I squint my eyes and I see advance wars on the NA box.

I like that one better, nice cute anime art, bright colors, nothing too special but it is easy on the eyes.

Yeah no, sorry everyone but my favorite game of the year is the game of the year for this year.

There is bang for your buck and then there's this.

On the base game assuming you'd play all 4 routes and watched the scenes I think you'd already be nearing 200 hours of game time, add these 4 additional routes (assuming they are on parity with the base routes) and I think you'd pretty likely be passing 300 hours or at least nearing that.

Maybe it is a me problem, but I think some consideration and respect for the player's time would be good here, I don't think any game should go for that long just to make full sense of the story. I think I'd start going insane playing through the world map exploration portions and playing through the same handful of copy pasted dungeons for the millionth time.

I think one of Fire Emblem's strengths used to be how quick it was relative to genre, they've certainly lost the plot there.

Neat! I had a blast when I played the game when I tried it earlier this year.

I will come back to it for sure once its feature complete.

I haven't beaten it yet, I do have my issues with it but on the whole it has been a pleasant surprise for something I was expecting little of.

I do prefer the more classic styled Fire Emblem games still for the tighter focus on the actual SRPG gameplay, but compared to 3 Houses I do find the out of battle activities and management to be considerably better and not having 90% of the cast being highschool kids in similar uniforms also helps.

Appreciate this demo, definitely gonna check it out. I like Castlevania but I really donno if I'm liking the direction this one is taking. At least there is still the new Bloodstained coming, that one I'm fairly certain is more my speed.

Superb game, easily my top game of the year still.

@AZYotes5013 It does have tons of replayability just like Isaac and really just unlocking all the levels in itself it a bit of a project, all the different classes have their own rewards, there are unlockable difficulty levels, I believe there are even rewards for playing with only a single cat.

There was a time when I still truly cared about this series and this would've sent me to a frenzy no doubt. I guess it is a cool visual though lol, a nun wielding a gun.

I figure they can just excuse it with the advanced ancient technology deal.

I only caught climpses of it but as I figured it falls to most of the same pitfalls as 3 Houses did, namely too much focus on things outside of the actual SRPG gameplay that I am in it for.

I'll play it but I doubt I'll love it.

those are some gaudy minion-esque turtles.

MTG is just a big pile of nonsense these days.

The game looks like it is taking more notes from stuff like Hollow Knight and going moreso for that 2D souls gameplay rather than really going for the Castlevania style. Donno, I'll see what the general concensus winds up being but I am not particularly liking what I have seen of it.

Wow, brutally honest, the best selling game, not the best game.

But I guess people do like it nonetheless so what do I know.

I tried the steam demo, it's hilariously terrible, a poor mans musou with absolutely no weight or meaning to anything, between the 3 missions which are all the same mindless button mashing you're looking at 10 minutes of game time for the demo. There is not even dialogue in the demo, honestly feels almost like a proof of concept than something that is ready to be sold.

But if you want to see the disgaea demon ladies giant sized and in full 3D then maybe this is for you, they sure are something lol.

Macbeth and Zoness are my favorites at least in the OG Starfox 64.

Titania would probably be the 3rd, I like the landmaster.

Even if I were to ignore how uncomfortable and awful the controller was to use otherwise, it would still be the worst controller ever made just for how flimsy the stick is, I've gone through a grand total of 4 n64 controllers in my life, every single one has the stick in unusable condition. There is not a single controller I know of that is as flimsy as the N64 one.

Make it open world and add breakable weapons, oh how I would love watching the meltdown.

Bottom of the barrel direct as far as I'm concerned, the final fantasy game was exciting for like a second until I realized it was just a mobile game repackaged. Otherwise it's just like remakes and ports over and over.

And they pretty much also confirmed the new Fire Emblem is once again doing the hour of chores-half hour of gameplay loop from 3 houses so that's a wash too.

I'll play the starfox 64 port but after that I'll prolly just need a break from games for a bit.

For modern mascot racer Sonic Racing Crossworld is a much better time, I didn't much care that for MK8 either compared to many of the earlier entries but Mario Kart World just wasn't very good and then Nintendo patching the random selection allowing you to actually race the proper tracks was such a ***** move.

80 bucks, probably as jank as Scarlet/Violet and then you get to spend another 40 on DLC, gotta love modern gaming.

Really. I tried the demo for the mouse game and it didn't seem all that to me.

They really need to tone down the fairy character and the constant in gameplay banter or better yet add an option to it that doesn't involve muting the cutscenes as well.

By all means do, games should be available for those interested.

I'm going for my 3rd attempt trying to get into Divinity Original Sin, this time with Baldur's Gate 3 under my belt, no co-op player forcing me to hurry up and a general better knowledge of what a CRPG is.

Everytime before I've ended up stuck and overwhelmed in the very first town, I'm hoping this time I can actually do get into it proper because I can tell from the start that there is in fact a good game in there.

That's all very cool but surely you could also squeeze in a new Breath of Fire in there somewhere, no biggie, maybe it doesn't print the big numbers but I'd buy it.

