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The enemies look braindead in the footage; like they just sit around while you’re beating up their comrades. I’m worried about that. It looks.. too easy?

@ParadoxFawkes Dude, there is zero proof of any of it. The people that believe in witchcraft want to believe in it. They make it ‘real’ via mass suggestion and weak application of logics and physics.

@Citano Just curious, because I haven’t played it, what makes SaGa Frontier 2 your favorite? I loved the Gameboy Final Fantasy Legend games, and grew to like SaGa Frontier 1 over time (I hated it back when it originally released because I expected Final Fantasy 7 levels of presentation)

To me SaGa Frontier 2 looks completely underwhelming; a strange hodgepodge of bland Final Fantasy Tactics art direction and Visions of Mana. Where is all the awesome style from SaGaF 1?

@ParadoxFawkes In all my time being a member here, this is the first I’ve heard of someone saying witches are real. I’m sure you have proof of this do you? But while you’re at it, do you think these games are purposefully promoting witchcraft because of the demons or because it makes for fun gameplay casting spells and building unique battle teams?

Do you take everything else in fiction at face value also?

@ParadoxFawkes They are videogames set in fictional worlds, how the hell are they ‘very serious things’.

@EarthboundBenjy Ys X gets really good after the first few hours (after the initial hunt of the puppets, which is unfortunately repetitive), or basically after the first ocean area. It never gets as good as VIII (or Felghana) though.

@Ensemen The later levels and DLC do a really good job of switching up the difficulty as you get further into the round. The Contra levels are especially harrowing

@fabiop It’s infinitely replayable. There is much joy from choosing entirely random or seemingly contradictory builds just to find you survive by the skin of your teeth. It’s also fun to limit yourself to one main weapon and see how far you get, for instance. The game rewards creativity of mashing styles and different powerups together, and it must be said the music is excellent especially since adding Castlevania to the fray. There is also essentially three different versions of every song in the game.

@JJtheTexan This is the way

@MARl0 It’s weird some people report this; I have yet to experience it myself and I’ve played all of these pixel remasters on both Switch and PC

@Drake Why do you think the Japanese cast was recast

I’ve been knee deep in Ys lately. Having a blast:

Switch:
Ys X Nordics
Ys IX Monstrum Nox
Ys VIII Lacrimosa of Dana
Ys Origins
Ys Memoire The Oath in Felghana

PS5:
Ys VIII
Ys Memories of Celceta

@somnambulance Sponsored rebellion… sounds like an oxymoron

@Eel Yeah I think it’s just void between areas but where the textures still reach.

@springer17 😂

@SlamDunk22 “Why do rich people buy dumb stuff?”

Money laundering

@RupeeClock But Unleashed’s speed levels are some of the best in the series

The X360 version was also goddamn beautiful for its time, especially like the Greek inspired area.

@vio Look below, there are definitely people who appreciate it

@MasterGraveheart That’s what Stadia was and what Game Pass is trying to become

@Manxman64 It’s also a nice looking game for its time

@Kingy You must be the penguin in that picture 😄

@Anti-Matter More like FFXII

@gcunit I think it’s a really cool idea to switch the tracks up completely on the fly through portals— very Rift Apart impressive. It’s not easy to code that sort of assets flip while maintaining framerate

@Poco_Lypso “ I sometimes even forget to claim them.”

Yup. So many times I’ve inserted a cart only to find it’s too late to claim the points.

@TopazLink The gold awards for physical carts: 60 US cents for a Nintendo game, 30 cents for all third party

@ryan_nil Yeah it’s important to not sweat over the small stuff

@Samalik What do you mean ‘soul-sucking’— this isn’t soulless at all:

https://a.co/d/hxEXVbK

🤣

@Wisestfool My backlog’s insane too. I have already almost maxed out 2TB for Switch

@Ryu_Niiyama That’s admirable that you’re thinking of how this affects your parents

@NeonPizza To each their own: I adore Warioland 3. It had the best level design (and music) and the inevitable constant player failures meant figuring out the puzzles was extra sweet. Yea there’s backtracking (or really— repetition) but it’s in the design to frustrate the player AT FIRST. Some of the secrets are so devious in how you have to think outside of the box with the curses that befall Wario.

Hmm… something about repetition… something about being stuck in a loop until you break it somehow… it all fits into the theme of a music box

@NinChocolate After the creative freedom given for the original live action Mario movie, I can see why Nintendo would be paranoid from then on about their IP

I will probably shamelessly double dip for both eventual physical releases. The 2-disc soundtrack will likely be reduced to a Soundtrack Selection when it comes west.

