I just bought it on sale a couple days ago after mentioning it in the WAYP articles for a while so a silly part of me is like IT WAS ME. I WAS NUMBER 3 MILLION.
Wow a year ago I wasn’t even really on this site and now a year later here I am participating in the last WAYP of the year. Well I’m happy to do it. Been a good week of getting games even if we haven’t beat very many of them hahaha. Between Christmas and other things I picked up copies of Assassins Creed Mirage, Fate/Samurai Remnant, Armored Core VI Flames of Rubicon, Dave the Diver (finally), and the big game, my first game on switch of 2024 and the game I picked for the poll Dragon Quest Monsters The Dark Prince. It’s that last game I think I’ll focus on in the new year too. My December/early January game. It won’t technically be my first game of the year that’ll be Fate Samurai/Remnant. The Type Moon guys take New Years seriously so will I. But of course that’s the holiday what about this weekend? Well this weekend didn’t have much gaming outside of some Armored Core but that’s because I was doing something personally much more important. I had a excellent time with a amazing friend at a local mall. And honestly like most times with them it was simply amazing. The gifts they got me I’ll treasure and love for a long long long time. Maybe forever but that’s too big for me to think hahahah. Agent Gap is now a member of Operation Strix. They’ll see this so they’ll get the reference hehehe. I’ve said it before to yall but there really are some things more important than gaming. As for the rest of the weekend and week ahead ima focus on getting my Top 10 Lists in order and really just minding my business and working until the first big releases of 2024. For me those will be Another Code Recollection and Tekken 8. As for anime of the week it was a lot of finales and honestly all the finales I watched stuck the landing. My Inexperienced Love Story, Girlfriend, Girlfriend, Frieren, Spy X Family, 16 Bit Sensation, Eminence in Shadow, and Jujutsu Kaisen. Add in Ron Kaminohashi which I’m trying to finish today and you probably have my fall picks when it comes to anime. As for podcasts of course we’re full of GOTY Installments from all of them which makes me really happy I love those sorts of episodes. So you know the usual: Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Minnmax, Remap Radio, Nextlander, Fire Escape, RPGsites Tetracast, Weapon Wheel and of course my two newcomers Windbreaker and Firelink from the Second Wind Media guys. Also of course a big shoutout to my stoner retro catgirl friend at twitch.tv/akibread. Here’s hoping through these small shoutouts we can make 2024 their year. Overall yall it’s been a great year with everyone on this site from contributors to fellows commenters. It’s been one of the greatest years in gaming with one of the strongest start to the next year that I think I have ever seen. To my buddies who read this every week like my buddy Gaddy, Agent Gap, Az, Spence, Sib and so so so many more that I could write a entire article about thank you so so much from the bottom of my heart. And I look forward to a terrrifc, happy and healthy new year with all of you and all of you commenters and contributors. As always have a excellent, happy, safe and healthy weekend and Happy Gaming. HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Gotta go,NA on this one I absolutely love the look with the characters and the cityscape behind them. Always wanted to play these games. Come on Capcom port it already heheheh
Well we got ourselves a very festive week eh hehehehe. First off I gotta say I agree with Kate AJ:AA Case 3 ain’t that bad y’all are just babies. As for the week well I wrapped up Super Mario RPG this week and snagged this little PlayStation Indie called Eternights so kinda fun on that front. And currently the plan is to try to beat FFXVI tonight after my work shift. With that and some anime catch-up this week it’ll then be to task making all my Top 10 Lists of the year to share with friends. Of course we can’t forget the big day and yes like anyway else even I can’t resist the mood even with some extenuating circumstances. Personally for most of the holiday I’ll be in good old NYC with family. Excited for next week to share the gifts with all of y’all. Otherwise I’m not gonna lie I’m kinda feeling like most people in this article like Alana or Ollie where it’s like eh I don’t really feel like much games seeing as I either beat them or know i won’t be beating them by the end of the year. I guess the games this week will be things like Baldurs Gate 3, Like A Dragon Gaiden so I’m prepared for Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth, Sea of Stars, Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising on the PS5 and games like Star Ocean 2, Persona 5 Tactica, Pokémon Scarlet The Indigo Disk and Trails Into Reverie on switch. Still looking at Dave The Diver. Who knows maybe a mystery benefactor will feel like spreading holiday cheer? 🥺 hehehehe. In anime this week yet another terrific performance by Jujutsu Kaisen, Eminence In Shadow, SHY, Frieren and Spy X Family. Definitely looking at some top 10 candidates there. In podcasts this week it’s GOTY Season so I’m loving the meaty length episodes I’m getting from stuff like Fire Escape, Minnmax, RPGsites Tetracast, Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Into the Aether, Nextlander and Remap Radio. Of course I always save the best for last and yeah I’m thinking the newest consistent addition to this is gonna be shouting out my awesome retro stoner catgirl friend at twitch.tv/akibread. This holiday season getting to give them hopefully even the smallest boost of support is one of the greatest gifts I can get please y’all go give some love and support if you can. As of writing this journal tonight they’re streaming Fatal Frame 4 if you want some spooky while you’re warm and cozy. As always y’all stay beautiful stay kind stay safe and have a terrific weekend. Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays and Hqppy Gaming.
Call me the smash announcer because ima be yelling no contest on this one. This is a childhood game I got from my dad but never really understood and put down but that box sticks in my mind so hard so I had to go with that one. Can’t wait for the remake.
Alrighty bit of a interesting week this week. To start with of course this weekend was full of Indigo Disk and man is it one heck of a time so far. Definitely a toughie of a DLC but won’t lie I’m liking it more then The Teal Mask so far. Also got to have some excellent matches in Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising with a friend and that is just a absolutely excellent fighting game. (shoutout Ouji_Senpai.) Gotta say think my main is gonna be Vira or Yuel. As for tonight and tomorrow actually I’m thinking of skimping on switch gaming I definitely wanna do some Super Mario RPG like I voted on but tonight I’m going to see The Boy and The Heron with my best friend and I’m really excited for that and then thinking afterwards will just be some low key Like A Dragon Gaiden time I ain’t played it in like two weeks. IM FINALLY FREE OF MORNING SHIFTS. Except for Wednesday but that’s it. So I look forward to wrapping up Alan Wake II this week as that game has just turned absolutely stellar. And otherwise I really just wanna zone in hard on some FFXVI. Would really like to beat it by Christmas and I’m 88% of the way there so here’s hoping I can do it. Otherwise most of the week is gonna just be some minor switch games like Star Ocean 2 and Persona 5 Tactica and some minor PS5 games like some more matches and story mode of Granblue. Honestly now it’s about time to start writing up the top 10 lists for the year. Very excited to share those. As for anime of the week again it’s the excellent quartet of Eminence in Shadow, Jujutsu Kaisen, Frieren and Spy X Family. Getting close to the end of the season and the end of a lot of those shows so here’s hoping for excellent finishes for a lot of them. Podcasts of the week of course are Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Into the Aether, RPGsites Tetracast, Minnmax, Nextlander and Friends Per Second. Without saying why I can now comfortably stamp that one with approval for the foreseeable future. Also for anyone who saw last weeks journal where I shouted out a special friend and their redebut stream that stream was absolutely stellar and I just wanna shout them out again so y’all can still go give them love on the daily. That would be my friend over at twitch.tv/akibread. As always y’all have a excellent weekend and Happy Gaming.
Gotta go with NA for this one. Love how they show off the setting of the game with the shot of the farm and all that and honestly it just reminds me of me. Me running somewhere looking angry and my little beagle buddy snoopy running behind with a smile.
Well this has been one heck of a week I’ll tell ya what. Thinking this is gonna be a big entry this week in more ways then one. Well to start with similar to Jim I have also been on a video game wrap up spree. In the past week I beat Warioware Move It, Spider-Man 2, Super Mario Wonder, Pikmin 4 and The Teal Mask DLC. Not to mention as a preview of the upcoming gaming plans I got close to the end of Alan Wake II and Final Fantasy XVI. So this week I’m thinking of taking a break from the switch. I did play some Super Mario RPG on Friday and am probably closing in on the end of that game too but I’m thinking of devoting more time to the PS5 this week. Work on beating my top two GOTYs, Alan Wake II and FFXVI and definitely try out some new games I got this week like Assassins Creed Mirage and a special game I’ll mention later. Tho I am thinking of tackling the Sonic Frontiers DLC today since they apparently patched it to make it easier. Oh i also do wanna give the Indigo Disk DLC that comes out this week for Scarlet and Violet a look too. I definitely wanna be able to put together my GOTY list, my movies list and my animes list by Christmas. Also no lie not picky on the platform but I definitely wanna look at getting a copy of Dave the Diver. I went from not really caring about it to thinking it’s kinda cool and I wanna play. But oh man the big news of the week sure we’re those game awards huh? I won’t blab on and on but I would say it was a A- this year seriously some great things there. For me personally I loved the FFXVI and FFVII Rebirth Trailers, the Blade Trailer, SEGA IS BACK, the Alan Wake performance and of course number bloody one the ELPHELT VALENTINE TRAILER MY BABY IS BACK. Of course there were some out now trailers there and that leads to the pickups of the week with that special game I mentioned. I of course grabbed the FFXVI Echoes of the Fallen DLC and my babygirl Elphelt but I also snagged the Deluxe Edition of Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising. Won’t have to think about buying DLC for that game for a while yessir. Excited for that game and it’s early access starting tomorrow. Of course anime of the week gotta go to Jujutsu Kaisen and Eminence in Shadow for continuing to just absolutely kill it. Podcasts of course are same as usual Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Remap Radio, RPGsites Tetracast, Nextlander and Into The Aether. But with the Jirard the Completionist accusations cleared in his innocence I can now also go back to shouting out Friends Per Second again. Speaking of shoutouts last but absolutely certainly not least I wanna give a big and special shout-out to a friend of mine. Anyone reading this who sees this before December 14th please please go to twitch.tv/akibread my friend is having a 12 hour redebut stream please go show them some love. As always y’all have a excellent week, best of luck with y’all own GOTY lists and Happy Gaming.
Gotta go with NA on this one, I appreciate how you can faintly see the villains in the background compared to the complete weirdness that is the European one.
