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Deliberately edited cuts on YouTube? No way!!
I am about to stop YT, because lately all it's been is American Left versus Right videos anyways and they suck.

Nobody listens to each other, it's all sensationalist and it contributes only more negativity.

The first movie was a bit too overstimulating for my senses.

I am still in recovery.

@Ryu_Niiyama Thank you for sharing. Quite courageous. I hope yuo will be able to enjoy your favourite pastimes for a long time to come.

It almost feels like people are supposed to feel guilty for not liking Link to the Past, haha. It's not for everyone. Personally, I strangely never owned it, but I did play and finish it. I loved it, but even when I have a MASSIVE amount of nostalgia for it, it doesn't hold a candle to Zelda II for me. That's the definitive Zelda experience for me.

I do not view these games as being in the same universe. They are different stories to me. Zelda II is a direct sequel to I, which I didn't play on release but which has also shown enough age to not be something I feel the need to finish. Zelda II was an epic story for me though.

Zelda III is a far more contained vibe. The world is smaller. The princess is more approachable. The entire vibe is a village compared to Zelda II's country.

That doesn't make it a worse game, mind you, it's just that the vibe is more SHUDDER... cozy?

No... Scratch that. Homely.

Zelda III had a more homely vibe, and one that I resonate STRONGLY with, but is in such a stark contrast to the epicness of Zelda II, that it honestly feels like something entirely different. I guess you could compare it to playing Breath of the Wild versus Link's Awakening, which coincidentally I view as a direct sequel to III, but I guess that is pretty much canon.

I actually feel like BotW has taken a lot of inspiration from Zelda II, actually. But that's a different story altogether.

Anyhoo, enough ranting, I need to get back to work.

Abandonware speech synthesizers? Count me in!

They should've given more options. Clearly male, slightly androgenous male, middle, slightly androgenous female and clearly female, and not call them anything but say "Choose the look you like the most".

And then do the same with clothing. Bikini armor, bikini armor with leather, bikini armor with gambeson or something, and then something else clothed, even better protected.

Because while we are all putting our panties in a bunch, I think both options are lame. The most naked one the most lame, but I still wouldn't choose the female fighter all the same for wearing such a ridiculous outfit.

Nor would I choose the male option because he looks weird too.

Maybe we can all agree that having the option would be best? More options is better representation and still allows you to choose the option that would have been the default.

I see a few people up in arms about the Ghibli reference, stating everything these days is...

But I honestly can't think of too many titles making that claim, so either I missed something, or you guys find the number 2 too high already.

I asked my son to rate it. He gave it a 9.
The game is super fun, but it's not like it's the BEST game ever. And it is a bit similar to Link's Awakening, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but you know...

It's fun though, not using a sword but instead different things. It's a lot of fun.

He should go into journalism!

People who gave this game a 1 are... I am not taking them seriously.

Artwork looks cool! Watching the intro made me expect a sort of Darkest Dungeon game. This still looks cool, but probably not entirely my jam.

Best of luck to the devs though! Hopefully it will take off for them!

The character art doesn't really match the animé looking units, which I find a shame.

The character art however does give me warm, fuzzy Megalomania vibes.

@Maubari I understand the sentiment, but BotW was the first Zelda in a looooooong time that gave me the right feels. To me it felt like a re-imaging of Zelda II, which was my first Zelda and one I fondly remember.

TotK was too over the top for me though, didn't even bother.

But before that, the last Zelda to truly captivate me was probably the SNES one. So honestly only Zelda II and III. I guess I liked the original Link's Awakening too, but never finished it. So I guess I really did enjoy BotW, otherwise I wouldn't have played it to the end.

Now all we need is a remake of Link to the Past, Between Worlds and the Oracles, in this style, and we have a nice set going on, right?

Or are they not part of the same storyline?

While the setting is again the overly ridiculous, no suspension of disbelief whatsoever "epic" of most sci-fi-esque JRPGs that I personally really dislike, the fact that they used tabletop scenery builds makes the wargamer in me very giddy.

Mayhaps if the price is right. It's not like I have time to play all these JRPGs. I still haven't finished Triangle Strategy, Eiyuden Chronicles or Unicorn Overlord, because why finish one before going to the next, right?

