Kingdom Hearts (and by association Square Enix) is one of the increasingly few things keeping Mickey, Donald, and Goofy from falling into complete and utter irrelevancy, given how little Disney does with any of those characters anymore.

Let's actually kick things off with some nitpicks. The game's balancing is... wack. It's a little too easy to become overpowered, though there are steps you can take to mitigate this. Even so, it's not /great/. The editor in me wishes the script got another QA pass. It's a little rough in places.

Krile Baldesion | Scion of the Seventh Dawn Here is the finished print for the best girl! I am so proud of how this turned out. Hope you like it too! #ffxivart

I'm so glad I procrastinated on playing Reawakened and II. I can't WAIT to binge the entire series from start to finish.

Star Fox is a weird freaking series, man.

> This thing's just standing on the world map, minding its own business > Naturally, I engage it in battle > It bounces on me 150+ times, grows tired of getting parried, falls onto its back, and implodes > None of the characters comment on it, it's just a thing that happens I love this stupid game.

Yoshi-P finally apologized for giving me the worst rolls imaginable this entire expansion.

I just watched a guy who early pulled the final boss of the new alliance raid and ruined at least ten first-timers' experience win the minion. The "worst people in your party win all the rewards" theory remains undefeated. (I closed the game immediately afterward. I was livid, lol.)

RPG Maker is the greatest game engine ever made.

That might've been the best Fanfest they've held in all the time I've been playing this game. Holy moly. I am STOKED for 8.0.

I have never needed an article of clothing more than I need that Howling Blade vest (?) Jason Charles Miller is wearing at the Primals concert.

Regardless of how Evolved mode goes at least if it has issues I can forgive it for the XIV dev team actually taking a big swing for once. If we want the team to experiment we gotta be willing to let them have some leeway.

So I was thinking about the Heavensward parallels and the heavy Norse inspiration this morning, and I think we almost certainly are going to be meeting the Fourth's version of Nidhogg. Not only does all that ice evoke imagery of Fimbulwinter, but Niflheim as well. Will we meet him in Hvergelmir?

The Norse mythology enthusiast in me is FEASTING with Evercold, I tell you what. January can't come soon enough.

like look at this

two related theories: this is halmarut's pre-ascian form and her name is idunn (norse goddess associated with apples and youth, whose abduction by a jotunn threatens the immortality of the aesir)

THE TWO MINUTE META IS DEAAAAAAD

Evercold sounds a MASSIVE swing in the direction I and many others have been clamoring for XIV to move in, so to say I'm excited would be a bit of an understatement. And even if some of this stuff doesn't quite pan out, I mean, come on. Cross-DC PF and the armory changes alone are game-changers.

Such a lovely figure! They did our girl proud. 👏

This has the potential to be super hype, but if it's just Warring Triad... Eeehhh... I'm hoping there's more to it than that, especially with some of the very exciting theories I've seen floating around. Fanfest really can't come soon enough. Haha.

Genuinely the best piece of writing I've read in the past year. I can only dream of making something so eloquent look so effortless.

It's crazy how we can go from temperate, pleasant weather to "my house feels like it has been flung directly into the Sun" in the span of a week.

Apologies in advance to any Gravity Rush 2 fans out there. (I desperately wanted to like it more than I did, but the more I played it, the more its flaws became too egregious to ignore.)

Sorry for angstposting on main, but I struggle somewhat frequently with wondering if anyone would miss me when I'm gone, and it's pretty bad today. Just thinking back to two years ago when I had tons of friends/associates in FF and elsewhere, and now they're almost completely gone from my life.

Funny thing is, I've found myself claiming free games on Epic only to later buy them on Steam so I don't have to deal with Epic's launcher. Even jangling a set of keys in front of my face every so often hasn't stopped me from seeing EGS as anything more than an inconvenience. Impressive, really.

I'm planning to play through the rest of the series at some point (minus Silent Hill 1/Shattered Memories—I played those ages ago and have no real desire to revisit them), so I'm curious to see how they hold up. I'll be ending on Silent Hill f though, because Ryukishi is my GOAT.

Magitek that's being piloted by voidsent is a gold mine of untapped potential. Kind of low-key hope that's one of the major threats we'll be facing next expansion. ...But who knows, considering lunar primals were a thing back in ShB for all of like one or two patches. Lol

Need to eat some bananas before they go bad, but it's late and I didn't feel like eating them anymore, so I just said in a very commanding tone, "I WILL fulfill my purpose," and somehow that gave me the motivation to eat them again. I should do this more often.

I don't know if Shin Megami Tensei VI has entered development yet, but after V and Vengeance, I desperately, /desperately/ want Ryota Kozuki to be lead composer again. Nearly a year after playing it, Vengeance still has my favorite RPG soundtrack... maybe ever? It's freaking nuts, honestly.

Immediately after I uninstalled Far Cry 2 in despair, I turned my focus to its highly acclaimed sequel, Far Cry 3, which, uh... Turns out in order to play Far Cry 3 on modern hardware, you have to perform several esoteric rituals and sacrifice your firstborn child to the elder gods at Ubisoft.

My sister-in-law is here for the weekend with my baby nephew, and this child is constantly raging against his very existence. LOL

Same thing happens in a lot of industries. One of the managers at the warehouse I used to work at practically begged me to at least stay on part-time, because we both knew the other guy in my section was a lazy, worthless sack of crap. Needless to say, he didn't last long once I was gone. 😌

Undertale and Deltarune are two of the most personal and carefully constructed games in the history of the medium, so Toby's reticence to just hand them off to a team (even if they're some of the best in the biz) and go, "Hey, I trust you to do my life's work justice," is totally valid imo.

If I had to say anything against Bananza, I do think it gets a bit long in the tooth. Which is... odd, because I usually don't feel that way about platformers? But man, if you're going for 100%, this game is just stuffed to the gills with collectibles.

Now I'm going to have Danganronpa 2x2, Magical Girl Witch Trials, and Hundred Line (which @bishounenp.bsky.social was kind enough to gift me for my birthday) to play this year. Lord help me if THIS is the year Capcom finally decides to announce AA7 too. It's so over for me. 💀

This timeline fucking sucks so bad, dude.

- Asriel Dreemurr (Undertale) - Chakravartin (Asura's Wrath) - Cogwork Dancers (Silksong) - Ludwig (Bloodborne) - Perfect Alexander (FFXIV) - Metal Gear RAY (MGR: Revengeance) - Savato (Trauma Center) - Tormentor (Dead Space 2) - Baldur (God of War 2018) - Liquid Ocelot (Metal Gear Solid 4)

I think "Post-Game Depression" can be categorized in a few different ways, including but not limited to... 1. You've just experienced peak, and your brain is coming down from the dopamine rush and struggling to come to grips with the fact that this one-of-a-kind experience is now over.

I decided to test this with a few games and LOOK AT ALL THE GRASS. THIS IS A GAME-CHANGER. (w/o Handheld Boost Mode on left, w/ on right)

Ooh, great question. - Half-Life 2 - Portal 2 - The Evil Within 2 - Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair - Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage - Sly 2: Band of Thieves - Earthbound - Virtue's Last Reward - Super Mario Galaxy 2

What a coincidence! I have the very same photo right here.

Genuinely cannot believe we're getting Enuo in patch 7.5, a deep cut that only me and like five other people will recognize. Pretty exciting stuff. 👀

I'll give you one guess who was constantly told they were "so smart" growing up and had a really harsh wake-up call. Lol

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OMG HE'S BACK IN STOCK

I know there are still so many hours left in the day, but PLEASE LOCK IN. 😫