Well here we go with another week of WAYP. Been one crazy week this week. Update from last week I beat Sonic Superstsrs but not just that game tho we’ll get to that later. This weekend I not only saw the new Nicholas Cage movie Dream Scenario and the new Godzilla movie Godzilla Minus One but I also beat Spider-Man 2 as well. All three were superb in different ways and a great time all around. Got some nifty new joycons this week too. The Pastel Purple and Green they’re very pretty. Unfortunately this week is nothing but early morning work shifts for me like back in the summer so truthfully the only PS5 game I can say is gonna get a lot of love from me is gonna be Alan Wake II most likely on my day off. Think I’m gonna try to snag a preorder of Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising this week too. The shiny Deluxe edition so I can nab the season pass with it. With the Game Awards coming up I’ll probably check that out with friends and vote on it like today I’m thinking. Also for the rest of the weekend I’m thinking of abandoning my plans to 100% all of Super Mario Wonder for now and probably just try to beat it tonight. With luck I can say that about a lot of games this week. Pikmin 4, Pokémon Scarlet The Teal Mask so on and so forth. Excited for those Game Awards tho definitely. As for anime of the week I won’t lie I slacked a little this week so I’m only going to give credit to Spy X Family and Shangri La Frontier this week. Podcasts this week of course gotta be Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Into The Aether, Remap Radio, RPGsite Tetracast, Minnmax, Nextlander and Weapon Wheel. As always yall hope you have a wonderful weekend and happy gaming.
Alrighty we got a kinda interesting week this week. First off I hope everyone had a excellent holiday. Next Persona 5 Tactica and Sea Of Stars yesterday was a interesting combo. A genuinely terrific game is what Persona 5 Tactica is so far I won’t lie there. Was genuinely shocked when I got into gameplay within like 20 minutes of starting. Snagged two new amiibos this weekend too Shiver and Frye from Splatoon. As for tonight well a good online buddy of mine (shoutout Champ.) has offered to help me with the final boss of Sonic Superstars so I’ll go for the same Sega Sunday as last week. Some Sonic and Like a Dragon Gaiden. As for the rest of the week the plan is it’s business as usual with the GOTY work. Pretty close to the end of Super Mario Wonder. Same with Spider-Man 2 as well. Alan Wake II is a little hard to judge where I’m at. But also the big news of the week is I feel Baldurs Gate 3 clicks now so I’m excited to jump back into that one too. Other games I’m probably close to the end of would be Pikmin 4 and The Teal Mask DLC for Pokemon Scarlet and maybe FFXVI? I wanna do The Teal Mask and the Indigo Disk before the end of the year. I finished off the Fell Xenologue for Fire Emblem Engage this week so now with all of Engage done I feel very strongly on Engage as a whole. Hoping the same can happen to Pokémon Scarlet. As for anime of the week y’all already know we basically listing the new Big 3 at this point. Jujutsu Kaisen, Spy X Family and Eminence in Shadow. Just the best as always. Tho special shout-out to Shangri La Frontier and 100 Girlfriends as well for being equally as awesome. Podcasts of the week are the usual ya know Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Minnmax, Remap Radio, RPGsites Tetracast. However until the whole Jirard the Completionist situation gets resolved I can’t I’m good faith endorse the Friends Per Second podcast and for now gotta say I’m gonna sub it in for and shoutout the Nextlander podcast. As always yall have a excellent rest of the weekend, a excellent week and Happy Gaming.
Alrighty it’s been one wild week so let’s get it started. This weekends games are fairly simple. While I missed out on the Splatfest this weekend I got to have a awesome night seeing the new hunger games so that’s amazing. The rest of the weekend I’m thinking is gonna be pretty Sega based. Yep some Sonic Superstars and Like A Dragon Gaiden to finish out the weekend. As for the week ahead? Well with our GOTY nominees out I’ve only finished two of them that being Resident Evil 4 Remake and Tears of the Kingdom. Having finished up as much of Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty as I could stomach (seriously it’s a tragic story) I did reinstall one of the games. Meaning the plan this week is to get some serious work done on the remaining GOTY games I need to beat: Super Mario Bros Wonder, Spider-Man 2, Alan Wake II and of course Baldurs Gate 3. Of course I wanna sprinkle other games in there like Pikmin 4 and the end of the Fell Xenologue for Fire Emblem Engage. And some Super Mario RPG too. But that’s the goal. We heading into GOTY season so we gotta act like it hahaha. Other games I wanna give a whirl at some point this week include Persona 5 Tactica. Either on thanksgiving or the Saturday after. Anime of the week still remain Frieren and Spy X Family and Shangri La Frontier. Special shout-out to JJK this week for being quite SPECIALZ. If you know you know. And same to the new Scott Pilgrim anime I enjoyed the first episode so far. I feel I saw hunger games with a Ramona Flowers. Podcasts of course are the usual. Castle Superbeast and Big Think Dimension. Into The Aether, Remap Radio, Minnmax. RPGsite and Friends Per Second too. But special shout to Weapon Wheel Podcast this week. Gave it a listen for the first time yesterday and honestly a very good podcast that made a 7 hour shift feel like a blink. As always y’all stay excellent and have a amazing weekend and a Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Gaming.
While I like this game and like the NA Box Art I had to give this one to Europe. It’s not only much prettier and chiller but the vibes of it are much more in line with the rest of Pikmin. Like the box art more generally resembles say 3 or 4 where it’s just the Pikmin chilling in front of something while say a bulborb watches.
Alrighty well we got our last big week of games of the year I feel coming up so here we go. Of course I know we still got some games coming out this year like Dragon Quest Monsters 3 for Switch and Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising for PS5 but personally I feel like Switch has its last big games this week in Super Mario RPG a game I’m very very excited for and Persona 5 Tactica another game I’m hype about. And the PS5 had its last big games last week with COD MWIII and Like A Dragon Gaiden. Speaking on that last one that’s where we’ll start this week as that’s easily my game of the week it feels so good to be playing another game with Kiryu I mean Joryu. A good Yakuza beat ‘em up style game makes next years LAD8 and it’s RPGness just that little bit easier to stomach. Otherwise a perfectly ordinary time with some excellent games like Pikmin 4, Sea Of Stars and Star Ocean 2 as usual. Oh and of course some excellent Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with friends to see the rest of the Booster Course. That really was a excellent DLC a collection Nintendo did honestly worth the money. Also Nintendo please put Pauline in MK9 or 10 or whatever you’ll call it thanks. Like most people it’s time to knuckle down and work on GOTY games. I mean man after the Tekken 8 reveal tonight we got the Game Awards nominees tomorrow like that’ll make my game carving path really easy. I know it’s probably gonna mean blitzing and finding out truly how a game like Baldurs Gate 3 works. Might snag UMVC3 tho as it’s on sale for the price of a decent lunch. So yeah a week of Spider-Man 2 and Mario Wonder and Sonic Superstars and Pikmin 4 and Alan Wake 2 and Sea of Stars and maybe Tales of Arise awaits. And of course Super Mario RPG at the end of the week seriously you guys I’ve never played this game I can hardly wait. Gonna try to finish Arnold Schwarzeneggers new show on Netflix FUBAR this week so I can move on to the Onimusha anime and the Scott Pilgrim show too. Anime of the week of course gotta go to Eminence In Shadow, Inexperienced Love Story, Frieren, Spy X Family, and Shangri La Frontier. Those are the easy stand outs of the season so far. And podcasts this week gonna be bulky as I gotta give a shout-out to the ones getting me through work of course being Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Remap Radio, RPGsites Tetracast, Friends Per Second, Minnmax and of course Into The Aether. All absolutely excellent and amazing. As always everyone have a excellent weekend and Happy Gaming.
My vote this week (sorry lion king but last week I was just too busy) has gotta go to NA. I too have a lot of nostalgia for being like 10-12 playing this game and loving it. I would also add that yeah while the art is a little more chaotic it fits the game better I mean you throw Kirby’s at a spider and they start throwing haymakers at it there’s no lie there.
Alrighty another week and another entry. I think the best way to sum up this week was: reality. Despite being on vacation it was stressful yet in all that some bright glimmers shine through. With that out the way I was able to beat TOTK and finish off my Resident Evil Marathon. Unfortunately Pikmin 4, Fire Emblem Engage and Sonic Superstars weren’t finished off so I got some work as we head into GOTY season. Also watched the final episode of the final season of the final part of attack on titan (part 3) with some friends last night and that was nice if not bittersweet. See you later, Eren indeed. On the topic of pickups I picked up a grand total of 4 things on my vacation this week. Like a Dragon Gaiden, Tales of Arise DLC Before the Dawn, Warioware MOVE IT, and Star Ocean The Second Story R. Suffice to say between LAD and Tales this week and the week after being Super Mario RPG and Persona 5 Tactica I’ve got something basically for every week in November. Of course after those last two it’s time to knuckle down and really beat some games to put together GOTY lists. Big thing this week I’m looking forward to is enjoying a nice long relaxing session of Star Ocean 2 tomorrow for the last day off of my vacation. Shoutout to Kris Wolfheart of the GigaBoots Podcast Network (aka big think dimension) for being this games strongest warrior and now it’s more widely available. Also I think I’ll announce this here that I think my next long term marathon after having done all the mainline Resident Evil games is I’ll do all the Star Oceans. I mean I now own them all. And with Star Ocean 2 you can now play the whole series in one place. That being PlayStation but that’s another thing hahaha. Either way this week I also think I’ll try knuckling down on games like Sea of Stars on the PS5 again. I really wanna try to beat most GOTY contenders for those sorts of podcasts at the end of the year so I can understand what’s being talked about. In terms of anime this week yall already know gotta shout out Spy X Family and JJK again. Again big special shout-out to the end of Attack On Titan. And Eminence in Shadow just keeps delivering. As for podcasts this week we kinda back to that full rotation homies of Remap Radio, Minnmax, Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension and Into the Aether. As always have a excellent weekend yall and Happy Gaming.
Alrighty a interesting week this week for y’all. Not much to really speak of from the past week other than preparing to beat TOTK, getting the money for Like A Dragon Gaiden, the entire Bahamut section of FFXVI and beating Resident Evil 4 Separate Ways. That one is a excellent one by the way very big fan of the latter half of it and yeah I think Capcom’s next thing is gonna be a RE5 Remake. As for this week tho as the great Sojiro Sakura would say HOO BOY. On Vacation this week from and all I can say is we gonna try to beat some games this week friends. Gonna try to beat TOTK today actually and have the first of the GOTY contenders under my belt. Did some Splatoween already this weekend so I got my fill of that I’ll admit. But we’re talking more progress in Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Future Redeemed. Wanna try to beat that by the end of the year. Fire Emblem Engage Fell Xenologue. Apparently it’s 6 chapters long and I’m 3 chapters in sooooooooooo yeah that’ll be good to wrap this week too. Hell I might even decide to just beat Sonic Superstars too since that’s fairly short too. And over on PS5 more Spider-Man 2 and FFXVI of course. But that’s not even mentioning the new games this week I’ll be delving into like Alan Wake II on Halloween for my special Halloween game and purchasing Like A Dragon Gaiden, hopefully picking up the Tales Of Arise DLC Beyond the Dawn and also hopefully snagging a copy of Warioware too. In terms of anime this week yall already know we gotta rep the two best shows this season Spy X Family and Eminence In Shadow. Tho special shout-out to probably my third favorite Ron Kaminohashis Forbidden Deductions. As for podcasts this week with vacation and all it’ll be kinda limited actually so I’ll limit it to my favorites. Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Into the Aether and Remap Radio. Happy Halloween to everyone and have a excellent weekend and Happy Gaming.
