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The weird techno fish from the new game was one of my favorites from that generation.

Kind of at crossroads still looking into a game I want to commit into now that I well and truly completed Final Fantasy X beating all the super bosses and all that.

I've tried Wizardry 6 but I donno if I'm feeling that all that much, I love the indepth dungeon design and style but the gameplay balancing it pretty garbage, at least for the early game I find that so few of my attacks are actually connecting.

I've been on and off playing some Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate which I nabbed from a sale on steam, have beaten both of the cinematic story campaign and have now just been unlocking the character endings in the arcade ladder and just been messing around with whatever. It's been quite good.

I enjoyed my first go through Persona 3 FES back in the day but trying to play Persona 4 right after was a massive mistake, it was then when I learned not to play too many similar kind of games in a row, still haven't played 4 to completion but I did play 5 vanilla a few years ago and it was really good.

I mean the combat in a way is kind of a poor man's SMT, which in itself is a very basic hit the weakness dum-dum type deal, but the light resource management does add some depth to it, at least until you inevitably break it... Buut the story and character interactions are the bigger focus obviously and the games do have strong art styles and great soundtracks to listen to, I'd say every single game is worth a playthrough, though I'd say the games have particularly terrible replay value and it's not secret that the calendar system does also make it feel like kind of a chore.

15/24, should be 16/24 because calling new'n tasty Abe's Oddysee is just blatantly false, I can accept the Overwatch trick question but not that one. Just like how I can't say that Resident Evil 1 is on the switch just because the Remake is in it, completely different experiences.

I guess they're fine idk. Sadly in general the new pokemon were pretty lame and ugly this time around, say what you will about Gen 8 games being garbage (cus they were) but that gen had some cool Pokemon.

Yah I'm getting Sephiroth just for the chance to rename him in the game with a dumb inside joke me and some of my old friends have.

Unless they're going to somehow majorly bork it I really don't see what kind of point there'd be to port the earlier Theatrhythm games, the new one has all the same tracks and more.

I guess I'd be kinda into it if they gave the older games proper ports instead of those dumbed down pixel remasters but I doubt that's gonna happen.

Here's an interesting idea, make a remaster of Final Fantasy the 4 heroes of light, just maybe take a look at some of the aspects of it that didn't really pan out, there's a real gem of a game hidden in there held back by some monumentally bad gameplay and balance decisions.

I guess I decided that I hate myself so in some form of self-flagellation I set out to defeat all the super bosses in Final Fantasy X, something which I've never done before. I got all the super weapons (even the one from the terrible lightning dodging quest and the one from the mind numbing blitzball minigame) and captured of 10 every monster already, now the gargantuan grind to get my stats up and to get the armor I'm gonna need is ongoing.

Theatrhythm cannot come soon enough, it's been sometime since I've been this hyped for a single game.

Iron bundle and Flutter mane for days then I'm guessing.

The characters and art overall looks awful and the entire premise is supremely dumb, but it was the minigames that were the last straw, that is not my Fire Emblem.

Coming from the awful 3 Houses and its time wasting nonsense to this, the series is as good as dead for me.

I'd be very much interested in another Taito collection.

Atlus has a lot to prove after the awful SMT5, and from what I've heard even people who actually liked smt5 considered Soul Hacker 2 to be bad so yeah. It's sad but Atlus has managed to lose it's good dev status in my eyes. I'm not exactly holding my breath for any of their announcements.

I wouldn't say I replay it "Every year" but Breath of Fire 2 is definitely among some of my replayed games especially relative to how lengthy it is.

There's also the obvious Super Metroid which I might just pick up at any given time and play through in two hours.

I'd be very much interested in the offline version, yes. Bring it on.

Rock Crab that sounds like a cow was my MVP, loved that thing.

Finally something sensible, I totally agree that the prospect of a GOTY for a specific year is rather pointless unless you have played every game that was released on that year, it's just a popularity contest, nothing else.

When I've made my own personal "GOTY" list I always count every new game I got to experience in the year, whether it was released on 80s or this year is entirely irrelevant as long as I complete the game or at least play it enough to get a good enough feel on it then it's a fair game I think. That way every game gets their chance in the limelight.

Played it at some point years ago and frankly I just didn't get what the hubbub was about at all, to me it just felt like a bog standard early PS2 era style JRPG with all the trapping including some superbly long-winded battle animations.

I remember liking the soundtrack well enough but other than that I really didn't care for it, it didn't help that the game was already gaining at price at that point so I ended up having to pay like 80 bucks for a copy.

I was visiting my father and he was playing Final Fantasy X. He's old (and old fashioned, even compared to myself) so he doesn't know (or care to know) how to use the computer or the internet so I had to assist him to get some of the more hidden things in the game like Anima, the Celestial Mirror, in the process I kind of wanted to play the game myself as well so I did.