Unfortunately the human mind is prone to breaking which is when stuff like this may happen, just lashing out at the world. At least no one got hurt.

So what you're saying is I should be spending my money on nintendo stonks instead of nintendo consoles.

Yeah, it is a bit of a shame it is just rehashing the same plot for like the gazillionth time, the series could stand to try something new, but I do like Starfox 64 a lot and I do like the different direction the game is going and the uncanny character designs kind of appeal to me weirdly.

I've decided to do something a bit wacky and try out Final Fantasy 4: The After Years, the somewhat infamous direct sequel to the classic FF4 that Square pumped out at some point, first on mobile then internationally on the Wii Wiiware then on the PSP through the FF4 Complete Collection alongside the original and finally on Steam in a revised 3D style very similar to the FF4 DS port. I would have liked to play the Wiiware version since that has by far the most unique look to it but as that version is pretty tough to access these days I settled for the PSP version.

The game is set out in an episodic format going through invidual characters tales where they do stuff, mostly introducing all the new characters and whatnot, it has all the characters you'd expect from the original plus a metric ton of new weirdoes joining you. I think I'm starting to be at the tail end of the character tales, which I'm guessing (or hoping rather) that after all that it will all culminate into a finale where you actually get to use whoever you wish, as the episodes have for the most part been very linear, very barren of new content, rehashing story beats, dungeons and bosses from the original FF4.

I do love the original FF4 so it has been interesting to see what the heck this curiosity even is, as it is not a game I've really seen discussed much at all.

It feels like a mobile game the way it functions. It is dumb fun though and a farm for stupid funny clips.

Hollywood+Mario=Aggressive Indifference. I have not watched the first movie either, I have absolutely no desire to see either but I guess if my friends wanted to watch it through netflix or something I'm not going to start arguing over it or anything.

Comes highly recommended for anyone who enjoys turn-based Strategy games, likes amazing video game music and doesn't mind the roguelike progression. This game is just oozing with content and it's clearly a labor of love, for the 20-something they sold it on Steam I'd call it a steal.

I'm interested in this.

Continuing on with Mewgenics, well on my way into Act 2, been trying some of the challenges bringing the cursed items to the runs and whatnot as I understand that unlocks more stuff. This has been an exceptionally amazing game, an all time great as far as I'm concerned, I say this with full confidence.

Very cool, just like most things seem to be these days.

Playing Mewgenics, actual god tier game.

It's so overdone, I kinda like it lol.

I don't like ToS much but I do feel the international cover is really eye catching, the art makes the characters look cooler than they are, the background colors are nice. It is a very good cover for an anime JRPG.

Yeah, I tried a demo of this a couple days back on Steam Next Fest, seemed pretty cool, will probably get it eventually but it did also get me in the mood to play the PS3 Scott Pilgrim game which I quite loved back in the day, it doesn't have quite as good of a flow as some of the beat-em-ups that have come since but it's still been a good time.

Breath of Fire let's go!

The video makes this look very jank, like there is very little flow to the combat. I guess I'm mildly intrigued at the premise though.

The Pokemon designs were overall bad in this gen, easily the worst in the series so far.

My favorite Pokemon from the gen is the legendary Wo-Chien and I do like Klawf mainly for how much of a ingame MVP it ended up being and how it sounds like a cow for some reason.

I really like Nickit, though I was so disappointed at its evolution.

Uhh... Indeedee is cool, Galarian Farfetch'd is awesome, Falinks is great.

Honestly looking at the list I thought there'd be more I like, maybe the gen that comes after this was just so bad that it made the one before seem way better than it actually was.

Salazzle is pretty great, Guzzlord is also so overdesigned and awful that it kind of loops back to being great for me, I do also like Alolan Meowth a whole lot.

overall this gen has a decent selection of Pokemon but not too many standouts.

X/Y are probably the weakest mainline Pokemon games of all but I do overall like the Pokemon designs in this one.

Noivern is like the best looking dragon pokemon they've ever come up with, Espurr and its evolved form Meowstic are both top tier designs in my book. Even the newly added Sylveon is a much better take of a new Eevee evolutions compared to the Gen 4 efforts.

On the other hand Barbaracle is from this gen and that's a contender for the worst pokemon design of them all.

I used to dislike Gen 5 designs but over the years I've warmed up to them a lot. Woobat is freaking fantastic and probably my favorite. Throh and Sawk are so bad they kind of loop around back to being great, I like the goofy elemental monkeys, Scolipede is great, just in general this gen's got some awesome bug types.

It does help that Black/White happened to be some of the best mainline Pokemon games.

Mightyena is quite handily my favorite from this gen, there's a few other I like Zangoose and Vigoroth pop to mind but on the whole this gen was considerably weaker than the ones before.

Ariados is my favorite Pokemon, period.

Espeon and Jumpluff are very cool too and I do have a soft spot for Ledian. Ho-oh is also my favorite legendary Pokemon.

Gen 2 is where Pokemon hit its peak as far as I'm concerned.

Farfetch'd is pretty sharp, Nidoqueen is a tank, Wigglytuff is fun.

Those would probably be my favorites from gen 1 if I were to choose.

So many cleaner types!