Ah another Nostalgic pick this week with Wario Land. But surprising possibly to some of y’all it is not the NA one that I grew up with that I’m picking. No no this one I’m picking Japanese I love the way it shows all the characters and the colorful Style and wario shaking the money bag. Honestly can we get this ported I love this game and find it so flipping charming.
Oh boi what a absolutely amazing down right WOWIE ZOWIE weekend it’s been and I’m just so happy. Saw the new Scorsese movie Killers Of The Flower Moon and honestly it was just excellent. Little slow to start but Martin really is a visionary. Of course like everyone else I’ve been playing loads of Super Mario Bros Wonder. I love it so much it’s utterly excellent and honestly might be my GOTY. I’m blown away each new level I do. Of course that’s not the only new game that came out that I’m checking out. I also dabbled in some Spider-Man 2 and honestly there are moments in it so far that if you ask me make Final Fantasy XVI blush. I think I’ll also take a break off of Mario Wonder today to do some Sonic Superstars I’m very excited for that one. Also I’ll probably wrap up the RE7 DLC later tonight too so I can move onto the Seperate Ways DLC for Resident Evil 4 Remake this week. Finally playing some new RE content for Halloween feels good. Of course I’ll be doing the usual rotation of games this week of Rain Code and FFXVI and TOTK and Fire Emblem and Sea Of Stars and stuff but of course throwing in some of our new additions there too. And of course that’s not even counting the fact that yeah I still have a new game this week in the absolutely legendary Alan Wake II. Granted I’ll probably delve into that next week as my yearly special Halloween game I start on Halloween but to say I am excited is a understatement. Extremely good time for gaming hahaha. As for the Fall Anime I’ve shook out some clear winners. Spy X Family, Shangri-La Frontier, 100 Girlfriends who really love you, Eminence In Shadow, Inexperienced Love Story and Frieren. All simply superb and excellent intros too. As for the podcasts this week we got the usual awesome killers like Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension and Into The Aether. But of course we got Remap Radio and Minnmax coming in hot again as just really excellent things to listen to while really getting into some of these excellent games coming out. Hope everyone is having a excellent weekend and Happy Gaming.
Well seeing as they all have something obnoxious about them be it the game screenshots of the text at the bottom the one I gotta give this one to is yet again the one bating me with nostalgia and go North America on this one. I still own this game I’m pretty sure and I loved it as a kid it honestly might be one of my favorite games of all time it really is absolutely lovely.
Interesting week this week. In terms of games y’all know this the big week. Sonic Superstars, Super Mario Wonder, and Spider-Man 2 of course. Some months don’t even get that good but these all come out in one shot. Pretty insane. As for this week tho another crazy week of being able to cycle out a different game each day. I’ll admit tho I think I’m gonna drop that idea for a couple weeks as there’s definitely some games I wanna knock out easy. Like I’m pretty sure I’ve been sitting on the end of the Sonic Frontiers update for a week now. Once I beat it I could reinstall something like Street Fighter 6. Man I really do genuinely love Street Fighter 6. As for what I’m thinking on playing I did some Detective Pikachu Returns and FFXVI and I might skip the switch later and just focus on beating this Frontiers update. Otherwise I dunno maybe more Rain Code? Got half early shifts and half late shifts this week with the weekend off so I think a gumbo of games is fitting. Ya know just a mixture of like Fire Emblem Engage: Fell Xenologue, Tears of The Kingdom, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Baldur’s Gate 3, maybe some Mortal Kombat 1, trying to beat RE7 and Disney Illusion Island too. Also definitely wanna get the Resident Evil 4 Remakes Seperate Ways DLC in this Halloween season I feel it just fits beautifully. As for anime this week we do have some fall recommendations this week. We got Frieren, Spy X Family, Shangri La Frontier and many many more but honestly their titles are like super long hahahahahaha. Podcasts this week are simple too. Remap Radio, Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Into the Aether and Giant Bombcast. Have a good weekend everyone and as always Happy Gaming.
Alrighty this week kinda interesting. Most of the weekend I was spending special time with someone really really special. My IRL Miorine. So no gaming there but fellas and fellaettes there are things more important than gaming trust me there. But the rest of the weekend I think I’m gonna do some Rain Code and some Sonic Frontiers or other such games. The big news of the week is as I was cleaning my room after thinking it was lost forever I FOUND MY COPY OF POKEMON LEGENDS ARCEUS. I MEAN HOLY WOW YALL. I am very much looking forward to going back to that game and finishing it. Correcting a gaming regret of 2022 hahaha. As for the rest of the week I think I’m gonna try to do what I did last week and succeeded with which was play a different game each day. Ya know how it be same as always: BG3, FFXVI, TOTK, Pikmin 4 and so on. Some new additions of course include RE7, Paranormasight and of course Legends Arceus. Oh Detective Pikachu Returns on my day off.too. No anime this week other then to say the anime of the summer was undoubtedly Undead Murder Girl Farce. And to shout-out Spy X Family ad the excellent fall front runner. Next week we’ll have your fall recommended. As for podcasts also nice and simple this week. Remap Radio, Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, RPGsites Tetracast, Minnmax and Into the Aether. Have a good weekend everyone and Happy Gaming
Gotta go with Japan on this one and it ain’t even close and yes I won’t lie I’m like everyone else. It’s because of the cookie tin. It’s because he has a little cookie tin in front of him.
Well we got a interesting week for sure. Was able to beat Trails To Azure and try out A.K.I and the Sonic Frontiers update. All top of the line excellence all around. This weekend is kinda simple tho. Doing some more Rain Code to finish out the weekend that’s definitely on the list of games I wanna beat next but I wanna try to do something this week for both Switch and PS5. And that’s play a different game each day instead of going ham on one game to finish. That means after Rain Code and the Foamstars beta on PS5 tonight I wanna play one of these games each day this week. Over on switch: Zelda TOTK, Pikmin 4, Fire Emblem Engage Fell Xenologue, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Future Redeemed, Pokemon Scarlet The Teal Mask and Disney Illusion Island. And on PS5: Baldurs Gate 3, FFXVI, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, Mortal Kombat 1, Sea of Stars and Sonic Frontiers. Guess we’ll see in next weeks journal if I was able to do that. Also decided on the games the rest of the year. That’s Detective Pikachu, Sonic Superstars, Super Mario Wonder, Spider-Man 2, Alan Wake 2, Like A Dragon Gaiden and Super Mario RPG. Very excited for all of them we have a excellent holiday season of gaming ahead. As for anime we finished a lot this week like Sugar Apple Fairy Tale. While some fall anime have started outside of Spy X Family I can only give one small tease of the ones I’m excited for and that is…… Frieren. Yes that cute little elf girl has stolen my heart already. Very excited and interested. As for podcasts it’s the usual. Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Nextlander, Remap Radio and RPGsite’s Tetracast. Also special shout-out to Critical Roles Zelda TOTK One Shot I think I’ll be using that for my 7 hour cart shift at 9 am on Saturday hahaha. Have a awesome weekend everyone and Happy Gaming.
Gotta go with North America on this one again. It’s part nostalgia as yet again for like the third week running these are all childhood favorites of mine but also it just genuinely is so cool and mysterious looking.
Alrighty semi interesting week this time. The games for this weekend kinda simple. Trying to wrap up Trails to Azure which I think I’m fairly close to beating. Again peak fall vibes with that and some football and a rainy day. And on the PS5 some Baldurs Gate 3 and Sea of Stars. Picked up MK1 and the 120ish dollars in Digital funds I wanted this week so I’ll be enjoying some Mortal Kombat as well as snagging The Teal Mask for Pokémon Scarlet, Nayuta Boundless Trails for switch, Seperate Ways for RE4 Remake and Phantom Liberty for Cyberpunk 2077. Very excited to delve back into all those games and more this week. Like Sonic Frontiers getting the free final update I gotta reinstall that game. Or Street Fighter 6 getting A.K.I this week. Overall I think the games getting tackled this week look like this. Switch: Trails To Azure, Pikmin 4, Zelda TOTK, Fire Emblem Fell Xenologue, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Future Redeemed, Pokemon Scarlet, and Trails of Cold Steel IV depending on when I finish Azure. And on PS5 we got: Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Sea of Stars, Final Fantasy XVI, Sonic Frontiers, Resident Evil 4 Remake, Baldurs Gate 3, Mortal Kombat 1, and Street Fighter 6. Over on the anime front I’ve already finished up the first Summer anime and it’s actually the first one I started too. Atelier Ryza was simply excellent. Amazing time with it really. Gonna try to finish up a lot of anime this weekend actually like Ayaka, Liar Liar and Yohane the Parhelion. Shoutout to BSDs latest episode for fixing last weeks trauma. Shoutout to JJK’s latest episode for reinstalling the trauma. Special shoutout this week to Emmy they’ll know who they are when they see this. Finished that live action One Piece too and that was incredible. Definitely looking forward to more of it. Podcasts this week simple as always: Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Into the Aether, Remap Radio, Giant Bombcast and Nextlander. Have a awesome weekend everyone and Happy Gaming y’all.
While I like the Japanese box art it’s kinda bland and yet again I’m also kinda nostalgia biased like last week as I had thus game as a kid and loved the case. So I gotta go North America it’s just so much fun. Tho fun fact for anyone who doesn’t know. The buzzwords they have at the bottom of the Japanese box art is actually the commercial Donkey Kong hears at the beginning of the game and I know that because it ends with buy one buy them all and then it repeats buy them all like a echo in DKs head. It’s just said like goofily fast in the game proper.
