• I filter out the Anime tag in my Steam-search. It's good that there's at least one game out there you can play a balding, middle-aged, drug-addicted martial-arts teacher in a world populated solely by sweaty, shirtless, fat dudes.
  
  
• The combat is pure turn-based but it feels punchier since your dudes are all animated going full-wrestler on the opposition. You can do bonus damage by inputting moves manually like Sabin's Blitz but it's not mandatory.
  
  
• I saved-scummed a lot when using campfires. I got smacked in the head a dozen separate times before restarting.
  
  
• Like a lot of RPGs the first act is the hardest part. There are three boss fights in the first zone that are best dispatched with the three batches limited firebombs you find. You used your firebombs on ordinary enemies? Toooooooo bad.
  
  
• Undertale had novel yet shallow gameplay and little optional content; outside of the reactive story there is nothing to talk about. LISA demands you learn the mechanics or you won't pass, and on the optional side there's three whole islands, a russian-roulette house, a wrestling tournament and four dojos just on the wayside.
  
  
• At one point you have to choose between losing an arm or losing all your money and consumables. You can bypass this sacrifice by selling all your consumables and investing in hats for embarrassed middle-aged men.
  
  
• The world is an ugly place but it's all very consistently drawn and animated. I hated how in Undertale the art varied from "Lovingly-Animated-Shopkeeper" to "My First RPG Maker Project".
  
  
• Status-effects actually work in this RPG. Enemies and Bosses can get blinded, pissed, stunned, tripped, and set on fire. The effects are all grounded in reality. No one gets petrified or turned into a frog but they can succumb to crying or drug-withdrawal.
  
  
• There are 30 party-members, or rather 29 party-members and Birdie. Birdie can spit gasoline on an enemy which blinds them and makes them flammable. This synergizes with the main-character's fireball so well that the last thirds are a cakewalk. Birdie may as well be on the box-art.
  
  
• 99 percent of the enemies are hand-placed, and when they're gone they're gone. As a concession you can grind against a select few random enemies. Sadly of the 30 party-members you're best sticking to 3 since there is no real EXP catch-up mechanic, outside of the Wrestling Tournament.
  
  
• The only parts that dragged where the zones where you just plough through easy enemies, like the spiders with your abusive father's face on them.
  
  
• I wished there was at least one character who spoke in Brad's defence.
  
  
• 9/10
  

Inspector Gesicht fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Aug 20, 2017