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Bitto posted...

Its his title at the end of FE4:

In the annals of Thracian history, the name of King Leif the Wise, the "Sage-Lord," will echo for eternity..."

Pretty obscure.

Alear gets way better at promotion, if only because they now get 5 move instead of 4.

Oh lol, I don't remember that ending at all but I retract my criticism, that's a cool callback

it hurts my soul that almost everyone has 4 move right now. definitely makes me long for the games where even infantry had 6 move standard

Oh I like Morion and Saphir. This probably means neither is playable and at least one will die but for now I like them. Amber is super cute but unfortunately I don't like him at all so to the bench he goes.

Why is Leif the Sage Lord? he's not even a sage

Chapter 8 was good but it really feels like it should've been a defend chapter. I mean it kind of was but making it defeat boss means they can't lay on as much pressure as if it was defend for X turns.

Alfred was my first promotion. Emblem Sigurd is insanely good and on Alfred it feels almost unfair. On the other hand Alear+Marth are kinda falling behind even at level 10 bond. Thus are the perils of sword infantry I guess. Diamant likely gonna get benched for the same reason.

Probably gonna do the second paralogue before heading to chapter 9.

Soren has never had fun in his life and he's not about to start now.

Cuphead is hard but if you stick with it you can do it!

unless you're doing co-op, which I stg must be impossible

Just started chapter 7. I liked Jean better when he was named Tony Tony Chopper, and I liked Alcryst and Hortensia better, uh, when they weren't in the game yet.

why is lapis red and pink instead of blue. what a weird decision.

In the GCN version there was a bug(?) where it sounded way worse on stereo than mono, so if they haven't fixed that and you insist on wanting VA, at least put it on mono.

LightningStrikes posted...

Also that Blanc game in the sizzle reel had a tremendous art style.

The cutscenes looked great but the gameplay footage left a little to be desired. Definitely still gonna keep an eye on it though.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

My dude even if the late 2023 to early 2024 leak is true, they ain't announcing that game until Fall at the earliest.

to be clear I didn't actually expect it

but i did want it really really bad

Mewtwo59 posted...

Why did they pick Camilla's Birthright map instead of Conquest Chapter 10? Literally picked the worst Birthright map over the best Conquest map.

why did they pick camilla at all instead of almost anyone else

(just kidding, I know why)

No Silksong or FE4 Remake is sad but incredible direct otherwise.

Incredible direct for "games I should have bought when they were new" between Ghost Trick and BK Origins

If Prime Remake doesn't have motion aiming I'mma riot

Splatoon is such an inscrutable series to me

Grimlyn posted...

omfg ghost trick

yes please DS copies are like $200

Castlevania expansion for Dead Cells

You've raised my hopes and dashed them quite expertly, sir, bravo!

Pikmin 4 looks incredible gimme gimme

Pokemon (Conquest) Musou feels plausible.

Didn't Lovecraft kinda reform later in life too, or am I thinking of someone else?

Hbthebattle posted...

board 9

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/9-

kinda depressing place tho

masterplum posted...

I mean if you want to get closer to actual nazi talking points, there is a world of difference between "I think white people genetically superior" and "I don't like affirmative action because it hurts people because of their skin color"

The latter is definitely a centrist view point

sure, there's a difference between those two positions. both guys are still anti-affirmative action though.

("white people are genetically superior" is more ideology than discrete political issue like I'm talking about. you can draw your own conclusions on whether they agree on that or not.)

masterplum posted...

"I think the rich should pay more in taxes, but we also need to reduce government spending" - NEO NAZI SPEAK

neither of the dudes i'm talking about say the first part of this

Thorn posted...

also he totally ghosted us. said it wasn't gonig to be an abrupt departure and then it was exactly that lol.

mirror opposite of all the people who say "i'm leaving forever!" and then are back on gamefaqs in like a week lmao

HanOfTheNekos posted...

