@Eel very true, especially given that they were less than polite and I feel like overally people have a tendency to try and interpret whatever you say in a malicious way only so that they can insult you and feel superior. I'm not assuming this is the case, but I slowly back away from social interactions because of how sour it turns most of the time. I thought that I found a chill place in discord, only to find out later that I was hated and I don't remember ever being intentionally rude to anyone.
So yeah, I fully agree, watching birds play is so much more rewarding than pushing myself to try and talk more.
@Pastellioli yeah, on one hand, the story in Smash U is grand, the board is huge and it's really well thought, as the stage and characters really resemble the gameplay from the games they represent. On the other hand, they could have made so many nicer things, like cutscenes, conversations between characters, even some fun interactions would be a welcome addition.
Shmups? I tend to play them for fun, I'm no good at actually getting a big score because it usually requires you to learn to play in some super specific way. And I just want to shoot planes lol. I played "Game Tengoku Cruisinâ Special Mix", various Cotton games, etc.
As for the completely niche games, I like the artistic and narrative driven ones like "Schroedinger's Call" (demo on steam out now), "Nyankori Rabbit Doll", I also want to play "milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk", and one of the best adventure games I played, "Nairi"
What shmups and other niche games do you play? I'm always up for more
Bring me the sesame, miso, citrus and pepper flavored fish cakes
@Pastellioli Any online game can be a disaster for me. That particular friend knows it well. I'm hoping to at least be in touch with him!
Yup, the spirit battles suck. When I first played it, I was actually going no spirits, intending to get Puff, and only use her the entire run. Needless to say, that crashed hard into a flaming trash heap, ruining my experience vastly. I dunno if I have 100% on my file, and there was a certain moment at the end I've been waiting for since pre-Brawl.
I remember the FEW story well enough. Ye olde typical FE epic of some lordling having to flee home because of an invasion, gathering troops, and fighting back. A bit closer to the story of Sacred Stones imo, with Darios being possessed by the main villain, which was just an excuse to have a way for all those characters to be there to begin with. Seriously, the mainline characters more or less rehashed their stories with the exception of FE1's cast. The antagonists not being playable was a big blow to me. Turning on permadeath was a mistake on my end too. Also, regarding OG HW, Ganondorf, Ghirahim, and Zant were playable in the first release, with the latter two unlocked in the adventure map, back when there was just the one, plus illustrations. It was great being able to play the King of Evil. Cia however, came as paid DLC, alongside her story and companions/pawns.
You're mistaken about what I said. He had his mom's card on the system, someone hacked him/the card (idk which) and bought a bunch of stuff. When his mom saw the payments, she denied them cause credit card. Sony took this as a debt owed to them, apparently paying no mind to the fact he was a hacking victim. He's now too paranoid to play Sony, at least atm. It's stupid BS that comes with digital content and DRM. Digital is indeed more accessible, but it has flaws like this. No way to tell if it's a full refund, or something more like a trade-in. So of course that's why piracy flourishes.....
I guess one rule of note for success is, a balance at a high level of accessibility (where piracy is basically close to the highest level possible. Hence why it's a thing at all.), appeal (Wiimote? Yeah. They sold Wii on the premise that anyone can be familiar with it. They were right. Meanwhile, Gamecube looked kiddish to ppl compared to the "mature consoles", and Wii U was "just an accessory".), and quality. (Remember the Nintendo Seal of Quality? It existed for a reason.)
I never actually bothered much with those games after it became apparent I couldn't hold a connection. The idea of being banned, even if just for a few minutes, just cause internet dropped? No thanks.
Yeah. Tbh, you seem really relatable in terms of interaction. I've built up years of poor experiences further affecting my mental state. I can't count how many times I've been given the "We've gone over this already" rant. I dunno which friends I can trust to be open with me in some cases. Very few are open enough that I just know if I bother them, they'll speak up to make it apparent.
In my case, I wasn't anti-social though. Rather, my focus was such that I noticed absolutely nothing outside my focus's scope. Terrifying thinking back. Now I'm aware and suffering, with my focus scattered. Honestly? If we ended up communicating elsewhere, we'd probably get along great in both text and voice.
Also, you mentioned Kingdom Hearts UX? I still need to see what I missed. I missed out on the last handful of months of story, which is now essential to the next games, with the mobile titles delisted. I was burned out back then, and now I have to pay for it...
