Princess_Lilly

So we are not welcome then

I hope they dont sell a single copy of this madness

The best solution would be to wait for discounts, and if they dont come, buy used. No amount of criticizm hits nearly as hard as low sales

Tge only thing that would make me buy online

What a good month. I'll try to get collectors Kemono Heroes (I waited too long for the reviews which never came), I'll probably pick up The Girl Who Steals Time as well. And Rune Factory, but I'm stuck at 4 for now

Nobody will ever believe his niece

It's 2025, so many stupid things happened in the last 15 years that I do not know what is real and what is a joke at this point. I was 100% ready to believe there is a market for such atrocity

Ah yes, the real one.

And much better than the scraps we were fed

eww it has tencent in it.

Patapon and Grand Bazaar, is it enough?

@ArceusAliasHystelm Arceus didn't create Mew, Mew was first since it has the original Arceus's DNA

Yeah the lore kinda fell apart at some point

@KaijuCouture I am not saying that they are not, but I have to say that while I know the meme about Ryza having thick thighs, I also know that the writers did an amazing job in bringing out her personality and that as a character, she is so much more than her outside features. I mean there is a reason this game was such a massive success.

You're probably right and I should have shut up because all in all it's not the end of the world, but I have terrible hindsight, it only works for the past

Looks cozy but those characters... I mean they are hobbits, but they lack certain cuteness in my opinion

The aesthetics, I'm melting.

Please be good please be good

Ah yes, the good old analog farming tools. Rubber bands and small heavy objects were the best friends in face of the endless grind

Really, thigh? -_-

One of the main overarching themes of the game is defying preconceptions and seeing beyond the face value

@axelhander Or contempt. No "AI art" just AI image. No "AI game", just AI code

The colors and pattern of the backgroud of the Japanese version look like a rug from the eastern block. This time NA for me

"Horrors beyond comprehension"

<shows a deer>

@Anachronism most lore is hearsay though. It is said to be powerful and incredibly potent but then you meet it and it's just a big monster. His mom, Mew, is at least incredibly intelligent for a pokemon. Not to say that according to lore Magcargo is the most powerful mon as his body temperature would literally ignite the atmosphere. And about the gameplay not mattering - if it's a wimp in a game, it is a wimp in lore, I really dislike this "lore over gameplay" thing that some games try to push. There are ways to make your opponent feel super powerful, and if they don't do it, it simply isn't meant to be depicted as such.

Man I just realized I love hating on Arceus. Mew is best and I am willing to defend this hill

Time is speeding up and everyone sees this. It is a phenomenon that was widely regarded as something to do with perception and old age, but nowadays even young people feel it. I feel it. There are theories that it's because of "doomscrolling" and getting information faster than being able to remember them, but I call red bull.

Conspiracy theories start

@SlamDunk22 well, it was an import operation from our good neighbors. Or did you mean how was it so long ago and not how it happened

@Anachronism how so? It is a god, but honestly, there are countless stories where "gods" and other super powerful beings are toppled and humiliated by the player/protagonist. I don't see any problem with it, considering the player at the end of any pokemon game is powerful enough to turn Arceus to dust in a single turn

@Anachronism Well, I think it could be done in many many ways, like one of the other legendaries could threaten the world and Acerus would join your team in a last battle or there would be some other true boss after Acerus.

I love it how the key highlighted news of the day thumbnail spoils the ending of the game

Offtop but NL did you know that there will be Serial Experiments Lain game?

This is HUGE NEWS

@Manah Yeah, we had a lot of related stuff in HS too. It's good that the topics are being mentioned, but I really feel like most of the public knowledge about it is being derived from the movies and video games. As in, it works for imagination better than books which are too complicated for many and the message just fly over their heads. And it's a powerful propaganda tool.

For instance, everyone "knows" the Turing Machine as the first computer because of the movie "Beautiful Mind". Nobody knows that it was actually a Polish invention called "Cryptologic Bomb" only slightly altered. The "Dunkirk" movie only showed heroic British forces, even though the whole operation was one big mess and it was literally just a retreat in panic, and they were covered by Polish and Canadian forces which did all the fighting. Again, nothing like that was even mentioned. There are countless examples like that.

Pushing fake history isn't new. Everyone will say that Columbus discovered America, even though it was not true even for his own expedition. The first ones to actually see the land were the Pinzon brothers, and they were the first who came back and reported the find to the king. They just didn't make it a big deal. Columbus gathered some specimen plants and animals and made a huge parade when he came back much later, and this is why everyone's history book will still say it's Columbus who discovered America.

What I'm getting at is that entertainment avenue works better in educating the public than actual education and scholar resources. And if you censor one of two ultranationalistic ideologies' symbols, you just make a clear distinction - swastica symbolizes something so bad you shouldnt even look into it. Red star is ok.

This is what ticks me off with censoring history in vgs and movies.

And yeah, with US getting super polarized between communists on far left and everyone else on the right, and China + Russia being literally dystopian nazistates ruled by unhinged space cases, it looks like nobody cares about "not repeating history" anymore.

@Zyph yeah, portability of Switch makes it my go to console. I only get to play in the evenings and the TV is occupied most of the time. That's the only reason I haven't started Visions of Mana yet. I hope VoM and AY both get Switch2 versions in 14 days. I know it's unrealistic but I just want N to say "Switch 2 is out now go buy"

@Mesozoic_Masquerade sorry for the late reply. Well, stealing assets is a huge no go, it is a plagiarism to some extent. I assume the other game was craftopia? Yeah it did look like a combination of very weird things, I remember watching the trailer and being more and more weirded out and then a panzer IV tank appeared on the screen o_O.

