Topic: Universal Recommendations Thread

has anyone here played Gods Eater 3 on Switch? loved Burst on the PSP and was considering ordering it but wanted to know what the general consensus on the game was. granted the game is probably enjoyed by some and not by others, regardless I'd love some pointers and advice. cheers

@Caperfin HBOMax

I totally recommend watching Alchemy of Souls if you like Korean drama/comedies with action. I have watched every episode to the show's conclusion. The only thing I didn't like though, was the fact that there weren't English dubs in Part 2 of the series. It is available on Netflix.

I recommend you guys to take a look at the new game called "Laika ages through blood". First recommended to me via a great song from the game courtesy of Youtube, I found a trailer and a demo and it looks stellar.

passing by to rec ya'll hell girl

Annual push for everyone here to play "Inscryption"

Part deck-builder, with RPG/horror/puzzle elements... utterly unique with a terrific & strange 'meta' narrative to boot! If you enjoy Slay The Spire, or just want a unique gaming experience, I can absolutely advocate Inscryption.

Go in blind, as spoilers will ruin the experience/story. Main game takes around 10-12 hours, doesn't outstay its welcome... completion unlocks an 'endless' mode with difficulty modifiers (ala Hades)

Such a cool gem, usually on sale but definitely worth full admission price

Try Branston baked beans instead of Heinz and thank me later!

@StarBoy91 You should actually get the DSiWare version(not saying how you would aquire it), it scales perfectly on a DSi XL, and it works amazing in the MelonDS emulator.

I'd recommend Root Down by Beastie Boys(the song). It's a great rap song!

Have anyone played Oceanhorn 2 ?
Was that game easy enough ?

I was originally going to drop this in the Retro Recommendations Thread, but I'm not sure if some of the below qualifies.

Recently, I started looking into spinoff Pokemon games again, a rabbit hole I went down after exploring what to do with a leftover NSO voucher (Spoiler: I'll likely use this on New Pokemon Snap soon). I've enjoyed some of these in the past but sort of fell off them on traditional consoles when TPC started releasing the main series titles in a rapid fire style. Not to mention the spinoffs tend to vary in quality and more often than not appear on mobile these days. I play Pokemon Go on occasion when out exercising or running errands, but that's it.

I know pretty well what I can and can't access at this point (I'd love remasters for games I missed or couldn't access back in the day, like Colosseum/XD: Gale of Darkness and Pokemon Conquest). One spinoff series I'm considering revisiting is Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. I only played Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team back in the day and recall enjoying the main campaign; the plot was somewhat decent, the characters endearing, and I liked the visuals. It was mostly the post-game content and insane difficulty spikes that drove me away and made me side-eye later entries.
A brief rundown of what annoyed me:

• Random difficulty spikes, not helped by poor leveling + a lot of grinding
• Not being able to save outside of "quick saves" when in dungeons; once the save reloads, it's gone
• Abysmal recruitment rates for higher level Pokemon, even with the Friend Bow in the inventory
• Dungeons with a ton of floors where you lost all progress if you died (Post-game irritation)
• What caused me to drop BRT back in the day? Getting almost to the bottom of a huge dungeon (Don't recall which one), wiping out in a monster house, then losing a good chunk of items...including my only Friend Bow. Needless to say, teen me was DONE.

The reason I'm thinking of giving this spinoff series another chance is because I've read later games improved upon some of my complaints. I tried the Rescue Team DX demo on Switch and enjoyed it, but it's short enough (1-2 hours) to not be a fair evaluation outside of the bare basics.

So...Is this series for me? Should I try it again? And if so, which games are worth my time and don't have a high cost barrier? Gates To Infinity, for example, seems to catch a lot of hate. Explorers of Sky seems universally beloved; the problem is it's very expensive even secondhand. I'm not against emulating if it comes to it, but I prefer playing on original hardware or NSO if possible. Alternatively, I could maybe see an eventual DX version of EoS and the other Explorers games if Rescue Team DX did well.

Thanks for reading!

@Tyranexx
Maybe you can try Nexomon for alternative Pokemon style game.
I enjoy this game than Pokemon games.
Also, I became liking Nexomon more than Pokemon because I dared myself jump into the games I have never played before and I got some new experience after played them.
I also picked the Pokemon spinoff on 3DS, Wii, don't really bothering if I can engaged with the games very long, as long I tried first to get new gaming experience.

@Anti-Matter While I appreciate the response, I'm not really looking for Pokemon RPG alternatives at this time; I have a few games in my library that already scratch that itch (the Yo-Kai Watch series, Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth, Monster Hunter Stories). I'm more interested in games in different genres that feature the Pokemon series. New Pokemon Snap is one example. It's an on-rails shooter in a sense, except the player uses a camera and not a weapon.

While the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games have RPG elements, the only "catching" the player does is through recruitment. Though there is battling. The games are ultimately randomized dungeon crawlers with some mechanics very different from the core Pokemon series.

@F-ZeroX

That was good! Thanks for sharing.

I'm hoping someone for some reason can personally help me with this, or at least point me in the right direction because I've tried searching and have come up blank. I'm really wanting to get the Suikoden collection and trying to decide which system to get it on. I would normally automatically go for Switch 2, the only reason I'm considering Switch 1 is because it's all on the cartridge and not a key-cart. Has anyone tried both versions to know if the differences are miniscule enough to stick to Switch 1, or if Switch 2's upgrades are good enough to go for that version? And please just stick to game discussion, while I prefer on the cartridge I'm not going to boycott key-carts or anything like that. Thanks.