Mary Skelter: Nightmares

I don't get where the praise comes from tbh. Maybe in comparison to other blobcrawlers but I haven't played many. This game is utterly mediocre in every way. Boring, shallow combat and exploration. Dull, long-winded dialog.. so much yap about absolutely nothing. Boring, toothless 'adult' elements that would have been tacky 15 years ago. Vague implications of lewd acts, but nothing specific or explicit enough to bother censoring or even be remotely interesting. 'Minigames' that would look cheap in a decade-old flash game let alone in a product for sale. Weak. Everything about this game is just utterly lame. Completely unimpressive in any way.

Ngl, the gameplay, just like your average dungeon crawler. The added mechanics give a fair bit of flavor to the game and its sequels but besides Jack mitigating and controlling the flow between Massacre Mode and Blood Skelter the gameplay is not that much different from any other dungeon crawler. What is different is the aesthetic, the atmosphere, and the characterization. The problem with other dungeon crawlers is often the lack of chaacterization from your companions, which the characters being preset there's not a ton of customization but the job changes help switch things up and keeps your characters evolving. Your surroundings also differ from other dungeon crawlers. Where most in the medium immerse you in a medieval fantasy world, this one immerses you in a dark fantasy between Grimm's fairytales and an edge like stepping into a mid-2000s Hot Topic. This one stands out from the others. There's some lewd moments and mechanics but it's not any more egregious than other Japanese DCs. I think this entry is absolutely worth your time if you are a fan of dungeon crawlers and you need a new flavor from your Etrian Odysseys, your Wizardry titles, your Demon Gaze, etc. Out of all of them this series offers a different flavor of experience in dungeon crawlers and for that alone I think it's worth a shot from fellow fans of the genre. Thanks for the read and hope you have as much fun as I am getting out of this.

smt for weirdos

i like most of the aesthetics in this series but the gameplay n stuff feels very mediocre overall, but i guess we could always use more animu infused dungeon crawlers in Horror Wonderland so...

This was my first real dungeon crawler. I have mixed feelings. On one hand, the story / world and characters were great, albeit the big bad was a bit too predictable. On the other, the dungeon crawling part was really tedious, the maps are too big and they are pointless to fully explore, there are no great hidden rewards to be had, they are big to just pad out your playtime. The difficulty also has serious issues with sudden spikes but as long as you stay on top with your levels and gearing it is bearable. The unique blood skelter system was interesting but it has the flaw of building up corruption too fast so instead of a turn based rpg it feels like a management simulator. The post game story ends too suddenly without resolution, I hear this is remedied in the remake but I am not sure I want to slog through that all over again because I heard that one has even worse difficulty issues. On the technical side, the game shows its age, the version we got on PC was never in top form from launch and is plagued by memory leak issues to this day so there will be the odd crash here and there. Performance itself is generally ok, this runs on a toaster easily. Overall, it is worth to play at least once I guess.

Es un RPG que tenía pendiente desde hace tiempo y no tengo jugados muchos de este tipo que destacan por su exploración de mazmorra pero no lo siento pesado como dicen que son los juegos de este tipo. Dificultad justa, sistema entretenido de comprender. Mi pega el protagonista, está demasiado suavizado para la historia, no digo que debería ser un intensito pero la historia empieza literalmente encerrados y torturados un tiempo. No debería ser tan pasivo. En fin a ver que tal en las secuelas.

Nice

Eu tinha vontade de jogar esse Mary Skelter por anos e é muito melhor do que eu esperava e muito divertido também

This is a remarkably unstable game, and I don't mean the women. Seven and a half years is not enough time for Ghostlight to fix a critical Steam-specific memory leak issue. This game cannot run longer than an hour or two without a high risk of crashing. You should not buy this game on Steam. You should not buy this game on GOG. You should not buy any of this publisher's games because they cannot be trusted to release a functional product. I was, despite frequent setbacks, enjoying what Idea Factory/Compile Heart made. It's no Strange Journey or Etrian Odyssey, but it's very entertaining. Give the game a try, avoid the Steam version if possible and, above all else, make sure you are not handing your money to Ghostlight.

I love it! Red riding hood is cool!