I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this one ( Read more... )

Yeah, I've been out of it again. Happening more and more lately. It comes and goes, honestly, but... mmh, I think anxiety about life, finances, and my wife's health are just weighing down on me mostly ( Read more... )

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So while I didn't get much for Christmas for myself (only people online got me presents since most of the family's resources and money were focused on making sure the kids had a good holiday) one of the things I did get from a friend was a $50 Nintendo eShop card, with the intent of purchasing Fire Emblem Echoes (which I will touch on when I ( Read more... )

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Don't let the cartoon animals and chipper music fool you: from beginning to end, Night in the Woods is a horror game, filled with nightmarish themes such as murder, eldritch gods, gentrification, and the awareness that the world is a tiny speck in a cold, uncaring universe and that everyone will die cold and alone. There's spooky things like ghosts ( Read more... )

Whoooof I am of conflicting emotions on this.

They tried. They honest to god tried. And like Seiken Densetsu 3 and Legend of Mana, Secret of Evermore is unique in ways that aren't just "oh it's the one America made". The spritework is great, many of the systems are interesting to interact with, and the soundwork is high quality ( Read more... )

Honestly, it's a bit of a surprise that courtroom games don't make a bigger showing than they do. Sure, you have the Ace Attorney series, but aside from that and (through a mirror, darkly) the Dangan Ronpa games, there's... not really a huge market for "punch this narrative straight in the logic". Unsurprising, then, that Aviary Attorney showed up ( Read more... )

My final thoughts in a handy-dandy stitched together image of a gdocs spreadsheet.

Honestly, nothing was wrong with the smash Nintendo showing but they weren't openly better than Microsoft/Bethesda. Ubi and Square kind of existed (though they each had a few things I was hype for), Sony was a gong show and EA is always worst in show and this year ( Read more... )

It's fascinating how three people can approach the same game and have three completely different game-ruining complaints about said game, all of which are fully accurate and easy to see in the game itself ( Read more... )