Didn't finish Octopath Traveler II either, though I am content with what I have played. Possible Spoiler alert about the first game > The impossible final boss of the first game kind of put me off of going any further, though I do love both games.

Not my favourite game ever, but it has very certain charms that make this a definite buy for me. Though I am not looking forward to that wizard's tower? Can't remember exactly, but it had a sequence of doors you had to do correctly, and I never got past it.

@Serpenterror - Suikoden III sucks? Well, I beg to differ, my good sir. Sure, it's not as great as Suikoden I or Suikoden II, but that's okay. The story for me was incredible, and I LOVED how it wrapped up some stories starting even from Suikoden I. Very emotional ending.

This game was sold out everywhere.

The I found a copy!!!

And then I found many more copies, heavily discounted, two weeks later. That was kinda annoying.

But I am glad I got a copy. What a game!!!

You know what I wouldn't mind? And I know it'll never happen, but I would love to have a Switch cartridge exactly like the bootleg 31 in 1 Multicart NES cartridge that I had a long, long time ago.

There was something extremely magical about that. A hint of illegality, which for a young boy was somehow kind of tantalising, but mostly it was a collection with games that one would NEVER find in stores, so there was this exotic feeling as well, mysterious. The art on the cartridge was MAGICAL!

My goodness. Karateka, Mappy, Battle City. Fond memories.

I had a friend with a different cart with even more exotic games on it. Sometimes I feel like revisiting them, but I forgot the names of almost all of them.

Warm hug? No.... sterile hug, maybe. It looks way too sterile. Not awful, just... too bright and with very bad shading.

@Pally356 @Peteykins The coloring is just the scan. Never take coloring into account as it's just a JPG they chose that does not necesarily represent what it truly looks like.

@AstroTheGamosian Well, as I said, Unreal is free and also one of the two biggest engines, that professionals use. I'd wager about half the games you play are made with it.

It is a huge program but many tutorials exist.

Start small. Learn the basics through online tutorials. Don't start with your dream game, you will get discouraged if you bite off more than you can chew right off the bat.

Good luck!

@Poodlestargenerica Fair enough. It still doesn't strike me as particularly Japanese in its approach, though.

@roboshort @cedarhyped Fair enough. RPG Maker is just very, very basic.

But yeah, it might be a good gateway for some. I wouldn't discount Unreal for starters though, there are more than enough tutorials out there.

@JHDK LOL, you really just typed that on a videogame website? As if Lego is SO different from playing videogames.

@AstroTheGamosian Don't know your background, obviously, but if you are serious about wabting to make games, this is not the product for you.

Unreal Engine is free, and a pretty much literal million times more powerful.

RPG Maker is really only good for one thing, and that is create 16 bit style JRPGs with a very limited palette of graphics and gameplay styles. Clever and creative folks can create clever and creative games with it, but they will probably be using the PC version, which allows for a bit more than this one.

@Poodlestargenerica No, those are "standard" JRPGs. This game clearly is turn based grid, like FF Tactics, Fire Emblem, etc., which have always been called Strategy RPGs.

@cvrator No, it was way back. Old version. Glad to hear it's become easier.

It feels wrong. Karate Kid was never about the mass battles. In that sense, the Cobra Kai series is a better fit. It had way more of these group versus group scenes.

And Kimiko never visited Reseda, did she?

I am too autistic for this retcon situation. It does look pretty though.

@Poodlestargenerica That's usually called a strategy RPG or tactical RPG. In my eyes, JRPGs are called as such when they have a decidedly animé aesthetic.

But I will concede, that is what it means to ME. Doesn't have ti be the same for others.

I feel like terminology is meaningless these days. At least to me. What makes this a JRPG? Because it doesn't look like one to me, for sure.

@calbeau - For what it's worth, it looks like her name is B Zero B Zero, though I might be wrong.

Still, people will read it as Bobo, which I assume isn't a nice thing for Filipino players, so your point is still valid.

@RygelXVIII I know. I wasn't responding to that. I was responding to your comment on why they are being bashed online. Not why they are being sued.

@RygelXVIII They are not being bashed for trying something new. The main game idea is new and kinda cool.

