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Probably my favorite game of the series.

Which isn't exactly saying much, it's still quite mediocre.

Yeah I'm into it, the mech boss battles give some nice Goemon vibes.

Doing the Smash Melee Adventure mode as Ganondorf was really funny to me, honestly they should just put him in a platformer.

How about putting the remakes up for sale now? Crazy idea maybe?

Make them 30 bucks and I promise I'll bite.

I'm not so certain about this collecting materials and crafting stuff in a creator game like this..

I did decide to back it anyway cus I'm a sucker for game creator/level creator type deals but I wouldn't say I'm holding my breath exactly.

Surely they're going to surprise drop a new Breath of Fire as well, returning to its turn based RPG roots and all that.

@steruphan
I donno if they got it on the Switch but the Tactics game does have a demo on Steam and it's pretty fun.

I don't exactly love either but the japanese cover in particular is too busy and boring too at the same time.

Tomba 2 is... a game. I'm still not sure if I like it, hate it or just fear it. I wonder if they keep the original english voices because holy smokes some of them are embarrassing.

I'm honestly shocked that they kept Sulyx in, the devs saying it was him in the MP3 ending always felt like such a dropaway thing to me, all the hunters including him always felt like such non-characters to me in both design and character, mostly just geometric spiky shapes more defined by their weapon than anything.

I guess they could try to do things to make him more interesting now, but I do stand by that I really don't see the point in bringing him back as opposed to just making an all new character when there's just so little there to begin with.

I'm going to Japan with a small group of friends. 's going to be a fun trip I would hope.

I got my switch with me so I'll maybe do some gaming in the 12+ hour flight if I don't end up feeling completely sick (it's my first flight ever). Maybe start up the 2nd Pokemon Violet DLC and/or finish up Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon (NES) which has been my travel game since it dropped on the system. Maybe some Smash with friends, idk.

I like the water color coloring in the international cover, the art of Airy is nice in the other one but the black background with no depth or gradiant of any kind makes it fell a bit flat in my eyes.

I think it was an combination of much kiddier looks and tone as well as it just being much later on the Switch's lifespan, the character designs are just so putrid that I wouldn't be shocked if it was a turn of for some either.

It is a better game though than 3 hours of chores.

Fire Emblem community is one of the nerdiest communities there are, so in a way this doesn't surprise me.

There's no reason to worry about things which you have no control over.

It sure is a world that we live in, in the year 2024.

I only very recently played the game for the first time, and it was only okay, not something I'd play again.

Now New Vegas on the other hand, that game I can see myself revisiting.

The Konami SNES game is the only I played, I like the animation and the music a lot. It's sadly not a very fun game to play though.

Three 8-bit games only? I'm sorry but you gotta do better than that. I'm guessing they're banking on those exorbitant limited run game moneys.

I'm gonna be playing it for sure, amazing game the first game was.

I wish they had that thought process with the stages as well, Ultimate had barely any new stages to begin with and the ones that came with the DLC were largely bland.

This game feels like it's been in the works forever, glad to see that it is good.

I enjoyed the first Freedom Planet game and I'm prolly gonna give this one a shot at some point.

That's nice, I got it on the PS5 and have a 5+ solid ours on it, it is quite good, absolutely jam packed with content if nothing else.

They're about on the same boat for me, great games with not so great replay value.

I really don't like the shrines in BotW though so that may give the edge to TotK at the end of the day.

My brain says that 5 is the best but my heart says 4 is the best, I donno why but FF4 is just one of those games that I feel a special affinity towards.

Continuing on with Terranigma making some good progress, I just aroused Beruga so I believe I'm starting to get to near end of things as I recall. Unfortunately this game really hasn't held as well I had hoped, the story and world are still nice but the gameplay just feels pretty poorly balanced and downright annoying at times.

I ended up getting my copy of Unicorn Overlord earlier than I anticipated, early this week, so I'm trying to get this game done so I can get to that.

Mario Maker 2 even if it does kinda annoy me with some of its limitations.

Well my original plan was to start the Unicorn Overlord game but it turns out that apparently there's a logistics strike going on at germany where a lot the EU area games are manufactured so that's delayed now, and there's almost certainly going to be some major strikes going on over where I live too for the next few weeks so quite likely not gonna be until end of the month when I get the game. I guess I could go digital but it's fine I can deal with it.

I've been playing some random games from my backlog recently, I tried Tropico 6, a town builder/management sim which I believe a friend of mine got me for christmas or something a couple years ago, I did two missions of it spanning about 15 hours total, it's a fine game but it's also the type that also feels like a bit of a productivity killer for how addictive it can be and if you're gonna dive deep into something like it I think stuff like Civilization, Rimworld and Crusader Kings were more my type when it comes to such games.

After that I played through Remnants of Isolation, a RPG Maker game that I've had on my steam library since as long as I remember, when I originally made the account I do remember buying several humblebundles and I'm pretty sure that's when I got the game. The game itself was a fairly forgettable dungeon crawler that was over in an evening, the battle gameplay was fine for what it was but the dungeons felt very haphazardly designed and the game in general felt like it didn't have much of an identtity, the dual protagonists had some minor chemistry but it was very surface level stuff, the background lore of the game mostly told through notes you find on the ground was completely uninteresting. The game also did use a lot of the basic resources that came with RPG Maker VX.

Finally I started playing through Terranigma a few hours ago, I've only ever completed the game once before years ago and while it's only a "solid" action RPG gameplay wise, it's the world and the story that I remember liking a lot, and the soundtrack too excellent stuff. I made it through Chapter 1 of the game.

