Reached the ending of Hades II. Yeah, that's not great. I understant why they went with that, since it's thematically in line with the first game, but it needed far more setup to work and even then, there were other paths they coould have taken (better ones, in my opinion)

I sure love professors that just read their slides to you and call it a "lesson" Just send me a pdf my guy, and spare me 3 hours of boredom.

The new trigun trailer is literally a hollywood action teaser, complete with the echoey piano at the beginning. I had the exact same issue with the first season, despite enjoying the animation. Anime may be formulaic but it was its own formula, at least

I've reached the infamous Last Judge runback in Silksong and I have to say, it's not that bad. I also beat the boss in 4 tries so maybe if you're forced to do it dozens of times it's worse but I found the platforming relatively straightforward.

Sliksong is absolutely wonderful man, I'm having a blast with it. I hope they don't nerf the economy, the commentary with the beads and faith is great. All the cheeky humor is great. More bech traps please, and thank you Team Cherry.

One of the most surprising things, besides Hornet's mobility, is the ammount of dialogue. Even unique one, that happens if you sequence break or encounter things out of order. Very detailed. Great game so far

I manged to buy Silksong instantly. Been playing it for a while, will continue after dinner.

This is such a stupid and superficial post. Yes Qzil.la is a bad company with involvement in Ai bu they also produced plenty of animation that has no Ai in it. This project is helmed by a talented team of industry veterans, and dismissing their work like this with no proof is a bad look.

I've been replaying Drakengard and I have to drop all pretenses: I love this game and not only in a pretentious "The story is interesting but the gameplay is bad" type of way. I like the gameplay too. Clunky, grindy and underbaked as it may be I like it all the same.

We chatted with The Last Blossom's Baku Kinoshita, Ryoichiro Matsuo, and Hirofumi Ito! #Housenka

Been reading The Gunslinger these past days, devouring it mostly. Baffled to think people ever described this book as slow or boring. It is many things (weirdly horny, tense, weirdly funny) but none of those two.

I was far less cynical than other people when that first trailer dropped but man, this one is abysmal.

I'm playing 9 Years of Shadows and this is clearly made by people who love old anime, chiefly Saint Seiya. It's a mix that normally would not work, but it does. A contrast of old and new that could be jarring but isn't (much). Volta animation did the intro/trailer

I have been playing The Great Ace Attorney and I must admit, rarely I've seen such an apt representation of the British. Foppish, arrogant, openly racist yet somehow patting themselves on the back for being so openminded as to mingle with the lesser cultures.

First New PANTY & STOCKING with GARTERBELT episode was... ok. Just fine. I don't want to do a too extensive analysis, just found some things a bit underwhelming with respect to what Imaishi could have (and has already) done.

People saying BG3 falls hard in Act 3 were right. While there is some interesting stuff, the structure of the act just doesn't work well and everything feels like a side mission. The nice interwoven stories between side and main quests are almost completely lost.

Got my Steam account hacked, apparently because Internet Archive had a data breach some time ago and I was dumb enough to use the same password. Got it back, thankfully.

Been playing through Lies of P(eak)'s DLC so I'll compile my thoughts here. 'Gator - What a cool boss. All his tells are very clean, it's very aggressive and puts a lot of pressure on you. At the beginning you barely know what to do and by the end you're clowning on it.

Funny, I think I broke Cazador's fight in BG3. I had cast Daylight on my character so when getting close to him the fight started without the cutscene playing, and he was a lot weaker since the ritual was not started.

I listened to/read some coverage of the recent game events and I must say, I feel completely disconnected from mainstream game media. I feel a distinct lack of depth to the way people cover this stuff now, a lack of curiosity and enthusiasm, for both the aesthetics and the mechanics.

Original Anime Film "ghost" announced. Opens in 2027. Director/Script: Shingo Natsume Original Character Design: Natsume Ono Character Design: Norifumi Kugai Production: MADHOUSE anilist.co/anime/194213...

I've had very little free time lately but I'm still chimbling away at Baldur's Gate 3, the end of Act 2 was absolute peak. I've also been obsessed with this album www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW1I...

I think the reason I'm enjoying Baldur's Gate 3 so much, besides it being an excellent game overall, are the characters. in many a western RPG, characters are wet rags with barely any sauce. Dare I say, BG3 managed to make JRPG characters in a western game.

