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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Guess I gotta start getting picky with which Switch profile icons I buy.

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1618660955201867776?s=19

Ugh, I want these but they feel way too low effort to pay $8 shipping on. Would honestly prefer if it was just like, a single enamel pin instead.

I wish I could like Metroid Dread. It's a good game on its own merits but it has absolutely none of the elements I want from a Metroid game. I've really gotta play AM2R, I feel like that one will be more my speed.

Thanks for writing this, I had a good time reading it

I might have just had dogshit SKL because I couldn't hit anyone in that game. Was also playing on a higher difficulty than I did for FE6 though

Panthera posted...

What, you didn't like old classics like "it's chapter 8x and here's a guy that ORKOs your entire team and is basically immune to physical attacks" and "you can't hit this guy", the latter of which is extra funny because you know I'm talking about Binding Blade but you don't know which of seven different guys I might mean?

Sounds more like Conquest tbh, thank God for uhhh, Leo I think, whoever has the skill that lowers enemy evade just by being near them

FFX has a great battle system but I wish the bosses were balanced better. Most are stupidly easy with like 1 or 2 that are huge jumps in difficulty. I guess that's pretty normal for JRPGs though.

Both Black Mesa and Chicory are on my wishlist but idk, trying to save money right now since I spent a bunch on games earlier this month

Will probably play Space Funeral though

Zubat
Golbat
Crobat

idk I just like them

transience posted...

yeah that's huge. I owned a game gear once, not sure I need to do it again

I was skeptical too but the Deck is much more comfortable to hold than the Switch is, despite being bigger. I haven't weighed them but I feel like the Deck is also lighter than the Switch somehow, which helps.

It's really making me think I should invest into one of those Hori split pads for the switch. Maybe my whole issue is just that the joy-cons suck as handles.

transience posted...

I kind of hate the Switch because it killed the concept of the DS game.

Legitimately a tragedy of the modern era. Steam Deck has definitely filled that gap for me though

(tag)

I find movies/TV easier personally. I just assume I won't like them and I'm usually right.

Games are way easier to predict than books though, yeah.

Feels like we're gonna learn something really bad about their child labor lawsuit soon and then it'll make sense why they started the week off with "we're retiring the fuckable candy"

Mawile
Mega Mawile
Jirachi

Surprisingly good group.

BetrayedTangy posted...

Riku Replica

The actual answer

Are Game Gear games known for looking bad? Tbh it was way ahead of its time graphically!

Nominate:

Axiom Verge 2

and then we can all debate on whether the graphics are really bad or not

Luckily(?), I don't think there was ever a chance of Trump being prosecuted for virtually anything, so really this changes nothing.

Nominate:

Hypnospace Outlaw
Final Fantasy VI

swirIdude posted...

I can't believe this, I'm ****ing 17, don't they think I know WTF is up with my life? ARGH

This gets funnier and funnier the older I get

Aerodactyl
Shieldon
Tyranitar
Archen
Nihilego

I agree about this group being kinda weak. I'd struggle to find another to vote for

Oxenfree beaten

I got the same results that Seanchan did. Apparently I torpedoed Ren and Nona's chances immediately while trying not to. Whoops.

Overall I thought it was cool, though I can't help but think it'd have been better as an animated film, or even a VN. Anything that takes out the filler of walking around incredibly slowly. I also feel like it didn't really stick the landing. The ending feels like a weird mix of contrivances to both let the characters succeed but also to screw them over. So everything goes perfectly for Alex somehow and she closes the portal and escapes, but then there's the stinger revealing they're still in the time loop because, uh, reasons. And yeah, definitely can't be bothered to play through it again for the secret ending.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/0/6/AAeolZAAEHHK.jpg

it got punched by a faceless

Bulbasaur
Exeggutor
Breloom
Tropius
Whimsicott
Rowlet

Insanely stacked day. My initial list had to be cut from 16.

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair (Steam)

This is a pretty fun 2D platformer, another DKC-like. The goal of the game is to finish one extra-long level (the Impossible Lair) with multiple bosses, and you can challenge that level at any time. Each bee you rescue from the other stages gives you an extra hit on the Impossible Lair, up to 48 + the 1 hit you get normally.

I needed all of them! I mean, I feel like I could have just ground it out until I could do it without. I've done harder levels in platformers, like idk White Palace. But it was still tricky and the other levels were fun so I went and got all the bees anyway, which makes the whole thing substantially easier.

Compared to Kaze and the Wild Masks I'm not sure which is the better DKC-like. Initially I would have said Kaze but I spent like 18 hours on YL, not sure I'd have been game to play Kaze that long. They're both good, in any case.

...Incidentally, 100%ing this game means beating the Impossible Lair without any bees and uh, I'll pass on that one.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

It's much more about the game setting up very intentionally limited chapters with specific units for consideration. Strategy first, RPG second, at least IMO.