@Pastellioli
Speaking about Yokai Watch games, I played Yokai Watch 3 by the most.
Well, the reason I like Yokai Watch 3 by the most because it has more new Yokai from USA country in the game with new place to explore, more sub quest to do, new quickest way to explore any place with Pocket Mirapo, up to 30 times of chance for Yokai medal gacha machine, two playable characters Nate and Hayley with their different quests, the new mode Yokai Watch Blaster T that supposed to be Yokai Watch Buster 3 but it changed into T due to poor sales of Yokai Watch Busters 2 games, new 3 x 3 grids of your Yokai position during Battle, the new item Forbidden Apple that basically Master Ball of Pokemon with 100% guarantee you will get that Yokai after Battle finished and many more.
So far I have accumulated more than 345 hours of gameplay for Yokai Watch 3, but of course I played the Japanese version Yokai Watch 3 Tempura as it's impossible to find physical release of Yokai Watch 3 English version due to limited print and very inflated price if you can find one.
I played Yokai Watch 3 Tempura way more than my Yokai Watch 1 & 2 3DS, even way more often than all my Pokemon games on 3DS and Switch.
Speaking about new Animal Crossing game, I really hope the game will be Full 3D as Fantasy Life I have similar Terraforming feature like ACNH but you can enjoy the world in full 3D with rotating camera angle.
I want to see more designing aspect for new Animal Crossing like The SIMS with functional furnitures, not just for display purpose and the most important is remove the idea of Moving Out of the villagers as new Animal Crossing game better not based on GameCube version anymore.
The GameCube version was based on one of Nintendo employee who felt lonely by their friends leaving them and that's why the Moving Out villagers became the main feature in Animal Crossing (And I hate this feature so much) until in ACNH, the players given with optional choice that you can kick the villagers directly anytime and your villagers will not moving out by themselves so it gave me a pleasure to keep all my villagers without worrying to lose them when I don't play the games for very long time or I did Time Travel oftenly.
Btw, did you play Arcade games too at your local Arcade place?
I still like to play some Arcade games especially like Dance Dance Revolution, MaiMai by SEGA, Sound Voltex, Danz Base, some casual Arcade machines by UNIS Technology like Rampage Raccoon, new Arcade experience from Luigi's Mansion Arcade at my local Arcade.
I personally prefer Skill based Arcade machines as I want my money spent is worthy from how long I can play and it based on Skill, not by Luck.
There are too many Luck based Arcade machines in my hometown such as crane machines, ticket machines, and it looked like casino machines to me rather than pure Arcade game machines.
I avoided those "casino style machines" despite some of them offered way more tickets to win, but I have less interest to redeem the tickets as I don't feel really worthy to redeem the tickets as the rewards are common items like foods / drinks, stationary, cooking utensils, etc are very common items that I can get them without collecting the tickets from Arcade that I can spend with cheaper price than by spending the money from winning the tickets from Arcade machine. I still have common sense so I will not get into "casino style machines".
@Mariotag Yeah, usually from internet issues or the game just choosing not to work. Itâs been a while since Iâve played an online game. I usually prefer single-player offline games.
Yeah, I havenât ever attempted a no Spirit run for WOL, but I can already tell itâs hard. I do remember seeing a clip of a professional player trying to win a Spirit battle against a Donkey Kong while not using a single Spirit, but he lost despite how hard he fought, which tells me that Spirits are almost always needed for WOL or any Spirit battle unless you want a bad experience playingâŚitâs also why I never liked using Spirits during normal Smash battles. They can far overpower the enemy and make the game so unfun and unbalanced. I was very close to 100% on my file, but itâs stuck at around 98%-99%. Iâm not sure what Iâm missing, given I got all endings and all captured fightersâŚmaybe I missed a Spirit battle or two, but I swear I cleared all the maps of Spirits.
I see, so it was a very similar plot to one of the mainline games and they sort of reused story points for a few of the characters appearing in it? And I did forget about Zant and Ghirahim being playable in Hyrule Warriors. Thank you for the reminder!
Whoops, sorry! And it was his motherâs card that got hacked? Ouch, and the fact that Sony didnât do anything to help just sucks. They sounded like they were way more distracted with the money they were owed from those purchased games than actually helping with the hacked card. Just shows that companies arenât too helpful with some things, and it kind of proves the whole âmulti-billion dollar companies arenât your friendsâ thing with how much they can mess your account up and be unwilling to help. I do think digital has advantages, but the way DRM is mostly managed is not one of them.