Some know of Zack's late addition to FFVII’s plot—but how late, and what did it look like before he was added? This Last Elixir video regales the hectic creation of FFVII’s middle act, and shows the many talents who held one of gaming’s most famous stories together. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYF3...

If some of you are still playing Pokémon Pocket, this is my friendship code: 8798704700584440 Had to change phone recently and for some reason it didn't let me transfer data so I had to start from scratch.

So, I decided to give Baldur's Gate 3 another chance, since I'm in a more welcoming mood and I have to say I'm loving it. Karlach just accidentally killed Gale and I was laughing my ass off when the projection started playing.

Finished Wind and Truth. I'll need a bit of time to parse that.

Gundam Cucks looks extremely good and it's 1000% a Tsurumaki anime.

You can truly understand if a person is worth listening to about storytelling if they like, or not, the scenes in Eva where the crew at base just fires off technobabble while cool graphic design with "Code Blue" and "Angel" flash on the screen (or whatever western equivalent)

I have seen enough of that new Bleach game to know I might enjoy it terribly. ALL THEY SAY ABOUT ME IS TRUE! I LOVE SHONEN SLOP, I'M A SHONEN BRO TO THE CORE

Amazon Prime Video seeks international hits based on popular anime and manga IPs as the streaming service aims for a global expansion and tries to catch up to peers that already have exclusive anime agreements. Read this and more headlines in this week's business briefing.

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Pathologic 2 il like 9€ on Steam right now. Grab it while the discount lasts.

I started reading Watership Down. For no reason, I just wanted to.

That Clair Obscur game looked interesting but due to the constant "the next evolution in JRPGs" advertisments I've seen for months now, I'm starting hate it on principle Imagine being so full, you think you're the next big thing I an genre from a completely different country. French people, I swear

I am surprised, but not that surprised, by how many extreme metal bands there are explicitly inspired FromSoftware. This band (a solo project) is called Fell Omen. The name of their first Album? Invaded by A Dark Spirit. Me too buddy, me too.

The funny thing is, for a brief moment after BW2, I truly thought this was the way they wanted to go. There are several moments in the games where 2D illustrations take the center stage. The intro for BW; meeting N at the ferris wheel; calls in BW2. They decied to go with the worst way instead.

Aesthetically, what I mostly dislike about newer Pokemon games, is the departure from their 2D roots. And it's an incompetent departure to boot. The smartest route the franchise could take would be to imitate Neo: TWEWY. Interactions between characters should be 2D.

I've got a cold, with fever and shivers and the whole package. Nothing better to keep you company when you have a myriad of things to do.

I want to rewatch Gundam before G Cucks comes out but I don't have the time. I'll take the coward's way and watch the Movies.

Got the card I wanted. Now I'm a happy boy.

Swano's recent Remix and Remaster of Purgatory Afterglow are decent, more effective than recent operations of this kind At the same time I often prefer the original because of familiarity and also because a "better" mix is not always better A "bad" mix can still be good, give identity to the album

The "erasure of self" section is particularly poignant, as a relatively poor child living in easern europe my experiences playing games were also very different from the idealized US versions getting peddled online. My first game was Prince of Persia, the MS-DOS version, played on an old Pentium

Gifted myself Nine Sols for Christmas and the hype was well deserved, the game is excellent. Art Design s very cool and a surprising evolution on Red Candle's previous horror efforts, their heritage as studio shines through. Gameplay is pure kino. I hope it continues to sell, they deserve it.

Time to bid a final goodbye to 2024! Like every year, we gathered animators, directors, writers, producers, you name it - many individuals related to animation, sharing their favorite works old and new. Join the Sakugabooru Animation Awards 2024, aka Sakugabowl! blog.sakugabooru.com/2025/01/04/s...

Youtube's bitrate and encode at 1080p are an absolute disaster. And that is still what most people, and companies, use. Every trailer I see is smeared to shit with artifacts and now they seem to have an higher bitrate option, just to sell Premium.

I finished A Wizard of Earthsea and it was truly wonderful, a palate cleanser for me. The full omniscient third person is rarely used, since many modern books are too cought up in their mistery and character dynamics but here everything is sincere and laid bare.