I think Barquq said it on the forum here, but that game is wild b/c its combat is like, pitch-perfect. super quick and responsive, hits feel powerful, magic is cool, etc. But outside of combat, and especially dialogue is like, painfully slow.
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My conspiracy is the combat is so quick and responsive because the battle team needed to atone for how slow the rest of the game is
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Finished my second PSII Text Adventure, this time without a guide (it was MUCH less weird about its progress gates, everything made sense and I didn’t even have to backtrack except to heal). Once again, the story is simple and nice, and is pretty cute compared to Nei’s, which isn’t a huge surprise considering how she’s introduced in the main game. Also it is wild going from that, and maxing out at 3d6 times 2 for damage, then doing this one and getting to deal 8d6 times 4 against the final boss and twoshotting him
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Post vacation I got to playing the steam games I was gifted and I tore right into UFO 50.
Well, more like I tried 5 or 6 games until I got trapped in the RPG dimension once again 
Grimstone is perfect for an RPG freak like me!
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Almost done with Alba. Super cute little game whee you mostly take pictures of animals and skip around doing small conversation tasks.
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Look, I think 80% of my motivation to get a retroid pocket 5 was specifically to have a modestly-priced piece of hardware that I can play PS2 games on an airplane, and thus specifically Okami. Anyway I’ve spent the last couple weeks playing Okami on it, and that game feels not only like a synthesis of basically every Zelda game up to that point, but also shockingly prescient about the direction of much of the future of the series too. It holds up, though Issun’s horniness does grate on a few occasions.
I am not saying that I willed Okami 2 into existence by hyperfocusing on it – the timeline doesn’t seem quite right for it – but it was funny to see it announced basically right after I’d made up my mind, and I can confirm, after the trip to see my sisters in Portland, that it is a particularly great experience when in the company of an exuberant samoyed.
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Okami 2 already exists. It’s called Okamiden and you play as Puppy Amaterasu.
Apologies if I sound like I am being pedantic. I just want more people to know about Puppy Amaterasu.
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Okamiden was just cursed to portable zone, which sometimes can be a boon, but a lot of times can be a curse
and I don’t think it ever got a port, so its stuck on emulation zone now?
It’s very good. Was an absolute must-get for me when it came out (I think i had just beaten Okami for the first time around then). Astounded at how well they replicated locations from the original…I put off playing a lot of it at the time because, again, I was saving it for flights to see my family. I know I missed a bunch of collectibles from non-revisitable locations my first time through (possibly the biggest difference in design philosophy between the games). And of course makes you think, playing the original, that you wish it was always on a touchscreen (though I suppose the Switch version supports this? Haven’t tried it)
I need the chibiterasu plushie
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Oh wild, the version of PSII that was preloaded on my anbernic has a different translation than I’m used to from playing the one in the gba and steam collections? And it actually doesn’t truncate all the planet names to four characters??? But then, it also feels a bit more stiffly written than I remember it being, and one npc in Paseo talked about how Mother Brain has allowed the city to florihis. So… guess I’m gonna go grab the other ones. And I don’t even need to download anything, because the steam collection actually just has the rom files right in the data, you just gotta change the file extension
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One thing about Lies of P that wasn’t grabbing me so far was the weapon choices. They weren’t bad, but lacked a little bit of oomph. Now I finally found the boss weapon merchant and we’re definitely videogames
The Holy Sword transforms into a glaive (which I admit isn’t my favorite, I don’t want to learn 2 movesets) while the Spring Sword spreads its blades in a wave of fire and has a guard-counter
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I had the opposite reaction where I mostly glossed over the boss weapons because I was so enamored with the weapon disassembly mechanic and trying to always be using the longest possible weapon I could put together regardless of practicality. (eventually settled into a more reasonable glaive-like set up with a short butchers knife on the end of a long handle that’s a lot of fun to use)
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I like your antlers
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I’ve been *thinking* about weapon disassembly but so far the only really interesting non-boss weapons that I found were the initial big sword and the big wrench, so I’m still not motivated enough to do much with the mechanic.
Thank you, modern medicine has come a long way uwu
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by all accounts from people whove actually played it i believe that its a solid game but i just cant get over lies of p like conceptually its so funny. why did they go with that name i love it.
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: mood
The demo was broadly fun (tho we got stuck at one point iirc) but its so easy to spend the entire time making fun of it for being Dark and Fucked Up Pinocchio
I might pick it up sometime bc it was a lot of fun and making silly weapons was cool as hell
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I really should play it at some point, I’ve seen a ton of praise for it. Puppetborne is such a funny concept.
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Apparently i didnt need to do all the substories for Amon in Y6, but im not too mad cuz i got to exoerience all the game RGG packed into this game and experience alot of the interesting stories of the hostesses. Bar rats. And the baseball team.
And RGG should have a smaller sub team that makes bite sized mobile games i can buy for 5 bucks each. They can make a minigame
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now this is video games
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This is the outfit Squidward makes SpongeBob wear in that episode where he stops working
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