Yeah, honestly a game is far more unenjoyable if it has trashy internet. Looking at you Overwatch! Had an awful time playing it back in December from server issues.
I definitely hope I can get rid of my social awkwardness and get better at talking, but it makes me seriously regret my decisions in the past. If I had actually been less paranoid with making friends then maybe I could have been better at talking and interacting better.
Even despite how hard I tried I missed out on the last few moments and cutscenes from the story because of the enemy levels getting far too high for me and the amount of Jewels I wasted trying to complete levels when I was defeated by enemies. Honestly the ending was kind of disappointing when I saw it once KHUX went offline and was reduced to just a cutscene viewer with no gameplay. There were a lot of questions I had after seeing the ending, but I know itâll probably be a while till they answer some of themâŚthey seem to be now introducing more elements and characters from KHUX into the new games since I was able to recognize the girl that appeared in the trailer for KH4, so maybe theyâll finally give answers to it? Honestly, Iâm not too into KH a lot with the story, but I still want to see what the answers are to the ending for KHUX.
@Pastellioli Yeahhh. I play Monster Hunter, so, freshly reintroduced to that issue here.
Yeahh. The "Floor is Lava" and heavy winds objectives are literally impossible for the most part in a no spirits run. I got somewhere, but not beyond the first phase. Spirits being overpowered is exactly why I tried to do a run like that. I didn't want to make it trivial, or to "cheat" by using spirits! As for where you've missed, the Lost Woods are a definite possibility.
The main point in Fates for example, was trying to end a bitter war between two countries, with a singular royal belonging to both royal families. While the original game's plot featured a LOT of meddling, with one of the meddling characters as the arc antagonist in FEW, FEW did not feature anywhere near as much. Fates had a lot hidden behind the scenes, and honestly, I never did figure out why things were so different in such a specific way depending on your choice. Awakening's plot carries over one or two antagonists, maybe the main one tbh, and Lucina's introduction. Core points are there. Then you have Marth's group, already assembled, complete with DLC character in tow, with one of the OG game's main antagonists playing a role in that part of the arc.
The main games, particularly the classic ones, tend to start the war off in a close to home fashion. So of course, just like Sacred Stones, where the female lead of the siblings has the opening chapter to escape her home under attack, FEW starts with a pair of siblings escaping their royal home.
And yeah. Ghirahim and Zant were Ganon's minions there.
Yeah. Card got hacked, they didn't care. Someone eventually apparently did care, hence the temporary unban, but got overruled. DRM is a nightmare. I want to own what I buy. His position of having bought a $720+ console, along with a collection of games, a sub, and losing access to it alongside his data and trophies is completely insane. I appreciate being able to make digital purchases, but I do not appreciate the possibility they can be yanked on a whim.
Overwatch...ah yes...That game a friend persuaded my to shell out for, only for my distaste of computer gaming, combined with it being near unplayable, to make me regret listening. Having said that...kitsune.
Honestly, that is a different core issue from what I had. I simply didn't notice other things besides my explicit interests at the time. Either way, now it's a problem. If ppl don't speak up, it's difficult for me to notice or have an idea of how to react. Silence draws ppl in, not casts them out. Also, if you choose to interact with me elsewhere, you can expect a genuine effort from me, not only on my end, but to be patient with you.
I do recall Strelitzia from KHuX, yes. In my case, I played the game while part of one of the game's guild equivalents. In terms of social, it was a failure on my part in the end. Partly due to the "Lucky Emblems" in KH3 driving me nuts. I kept asking for help while too afraid to look them up outright. Beyond that though, the group absolutely did hold expectations for each player. I would have had no problem finishing the story, as normal mode enemies would fall in one hit still as far as I was, with bosses taking slightly more. I do know some spoilers, like a possible deeper relationship between Ventus and Vanitas than initially explained. The new game is very much set up to take on the plot elements of the mobile games. KH3 itself actually has a scene where the highest ranking players from a competition from the mobile game have their usernames appear. The secret ending also has five key characters from KHUX appear outright, one of them having been in the series as early as KH2. I'm a nerd for the series, and Nomura planned way too much in advance.
