September Game of the Month Club ft. Pastel Parade, Klonoa 2, and Indiana Jones

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FakeAccount3000
09/15/2025
04:20 AM
#51
I beat Klonoa 2 just now! That was fun, I need to clean up the last couple trophies.

Like I was thinking before, my second October Nomination is Costume Quest 2.
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TheArkOfTurus
09/15/2025
03:28 PM
#52
For October

Nominate Devil May Cry 3
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KCF0107
09/15/2025
10:39 PM
#53
I think that I am getting close to finishing the third jail in PS5, and while I'm having fun, it's also kind of a poor musou game, which makes me wonder how much of a role Koei Tecmo even had in its development. There's few battles where you face large amounts or endless enemies, and there's way too much stop-and-go here. I think the latter is the bigger issue as a more seamless experience would really mitigate the small and/or short battles.
KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
JONA
09/16/2025
11:30 AM
#54
October Noms
Doki Doki Literature Club!
Super Castlevania IV
Congrats to azuarc who beat me by 1 point!
KCF0107
09/18/2025
08:08 PM
#55
Drawing in a week

I don't have too much to report on PS5. I think that I'm on the fourth or fifth jail. I've been mostly playing as Joker since I can change personas on the fly to take advantage of enemy weaknesses, but I've been branching out some, and I think that I prefer playing as Ann and Yusuke as a melee attacker.
KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
Seanchan
09/20/2025
11:41 PM
#56
Still making my way through Expedition 33.

I'm currently in the 2nd Axon's area .

My general strategy has been "burn, baby, burn" via Lune and Maelle. And also relying fairly heavily on the damage done from counterattacking with parrying.

I'll say, I feel like there are some battles that feel entirely too reliant on being able to do parry damage to succeed because I'm not doing enough damage and the enemy is getting too many turns. There was one battle in particular, against a Chromatic, where you HAD to parry counter to do any damage whatsoever until you could break him, which then gave you a chance for a "normal" turn for one round. Yes, the picto you get for winning that battle (+50% counterattack damage) makes sense for what you had to do, but holy shit do that battle get old.
"That was unnecessarily dramatic". - NY Mets motto (courtesy of InnerTubeHero)
Congratulations to azuarc, the guru of gurus and winner of GotD 2020!
JONA
09/21/2025
05:26 PM
#57
Beat Klonoa 2 and Pastel Parade

Also beat Klonoa 1 before Klonoa 2 through Phantasy Reverie. 1 felt a bit off to me but 2 felt better and had a good flow to it with the boarding levels and a lean towards more puzzle elements. I did like the final boss of 1 more though.

Pastel Parade was nice and cute. Can get pretty tricky but the game doesn't demand you to do well to play through it.
Congrats to azuarc who beat me by 1 point!
Mr_Crispy
09/23/2025
01:54 AM
#58
Persona 5 Strikers beaten

also about done with act 2 in Clair Obscur, and made some progress in Indy. Only a little farther in Klonoa, beat the third boss.

Nominate Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water and Touhou Luna Nights for October
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MZero
09/23/2025
02:27 AM
#59
Mr_Crispy posted...
Touhou Luna Nights for October

Support
Seanchan
09/23/2025
06:14 AM
#60
Im in the last dungeon/area of Act 2. My mains are all around Level 50 or so. Im very focused on survivability, with lots of healing pictos.
"That was unnecessarily dramatic". - NY Mets motto (courtesy of InnerTubeHero)
Congratulations to azuarc, the guru of gurus and winner of GotD 2020!
KCF0107
09/24/2025
05:22 AM
#61
Monthly Progress
Pastel - JONA
Klonoa - KCF, Fake, JONA
Indiana -

July-Sept Progress
Persona - Crispy
Clair - JONA

October Nominations
Ark - Devil May Cry 3
Cody - RE3 (2020), Papers Please
Crispy - Fatal Frame Maiden, Touhou Luna
Fake - Final Fantasy, Costume Quest 2
JC - Final Fantasy Tactics
JONA - Doki Doki LC, Super Castlevania IV
KCF - Killer Frequency, System Shock
Sean - Viewfinder

