Awesome Pea 3 is a platformer like Saomi, N++ and Celeste. You run and jump through challenging stages to reach the end. Awesome Pea 3 looks and sounds great. It also plays great… except for one fatal flaw, no tutorial or explanation for anything. I couldn’t get past level 2. Now before you claim I’m Dean Taskahasi playing Cuphead, let me explain why using the level itself.

Ok, so in Awesome Pea 3 level 2, you start on the platform to the far left. Simple jump to where I am in the image. Now, to get to the next platform, you must air dash. Does the game tell you how to air dash? No. It’s the Y button, but I had figured it out by button mashing. The I’m on the far right platform. I assume you have to wall jump to get the key, except how do that is not explained, and nothing I did seemed to get me high enough to get me the key. So I gave up after half-an-hour and went and wrote this review. And no, the answer wasn’t hidden in the settings menu. Bad game developers, bad, bad.

Awesome Pea 3 should be awesome, but its missing documentation on how to play or even a simple controls screen. I don’t care that this is the third game in the series, absolutely no excuse for base-level things. Even some of the worst games I’ve played told you the controls. I shouldn’t be stuck on level 2 because the developers forgot to tell you how things worked. Maybe you can past level 2 and enjoy the game more than I did. I’m moving on. This game gets a YMMV with a six back-end score.

Overall: Awesome Pea 3 would have been awesome if the developers didn’t forget to tell you how anything worked.

Verdict: YMMV

eShop Page

Release Date	5/15/24
Cost	$4.99
Publisher	Sometimes You
ESRB Rating	E

Game received for free from the publisher!

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The succubus, a mythical female demon that seduces men and drains their life force. She is a lot like Succubus with Guns, a 2022 game published by Sometimes You that is so shitty, it drains your will to live. We’re talking Soulsland bad here. I’m only reviewing this so it can get a proper ranking on SwitchScores. no other reason. It is not sexy. It is not fun. It is crap. Let’s begin.

Succubus with Guns starts with a cut scene of a bunch of anime kids trying to summon you, but the summoning goes wrong very wrong, and they all turn into in undead. Then you start the game proper, which is a wave shooter. You go from arena to arena and killing enemies, including undead schoolgirls, shirtless fat guys and skeletons with bows. At your disposal are several guns, including a machine gun, rocket launcher, and pistol. These get taken away after the first arena by a bug(I think), forcing me to face everyone with a sword. I quit after that. And I was not going to trudge through the first arena again to find out if it was a bug.

Succubus with Guns simply is terrible from top to bottom. Aiming your guns sucks, you’ll waste valuable ammo missing. The enemies clip through everything, as do you. The graphics are amateur and ugly. There’s no music and the sound effects are all generic grunts and hisses. At random, your succubus will speak a random line that makes no sense, like, “I love you!” What? Believe me when I say I’d rather be drained by a real succubus than play this again.

Succubus with Guns get a Garbage with a one back-end score. Sometimes You doesn’t always publish winners, but this was a major misfire.

Overall: Succubus with Guns is a lot like the mythical succubus in that it drains your life force and will to live. Avoid at all costs!

Verdict: Garbage

eShop Page

Release Date	11/18/22
Cost	$9.99
Publisher	Sometimes You
ESRB Rating	T

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DateJournal is a dating sim where you romance 6 lovely ladies in St. Petersburg, Russia. You do this by collect intimacy point ,by collecting stars in a Minesweeper-like dates. There are three three stars type, red(strength), grey(charisma) and blue(intelligence). Each lovely lady has their own preference. You also collect roses to increase passion, which increases the amount of intimacy you gather. There are also enemies on the board, which you attack and defend against with corresponding stats. There are broken stars that decrease intimacy, but they can be transformed into other things via items.Oh and did I mention each click takes energy, and if you run out of energy, you lose? Well yeah there’s that too.

Then there’s the board game section in Datejournal, that you use to move around St. Petersburg and romance the various women. You get cards with the number of moves you can make. You can move once per turn, then either send a gift of use the space for something. Like in the club, you use charisma points you collect to raise various stats. Same with the gym and university for their respective stats. There’s also the mall, where you use money to buy new date spots. The date spots correspond to a specific outfit you can have the lady wear, and not much else.

There’s there the dialog and story of each woman in Datejournal. Which honestly, is quite boring and doesn’t really matter. It often makes no sense. Like one lady is telling me off, while my response gives hearts, showing she likes me or something. There are five dates, and after each date you get a picture. None show nudity. While the game is rated M, it is not because there are titties(though the final pics are very risque). Anyways, like I said, the actual story lines are probably the worst part of the game. I just couldn’t bring myself to care about anyone. You can find out more about the ladies, but doing that doesn’t amount to much, since sending gifts on the board really isn’t important I found.

I’m kinda torn on Datejournal to be honest. One one hand, the game had the decent board game section and dating game section. Problem is the ladies and stories just aren’t interesting to me. Maybe something was lost in translation, not sure. I’ll give DateJournal a Your Mileage May Vary(YMMV) with a seven back-end score. In the end, play for the minesweeper-like dating game, ignore the story.

Overall: Datejournal is an alright dating sim where the ladies are boring, but the actual dates are not.

Verdict: YMMV

eShop Page

Release Date	3/8/22
Cost	$14.99
Release Date	Sometimes You
ESRB Rating	M

P.S. For a dating sim to avoid, try Summer Sweetheart!

Game received for free from the publisher

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