Cursorblade is a roguelike where you use your cursor to attack enemies, and you can choose a weapon or an upgrade after each wave. It's a neat concept and it's fun for the first 20 minutes, but it gets old quickly because the game lacks content. There are just a few different types of enemies and just a few weapons and upgrades. Plus, once you've filled all your weapon slots in a run, the upgrading isn't exciting since there's nothing new to discover and you can only upgrade the weapons you already have. The only thing you can unlock is a handful of different cursors to play as, but their abilities aren't very helpful at all.

I've had Solatorobo on my wishlist for a long while - I don't know much about it, but it looks like an interesting RPG. I had no idea it was part of a series, and that the game before it was a 3D platformer on the PS1. Naturally, I had to check out this game.

In Tail Concerto, you play as a dog named Waffle, and you pilot a mech that can shoot bubbles. You go after kittens that are wreaking havoc and trap them in bubbles so you can catch and arrest them. It's fun and similar to Ape Escape, albeit with less variety in the behavior of the little guys you need to capture.

Being an early 3D platformer, the controls are cumbersome - it's difficult to steer your character and you have little control over the camera. The final platforming sequence was very annoying, but other than that, the controls didn't bother me too much. The difficulty is very forgiving - falling off a platform into the void only damages you a little bit, and I found the combat to be challenging but not frustrating.

My favorite thing about Tail Concerto is the story and the characters. Sections of the game that are important to the story are voice acted, and there are also occasional 90s anime style cutscenes. This all adds a lot of charm. There are a few writing errors (such as Waffle warning a character with "you don't know what (villain) is capable of" before he is supposed to know who said villain is), but I still have become very invested in this steampunk world of anthropomorphic dogs and cats. It has a good balance between silly and serious. I'm very excited to check out Solatorobo next.