October Supports
Ark - FFT
MZero - Touhou

Oct-Dec Nominations
Ark - Baldur's Gate 3, Marvel's Midnight Suns, Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven, XCOM 2
Crispy - God of War Ragnarok, Super Robot Wars Y, Fire Emblem Three Houses, Metaphor Refantazio
darkx - Paper Mario: TTYD, Skies of Arcadia
Fake - Eiyuden Chronicles HH, FF XIII, Record of Agarest War, Mario and Luigi Dream Team
JONA - Digimon: Cyber Sleuth, Odin Sphere, Unicorn Overlord
KCF - Dragon Quest Builders 2, Planescape: Torment, Starfield, Valkyria Chronicles 4
MZero - Pokemon Colosseum
Sean - HK: Silksong

Oct-Dec Supports
Ark - Silksong, Unicorn
Cody - Silksong, PM: TTYD
Crispy - PM: TTYD, Romancing SaGa 2, VC 4, Planescape, Unicorn
Fake - Marvel
JONA - GoW Ragnarok, Marvel, Metaphor
Kenri - Silksong
MZero - PM: TTYD, Arcadia, Silksong, FE: 3H, Unicorn, Metaphor
Sean - GoW Ragnarok

Drawing tomorrow
KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
JONA
09/24/2025
04:19 PM
#62
October Noms
Crow Country
The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia
Congrats to azuarc who beat me by 1 point!
Seanchan
09/24/2025
11:15 PM
#63
Fucking hell, I'm STILL not finished with Act 2. The dungeon went on forever! That fight against the Clair Obscur was ROUGH! The fight against Renoir was easier...though he vanished Verso early on. I believe The Paintress is next, but that's for tomorrow.
"That was unnecessarily dramatic". - NY Mets motto (courtesy of InnerTubeHero)
Congratulations to azuarc, the guru of gurus and winner of GotD 2020!
Kenri
09/25/2025
12:21 AM
#64
Nominate Hades II (leaves early access tomorrow) for October.
"You're childish. What are you getting? Are you getting strawberry? Ha! That's such a childish flavor, only children eat strawberry."
KCF0107
09/25/2025
03:21 PM
#65
Last call for noms, changes, and supports
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KCF0107
09/25/2025
04:37 PM
#66
Everything is now closed . This will take a little while
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KCF0107
09/25/2025
05:02 PM
#67
Your October Games of the Month are...

Costume Quest 2 (PC, XB1, PS4, 360, PS3, WiiU)
Doki Doki Literature Club! (PC, XSX, PS5, XB1, PS4, Switch)
Final Fantasy Tactics (PC, XSX, PS5, Switch 2, PS4, Switch, PS1)

Congrats to Fake, JONA, and JC for having their games selected!
KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
KCF0107
09/25/2025
05:05 PM
#68
Costume Quest 2 is on Game Pass

Doki Doki Literature Club is a free-to-play title on Steam and itch.io (Plus is a paid game that is also eligible for this)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/698780/Doki_Doki_Literature_Club/
https://teamsalvato.itch.io/ddlc
KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
KCF0107
09/25/2025
05:06 PM
#69
1. Costume Quest 2
2. Doki Doki Literature Club!
3. Final Fantasy Tactics
4. System Shock
5. Final Fantasy
6. Crow Country
7. Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water
8. Touhou Luna Nights
9. Killer Frequency
10. Super Castlevania IV
11. Papers, Please
12. Touhou Luna Nights
13. Resident Evil 3 (2020)
14. Final Fantasy Tactics
15. The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia
16. Hades II
17. Devil May Cry 3
18. Viewfinder
KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
KCF0107
09/25/2025
05:09 PM
#70
Your October-Decembers Games of the Months are...

