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Franz Kefka

I've only played Dark Souls 1 Remastered, Demon's Souls PS5, and Bloodborne, but the only one I liked enough to finish was DS1, so that one.

Is Musharna meant to be a fetus? I thought it and Munna were just tapirs again, like Drowzee. The Solosis line seems more like psychic fetuses tbh

Anyway, I like Wobbuffet and Musharna well enough, but I've gotta go with Chimecho here.

banananor posted...

video game reviews have this weird thing where anything 5/10 or below is considered a dumpster fire

5 point scale but scored out of 100 to avoid offending the advertisers

The real conversion for a 1/5 is probably like a 6.2/10 lmao

Spoink is adorable and tragic and gets my vote. I don't hate anything in this group though.

6/10

I think it's a solid plot, actually -- but it absolutely does not follow from Episode 1. This is a gaiden game in disguise. And to be fair, I like the development it gives Jr., MOMO, and Albedo, but the other characters barely have any reason to even show up. I do appreciate it being character driven (at least with regard to the 3 aforementioned characters), but as a result it felt a lot less mysterious than Ep. 1 and to me that's a point against it.

Not_an_Owl posted...

why are you debating the nuances of transphobic propaganda being pushed by a known grifter

just call her a shithead and move on

Because I thought it was a really weird statement to make, and there was nothing else going on in the topic?

I've been on the "Tulsi Gabbard is a shithead" train since back when Democrats liked her! There's no disagreement here about her being a shithead!

Paratroopa1 posted...

You're adding the word 'some', though. She didn't say 'some.' The implication of her statement is 'all.'

"there exist [noun] that are [quality]" implies the existence of [noun] that aren't [quality]. Otherwise you'd just say "all [noun] are [quality]". The implication is there because of the source, but it's not within the text itself.

My experience is that the transphobic talking point is "men and women are biologically different", not the significantly weaker statement "some men and some women are biologically different".

As SEP said, it's just that she's dumb, though

Undersea is one of my favorite courses for how long and varied it is, but those strengths definitely become weaknesses even when you're just trying to fill out the photodex in regular gameplay. Running it over and over for one specific shot late in the course sounds painful.

TheRock1525 posted...

Because the second you define the difference between men and women as biological, it implies transgender women have to be men due to biology.

Right but it doesn't even say "all women"! It's such weak transphobia from a conservative that it's bordering on a supportive statement from a liberal.

What is "there is such a thing as women that are biologically different from men" even supposed to mean. Am I crazy to think that's a nothing statement? It doesn't even really parse as sexism/transphobia even though the context and source tells me that's exactly what it's supposed to be.

These are pretty awful tbh

I like Rayquaza decently enough and Giratina is a conceptually cool bobbit worm dragon but the execution is kinda middling. The rest look seriously half-baked.

I agree with Nier and Katamari, and offer up the Ace Attorney series and The World Ends With You.

Reshiram is the only one I like more than its counterpart, so I guess that one. Tough call between it and Ho-Oh (and Groudon sorta).

Alwa's Legacy (Switch)

Overall I think this one's better than Alwa's Awakening. The gameplay is blessedly much faster, you get more movement abilities, there's more character progression (meaning more reasons to explore), and it's less linear. I liked it a lot.

I will say it could use a bit more polish. For one thing, even though the game is like 99% sprites, it seems like they modeled the water using actual fluid dynamics?? So the Switch really starts chugging any time moving water is on screen. Kinda unacceptable for a 2D retro game like this. The load times are also embarrassingly long. Most annoying, though, is that the game eats your button inputs sometimes. After attacking, being hit, and sometimes during your run cycle, there's a moment where you can't jump. It doesn't make the game unplayable, but like... it's a platformer. Jumping is the thing. Maybe make sure it works right before you go gold? Sometimes your attacks randomly don't hurt enemies, too. It's frustrating, but rarely a big issue.

The story for the two games is also pretty bad! It's mostly an excuse plot, which is fine, but there are constant hints that there's something deeper going on and then the game just doesn't follow through on any of it. As far as I can tell there really aren't multiple endings, either. Bizarre!

KCF0107 posted...

I bought that like five years thinking it would be right up my alley, but I just found it underwhelming and dropped it around halfway

Halfway is around when it opens up and gets somewhat better, but fundamentally it's the same game all the way through, so if you weren't feeling it I don't think more time with it would change things.

Nintendogs was pretty good for the genre. I'd have a lot of trouble naming a better pet sim, if one even exists.

I've paid much more for much worse games!

As much as people mocked it, Triangle Strategy seems like a pretty good name when you compare it to "The DioField Chronicle"

Shiftry is a cool-ass tengu and I'm here for it.

Roserade kinda sucks, Tsareena really sucks, and I always forget Bellossom isn't its own thing (it should be). Vileplume, Victreebel, and Jumpluff are all quite good though.

Maybe I'm insensitive but tbh they should just release it quietly, without much advertisement, and hope it slides under the PR radar. Delaying it indefinitely because of a war that could potentially last for years is basically a soft cancellation.