Well this week yet again proves interesting. Being free of those morning shifts feels oh so very good. Plans this weekend are fairly simple. Play some trails to azure and stay cozy with some football on the tv. Peak Fall vibes and it ain’t even fall. And I definitely wanna go hard on Trails To Azure minus Monday where I wanna do some Future Redeemed I wanna try to beat Azure soon so I can get even closer to playing Trails Into Reverie. Over on the PS5 tonight is a debate between FFXVI and Baldurs Gate III. Im thinking of restarting my play through of BG3 with a Origin character like Shadowheart as I feel it’ll finally click if I do that and I won’t feel Elden Ring levels of choice paralysis. I know BG3 is special I just ain’t gotten to the core yet. Otherwise this week kinda special. Got Bomb Rush Cyberfunk last week and been enjoying it but this week I’ll be nabbing a copy of Mortal Kombat 1 my first real MK game tho I dabbled in 11 a little. Probably take some trades for it too so I can nab some eshop and psn money for The Teal Mask and Phantom Liberty DLCs for Pokémon and Cyberpunk respectively. Very very excited overall just very good vibes. Otherwise the rotation of games is simple as always. On switch we got Zelda TOTK, Pikmin 4, Trails To Azure, Fire Emblem Engage: Fell Xenologue, Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed, and on PS5 we got FFXVI, BG3, Sea of Stars, Tales of Arise, SF6, KOFXV, and Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. Anime of the week of course is a big one this week as we have 4 finales this week meaning you won’t be hearing about these anymore: Atelier Ryza, Ayaka, Liar Liar and Yohane The Parhelion. All excellent shows and they made for great summer watching and I can’t wait to see how they end. Also big shoutout to Bungou Stray Dogs for giving me even more trauma then I already have y’all know what you done. And of course shoutout to my podcasts of the week: Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Giant Bombcast, Friends Per Second and Remap Radio. As always Happy Gaming to all and have a awesome weekend.
For this one I had to opt for North America even if it feels like nostalgic waxing. It fits what I’ve been saying most of these tho that hey if I saw it on a shelf I would buy it. I think it perfectly draws the eyes and shows the cool new thing of the game. Absolutely lovely if you ask me hahaha.
Well this weeks a interesting one. Finally after a summer of nothing but early shifts and a general poor composition of balancing gaming and anime I’m finally free on Wednesday of the early shifts. The model store that my job is preparing for starts on Wednesday so when I clock out of work on Tuesday I’ll finally be free and back to gaming all night baby. So obviously it’ll be great to celebrate with Sea of Stars. But that’s not the weekend hahaha. For this weekend I’ll be playing some more Tears Of The Kingdom. It’s so cozy and soothing and relaxing and I’m really just loving it. And also I’ll shoot for some time in Baldurs Gate III. That game really is something special too like it really is on TOTKs scale because man you just feel how good and impressive and insane this game is. Otherwise throughout the week y’all know it’s gonna be the usual rotation of Zelda, Pikmin, Fire Emblem, Xenoblade, Rain Code. And Baldurs Gate 3, FFXVI, Sea Of Stars, One Piece Odyssey, and SF6. Yep that’s right I beat RE6 and now I’m free to celebrate with SF6 until A.K.I comes out for it later in the month. And do RE7 in October for Halloween. Special shout-out this week goes to the Live Action One Piece on Netflix it’s absolutely excellent and has made me a huge One Piece fan now. Over on the anime front y’all already know the usual. Atelier Ryza, My Tiny Senpai, Liar Liar, Zom 100, Ayaka and Yohane the Parhelion. Summer Anime almost over and man do we have one crazy Fall Anime lineup already. And for Podcasts we keeping it simple with Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Into the Aether, Giant Bombcast and Remap Radio. Have a great weekend to everyone and Happy Gaming as always.
Gotta go with Japan on this one I absolutely love the use of all the characters and the softer artstyle. Again when it comes down to what would make me wanna buy it on a shelf Japan would win it handily.
After last weeks not so busy week it feels oddly refreshing to have a huge week to follow it up. Two big main games of the weekend are gonna be Zelda Tears of the Kingdom and Baldurs Gate III. Yep I got that early access PS5 version so I’m looking to dive into the years top rated game alongside the previous holder of that title. But that doesn’t mean other games ain’t getting love. On rotation this week is probably the most amount of titles I’ve ever done. We’ve got Zelda, Pikmin 4, Fire Emblem Engage: Fell Xenologue, Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed, Disney Illusion Island,, and of course Splatoon 3 and the 1 year Anniversary Splatfest. Y’all already know I’m going Team Shiver for it. Over on the PS5 a more modest rotation of Baldurs Gate III, Tchia, Sea of Stars, FFXVI, and hopefully finishing up RE6. Gonna try catching up on the anime again this week so we’re at least one week behind. Summer has definitely been a weaker season. The anime this weekend of course being Atelier Ryza, My Tiny Senpai, Ayaka and Liar Liar. Special music shoutout this week to the new Jujutsu Kaisen intro Specialz. It’s so good. Shibuya Incident Arc is here bois WE ROLL. And Podcasts of course Into the Aether, Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Remap Radio and Fire Escape. Hope everyone has a awesome weekend and Happy Gaming to all as always.
Well this is a bit of a quieter week this week. Beat SpongeBob The Cosmic Shake in order to free space for Armored Core only to skip Armored Core hahaha. Oh and beat Ghost Trick too. Absolutely excellent and deserves all the 10s it gets. Instead the biggest news of the week is my picking up of JOHNNY GUILTY GEAR. Nah he’s cool but jokes aside I picked up Baldurs Gate III instead of Armored Core and that’s the next game I’m planning to tackle. In terms of Switch games I’ve just been bouncing between Octopath 2 and Rain Code all week. Do wanna get back to TOTK and Pikmin at some point. Over on the PS other than SpongeBob and Baldurs Gate just some FFXVI, GGST, and TLOU1. Like I said quiet and random week. Anime of the week too kinda quiet. Ayaka, ZOM 100 and Liar Liar. Podcasts of course being Castle Superbeast, Into the Aether, Remap Radio, and Fire Escape. Also gonna work my way through most of Nerissa Ravencroft of Hololive EN Advent’s streams of Story of Seasons. Such a cozy and excellent game. Happy gaming to all and have a excellent weekend.
Well another week of excellent gaming gone by. Found my love for Octopath 2 again and absolutely excellent sessions of Pikmin 4 and Trails To Azure and FFXVI. This weekend tho the plans are pretty simple. Work has moved my early shifts back just a little which now makes it so night gaming is back on the menu baby. So I’m thinking it’s finally time to beat Ghost Trick and also get back to SpongeBob The Cosmic Shake. Definitely wanna start knocking out more of my backlog and streamline a lot of my GOTY Games like ditching Trails To Azure to focus on trying to beat Octopath 2 by the end of the year. Besides the fact that as long as a SpongeBob is still in the backlog it makes it harder to keep up with new games like a Armored Core or Alan Wake. Speaking of that’s the big hype of this week. Picking up Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon on 08/25 or Friday. Also working my way through RE6 which is absolutely mid but honestly extraordinarily enlightening having worked my way through the whole series before it. As for anime of the week same as usual, Atelier Ryza, My Tiny Senpai, Ayaka, Zom 100, Liar Liar and Bungo Stray Dogs. That last one I’m almost caught up on and y’all please watch it it’s absolutely the best show I’ve seen in years. Also check out The Diplomat on Netflix it’s pretty good. Podcasts of the week are Remap Radio, Castle Superbeast, RPGcast from RPGsite, Into the Aether and Fire Escape. Hope everyone has a excellent weekend and Happy Gaming.
Honestly for this one I actually went NA/Europe because while I like the all together look of the Japanese one the red really does play off Megaman s blue.
Gotta go with the Japanese one on this one I love the color for this one and all the Pokémon on it it looks like a poster I would absolutely love to have hanging in my room. I absolutely love it.
I remember it was gamexplain I think that put out a video maybe this year maybe last year that was totally just reporting on a rumor but that rumor was that Mercury Steam apparently was working on another 2D Metroid set for 2025 I think. So who knows maybe it is another Metroid.
Well I missed last weeks entry of this due to being on vacation but man what a vacation it was. Absolutely excellent and in terms of games I basically played almost all of Ghost Trick and played all of Shredders Revenge. Gotta admit Kate is right Ghost Trick is really good. And EVO last weekend? Just reminds me why I love fighting games so much. Excellent announcements and matches all around man. As for this weekend tho. Well starting with Friday I saw the new TMNT movie and played some Splatoon 3 for the new Splatfest. Team Money baby. Got a couple hours into that which is really all I ever wanna do for Splatfests. I imagine if Splatoon was the only game I owned I would play more but when I got other single player things I wanna do it just kinda slips away ya know? But my vacation wraps up Monday as in going back to work Tuesday and for once I have a genuine game plan like a football coach hahaha. For Saturday we got some Pikmin 4 and Final Fantasy XVI. Sunday is Tears of the Kingdom and Tower of Fantasy. And Monday to finish off the most excellent of vacations will be Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed and King Of Fighters XV to test out the new character NAJD. And probably some time next week I’ll finish up ghost trick as I think I’m pretty close to the end of it. As for the anime this weekend also pretty simple. My Tiny Senpai, Atelier Ryza, Zom 100, Liar Liar, Ayaka, Tenpuru, Yohane The Parhelion and Bungo Stray Dogs. That last one especially is just one of the greatest shows I’ve ever seen I’m absolutely in love with it. And finally as for podcasts I think I’ll chill with some absolutely stellar Into The Aether and check out this new podcast everyone’s recommending Remap Radio. Have a excellent weekend and Happy Gaming to all.
I’m not expecting this because they could have just revealed it at the presents but my crackpot Hope would be a release date for the second part of the DLC. It’ll probably be at a Nintendo direct in September like I think the the crown tundra was for Sword and Shield but I just wanna know when both parts are already.
