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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.

I predict that it will rain later this month.

Perfect, I think with those two in this collection now pretty much has everything from the classic MK era. As long as the emulation is good I can see this being pretty much a must have.

The racing seems fine, I do like that it has a smaller amount of racers per race and I did like how the race tracks looked from the short preview, the gimmicky racing machines seem kind of fun. but I don't really see how city trial would be fun beyond maybe doing it once or twice.

Didn't really sell it for me as of now but I haven't entirely written it off either.

I guess the direct overall is like a 4/10 if you really want me to throw some arbitrary number at it.

I will probably be watching this, this is one of those games which they're gonna need to sell for me before I'm actually interested.

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Symphony of War: the Nephilim Saga would be my recommendation for an average SRPG enjoyer, it has you commanding squads of units meaning that the combat has some Ogre Battle DNA to it but I think the basic strategy gameplay still does feel like Fire Emblem. It's not amazing or anything, but I liked it.

If you live and breathe Fire Emblem as I do then I would also recommend checking out Vestaria Saga, a low budget game by the original Fire Emblem creator. It is kind of a pain in the ass at some points but it also has maps with ton of depth and events tied to them that it makes Fire Emblem blush in comparison and the localization team made a fantastic job bringing out the personality from the dialogue, it is definitely not one for casual enjoyers though, the game is tough, some parts being almost like puzzles, just figuring out how to get through, the game has a feature that lets you save every 5 turns so it's not AS bad as you might think even if you do end up failing.

I mean I love Pokemon and all but has the series ever really been "hardcore" by design exactly.

It's one of those series where you kind of have to make up your own rules and limitations if you're on the look out to making it challenging.

I guess there's competive play which of course by it's very nature is more hardcore but I didn't really take this game leaning into that direction.

The first Dark Deity was hot garbage and from what I hear this is just more of the same, hard pass. There are way better places to get your faux-Fire Emblem fancies if that is what you are in the lookout for.

I finished my Shin Megami Tensei 4 run earlier this week and I was kind of left without really knowing what I wanted to play next, I tried out Fear & Hunger first just to sate my sick curiosity on what the heck this game even is, now I understand better, the warning at the start of the game isn't there just for show and the game definitely ended up being a bit too "hardcore" for me in more than just one way.

Then I decided to dig out Chrono Trigger for some nostalgia and made it all the way through the early game to the End of Time but that just wasn't meant to be I guess as for reasons that are unknown to me my save at the end of time had not gone through (I even have video proof that I did in fact save) and was sent way back to the very beginning of the 2300AD portion, that kinda killed it for me sadly, some other time.

So instead I actually put the Switch 2 to some use and started a replay of Pokemon Violet, it's an actual miracle to see this game run at a stable, decent frame rate, it still looks rancid sure, but it runs and in spite of the game's shortcomings I think on a very casual braindead sort of way the game is actually pretty fun to play through, I wish the battle messages and whatnot were better optimized still as the battles just run so slow in this game for some reason. But I'm having fun nonetheless just 'sploring the world and collecting weird Pokemon, building a team and trying to come up with a dumb nickname for each one, I already beat a single challenge from each of the game's three main story missions.

I donno if the game really meant anything for me in particular really it was a game among other games, I thought the normal ending scenario was pretty rad and the soundtrack was good. If the game didn't become this massive thing I probably wouldn't really remember it that well any more.

It's so weird to me to see the EV allocations and junk on an actual official Pokemon game, though I do very much appreciate the efforts to make the competive scene more accessible.

It looks like Mario Odyssey so I almost certainly would not like it + the new DK still looks weird to me.

I like how the game looks and I don't mind the pixelated booty, but the swearing comes across as unnecessarily edgy and the trailer just comes across as incredibly artsy fartsy and pretentious to me.

The best game ever made know as Rimworld got a substantial update and some new DLC yesterday, so that's what I am playing for a little bit.

Totally deserved. I just cannot fathom the though process behind the update change, why are players not allowed to have fun the way they want? Nintendo unfortunately is so far up their own you know what that instead of taking the critisism, that maybe the generic in-between tracks aren't so great, which is why the people take the one opportunity they had to maybe not play them every single race and now that's just gone, everyone is only allowed to have fun the way Nintendo wants them to.

I'm much more annoyed by the fact that Sakurai is working on the kirby racing the game which is almost certainly gonna mean the next Smash isn't coming out in forever. It's a shame, the kirby racer was probably the lamest possible thing he could have gone for.

It's been tough since I was always a Wario guy but I just cannot stand the new voice so I've been looking for a new go to.

