8-Colors Star Guardians

• Genre: RPG
• Time Played: ~5 Hours
• Too Short/Long: Fine for what it is, but I wouldn't have minded a bit more content.
• Pleased/Disappointed: I'm pretty pleased, it was a cute game.
• Why I played: 2023 was the year of Kamen Rider for me. So far it's looking like 2024 is starting off as the year of Rangers/Sentai.
• Recommend to others: Sure, it's not an expensive game, and it's cute. If you like Power Rangers or tokusatsu stuff in general, it's worth playing through.

Star Guardians is a cute little game that I believe was originally a game jam game? "Chapter 1" I believe is the game jam content more or less and "Chapter 2" which is heavily expanded upon refers to the prior at a tutorial. I believe that's appropriate. The bulk of the content is in "Chapter 2" but there are also arcade modes and other challenges to mess with once you unlock everything. 

It's pretty much just a turn-based battle game where every battle has a gimmick or trick to it. You don't really level up, but you do gain new skills to use in battle and expand your team. There is some cute/funny dialog between the Guardians between battles and even special dialogs for when/if you lose that will hint or outright tell you how to win. It might be worth losing each one once just because some of them go off into a tangent and since the writing is entertaining enough, might as well get what you can.

I wouldn't have minded a bit more too it overall. I liked the team, I like the archetypical and parody writing. Nothing deep, but fun. There are a few stand out segments that are kind of their own thing, and I wouldn't have minded more of that to extend the game, and maybe they could have expanded on some of the other chance interactions, but it was fun for what it was.