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Initial thoughts on DK Bananas: I was impressed that Bananza remembered every block the player destroys across layers, then I remembered I played dragon quest builders 2 in 2019

The fyp on Twitter is nonstop video recommendations. It's awful.

people will look at normal human behavior like gossiping and say "only reddit users do this"

"I don't want politics in my games" can get an overly nuanced read from people. e.g, "wellaksually they mean that if a game were to have political stances it should be abstract so as to blah blah" You don't see this same nuance with "I want a Persona game, but not in high school"

this weekend i listened to a video review that railed against murder mystery stories having a motive

stand by me is a good movie. it captures the feeling of a beautiful, imperfect moment very well. despite the abuse around you, you can find something life-giving about the world even if it's fleeting. but it fosters this moralizing, pathetic outlook on life during the ending that i hate.

i'm not sure how you call respect yourself and say that you "consume media"

Nagoshi comes out swinging with Gang of Dragon which seems to fly counter to RGG's direction of Yakuza based on the last two titles.

Ys 8 has gameplay that is so fun and breezy and keeps hitting the "I'm completely wasting my time here" synapses

I've been thumbing around with Ys VIII which means I'm on a This Writing Is So Bad I Want To End It streak.

Metroid prime 4 review: what I would recommend to Nintendo is to give money to retro studio so they could somehow make the game more good and fun

Finishing Yakuza pirate was a big ask. I hate it took so long, but I'm glad I got it in before the end of the year. Finishing When They Cry (in so far as I want to read it) and Yakuza Pirate are big wins for such a tough year.

I had a good time but ended up blasting through cutscenes. My main regret is not skipping more cutscenes.

They should feed the kid in Yakuza like a pirate to the kraken.

I see this xenoblade x promotional image getting thrown around re: Metroid desert looking pokemon Scarlet and Violet, but I wish people would use actual screenshots instead of promo images.

metroid prime 4 might be the first time someone made a motorcycle look boring

is ciconia when they cry for you the replaceable ones welcome to a3w world when they cry phase 1 the world's first laureate-tier m-preg novel

maybe it's philosophically different, but I feel this joke is gutted "i want to watch gundam. where do i start?"

I allowed myself to finish this tonight as a gift to myself, and I will be paying the price for a long time

listening to a guy advocate against books, games, etc. trapping us in completionist purgatory but he goes too hard and lands on "never challenge your tastes, drop everything that isn't immediate gratification"

I have been listening to gobs of videos titled "Tears of the Kingdom Destroyed Open World Games" and without fail the central thesis is "i just really liked breath of the wild's story, man"

the smiling friends anime convention slob conversation is framed as "it's transphobic" vs "umakshuly weebs are gross" but no one on the show fucks with weeb stuff so it's lame either way

japanese games will pull ideas from dragon quest because dq is the air we breathe, and nintendo americans will claim games are pulling ideas from zelda that were decade-old ideas from dragon quest (or earlier rpgs!)

i want to make a website but i will feel bad about devoting time to it.

I hope Stranger Than Heaven takes off for RGG.

I see the new Zelda movie pictures and feel nothing. No hate. No despair. No joy. No need to think about it. Zelda used to be a big part of my life.

unlike all of the other people complaining on the Internet, my complaining is pure-hearted. the other complainers are system-gaming frauds. they aren't operating on my level. their complaints are not noble like mine.

we simply have to acknowledge that dark souls is not a soulslike but simply the world's first jrpg2

my personal take on Higurashi is that every chapter is actually true (everyone was out to get keiichi, the sonozaki's are bastards, etc.) with the one caveat that Oiishi is always right in every world but the narrator doesn't realize it.

After War Gundam X (1996) Episode 21 - It's Something My Late Wife Used To Say 17:38.250

Gotta hand it to Ryukishi07 with Ciconia. It feels like he grappled with comments that his themes were too idealistic, thought hard about the necessity of military powers for maintaining peace, then became so disgusted with the state of the world that he couldn't bear to think about it anymore.

my friends and family will like me again if I can finish this VN but it never ends

Chapter 5 of Higurashi Eight returns to R07's strengths before getting intermissions of "sympathy for th bioweapon."

yeast of theseus

I think Higurashi 8 (2006) is wanting me to empathize with a eugenics supporter which could make Higurashi a spiritual sequel to Gundam SEED (2002).

I've seen a lot of people claim Higurashi is a Christian text, but the theme of Higurashi is that good people can be corrupted. Christianity's bedrock is the concept of original sin, so the two don't mix.

the trick is to have cool boxart and promotional images of a guy on a motorcycle as the zeitgeist image

My thoughts 2/3 through were: The central conflict being "all the bad guys are best friends who have no disagreements but don't want to upset each other" may sound boring, but that's only because it is. A corny screed about peaceful protests that rings flat in 2025. Au au au.

There's a video making the rounds called "Wikipedia is awful for learning math" where the guy smugly misreads the first sentence of an article 10 seconds in

I cannot overstate how much I hate the change from arc 3's theme of "sometimes the system is set against you, neither the police nor gang violence nor vigilantes can stop this abuse" to "both the police and organized crime rings will divert gobs of money and resources to a little girl for no gain"

Higurashi commits what is known in my heart as the Forbidden Kingdom Heartsaroo: the act of making a huge deal out of something that turns out to be a lie or irrelevant at the nearest convenience.

I've been bummed out by the switch struggling to keep a steady 25 fps since 2018, so it's a little annoying to see Nintendo Fan channels talk about "games actually run ok now" is the secret selling point of the switch.

Umineko really makes Higurashi more interesting.

"I'm not their fan, I'm a fan of their work" as some type of preemptive "what if they're a bad person" defense is soulless. I want to believe in people.

In the era of slop, quickly identifying if some writing is worth your time is valuable.

For the Xbox platform division, hitting 30% profit margins has required a drastic rethink. For individual games, it's not a completely unrealistic target... except they're all released day-one on Xbox Game Pass, cannibalizing sales. Much more in the story www.bloomberg.com/news/article...