I picked up Hades recently and wasn't as impressed as I expected. Maybe I haven't played enough (~3 hours) to get to the really impressive parts. It's stylish, and the story is fun, but the gameplay gets really cluttered really fast and feels too frantic for me. I mean, I know part of the point is t...

I returned to this remake during the winter break and will probably stick with it for a few more days at least. I managed to complete Langrisser 1 (happy-path) which was surprisingly a bit tricky due to massive Meteor spam in the later stages. Most commanders are ill-equipped to protect their troops...

Been away for a couple weeks and have done a lot of gaming stuff. So this will probably be a bit meandering... I finished Disco Elysium. The Switch version crashed several times (~10 total I think) but it was still worth playing. I expected it to branch a little bit more than it did. As is though it...

MerlinDrazziw wrote: ↑21 Dec 2023 09:15 Happy birthday Niahak!

Thanks! Was feeling rough enough this morning that my kids were saying "Happy sick birthday!"... thankfully recovering now.

Dragon Warrior IV might not be absolutely peak Dragon Quest, but it's a great adventure that starts out simple. Love the final chapter bringing everything together. While I think the DS version is probably better overall, I have a soft spot for the original's translation - modern DQ translations fre...

It's a darn shame that Plants vs Zombies isn't Plants vs Zombies anymore - it's either a free-to-play shell of its former self, or it's some kind of team shooting game. PvZ still holds up as a kind of actiony defense game - a good evolution of Insaniquarium, which was a little too clicky. PopCap mad...

My top 3 games in 2023: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (mostly my kid playing on my profile...) Don't Starve Together Sailing Era Runner ups include Chaos Galaxy, Xenoblade 3 (Future Redeemed, mostly), Star Ocean 2R in the 30s of hours. 1. Action 23% 2. Role playing 21% 3. Adventure 20% 4. Party 17% 5. ...

I beat Star Ocean 2R once, played for around another 10 hours on a Rena playthrough (long enough to wrap Linga stuff) and kinda stopped there. Mild character thoughts, possibly spoilery I guess. I disliked Precis and Opera both more than I thought I would - they're both young people going after olde...

I agree that Path of Radiance is a better (certainly more interesting) game, but Skyrim is a monolith of the game industry - to the point where even non-gamers know about it, and many developers (particularly Japanese developers) list it as a major inspiration to them. It's not THE open-world pionee...

It's really hard to vote for either of these genre pioneers against the other. I can see why there are so few votes in this one. I never played the first Civilization (unless the SNES version counts) but I loved Civ2 when it came out and I've been addicted to Unciv (Civ V clone) on my phone lately. ...