The thing is, to me Palworld was enjoyable. In terms of gameplay it was really nice. The base building was meh but most pals looked really cute.

As for Cassette Beasts - I hope it was the cause, but I fear that it was simply that Palworld gained so much traction and became a threat. Don't get me wrong, CB looks like a great game (in my backlog for quite some time) but it's way too ambitious to become very popular. What I also don't like is that Nintendo tried patent trolling them, getting themselves into a nearly unwinnable fight. Big players often do that for various reasons

Great news! I am so on fence with this one, ps5 or Switchi? I want the best possible experience, it is a solid 100% Goty candidate after all

I REALLY hope you can also play with full 100% original settings

First update will be a single hairstyle for female avatars

A girl enacting punishment for sa? Very good advertising, I'll definitely put it on my wishlist

You don't jump on the sinking ship

While western gaming had its moments (Morrowind, Disciples, Sacred, Pirates! and many more), it can't even compete with Japanese games. No amount of budget can fix the wrong attitude at the blueprint level. 50% on marketing 49% on graphics, 0.1% on music and 0.9% on partying (story is 0.0%, it is written on the last day on a lap in a tram by a guy who was late to work most times). It just doesn't work, paraphrasing the well known saying.

While I kinda understand people who say Palworld "stole" something from Pokemon (although I do not agree with it, there were games that "borrowed" much more, like Genshin took literally 95% of BotW [I still love both]), I have to point out that gameplay mechanics being patented is VERY dangerous to the industry. Especially when companies with money/connections for winning patent wars are not always the ones that actually came up with the idea, and people who actually made the games are not always the ones who profit from them.

@Manah yeah, I know. German versions are always heavily modified. IHNMAIMS depicts the concentration camps in a very graphic way (although not even close to what really transpired there) so I assume this falls under this trend.

What I struggle to comprehend is that this kind of censorship is actually counterproductive. Why would anyone erase such things from the public? Why not show the atrocities committed in the name of a completely lunatic vison that essentially devolved 2 nations to animals in a manner of years? It won't magically make the underlying cause go away. It just rewrites the history for the next generation so that they won't know what happened.

As George Santanaya said "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it". And acting like nothing happened is not a good way to learn. Funny thing is, the quote was in a Call of Duty trailer, which showed, among other things, the photos from the massacre at tiananmen square. The CCP "government" said to remove it and Acti instantly cut it from the trailer. Peak irony.

@Manah didn't know that. Also weird that the German version didn't have it

@MSpudley You mean AM

Now this is technology used right

That being said, I'll probably turn it off after playing with it for a couple of minutes

@Mirage-5x5 how so? I saw it on PlayAsia and 1 more site (import)

It's already 11/10 in my heart

looks like we'll have wait for my review.

Performance is irrelevant

I want it, I don't know what it is yet, but I still want it. I hope it's Magical girls update with Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, Saint Tail, Pretty Cure, Mermaid Melody and Tokyo Mew Mew! Chances are slim but it's 2025, weirder things happened

@fabiop it is and we love it

Great, fantastic! I'll definitely check it out!

I am so glad that Atelier series is now full mainstream, earning its place among the best of the best and most popular RPGs. It is a series about putting an effort first and slowly building skill to make something wonderful, after all.

I can't wait to hear the music, Atelier music is always brilliant, it is on par with Nobuo Uematsu, and I know the weight of this statement

I like the animal characters, I hope Wild Blue has a female MC as an alternative. Too bad the internet corrupted something so fun.

@WhiteTrashGuy Wildblue Wildblue Wildblue!

@SillyG I just noticed that all of the games are like that, what a coincidence

Fix only level scaling. Leave the rest untouched. Allow players to choose the level scaling system (new/old).

This is all we ask.

I love interiors of the Oblivion houses, btw. I don't know why but they are just insanely cozy.

@Samalik I was referring to this sentence: "gradually shifting towards a modern model of game development that doesn’t place importance on the creators’ individuality,"

The phrase "Modern model of game development" reeks of stunts Actiblizz, EA and Ubi try to pull off and fail time and time again. And if platinum shifts towards low quality, it's gonna be the next ubi.

Individuality of creators is paramount for a game to succeed. Nobody wants a bland mix, video games are art pieces, a medium through which creators communicate with the players.

Hideki makes more and more sense every day

not conforming to making the tasteless low quality "product" in search for the mythical modern consumer? Ground control to major W

I just feel terribly sorry for the victims. Girl Power

I skipped on fur squadron because of no female characters, I hope Wild Blue will do better

You cant put my morning stroll to shame, I do not move more than 20m away from my bed

Great piece. I would add that the bad ending is impactful because we, as the player, get to see how everything turns to dust, how people are starving (the healing machine that heals you but says "but the hunger remains"), how you see the world devoid of life and have to actually get through a portion of it, this experience leaves a lasting impression. It has been done in some other games, but Chrono Trigger did it perfectly

Lena Raine has pretty distinctive pieces, you either really like them or dislike them, nothing in between. There is such presence in her creative process though, I can't explain it well, but I really "like how I don't like it" as in I can't say they are bad, Lena just doesn't try to cater to everyone.

What I just wrote doesn't make sense