FantasiaWHT

I read a lot of good things about To The Moon, so I picked it up. I thought the story and gameplay were interesting but the dialogue writing was so juvenile I gave it up.

@Hydra_Spectre They could easily do a prequel, within the story, no? Wasn't this problem arising every 1,000 years? I definitely agree with you that IV was an amazing capstone though.

Give me a kind, hedonistic farmer for my long lonely journey any day.

Eh, the Japan art is pretty generic. Every horror game art looks like that.

These images from the game look so weird.

"Last July they were broken into twice"

Welcome to the new crime wave. Back to the 1980's & 90's.

"saying that she only ever wanted "a fair, living wage""

ROFL.

@Browny "boycotts" often backfire like this if they're not well thought through. Streisand effect, counter-influence... there's lots of reasons a product may actually do better when targeted with a call for boycott.

Look, if you want more money, ask for money. If they say no, say no back to them. Don't be a whiny little bitch about it and expect the world to agree with you.

Those are some... remarkably polite options.

I don't mind lo-fi graphics, but I can't tell what's going on in this game at all.

If people want it, good on them.

This makes me think of the GBA FF Tactics Advance for some reason. I like the idea a lot. Like others, I'm guessing not playing as Link might've been the bridge too far.

"At this point, it seems almost certain that Square Enix is using an AI to randomly generate new titles in its “Underlined Serif Title” RPG series. Triangle Strategy already felt like it was pushing the limits"

Bravely Default already exceeded those limits.

Looks fun, but what on earth makes that ship a "viking ship"? Doesn't look anything like a Norse longboat.

Editorial, not news.

I tried the demo and thought the same thing about the controls. Such a horrible choice to have to use your cursor like a mouse. Really dampened my enjoyment of the game.

"While there's no doubt that Kit and Krysta's story is true,"

Um, there's a LOT of doubt the story is true. You got both sides of the story, and they contradict each other partially, so why are you saying this? I don't even think K&K are lying, but people misremember things ALL THE TIME.

This is the whole problem with this kind of finger-pointing reporting. Even for recent events, memory and perception can be wildly different for different people, so taking something like this as gospel is foolish.

Is the PAL cover really washed out like that? Or is it a photograph problem?

My friend was so much better than me at this game he could beat me holding the controller upside down. I still loved it though, and still prefer it to any later entry.

Can somebody explain why long straight tracks weren't possible in splitscreen, due to hardware limitations? I don't really understand why that's the case.

Government-sponsored racial preferences, what could go wrong?

@Late Describes my experience perfectly. That said, I hadn't even thought of this game in a long time and now I'm itching to twiddle around with it a bit, hah.

@oatmaster Agreed, Sandman does a good job of that.

I have to agree with Not_Soos. Tons of games have positive representation of LGBTQ. Nobody these days would ever dare portray them in a negative light or even in a joking manner. But I rarely see positive depictions of Christianity or even religion more generally. More often it's a lazy, stereotypical trope done without much thought.

"Worse yet, Cult of the Lamb outright crashed on us once and softlocked a few more times"

I think Devolver Digital has a real problem with Switch games. I bought Card Shark and the game hardlocked about 90% of the way in, absolutely nothing you could do, it froze after you loaded your game. Lots of people with the same problem on Discord, but it took them about 4 months to fix it.

Looks kinda scary for three year olds

First one I ever owned myself was Metroid Prime on GC. I had played Metroid and Super Metroid at friends' houses though.

Definitely some cuphead vibes.

Ah yes, the reason every single tactics game ever has "Everything I Say Has to Be The Most Profound, Serious Thing I've Ever Said" dialogue.

It's really not that far of a stretch (sorry) from the shapes in Kirby's Epic Yarn.

This one's close. I like the action shot of the Japanese cover, but it's zoomed in too close and too busy.

Without too much in the way of spoilers, can someone lightly touch on how the stories come together? Is each character like a short prelude before they come together (like Octopath) or are they lengthy separate stories that only merge towards the end?

Played ever? I have some extremely vague memories of playing Pitfall at a cousin's house on an Atari. First one I ever owned? That would be the Sega Master System with built-in Alex Kidd.

Huh, might be a fun time killer at that price. Any details on how it actually controls?

Oh man I forgot about Evolution. Had fun with that game!

Wow so many utterly forgettable and crap games. How did this series ever survive as long as it did when the best games were uncontrovertably the first few?

Yeah I actually skipped the Switch version and downloaded the free PC version but struggled a ton to connect yesterday.

Has there ever been a so-lopsided poll here before?

I just don't understand what's going on with the NA version. Very childish images, weird shadows, purple (?)

Is this multiplayer? Or is it a game like Wild At Heart with two distinct characters that inexplicably have to be controlled by one person?

@Tyranexx YEah I wasn't a fan of that in Octopath either

"You might recognise the Three Kingdoms from games like ...

Romance of the Three Kingdoms? =(

Way too much going on in the EU/JA version. Go for simplicity!

@Yosher Interesting, I had the opposite reaction - I think both are quite nice, but the NA version was too busy for my taste and I preferred the simplicity.

US looks closer to the comic.

Wait, high end phones have like FIVE camera lenses now, why AREN'T they recording in 3D?

Yes, how dare contractors be treated.... like.... contractors?

Boy autobiographies are neat! You get to always be right in hindsight!

Snark aside, the ambassador program was amazing. I still play those games.

Wait this is real? NL did an article on 4/1 about it and I thought it was an April Fools joke.

Question - "Live" can be pronounced two different ways, with a long I (adjective - a "live concert" or a "live wire", rhymes with "hive") or a short I (verb - "live your life" or "live and let live", rhymes with "give").

Anybody know for sure how to pronounce each "live" in this title?

""charming but barebones offering", highlighting the lack of any unlockables when playing locally, along with a distinct lack of scope to most of the sports on offer."

In other words, Wii Sports?