FantasiaWHT

ok then you beat the heart and now you have ascensions, which are twenty sequentially more challenging ways to make the game even HARDER, such as everything having more health, everything doing more damage, losing a potion slot, starting every run with a curse you can't remove in your deck, and having to kill TWO Act 3 bosses in a row.

It took me about 600 hours playtime to beat Ascension 20 on all 4 characters (stupid ironclad).

Favorite character is Defect. I love power builds (stupid awakened one boss). Watcher is amazing. Takes a long time to understand how to use her well, but she's incredibly powerful and for most serious players, actually the easiest to win with. Awakened One is my nemesis, because powers are SO GOOD (spend the energy once, get a permanent effect the entire fight). Awakened One is also my hardest boss (it has soooo much health and punishes powers). Strategy is far more important. Lucky matters, it's not chess, but your choices matter more than RNG. 1 energy or 1 card? Tough. Early game 1 energy is far better because you can't play all the cards in your hand. Late game 1 card is much better because you need to find your best cards to do your broken stuff/combos. I am ambivalent toward the biscuits.

Anybody ever play Sakura Wars: So Long My Love on Wii? 13 Sentinels reminds me of that, although less of a dating sim?

Anybody else play New Super Lucky's Tale? Grabbed a demo and thought it was just a very generic spyro style game. Not sure if my 11-yo would dig it.

Yep, mom used to call everything I played a Nintendo.

Great thumbnail. Too bad 35 of those 40 characters are utterly pointless.

Slay the Spire is amazing. I have over 900 hours into the game and still loving it.

Why on EARTH is this not two players? It literally has two distinct characters, you use both of them to solve puzzles... this blows my mind.

@Inc It's not any Sega tune that I recognize. Very generic and repetitive chiptunes. I found them grating to my ears.

I picked this up. The picrossing is fine. The music is SO BAD tho.

What's the big black monster east of the starting area?

Does it skip all the dating sim & life management stuff? I might be interested.

Correct me if I'm wrong but there's actually still a full YEAR before these shops shut down, right?

Yeah I've never been interested in playing an AC game for more than a couple months. The charm (and it is charming at first) wears off super quick for me. I thought AC:NH was going to be absolutely perfect for pandemic lock-in but the lack of good couch co-op ruined. Forcing everybody to stay near the island owner and limiting how much they could do just was incredibly unfun. What a terrible design decision.

#1 - The CARES relief stuff for businesses had to be spent on specific things (payroll for employees, largely), so yeah this is fraud.

#2 - It is kind of funny and kind of sad that all the individuals getting COVID relief had no such restrictions and basically everybody I know spent their money on vacations, or put it in kids' college savings funds, or splurged on fun stuff for themselves because they weren't in any way actually needing of any relief.

#3 - Or if, like me, you're self-employed, you probably just had to leave it in the bank to pay taxes at the end of the year because you knew the government was paying you too much money and you couldn't do anything about it.

Well when you're conditioned to believe that every business is fundamentally evil...

Why does that accent change with every new line she says?

What's the biggest number of troops you can ever bring into one battle?

@tameshiyaku Do I what I used to do with every game from the late 90's and early 20's - turn the Japanese voice acting on. It might be super cheesy too, but heck if I can tell

Why does every TRPG have to be this unbelievably weighty story about kingdoms and dynasties and international intrigue? That was my least favorite part about FFT and Triangle Strategy takes it to extremes.

I think it's more of a default position and one the lawyers prefer. I do tend to agree that you'd generally rather have people talking about the game (free publicity!) unless it's EXTREMELY early in the process.

@ModdedInkling Yeah that's kind of what I'm expecting. A kitschy destination store, not really a "game" store.

"surprisingly low number of game stores"

If they're ACTUALLY surprised by that, they might have a poor understanding of the market.

@Ontrevant Oh I don't think it's easy. This doesn't stand out to me at all though and I've played a lot of pixel games. It's fine. If anything below average.

