- Publisher: Kaizen Game Works , Kaizen Game Works Limited
- Release Date: Apr 10, 2025
- Also On: PC, PlayStation 5, Switch
- Summary:
- Developer: Kaizen Game Works, Kaizen Game Works Limited
- Genre(s): Strategy, Action Adventure, Turn-Based, Open-World, General
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 8
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Mixed: 3 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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Apr 7, 2025Promise Mascot Agency ticks a lot of boxes by being original, fun, and at times, quite weird. The mascot management is at the core of the game, but it’s the additional free-roam activities that flesh it out to deliver the most enjoyment.
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Apr 18, 2025Promise Mascot Agency is a weird, flawed experience. You spend most of your time driving around this tiny town, chatting up a series of total weirdos. You’ve got a short list of tasks to complete, a lot of money to make, and a lot of fires to put out. But all of it is so engaging, so charming and fun, that you don’t mind one bit. This town is a complete, well-crafted world full of compelling characters and fascinating stories. Plus, the core gameplay loop is addictive and butter-smooth. I don’t know exactly how to recommend this game, but I can’t recommend it enough.
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May 12, 2025Ultimately, Promise Mascot Agency is just a great time. Excellent humor, hilarious characters, great dialogue, and just enough nonsense to stand out from the masses. The actual mission structure and open world formula is hardly anything special, borrowing most elements from the countless similar titles out there. Yet, Kaizen Game Works’ virtual trip to late Showa Era Japan is full of charm, making its 20 or so hours of content fly by like a spring breeze. When you’re done with some of the big games of the season, such as Assassin’s Creed: Shadows, the Oblivion remaster, or Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, consider hiring these mascots, alright?
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Apr 20, 2025Particularly well-informed and rigorous in its delirium, Promise Mascot Agency shines in its art direction and excellent translation.
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Apr 7, 2025Promise Mascot Agency does a lot of things, and does most of them rather well. The result is an unusual genre mish-mash that takes a little while to get going, but once it does, is quite hard to put down.
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May 17, 2025Promise Mascot Agency blends gracefully many different genres and charms with its originality, but the title, which relies heavily on visual novel-style storytelling, can be very boring at times.
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Apr 7, 2025Promise Mascot Agency oozes style and originality but stumbles over its own structure. Only worth checking out if you're into slow-paced stories packed with Japanese weirdness.