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Re: Dave The Diver Hits 3 Million Global Sales
I just bought it on sale a couple days ago after mentioning it in the WAYP articles for a while so a silly part of me is like IT WAS ME. I WAS NUMBER 3 MILLION.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel - Tetris Attack (GB)
Gotta go with Japan on this one the art is just too good the use of Yoshi and the color is just so good whereas the angry America one is just. Bland.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (Christmas 2023 Edition)
@JustMonika they are all absolutely excellent shows
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (December 30th)
Wow a year ago I wasn’t even really on this site and now a year later here I am participating in the last WAYP of the year. Well I’m happy to do it. Been a good week of getting games even if we haven’t beat very many of them hahaha. Between Christmas and other things I picked up copies of Assassins Creed Mirage, Fate/Samurai Remnant, Armored Core VI Flames of Rubicon, Dave the Diver (finally), and the big game, my first game on switch of 2024 and the game I picked for the poll Dragon Quest Monsters The Dark Prince. It’s that last game I think I’ll focus on in the new year too. My December/early January game. It won’t technically be my first game of the year that’ll be Fate Samurai/Remnant. The Type Moon guys take New Years seriously so will I. But of course that’s the holiday what about this weekend? Well this weekend didn’t have much gaming outside of some Armored Core but that’s because I was doing something personally much more important. I had a excellent time with a amazing friend at a local mall. And honestly like most times with them it was simply amazing. The gifts they got me I’ll treasure and love for a long long long time. Maybe forever but that’s too big for me to think hahahah. Agent Gap is now a member of Operation Strix. They’ll see this so they’ll get the reference hehehe. I’ve said it before to yall but there really are some things more important than gaming. As for the rest of the weekend and week ahead ima focus on getting my Top 10 Lists in order and really just minding my business and working until the first big releases of 2024. For me those will be Another Code Recollection and Tekken 8. As for anime of the week it was a lot of finales and honestly all the finales I watched stuck the landing. My Inexperienced Love Story, Girlfriend, Girlfriend, Frieren, Spy X Family, 16 Bit Sensation, Eminence in Shadow, and Jujutsu Kaisen. Add in Ron Kaminohashi which I’m trying to finish today and you probably have my fall picks when it comes to anime. As for podcasts of course we’re full of GOTY Installments from all of them which makes me really happy I love those sorts of episodes. So you know the usual: Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Minnmax, Remap Radio, Nextlander, Fire Escape, RPGsites Tetracast, Weapon Wheel and of course my two newcomers Windbreaker and Firelink from the Second Wind Media guys. Also of course a big shoutout to my stoner retro catgirl friend at twitch.tv/akibread. Here’s hoping through these small shoutouts we can make 2024 their year. Overall yall it’s been a great year with everyone on this site from contributors to fellows commenters. It’s been one of the greatest years in gaming with one of the strongest start to the next year that I think I have ever seen. To my buddies who read this every week like my buddy Gaddy, Agent Gap, Az, Spence, Sib and so so so many more that I could write a entire article about thank you so so much from the bottom of my heart. And I look forward to a terrrifc, happy and healthy new year with all of you and all of you commenters and contributors. As always have a excellent, happy, safe and healthy weekend and Happy Gaming. HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Re: Feature: Best Switch Video Game Characters Of 2023
Purah. Waifu. Nuff said. But also Yunaka. Come on y’all how could you not have any engage characters on the list
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl - Viewtiful Joe 2
Gotta go,NA on this one I absolutely love the look with the characters and the cityscape behind them. Always wanted to play these games. Come on Capcom port it already heheheh
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (Christmas 2023 Edition)
Well we got ourselves a very festive week eh hehehehe. First off I gotta say I agree with Kate AJ:AA Case 3 ain’t that bad y’all are just babies. As for the week well I wrapped up Super Mario RPG this week and snagged this little PlayStation Indie called Eternights so kinda fun on that front. And currently the plan is to try to beat FFXVI tonight after my work shift. With that and some anime catch-up this week it’ll then be to task making all my Top 10 Lists of the year to share with friends. Of course we can’t forget the big day and yes like anyway else even I can’t resist the mood even with some extenuating circumstances. Personally for most of the holiday I’ll be in good old NYC with family. Excited for next week to share the gifts with all of y’all. Otherwise I’m not gonna lie I’m kinda feeling like most people in this article like Alana or Ollie where it’s like eh I don’t really feel like much games seeing as I either beat them or know i won’t be beating them by the end of the year. I guess the games this week will be things like Baldurs Gate 3, Like A Dragon Gaiden so I’m prepared for Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth, Sea of Stars, Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising on the PS5 and games like Star Ocean 2, Persona 5 Tactica, Pokémon Scarlet The Indigo Disk and Trails Into Reverie on switch. Still looking at Dave The Diver. Who knows maybe a mystery benefactor will feel like spreading holiday cheer? 🥺 hehehehe. In anime this week yet another terrific performance by Jujutsu Kaisen, Eminence In Shadow, SHY, Frieren and Spy X Family. Definitely looking at some top 10 candidates there. In podcasts this week it’s GOTY Season so I’m loving the meaty length episodes I’m getting from stuff like Fire Escape, Minnmax, RPGsites Tetracast, Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Into the Aether, Nextlander and Remap Radio. Of course I always save the best for last and yeah I’m thinking the newest consistent addition to this is gonna be shouting out my awesome retro stoner catgirl friend at twitch.tv/akibread. This holiday season getting to give them hopefully even the smallest boost of support is one of the greatest gifts I can get please y’all go give some love and support if you can. As of writing this journal tonight they’re streaming Fatal Frame 4 if you want some spooky while you’re warm and cozy. As always y’all stay beautiful stay kind stay safe and have a terrific weekend. Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays and Hqppy Gaming.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: Trace Memory
Call me the smash announcer because ima be yelling no contest on this one. This is a childhood game I got from my dad but never really understood and put down but that box sticks in my mind so hard so I had to go with that one. Can’t wait for the remake.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (December 16th)
Alrighty bit of a interesting week this week. To start with of course this weekend was full of Indigo Disk and man is it one heck of a time so far. Definitely a toughie of a DLC but won’t lie I’m liking it more then The Teal Mask so far. Also got to have some excellent matches in Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising with a friend and that is just a absolutely excellent fighting game. (shoutout Ouji_Senpai.) Gotta say think my main is gonna be Vira or Yuel. As for tonight and tomorrow actually I’m thinking of skimping on switch gaming I definitely wanna do some Super Mario RPG like I voted on but tonight I’m going to see The Boy and The Heron with my best friend and I’m really excited for that and then thinking afterwards will just be some low key Like A Dragon Gaiden time I ain’t played it in like two weeks. IM FINALLY FREE OF MORNING SHIFTS. Except for Wednesday but that’s it. So I look forward to wrapping up Alan Wake II this week as that game has just turned absolutely stellar. And otherwise I really just wanna zone in hard on some FFXVI. Would really like to beat it by Christmas and I’m 88% of the way there so here’s hoping I can do it. Otherwise most of the week is gonna just be some minor switch games like Star Ocean 2 and Persona 5 Tactica and some minor PS5 games like some more matches and story mode of Granblue. Honestly now it’s about time to start writing up the top 10 lists for the year. Very excited to share those. As for anime of the week again it’s the excellent quartet of Eminence in Shadow, Jujutsu Kaisen, Frieren and Spy X Family. Getting close to the end of the season and the end of a lot of those shows so here’s hoping for excellent finishes for a lot of them. Podcasts of the week of course are Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Into the Aether, RPGsites Tetracast, Minnmax, Nextlander and Friends Per Second. Without saying why I can now comfortably stamp that one with approval for the foreseeable future. Also for anyone who saw last weeks journal where I shouted out a special friend and their redebut stream that stream was absolutely stellar and I just wanna shout them out again so y’all can still go give them love on the daily. That would be my friend over at twitch.tv/akibread. As always y’all have a excellent weekend and Happy Gaming.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: Harvest Moon 64
Gotta go with NA for this one. Love how they show off the setting of the game with the shot of the farm and all that and honestly it just reminds me of me. Me running somewhere looking angry and my little beagle buddy snoopy running behind with a smile.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (December 9th)
Well this has been one heck of a week I’ll tell ya what. Thinking this is gonna be a big entry this week in more ways then one. Well to start with similar to Jim I have also been on a video game wrap up spree. In the past week I beat Warioware Move It, Spider-Man 2, Super Mario Wonder, Pikmin 4 and The Teal Mask DLC. Not to mention as a preview of the upcoming gaming plans I got close to the end of Alan Wake II and Final Fantasy XVI. So this week I’m thinking of taking a break from the switch. I did play some Super Mario RPG on Friday and am probably closing in on the end of that game too but I’m thinking of devoting more time to the PS5 this week. Work on beating my top two GOTYs, Alan Wake II and FFXVI and definitely try out some new games I got this week like Assassins Creed Mirage and a special game I’ll mention later. Tho I am thinking of tackling the Sonic Frontiers DLC today since they apparently patched it to make it easier. Oh i also do wanna give the Indigo Disk DLC that comes out this week for Scarlet and Violet a look too. I definitely wanna be able to put together my GOTY list, my movies list and my animes list by Christmas. Also no lie not picky on the platform but I definitely wanna look at getting a copy of Dave the Diver. I went from not really caring about it to thinking it’s kinda cool and I wanna play. But oh man the big news of the week sure we’re those game awards huh? I won’t blab on and on but I would say it was a A- this year seriously some great things there. For me personally I loved the FFXVI and FFVII Rebirth Trailers, the Blade Trailer, SEGA IS BACK, the Alan Wake performance and of course number bloody one the ELPHELT VALENTINE TRAILER MY BABY IS BACK. Of course there were some out now trailers there and that leads to the pickups of the week with that special game I mentioned. I of course grabbed the FFXVI Echoes of the Fallen DLC and my babygirl Elphelt but I also snagged the Deluxe Edition of Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising. Won’t have to think about buying DLC for that game for a while yessir. Excited for that game and it’s early access starting tomorrow. Of course anime of the week gotta go to Jujutsu Kaisen and Eminence in Shadow for continuing to just absolutely kill it. Podcasts of course are same as usual Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Remap Radio, RPGsites Tetracast, Nextlander and Into The Aether. But with the Jirard the Completionist accusations cleared in his innocence I can now also go back to shouting out Friends Per Second again. Speaking of shoutouts last but absolutely certainly not least I wanna give a big and special shout-out to a friend of mine. Anyone reading this who sees this before December 14th please please go to twitch.tv/akibread my friend is having a 12 hour redebut stream please go show them some love. As always y’all have a excellent week, best of luck with y’all own GOTY lists and Happy Gaming.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: Batman: Vengeance (GBA)
Gotta go with NA on this one, I appreciate how you can faintly see the villains in the background compared to the complete weirdness that is the European one.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (December 2nd)
Well here we go with another week of WAYP. Been one crazy week this week. Update from last week I beat Sonic Superstsrs but not just that game tho we’ll get to that later. This weekend I not only saw the new Nicholas Cage movie Dream Scenario and the new Godzilla movie Godzilla Minus One but I also beat Spider-Man 2 as well. All three were superb in different ways and a great time all around. Got some nifty new joycons this week too. The Pastel Purple and Green they’re very pretty. Unfortunately this week is nothing but early morning work shifts for me like back in the summer so truthfully the only PS5 game I can say is gonna get a lot of love from me is gonna be Alan Wake II most likely on my day off. Think I’m gonna try to snag a preorder of Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising this week too. The shiny Deluxe edition so I can nab the season pass with it. With the Game Awards coming up I’ll probably check that out with friends and vote on it like today I’m thinking. Also for the rest of the weekend I’m thinking of abandoning my plans to 100% all of Super Mario Wonder for now and probably just try to beat it tonight. With luck I can say that about a lot of games this week. Pikmin 4, Pokémon Scarlet The Teal Mask so on and so forth. Excited for those Game Awards tho definitely. As for anime of the week I won’t lie I slacked a little this week so I’m only going to give credit to Spy X Family and Shangri La Frontier this week. Podcasts this week of course gotta be Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Into The Aether, Remap Radio, RPGsite Tetracast, Minnmax, Nextlander and Weapon Wheel. As always yall hope you have a wonderful weekend and happy gaming.
