Ace Combat 5 completed. That was just as great as 4. I am ride or die for the Razgriz squadron. I really enjoyed their growing camaraderie over the game, and the story in general was fun and had much bigger scale than 4 to give it a different flavor.

I thought the final mission of Ace Combat 4 with the tunnels you have to fly through was a little tricky, but the escape mission in 5 where you have to fly through a really narrow and winding tunnel that goes on for like a full minute was the biggest ass-clencher I've had in a game in a long time.

The mission in Ace Combat 5 where you have to synchronize your timing with the rest of your squad to take out enemy radars simultaneously was really cool. Overall the squad system hasn't really made it feel that different from 4 in terms of the gameplay, but that was a great use of it.

Was overcome by a rather wicked urge on Friday that made me install the NES Classics on my Switch 2 and pick up Zelda 2. I've played the game a bit in the past but never beat it until now. I must say, this game is a piece of shit, yet I don't dislike it.

Ace Combat 4 was so fun I think I'm just gonna jump straight into 5.

I played and finished my first Ace Combat game yesterday with Ace Combat 4, and it's safe to say the series has gained a new fan in me. The controls were initially overwhelming and felt hard to manage, but it was satisfying to slowly master them and I felt myself getting better the whole game.

Xenoblade 1 Switch 2uses the same blurry and smeary upscaling filter as X which means the other games will too...

To get the bad out of the way, that OoT reveal sucked. If it's coming in 2026 there's clearly more to show, so they should have done so. But it was a pretty GOATed direct all in all. DD2 expansion is real, Xenoblade Switch 2 editions+a new Xenoblade, and Muramasa being released from Shita jail

Atlus is in a sus arc for me. They barely release games anymore, and P4R looks really bad to me. I get that P4's signature color is yellow, but slathering everything in yellow and white like this looks very loud and ugly. It's not stylish or tasteful like the other modern Atlus UIs.

Skipped the Xbox showcase to wrap up 007 First Light. 😎 Fun game. My fellow Danes did good

Reconciling myself to the fact that I will be there for FF7 Revelation day one

The State of Play had a lot of release dates for potentially cool stuff but nothing in the way of new things I was excited for. The dino game could be interesting, but it wasn't a hype reveal for me.

Kinda thinking about the 007 game for my next journey. Can't believe I'm actually interested in a James Bond game

Finished Mina the Hollower. I went through the entire spectrum of enjoyment with this one. First I wasn't that into it, then it hooked me completely and my entire brain chemistry revolved around the game for a day, and then as I kept playing it tapered off a bit and went back down towards the middle

I wake up. I play Mina the Hollower. I am cheesed

Not gonna lie, my first impression of Mina was that it seemed OK but I wasn't getting the hype, but it's really grown on me today. I've been playing almost nonstop all day.

Yeah this is never getting unequipped

My honest reaction to the new DQ info

My motivation to play Octopath 0 is completely shot. I hope it comes back, because it would suck to drop a game 80 hours in, but it might need to happen at this point.

Nice, free early access

Octopath 0 certainly has its ups and downs. The first 3 stories were just kind of OK, but I really liked Master of All. Then Bestower of Power was a bit shit, but Bestower of Wealth/Fame were both great and brought it back. Now we're hitting another downturn with this awful and hokey T****** stuff

The Octopath team can't stop making eastern warriors broken. Hikari trivialized Octopath 2, and Reime might be even more overpowered than he was.

One thing that kinda sucks about Octopath 0 is that 9/10 times I get a new character, they don't really feel different or like an upgrade to anyone I already have, so I just go "meh" and shove them in the training hall back in town. I'm 45hrs in, but my team is full of people from the first 5 hours

Finished the Master of All arc in Octopath 0. Now that's more like it. I enjoyed it a lot in its own right, but it was also cool to see an Octopath game tell a longer story that isn't restricted to the traditional 4 chapter structure. If they ever make OT3 I'd like to see more of that.

Was that James McCloud thing just a little animated short prologue? No offense but I got excited for new playable stages so if it was just a little movie I'm gonna be kinda disappointed now lol

Bought Octopath 0 last week and have just finished the first 3 storylines. So far the game is fun for the shakeups to the formula and the classic Octopath fun of going into new towns and investigating (and fleecing) all the NPCs, but I have to admit the 3 stories themselves were kinda not great.

It's annoying that when it gets hot enough that you'd want to leave your windows open in the evening/night for air flow you can't actually do so because bugs will get in. Who designed this shit?

