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It's like super fancy, modern Adventures of Lolo. Cool

Yeah, no surprise. XB is uncomfortably hylersexualized anime cringe fanservice that happens to have a game attached. The games aren't half bad, but I can't get past the aesthetic these days.

Hewitt? Was Jon McEnroe already booked? That's a joke. Lleyton is a pretty cool guy. It's almost a shame his career was goblinized so much by Federer.

Hmmm, yeah, I could chill with this.

I hope there's not like, a LOT of voice acting... Turtles in Time had the ideal amount for a brawler: Goofy, charmingly digitized lines here and there. I don't need to hear a grunt or oof every single time I swing a weapon or get hit.

Game looks pretty chill but not sure I need a physical of it. eShop seems like the perfect home for this sorta thing.

wow, dan harmon lost a lot of weight

I've been playing almost nothing but metroidvanias this year, and this one has big 6/10 vibes.

@ArcticEcho can confirm, that one was pretty good

That gameplay looks HOT.

Hey, love free updates despite still struggling on 1BC like a pleb.

I subsist almost entirely on a steady diet of 6 & 7 out of 10 games. Somebody's gotta play em.

The fan translation that's been available for more than a decade now is probably better than any official localization would be. Just play it already. It's very good. Nintendo's not bringing it here.

Not a surprise at all and I did call it in that previous post. Since I knew it all along, there's no disappointment to be had.

"Re: Poll: So, Do You Think Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 2 Will Actually Release In 2022?
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It will 100% not be this year. Maybe not even 2023."

If fans can berate a movie studio into fundamentally altering the way Sonic looks, they can certainly do the same to get Jun Senoue and Crush 40 to headline the movie's soundtrack. Get on it, guys.

Don't really care about any animation videos, but I do remember the gameplay video from a while back as being pretty darn solid looking. 2022 is my Big Year of Beat As Many Switch Metroidvanias And Neat 2D Platformers As I Can, so this is high up on the list.

Yeah, Fenix was alright. Considerably better than I expected for a BOTW pretender. Not sure I'd play a follow-up, but who knows.

Cyber Shadow, Astalon, and Infernax have my three favorite, not just retro OSTs, but game soundtracks in general on the Switch. They're all an A+ and underrated. Even better, they're all fantastic games.

@MARl0 did you encounter the nightmarish visual glitches and the game basically falling apart like I did during the final boss? I captured some footage: https://twitter.com/justin94611784/status/1504363804578050055?s=20&t=Ze6jpvTaMvy-dEnsbQaJsQ

Trek fans have never had it better in terms of quantity... but at the same time, we've also never had it worse in terms of quality. Discovery and Picard are embarrassing messes.

@Jcdbengals it's really not a metroidvania, though. It's pretty straightforward. Sure, you can go back to previous stages but it's completely optional. That, a metroidvania, does not make.

Well, I bought and beat it last night. It's pretty alright. It's NOT really a metroidvania, though. It's very direct level progression. You can revisit previous stages to hunt for secrets and stuff, but that's all optional and overall the game is a very straightforward affair (which i don't mind at all). the gameplay is simple and feels good. some of the art and presentation are iffy (kinda rough MSPaint looking), and the music is very bland, but overall i had a positive experience. ymmv when it comes to the humor and dialogue — i didn't hate it, but it didn't really get any laughs out of me.

i'd DEFINITELY recommend Infernax, Aggelos, and Astalon first. then the Curse of the Moon games. then maybe this. I'd give it a B-. Certainly worth the under $10 i spent.

I've been chewing through switch metroidvanias this year, so let's heap one more up on the pile. Sold. Edit: having completed the game, I can report this is not a metroidvania.

For $10 this look rad af

starwarsforpresident is definitely the sort of name a credible source for leaks would have

@nowthisisepic I don't see why being a reference makes it any less weak. Seems like today is excuseday (and that's how it's done, thank you, try the veal, tip your waitress)

I was on board with "pre-quill" but I just can't say the same for "2sday".

"pre-quill" oh, Sega, give that guy a raise

X is great. GX felt too claustrophobic, and the music was bad.

Conan is the greatest living comedian and I dearly miss his Clueless Gamer segments. His podcast has been great.

My launch switch itself is totally fine. And I travel by air a few times a year (although only once in the past 2 years for obvs reasons), however, my original left joycon stopped registering any inputs on the stick. I didn't get the dreaded drift, the stick just stopped working late 2021.

@Mok lmao, if you read my other comments you know that's a nutso assumption as I name check several other dialogue-heavy games (that I say, again, manage to not get excessive with it). But, you know... you're right, if you like a game, that means it's automatically immune to any criticism, so please, just go enjoy the game.

I, uh, kinda forgot about this one. I even kickstarted it, apparently. Still very much looking forward to it.

Seems like fans should just make the movie if it's this easy to influence the studio. Make it weird, everybody. I've seen your deviantarts

@JasmineDragon "they just might be overpriced trash with a designer name attached to it." Bingo.

@MJA24 um, of course it's my opinion... that's how comment sections work: people post their opinions. yes, "i think" (there, i included that for you) this particular game's dialogue to gameplay ratio is excessively weighted toward wading through text boxes, as plenty other games somehow manage to accomplish as much character development, world-building, and exposition with less (see: FF Tactics).

i never said i dislike story and dialogue, i never said you aren't welcome to feel differently. in fact, all i did was ask a question--that you continue to ignore--and make a pretty decent literary joke.

@MJA24 I notice you dodged my question. I never said long, detailed narratives are bad (Xenogears is another fave of mine, for example) — what I said, very clearly I might add, is that TS has indulged the dialogue to the point of excess. You know the meaning of the word excess, right?

@MJA24 are you positing that there can never be "too much" dialogue? FF Tactics is in my top 3 all-time faves, and it has a fair bit of text--but it never feels particularly excessive. I found the Triangle demo excessive to the point of tedium.

If the average, wordy JRPG wants to be War and Peace, Triangle Strategy is shaping up to be Artamene ou le Grand Cyrus. (hyperbolically metaphorically speaking, natch)

"you 'geed' a massive car... " ????

I'm more curious about the supposed "sound quality" upgrades. The audio in the original is an A+, not sure what needed to he changed.

Infernax is a blast! Protip: eat the wall chicken for a fun scene. Also, enter the Konami code at the title screen.

Looks pretty dope, speaking of un-spoken-about gems, how about Street Cleaner??

I didn't expect all the gore, but I love it. Reminds me of that infamous flesh melting scene from the NES's Sweet Home.

Isn't the vast majority of Sherlock Holmes material public domain?

??? It looks totally fine. It's a PS1 game.

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I had fun with the battles in the demo, but holy cow were there also stretches of seemingly unending dialogue boxes. I'll probably wait for a sale to pick this one up.

@anoyonmus story-wise, nah, not a big deal. But do play the first because it's fantastic and considerably better than this one.

He remains the most stylish man in the industry.

This run was great, and dude seems like a super nice guy.