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Re: Pokémon Fans Vent Frustrations Online About Scarlet & Violet's Technical Issues

Levantine

The harsh reality is that while pokemon may be the highest grossing media franchise in the world, gamefreak is not. They caught the biggest lightning in a bottle with gen 1 and as the years have gone on they have proven time and time again to not be the most competent studio in the business. They're a AA studio making AAA games, and it's clear the pokemon company gives GF the bare minimum to work with anyway.

It's a merch first game second situation. It also doesn't help that GF only has around...160 employees? They need to hire some more talent. Still enjoying the game technical issues aside. Skyrim is one of the buggiest unpolished games ever (as all bethesda products are) and it's one of the most universally acclaimed games ever made.

Re: Review: Sonic Frontiers - A Bold But Ultimately Failed Attempt At Something New

Levantine

I'm starting to wonder how Pokemon Arceus managed to get away with a 9 when it looks about equal to this game on the switch, and they both look like they had random assets dropped on a map. I know its different reviewers and all that, but I still find it funny. To be fair though I enjoy both this and Arceus so this is just another reason why reviews are to be taken as a soft baseline of what to expect. No disrespect to the reviewer, different strokes and all that.

Re: Expect Trinity Trigger To Be A "Traditional RPG" With Local Multiplayer, Say Devs In Translated Interview

Levantine

This looks awesome and I'm really looking forward to it if there's a western release. Not every game needs to reinvent the wheel and there's so many RPGs now that try really experimental and "innovative" things that just aren't to my taste.

I love classic RPGs that are of swords and magic, heroes and kingdoms. Leveling up and buying new equipment from shops or finding them in dungeons. Heck, throw a little splash of sci-fi in the late game and its a chef's kiss from me.

Re: Meet The Special Support Section In 'The Legend Of Heroes: Trails From Zero' Trailer

Levantine

Amazing games. Easily in my top 5 favorite game series, though it boggles me a little that they're releasing the Crossbell games before Sky, and that there's still no Cold Steel 1 & 2 on switch. Though with Kondo just talking about releasing more of their games on switch I suppose it's only a matter of time.

Still, I feel like this alienates a lot of the potential switch players as it's harder to get into the series from later entries. Starting with say Cold Steel 1 is fine, but Cold Steel 3? You're missing hundreds of hours of story by starting with 3.