Was Octopath 0 kino? I think I'll be done with Pragmata tomorrow and I'm pondering my next journey. I was also thinking about Harvestella which I know a few of my friends power feel

Not particularly moved by the FFXIV news. I still haven't played Dawntrail, so it just doesn't feel very relevant to me right now. I might go back one day, but I haven't felt the pull yet. While it's officially all considered FFXIV, I unofficially consider Endwalker patches and beyond to be FFXIV-2

If Yoshi is coming in May and Rhythm Heaven is coming in July, I wonder when the new FE is actually coming out. I've been saving Tear Ring Saga in case FE sucks and I need to cleanse myself with some boomer SRPG kino afterwards, but at this rate I won't even get the chance to play it this year.

Massive rant incoming, but turn based combat can be really good (for example: Etrian Odyssey) but in a lot of JRPGs, like every Kiseki game or even famous ones like most FFs, normal battles are treated like empty, disposable content that doesn't add anything to the game except playtime.

I've been digital only for years already and have no plans to ever buy another physical game unless I see a limited edition with some collectible I just NEED to have so this is cool for me

There's a lot about Crimson Desert that seems interesting, but it sounds like one of those games where the move is waiting until the 2.0 version comes out next year and you buy it for 50% off and get a vastly superior experience compared to launch.

Still on my hands and knees begging for the Switch 2 edition of this game to be fixed because what the hell is this, man?

DLSS was and should always remain as simply an upscaling method to achieve a good image quality to performance ratio. Turning it into an AI slop overlay that looks like a yassification filter someone would slap on characters as a joke is an insane misfire and a gross disregard for the devs' artstyle

Went to the 2nd region in Pokopia and saw this and just sighed and turned the game off. I think it's over. 70 dollars down the drain, but oh well. I really don't think this game is anything like DQB aside from superficial elements.

Pokopia honestly might be too much for me. It feels much less focused than DQB and a lot more timesink-y in its design. In DQB I thought it was pretty easy and snappy to make every settlement nice as you do the story. Not "here's a youtube video of my perfect utopia" nice, but you know, nice.

Kondo is one of the most notorious cappers around so I'm surprised everyone seems to be taking his words at face value. Personally I'm not really taking anything for granted, except that all future Kiseki games will still have at least 30 hours of unnecessary fluff and a bad mind control bit.

Grabbed Pokopia since I broke free from the Nioh 3 mines. I'm tired today so I only played a few hours but it's fun and bursting with character. I'm excited to dig in more. I'll keep the time traveling option in my pocket, but for now I decided to try approaching the time mechanics with an open mind

Finally finished Nioh 3. It was pretty fun, until it wasn't. While the core combat has been refined even further and of course feels awesome, the shift to open world has destroyed the flow and pacing of the game and bloated the game with lesser content to a much higher degree than previous games.

I went to bed intending to buy Pokopia when I woke up, but seeing that it uses a real time clock for the day/night cycle and has stuff like this is making me go "uh hold on maybe I don't need it." I really hate stuff like this in games.

Finished the first Paranormasight. Enjoyed it quite a bit overall, but definitely a case where the journey was better than the destination. It felt like it was building up to something big, but when it actually ended I was sitting there like, "Oh...it's over?"

Lord forgive me but I might buy Pokopia even though I'm still playing other games and MH Stories 3 comes out next week.

I think the internet has pushed us as a whole to conflate spreading around horrible demoralizing stuff as necessary and important activism but it really does not help anyone besides maybe the people enacting the horrible shit

I'm not gonna lie, the new Pokemon looks really nice. The big question for me is if it'll actually be fun because I found Scarlet's take on the concept of open world Pokemon to be very threadbare and boring, with terrible writing to boot. But from a presentation standpoint this is a huge upgrade.

We really need a feature to block reposts from specific people so they don't appear on your feed. One of the best features from twitter that they just won't introduce here for some reason

Zelda's 40th anniversary had me in the mood, so I decided to do a replay of Link's Awakening on the Switch 2. Still a phenomenal game. It's such a breezy little game that goes down very smoothly, but also one of the most haunting and beautiful Zelda stories that's really stuck with me over the years

Yeah...I went back to Nioh 3 already lol. But if they're this aware of the issue and ready to admit it's a problem (which is a big surprise to me) hopefully there'll be improvements soon. Kinda funny XBX went from "waiting for the Switch 2 version" to "waiting for the Switch 2 version to be fixed"

MM OoT TP

The Xenoblade games just have a sense of scale that hits different than other open world games. Nothing else quite provides the same feeling of awe-inspiring grandeur.