@Mariotag
There was Luigi's Mansion Arcade 10 years ago. Developed by CAPCOM, published by Nintendo.
The gameplay is like Ghostbusters style which you will automatically walk to another places from 1st person view, capture & defeat all the ghosts you encountered.
This is the machine at my local Arcade.
To be fair I haven't seen it in that many places, I've seen the Arcade versions of Mario Kart a lot more, another one I only got to go on a few times was the Fzero arcade machine which even had a GameCube memory card slot..... Now there older Nintendo should look at doing a at home collection of them.
Maybe Lost Woods, yeah. Thatâs actually the one part I got super confused at when I did a second file for WOL that I didnât finish. I think I tried to finish that run without using walkthroughs, but I gave up from how confusing Lost Woods was. I for sure agree that those two conditions with the floor being lava and the strong winds were the worst. I think the âenemy immediately gets a Final Smashâ one was the worst. Thereâs an EarthBound Spirit battle with a character named Paula, and the Villager representing Paula had a Ness minion as an ally and the game IMMEDIATELY gave him a Final Smash that heâd use the second he got it. It was hard to avoid his Final Smash, on top of the fact his PSI attacks were stronger and heâd spam them a lot. Luckily it was a Stamina battle, but it was annoying nonetheless. The Spirits have very unbalanced and overpowered traits that would absolutely make a No Spirits run of WOL difficult and impossible.
Ah. I see! So it took a lot of points and storylines from at least two or three of the mainline games, on top of having an opening that resembled another one of the games. So the plot seemed like somewhat of a mishmash of stories from past games? I guess that does make sense for a Warriors game that you could say is technically a crossover featuring several FE protagonists interacting together on top of having some original characters sprinkled in.
That sucks, banned, unbanned, and then banned again for whatever reason with no comment on when he will be unbanned and if theyâll fix the debt thing. And he was actively subbed too? Gosh, that stinks even more! Yeah, if that happened to anyone, I would expect the person to be discouraged and paranoid about it happening again if they either got their account back or had to make a new one.
Overwatch was awesome from 2016-2019, though I lost a lot of interest in it over the years, mainly from playing Smash, Splatoon, and platformer games on the Switch. The servers seem to be less functional now, and I feel like thatâs more of an issue on the gameâs end than on mine. Itâs not even a WiFi issue, even when I had functioning WiFi the game would take long to connect to a game, and sometimes when Iâm playing, the game kicks me out and then reconnects me to the match it took me out of, and I get all confused about it. I donât know why the servers are slower nowâŚMarvel Rivals has far better matchmaking in terms of speed. If I search for a quick match, I get into a game only a few seconds later, and I havenât even been disconnected from a single game ever.
Usually I donât notice what effect something Iâm doing will have on me in the future. I just tend to be super focused on other stuff rather than actual important stuff, usually because of my unhappiness and how worried I become just overly thinking about something. I become so focused on doing fun stuff because I donât want to be stressed or do anything, but it affects me badly, and in my case, it made me really awkward in public and more antisocial, but Iâm far more extroverted now, maybe a bit introverted but more chatty and a bit sociable, so at least some of my awkwardness has gone away.
Iâm wondering what role Strelitzia will play in KH4, given she was killed earlier in the story and Lauriam had a bunch of visions and dreams about her before and after he found out she got killed. When I played I was a apart of the Vulpes union, but Iâm sure I chose them only because members from that union kept getting high placements on the leaderboards. I did join a group in the game, but I was apart of one before, though that specific one kicked me out because I was too inactive. There were plenty of groups in the game that wanted active players, but when I went to the next one I made sure to join one that didnât mind inactive members. I remember the reference to KHUX in KH3! That was actually really cool, especially with the Starlight Keyblade being in the scene as well and the top players having their names appear in the scene. Unsurprisingly I wasnât one of the top players lol. I am curious and interested in seeing how theyâll incorporate elements from KHUX into future games, given they started a new story saga an Strelitzia being in KH4, but it still sucks KHUX got closed so now some people have to watch a ton of cutscenes for it instead of getting to actually play the game and experience it. I feel like they should have at least kept the gameplay and cutscenes in tact, while having the online features disabled so people would still be able to play it. Keeping the game up would have made more sense, especially since KHUX is going to have its plot elements and characters appearing in future games and not all people will have played the game prior to shutdown.
