Promise Mascot Agency

One of my favourite games! Managing your mascots is fun and doesn't need your attention so frequently that it interrupts other things. Driving is good at the start and fantastic once you get all upgrades. The dialogue is one of the best things and every character feels individual and has personality. Would 1000000000000% recommend playing to pretty much anyone as I feel there are aspects for everyone to enjoy.

Wonderful game with wonderful characters. Magical experience.

Would never have thought open-world vehicle platforming, light management sim, and card battler would work as three genre parts of one game, but here we are

Great vibes! it scratched at the itch i had that games rarely ever do nowadays, the "wacky weird" without a lot of tumblr humor, even if it was a little more explicit than I'm used to. Characters are well written and it's very fun exploring around. Had a few laughs, and even though some characters are absurdly ugly, they have such great personalities that most of them ended up becoming super endearing. Few clichés here and there- but honestly, it's perfect as it is and I didn't expect any different. Exploring around is great. One thing, though- I thought I had to grind for the money, it was a bit repetitive and ultimately it ended up being pointless. The final reward was cute but felt very disappointing because of this. By the time I had room to do things comfortably, I had already done everything that I needed to do. I recommend that if you pick this up, play this for the story without caring much about side quests and collecting, as it'll be much more rewarding to do post story. Also, this runs fine on a steam deck, but it is a little resource heavy and your fans are going to scream pretty bad. Doable on low quality settings.

You're a yakuza who's gotten into trouble, sent to a cursed island to run a mascot agency, together with a live mascot, a pinky finger with an attitude. Super weird, just like their other game Paradise Killer and just as awesome. However, very different game. While Paradise Killer is all about the story (and its characters), I completely skipped all dialogues in this one to just focus on the very fun gameplay: you travel the island with your truck to mostly collect items and cards for the card mini game, meet new mascots, clear objectives. Your truck over time gets the abilities to shot missiles, glide through the air. It is so fun to just travel the island. I enjoyed every minute of randomly driving places. 100% a recommendation from me. I went pretty completionist on this one but I'm just not the type to do everything. Not even in a game that I love. I guess I did a ~95% completion, only time trials were missing and I cleared a bit less than 100% garbage and old paths. 47/50 steam achievements. I completely skipped dialogues. I caught some of the story and while there are some twists I am okay with having skipped it. I think this game shines due to its gameplay loop. The only downside I think is that the game overstays its welcome by maybe 3-4 hours. I had already cleared the whole map several times over (with the exceptions mentioned above) and then the next story event happened and there were new items spread over the map. Which is fine. The first time around. Or the second time around. But then it gets old. Still, super happy I played this game. It was such a fun time.

Loved the game. Great atmosphere of 90s rural japan, lots of random designs and funny at that, a decent Story and lots of collectibles. I almost felt like I am the perfect demographic for this game. There is really only one downside. It can feel a bit lengthy for the gameplay it offers. I got between 5 to 10 hours of real management and exploring and a tiny bit of racing against time. The rest were story dialog and driving around to collect everything. Won't be for everybody. I would have loved a bit more stuff to do on the side and shortening the story just a little bit in exchange.