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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.

I've grown fond over Shinx lately for reasons I'd rather not elaborate on.

Just on the whole though I don't really like this gen of Pokemon much, the selection you had in the OG Diamond/Pearl game was just poor as far as I'm concerned. This gen does have a handful of my least favorite designs, namely Electrivire and infernappa.

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!

Very cool if you are a scumbag lol.

Yeah! It is actually the first Resident Evil game I really played, I ultimately did dozens of runs in that game with the several different variable modes and difficulty levels you can go for.

These days I prefer to play the PS1 Director Cut release instead, but it is a great version of the classic for sure.

I guess my only regret would be that I never got to try the weirdo multiplayer mode the release has since no one else had that game.

The less I need to look at that atrocious main character design the better. US wins this one.

How about I pay 80 bucks for the starter trio set? I mean that's a lot of money still... Just crazy.

@sportymariosonicmixx
There are two games being discussed.

Path of Radiance, the Gamecube game which this article is for, in this game the international release removes the Maniac difficulty and adds a new Easy difficulty which is easier than the easiest difficulty on the japanese version.

In FE Radiant Dawn, the Wii sequel, it is a labeling issue Japanese version has Normal, Hard & Maniac which were translated to Easy, Normal & Hard respectively for the US/EUR release, it's the same difficulty levels with different labels.

@metaphysician
Easy mode generally means easy, meant for total newcomers, which you can enjoy learning a game and just chill through the story while Normal would be the "average" difficulty which is recommended for a standard player. It's not about an ego issue when someone unwittingly picks what they assume would be the standard difficulty level.

@Classic603
Normal, Hard and Maniac were translated into Easy, Normal and Hard respectively in the international version.

Meaning if you were not that experienced with FE yet were like "I don't wanna play easy" you might end up with something that might be a bit tough to chew without even knowing.

Can't you just download the japanese gamecube thing and play japanese POR that way if you really do want to play Maniac? People familiar with the game should be able to navigate the game even in japanese I'd like to think.

Not that you'd really want to because the Maniac difficulty in this game is one of the worst takes of higher difficulty in this series ever. The enemies aren't relatively that much harder, there's just more of them and everyone is super obnoxiously tanky, it's a chore to play honestly.

The game itself is fine, I used to like it much more as it was one of the first FEs I played but it's kind of lost its luster in some ways, the Wii sequel Radiant Dawn is way better.

One of the reasons why I ended up totally losing interest in the game.

Way I see it modern FFs are just cinematic action slop, that's not what made me love the series back in the day.

Go back to being turn-based RPGs.

It does, but I've also just grown increasingly jaded just in general, with the increase of AI in all aspect of life, I don't really foresee much hope for anyone who isn't either already rich or willing to adapt to it.

AI unfortunately has kind of ruined art for me, no matter what I look at, the thought always pops to head, but what if it was made by AI? You just cannot trust anyone, and it is a shame to see those who are legimately invested in their craft to just be tossed aside for a cheaper alternative that's "good enough".

It did seem pretty abysmal from the 15 minutes I spent on it, it has very little in common with the Fire Emblem gameplay and it just feels like they used the name just cause the series does already have a successful mobile game.

This is one of those love/hate games for me, it rides a weird line. I'll probably get it just for nostalgia's sake.

I'm really not a fan of Metroid having companion characters like that (and the way I'm hearing they are kind of overbearing and annoying too), I think the solitude is a part of the series' identity.

I really don't know where the disdain for the fixed camera angles comes from.

Firmly on the fence.

That's funny, last week I actually started replaying Resident Evil 5 as well, for the first time since I played it back on the PS3 around when the Gold edition released. This time however I'm playing it on online co-op with a friend, the co-op experience is making the game so much better. We're already in the tribal area, hopefully we can get some more game time this weekend.

For my main solo playthrough I'm replaying Fire Emblem Fates Conquest, I have my share of issues with the game but I'm quite enjoying the intricately designed maps and trying out some characters which I never really gave the time of day to, most notably Odin who I understand has redeemed himself in a big way in the game's later years, the simple act of getting him a Nosferatu tome turns him from a low damage liability into a tank. I've made it through into the midgame, just got Xander in the last map and the main characters have for the most part been rounded up, next up should be the absolute nightmare that is the Ninja dungeon chapter, I'm both looking and not looking forward to that.

Pretty much one of the best games ever created at the end of the day as far as I'm concerned, the primo roguelike.

Tried playing this one after hearing it compared to Baldur's Gate 3, which was a game I loved. It lacks the mechanical depth of BG3 while also being about twice as confusing somehow, there's nowhere near the same amount of interaction with the world in general.

I also found the story and what was happening very difficult to follow, partly by my ADHD brain I would assume, it makes the wall-of-text text boxes exceedingly difficult to parse through with all the character expressions and whatnot also being written in text form instead of being acted out, I had zero problem following the BG3 writing in comparison. I managed to drudge through the game for a bit but once the cumbersome space combat/exploration aspect became more prominent I just lost all interest.

Maybe it's just BG3 being so masterfully crafted that even someone who usually cannot get into CRPG type deals could enjoy that one and more run-of-the-mill offering just don't do it for me in the same way.

Yes, it is a childhood game of mine, I didn't end up finishing it up till much later in my life and I did actually replay the game a little less than two years ago now. I like the story, world and otherwordly strange atmosphere the game has and of course the soundtrack is incredibly good but I think overall the game is still only okay as far as action RPGs go.

I wonder if they're gonna make me buy a second switch 2 so that I have two screens to play these games with.

Chikorita is my favorite starter of all time so that's the one I'd pick if I were to play the game, though just like all starters I'll punt it right into the wall the second I find something more interesting to replace it with.

Judging from the online demo I'd say I do prefer Sonic, Mario Kart between the inbetween tracks and out of control item spam courtesy of having so many players just isn't all that great in my opinion. Though as it is I'm not really willing to shell out the money for Sonic at this time, it is just too expensive. Maybe once it is feature complete with all the DLC and hopefully still has a player count to play with.

I'm quite interested in playing Dragon Quest 2 in particular out of this bunch.

There's a couple games there I'd like to try but I'm not buying the a dumb peripheral for that.

Maybe if you bought the stupid thing and they let you keep the games I'd consider it for curiosity's sake, but them being tied to the Nintendo online thing and being forced to buy a thing to play them is just next level stupid.

Besides, aside from the curiosity of it I'd much rather just play the games on the TV screen instead.

I started playing Nier on the PS3, have had my sealed copy for however long now, I'm roughly 3 hours in now, just beat this goofy Head+Hands boss that would not have been out of place in a Nintendo platfromer. I've heard some mixed things about the game but I'm quite liking it so far.

It's not really what I wanted to see but I'm open to it I guess, I just hope it doesn't come at the cost of full on crafted level designs.

I wish the game wasn't so expensive, I think I'd be fine shelling out 50 bucks for it, but at 70+DLC? Nah.

I'm sure there was absolutely no way to get these working without having the consumer buy an expensive piece of plastic that's good for this one single thing, and then you run out of the subscription and you're literally left with a piece of plastic, genius.

Ahahaha, I love it when devs have the cajones to do stuff like that, take off the safety net of "fair play" by all means, actually makes things more exciting and keeps me on edge.

Huh, I played that particular Guilty Gear on Switch 2 with a friend roughly two months back and didn't notice any issues.

I bought a Pokemon fake-lego Ho-oh back when I was in Japan, it was cheap compared to these prices but I never managed to complete that because the blocks just kept falling off, say what you will about those criminal prices but at least Lego has quality.