I'm cool with this approach and in some senses even prefer it, but I think it would work better if characters with poor availability got a level boost when they rejoined. Some would still be pretty unusable because they're bad even when they join, but it would at least mean you can take e.g. Leonardo to the final chapters without having to put in incredible effort.

I guess a modern remake might just fix it by including a way to grind like FE8 or Awakening, though I'd prefer a solution that is... not that.

I think I'm also on the RD > PoR boat, but I really wish RD put in more effort to let you use whatever units you want. Even in hard games like FE6 the terrible characters are usable, but it's practically impossible to use someone like Vika in RD.

Sneasel
Weavile
Sableye
Inkay

LightningStrikes posted...

Radiant Dawn was both a significant step down from that game and the fourth Fire Emblem game in four years.

what a good time to be an FE fan holy shit. idyllic. i wish my complaints about the series today were "they release too many games and they're not quite as good as FE9"

LightningStrikes posted...

They didnt. The review clearly refers to the late game and references the entire game. All evidence is they finished it.

The line I remember is fully not here so either they changed it, it was a different review, or I'm remembering wrong. I remember pretty clearly a line like "if even one ally dies it's an instant game over" but it's possible I'm just remembering wrong, so I apologize.

wasn't there already at least one, possibly two indie crossover fighting games

LightningStrikes posted...

Mii support was just one point in a long list if features demonstrating the overall criticism that the game did not take advantage of the Wiis features in any way.

Sure but the other complaints were dumb too. Also IIRC the person said they barely even played the game. Weird thing to defend.

Haha, I was surprised that the link was blue when I opened this topic but it's already on my wishlist! Cool that you know the devs.

Rhydon
Gliscor
Excadrill

masterplum posted...

Capitalism existed way before Protestants my man

...I never claimed it didn't?

(Also this is arguable.)

(Also it's a shitpost.)

honestly they made the right call on that one

banananor posted...

I do think this topic is a smaller slice of a greater discussion about free will, communism, etc etc

Laziness was invented by Protestants to sell more capitalism

please please please please please

also some kind of re-release for BK Origins so I can actually play it thanks

MacArrowny posted...

Reviews seem about in line with Shadow Dragon on the DS. Hope it ends up a bit better than that.

not even in my wildest dreams is this game better than shadow dragon so i hope you're right

I'm not sure there's any series where the reviews are as useless as they are for Fire Emblem. It could get 100s or 40s across the board and I wouldn't trust it to mean a single thing about the game's quality.

Infernape
Blacephalon
Alolan Marowak
Camerupt

Really stretching to find anyone I like enough for the fourth vote there

Offspring Fling (Steam)

Wow I've had this game in my library for a long time! It's a very cute puzzle platformer, which is not a genre I particularly like so I'm not sure why I keep playing them. The puzzles were pretty easy and the levels that required good timing with platforming were surprisingly hard (probably because I was using a joystick instead of dpad). There are more levels if you beat the record time for each stage but uh, no thanks.

I do want a plushie of the main character though. EXTREMELY cute and huggable looking.

MacArrowny posted...

Next game hint: Fun to see a Japanese game getting in on 2022's biggest movie trend (2022)

My Neighbor Morbius-kun

Edit: In hindsight this would have been funnier as Pokemon Legends: Morbius. whoops.

Ludicolo
Relicanth
Tentacruel
Slowbro
Whiscash
Swampert

Gen 3 crushing it on this one

Haunter
Drifloon

Only two votes here is a tragedy

My copy of Astalon from LRG is finally supposed to be delivered soon (today, in fact, but that didn't happen lmao), can't wait to finally see what the hype is about

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk (Steam)

Way higher production values than Milk Inside (to which this is a straight continuation), but I'm not sure I like it more. For one thing, getting the 5 different endings is pretty tedious because it's just based on arbitrarily doing more or less in the point-and-click adventure segment. Overall I find this duology really interesting though as stories that really, really, really do not romanticize mental illness.

If you're wondering about the title, it's about wanting to be free from your physical body but still be the same person -- like milk outside a bag of milk. But it also just references how the first game is first-person from the girl's perspective, and this one is more VN-style looking at her from the outside.

"A leopard stole my money," complains woman who donated to the Leopards Stealing People's Money Party.

Ryoma's helmet IS very stupid yes

I think a couple factors help 3H. The portraits for sure, but also ditching the academy designs in the second half really saves it. Using class designs for in battle was also a great choice. Like it feels a little lazy but it definitely helps with immersion. Even then there are some really awful designs. I know it's a low hanging fruit but god does f!Byleth's design suck.

Tinkaton

(Edited to change from Togekiss after having second thoughts)

Sure but Fates was 2 games ago. They didn't have to go all the way back to RD (though yes I'd have preferred that), they just needed to stay the course after Echoes and 3H.

Also, I think Ryoma's design is substantially better than like 80% of the ones in Engage. *shrug*

Her art is nice but imo the issue is that they just don't fit FE. They'd be great designs for Tales (well, not Alear, that one's just unsalvageable).