Re: Random: Mario And Luigi Have Spin Jump Control Preferences In Super Mario Galaxy
This is a neat little fact. I like it a lot.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl - Donkey Kong
I gotta go with BONUS on this one this week. I think it’s cute and very expressive something the other just don’t really have for various reasons.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 25th)
Alrighty we got a kinda interesting week this week. First off I hope everyone had a excellent holiday. Next Persona 5 Tactica and Sea Of Stars yesterday was a interesting combo. A genuinely terrific game is what Persona 5 Tactica is so far I won’t lie there. Was genuinely shocked when I got into gameplay within like 20 minutes of starting. Snagged two new amiibos this weekend too Shiver and Frye from Splatoon. As for tonight well a good online buddy of mine (shoutout Champ.) has offered to help me with the final boss of Sonic Superstars so I’ll go for the same Sega Sunday as last week. Some Sonic and Like a Dragon Gaiden. As for the rest of the week the plan is it’s business as usual with the GOTY work. Pretty close to the end of Super Mario Wonder. Same with Spider-Man 2 as well. Alan Wake II is a little hard to judge where I’m at. But also the big news of the week is I feel Baldurs Gate 3 clicks now so I’m excited to jump back into that one too. Other games I’m probably close to the end of would be Pikmin 4 and The Teal Mask DLC for Pokemon Scarlet and maybe FFXVI? I wanna do The Teal Mask and the Indigo Disk before the end of the year. I finished off the Fell Xenologue for Fire Emblem Engage this week so now with all of Engage done I feel very strongly on Engage as a whole. Hoping the same can happen to Pokémon Scarlet. As for anime of the week y’all already know we basically listing the new Big 3 at this point. Jujutsu Kaisen, Spy X Family and Eminence in Shadow. Just the best as always. Tho special shout-out to Shangri La Frontier and 100 Girlfriends as well for being equally as awesome. Podcasts of the week are the usual ya know Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Minnmax, Remap Radio, RPGsites Tetracast. However until the whole Jirard the Completionist situation gets resolved I can’t I’m good faith endorse the Friends Per Second podcast and for now gotta say I’m gonna sub it in for and shoutout the Nextlander podcast. As always yall have a excellent rest of the weekend, a excellent week and Happy Gaming.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 18th)
Alrighty it’s been one wild week so let’s get it started. This weekends games are fairly simple. While I missed out on the Splatfest this weekend I got to have a awesome night seeing the new hunger games so that’s amazing. The rest of the weekend I’m thinking is gonna be pretty Sega based. Yep some Sonic Superstars and Like A Dragon Gaiden to finish out the weekend. As for the week ahead? Well with our GOTY nominees out I’ve only finished two of them that being Resident Evil 4 Remake and Tears of the Kingdom. Having finished up as much of Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty as I could stomach (seriously it’s a tragic story) I did reinstall one of the games. Meaning the plan this week is to get some serious work done on the remaining GOTY games I need to beat: Super Mario Bros Wonder, Spider-Man 2, Alan Wake II and of course Baldurs Gate 3. Of course I wanna sprinkle other games in there like Pikmin 4 and the end of the Fell Xenologue for Fire Emblem Engage. And some Super Mario RPG too. But that’s the goal. We heading into GOTY season so we gotta act like it hahaha. Other games I wanna give a whirl at some point this week include Persona 5 Tactica. Either on thanksgiving or the Saturday after. Anime of the week still remain Frieren and Spy X Family and Shangri La Frontier. Special shout-out to JJK this week for being quite SPECIALZ. If you know you know. And same to the new Scott Pilgrim anime I enjoyed the first episode so far. I feel I saw hunger games with a Ramona Flowers. Podcasts of course are the usual. Castle Superbeast and Big Think Dimension. Into The Aether, Remap Radio, Minnmax. RPGsite and Friends Per Second too. But special shout to Weapon Wheel Podcast this week. Gave it a listen for the first time yesterday and honestly a very good podcast that made a 7 hour shift feel like a blink. As always y’all stay excellent and have a amazing weekend and a Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Gaming.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: Hey! Pikmin
While I like this game and like the NA Box Art I had to give this one to Europe. It’s not only much prettier and chiller but the vibes of it are much more in line with the rest of Pikmin. Like the box art more generally resembles say 3 or 4 where it’s just the Pikmin chilling in front of something while say a bulborb watches.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 11th)
Alrighty well we got our last big week of games of the year I feel coming up so here we go. Of course I know we still got some games coming out this year like Dragon Quest Monsters 3 for Switch and Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising for PS5 but personally I feel like Switch has its last big games this week in Super Mario RPG a game I’m very very excited for and Persona 5 Tactica another game I’m hype about. And the PS5 had its last big games last week with COD MWIII and Like A Dragon Gaiden. Speaking on that last one that’s where we’ll start this week as that’s easily my game of the week it feels so good to be playing another game with Kiryu I mean Joryu. A good Yakuza beat ‘em up style game makes next years LAD8 and it’s RPGness just that little bit easier to stomach. Otherwise a perfectly ordinary time with some excellent games like Pikmin 4, Sea Of Stars and Star Ocean 2 as usual. Oh and of course some excellent Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with friends to see the rest of the Booster Course. That really was a excellent DLC a collection Nintendo did honestly worth the money. Also Nintendo please put Pauline in MK9 or 10 or whatever you’ll call it thanks. Like most people it’s time to knuckle down and work on GOTY games. I mean man after the Tekken 8 reveal tonight we got the Game Awards nominees tomorrow like that’ll make my game carving path really easy. I know it’s probably gonna mean blitzing and finding out truly how a game like Baldurs Gate 3 works. Might snag UMVC3 tho as it’s on sale for the price of a decent lunch. So yeah a week of Spider-Man 2 and Mario Wonder and Sonic Superstars and Pikmin 4 and Alan Wake 2 and Sea of Stars and maybe Tales of Arise awaits. And of course Super Mario RPG at the end of the week seriously you guys I’ve never played this game I can hardly wait. Gonna try to finish Arnold Schwarzeneggers new show on Netflix FUBAR this week so I can move on to the Onimusha anime and the Scott Pilgrim show too. Anime of the week of course gotta go to Eminence In Shadow, Inexperienced Love Story, Frieren, Spy X Family, and Shangri La Frontier. Those are the easy stand outs of the season so far. And podcasts this week gonna be bulky as I gotta give a shout-out to the ones getting me through work of course being Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Remap Radio, RPGsites Tetracast, Friends Per Second, Minnmax and of course Into The Aether. All absolutely excellent and amazing. As always everyone have a excellent weekend and Happy Gaming.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: Kirby Mass Attack
My vote this week (sorry lion king but last week I was just too busy) has gotta go to NA. I too have a lot of nostalgia for being like 10-12 playing this game and loving it. I would also add that yeah while the art is a little more chaotic it fits the game better I mean you throw Kirby’s at a spider and they start throwing haymakers at it there’s no lie there.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: Kirby Mass Attack
@DreamlandGem now hear me out here. I ain’t too sure but maybe you’re a fan of Kirby.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 4th)
Alrighty another week and another entry. I think the best way to sum up this week was: reality. Despite being on vacation it was stressful yet in all that some bright glimmers shine through. With that out the way I was able to beat TOTK and finish off my Resident Evil Marathon. Unfortunately Pikmin 4, Fire Emblem Engage and Sonic Superstars weren’t finished off so I got some work as we head into GOTY season. Also watched the final episode of the final season of the final part of attack on titan (part 3) with some friends last night and that was nice if not bittersweet. See you later, Eren indeed. On the topic of pickups I picked up a grand total of 4 things on my vacation this week. Like a Dragon Gaiden, Tales of Arise DLC Before the Dawn, Warioware MOVE IT, and Star Ocean The Second Story R. Suffice to say between LAD and Tales this week and the week after being Super Mario RPG and Persona 5 Tactica I’ve got something basically for every week in November. Of course after those last two it’s time to knuckle down and really beat some games to put together GOTY lists. Big thing this week I’m looking forward to is enjoying a nice long relaxing session of Star Ocean 2 tomorrow for the last day off of my vacation. Shoutout to Kris Wolfheart of the GigaBoots Podcast Network (aka big think dimension) for being this games strongest warrior and now it’s more widely available. Also I think I’ll announce this here that I think my next long term marathon after having done all the mainline Resident Evil games is I’ll do all the Star Oceans. I mean I now own them all. And with Star Ocean 2 you can now play the whole series in one place. That being PlayStation but that’s another thing hahaha. Either way this week I also think I’ll try knuckling down on games like Sea of Stars on the PS5 again. I really wanna try to beat most GOTY contenders for those sorts of podcasts at the end of the year so I can understand what’s being talked about. In terms of anime this week yall already know gotta shout out Spy X Family and JJK again. Again big special shout-out to the end of Attack On Titan. And Eminence in Shadow just keeps delivering. As for podcasts this week we kinda back to that full rotation homies of Remap Radio, Minnmax, Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension and Into the Aether. As always have a excellent weekend yall and Happy Gaming.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 28th)
Alrighty a interesting week this week for y’all. Not much to really speak of from the past week other than preparing to beat TOTK, getting the money for Like A Dragon Gaiden, the entire Bahamut section of FFXVI and beating Resident Evil 4 Separate Ways. That one is a excellent one by the way very big fan of the latter half of it and yeah I think Capcom’s next thing is gonna be a RE5 Remake. As for this week tho as the great Sojiro Sakura would say HOO BOY. On Vacation this week from and all I can say is we gonna try to beat some games this week friends. Gonna try to beat TOTK today actually and have the first of the GOTY contenders under my belt. Did some Splatoween already this weekend so I got my fill of that I’ll admit. But we’re talking more progress in Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Future Redeemed. Wanna try to beat that by the end of the year. Fire Emblem Engage Fell Xenologue. Apparently it’s 6 chapters long and I’m 3 chapters in sooooooooooo yeah that’ll be good to wrap this week too. Hell I might even decide to just beat Sonic Superstars too since that’s fairly short too. And over on PS5 more Spider-Man 2 and FFXVI of course. But that’s not even mentioning the new games this week I’ll be delving into like Alan Wake II on Halloween for my special Halloween game and purchasing Like A Dragon Gaiden, hopefully picking up the Tales Of Arise DLC Beyond the Dawn and also hopefully snagging a copy of Warioware too. In terms of anime this week yall already know we gotta rep the two best shows this season Spy X Family and Eminence In Shadow. Tho special shout-out to probably my third favorite Ron Kaminohashis Forbidden Deductions. As for podcasts this week with vacation and all it’ll be kinda limited actually so I’ll limit it to my favorites. Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Into the Aether and Remap Radio. Happy Halloween to everyone and have a excellent weekend and Happy Gaming.