@nhSnork Right? Maybe elfin hand structure invalidates her points

"gorgeous pixel art" what exactly are you looking at?

Yeah, very poor animations and the writing seems pretty immature too.

I love a lot of games with random maps, but in a strategy game? Seems like you would have either wildly swinging difficulty or the maps just don't matter.

I loved Penny Arcade's sarcastic comic strip to the effect of "Hey, instead of an NFT, can I ACTUALLY OWN the digital copy of this game you're selling (instead of just a license to play it)?" "haha hell no n00b"

I've very badly wanted to play Last Story, especially after how amazing Xenoblade was. Give me Pandora's Tower too!

Percentage of people who will have sex in their lives - 99%
Percentage of people who will kill another human in their lives - 1%

Freakout level of sex in media - 9
Freakout level of death in media - 1

Life is weird.

TWEWY is in my top 5 games of all time. Just finished NEO:Twewy and was unimpressed.

Game is fine, I'm not going to claim it's trash. But nowhere near as compelling as the original. Less interesting characters, less interesting story. Combat gave me bad hand cramps, it was just too much at once.

Worst of all though, for me, was that the last 1/3 of the game stopped being a game and just became an extremely long, droning on and on visual novel. They spent a lot of time introducing really interesting game mechanics in the beginning and middle of the game and then they COMPLETELY STOPPED MATTERING. For a while you got some interesting puzzles, interesting things to do in the game but eventually the entire game became "Go to this time/location we told you to and watch the next part of the story. Repeat ad nauseam. Occasionally do a fight if you want to I guess."

It was not interesting gameplay and I was begging for it to finally be over by the end.

Shipping in a year?

Should've brought in Imagine Dragons to perform Enemy from Arcane!

"The company does not have specific targets for the appointment of women"
...
"We intend to increase the proportion of women in managerial positions from the current proportions in the Nintendo Group's principal offices globally (23.7% as of March 31, 2021) and Nintendo Co., Ltd in Japan (4.2% as of March 31, 2021)."
?????

Never called the Nintendo one but I remember calling Sierra for help in Hero's Quest. Sadly it turned out to be a bug in the game where you couldn't get past a certain maneuver if you were on higher speeds so you had to turn that down in the game settings. I was very annoyed.

And uninstalled 1,990,000 times!

Are we still not allowed to call things lazy? eyeroll

"It's a staggering number, and even discounting the significant numbers of low quality titles"

Huh? You CAN'T discount those, because you are literally counting them. The entire reason there is such an OMGZ WHAT A BIG NUMBER is that the eShop is filled with massive quantities of crap.

Still unsure about Pikmin Bloom? Don't bother.

These days I'd prefer a company that was honest and said "We're about making great games. We don't care what color you are, who you worship, what you want to be called, any of that. We're not going to try to force some arbitrary vision of "diversity", because reducing complex, wonderful, individual human beings to a single trait and lumping them all together in groups is dehumanizing."

Haha, wow my handheld gaming tastes are very different than most people's.

@NoTinderLife Technically, ever online game ever has its own cryptocurrency already.

Consider ever EULA ever makes it clear you don't "own" anything at all (you're only using a license), these seems likely a load of BS.

Maybe they're reconsidering the price. Yeah, wishful thinking.

Flame in the Flood was a delightful game. Glad to see CDPR expanding.

"Well, for one thing, not being credited properly is arguably harmful to someone's career."

To play devil's advocate, do we really think game developers, on receiving an application for somebody who says "I worked for Company X on Game Y" goes and plays Game Y and scours the credits looking for that name?

I wonder how much the USPS makes from mailing games? Or UPS? How much does the government make by taxing companies that make/sell/distribute games?

I'd rather have a port at $20. Not sure I'm into this and I loved those games.

I'm getting a bit of Slay the Spire vibes from this, especially after reading IGN's article. I have hundreds of hours into that game, so that's a good sign.

Does anybody know if the numbers are SET events/battles, or randomized?

This looks far more interesting to me than the million-and-one "actual" JRPGs that are being released these days. I will watch closely