Hollow Knight: Silksong (PC, XSX, PS5, Switch 2, XB1, PS4, Switch)
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (Switch, GC)

Congrats to Sean and darkx for having their games selected!
KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
KCF0107
09/25/2025
05:09 PM
#71
Silksong is on Game Pass
KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
KCF0107
09/25/2025
05:10 PM
#72
1. Hollow Knight: Silksong
2. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
3. Marvel's Midnight Suns
4. Skies of Arcadia
5. Hollow Knight: Silksong
6. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
7. Hollow Knight: Silksong
8. Planescape: Torment
9. Unicorn Overlord
10. God of War Ragnarok
11. Valkyria Chronicles 4
12. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
13. Fire Emblem: Three Houses
14. Unicorn Overlord
15. God of War Ragnarok
16. Romancing SaGa 2
17. Metaphor: ReFantazio
18. Marvel's Midnight Suns
19. Metaphor: ReFantazio
20. Unicorn Overlord
21. Hollow Knight: Silksong
KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
Seanchan
09/25/2025
05:16 PM
#73
Is Doki Doki Literature Club worth playing if youre not a VN person?
"That was unnecessarily dramatic". - NY Mets motto (courtesy of InnerTubeHero)
Congratulations to azuarc, the guru of gurus and winner of GotD 2020!
TheArkOfTurus
09/25/2025
05:39 PM
#74
Definitely playing Silksong (I'm surprised I held out this long.) and FFT. Might reread DDLC. I wasn't the biggest fan, but it's short enough that I guess I might as well.

I want to try TTYD, but not enough to buy it.
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Kenri
09/25/2025
07:37 PM
#75
Might read DDLC to see what the fuss is about, though it's not super appealing to me conceptually

Will probably beat Silksong before October but maybe I'll replay it
"You're childish. What are you getting? Are you getting strawberry? Ha! That's such a childish flavor, only children eat strawberry."
KCF0107
09/25/2025
07:41 PM
#76
Oh, FFT is a 40 hour game. That should have totally been an Oct-Dec nom
KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
TheArkOfTurus
09/25/2025
07:54 PM
#77
I remembered FFT being, like, 25 hours. Guess it's been too long since I've replayed it, and I didn't think to check how long to beat. Whoops.
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MZero
09/25/2025
08:20 PM
#78
I will definitely play FFT and TTYD
Seanchan
09/26/2025
12:07 AM
#79
Into Act 3 now. That was a lot of story and exposition! Five days to finish this off. I think I should be good.
"That was unnecessarily dramatic". - NY Mets motto (courtesy of InnerTubeHero)
Congratulations to azuarc, the guru of gurus and winner of GotD 2020!
Underleveled
09/26/2025
08:00 AM
#80
Seanchan posted...
Is Doki Doki Literature Club worth playing if youre not a VN person?
I'd say so.

Also, even though it's available on consoles, don't bother. You'll get the best experience by far playing it on PC.
darkx
ctesjbuvf
09/26/2025
08:19 AM
#81
Good draws!
Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc , the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.
FakeAccount3000
09/26/2025
05:59 PM
#82
Nice, I'm excited to finally play Costume Quest 2. I have been trying a while and finally gotten lucky. Let's all really enjoy season game noms! Thanks for drawing it! :D

TheArkOfTurus posted...
I remembered FFT being, like, 25 hours. Guess it's been too long since I've replayed it, and I didn't think to check how long to beat. Whoops.
Well, for what it's worth Silksong is apparently a 26 hour game and Paper Mario is 31 so there may not be an exact cutoff anyway.
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Seanchan
09/26/2025
06:58 PM
#83
Main+Extra for Silksong say almost 40. That's typically my judge for game length.
"That was unnecessarily dramatic". - NY Mets motto (courtesy of InnerTubeHero)
Congratulations to azuarc, the guru of gurus and winner of GotD 2020!
KCF0107
09/26/2025
06:59 PM
#84
You are looking at the top of three time figures when you should be looking at the middle one as a more realistic expectation and experience

I see Sean had the same idea
KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
KCF0107
09/26/2025
11:24 PM
#85
KCF has beaten Persona 5 Strikers

Battling was fun, and most of the cast was fun to play as, but my complaints of the poor Musou (is that capitalized?) implementation stuck through the entire experience.
KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
Underleveled
09/27/2025
08:55 PM
#86
Finally stared Expedition 33 (obviously not gonna finish for this) but I just can't dodge/parry. Like, I'm fighting Maelle at the dock at the very beginning of the game and I'm getting destroyed because I can't dodge properly. I can't even see the second part of her attack so I have no idea what the cue to dodge is.

