FantasiaWHT

@Kabloop Even assuming there have been no threats like this, or if there were, they weren't large enough to necessitate a response... I still appreciate the developer's commitment to artistic expression. It's like the Chicago statement on academic freedom. They didn't have to be under specific threat for that to be the right thing to do.

I... wut? Huh?

adds more junk to meet arbitrary minimum character requirement

They both suck, I refuse to vote.

@Big_Fudge Agreed. I really can't stand the modern formula. Awakening started to annoy me a bit. Fates I gave up 2/3 of the way through. I hesitantly started 3H (my son bought it) and quit in the prologue. I know it's popular and I'm not going to be mad at them for making games that sell more, but I do want to do what I can to make it clear there's still a market for more strategy-focused iterations. Echoes was great.

This game is definitely not great, but it's fine, and I'll enjoy the mental challenge it presents.

I think this holds up just fine for an NES game. You said yourself it was literally the very first strategy game like this on a console. I think they did remarkably well with it for the time. It's completely worth the price of admission. A few quick responses to your review:

"The boarding school drama or dating sim aspects of later releases . . . are all but absent here". GOOD. My son bought 3 houses and I couldn't get through the prologue.

"monochromatic sprites" - That's just wrong, as demonstrated BY YOUR OWN PICTURE. Sheesh.

Back in my PS1 RPG glory days, I was obsessed with Tales of Destiny 2. So different from what was the norm for an RPG at the time. I think I played a couple more and slowly lost interest in the series at is started to seem a soulless factory of titles.

I wonder if this is "Chinese people are in an uproar" or "Chinese government is in an uproar". The latter seems much more likely but it's hard to tell the difference.

As much as I personally didn't enjoy AC:NH (bought it EAGERLY during lockdown and yet nobody in the family played it for more than a couple weeks) I think it easily deserves GOTY.

@KomrathDE Exactly my thought after watching 30 seconds

"Sony, in particular, often comes in for criticism for obscuring any cheekiness it doesn't want on PlayStation. Nintendo has been more lenient in many cases"

At what point did that switch? Wasn't Nintendo always the family-friendly prudes and Sony (and MS) more adult?

"It was green" I lold.

"requiring a fair balance of guesswork . . ."

Somebody doesn't understand nonograms work.

Read this thread for recommendations, picked up a few games for the Thanksgiving travels and holiday! Kids (and me) already loving Pikuniku. Gris looks great too, and also grabbed Minit.

Anybody else think they're trying way too hard?

Europe's is awful. Bad color, way too busy. Also, "Instruction Booklet Included"??? Wasn't that the default then? It would be a selling point now...

Japan's makes much better use of the same image from Europe, and I like it, but the simplicity of NA's is great, I think.

#1 - Is this list updating in real time? I opened the first page, and then maybe 20 minutes later went to the second page and some of the games on the first page had moved to the second.

#2 - "Final Fantasy V expanded the series' job system and came to the West in TOSE's 2006 GBA port Final Fantasy V Advance." Nope. FFV came to the west on the Playstation in 1999 as part of Final Fantasy Anthology.

@GamingTelescope There was some trick to doing that, right? I think it wasn't a game settings option? Did you have to change your whole console to Japanese?

All this trailer did was remind me of the singular complaint I had about BoW... Zelda's voice.

@SolarJetman Hah, we might start to see aggressive litigation of these things specifically so "flix" doesn't become genericized!

@SolarJetman The whole concept is completely fine, it's the name that gives me pause (and the fact that the name uses the same shape/font as Netflix, as I think you flagged). And actually I shouldn't have said copyright, it'd be a trademark issue (if anything). The "McSleep" lawsuit where McDonald's successfully sued a chain of hotels would be a reasonable comparison.

I'm appointed, not disappointed. The worse this game does, the better - the more likely they'll drop the price or at least be less likely to pull something like this in the future.

So look. Parody CAN be a protected use, but it's not just an automatic get-out-of-copyright-infrigement-jail card. The name is a pretty obvious "our game is just a bunch of bland platforming retro levels, we need a catch" gimmick. Skating on thin ice here.

Honestly, I am glad for everybody who likes it, but for people like me who can't stand the babysitting and just want some battlefield strategy, this is troubling, because it makes it less likely we'll get any FE games like that.

Interesting, one NLer hated YesterMorrow, for another it's the game of the week.

@DarthXenos OH haha I missed that in my skimming.

"Monster summoning roguelike". Azure Dreams says hello.

Were they responsible for picking the price too?

Only one staff on the hottest biggest new game...

Oh that European one is SWEET. One of the best covers I've seen.

@COVIDberry How many people have you killed in video games?

@FantasiaWHT Good grief it got worse. I want to put each one of those characters in a sack and drown them to put them out of their misery.

"You are finished, hero of light." "I am a hero of light no longer." Eye roll

"one of the best RPGs on Switch" Well that's depressing. This game was extremely average, sadly. I wanted to play it forever, but I never had a PS3. I was thrilled to try it out on Switch when I rented it on Gamefly and was underwhelmed.

THC Simulator?

"her innate cartography powers"

Somebody understands me.

Darn, I thought it was going to be an opera simulator.

Picked this up after I read about it here. Fantastic game to play through with my daughter.

@Strumpan Yes. Time will tell if they're right about it. I think no.

@nessisonett This is 100% the kind of game I'm going to look for used. Maybe Black Friday, but I'd rather get it secondhand and not have Nintendo get any of my funds for it.

Why is this $60????

As much as I'm against all these lawsuits (again, just because a product isn't very good doesn't mean the company did anything illegal or owes you money), $5 million might represent what the whole CLASS suffered.

Anybody played both this and the new Star Wars Squadron? How does it compare?

More interesting games than clones of a 20-year old formula? Please?

Yeah I totally trust the lawyers for the plaintiffs to give an honest and forthcoming account of what Nintendo's lawyers said in court.

I enjoyed this one a lot, for a modern Ys game.

Both are pretty good, but the Japan version is a little more chill, in keeping with the vibe of the game.

The person who says I must not be a lawyer thinks legality has nothing to do with whether Nintendo can be held liable in court. I rest my case.

@ComposedJam Show me what law Nintendo broke. Selling a not-very-good product isn't illegal.

@Dang69 Anecdote =/= data