Re: Disney Dreamlight Valley Will No Longer Be Free-To-Play When It Leaves Early Access In December
@CairiB same here, same here. Can’t even be mad at this point
Re: Talking Point: Which Version Of Super Mario Bros. 3 Do You Prefer?
Gotta go with GBA it’s what I played as a kid. That JUST WHAT I NEEDED rang out in my head as I read the article
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl: Wario Land: Shake It!
Ah another Nostalgic pick this week with Wario Land. But surprising possibly to some of y’all it is not the NA one that I grew up with that I’m picking. No no this one I’m picking Japanese I love the way it shows all the characters and the colorful Style and wario shaking the money bag. Honestly can we get this ported I love this game and find it so flipping charming.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 21st)
Oh boi what a absolutely amazing down right WOWIE ZOWIE weekend it’s been and I’m just so happy. Saw the new Scorsese movie Killers Of The Flower Moon and honestly it was just excellent. Little slow to start but Martin really is a visionary. Of course like everyone else I’ve been playing loads of Super Mario Bros Wonder. I love it so much it’s utterly excellent and honestly might be my GOTY. I’m blown away each new level I do. Of course that’s not the only new game that came out that I’m checking out. I also dabbled in some Spider-Man 2 and honestly there are moments in it so far that if you ask me make Final Fantasy XVI blush. I think I’ll also take a break off of Mario Wonder today to do some Sonic Superstars I’m very excited for that one. Also I’ll probably wrap up the RE7 DLC later tonight too so I can move onto the Seperate Ways DLC for Resident Evil 4 Remake this week. Finally playing some new RE content for Halloween feels good. Of course I’ll be doing the usual rotation of games this week of Rain Code and FFXVI and TOTK and Fire Emblem and Sea Of Stars and stuff but of course throwing in some of our new additions there too. And of course that’s not even counting the fact that yeah I still have a new game this week in the absolutely legendary Alan Wake II. Granted I’ll probably delve into that next week as my yearly special Halloween game I start on Halloween but to say I am excited is a understatement. Extremely good time for gaming hahaha. As for the Fall Anime I’ve shook out some clear winners. Spy X Family, Shangri-La Frontier, 100 Girlfriends who really love you, Eminence In Shadow, Inexperienced Love Story and Frieren. All simply superb and excellent intros too. As for the podcasts this week we got the usual awesome killers like Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension and Into The Aether. But of course we got Remap Radio and Minnmax coming in hot again as just really excellent things to listen to while really getting into some of these excellent games coming out. Hope everyone is having a excellent weekend and Happy Gaming.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl: Professor Layton And The Unwound Future
Well seeing as they all have something obnoxious about them be it the game screenshots of the text at the bottom the one I gotta give this one to is yet again the one bating me with nostalgia and go North America on this one. I still own this game I’m pretty sure and I loved it as a kid it honestly might be one of my favorite games of all time it really is absolutely lovely.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 14th)
Interesting week this week. In terms of games y’all know this the big week. Sonic Superstars, Super Mario Wonder, and Spider-Man 2 of course. Some months don’t even get that good but these all come out in one shot. Pretty insane. As for this week tho another crazy week of being able to cycle out a different game each day. I’ll admit tho I think I’m gonna drop that idea for a couple weeks as there’s definitely some games I wanna knock out easy. Like I’m pretty sure I’ve been sitting on the end of the Sonic Frontiers update for a week now. Once I beat it I could reinstall something like Street Fighter 6. Man I really do genuinely love Street Fighter 6. As for what I’m thinking on playing I did some Detective Pikachu Returns and FFXVI and I might skip the switch later and just focus on beating this Frontiers update. Otherwise I dunno maybe more Rain Code? Got half early shifts and half late shifts this week with the weekend off so I think a gumbo of games is fitting. Ya know just a mixture of like Fire Emblem Engage: Fell Xenologue, Tears of The Kingdom, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Baldur’s Gate 3, maybe some Mortal Kombat 1, trying to beat RE7 and Disney Illusion Island too. Also definitely wanna get the Resident Evil 4 Remakes Seperate Ways DLC in this Halloween season I feel it just fits beautifully. As for anime this week we do have some fall recommendations this week. We got Frieren, Spy X Family, Shangri La Frontier and many many more but honestly their titles are like super long hahahahahaha. Podcasts this week are simple too. Remap Radio, Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Into the Aether and Giant Bombcast. Have a good weekend everyone and as always Happy Gaming.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 7th)
Alrighty this week kinda interesting. Most of the weekend I was spending special time with someone really really special. My IRL Miorine. So no gaming there but fellas and fellaettes there are things more important than gaming trust me there. But the rest of the weekend I think I’m gonna do some Rain Code and some Sonic Frontiers or other such games. The big news of the week is as I was cleaning my room after thinking it was lost forever I FOUND MY COPY OF POKEMON LEGENDS ARCEUS. I MEAN HOLY WOW YALL. I am very much looking forward to going back to that game and finishing it. Correcting a gaming regret of 2022 hahaha. As for the rest of the week I think I’m gonna try to do what I did last week and succeeded with which was play a different game each day. Ya know how it be same as always: BG3, FFXVI, TOTK, Pikmin 4 and so on. Some new additions of course include RE7, Paranormasight and of course Legends Arceus. Oh Detective Pikachu Returns on my day off.too. No anime this week other then to say the anime of the summer was undoubtedly Undead Murder Girl Farce. And to shout-out Spy X Family ad the excellent fall front runner. Next week we’ll have your fall recommended. As for podcasts also nice and simple this week. Remap Radio, Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, RPGsites Tetracast, Minnmax and Into the Aether. Have a good weekend everyone and Happy Gaming
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: Yoshi's Cookie
Gotta go with Japan on this one and it ain’t even close and yes I won’t lie I’m like everyone else. It’s because of the cookie tin. It’s because he has a little cookie tin in front of him.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (September 30th)
Well we got a interesting week for sure. Was able to beat Trails To Azure and try out A.K.I and the Sonic Frontiers update. All top of the line excellence all around. This weekend is kinda simple tho. Doing some more Rain Code to finish out the weekend that’s definitely on the list of games I wanna beat next but I wanna try to do something this week for both Switch and PS5. And that’s play a different game each day instead of going ham on one game to finish. That means after Rain Code and the Foamstars beta on PS5 tonight I wanna play one of these games each day this week. Over on switch: Zelda TOTK, Pikmin 4, Fire Emblem Engage Fell Xenologue, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Future Redeemed, Pokemon Scarlet The Teal Mask and Disney Illusion Island. And on PS5: Baldurs Gate 3, FFXVI, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, Mortal Kombat 1, Sea of Stars and Sonic Frontiers. Guess we’ll see in next weeks journal if I was able to do that. Also decided on the games the rest of the year. That’s Detective Pikachu, Sonic Superstars, Super Mario Wonder, Spider-Man 2, Alan Wake 2, Like A Dragon Gaiden and Super Mario RPG. Very excited for all of them we have a excellent holiday season of gaming ahead. As for anime we finished a lot this week like Sugar Apple Fairy Tale. While some fall anime have started outside of Spy X Family I can only give one small tease of the ones I’m excited for and that is…… Frieren. Yes that cute little elf girl has stolen my heart already. Very excited and interested. As for podcasts it’s the usual. Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Nextlander, Remap Radio and RPGsite’s Tetracast. Also special shout-out to Critical Roles Zelda TOTK One Shot I think I’ll be using that for my 7 hour cart shift at 9 am on Saturday hahaha. Have a awesome weekend everyone and Happy Gaming.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: Kirby & The Amazing Mirror
Gotta go with North America on this one again. It’s part nostalgia as yet again for like the third week running these are all childhood favorites of mine but also it just genuinely is so cool and mysterious looking.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (September 23rd)
Alrighty semi interesting week this time. The games for this weekend kinda simple. Trying to wrap up Trails to Azure which I think I’m fairly close to beating. Again peak fall vibes with that and some football and a rainy day. And on the PS5 some Baldurs Gate 3 and Sea of Stars. Picked up MK1 and the 120ish dollars in Digital funds I wanted this week so I’ll be enjoying some Mortal Kombat as well as snagging The Teal Mask for Pokémon Scarlet, Nayuta Boundless Trails for switch, Seperate Ways for RE4 Remake and Phantom Liberty for Cyberpunk 2077. Very excited to delve back into all those games and more this week. Like Sonic Frontiers getting the free final update I gotta reinstall that game. Or Street Fighter 6 getting A.K.I this week. Overall I think the games getting tackled this week look like this. Switch: Trails To Azure, Pikmin 4, Zelda TOTK, Fire Emblem Fell Xenologue, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Future Redeemed, Pokemon Scarlet, and Trails of Cold Steel IV depending on when I finish Azure. And on PS5 we got: Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Sea of Stars, Final Fantasy XVI, Sonic Frontiers, Resident Evil 4 Remake, Baldurs Gate 3, Mortal Kombat 1, and Street Fighter 6. Over on the anime front I’ve already finished up the first Summer anime and it’s actually the first one I started too. Atelier Ryza was simply excellent. Amazing time with it really. Gonna try to finish up a lot of anime this weekend actually like Ayaka, Liar Liar and Yohane the Parhelion. Shoutout to BSDs latest episode for fixing last weeks trauma. Shoutout to JJK’s latest episode for reinstalling the trauma. Special shoutout this week to Emmy they’ll know who they are when they see this. Finished that live action One Piece too and that was incredible. Definitely looking forward to more of it. Podcasts this week simple as always: Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Into the Aether, Remap Radio, Giant Bombcast and Nextlander. Have a awesome weekend everyone and Happy Gaming y’all.
