Anime CRPG Book - Call for reviews

[felipepepe]

Hi everyone, as some of you might know, I'm making an updated version of the CRPG Book, adding some stuff like articles on Chinese, Korean and French RPGs, new games from 2016-2019 and RPGs that I missed in the first version.

A lot of people here already kindly helped with the previous version and this update. It's now about 70% done, so I'm doing a final push to get reviews for these games:

1 PAGE
- Adventure Construction Set - Daemongar
- DONE - Omega - Deuce Traveler
- DONE - BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception - Deuce Traveler
- DONE - Crypt of the NecroDancer - Red Hexapus
- DONE - Cultist Simulator
- DONE - Outward
- DONE - Torment: Tides of Numanuma
- DONE - West of Loathing
- DONE - Salt & Sanctuary - Abu Antar

2 PAGES
- DONE - SpellForce 1-3 series overlook - Lacrymas
- DONE - Nioh 1 & 2 series overlook
- DONE - Expeditions: Vikings / Conquistador - Darth Canoli
- Battle Brothers - Jedi Master Radek
- DONE - ELEX
- DONE - Kenshi - TT1

Anyone wants to help with any of those?

Each review is about 400 words long (for 1 page reviews) and 900 words long (for 2 page reviews). There's no strict guidelines, just make sure the reader understand how the game plays and what's special about it. Also, please don't be a fanboy.

Deadline would be around 3-4 weeks, I'm aiming to finish this by the end of the year - or at least early 2022.

If you're interested, please comment bellow or PM me. Cheers!

 

[Red Hexapus]

I could write a 1 page review for the "Crypt of the Necrodancer"

 

[Infinitron]

- SpellForce 1-3 series overlook

Paging Lacrymas (and also for any card-based games)

 

[Tihskael]

Hit me up if you want me to write a review on Game of the last decade- TES Adventures: Redguard.

 

[felipepepe]

I could write a 1 page review for the "Crypt of the Necrodancer"

That would be much appreciated, thanks!

Hit me up if you want me to write a review on Game of the last decade- TES Adventures: Redguard.

That's a pure action game, right? AFAIK the best thing about it was the manual explaining the world of Tamriel

 

[Daedalos]

Undertale sucks ass.

 

[Lacrymas]

- SpellForce 1-3 series overlook

Paging Lacrymas (and also for any card-based games)

I could do it, but I've only finished Spellforce 1. 900 words for 3 games as diverse as the Spellforce series is imo not enough. I spent ~7k on the base Spellforce 1 alone. felipepepe what exactly do you want in terms of content, i.e. what should the article talk about?

 

[felipepepe]

- SpellForce 1-3 series overlook

Paging Lacrymas (and also for any card-based games)

I could do it, but I've only finished Spellforce 1. 900 words for 3 games as diverse as the Spellforce series is imo not enough. I spent ~7k on the base Spellforce 1 alone. felipepepe what exactly do you want in terms of content, i.e. what should the article talk about?

It's basically "what's this game and why it matters". I know it's a very short word count, but the book has over 400 games...

As example, here's the articles on the Gold Box, Arkania and Risen series:

Spoiler

If you think it's better, we can do one big review for SpellForce 1+2 then another for SpellForce 3, but one review per game would be too much.

 

[Lacrymas]

Spellforce 1+2 as a single review also doesn't make much sense due to how different they are. They aren't like the Gold Box games where each one is mechanically the same as all the rest and only the campaign changes. I'll read through the Gold Box, Arkania, and Risen reviews later and see if I can come up with something similar for Spellforce and how it could be structured.

 

[TheImplodingVoice]

I would do one for Elex. But Elex is simply too good to review or re-review. It transcends any form of human understanding and it is virtually impossible to fairly review. Even 100% or 10/10 does it an injustice

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

I will write a review for Battle Brothers.

 

[Darth Canoli]

I could write something about Battle Brothers or Vikings, whichever is needed the most, Vikings would take more time since i'd have to fire it up again to refresh my memory a little.

 

[Strange Fellow]

I could do West of Loathing. Been meaning to replay it anyway, and this'd be a good occasion. I'll respect seniority if someone else steps up, though.

 

[felipepepe]

I could write something about Battle Brothers or Vikings, whichever is needed the most, Vikings would take more time since i'd have to fire it up again to refresh my memory a little.

Would be much appreciated, but did you also play Conquistador?

I could do West of Loathing. Been meaning to replay it anyway, and this'd be a good occasion. I'll respect seniority if someone else steps up, though.

I should clarify, I'm looking for someone who also played Kingdom of Loathing, since it's based in the same world.

 

[Strange Fellow]

I'm out then.

 

[Darth Canoli]

Would be much appreciated, but did you also play Conquistador?

I did, 2/3 times and never got very far in conquistador.

 

[Jaedar]

I should clarify, I'm looking for someone who also played Kingdom of Loathing, since it's based in the same world.

Does playing it 15 years ago count?
Because that's when I last played it, but iirc aside from artystle and humor, they aren't really related. I didn't even know they were set in the same world.

 

[felipepepe]

I should clarify, I'm looking for someone who also played Kingdom of Loathing, since it's based in the same world.

Does playing it 15 years ago count?
Because that's when I last played it, but iirc aside from artystle and humor, they aren't really related. I didn't even know they were set in the same world.

Sure, that's the kind of insight that's important. I never played KoL, so I have no idea about how similar they are besides what wikipedia says.

 

[Jaedar]

I should clarify, I'm looking for someone who also played Kingdom of Loathing, since it's based in the same world.

Does playing it 15 years ago count?
Because that's when I last played it, but iirc aside from artystle and humor, they aren't really related. I didn't even know they were set in the same world.

Sure, that's the kind of insight that's important. I never played KoL, so I have no idea about how similar they are besides what wikipedia says.

Afaik it's been constantly patched during all those years though, so I wouldn't feel confident speaking about its current state. For all I know they overhauled the combat engine and rpg mechanics five times since I played it.

 

[TheImplodingVoice]

If you are going to add The Technomancer at some point in the future then I might be up for writing a review for it as well. My bad if I missed it in the book

 

[Arbaces]

I'm curious, did you run into any blobbers while researching the article on Chinese games? I've been thinking about refreshing my skills with that language, and playing some RPGs seems like a fun way to practice reading and get some use out of my dictionary. I have an English copy of Seal of Evil somewhere, but I doubt it includes the Chinese language version. 决战朝鲜 sounds like an interesting strategy game that I'll have to check out, but I'll probably start with 阿貓阿狗 Tun Town since it's more on my reading level.

谢谢你！

 

[Sinatar]

- Torment: Tides of Numanuma

Review: "It's fucking awful"

What font size do you think we'll need to use to get that to fill up 2 pages?

 

[Haba]

Grimoire in 400 words? Absolutely impossible.

 

[Jrpgfan]

Grimoire in 400 words? Absolutely impossible.

I agree. Only one word for every 1 and a half hours of playing time is not enough.

 

[Jaedar]

Anyway felipepepe please remove me from west of loathing review for now. I might agree to do it at a later point, but if someone else wants it I'd prefer they did it.