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I played a bit of Dark Souls and Bloodborne. I liked Bloodborne, but I didn't love it. Dark Souls was very whatever for me. I just don't think Souls games are my vibe, which is fine.

I played a bit of Nier: Automata and a bit of Xenoblade. I enjoyed both. I gifted Xenoblade to a friend who finished it and loved it.

Sushi Go is definitely easy and fun. I showed it to my family in Thailand and it was...tough explaining it. I thought it was simple and the pictures spoke for themselves, but there's actually kind of a lot of complication behind it. Should have went with something even more simple!

Finished Episode 6 of What If? Season 2.

Overall, pretty good. I really liked Season 1 and this one is better. Season 1 has the higher highs (Strange and Ultron still easily the best), but Season 2 takes the premise more interestingly. I'm especially glad to see people long gone in the MCU like Fishburne, Rockwell, and Goldblum return.

I knew Outer Wilds and #7 immediately, but didn't submit a list. I had no idea on the rest. Outer Wilds is excellent, probably a top 3 game for me. There's so much I love about it, but this isn't really the topic to go through it.

I'll go through Fata Morgana at some point down the line. I'll probably enjoy it. I'm glad that series is heavily recommended, yet I know basically nothing about it.

I played a tiny bit of DMC3. It was fine, but again, no desire to go through it. Challenging games are really rewarding, but only when it feels right. Difficulty is hard to do well.

Gyro-Nope and Four Piece Kombo are definitely top 10 contenders for me.

MacArrowny posted...

Disco Elysium rocks. I didn't enjoy the last hour or two that much, but everything else in the game is sublime. Amazing writing. Would love to replay it someday and try different choices. The rave was my favorite part of the game.

That's my favorite part too. It's kinda wild that it's completely optional and even possible to fully miss it.

I love DE. It's kind of a perfect game for the moment I'm in of my life, similar to TOTA and my teenage years. Thankfully, I'm not in the same situation as the protagonist, but I definitely feel a sense of ennui about the world. I really enjoyed my time playing DE and it'll probably stick with me for a long time.

I always really liked Tanya's MK4 kiss fatality. It's memorable.

I'm not sure what's in my top 10 fatalities, but that's probably in there.

foolm0r0n posted...

What does it do exactly?

I only beat 1 run with each character (1st try for all chars except Ironclad and the poison one) but I don't remember anything special being revealed. Or is it only after you slay the spire not just complete a run? Like Kirb I def never felt compelled to really play more times.

Ascension gets added whenever you beat the 3rd boss and you're playing on the highest ascension.

It's difficulty modifiers. Each ascension stacks on the last. A few of them are gimmes, but some of them change my strategies completely (potions being brought down from 3 to 2, an un-removable curse is automatically part of your starting deck, changes to enemy/boss patterns). It's not a massive deal, but it does give me incentive to continue playing, because I'd like to hit A20 with one of my characters some day.

Even without ascension, though, I really enjoy the loop of Slay the Spire. Each run feels so different and there's so many enemies that challenge your deck in different ways. Easily the deepest roguelike I've played.

Have you unlocked Ascension for Slay the Spire? I also have about 200+ hours in Slay the Spire and Ascension plays a big part of it.

Any time after you beat a run with a character, you unlock Ascension, which is difficulty that builds on itself. There's 20 ascension levels for each character, which is effectively about 80 difficulties in the game. My highest is Ironclad at Ascension 18 and my lowest is Defect at Ascension 5.

Yeah, this was a tough one so I didn't bother submitting guesses.

I totally thought 13 was Journey though! I'm pretty isolated from the Soulsborne games, so I'm not too surprised.

CrossCode is great.

7 Wonders is fine, but it's nothing amazing. I think it's pretty hard to find a board game that only has drafting as a core game mechanic. Drafting tends to be one part of several game mechanics. 7 Wonders Duel is excellent and a go-to 2-player game for me.

Codenames is really good. Probably one of the first board games I would recommend to someone who has only played family board games or Catan. My big problem with Codenames is that it's pretty cerebral. A lot of the fun comes at the end when the Spymaster can finally say their piece.

You should have mentioned that this is a Nathan Fielder project! I actually really enjoyed his acting; though, Emma Stone is doing an excellent job as well.

I watched the first episode and it's very good. I have no interest in Paramount+ so I'll probably binge this in January or February once all the episodes are out.

Dang, I was the Psychonauts 2 person. I remember thinking about it a long time and was like "Oh, it's about Psychonauts 2!" and just put that in.

I always enjoy the goofy fatalities and Johnny Cage's multiple heads uppercut is an absolute classic. The MK11 one is such a clever way of doing it, but I do get that it breaks a lot of good things about a fatality.

Eh, there's a lot I'd say aged poorly, but most of it is not super important. I know there are some readers that actually re-write the poorly aged content, which is usually slurs, mostly in the early acts.

In terms of big stuff, the Dancestors definitely feel poorly aged, but it's thankfully mostly skippable. I think more importantly, some characters go through....questionable arcs. I consider that one of the more interesting parts of Homestuck, though, where characters don't go where you expect them to go. Tavros and Dirk are the big ones that come to mind.

Snake

I have Pesterquest but I haven't started. Do they take place after the Epilogues? Because I still have not read the Epilogues.

The Marvels was great. Pretty easy top 10 MCU movie for me. Brie, Teyona, and Iman had a lot better chemistry than I was expecting and made me enjoy all 3 of them. Great moments all around and I don't have many complaints.

Haven't watched Disney+ in a long time, including Loki S2. I'll probably get it for December for Loki and What If?. I loved the first season of What If? and the concepts in S2 seem better.

Girlfriend

Mega

7.5

Sonic

Snake

A+ stage too

If you haven't played the Arkham games, I think they're definitely worth the price. Even Arkham Knight.

the champions

3.5/10

Bowser

You

Snake

Jonas

Man

shit

Mega Man

Death

6.5/10

I'm pretty certain this is my first Black Mirror episode. I enjoyed the character of the Smithereens CEO.

I'm a huge fan of board games. CAH at the bottom is rightfully deserved.

Mysterium is kinda strange. I like the premise, but yeah, it always feels like a bit of a stretch and I think Dixit is just much cleaner. The last phase of Mysterium still confuses me to this day.

Wavelength might be a top 3 board game for me! It's definitely a game heavily reliant on in-jokes, which I'm completely fine with. While I tend to like more think-y games, most of the people I play with tend to be on the light end of the spectrum, so I can't take something really complex. Wavelength is perfect and it works for me because some of the prompts really make me think on what's a good clue.

It's always wild to me that Star Wars is one of the biggest media franchises when at least half of the movies are just straight-up bad. RoS is easily a bottom 5 movie for me. I've never felt a complete lack of vision in a movie.

Just finished it. I agree that I like the show and where it went, but I felt the characters were a little lacking. Which is weird, because I found most of them likable. But if you compare Gen V's cast to The Boys Season 1's cast, The Boys just felt like they had a far more complete and rounded out cast and every character's arc felt like it went somewhere.

weeks

I guess? dunno what it means

Winnie the Pooh

I had fun with Monaco. It's certainly a flawed game where we had to learn every intricate part of the game to clear the game. But it was a ton of fun and incredibly memorable to all of us. The Mole is a hilarious class and the player that played The Mole would just go off and do his own thing, just making messages and art in the walls.

13

Boss

Lord