Re: Kuro no Kiseki Coming West As 'Trails Through Daybreak', Out 2024 On Switch
LETS GO BABY. WE MADE IT. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAB. YESSSSSSSSSSS
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: Mario Vs. Donkey Kong
While I like the Japanese box art it’s kinda bland and yet again I’m also kinda nostalgia biased like last week as I had thus game as a kid and loved the case. So I gotta go North America it’s just so much fun. Tho fun fact for anyone who doesn’t know. The buzzwords they have at the bottom of the Japanese box art is actually the commercial Donkey Kong hears at the beginning of the game and I know that because it ends with buy one buy them all and then it repeats buy them all like a echo in DKs head. It’s just said like goofily fast in the game proper.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (September 16th)
Well this week yet again proves interesting. Being free of those morning shifts feels oh so very good. Plans this weekend are fairly simple. Play some trails to azure and stay cozy with some football on the tv. Peak Fall vibes and it ain’t even fall. And I definitely wanna go hard on Trails To Azure minus Monday where I wanna do some Future Redeemed I wanna try to beat Azure soon so I can get even closer to playing Trails Into Reverie. Over on the PS5 tonight is a debate between FFXVI and Baldurs Gate III. Im thinking of restarting my play through of BG3 with a Origin character like Shadowheart as I feel it’ll finally click if I do that and I won’t feel Elden Ring levels of choice paralysis. I know BG3 is special I just ain’t gotten to the core yet. Otherwise this week kinda special. Got Bomb Rush Cyberfunk last week and been enjoying it but this week I’ll be nabbing a copy of Mortal Kombat 1 my first real MK game tho I dabbled in 11 a little. Probably take some trades for it too so I can nab some eshop and psn money for The Teal Mask and Phantom Liberty DLCs for Pokémon and Cyberpunk respectively. Very very excited overall just very good vibes. Otherwise the rotation of games is simple as always. On switch we got Zelda TOTK, Pikmin 4, Trails To Azure, Fire Emblem Engage: Fell Xenologue, Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed, and on PS5 we got FFXVI, BG3, Sea of Stars, Tales of Arise, SF6, KOFXV, and Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. Anime of the week of course is a big one this week as we have 4 finales this week meaning you won’t be hearing about these anymore: Atelier Ryza, Ayaka, Liar Liar and Yohane The Parhelion. All excellent shows and they made for great summer watching and I can’t wait to see how they end. Also big shoutout to Bungou Stray Dogs for giving me even more trauma then I already have y’all know what you done. And of course shoutout to my podcasts of the week: Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Giant Bombcast, Friends Per Second and Remap Radio. As always Happy Gaming to all and have a awesome weekend.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: New Super Mario Bros.
For this one I had to opt for North America even if it feels like nostalgic waxing. It fits what I’ve been saying most of these tho that hey if I saw it on a shelf I would buy it. I think it perfectly draws the eyes and shows the cool new thing of the game. Absolutely lovely if you ask me hahaha.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (September 9th)
Well this weeks a interesting one. Finally after a summer of nothing but early shifts and a general poor composition of balancing gaming and anime I’m finally free on Wednesday of the early shifts. The model store that my job is preparing for starts on Wednesday so when I clock out of work on Tuesday I’ll finally be free and back to gaming all night baby. So obviously it’ll be great to celebrate with Sea of Stars. But that’s not the weekend hahaha. For this weekend I’ll be playing some more Tears Of The Kingdom. It’s so cozy and soothing and relaxing and I’m really just loving it. And also I’ll shoot for some time in Baldurs Gate III. That game really is something special too like it really is on TOTKs scale because man you just feel how good and impressive and insane this game is. Otherwise throughout the week y’all know it’s gonna be the usual rotation of Zelda, Pikmin, Fire Emblem, Xenoblade, Rain Code. And Baldurs Gate 3, FFXVI, Sea Of Stars, One Piece Odyssey, and SF6. Yep that’s right I beat RE6 and now I’m free to celebrate with SF6 until A.K.I comes out for it later in the month. And do RE7 in October for Halloween. Special shout-out this week goes to the Live Action One Piece on Netflix it’s absolutely excellent and has made me a huge One Piece fan now. Over on the anime front y’all already know the usual. Atelier Ryza, My Tiny Senpai, Liar Liar, Zom 100, Ayaka and Yohane the Parhelion. Summer Anime almost over and man do we have one crazy Fall Anime lineup already. And for Podcasts we keeping it simple with Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Into the Aether, Giant Bombcast and Remap Radio. Have a great weekend to everyone and Happy Gaming as always.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: Sea Of Stars
Gotta go with Japan on this one I absolutely love the use of all the characters and the softer artstyle. Again when it comes down to what would make me wanna buy it on a shelf Japan would win it handily.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (September 2nd)
After last weeks not so busy week it feels oddly refreshing to have a huge week to follow it up. Two big main games of the weekend are gonna be Zelda Tears of the Kingdom and Baldurs Gate III. Yep I got that early access PS5 version so I’m looking to dive into the years top rated game alongside the previous holder of that title. But that doesn’t mean other games ain’t getting love. On rotation this week is probably the most amount of titles I’ve ever done. We’ve got Zelda, Pikmin 4, Fire Emblem Engage: Fell Xenologue, Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed, Disney Illusion Island,, and of course Splatoon 3 and the 1 year Anniversary Splatfest. Y’all already know I’m going Team Shiver for it. Over on the PS5 a more modest rotation of Baldurs Gate III, Tchia, Sea of Stars, FFXVI, and hopefully finishing up RE6. Gonna try catching up on the anime again this week so we’re at least one week behind. Summer has definitely been a weaker season. The anime this weekend of course being Atelier Ryza, My Tiny Senpai, Ayaka and Liar Liar. Special music shoutout this week to the new Jujutsu Kaisen intro Specialz. It’s so good. Shibuya Incident Arc is here bois WE ROLL. And Podcasts of course Into the Aether, Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Remap Radio and Fire Escape. Hope everyone has a awesome weekend and Happy Gaming to all as always.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: Excitebike 64
Gotta go Japanese on this one it’s very cool and very sleek looking I would buy this in a instant if I saw it in a store it’s so awesome looking.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (August 26th)
Well this is a bit of a quieter week this week. Beat SpongeBob The Cosmic Shake in order to free space for Armored Core only to skip Armored Core hahaha. Oh and beat Ghost Trick too. Absolutely excellent and deserves all the 10s it gets. Instead the biggest news of the week is my picking up of JOHNNY GUILTY GEAR. Nah he’s cool but jokes aside I picked up Baldurs Gate III instead of Armored Core and that’s the next game I’m planning to tackle. In terms of Switch games I’ve just been bouncing between Octopath 2 and Rain Code all week. Do wanna get back to TOTK and Pikmin at some point. Over on the PS other than SpongeBob and Baldurs Gate just some FFXVI, GGST, and TLOU1. Like I said quiet and random week. Anime of the week too kinda quiet. Ayaka, ZOM 100 and Liar Liar. Podcasts of course being Castle Superbeast, Into the Aether, Remap Radio, and Fire Escape. Also gonna work my way through most of Nerissa Ravencroft of Hololive EN Advent’s streams of Story of Seasons. Such a cozy and excellent game. Happy gaming to all and have a excellent weekend.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (August 19th)
Well another week of excellent gaming gone by. Found my love for Octopath 2 again and absolutely excellent sessions of Pikmin 4 and Trails To Azure and FFXVI. This weekend tho the plans are pretty simple. Work has moved my early shifts back just a little which now makes it so night gaming is back on the menu baby. So I’m thinking it’s finally time to beat Ghost Trick and also get back to SpongeBob The Cosmic Shake. Definitely wanna start knocking out more of my backlog and streamline a lot of my GOTY Games like ditching Trails To Azure to focus on trying to beat Octopath 2 by the end of the year. Besides the fact that as long as a SpongeBob is still in the backlog it makes it harder to keep up with new games like a Armored Core or Alan Wake. Speaking of that’s the big hype of this week. Picking up Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon on 08/25 or Friday. Also working my way through RE6 which is absolutely mid but honestly extraordinarily enlightening having worked my way through the whole series before it. As for anime of the week same as usual, Atelier Ryza, My Tiny Senpai, Ayaka, Zom 100, Liar Liar and Bungo Stray Dogs. That last one I’m almost caught up on and y’all please watch it it’s absolutely the best show I’ve seen in years. Also check out The Diplomat on Netflix it’s pretty good. Podcasts of the week are Remap Radio, Castle Superbeast, RPGcast from RPGsite, Into the Aether and Fire Escape. Hope everyone has a excellent weekend and Happy Gaming.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: Mega Man 7
Honestly for this one I actually went NA/Europe because while I like the all together look of the Japanese one the red really does play off Megaman s blue.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: Pokémon Stadium
Gotta go with the Japanese one on this one I love the color for this one and all the Pokémon on it it looks like a poster I would absolutely love to have hanging in my room. I absolutely love it.
Re: Metroid Dread Developer Has "Two Large Undisclosed Titles" In The Works
I remember it was gamexplain I think that put out a video maybe this year maybe last year that was totally just reporting on a rumor but that rumor was that Mercury Steam apparently was working on another 2D Metroid set for 2025 I think. So who knows maybe it is another Metroid.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (August 12th)
Well I missed last weeks entry of this due to being on vacation but man what a vacation it was. Absolutely excellent and in terms of games I basically played almost all of Ghost Trick and played all of Shredders Revenge. Gotta admit Kate is right Ghost Trick is really good. And EVO last weekend? Just reminds me why I love fighting games so much. Excellent announcements and matches all around man. As for this weekend tho. Well starting with Friday I saw the new TMNT movie and played some Splatoon 3 for the new Splatfest. Team Money baby. Got a couple hours into that which is really all I ever wanna do for Splatfests. I imagine if Splatoon was the only game I owned I would play more but when I got other single player things I wanna do it just kinda slips away ya know? But my vacation wraps up Monday as in going back to work Tuesday and for once I have a genuine game plan like a football coach hahaha. For Saturday we got some Pikmin 4 and Final Fantasy XVI. Sunday is Tears of the Kingdom and Tower of Fantasy. And Monday to finish off the most excellent of vacations will be Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed and King Of Fighters XV to test out the new character NAJD. And probably some time next week I’ll finish up ghost trick as I think I’m pretty close to the end of it. As for the anime this weekend also pretty simple. My Tiny Senpai, Atelier Ryza, Zom 100, Liar Liar, Ayaka, Tenpuru, Yohane The Parhelion and Bungo Stray Dogs. That last one especially is just one of the greatest shows I’ve ever seen I’m absolutely in love with it. And finally as for podcasts I think I’ll chill with some absolutely stellar Into The Aether and check out this new podcast everyone’s recommending Remap Radio. Have a excellent weekend and Happy Gaming to all.
Re: Pokémon Scarlet And Violet News Teased For World Championships' Closing Ceremony
I’m not expecting this because they could have just revealed it at the presents but my crackpot Hope would be a release date for the second part of the DLC. It’ll probably be at a Nintendo direct in September like I think the the crown tundra was for Sword and Shield but I just wanna know when both parts are already.
Re: Reggie Fils-Aimé To Deliver Keynote At PAX West 2023
Wow from September 1st to November 4th? With that much availability even I might have to check this event out that’s a lot of time and space hahaha.