@Princess_Lilly I definitely like Ultimate a lot, but I also think Smash U was great too, though I do agree that cutscenes and stuff would have been nice too. Speaking of that, when I saw that theater mode in Ultimate, I assumed there was going to be a bunch of cutscenes in WOL to watch once you finished it, but Iâm sure after finishing it there was only 6 cutscenes on top of the opening movie and a How to Play video. Felt strange and a bit underwhelming once I finished it. Honestly, WOL would have been really cool if it was more cinematic and had more cutscenes, not to mention the animation quality was amazing. The animation stood out the most in the gameâs final cutscene, âRestorationâ with Galeem and Dharkon being defeated and all the Spirits traveling in a stunningly pretty-looking trail in the night sky and returning back to their worlds.Too bad the actual story mode only has 6 instances of itâŚ
Yeah, I think one criticism Ultimate got in regards to WOL was the lack of character interactions besides the first cutscene, and if it counts, Sephirothâs reveal trailer set during the events of WOL. I never got to try Brawl but itâs story, Subspace Emissary, I know got a ton of praise, also from the fact that the gameâs cast had interactions with each other. WOL? Only the first scene and they never interact again, though think having the base gameâs cast of 69 fighters interacting with each other and getting equal screentime wouldâve been hard. It also sucked that Palutenaâs Guidance never applied to the DLC characters at all, on the topic of character interactions.
Itâs been a while since I have played a shoot emâ up. Last one I played was Enter the Gungeon on the PS4 nearly a decade ago, but I recently played another shoot emâ up on the Xbox called The Crackpet Show: Happy Tree Friends Edition. Itâs fun and I like some of the humor and weapons you get during runs, but I only managed to complete the first level/episode, the game is definitely challenging lol. The game is a bit niche and not too well-known, though itâs based on a show called Happy Tree Friends, which is extremely popular online. I mainly bought the game because Iâm interested in the showâs characters, art style and character designs (thereâs probably 4-5 characters I could name that I like in terms of their designs), though Iâm not into the showâs premise of cute and kind forest animals getting violently killed and harmed in each episode. From what I saw in the game and show however, the game is less violent, which was also a factor in me buying it.
If it does count, I played an indie game called Pikuniku a few years ago on the Xbox apart of Game Pass, though itâs on Switch too! Itâs short but fun, on top of having pretty funny humor, a nice art style, and a random storyline that adds onto the stupid comedy in the game. Iâm a fan of games that have completely random storylines and plots and focus on being really funny and sometimes as dumb as possible. I usually donât play indies though. Usually itâs retro games from the 1990s-2000s.
@Pastellioli I forget how I got through the Lost Woods area. I don't think completing it would be outright impossible, just unreasonable.
Yeah. Fire Emblem games, especially the classic ones, tend to start as the war starts, right as it reaches close to home. There isn't a huge amount of variation, and it shows. The plot was sorta like, what if all these characters got pulled from their worlds because insert evil being here?
Yup. He went through the wringer. It's no wonder he doesn't trust them, and in my case, I'm really starting to distrust the idea of these groups doing good by my digital games, which sucks, cause it's a whole lot easier to get games digital.
Yeahhh, I played during that timeframe too. If it's worse now, I don't wanna think how bad it'll be if I go back. Other games are something to get into. I need to work on my backlog a lot. Marvel Rivals sounds promising from your description.
Honestly, I'm the same. I can't let myself get lost. A lot of anxiety could hit me at any time. Of course, my social skills being lacking doesn't help either. Good that you've gotten better!
I played Vulpes too! The party I was in was called "Simple and Clean", which eventually got spinoff parties. It required discord. As for Strelitzia, the KH4 trailer, and followup content explicitly described that new place as both "the opposite of reality" and "A sort of next life". That'll be pretty interesting. They really need to rerelease both this game's story, and the one from the insanely boring gameplay Dark Road.
Also, agreed with the Smash Ult cutscenes. Major step down from SSE.
@Anti-Matter Yo-kai Watch 3 definitely looks fun, but I never got to play itâŚI think the premise and the game being set mostly in America absolutely seemed interesting, as well as there being Merican yo-kai instead of all the yo-kai being Japanese. I unfortunately missed my chance to buy it, since I focused a lot on the Switch when the game came to America, and now the game is extremely expensive to get with the eShop being gone. I do think you are right about 3 being more fun than 2. 2 is fun, better than the first one of course, but 3 seems to have way more content and new features that Iâm sure I wouldâve enjoyed. I do hope that I can try it one day however, because I still remember Yo-kai Watch and love it!