I’m excited to see one of the top-5 Ys games come to Switch though. The exploration in this one rivals VIII.

@wiiware I would absolutely love Castlevania trying a Soulsborne style, so long as they keep it more upbeat (Souls games are overwhelmingly depressing in mood).

@antlion Hopefully with the Nocturne in the Moonlight additions

@Yoshi3 Totally agree; Lords of Shadow is my third favorite Castlevania:

1) Symphony of the Night
2) Dracula’s Curse
3) Lords of Shadow
4) Super Castlevania IV
5) Dawn of Sorrow
6) Rondo of Blood
7) Order of Ecclesia
8) Circle of the Moon
9) Aria of Sorrow
10) Castlevania
11) Simon’s Quest
12) Lament of Innocence
13) Portrait of Ruin
14) Harmony of Dissonance
15) Belmont’s Revenge
16) Legacy of Darkness
17) Curse of Darkness
18) Castlevania Bloodlines
19) LoS Mirror of Fate
20) Castlevania Chronicles
21) LoS 2
22) Castlevania 64
23) Castlevania Rebirth
24) Dracula X Vampire’s Kiss
25) Haunted Castle (remake)
26) Castlevania Legends
27) Grimoire of Souls
28) Castlevania Adventure
29) Harmony of Despair
30) Vampire Killer

@TYRANACLES These games are never as good as Castlevania, but I guess Migami is a one-man studio, so there you go.

“Wallachia” looked the part also, but it’s level design and control felt amateurish, and honestly it played more like “Rolling Thunder”

@bimmy-lee If you waggle it more than twice, you’re just playing with it 🤭

@BANJO And Goemon’s Great Adventure

@Orpheus79V Pepperidge Farm remembers

The emulation seems off to me on this one

@NolandC Doom is playable on EVERYTHING

@thenikdavies Hope you have a better today

@CammyUnofficial This is the way

@Bunkerneath Impossible Lair has way better levels

@Giberaltor This kinda makes me want a proper 3D Shovel Knight game.

Took the words right out of my mouth! I was disappointed it was just a nonplayable cameo when I tapped on the video 😢

Imagine how beautiful this world would look on OLED 🤩

It already had a really color-rich art direction back on the Dreamcast

@Spider-Kev In he US at least, there’s a good reason why you can’t find Audio CDs at Best Buy, nor Blurays at Target (brick and mortar stores) anymore.

I think Fred Meyers / Kroger still has some though

@Kejomo Wow that’s an impressive collection

@ScalenePowers It’s also that our shopping habits are growing very lazy

@cawley1 If you own them in some form I say go for it

@masterLEON Thanks for the info on those

@MagicEmperor The music in Cadash is beyond grating though

@B3RTAY But what else is left for a Volume 4?

@SoIDecidedTo I probably have 500 games on Switch and am pushing 3TB across two systems

@joey302 “About as exciting as going to a yawning festival 🙄”

Why did you go to one of those in the first place? That’s on you

@Tempestryke You said [24 racers] ‘Rainbow Road would be madness’, I guess I just assumed you were excited about that possibility.

@Artonide @Tempestryke It’d only be fun with 24 if we have higher engine ranks. Else it will take too long to overtake the crowd and the tracks would naturally have to be longer too.

@gabrigoes have you tried clearing your browser’s data / cookies cache

@BigRadical That’s only if you’re already in the higher ranks of the race; if you’re in first place you mostly get coins and banana peels (rarely Green Shells and the Horn Blaster)

@Jack_Goetz Oh man— Luigi’s fatalities would be brutal: staring one down until fear overtakes his enemy and they seppuku to end the madness

@LastFootnote That’s not entirely true though, because it’s 12 more racers to potentially use bad items on you. Will there be even more blue shells?

@SuntannedDuck2 If you’re an endurance racer type, then yeah Mario Kart probably isn’t for you. Endurance races bore me to tears.

@GinMiguel 24 racers in a round, as there are now 24 starting spots before the finish line

@Mana_Knight Git gud 🤓

My ranking:

1) (Ys III) Oath in Felghana (PC)
2) Ys VIII Lacrimosa of Dana (PS5)
3) (Ys IV) Memories of Celceta (PSP)
4) Ys X Nordics (Switch)
5) Ys VI Ark of Napishtim (PS2)
6) Ys 7 (PSP)
7) Ys IX Monstrum Nox (PS5)
8) Ys IV Dawn of Ys (Super Nintendo)
9) Ys 1&2 Chronicles (PSP)
10) Ys III Wanderers from Ys (Sega Genesis / MegaDrive)