Recent reviews by Tsubame ⭐

STORY:
A yuri visual novel about a newly graduated nurse, Kaori, starting her first nursing job, and detailing her struggles to keep up with work and her relationships with her co-workers.

Not many stories delve with the day to day of nurses - or health professionals at large - so this is a plus for me. Jargon, procedures, and diseases are mentioned and explained throughout the story.

The story progresses rather slowly, and can feel boring at times, especially before the story and Kaori's relationships develops, but past that there is a good mixture of upbeat and sad moments, and overall I enjoyed reading it.

As with the usual Kogado novel, multiple choices are provided throughout the story, leading ultimately to a number of endings per romantic partners, and many opportunities to get to a bad ending before that.

The main character is depicted as over the top innocent and kid-like, and while this can work in more lighthearted stories, I feel it is a little over the top here, and could have been toned down a bit, given the more serious story background of the story. The character tends to be a klutz in the job - to the point one wonders not only how she can manage to keep her job that long, but also how she managed to get past nursing school in the first place. Moreover, she is rather weak hearted and gets anxious and/or manipulated at times, to the point of getting annoying sometimes.

ARTWORK:
Kogado visual novels for me, in general, are beautifully drawn and detailed, and Nurse Love Syndrome is no exception. I love the artwork of the chararacters and backgrounds available. There is a great amount of CG scenes available to boot as well.

SOUND:
Music is decently composed, and nice to listen to, but not particularly remarkable or varied between each other. 18 tracks are included, which could have been more given the length of the story, and may get boring after a while.

Voice acting in Japanese is included, and is of good quality overall.

UI:
Interface works well enough, but there is room for improvements. I do like there is an option to skip to the next choice - and there are many available - but there is no option to stop in the middle if you happen to stumble into unread text. Also, while there is a story log, you cannot backtrack ingame - in case you want to replay a scene again. Backtracking requires reloading the game and proceeding to the desired section.

SUMMARY:
While with a number of flaws, it is still overall a decent yuri visual novel, and I do recommend it - albeit I would wait for a sale. 7/10

The first of a trilogy that consists of moving squares to set locations.

Minimalistic graphics, it is by far the easiest of the series in difficulty, with the second half of the game offering an ok challenge, but nothing compared to the other games of the trilogy. Good for relaxation, but if you want a challenge, you may want to play the sequels instead.

No music at all hurts.

As with the sequel, the lack of a rewind feature hurts - a single mistake may require the whole level to be repeated. As this game is fairly easy, this is not as aggravating as they are in the sequels.

The least value for money of the series, it is overpriced for what it offers, and compared to its sequels, but can still be a fairly fun game for those into games of the genre. 6/10

While similar in many ways to Left4Dead and its spiritual successor, Back4Blood, World War Z differenciates itself by adopting a RPG like gameplay, with different classes - each with their own perks - and dozens of weapons that can be improved and leveled up. Very fun in this regards, even if grindy to do so.

Multiplayer supports cross platform, and is still active. Do keep in mind the level based system of the game may cause issues for low leveled people trying multiplayer out - i.e. other higher leveled players leaving.

Great graphics, and decent voice acting, sound track and sound effects, and a limited palette of weapon and clothing skin customization is available.

There is zero background history, and a paper-thin storyline composed of multiple different mini stories - with little or no direct relationship to each other - each with different characters and set in different places of the world. Could definitely be improved in this regards, though the variety of playable characters is nice.

Unfortunately, there is no mod support. A big letdown in comparison with the extremely mod friendly Left4Dead series, and needlessly makes grinding for fully leveled weapons and classes more boring than it should be - there is only so much a few dozen levels and wildcards can do to before the game starts becoming repetitive.

Overall, a very fun zombie shooter. Not perfect, but decently priced. 8/10

Harem-style eroge with 4 main heroines to choose from, with a decently written and serious horror-themed story - enough to stand on its own without the H content, though on the short side.

Keep in mind there is no official English localization is available - there is a third party machine translation patch, however.

As with many - but not all - similar games that were ported to Steam, H scenes are not available in this version, and a third party patch is required to view them.

Decent artwork and CGs, and good music - with over 30 sound tracks available - and voice acting. However, nothing extraordinary in these regards, at least to the content that is officially available in the Steam version.

The H scenes are great, obviously they are the focus of the game as originally created, and it is a pity that they are not included in Steam.

Overall, for the price, a decent buy, just make sure to look up the missing content.

7/10 for the official game as available in Steam, 8/10 with the omitted H content.

Game with 50 extremely challenging puzzles with leaderboards. Part of a 3 game series, with this offering the most challenge.

Very minimalistic graphics, which I am ok with, and with color presets that can be changed, but there is also next to no music - other than some ambient noise - which I think the game would greatly benefit from.

The main issue with the game is no rewind button - a single mistake can force the player to restart the level from scratch.

Decently priced, and will be a great addition to anyone who is into very serious and hard puzzle challenges. 8/10

Platformer with cute graphics graphics, decent story, and relaxing soundtrack.

Levels and puzzles are on the easy side, but the game on the short side, with limited replayability after.

Overall, decently priced for what it is, and a good game for a quick and relaxing break. 8/10

Poor artwork, sprites have few poses, look unfinished and unpolished, and no CGs.

There are some gems along the story, but overall, the plot is convoluted, repetitive, slow, and unfinished.

Music and sound effects are decent, but no voice acting.

Story/auto mode does not progress if the game loses focus, that is a huge drawback in my books.

Too expensive for what it offers. 5/10

Point and click time-constrained resource management game, with a simple story, and 49 levels, that require you to build specific buildings and/or collect a specific amount of resources within a specific time.

Good music and cute artwork. Very easy to play, and very relaxing. Does not offer much replayability beyond the available levels, though.

A tad expensive for the content offered, but it is nevertheless enjoyable if you are looking for an easy and casual point and click experience, and is good for kids too. 7/10

Well, it is free. That is pretty much the only good thing about it.

Idler/clicker with crappy design, zero gameplay, other than a manually clicking on a banana and a counter with the number of clicks, and free drops every so often, that can be traded in the Steam Marketplace.

Obviously only a tiny fraction of these drops would be worth anything, as it is the case in any free to play game with tradeable drops.

My advice is, if one are desperate for money, work extra hours instead of wasting your time and energy bill with this. 2/10

Compared to its prequel, offers nothing new except different levels. Like the original, it is a puzzle game that consists of scoring a goal by indirectly moving a ball towards the objective by exploding, moving, and/or removing things out of the way.

Unpolished minimalistic flash-like graphics and terrible repetitive soundtrack.

A few dozen levels, which do offer some variety but are fairly fast to complete, sometimes rely in timing and luck, and offer little replayability.

I certainly do not think this is nowhere near worth its full price, and still am hard pressed to recommend it at 90% off. 4/10