Rabi-Ribi

Dropped the game once it started feeling like I was forcing myself to keep progressing. This was one of those games that sat deep in my backlog for years. I’d always boot it up, get instantly turned off by how the character controlled and how the combat felt, and then uninstall it. While things do improve slightly as you level up, that indie jank never really goes away. The hitboxes and hurtboxes don’t feel large enough, and at some points it feels like you can practically walk through an enemy instead of immediately taking damage on contact. That said, I love the toughness of the boss fights and how they incorporate bullet-hell elements. Those were easily the strongest part of the game for me. TEVI, another game from the same developers, looks sooooo much better, so yeah. GGs, Rabi-Rib! (It’s also funny how much the landscape on Steam has changed over the years. If you saw this game’s main character portraits now, you’d probably assume there was sexual content. There isn’t. Not that I was expecting it, but it’s still a little odd because the game is completely cutesy without really venturing into ecchi territory at all in the plot...if they all ♥♥♥♥ in the end or something then I stand corrected.)