Majinken! – A gaming review site

Title: Hollow Knight: Silksong
Platform: PC
Genre: Action platform Metroidvania
Language: English
Company: Team Cherry
Summary:
(more…)

Follow

Title: Nine Sols
Platform: PC
Genre: Action platform Metroidvania
Language: English
Company: Red Candle Games
Summary: Ough I hope these guys can continue to make games because this is a keeeeeperrrr
(more…)

Follow

Title: Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave
Fire Emblem 万紫千紅
Platform: Switch 2
Genre: SRPG
Language: Japanese
Company: Intelligent Systems, Nintendo
Summary: Spoilers under cut!
My eyesight is still recovering from PRK surgery and I’m only at like 80% capacity, but I must.

Starting it early again thanks to the yen rate, 8am on the 16th
(more…)

Follow

Title: Metaphor: ReFantazio
Platform: PC
Genre: RPG
Language: Japanese
Company: SEGA Atlus
Summary: Long overdue on this since we played it I think early in 2025, but it’s here for posterity!

Characters:

Graphics:

Sound: Probably one if not strongest points of the game~

Replay Value:

Overall: 9/10. I don’t feel the story pacing, game mechanics, or characters really awed me enough to earn it the final point, but it’s most definitely a strong, solid, good game in general.

Follow

Title: Digimon Story: Time Stranger デジモンストーリー タイムストレンジャー
Platform: PC
Genre: RPG
Language: Japanese, English
Company: Bandai Namco
Summary: Finished Digimon Time Stranger with Royal Knights and did the Olympus XII fight, 36 hrs total. Need a replay some year in future cuz I didn’t know I could’ve heard way more shimono hiro if I’d played as the girl until after it was too late
Certain parts definitely are a step up from Cyber Sleuth, but battles suffer pretty much the same typical formula as cyber sleuth so that bums me up, but anyway setting it on Story mode so I don’t bother with that anymore KEKW. It does even have an Invincible mode if you die even under Story mode.
Lot of Personal parallels as usual, and for the first time I finally realized Mirei is basically Igor. lol (more…)

Follow

Title: Pokemon Legends: Z-A
Platform: Switch
Genre: RPG
Language: English
Company: Gamefreak, Nintendo
Summary: Finished main Pokemon ZA story in 21 hrs, that includes a few hours of wasting time cleaning up the city, random Wild Area and parkour distractions, a few sidequests on the way, etc. Like many others, I agree Pokemon really does need voice acting… but y’know ‘smol indie company plz understand’

Characters:

Graphics:

Sound:

Replay Value:

Overall:

Follow

Title: PC – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Platform: PC
Genre: RPG
Language: English, French
Company: Sandfall Interactive
Summary: at some point you lose hope that people can still make good things until something like this comes

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a great reminder that the best things come when least expected, to the extent that even knowing what the main themes of the story are considered spoiler territory. This is how I like to make my own works too, just go in blind. But also kudos to legit spoiler free guides for stuff like missables that improved our experience in 2025.

Characters:

Graphics:

Sound:

Replay Value:

Overall:
Some minor gripes on this otherwise amazing game:
-White subtitles on white backgrounds
-No minimap, which is probably by all intentions to keep you immersed. Makes the game less accessible, but it’s a choice for certain and… it’s fine for regular re-players cuz it’s a good game for it ;X~

SPOILER TERRITORY UNDER CUT:
(more…)

Follow

Title: Visions of Mana / 聖剣伝説: VISIONS OF MANA
Platform: PC, also on PS4, PS5
Genre: Action
Language: Japanese / English
Company: Ouka Studios, Square Enix
Summary: SEIKEN DENSETSU…
Rip Ouka Studios… I can tell they really loved the Mana series with all the references it had, but the sales this game had did not meet up to stakeholder expectations :’)
(more…)

Follow

Title: God of War + Ragnarok
Platform: PS4, PS5
Genre: Action
Language: English
Company: Santa Monica Studio
Summary: It’s pretty much worth going through the horrors of the oldschool games to appreciate Kratos as a character in these. lol

I don’t have too much to say atm since it all goes into spoiler territory, but it is EXCELLENT.
(more…)

Follow

Title: Fire Emblem Engage ファイアーエムブレム エンゲージ
Platform: Switch
Genre: SRPG
Language: Japanese
Company: Intelligent Systems, Nintendo
Summary: Cleared Hard without skipping cutscenes, watching all the supports I got on the way etc, in less than 60 hrs.
Maddening also completed May 15, 2024.

I early on preordered two copies of 3H, one physical for the limited edition bonuses, one digital so I wouldn’t have to wait on shipping. For this one however, I’m just sticking with just the physical limited edition. The main selling point would’ve been an art designer that I really like (the character designer’s art is nice, but it’s not Kozaki Yuusuke or Kurahana Chinatsu levels for me), or confirmation of Kondoh Rei’s involvement with the music, and this title has neither of those. Many aspects I’ve heard about the game have been positive though, so I still look forward to it once it arrives within a week after launch. Just a few days to wait! XD

Also still seeking confirmation on Koei Tecmo/Gust involvement for this title? No one seems to have the full deets on this. I’ve been informed that this is this game is built on Unity though, so modding is fairly easy.
(more…)

Follow