Started up the game again at the start of the week and have made it up to the point where I got the airship. I donno if I feel like dealing with the post game grind or just blast right through into Sin yet but I guess we'll see.

I stand by with my earlier choice, Triangle Strategy for games released this year and Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter out of all the new games I experienced this year.

In general this year was quite fantastic, I played tons of great games.

I mean I like the silver colouring on the PAL box, that's the version of the game had, but by god the full art on the japanese version is glorious, it's no contest, that's some fine handrawn old school artwork.

I played Final Fantasy 4 from these remasters and frankly outside of the original US SNES version it's the weakest version of the game. The game is SO easy, like the game was never hard to begin with but now you get like 4 times exp or something like that meaning you get so overleveled so quickly, you can run from battles with 100% success rate immediatedly (which I get it, people really hate random encounters these days for some reason so they want to give a way to eliminate them, but at that point why not just make it a toggle instead of making those who want to skip battles have to run over and over, and for those who do want to get the classic experience get a broken run option), map feature spoils the entire dungeon layout instead of filling it as you explore, you can press a button to hide it but it'll always show up again, no toggle for it obviously... The cutscenes are super sped up for some reason and for a game so focused on dumb "quality of life" there's not even an option to conveniently sort your inventory. The game looks nice and the remixed soundtrack is nice (though I'd like the option for the original soundtrack as well) but the complete ruined difficulty means that there really isn't much of a game to enjoy here.

Donno if the other Pixel Remasters are as braindead as this one was, but I'm not bothering to find out.

Theatrhythm without shadow of a doubt for me, nothing else comes even close.

"Another important feature is the fact that your health and TP—which governs things like magic and skill casting—are fully healed after every fight."

Yeah no thanks, resource management is one of the most integral and interesting parts of a JRPG for me.

Triangle Strategy is my Switch GOTY for sure, amazing strategy game that for once is more about actual strategy rather than grinding and character builds as most of these things tend to be these days.

But my true GOTY for this year has to be Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter, I didn't expect this one to be as great as it was at all. I loved the setting, atmosphere and the story and in an extremely rare occurence to me I really got into the story and the characters, I actually wanted to see the characters succeed in their goals. It's a great dungeon crawler with some really cool mechanics and a big focus on resource management. Soundtrack was awesome too. Rimworld and Mad Rat Dead also get honourable mentions.

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Yeah I played through River City Girls when it released, I was not very impressed. Scott Pilgrim, Fight'n Rage and Double Dragon Neon are all way better choices if you want a beat em up on your Switch.

Nah. I'm not interested in the FF7 extended universe, or anything really that's penned by Nomura after he started doing Kingdom Hearts.

Intriguing, but I'm gonna have to see more of the actual gameplay.

The white background just has more class.

Continuing on with Alliance Alive Remastered, reached the point where all the party members converged and I also gained a ship to move around in the overworld in meaning the game opened up in a pretty big way both in terms of party customization and exploration. Have been enjoying the game quite a bit so far in spite of the awful soundtrack.

Some Overwatch 2 on the side also, it continues to be fun to play with a friend. Maybe try to pick up Doomfist now that they buffed him and he's not terrible anymore.

This strategy game also apparently includes a rhytmic gymnastics minigame and a feature where you can rub the "engage ring" which'll cause the character moan in pleasure similar to the facetime thing in Fates..

I swear this series was good once.

Sometimes life isn't fair, It's a good life lesson.

Great game, one of my all time favorites, pixel remaster versions are poop. Good day.

Ah man, that would have been sick. Probably.

But nope instead we got a strategy game out of mario and freaking rabbids... Because that just makes more sense I guess...

I tried the Front Mission 1st remaster and sadly that one was a dud, extremely cumbersome and slow menus made customizing your mechs into a massive chore and the main strategy gameplay in itself was just too slow, even for me. Game had nice character art but not much else, I feel kind of bad but this wasn't the game for me.

Instead I picked Alliance Alive remastered from my backlog made it through the prologue museum stuff and got my full 4 man party now. I had mostly good memories of this one from when I played it on the 3DS and I don't really remember why I ultimately dropped it but hopefully I'll be able to remedy it this time. My only real knock against the game so far is the soundtrack, it's this weird trance techno electro garbage that sound awful and really doesn't fit the vibe of the game either, it's a real shame too because the game seems really high quality otherwise.

Yeah these will likely gonna be quiet months for me, nothing much for me since the new Fire Emblem game is looking increasingly like garbage every time I'm unfortunate enough to see it.

Waiting for February for Theatrhythm, that's the real stuff. Octopath 2 as well, I wouldn't say I loved the first game, but I'm up for a sequel even if it'll likely fall on many of the same pitfalls, just in the mood for something like that I guess.