Yeah, I was crazy about OSC books back in the day, before I was really developed enough to understand some of the themes.

Nowadays, I don't care about OSC because it's really easy to move onto other things. It's not like there's a dearth of media in the world.

I never read his books but the thing with OSC that still hurts is that he was involved with one of the single best Metroidvania games out there.

Mr_Lasastryke posted...

i really don't get how you can say "my stances fall in line with trump a lot" and "i'm barely right of center."

something you have to remember about american politics is that if you meet two american dudes and one says "I'm a centrist" and the other says "I'm a neo-nazi" they probably agree on well over 95% of issues.

apology accepted but don't let it happen again.

Axl_Rose_85 posted...

I'm 34 thanks

big oof

Nelucce is a great boss. I love the FE trope of "minor slimebag antagonist who is incredibly (and 100% unjustifiably) smug and confident in his own abilities".

I'm not quite sure why he escaped only to die three minutes later in a cutscene but whatever.

Not at all impressed with the seemingly more major antagonists so far but it's still early.

Axl_Rose_85 posted...

Completely embarrassing shitshow of a "reviewzone" topic.

I seriously did not expect things to get worse than the Rings of Power or Bayonetta 3 topic but users like UshiromiyaEva and Kamikaze Potato have got to be angry mid 30s to early 40s basement dwelling social outcasts to post stuff this embarrassing. There's just no other explanation.

Having inexplicably biased agendas against successful high profile video game releases, wishing new video game projects that developers put their heart and soul into, to fail possibly because they can't afford things anymore with their grandmother's allowance. Just sad man. UshiromiyaEva. Dude just do yourself a favor and stay off these topics man.

just FYI when every post you make involves accusing others of being poor it starts looking like projection

MacArrowny posted...

Different lead writers! Assuming you're talking about what I think you are.

We probably are, though I also meant the gameplay.

First chapter in Firene was a big improvement though so I cautiously retract my negativity. Even the voice acting on the newest recruits is better!

Not to be negative but I'm like an hour into Engage so far and this game was definitely made by the Fates team, huh.

The difference between boycotting Joanne and boycotting Nestle is that the former makes one series about a wizard boy that's always been kinda mid and the latter makes roughly 1/6th of all packaged food in the entire world, but yes, people should absolutely boycott Nestle too

It was a little annoying in college because another person in my major had my last name as his first. So usually if I got called by my last name it just meant someone had mixed us up. I don't mind it otherwise though.

the real way to my heart is to call me by my middle name

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Etie Goldmary B feels like they're about to start throwing blows the makeouts on the floor.

oh my favorite ship dynamic

You're in One Piece's best stretch right now and that includes Alabasta but I wouldn't say it's the absolute peak. The next three major arcs are all great with one of them being amazing.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

I will say that my Amazon order of the SE came in immaculately, so there's hope.

You spoke it into reality lol, it showed up with zero damage.

Space Funeral beaten

What an odd little game. It's definitely one of those "talk to weird little NPCs" style RPGs. I kinda dig all the aesthetic choices, I just wish the story wasn't so bog standard by comparison.

Probably nothing for me either though I have access to Last of Us so maybe I should try it? It's really not my style of game though.

masterplum posted...

There is a reason some history boards limit topics to more than 20 years ago. Politics isnt history. No college US history class is going to spend any significant time discussing anything that happening in that recent time frame (unless as a reference to a prior event)

Eh, it really depends on the class. While survey-level college history courses don't go as hard on recent stuff as high schools are apt to, in my experience they still touch on it, and you can find more specialized courses that might be entirely about, say, the 1990s.

So Target threw my SE into the ocean and told me to fuck off but after a couple days of trying I've managed to get one from Amazon. Unfortunately even at retail price it's still $10 more than I was paying at Target and it'll probably be damaged when it shows up based on what other people who ordered from Amazon have said.