Birdo has always been someone I've been picking now and then in the games where she's in and is probably my most used character in the new Mario Kart, Chargin' Chuck is fun, I don't want to call it cute because that makes me feel like an absolute dumass but I do like the Train conductor costume on Toadette and she was the character I happened to get my first (and so far only) online race 1st place victory with.

Those are probably the ones I'm leaning towards the most but I've been swapping around a lot using many of the random minions and even some of the older characters, I do like the costumes a lot and I do feel they do breathe a lot of new life on the older cast.

Kind of a shame they had to drop Kamek so quick when they finally gave him a playable role in one of the later MK8 DLCs, he would be one of my most used for sure if he was still here.

No, I would be fine trying it out if I ever got an opportunity to borrow it or something but I'm not spending a cent on that. I have not seen the recent direct and have no real interest to but between the goofy DK redesing, the game looking largely similar to Mario Odyssey (which I didn't exactly love) and the terraform punching as a mechanic coming across as lame to me I'm not into it.

My boy Wario was done so dirty in my opinion, I don't mind the other plumbers too much but Wario just makes me sad.

In my opinion they really just consider getting a different VA for all the Mario/Wario brothers, just because Martinet could do all of them does not necessarily mean that if someone could do a great Wario impression that their Mario would be up to snuff.

It looks nice but there is no incentive to explore, game really needed an adventure mode or something, anything, as it is the open world in itself is pretty pointless in everything but the visual sense and knockout is a cool mode, it works there I guess.

But the online races in particular are strictly worse because so much focus is put on the inbetween tracks and you get to race in the actual set-piece tracks far less.

I'm "doing my part" I guess and trying out some demos from Steam next fest, it's surprisingly fun to just make a grab bag for yourself and just try out random stuff, I just played a game called House of Necrosis which was like Resident Evil 1 if it was a mystery dungeon game instead, it's pretty unapologetic when its premise and main character (who might as well be called Vill Jalentine) are practically lifted from RE1 but the gameplay itself it very cool, the PS1 style visuals and very old school UI really made it for me and the mystery dungeoning had just the right amount of challenge and randomness factor to it. This one was a big winner in my books.

I'm also playing Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader, beat Chapter 1 of the game earlier this week, it took a while for me into get into it but I've been enjoying it.

It's like a 6, I like how the game looks, I like the soundtrack, the driving feels good, I like that there's a lot of new characters and even the old ones get a new lease in life through the costumes.

I don't think the open world really adds to the game as is, the game really needed some manner of adventure mode or something, anything to go with it. The inbetween tracks are largely just kind of forgettable and you don't get to race enough on the real tracks (There's that one circular Koopa beach track which has you complete 1 lap in about 10 seconds, it's so pointless.) the item game has a tendency to devolve into such chaos that you barely get to race, it's like that Smash Bros Wii U board game minigame in Mario Kart form. It's weird cause MK8 felt like it was too little chaos and then this one leans more on the opposite end.

As it is I probably play it for a few matches now and then casually.

I've only seen 1 laps worth of most of most of them sadly, I guess the rainbow road was striking at least in terms of the visuals even if it partly felt more like an experience rather than a race.

I really wish they'd at least add an option to just race in the tracks in a classic style and none of this traveling between tracks nonsense.

Companies have always been trying to sell pieces of plastic even since the olden days, nothing new there.

A worthy foe appears.

Man, talk about a downgrade, they couldn't have gone for a cheaper more generic look if they tried.

Fanservice or not, I just love this specific type of anime aesthetic.

I came in expecting angry Kirby and you left me hanging like this.

I guess japan, I like a bit more.

I've been playing Dragon Quest 4 (DS) as my main playthrough, a top tier JRPG and far and away the best entry of the series if you were to ask me. I'm up to the point where I'm doing the main portion of the story and have collected all the party members, I'm starting the most confounding part of the game which is all about finding key items to progress, there's not very much direction at this point and it's all about exploring.

I'm also playing Rimworld, a colony sim storytelling deal, which has on some levels become one of my all time favorite games. I'm doing a tough challenge run, by starting with a single person without even a strip of clothing on a tropical swamp where the elements are decidedly against you, I've had one death through heatstroke and couple deaths because my base was raided by my worst enemy, a guy with a knife. I think I'm on my 4th attempt now and I'm finally making some actual progress, I have 3 colonists and I'm gearing up to start adding some electricity on my base which will let me add things like freezers and electric lights to make life a little bit easier, though I'm still very much just a single unfortunate event away from death.

I'm not a fan, the focus should be on the racing I think, the title screen doesn't really do anything to convey that.

They're commited to the bit.