Easily the best game in the series in my eyes (not that that in itself is saying that much). But I did like it a lot. Loved the setting and the open world and the customizable main character.

I'd love to see it on the Switch and meanwhile they could remove some of the obnoxious restrictions like being forced to bring lameass Elma and Lin on every story mission.

Played this some months ago as a decisively filler game on steam, there's some nice art, particularly that one mushroom boss (or an ent? I don't really remember) looked awesome.

You could do a whole lot worse than playing this but you could definitely do better. While somewhat more jankier a similar game to this Dead or School I liked a lot more.

I mean... Is it really even a glitch? It's just basic as animation that plays as intended, just with the player being in a specific position.

I managed to get into Pokemon Violet now that I'm done with my Crusader Kings 3 campaign. I still miss the better gameplay flow of Legends Arceus and as I'm sure most have heard there are some pretty severe problems with the game on a mechanical level which do irritate myself as well, but I do still enjoy the Pokemon teambuilding at its base, and just like Arceus did, this game has finally mostly managed to shake of the feeling of it being a guided tour rather than an adventure that has plagued the main series for years now, I'm actually having tons of fun exploring and finding the weird new critters and building up my party in the process.

I've also been playing Monster Hunter Rise Sunbroke and Overwatch 2 with a friend, nothing much to say, just going through missions in MH and standing behind cover as Mercy in the latter healing and boosting my party and letting them do the heavy lifting.

Game is pretty fun I find, definitely more so than the last few main series entries at least, but it badly needed more time in the oven, gotta get thos new pokemon card and plushie sales ASAP I guess... it really is a shame Pokemon is stuck in this vicious cycle because I do feel that there are some parts and event set pieces to the game where it does feel that GF did in fact want to make a fun game but then when it looks and runs like such garbage and the lighting starts glitching out like crazy it's just embarrassing.

I've only got like 3 to 4 hours on it so far so I can't really review it yet, but my early impressions definitely weren't great. I didn't really feel the need to complain about Sword & Shield or Legends Arceus looking bad aside from performance issues on the latter, but this one I think just looks more blatantly bad than either of those other games and it runs even worse than Arceus ever did. Furthermore it just feels like a step back when coming from Arceus in the gameplay department. I'll start the game proper once I feel like I've had my fill of my Crusader Kings 3 campaign and see if the open worldness of it is enough to win me over.

Devil Survivor (1) is up there among some of my all time favorites so this is of some interest to me.

Yeah, it really is similar but at the same times it's a really clean update compared to how the GBA AW games looked like, I really like it.

Though at the same time the lack of originality makes me kind of suspicious of the kickstarter, I'll get it for sure if it ever does get to that point, but I don't really feel too confident about supporting it.

I tried getting into the new Pokemon game but just wasn't feeling it at all, early impressions were not great, I already miss the changes Legends Arceus brough to the formula. And god, it just looks so, so bad, and runs terribly too...

As for what I'm playing Crusader Kings III which I think one of my friends got it for me last christmas, I finally decided to try and get into and holy smokes it's addictive. It's a very indepth grand strategy/sandbox type deal with a big focus on roleplay and interactions between rulers of different kingdoms rather than just playing as the kingdoms themselves. I just love how in the campaign the story just naturally writes itself, there's so many different types of events and so much stuff you can do. Love it.

Also finally was in the mood for some more Monster Hunter with friends so I bought the Monster Hunter Rise expansion which I think some like to call Sunbreak. Did our first session yesterday starting tackling some of the old monsters in the new master rank difficulty as well as some giant lobster, I was very confused with the controls at first but after just a few missions muscle memory started kicking in and I was back to my 170 hours-spent-on-game-self. Finally getting an opportunity to try out the Light Bowgun which I started to enjoy just as I was done with the vanilla campaign. Sword & Shield is still my main though and Great Sword is incredibly satisfying even if its kinda tough. Lance & Bow will probably be more in the backburner for now.

Love cats, Sakurai's cat has the same colouring as mine, even got a very similar striped tail.

Yeah, I name them, every single one I catch. I've done it since gen 5.

I got a copy of the game when I bought my US 3DS many years ago but I've had zero interest in playing it. I gave Color Smash a try after enjoying Origami King way more than I thought I would, but the Wii U game did nothing for me either. Origami King I honestly do consider to be bit of a flawed masterpiece, only held back by the series just having an identity crisis.

In my opinion they should just ditch the fake turn-based RPG stuff altogether and just make a fun action adventure game instead because clearly that's where their heart is.

Saturn for sure, that's one of the more elusive video game systems out there, there's stuff like Shining Force 3, Shining the Holy Ark and Albert Odyssey which definitely deserves to see the light of day elsewhere.