I can vouch for Highway Blossoms and Lenna's Inception (and Celeste but that hardly needs vouching for). Probably worth the price of admission alone.

Wish I hadn't bought CrossCode a few months ago on PS5, though I'm sure it'll run better on that than my old laptop.

My sister and her family all had it we think, and my BIL's brother and his whole family, plus several of my best friends. Not sure how my folks and I have avoided it given all that.

I've been really sick a couple times in the last two years actually, and each time I took a covid test and was surprised it was negative. People keep saying things like "I haven't had a cold/flu since 2019" and like... can't relate!

These are pretty good for middle stages, except Skiploom.

I think I'll go with Weepinbell

4/10

I don't really remember this game having much of a story, even compared to other Metroid games. It was fun to watch the space pirate logs go from "oh shit, Samus is here" to "oh shit, TWO Samuses are here" though

Bellsprout and Oddish are great, rest are okay. I feel like Lotad belongs here, design-wise. Voted Bellsprout.

4/10

It has a few great lines and moments but the narrative is super disjointed and there's a lot of telling vs showing, which is particularly disappointing for a Fire Emblem title. Most characters are pretty poorly written for the series standard too. I will say the Gangrel arc was pretty solid, but this is almost definitely the second worst FE storyline overall.

Alwa's Awakening (Switch)

Solid retro-style Metroidvania. Not a whole lot in the way of character progression; there's no way to get more than 3 health, for instance. Most of the upgrades are just orbs that deal a little bonus damage at the start of each boss fight. You could honestly skip them entirely. The difficulty's pretty high, in an NES-style instant death spikes kind of way, but I thought it was a good challenge for the most part. Overall I liked this one a lot, but it's definitely only for people who like a specific type of challenging, retro platformers.

i put years of hard work into getting my war crimes degree at war crimes college and now everyones like "oh war crimes bad", "it's ineffective" Fuck Off

I find it hilarious that you had trouble finding gen 5 Pokemon you liked enough to use but that one of them that did qualify was *Vanilluxe*

Honestly though, your team should have been pretty solid aside from Dewott and Vanilluxe (which is just a matter of Ice being like the single worst defensive type in Pokemon).

Super Crush K.O. (Switch)

This is a sidescrolling beat-'em-up with gay vibes. It's fun and the combat is sufficiently deep, and there's a good amount of enemy variety (although you fight a LOT of the most common enemies, so they definitely wear thin). I wouldn't say it does anything extraordinary aside from very cute comic-style cutscenes. The ending is pretty abrupt, and I beat the game in 2 sittings, so it's not long at all.

5/10

It's really enjoyable but I can't call it good, even in the way I'd call SF64's story good (or at least well-executed). Assault is schlocky fun, it's space mercenaries vs. bug aliens, what's not to like? But I can't justify a higher rating.

Metroid Dread (Switch)

Oh man... I have Opinions about this game. It was a pretty good sidescrolling action game, but a terrible Metroid game. Awful controls (better than Samus Returns though), bad level design, tedious combat, bad music and art, and I kind of can't believe people seem to be generally positive on the EMMI segments. They're so frequent and disruptive and just don't fit the flow of a Metroid game at all. No idea why they're even there.

I think I'm just gonna have to pass on this series until it gets passed over to a new developer. I was a lot more positive coming out of Other M than I was after this game.

Not to be a genwunner but this poll has big genwunner energy.

Magnemite

Gen 5 is great imo but its lows are really low.

Camp sucks, you say?

Cutiefly 4*

Wailord 4*

I love this topic

Yes, never all in the same generation though.

Slooooowbro

Better group than yesterday tbh

Sloooooowpoke

Also wtf is that last one. Even Panpour is less stupid looking lmao

My usual reason for dropping games is because they're bad (or at least because I don't like them), so this is tough to answer.

Crypt of the Necrodancer, maybe? That game rocks, I'm just not good enough at it to finish it.

Why did all these companies suddenly become shit at making joysticks in the last ~5 years? I don't recall ever hearing about stick drift until the current consoles.

Lightning Strikes posted...

My favourite Batman franchise, Justice League.

DCAU fans be like

(it's me I'm DCAU fans)

Hbthebattle posted...

buzzwole gang

This, but Blacephalon makes it close

LeonhartFour posted...

I think the difference there is that Herlock Sholmes is very clearly the same dude as the character in the stories, while Castlevania Dracula is not meant to be Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Unless they've changed it, Bram Stoker's Dracula is literally canon to Castlevania.

-hotdogturtle-- posted...

Are there any other characters for whom we could actually expect Allen to make the Geralt exception?

Dracula has been in IIRC (definitely has as Soma Cruz but I think he has as Dracula too)

The prizes were not great. A bunch of grit and EXP items and some seeds of mastery, IIRC. Maybe 10 or 15 items in total.

I did 20 rounds of the reverie and was already seeing a lot of repeat opponents. Doesn't seem like a lot of time or effort went into it.

I want to back this but the reward tiers seem really overpriced. $100 is the lowest tier with a physical copy of the game??

I like Purrloin a lot, but I've gotta vote for Sneasel.