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Topic	transience's top 100 games -- 2020 edition.
transience 12/27/19 8:58:00 PM #191:	63. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiDUAGNPg9A 2004 PS2 Shadow Hearts is a quirky but sincere little JRPG. Shadow Hearts 2, on the other hand, is just goofy all the way. It has a strong core story once it gets going, but youre also hunting down gay porn to make dresses for your loli doll and fighting your wrestling teacher as a vampire bat superhero thing. SH2 manages to somehow bring these two extremes together. Its not perfect all the time, but it works. Honestly, coming back to this game in 2019 is kind of shocking. This game just screams 2000s, even moreso than its predecessor. SH2 was novel as a joke-y JRPG before that kind of thing was common, but video games do jokes and break fourth walls all the time now and do them much better. The gameplay is better than SH1s but the dungeons are bad news and really nerf the enjoyment. The voice acting isnt very good and the game has this maddening translation where the voices dont match the subs. This game used to be a top 10 staple for me and its fallen a long way. But theres a real silver lining here: once you get a ways in to the game, the story and atmosphere get really good. The main character is an all-timer and it really shines when an antagonist rises up and the plot starts driving you in a direction instead of wandering around Europe. The second disk is some of the best stuff on the PS2 and Im not sure that any video game has a better ending. SH2 doesnt hold up like it used to but it still has some real strengths. --- xyzzy <cite>transience posted [p:932136484] in transience... [t:78280088]...</cite> <quote>63. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiDUAGNPg9A 2004 PS2 Shadow Hearts is a quirky but sincere little JRPG. Shadow Hearts 2, on the other hand, is just goofy all the way. It has a strong core story once it gets going, but youre also hunting down gay porn to make dresses for your loli doll and fighting your wrestling teacher as a vampire bat superhero thing. SH2 manages to somehow bring these two extremes together. Its not perfect all the time, but it works. Honestly, coming back to this game in 2019 is kind of shocking. This game just screams 2000s, even moreso than its predecessor. SH2 was novel as a joke-y JRPG before that kind of thing was common, but video games do jokes and break fourth walls all the time now and do them much better. The gameplay is better than SH1s but the dungeons are bad news and really nerf the enjoyment. The voice acting isnt very good and the game has this maddening translation where the voices dont match the subs. This game used to be a top 10 staple for me and its fallen a long way. But theres a real silver lining here: once you get a ways in to the game, the story and atmosphere get really good. The main character is an all-timer and it really shines when an antagonist rises up and the plot starts driving you in a direction instead of wandering around Europe. The second disk is some of the best stuff on the PS2 and Im not sure that any video game has a better ending. SH2 doesnt hold up like it used to but it still has some real strengths. --- xyzzy</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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