I’ve recently completed Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights and it was a great experience, so I wanted to share it here. Ender Lilies is a metroidvania with excellent atmosphere and world-building. It’s a dark, gloomy, and tragic game right from the get-go. The kingdom, once lively and peaceful, was overrun by a mysterious rain that blights people and animals, turning them into mindless, violent monstrosities.
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A good game for cat lovers and dystopian cyberpunk lovers alike, Stray tells the story of an orange tabby cat that’s living peacefully with their companions, until one day they slip into a dark city populated by humanoid robots. You meet different robots and slowly understand what happened, all while finding your way back to the Outside where you came from.
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Momodora: Moonlit Farewell is the last installment in the Momodora series, which started all the way back in 2010. All the games in the series were created by Brazilian game designer Guilherme “rdein” Martins and his team, Bombservice. I always like to bring that up because we Brazilians are still very underrepresented and peripheral in the global game dev world.
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When you look at the promotional art for Rabi-Ribi, you might mistake it for an eroge, but it’s not (I swear). If I had to define Rabi-Ribi in a short sentence, it would be: what a Touhou Project game, a bullet hell shooter, would look like if it were a 2D metroidvania.
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The Messenger was the first game by Sabotage Studio, released in 2018. Its plot takes place thousands of years after the events of Sea of Stars, which I played earlier this year. I loved Sea of Stars, so I was very curious to see how The Messenger would compare.
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I actually played this in February, but only got around to writing a review now. I like old-school JRPGs. There’s something about their simplicity, straightforwardness and honesty that I enjoy, despite their often repetitive and grindy nature and very simplistic, often irrelevant plots.
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This is another one of those games I played during my childhood and never managed to finish. I must’ve been around five or six years old, and I remember renting it from a local video store. Now, with my trusty Anbernic, it was time to complete it and fill that gap in my childhood.
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Two quick reviews for two quick games this time. Gato Roboto is a simple metroidvania with interesting 2-bit (monochrome) graphics and some interesting gameplay mechanics. It’s clearly inspired by NES Metroid in its environment and setting, but instead of being dark and mysterious, it’s silly and lighthearted.
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After getting this as a gift from a cousin on Christmas of 2023 (so more than a year ago 😬), I’ve finally decided to play it. There was a lot of buzz and hype for this game, so I was excited to try it. In a nutshell, Sea of Stars is a traditional turn-based JRPG with heavy inspiration from the SNES classics, especially Chrono Trigger (I’ll probably cite CT many more times throughout this post 😬). It’s a love letter to these timeless classics, with modern mechanics and sensibilities.
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After finishing U.N. Squadron, I wanted to play something I never played before. A short, old school JRPG seemed like a good choice for the next few days, so I chose The Final Fantasy Legend, released in 1989 for the Game Boy.
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