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I'm endorsing Chicory.

That would've been my first guess for TFH based on the description you gave. Not complaining, but another father of a base roster character? Let's see boss stage wolf with hairstyle.

I was having trouble getting the Strive beta to work at all but it seems fine now.

Do we have to claim these individually?

Yeah, it's very Hollow Knight and decent.

I went straight to hard mode so you could probably swing normal with some effort. I believe in challenging oneself.

Lemme try again.
Hi-Fi Rush (PC)
My friend called this the best character action game since DMCV, and I have to acknowledge that it's possibly better than Bayonetta 3. Airheaded "future rock star" Chai (He doesn't know how to play an instrument) accidentally receives superpowers when his MP3 player is grafted to him alongside a mundane cyborg arm, and is therefore caught up in the schemes of an evil robotics megacorp. This means music combat! I've seen a number of games attempt this "matching the beat while fighting" concept lately, but this blends the two perfectly, so it doesn't feel like fighting while also keeping track of the beat so much as always fighting to the beat and trying to keep your inputs to the beat when possible. There's so much to the combat system that it may take a while to grasp all the abilities even after you unlock them. I highly recommend this to anyone who likes character action or feeling the beat.

I think a significant part of my dislike for this game comes from following a GFAQs guide that stressed the importance of stealing particular rare boss items which would often turn up in the shops a town or two later.

Steiner posted...

oh. right. I guess now is a good time to point out that in this game your main character is a thief and they definitely tried to incentivize actually thieving with him. it's pretty much always worth stealing from bosses

Oh god

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (Switch)
As everyone's told you by now, it's a fun time. No surprise from the makers of Streets of Rage 4.

Counterpoint
https://youtu.be/IpeO1okrNiY?t=189

I enjoyed the Nioh games and expansions. You had to learn some stuff about builds as you went, it wasn't intuitive, but the design there is day and night with Stranger of Paradise.

I started the new expansion and already feel like quitting and never coming back. It's all reliant on this arcane metagame builds stuff and way too much grinding to actually create those builds. What a terrible season pass.

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII: Reunion (PC)
Crisis Core is a weird game. It's focused intently on the subject of trauma and disillusionment, and for most of its runtime it's simply impossible to take seriously. It's goofy, it's wannabe-cool, and there are very valid complaints that could be made about inserting it into the FF7 timeline. But how is the gameplay? It's a rather basic instance-based ARPG brawler. Think something like the handheld Kingdom Hearts games. There are a bunch of minigames for their own sake, which is at least one thing it shares with FF7. This new version takes advantage of non-PSP controls and a few new additions to make combat snappier, and it all feels and looks pretty good. It does however have a strange double life. The bulk of the gameplay and almost all of the difficulty lies in side-missions accessed from save points, like Blitzball in FFX. If you do some of this, you will become a walking force of destruction to everything in the story. On the other hand, this mode alone offers quite a bit of meat if you like this particular combination of RPG management and action combat, so it's hard to resist choosing it. All in all, it's a unique snapshot of a bygone era that's still pretty fun in its own right.

Well the Switch version is emulated, not ported IIRC. The online play is through the system interface.

Unless there are some sort of modernized controls, new players will have a hell of a time adjusting to the original ones.

Yeah I mean I was killing them about as fast as they spawned, but even if it's only 20 minutes that's still too long for what it is.

I feel like you're sure to max your materia loadout long before it ends, though. And you have to finish it to keep the progress.

Not including a visible counter is just pointlessly cruel.

I'd say the DBZ Kakarots of the world don't even compare, but that you still have locations represented by RPG Maker rooms filled with NPCs to optionally talk to, and events summarized in text boxes on black backgrounds. It's not FFX, but it's strong for a licensed game, especially in a series that had a famously terrible shot at turn-based RPGs and has been phoning in run-of-the-mill arena fighters and open worlds for ages.

Super Riki-Oh RPG

Nobody Saves the World: Impossible Dungeon (update) (PC)
This one's a bit tricky to define since it doesn't even add any achievements, but I got the new form, mastered it, and finished the little storyline with the dungeon. I think it's a fun addition, a series of random areas that you have to sprint through to add to an ongoing timer, like a racing game with checkpoints except in the ARPG format. Now I'll sit back and prepare myself for more of Stranger of Paradise's new ideas...

Some guy named Rick

They are on Steam.

Xeybozn posted...

But should bathrooms be allowed in trains?

They better be. Traveling by train can take quite some time.

I was asking someone about the original and was told it's probably best to mess with the base game without the DLC, since there's no rollback. I do have that on PS+ or PS++. But this may be interesting.

No one fucking cares, tcaz2

It's Slayaway Camp with Friday the 13th licensing. Which is to say it's got less content and more monetization than Slayaway Camp, but the core concept is still fun. What's Slayaway Camp? An ice-sliding puzzle such as Quell, but with a slasher flick theme.

They better really like the gameplay for this specifically to not just continue making RoA mod characters.

I've never played one of those and thought it was any good.

Axiom Verge 2 (PS5)
Eh...
I think "mixed bag" may be too generous for this one, as it stepped on my genre peeves several too many times. When it worked, it was a fun enough Metroidvania to explore. When I couldn't figure out where to go next, I hated it. The combat isn't very good and the gameplay has neat ideas more than it has good implementations. I was trying to gather collectibles for a bit after the final boss, but I don't think I want to anymore.

Multiversus isn't officially dead. It did just update, but there hasn't been any character news in a while or anything equally exciting. Someone could look at the player count and make a determination based on that, I suppose.

Does "Smash Bros fangame made in Flash" as a prior work seem like a red flag to anyone else?

I may have seen this and thought it was some weird offshoot of Rivals, which already has plenty of custom-made characters from everything.

You bought an Engage, didn't you?

What a fo pah

Handshakes (PC)
More or less a demo. A rather surreal Sokoban-like about two people with stretchy arms trying to shake hands. Weirder still, closing a gate on an arm destroys it and leaves the severed hand as effectively a box! The arm can grow out again, though.

I'd say it's more slow to ramp up than excessively easy. Well-loved JRPGs aren't always particularly tough. And yeah, the battle system is fun because it has some substance to it and isn't completely mindless.

This is a pretty long buildup to the game getting interesting, too.

Was pretty good in early access. Let's hope they keep updating it after launch.

How about that Jojolion? Wonder what that will be like to reread.

It takes long enough to watch hundreds of episodes when they're already out. Having to wait on one a week is bound to at least reduce entertainment value.

I wouldn't say any of the preceding major arcs were bad, so having stopped in late Dressrosa I don't have an opinion other than it having some great moments.

Bug Fables shows the PS X with a blue background, which is a nightmare for this effect.

*hesitates while trying to think if it's a PS or Xbox button*

The anime pacing is certainly terrible at that point.

draxenz posted...

Need I remind you that Dressrosa is arguably one of the worst arcs?

You do because I've never heard anyone say so

Assassin's Creed 1? Imagine trying to 100% it.

LiquidOshawott posted...

Random question: are any of the PS1 games on PS Premium a 2 or more disc game? might be whats affecting something like Legend of Dragoon

This really shouldn't be an issue. They had a software mechanic for this on PS3.

Looking at reviews, it seems they're saying it's aged poorly even in the form of the remake. If that doesn't matter to you, it's a more accessible version of Front Mission 1. I've only played 3, which was pretty clunky itself, but I liked it.