This makes me 3 for 3 on snagging SEs from Amazon after release since I did it with Fates and Echoes too

I think a lot of people see the political battle over social issues as a smokescreen designed to obscure and distract from a bipartisan consensus on capitalism. Which is not really unbelievable and if you only care about economic issues then it makes sense you'd see the parties as similar if not identical. But like, those social issues still affect hundreds of millions of Americans, so. Even if you think the parties are the same and that social issues are manufactured, you kinda have to reckon with the human cost at some point. Or become a tankie, I guess.

I think World still, though it's gotten closer between the two as I've gotten older. I prefer 3's physics and controls but World's levels and general design, which seems to be the exact opposite of the common opinion here lol

Maybe hot take but I think I'd also put SMB1 in this conversation.

Haiku, the Robot (Steam)

...I almost want to call this "Hollow Knight but bad" but it actually is a good game. It's just obviously Hollow Knight but with a different coat of paint. And not just the gameplay, but even the story and setting and everything. Not quite as good, either, though I still enjoyed my time with it. I really liked the true final boss too.

Hi-Fi Rush looks sooo good but I'm really bad at both character action and rhythm games :/

Laser-focused to be a group of games unappealing to me specifically lol

PowerSlave Exhumed (Steam)

I've been wanting to play this game since, gosh, maybe 12-15 years ago when I first learned about it? It's an FPS sort-of-metroidvania from the era before Metroid Prime. I guess this new version sort of combines the existing PS1 and Saturn versions.

It's a decent shooter. There's not a whole lot of Metroidvania-ness to it but I definitely see the comparisons, and the movement abilities are very fun. Moving around in this game just feels good. The shooting, a little less so but it's fine. The less said about the game's story/aesthetic the better. I collected all the major collectables but didn't get the 31 staff easter eggs.

masterplum posted...

My guess is banning gender affirming care for minors is popular actually.

https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/poll-americans-support-banning-

transgender-surgeries-drugs-for-minors/article_a969ff1a-5156-11ed-9243-
733436a08713.html

This poll says 79% oppose before they are adults

Link was too long so I put in breaks

Combine this poll with one about whether surgeons should be allowed to reattach a boy's dick if he accidentally blows it off with a firecracker to find the real % of people against gender affirming care vs those who just want trans kids specifically to suffer

Right but if the point is the puzzles there are lots of picross games that are just puzzles. Clearly the story is supposed to be part of the draw or it wouldn't be there at all. It's kinda the same issue I had with PictoQuest, where it's a picross RPG but the whole RPG part is completely half-baked. It just makes you wonder why they even bothered.

I actually thought the pacing was fine! I just want the game's mysteries to not be immediately obvious within the first 5 minutes of a 4 hour long case.

Murder by Numbers (Switch)

Man, the first couple hours of this had me saying "this game was made to appeal to me specifically. this is the best game ever made." And the picross part of it stays really good throughout, though I could have done with some harder puzzles (the toughest puzzle in the main story is 20x15 and there's only one of those).

But geez, I have some issues with this game's writing. The characters are written pretty well but the game can't make a working plot to save its life. The game never makes me feel like the main character is qualified to be a detective, and the game's explanation for why she's good at it is that it's in her genetics(???). And her general incompetence gets two people killed so she actually ends the game significantly less likeable than at the start. The whodunnits/howdunnits aren't great either; I don't expect Ace Attorney level but a random episode of Detective Conan blows this stuff out of the water. (Also it's pretty bad copaganda and the characters constantly complain about how due process/defense attorneys/civil rights/etc make it just so difficult to get the bad guys.)

The kicker is that there's a missable puzzle in case 3 and you need to play every puzzle in the game to unlock some extra scenes, and if you miss it you have to replay the entire case and every puzzle in it again. Stupid!

Suprak_the_Stud posted...

I mean...Buzzfeed.

Yeah they're definitely included in the "unless 0 standards" clause

Automation is great, automating most forms of writing seems like a miss unless you have 0 standards to start with.