games

in Steambot Chronicles, it sucks that your character can't wear the fancy dress.

ETA: one criticism for two games, i love both project zomboid and terraria, but both of them suck to try to get working with a controller.

In Tales of Symphonia backtracking to collect the summons with Sheena doesn't add much to the narrative and only serves to take time.

Stalker sucks. You die in one hit, the game bugs the fuck out (especiallu vanilla clear sky), and the storyline isnt really anything special.

Cultist Simulator literally involves building an exploitative cult and sometimes sacrificing your followers so you can ascend higher. Though this does make for some interesting commentary when you can play as a priest who is still said exploitative cult leader or be exploited as an exotic dancer who must perpetually expose themselves more and more to the point you shed your skin and become a bug creature. Dwarf Fortress is hard, but losing is FUN! I feel like it sometimes incentivizes you to stop growing and be content where you are or not continue to dig ever deeper past a certain point when all the FUN comes from trying for infinite growth. Sure it has a high chance of killing your fort, but that's better than sitting around and nothing happening from a gameplay perspective.

CrossCode

The desert temple and the jungle area are too tedious even if they are as quality as the rest of the game. The story ending in the DLC was ass and didn't resolve some things that needed to imo, mainly:

Rabi-Ribi

I can tolerate the fanservice because I have terminal weeb brainrot since childhood, but I can't recommend the game to anyone else even though it is a great metroidvania with awesome bossfights and music.

ZeroRanger

Breath of the Wild

It would have been a perfect game I could play forever if it had bigger dungeons and more than 10 enemy types.

Mega Man Star Force 1's story has hit me more personally than any other piece of media and in general it's well-written despite it still being a kid's game. But it really rushed the friendship between Geo and Pat, you've barely even seen Pat throughout the game so Geo becoming so wrecked by his betrayal feels forced. Pat/Rey's betrayal is also telegraphed so blatantly that it makes Geo look like an idiot.

Pat/Rey also falls into a problematic DID trope of a "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" type personality split, with an aggressive alter ego when most people with DID aren't dangerous like that.

Geo falling back into depression and fear of getting close with people, and cutting off everyone would be very relatable as someone who relapses into depressive thoughts, but the setup was too rushed as just mentioned and it's also right as the alien antagonists are starting their full-on invasion of Earth. It just made me go: "Get in the fucking mech, Shinji".

Night Striker relies too hard on the homing missiles as a source of difficulty in the later stages.

The holy water is OP in the first castlevania and there is for sure some bullshit parts.

FTL is genuinely perfect.

I could write a book about the metal gear series' flaws even if limited to mgs1, 2 and 3.

Disco Elysium isn't my kind of game and I find anything that isn't dialgoue stuff to be a slog.