SirPentious
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The reason I'm writing this topic, comes from an experience I had last year that I NEVER had in my life before as a gamer, and I thought to share it. Have you ever seen a game that on paper seemed to be one of the stupidest ideas ever made for a videogame ever.... only to become one of your personal favorite games of all time? Because last year I had this experience with one game like that: Chrono Gear: Warden of Time.
This game is a 2d action platformer that.... uses the avatars of the Hololive Vtubers to build its story... now, I NEVER got close to the world of Hololive or the Vtubers, and on paper this idea sounds REALLY dumb, I mean a game based on Vtubers? Who'd want to be interested in that? So you can see that normally I wouldn't touch something like this, so why in the world would have I decided to play a game like this? Well, the answer can be resumed in a single word: Galaxytrail. This game was developed by the same people who made the two Freedom Planet games, two of my favorite platformers of all time, so I went on this game pretty much exclusively on trust for people who in past already gave me games I loved with all my heart, but even so I was still really skeptical about it despite that.... but I wasn't ready for the game marvel I would end up playing.
Like, this game is perfect: the gameplay is really well done, the level design is a fest of creativity in every single stage, the soundtrack is outstanding, and the storyline is surprisingly actually really engaging. Even thought my trust for Galaxytrail was already high, I can't believe how much heart they put in a production like this. Other big companies would have treated an idea like this like a joke, especially when some of them don't seem to take their job seriously anymore... (looking at you Retro Studios).
Long story short: a game that on paper was one of the dumbest ideas ever, turned out being my personal GOTY of 2025 (yeah, I went there). Have you ever experienced something like this with a game? Have you ever played a game to which you were extremely skeptical at first, only to end up loving it to death?
This game is a 2d action platformer that.... uses the avatars of the Hololive Vtubers to build its story... now, I NEVER got close to the world of Hololive or the Vtubers, and on paper this idea sounds REALLY dumb, I mean a game based on Vtubers? Who'd want to be interested in that? So you can see that normally I wouldn't touch something like this, so why in the world would have I decided to play a game like this? Well, the answer can be resumed in a single word: Galaxytrail. This game was developed by the same people who made the two Freedom Planet games, two of my favorite platformers of all time, so I went on this game pretty much exclusively on trust for people who in past already gave me games I loved with all my heart, but even so I was still really skeptical about it despite that.... but I wasn't ready for the game marvel I would end up playing.
Like, this game is perfect: the gameplay is really well done, the level design is a fest of creativity in every single stage, the soundtrack is outstanding, and the storyline is surprisingly actually really engaging. Even thought my trust for Galaxytrail was already high, I can't believe how much heart they put in a production like this. Other big companies would have treated an idea like this like a joke, especially when some of them don't seem to take their job seriously anymore... (looking at you Retro Studios).
Long story short: a game that on paper was one of the dumbest ideas ever, turned out being my personal GOTY of 2025 (yeah, I went there). Have you ever experienced something like this with a game? Have you ever played a game to which you were extremely skeptical at first, only to end up loving it to death?