Why do I always suck at games I want to play?
darkx
KCF0107
09/27/2025
09:25 PM
#87
I didn't go back to the game after Crispy said this, but apparently there's an audio cue? It is definitely visually distracting and unnerving lol, but maybe take some punches and see if there's an obvious audio hint for when they are about to strike.
KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
Seanchan
09/27/2025
10:27 PM
#88
Yes, there is always an audio cue of some sort which is when you want to parry/dodge. And you always want to parry, fyi, because the counterattack damage from parrying every strike is crucial to success. Or at least it was for me. The camera and visual effects can really fuck with you, not to mention the many enemies who can have very funky timing on their attacks.

You'll get better at it, I promise. I was in the same boat. Once I got more in tune with the audio, it made everything a lot easier.

Honestly, a big part of the game is simply learning the timing of the various enemy attacks, making it feel more like some weird rhythm game than anything else. It kind of gets old after a while because you cannot switch off and "just press A"; you've always got to remain active and engaged in every fight.

So I fucked around today with a bunch of optional stuff now that I have full access to everything on the world map. I finished getting max level relationship with everyone , beat a bunch of Chromatic enemies, and get a nice haul of pictos and weapons. Based on looking at some guides, there's still A LOT of stuff I could do but...I'm kind of ready to be done. My mains are at level 66 and my backups are 59, which should be good enough to finish the game.
"That was unnecessarily dramatic". - NY Mets motto (courtesy of InnerTubeHero)
Congratulations to azuarc, the guru of gurus and winner of GotD 2020!
Seanchan
09/29/2025
08:55 PM
#89
Clair Obscur beated!

Yeah, that last area was a joke if you do some of the "side" content in Act 3. I chose the Verso ending because that was the obvious "right" ending.

Overall, it was an enjoyable game. Interesting world and characters, good amount of variety to the locations and the way the characters played. I just think I got a bit bored by needing to parry everything because that was the easiest way to win (and in some cases practically the only way to do so). I can understand why it's some people's GotY (especially here...) but Bananza and The Dark Ages are definitely above it so far for me from the few 2025 releases that I've played.
"That was unnecessarily dramatic". - NY Mets motto (courtesy of InnerTubeHero)
Congratulations to azuarc, the guru of gurus and winner of GotD 2020!
KCF0107
09/29/2025
11:34 PM
#90
Costume Quest 2, as part of a combo pack with the original, is on sale on Steam for $4 USD
https://store.steampowered.com/sub/53813/

If you want the expanded paid version of Doki Doki Literature Club (called Plus), it is on sale on Steam for $10.50 USD
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1388880/Doki_Doki_Literature_Club_Plus/
KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
Cody11533
09/30/2025
10:54 AM
#91
Been enjoying my time with Clair Obscur, but I am not close to finishing lol. Going back to college has killed my free time. Gonna keep going at my own pace though.
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MZero
09/30/2025
12:31 PM
#92
I'm going to go for 3 for 4 on beating one of the three-month games but right before they were chosen, having beaten Monster Sanctuary in December, Clair Obscur in June, and Silksong in... well probably October actually but started in September
Mr_Crispy
09/30/2025
08:22 PM
#93
Beat Indy

Beat Klonoa 2

dunno if I'll be able to beat Clair Obscure in time but I'll give the last boss a crack.
The only certain death in the universe is Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons.
Not changing this line until I beat Seven Heroes (2/24/07) - Fulfilled 2/20/18
Mr_Crispy
09/30/2025
11:26 PM
#94
Beat Clair Obscur
The only certain death in the universe is Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons.
Not changing this line until I beat Seven Heroes (2/24/07) - Fulfilled 2/20/18
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