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They put out Paranormasight last year too as one of their low-mid level budget titles, and it's mechanically probably one of the most creative fourth wall breaking visual novels I've ever played and maybe the only one I've ever played that I insist be done with a controller.
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Feb 14, 2024 06:35
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Xaris posted:i figure they get special handouts from BoJ or something so it doesn't matter S-E management is weird grumpy old men who hate everything and kept buying up western IP and then throwing tantrums when it didn't sell literal Call of Duty numbers while letting the guy who ran Sonic into the ground do whatever he wanted til he got arrested
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Feb 14, 2024 07:52
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Epic High Five posted:Just fondly remembered the skeleton ball that races past you in DS3 only to race right back up the ramp after you started running back up feeling very clever for seeing it coming, summoned by a literal skeleton in a wizard hat I had forgotten about this but I also love it. Great level design. Most people presumably get wrecked at least a couple of times before figuring out the pattern. Then you realize the mastermind is a crispy skeleton nerd in a wizard hat you can destroy with a single blow. He doesn't even fight back. I think the skeleton ball then explodes the next time it comes down and hits the wall, revealing priceless treasure inside?! That's some quality environmental storytelling. it was obscure enough for me that I was confused, annoyed, triumphant, and finally awed.
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Feb 14, 2024 14:18
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Ghost Leviathan posted:S-E management is weird grumpy old men who hate everything and kept buying up western IP and then throwing tantrums when it didn't sell literal Call of Duty numbers while letting the guy who ran Sonic into the ground do whatever he wanted til he got arrested lol that the guy who co-created sonic's follow-up character was balan wonderworld and then he was arrested for video game crimes
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Feb 14, 2024 15:41
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anyone here play sea of stars? got it for switch to play on a plane trip but the opening was so boring, like it starts you out with a ton of exposition, then like 10 min of rpg map traversal with like 3 total encounters, then a flashback with even more cutscenes and slow rear end map traversal. anyway i finally stuck with it and it seems good, battle system seems pretty fun, enemies show how many turns til they act, and when they charge up spells you can combo break them to reset their timer or reduce their spell damage so there's more tactics other that just choosing single target, aoe, or heal per turn
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Feb 14, 2024 15:42
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palindrome posted:I had forgotten about this but I also love it. Great level design. Most people presumably get wrecked at least a couple of times before figuring out the pattern. Then you realize the mastermind is a crispy skeleton nerd in a wizard hat you can destroy with a single blow. He doesn't even fight back. I think the skeleton ball then explodes the next time it comes down and hits the wall, revealing priceless treasure inside?! That's some quality environmental storytelling. it was obscure enough for me that I was confused, annoyed, triumphant, and finally awed. It leaves behind something that is insanely useful AND makes sense, an undead bone shard which for some reason is what makes your estus heal for more in that game
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Feb 14, 2024 15:56
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Plank Walker posted:anyone here play sea of stars? got it for switch to play on a plane trip but the opening was so boring, like it starts you out with a ton of exposition, then like 10 min of rpg map traversal with like 3 total encounters, then a flashback with even more cutscenes and slow rear end map traversal. two boomer jrpgs came out on gamepass at once, this and chained echoes. chained echoes looks a lot worse but it starts with you dropping out of an airship into a battlefield and then setting off a magical nuke by accident so you can guess which of the two i chose
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Feb 14, 2024 16:37
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Chained Echoes is the better game by far and somehow manages to keep a blistering (for the genre) pace the entire time. Also the combat system is interesting and fun
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Feb 14, 2024 16:40
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re: snes covers I don't like metal but this is the best way to do the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LD_4z2APxg
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Feb 14, 2024 16:47
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Hatebag posted:lol that the guy who co-created sonic's follow-up character was balan wonderworld and then he was arrested for video game crimes His arrest has me kinda convinced Balan Wonderworld was intentionally insane garbage as some kind of stock shorting scam, because nothing else makes that game make any sense. Also I know I'm too late but heres my FF ranking for all the ones I've played: (FFTactics)>(Vagrant Story)>7>6>10>12>5>15>4>8>9>1>13 It feels unfair to include FF1 (and presumably 2 or 3 if I'd played them) in a ranking like this at all, tbh.
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Feb 14, 2024 16:49
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https://youtu.be/M_-zCrN-MX8?si=8ESkTNcErtZmiyes
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Feb 14, 2024 16:49
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Palworld is just Balan Wonderworld reskinned
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Feb 14, 2024 16:49
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Plank Walker posted:anyone here play sea of stars? got it for switch to play on a plane trip but the opening was so boring, like it starts you out with a ton of exposition, then like 10 min of rpg map traversal with like 3 total encounters, then a flashback with even more cutscenes and slow rear end map traversal. yeah, im at the point where the party gets all split up and its kinda kicking my rear end the story owns everyone itt hates it because they didnt play more than an hour so keep that in mind while u mine through the salt
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Feb 14, 2024 16:51
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One More Fat Nerd posted:His arrest has me kinda convinced Balan Wonderworld was intentionally insane garbage as some kind of stock shorting scam, because nothing else makes that game make any sense. i find myself thinking a lot of things must be producers-style scams or money laundering but i think the truth is that people are just stupid and make bad things. though undoubtedly some of the bad things are weird scams so let those paranoid thoughts run wild!