I canât remember my playtime for Yo-kai Watch 1 and 2, but I remember my playtime in 2 was aclose to 100 hours, though my Medallium is mostly barren despite the time I put into it. Only around 90 of them, which is kind of funny for the amount of playtime I put into it.
I am expecting the next Animal Crossing game to carry over some of the same features from New Horizons in it, one that Iâm expecting to come back is the time being unchangeable, also because they are now fully aware of there being people who cheat by changing the time. The accessible terraforming and building in New Horizons I do expect to come back as well. Basically, I think theyâll reintroduce a lot of the new features in New Horizons to make the next game more accessible, easier, and more fun for everyone. I donât really expect some of the elements from previous games, like villagers randomly moving out whenever they feel like it, to come back.
No, itâs been a while since I last played a game at an arcadeâŚitâs been a decade now or nearly a decade. I remember playing this game called Bubble Bobble at a game arcade section at a car wash a few times. It was fun, and it was cool that a car wash did afford to have a few gaming arcade cabinets there. You seem to be playing a lot of really fun arcade games! I like rhythm games too, but I havenât played Dance Dance Revolution. i usually like to play rhythm games on my phone where the gameplay is tapping the screen at the right time, but one where the gameplay is by dancing seems fun and something I wanna try one day.
âWoah-shi! Itâs a double Yoshi explo-shi!â - Yoshiâs Woolly World ad, 2015
If youâre curious, the character in my PFP is Flaky from Happy Tree Friends.
@Mariotag Lost Woods is pretty difficult when not using a playthrough. When I tried doing it again, it was a lot of walking around and getting lost and getting stuck, and whenever I thought I found a new path, it led me back to the same place again, on top of the map being pretty foggy. I do think completing a no Spirits run on WOL is possible but would be extremely difficult. Itâd be impossible for me, given that a lot of the conditions for most of the battles are terrible and make the enemy overpowered.
I see, and the plot did seem to be more like a crossover thing than an actual new story. Iâm assuming people probably thought the plot of Three Hopes was better than the first Warriors game, given that Three Hopes got mostly better reviews and reception than the first Warriors.
I honestly wouldnât trust a company if that did happen to me, but I think a lot of people would be like that if their account with a ton of game data, time, progress, trophies/achievements and purchased games got banned and went poof, especially if that company played a role in their account getting banned.
The game was way more functional back when it released all the way to 2019. It was around 2020 I stopped playing, but I only went back to it two years ago in March, though itâs shocking how much worse the server quality got. If the game just had awful internet and it stayed persistent, my interest in playing it went down. To check if the game was badly performing, I always went into the testing range and if the game kept lagging Iâd give up on playing, which happened far too often. My experience with it back in December was catastrophic. Matches would lag really bad, Iâd be kicked out of matches, I even got banned from playing for a minute because of how much the servers disconnected me, and I lost matches. A LOT of matches, and it just sapped all the fun out of Overwatch for me, though what didnât help was I chose to play it after the release of Marvel Rivals. My experiences with Overwatch back in March and November 2023 were more functional and actually fun, so I donât know why the internet quality went down.
Marvel Rivals is fun! I had far more fun with it compared to Overwatch, besides Rivals having actually functioning servers. You should try it if you feel like it or get the chance to. I havenât played it since February though.
I am being a bit more focused now luckily, though a lot of stuff I do distracts me from my issues and how I act. I tend to unfortunately be a bit unaware or zoning out since Iâm thinking of usually insignificant things in my head, or Iâm having extremely obsessive thoughts that I canât easily let go. It was like that a few days ago, but it was super frequent back a few months ago, though now Iâve become less like that luckily.
The group I joined didnât have a Discord, but I canât remember the name of the group, though it was a packed party, albeit a majority of the group members became inactive. It was only two or three members that were occasionally active. So it seems like itâs sort of like an afterlife of some sorts and something kind of fictional? That would explain why sheâs alive. Itâs been a few years since they last talked about KH4âŚIâm curious about the story and I definitely want answers to that world they showed off, but who knows when theyâll reveal more on it, Iâd assume itâs not close to completion at all unfortunately. Oh yeah, I actually thought Dark Road was extremely boring. It was the only part of KHUX that still had gameplay, mainly because Dark Roadâs story was unfinished by the time KHUX was closing and they wanted to finish it, but I wasnât even that interested in Dark Road compared to Union X. The card swiping gameplay wasnât fun compared to the medal-based and tapping gameplay in KHUX.
