memorable BECAUSE I knew the general layout of the world, and a general gist of where important landmarks are.

At the very least, please have a friend that has played the game who can nudge you in the general direction of where to go (protip, go to the top right of the map, you'll thank me later).

At first, I didn't really get the game at all, I played it with my cousin, who helped me get through the more confusing and tedious early parts. But ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, the early parts are SO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ WORTH IT to see where the story goes, this is genuinely a game that I enjoyed so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ much.

Wish I could forget it and play it all over, genuinely, please play this, I played it and also got some of the secrets and extra content, and it took me ~3 hours, this game is just a banger, play it right ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ now.

I love playing this game with my master bait.

Originally I had a far more negative review, but after pondering, I've decided to rethink my aproach, and, you know what, I do reccomend this game for one simple reason:

YOU CAN CHANGE THE DIFFICULTY SETTINGS.

My biggest problem with the game BY FAR, was the dungeons. I hate the dungeons. Even as a lover of turn based JRPG's, the dungeons were some of the least fun stuff I've ever went through in a video game. But...If you want, you can skip all that stuff by turning down the difficutly, and it allowed me to focus on what I actually enjoy about the game...Everything other than the dungeons.

The life sim parts are amazing, balancing your stats with all your confidants felt great, unlike in P5, confidants don't give any kind of gameplay boost (other than the EXP boost, but, this is the only Persona game where it's benificial to stick with your initial persona, so the EXP boost doesn't do much since you probably won't be fusing too much).

This forces you to actually engage with the confidants because...Because YOU want to, not for any gameplay reason, and this allowed me to engage with the confidans in a far diffirent way, that I still enjoyed.

The music is amazing, like, some of the tracks in this game rival it's sequal in terms of sheer catchyness.

The graphics are great...Yeah they've aged a lot, but for the time, this game looked slick af, and you get used to this game's graphical style, it grew on me.

The characters are amazing, and by far the highlight of the game. Nanako, Yosuke, Teddie, Rise, Kou, Ai, this game has so many memorable characters that I genuinely looked back at fondly (Ai is best girl DON'T @ me).

The story is also amazing, though it kinda dragged at points, every time it feels like it's coming to an end, the game goes "Finally it's over for real...Nah jk there's like 20 more hours of ♥♥♥♥ to do."

At the end of the day, do I enjoy Persona 4 as a game? No, not at all. But the game has accesibility tools to allow you to skip the parts you dislike, so I do reccomend it to others.

I reviewed this game poorly because of the exact mechanics you can simply circumvent with some simple setting changes, and you know what, that's great, thank you Atlus.

I do not like this game, a JRPG where I don't enjoy the actual JRPG side isn't winning in my book, but I do reccomend it, maybe you'll get/have gotten something out of it that I didn't.

Don't forget to face out, hold out and reach out to the truth of your life, gamers.
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This game is special.