Pff I still struggle to comprehend PS2 as retro.

-Dark Spire
-Shin Megami Tensei Strange Journey (the original, not the ***** redux port)
-Devil Survivor 1 and 2
-Shin Megami Tensei 4
-Dragon Quest 4
-Stella Glow
-Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon (DS)
-Fire Emblem Fates
-All 3 DS Castlevanias

Also maybe not a port, but a sequel to Warioware DIY, that was such a cool creation software.

I'm still continuing on with Fallout 3, I already beat the main campaign but apparently they had added a post game campaign called "Broken Steel" at some point so I figured I'll at least see that one to completion since I didn't really feel the vanilla ending really was all that satisfactory and I think the game still has some juice left in it to enjoy.

I managed to complete Fire Emblem Binding Blade a few days ago. I had a few choices of where I wanted to go from there but I ultimately decided on Fallout 3, I loved Fallout New Vegas when I played it last year and while I don't think this one's quite as similarly fondly remembered I still have yet to play a Bethesda game that I didn't enjoy. Haven't really had much of a chance to progress, I made it out of the starting vault and into the open world, probably gonna start sploring in the evening, hopefully it'll capture even a fraction of the enjoyment I got out of Nev Vegas.

Oh and I'm still playing Tekken 8, been continuing to try to slowly learn Zafina, getting my ass kicked over and over again, she is a very tough one to "get" between all the stances and weird moves.

Yeah I've had this one pre-ordered for a while, I'm always up for a strategy RPG. This one's got a lot characters too which is always something I enjoy.

Honestly it kinda just hurts my face.

Same as last week, Fire Emblem Binding Blade (hard mode) with a little bit of Tekken 8 online matches here and there against randos and friends.

I'm up to Chapter 18 in Fire Emblem now and have reached the game's 2nd route split. I've only ever played through the game once before so I'm now in completely unknown territory, since obviously I wanted to go for the other route this time to visit the snowy lands of Ilia.

In Tekken 8 I managed to reach up to rank of "Vanquisher" nabbing some wins from players clearly more skillful than myself but I guess they just couldn't deal with the bs tactics Asuka (my main) employs. I'm also attempting to pick up another character for a secondary and I went for Zafina, a much tougher character but she's cool and I kinda want to try and make her work.

I'm hoping the game's gonna reach its content completion soon, I've been looking to replay it.

Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon or Metroid Zero Mission.

Been mostly playing Tekken 8 since it released last week, all around superb fighting game and finally the generational leap for the series that I was hoping to see back when T7 released. I'm mostly done with all the single player content by now and I'm just on and off playing with friends and sometimes randos in the online.

But since I'm mostly done with Tekken as my "main game" I'll also be returning to my Fire Emblem Binding Blade hard mode which took a weeklong break, did CH12X yesterday and I'm now up to the bridge map which is where I believe the difficulty starts picking up once again, cus the western island arc was overall pretty easy after the brutal early game.

Something that I'm also looking to do in the near future is Super Metroid Map Rando, a super metroid randomizer that changes up the item locations and also completely jumbles up the map, I've been waiting for a Super Metroid Randomizer that does that for a long time and it seems like they've finally gotten there. Can't wait.

Yeah. It's a shame.

FF7 remake is such a trainwreck anyway, I'd rather a remake of a non-action RPG stay as such.

I think La Noire had a cinematic style camera as well for the driving, there's not any real stakes anyway when you're just moving about so it's kinda fun to do I found.

As for this, oh god no. Trying to play SNES Rainbow Road like this doesn't seem like a very good time.

Does this one really need a guide though.

I'm mainly trying to put more time to focus on other projects at the moment, but I do have an ongoing Fire Emblem Binding Blade Hard difficulty playthrough, up to Chapter 10 now.

@Zebetite
Couldn't agree more, clearly there's some effort and talent put into this, it feels like a pretty big waste to have it just be a parody instead of having its own identity.

Make no mistake, the game could still be good but still, have some faith in your own game.

@Mana_Knight
Seriously, Getting those N64 Goemon games on a collection would be just perfect.

I haven't heard of this one before, looks really cool, I had a blast with Tormented Souls back in last halloween, maybe this could be what I try to go for the next one, this one seems to go even harder for the classic style than that one did. The PS1 aesthetic just works for horror games.

It seems to have been generally positively reviewed on steam too.

Probably one of the Fire Emblem games I like, I doubt there's ever gonna be a new one that's gonna evoke the same feelings those older ones did.

One of the few exciting releases for next year of the top of my head alongside Tekken 8 and Eiyuden Chronicles.

The card game is of some interest to me since it is a pretty unique bonus item and I do like board/card games, but ultimately I have a hard time believing a side thing like that's gonna be all that spectacular, maybe cute to try for a game or two but then it'd just end up dusting in storage, like every other special edition ever. So I went for standard edition, actually pre-ordered it earlier today. Very much looking forward to it.

Just like the first Octopath, It was alright but nothing spectacular. It looks nicer and the exploration feels a bit better but generally it falls to all the same pitfalls as the first Octopath. I don't think any combat mechanic that's centered around disabling your opponents is all that amazing, the scenarios are still extremely formulaic, the dungeons are still lame, the entire path action mechanic still has the depth of a puddle...

I think there's potential but a lot of the mechanics need to be entirely rethought.

I thought it was Blight. Goshdarn it, is it another Aeris-Aerith situation..