Ultimateâs cutscenes were in my opinion underutilized. The animation on them is gorgeous and impressive, and yet there are only six of them in the game, on top of the first cutscene being the first and only time you see the fighters interact with each other. I probably would have liked the mode more if it had used its map far more better, the battles being more fairer and being varied, and the inclusion of more cinematic cutscenes, and I just wonder what the point of the Movie mode was given there was only 6 cutscenes (if you do all endings), the opening movie for Ultimate, and a How to Play video. Itâs especially disappointing given how exciting and hype the opening cutscene is with introducing the main threat, Kirby being the sole survivor, and having to save all the fighters in order to take down Galeem and later Dharkon.
The Switch 2 reveal, of course, happened and.... man, it's just been a roller coster. The game reveals (Switch 2 3D DK before 3D Mario? Kirby Air Riders? Crazy!), the hardware and features, and, yeah, the pricing. It's... been something. Don't think I'm getting one at launch (didn't pre-order), but I'm getting one at some point. Despite everything, I'm looking forward to DK Bananza, Kirby ATFL DLC, and the upgrade packs have reminded me that I should replay BOTW.
Elsewhere in my life, my church did a big music experience for Easter. It was narration of the death of Jesus, using numerous collections of footage across different media (Passion of the Christ, The Chosen, etc), with songs in-between narrations. Really good, and genuinely moving
Also, I hit big on yard-saleing! I was having a conversation with someone at one of the houses I went to, and he told me he had GBAs! He brought them out, and I bought both for $25 each. Amazing find, am I right? Now I can play my copy of Sonic Battle. It also came with a copy of Super Monkey Ball jr., which was neat.
The guy said there was some othe Xbox, Wii, and Playstation games around there too, so maybe he'll have some other good finds? We'll see.
Current gaming schedule:
Okay, so Brothership has officially taken a backseat. It's a perfectly fine game, but it was taking me too long to beat/play. So instead, I've played and beaten 2 other game: 20XX, which is a Mega Man inspired rougelike (good game), and Portal 1 on Switch. I was waiting for Companion Collection to go on sale, it did, and I used my remaining Gold Points (R.I.P) for a bonus discount.
I REALLY liked Portal 1. I played the main game, played the bonus maps, then I played the main game again for achievements. Great writing, atmosphere, and gameplay. Can't wait to play Portal 2 (single player campaign, I've played co-op with my friend).
Currently, I'm playing Super Monkey Ball jr. It's amazing how they made a fully playable Monkey Ball experience for the GBA. It's pretty good! Definitely gonna beat this one for my end-of-the-year tier list.
2025 Commitments check-up:
Nothing to add, unfortunately. Still need something to help me move out, and there's still some games I should play this year. But it's okay, there's a lot going on. Speaking of which....
Final remarks:
Okay, I'm going to mention this because of how important this is. So my church is having a massive event in June called Win Your World. It's June 5-8, and we believe it's going to bring a outpouring of the evangelic spirit. Meaning: I'm gonna be busy.
After I finish Monkey Ball, I'm not sure what I'll play. Maybe I'll go back to Brothership? We'll see.
And lastly, I'll leave y'all with this: to those concerned about the state of the game industry, don't worry too much. There will always be options with how you buy games, you probably already have lots of great games already to play, and there's lots of great stuff in older generations of gaming. There's more to life than games (not trying to say anything), so don't fret to much about it.
Love y'all, and God bless!
Note: Don't mind the dolphin in the picture, that's just a KO Transformer đ.
Got a chance to clear up a misunderstanding and it went exactly as I should have expected. The other party didn't understand literally anything, threw some insults at me and then sayonara'd into the distance.
But that was kinda cathartic. Clearing up vile people's negative opinions' days are over. Now I am at peace knowing they are not literate enough to understand anyway. Looking at birds from the balcony is time better spent.
@Pastellioli I will answer you on the weekend, when I have more time. Not ignoring you, just don't want to leave a half baked answer
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