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Feb 14, 2024 16:53
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probably not controversial but the nicer automata piano ost rocks
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Feb 14, 2024 16:55
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Balan Wonderworld definitely looks more like a really bad passion project over a scam. Just has all the signs of one guy's dream project while everyone else just goes "I don't get it"
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Feb 14, 2024 16:57
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Gumball Gumption posted:Balan Wonderworld definitely looks more like a really bad passion project over a scam. Just has all the signs of one guy's dream project while everyone else just goes "I don't get it" glad he got to realize his dream of a game where all the buttons do the same thing
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Feb 14, 2024 17:12
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I have no idea what a balan wonderland is and I don’t care to learn
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Feb 14, 2024 17:12
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Sea of Stars is sweet and actually for children to learn how to kill god and mistrust your principal and befriend dragons with the power of your warm heart. No I have not gotten to any of those painstakingly foreshadowed parts. I'm only 10 hours in to this 70 hour Saturday morning cartoon. I do highly recommend it, especially if you want to read segments of exposition to toddlers and babies. Up there with Harvestella in my book. I like it.
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Feb 14, 2024 17:13
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Epic High Five posted:Chained Echoes is the better game by far and somehow manages to keep a blistering (for the genre) pace the entire time. Also the combat system is interesting and fun Chained Echos is also the work of just one guy (except for the music) so that's a cool factor too.
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Feb 14, 2024 17:28
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I can't really give any feedback on Sea of Stars, I'm sure it's fine and maybe as good as Chained Echoes, but I loathe QTE inputs on attack and defense in a turn based combat system so that's where I stopped. I really loved Chained Echoes because it just tossed aside all the stuff I dislike about turn based combat and JRPGs and kept all the good stuff and combined them in interesting ways.
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Feb 14, 2024 17:33
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Diablo 2 is still sick as hell
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Feb 14, 2024 17:33
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thehoodie posted:Diablo 2 is still sick as hell blasted through Hell Act 4 tonight with my Lightning Zealot, can confirm
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Feb 14, 2024 17:45
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The PS5 has not met Sony's sales expectations, and the console is 20% more expensive than it was at launch in Japan
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Feb 14, 2024 17:54
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Sea of Stars is really really pretty but also has a really boring story with personality less characters. Chained Echoes has a way better story and more interesting and likeable characters and the moon is canonically a giant owl that loving obliterates airships that fly too high. It does however have one of the grossest pieces of needlessly edgy rape as backstory I have ever seen though. In conclusion, the throwback boomer jrpg to play is CrossCode which is perfect in every way.
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Feb 14, 2024 17:57
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CrossCode is good
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Feb 14, 2024 18:00
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learn to CrossCode
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Feb 14, 2024 18:00
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Xaris posted:CrossCode is good best game ever written in HTML
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Feb 14, 2024 18:02
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Xaris posted:CrossCode is good
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Feb 14, 2024 18:09
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Epic High Five posted:Chained Echoes is the better game by far and somehow manages to keep a blistering (for the genre) pace the entire time. Also the combat system is interesting and fun Agreed, Chained Echoes is very good.
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Feb 14, 2024 18:11
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I will be checking out CrossCode this evening.
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Feb 14, 2024 18:13
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Looks like Crosscode is currently on sale on GOG for $5.99 btw
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Feb 14, 2024 18:16
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That game plays so drat smooth Maybe one of the best controlling games out there
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Feb 14, 2024 18:16
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My understanding of sea of stars is that, like Bloober team and sh2, the devs are obsessed with Chrono trigger to an unhealthy degree and it has negative impacts on their game Xaris posted:CrossCode is good Cross code is good but it's very long. Additionally I'd like to say if you get it get the dlc and play the epilogue as soon as you beat the game I tried playing it when it came out but it had been two years since I finished crosscode and it was too hard / I was too out of practice
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Feb 14, 2024 18:18
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there's definitely some stuff in chained echoes that felt like them going "this ain't your daddys jrpg!!!" that rubbed me the wrong way
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Feb 14, 2024 18:20
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It's got some grim stuff in there but still a lot less than the og FFVII had imho
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Feb 14, 2024 18:22
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CrossCode>Chained Echoes>>Sea of Stars but they're all good
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Feb 14, 2024 18:25
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paid sixbux for another sweet retro RPG, thanks all probably gonna play one of these before playing Y8??? haven't decided yet
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Feb 14, 2024 18:26
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ive been playing myth: the fallen lords recently and its p cool, wish i played it back in the day when my native resolution didnt make the ui tiny, but im not sure 1997 me wouldve had the patience for some of this trial and error bullshit i do wish that you got to see at least one massive battle instead of just hearing about it in the history channel narration
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Feb 14, 2024 18:27
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crosscode was weird because every time I got to a new puzzle in a dungeon I was like "another puzzle???" but I mean they were all pretty satisfying to figure out but even the first dungeon took me like an hour I think, unless that's a number that makes me sound really stupid in which case it was uhh definitely less than that
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