They are being bashed because they CLEAAAAAAARLY made this as a "What if Pokemon had guns and stuff" game.

If the creatures looked differently, they would have NEVER made as much cash as they did.

They chose the name Pocketpair as their dev name. That is no coincidence. They are CLEARLY banking on Pokemon's popularity and the very distinct similarities in design of their monsters.

Is this a Pokemon clone? No. Are the creatures Pokemon clones? Yes.

It looks a lot better than I expected, but again WAY too much focus on breasts. Unnecessary. I dislike it when games do that.

Honestly the only thing this game needs is better towns (and cities), with better ways of interacting with the villagers, and a way to build your own town and attract villagers.

I know there once was this way of getting villagers with golden apples or something, but that is just a convoluted mess to get a village.

Honestly, this game would be so much better if there was some actual life in the world, not just mindless mobs.

@Arawn93 Was thinking the same. Aged very quickly too.

@GrailUK They named their company Pocketpair... how people are not seeing that the likeness to Pokemon is very much intentional is beyond me.

Not saying it means they crossed legal lines in my eyes, just saying the blatancy is a feature, not a coincidence.

@Anti-Matter Because, in the case of Stardew Valley, it is ONE person that did EVERYTHING.

Plus, it is really made for PC. It's lucky we get it on Switch, but both these games are primarily PC, or at least Minecraft was for a long time.

@JSC016 Elaborate sets don't exist. They all cut too many corners. Except maybe some of the smaller Star Wars ships... Maybe it was always that way and my memories are rose tinted, but I dislike how everything is just half of what you hope for.

That blurb has got to be the most uninspired piece of text I have ever read. Like they don't even care about their game.

I always thought Smash Bros. would be great if it just stripped away all the extras and focus completely on to the core.

Brawlhalla is precisely that and I do not like it at all. I gave it an honest try but it doesn't click with me.

NA this time. That's it. I can't think of anything more to say... teehee

Never played any Power Ranger game... don't think I ever will.

Smart move not making its mouth move.

Though it would've undoubtedly garmer some extra sales.

Funny, I dislike Europe's. I think JP is the nicest.

@the_beaver No no, Another Last Story Re:Conclusion Neo:Tale 2F

Guess I am the only New Denpa Men addict in here. I can't shake the habit.

@Serpenterror Original graphics at least. Since it is 4P co op, that would not be possible with only 3 characters. But my guess is that won't happen...

@FX102A To be fair, Mario's source material is all over the place. I could argue they actually didn't respect the source material by trying to tie everything together.

Mario is great, but its universe is incredibly inconsistent.

@DripDropCop146 That, and about a million people who like drawing in his style. I know I used to be one.

There's bound to be hundreds of people capable of perfectly copying his style.

I wasn't one of them, though. Haha.

@Kienda For you and everyone else hereafter, so I will caps lock it to make it stand out. So I am not doing it to sound like a smartypants towards you, but...

THIS LIST IS BASED ON USER SCORES AND THEREFORE SUBJECT TO CHANGE

So if a game is missing, not enough people have given it a score.

Funny... my wife, not a Minecraft fan, was like "Ooh I wanna watch that!" and I won't mind tagging along with her and the kids. Mindless fun.

It's a joke movie. And since MS are treating Minecraft like a joke, it fits perfectly fine.

Also, Story Mode was funny too. It was really odd how all of a sudden it stopped working for me on Netflix.

@NatiaAdamo One thousand percent it will be in the movie.

It has to be.

I won't grade it as I've only played a little bit, but the entire game system frustrates me unnecessarily. Give me meaningful choices or none at all, but not this "That doesn't work" nonsense, trying out a million things before finally figuring out we just needed to contine "talking"... Just continue the conversation, it makes no sense.

That annoyed me. There also seem to be very few consequences for doing something wrong, so it's just wasting my time.

I love the artwork though. I could easily find myself enjoying this if not for the needlessly archaic "game system".

All I want is True Fantasy Live Online but that will never happen.

Rogue Galaxy Remaster also good. One game I missed back in the day but heard great things about.

Or Dark Cloud 2.

Am I stuck in the past? Yessir, very much so.