Breath of Death 7: I had this game for a while, finally started it Thursday, beat it like 10 minutes ago. I knew it was short but not "3 sittings, one of which was an hour tops and the other two were about 2-3 hours each' level short. It's probably for the best because this is a game that definitely would have overstayed it's welcome if it was too long.
Was this Zeboyd's first game? Because if so, it shows. The humor was funny at first, being referential and metahumor, but after a point it became clear that was basically all his material. Yes, you are aware of jRPG cliches, yes you can make fun of yourself, and yes, you toss in memorable things from other games/media, it's funny in short, spread out doses, but it's everywhere, and reaches an "alright already!" The one part I did find kind of creative was with the Ursurper because that felt like legitimate parody with the whole "Wait, all I had to do was ASK to be king and you would have abdicated the throne?" "Yep, that's right!" "...I'm so sorry! If only I had known, I'd have been a far more supportive uncle!" since I don't think I've quite seen that done before, at least so explicitly.
Not sure what i think of the minimalistic plot. I get that it's a throw back to NES jRPGs where there was basically nothing but "pre-title screen intro -> go through a bunch of dungeons with little to no context as to WHY -> FINAL BOSS THAT EXPLAINS ENTIRE PLOT!" NES Dragon Quests basically did this, FF1 did this, etc. The game is short enough that it can get away with it, and it avoids the "plot getting in the way of gameplay" but I still wish there was a little more substance. Yeah, chat exists, but I wish the game just had some more PC banter in between.
Played on hard mode. Had a bunch of resets because a fair amount of RNG involved depending on circumstances until late in the game where you can go into Steam Roller Mode. Overall, pretty average game I'd say. 5/10.
No clue when I'll get around to Cthulu. Played BoD7 mostly because I wanted something to play between now and when FEF arrives, and it needed to be short. I thought BoD7 would at least last me until like...tomorrow <_<