izigame.me

Perhaps it's too early for a review, but I am quite simply impassioned with so much love and energy with this game that I simply have to get it out of there that isn't me giving an ear-busting rant to my poor friends in their DM's, I've even been declining hangouts from my friends because I am so hopelessly addicted to this, as I was ever so worryingly beginning to think my attention-span was just becoming so pathetic with the passage of time.

It takes such a complex emotional turbulence for me to feel so intrinsically focused in a strategy-RPG, very, very few of it's ilk speak to me, and there are a lot of circumstances for me to appreciate every intrinsic nook and cranny of a game's design, every microscopic detail of a unit and appreciate it down to the very last wire.

When I start thinking how I would describe the sheer brilliance, it may come off as naive, but every moment of this game, I really feel like I can embrace the best part of video-games. I know what that is in my long history with them, it's the feeling this is a true labour-of-love, I wish to state this so-matter-of-factly because every single decision I make in this game feels like I have such intense stakes, every part of my input counts,.

I can feel myself staking the battle and tides as a sort of puzzle, which is most appropiate for this game. You need to figure out best how to make use of every single piece you have on this board to it's absolute latent potential, and every single part of your thoughts feel so delightfully rewarding due to how many potential turns, losses, and bonuses you earn from every single fight. It's so delightfully rewarding.

This is the kind of game I love to see hit shelves, This is the kind of game I want to be playing everyday. It's not slop, it is so far away from that rung. Pure attention to detail was placed into this game at just the right moments. And it doesn't even feel like I've hit that climax of this game yet. The special boost period this game has the developer ever so lovingly talks about.

And it just...shines in every single moment, every single fight feels like the rhymes and reasons are perfect, every single part of me wants to give it my all, to show off complex strategies that my friends did't even think I'd ever have, It's been so hazardously long since I've felt so engrossed in every single part of my plans, in such detail, and carrying them out feels so amazing, the pay-off is constant feedback to my neurons that make them sparkle and blush like an overdosed girl from an anime.

I sincerely hope this game does so well from the depths of my heart. All of my words, I hope they get to someone out there, someone so cast-off from the ever so crowded market of videogames, how impossible it feels to ever get that glint that a game developer actually bloody cares about their games.
And this is where I want to speak my piece. That this game deserves every spec of attention and at least 'a try'. The demo was my entry point, it can be yours too.

I wish everyone the best in their stratagems, experiencing the constant gravitating orchestra to your ears that it's composer: Masafumi Takada brings to the table with such a stunning score.

Please play this game, I mean every single word I have written here and will take it to my grave.