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Never heard of this, seems very cool. Love the FF7 look.

Yeah I played the game on PC. Don't let the fact that it's a indie RPG dissuade you because of potential bad experiences with those. This one truly is a good one and a very rare case of a indie RPG that is not plagued by the usual issues like cringy terrible paced writing and annoying characters. It's got memorable set pieces and story moments, great music and dungeon design and it just a generally solid adventure all around, a bit on the easier side though if you're one of those types that likes their games to actually slay you for some reason.

My only somewhat major gripe does come from the fact that it is a direct sequel that has many of the same characters and references the first game, which, I do think that you're not going to be getting the best possible experience unless you play the first game first. The first game is maybe a slight bit rougher around the edges, but still a worthwhile game to play on its own right (and isn't very long at all), its only on steam but it basically runs on a toaster.

Well the OG final boss was pretty darn easy, still a very random change.

Japan just so I don't need to look at the derpy protagonist this game has.

Where's my Phantasy Star/Shining Force revival at?

Obviously the older Pokemon were not built with the competive scene in mind, I don't care about it myself so I donno really what the say. Just in general I don't think everything necessarily needs to be equally useful.

I mean Nintendo's not doing much with Advance Wars so I don't mind having Advance Wars at home, sure. I'll give it a shot at least.

Lacking an english dub is a pretty big loss for a game like this. And I'm guessing the game's full price and probably never getting a discount just like the remasters of the famicom games.

Blinx? Is that you?

Gonna resist the bare thigh and give it to the US cover, love the style on it.

I guess the select people who do actually like DKC3 and Kiddy Kong are just super passionate about it.

A beatiful work of art, the statue, not the game.

I'm into it, this guy's art style is superb and the game looks deliciously retro.

@gcunit
Not everyone who disagrees with your views is necessarily a troll. Sure, I don't like Dread, but my post was just a dumb joke more than anything. I'm not gonna say who you should or shouldn't ignore, but I'd suggest growing a thicker skin.

Mediocre ode to a mediocre game huh? Maybe someone can make a mediocre ode to this game and maybe it'll eventually loop around to being good.

The european cover is better for sure, the other one is way too busy. What a downgrade of artstyle though from previous castlevania games. The game's great and all sure but the saturday morning anime style they had in this game is so ugly.

I played through the game once, I'm good with it. I really wanted to like it and it did have some good qualities to it, but the game just insisted on being as annoying as possible with some of its mechanics, character recruitment, base building... Things which used to be cool and unintrusive in most Suikoden games were turned into chores involving material gathering and multiple hours long minigame quests.

Oh and the writing.

Been playing Baldur's Gate 3 for few weeks now, Some ways into Act 2 by now. But that's taking a bit of a backseat now that Earth Defense Force 6 released, I've been playing that with a friend and as always its just dumb fun shooting endless hordes of goofy enemies and collecting and trying out new weapons.

Both are bad in different ways.

3Houses has you wasting hours upon hours on the monastery nonsense and menuing and I just don't like the overemphasis on customizing blank slates when it comes to Fire Emblem, it's doesn't really mesh at all with the permadeath mechanic either.

Engage on the other hand is tonally what I would describe anime/jrpg at its worst, the character designs are almost entirely vile and the ghosts floating around and anime fusion ***** is just lame both mechanically and visually. The soundtrack also is one of the series' weakest.

The map design is is generally mediocre to bad in both games, I don't like the bigger focus in boss battles in Engage in particular.

Engage is still enjoyable on a basic level though since I can actually play it without having to spend 30+ minutes on chores between each session of actual gameplay.

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.