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After the last Direct I was obsessed with how good Eiyuden Chronicles: 100 Heroes looked! So I bought the weird Metroidvania prequel thing and I kinda love it! I know the review here was a little less positive, but if there is pretty music, art, and upbeat combat I can really enjoy busy work - even if that is essentially this whole game lol

Oh hooray! After years of reading and not commenting, This is my first one of these!
I’m playing Anno: Mutationem. It sure is something! Lol
It really feels like 3 games grafted together pretty sloppily! It’s a consistently hard shift between combat on a strict 2D plane, open exploration 3D segments with visual novel elements, and occasional prestige platform segments for storytelling (just give me a cutscene!)
So idk I’m pretty lukewarm on it despite the obvious effort involved in its construction.

@NintendoKnower @olliemar28
As a person who doesn’t care for the new Zelda style, despite its near universal acclaim, it can sometimes make you feel like a crazy person. Lol like you’re the only one who can see a ghost!
To take the metaphor unnecessarily further, because of the way we loved the franchise in the past it is not just a random spirit, but the spirit of our grandmother! Meanwhile everyone else is carrying on like usual!
Idk it’s certainly a good thing that most folks loved it, but I find it hard not to have bad feelings about it :/

@AtlanteanMan I was certain that in the wake of how successful Fire Emblem: Awakening was that we would see a “proper” Shining Force game with similar life-sim elements. Perhaps that is not what the fan base wants (Fire Emblem fans are also divided on it I guess!) but it could spell success!!!

NiGHts… into Dreams is my favorite game ever. I still keep my Sega Saturn around just for that one and Christmas NiGHts. I don’t even hate the Wii one, and a remaster of it with the ability to skip cutscenes and smoothed out controls could make it better. Also it’s CRAZYTOWN that we don’t even have the original on Switch! Seventh gen consoles got the remake and if they threw it on switch It would sell plenty!

Ooooooh but a third entry?? With the Nightopian garden, and a new story and HD graphics would just be lovely. Also genuinely surprising that some plucky indie studio hasn’t made their NiGHts-like yet… that’s an open market

I loved Bug Fables, but loathed the Outbound Ghost. This seems like it would sit right in the middle, but I’ll have to hold off on it for now after this review

I’d like to highlight Second Sight at this moment! It’s not a masterpiece, but it was a lovely little adventure on the GameCube, and very much the type of game we all lament when we wish they made “AA” games the way they used to. What a a sad day

This is unsurprising but still disappointing. I can’t argue that they are doing really well for themselves with this new Zelda, but it’s not for me. What was once my favorite series where I eagerly anticipated everything Zelda, I am now completely indifferent to the games