Someday I’ll get to Ys and Romancing Saga, heard they apparently have “actually good JRPG gameplay”.

Someday. Not today.

Does CO let you roleplay a communist disco cop who sweettalks everyone into his bidding despite being a total idiot?

It is to my understanding that CO is closer to being a JRPG than an RPG, with little in terms of choices. Which to be fair, a lot of them are inbetween, but makes comparisons pointless here since these two are on opposite sides of the spectrum.

I expected potentially shitty management of next gen Valve employees to ruin Steam, not this.

Worst case scenario if it get worse, what will the alternatives be in the future? Since most stores use these processors, would a store need to open up without them, or can the current ones decided to stop using them? I assume Steam won’t pull out even if they could, since it sounds like financial suicide when most of the customers are there for convenience.

If you’re a casual player, have you SEEN the aesthetics? The game looks fabulous and is just pure fun. Of course the majority loves it. Persona 5 is a pretty mediocre game in terms of strategy, and yet it’s carried by its style into being one of most popular JRPGs. I quit Hi-Fi Rush after the main story, but I think it was worth the experience alone, and I felt like the bosses were spicing things up enough.

If you’re a more into skill, of course that’s there too. It’s an “easy to play, hard to master” game like many others, and what I’d argue most games should be. The final boss kicked my ass, and I generally couldn’t manage consistent S ranks in the later parts of the game. The game didn’t grab me enough that I’d want to master the combos, timings and replay stages multiple times, but that’s just me, I felt the same about Metal Gear Rising and still had a lot of fun as a casual player.

On the other hand, last year I spent some extra time in Shadow Generations and a lot more time in Spark the Electric Jester 3 to get higher ranks, despite the games being very simple, because memorising the stages and replaying them was just fun.

Specifically Dark Souls 1, or also 2? Probably 1 since it’s harder, but my friend did sorcery and crossbow only runs in 2.

Does it still give you the ranking at the end for achievements? Or just seeing how much I got KO’d?

Which ones? Animal Well is still at -15% after a year, it’s holding on.

I was a bit surprised to see Steamworld Dig 2 at -94%, but then I realised it’s 8 years old.

Depends on which you did hear of. Spelunky you probably did, but is Octodad niche enough?

Ooh, try Full Metal Furies. I personally mostly played single player, but I think co-op should be cooler, though I only played a few stages.

One of the devs boxed, and while I can’t find a source, I heard the walking is supposed to give the same feeling as stepping into the ring. Which is pretty neat.

But I started turning on Youtube as early as after the 2nd boss…

I already bought them a week ago, but Furi and Blasphemous since a friend got them, and we already beat Furi together. Gorgeous game, though the walking sections make me not want to play again, especially since my Furier difficulty save reset.

Also Bloodstained to go with Blasphemous in a bundle, since I was thinking about it for a while, and Beastieball, since I saw some posts from one of the devs on Bluesky a while back and they seemed cool. And the game seems to have great reviews.

The character designs are better than I remember, but thet still seem a bit generic. Maybe it’s just because we didn’t see their character yet though.

I have this on my wishlist, though it’s unlikely I’ll get that farr down the backlog

Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem (the Japan only one)

I was going to try to blind ironman like FE11, on the first Hard difficulty setting, but while losing my healers in chapter 2 and 3x due to silly boss moving and ambush reinforcements was funny, losing two seemingly important characters in turn 2, because of a Thief you can’t kill in 1 turn without using a staff, was not. (They ended up not saying anything in the postbattle cutscene anyways, lol)

I’ll still try not to reset, as per usual in FE (I LIKE losing units and trying out replacements), but not if I lose out on recruitable characters because I didn’t figure out the puzzle solution for the first 3 turns. I did kill Matthis because he suicided into me, but fuck that guy.

To clarify, I meant that I’m fine with multiple things not being 10/10 (I was thinking of Metaphor as a 9/10 across the board, assuming a 10/10 is something I say about things very rarely) as long as some one thing is, like just the ending or just gameplay. I’m not consisent with that though anyways, I thought that Dark Souls 1 really does have 10/10 world exploration early on, yet I don’t like it because of a lot of other problems. It’s all really just gut feelings in the end, it was the best way I could explain why Metaphor feels like it’s missing something.

Personally, I actually gave it a negative review. The exploration generally is very fun, but so much of the levels, activities, combat ranged from unimpressive to infruriating. It’s basically carried by just being open-world Sonic, which is a formula for success.

I actually enjoyed the open-world HUB of Shadow Generations, and the game as a whole, much more. In fact, that game probably set my expectations too high, even knowing Frontiers was infamously janky.

In order, from the first? I have only played W3, but I do have the classics on the backlog, or at least W2.

Continuing Metaphor: ReFantazio. It’s the most consistently polished game Atlus made (that I played) in years, though maybe SMT VV has a chance once I get to it. The only ones that come to mind are Persona 5/Royal (however much I prefer P3 and P4), and Etrian Odyssey V. Both of which had longer development times compared to their series, who knew?

My only complaint is that it doesn’t have any 10/10 aspect that I’d love, most of my favourite games are somewhat flawed anyway, as long as they have that special aspect that clicks. But then, Persona 3 had nothing like that until the endgame, so there’s still time for it to surprise me.

I started reading casually, currently Harry Potter to see what the fuss was about.

And I guess TV shows and anime too for years, but I usually only watch these while eating.

Yakuza 0 goes through all the emotions with its storytelling: you start by singing karaoke, then become a fugitive, you go bowling, lose a friend, watch a dirty video…

Also, holy shit, most of you guys missed the point. Edit: Wait, did I miss the point? I thought this post was about wrong games for funsies

Though you DO actually fight a god in Yakuza 5 as a sidequest.

Started Trauma Center 2 and 7th Dragon 2020, both sequels to games I played last year. The first one I only played for 10-20 minutes so far though, the latter would probably be unbearable without turbo mode via emulation. Actually, 7th Dragon DS already was, but the story and setting is mildly neat, and I might be hungry for games with more party building. If you fast forward to the dragon/boss fights it’s alright.

Hard pick because I listen to a game or series for a while, then another. Just today I went and listened to a lot of Sonic tracks, which I do once every few months. I guess Atlus games (SMT, Persona, EO), Metal Gear Rising, Ace Attorney, TWEWY are in the lead off the top of my head, but after a month I might give a different answer. My relaxing music playlist is mostly the official classical arrangements of Etrian Odyssey 1+2, so let’s go with that.