Been playing through the entire .hack// G.U. series. I’ve made the mistake to fully complete the first one, since rewards carry over between games, and then felt the urge to fully complete them all - easily doubling my playtime.

The story and characters are quite charming in a way and it gave me some nostalgia for my MMORPG days. Overall, I really liked them, but they do show their age - especially in the battle system, which got tedious over the course of about 100 hours.

Not sure what’s next - I’m thinking about replaying some games. Last Remnant and the Xenoblade games in particular.

Didn’t like the original, plain and simple. I plan on trying the remake, but I remember the original for being janky. Throwing stones for hours on end, Chocobos crowding your team, saves between double missions trapping you and of course, an endless amount of ‘protect x’ missions where x is suicidal and sometimes gets killed before you get your first move in.

Dark Souls

Radiant Historia Perfect Chronology

Dragon Age Origin

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

Honorable mention for the entire Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and Xeno- RPG franchises.

I’m mixed on the game, I think. I’ve always wanted a Tag Force game - I never got to play these back then -, but I’d prefer a new one.

300 new cards is nice and all, but with no mechanics beyond fusion it’s bound to feel pretty basic. I’ll probably still give it a shot.

The actual dream would be a modern Tag Force game with all cards and Genesys format. The format also just fits a Sacred Cards like leveling system perfectly - just increase the deck point limit with each level.

There’s a demo worth trying! It feels pretty gimmicky, but I think in a good way. It’s another dimnsion to think about you usually don’t get in these games.

But I’ve also just tried the demo. It’s on my list once I get a S2 of my own in the near future.

Korruption, gesellschaftliche Spaltung, wirtschaftlicher Schaden, Beschädigung des internationalen Ansehens, dass sind die Kernkompetenzen der Neuen Rechten.

Das zieht Merz ja sowieso schon durch.

It’s a superyacht, I don’t think people need to be selective. There isn’t a single good person owning a superyacht, protest them all.

Oh, the horror, they don’t starve babies! How will the american taxpayers ever recover from this?

Also gehen die Steuern weiter hoch um die höhere Spahnzusatzversicherung zu finanzieren? Also, natürlich nur bei den Geringverdienern.

DQ 9 is the only one I played that just didn’t click with me. I never got to play the MP, which might be part of it. I’m yet to meet another DQ fan in the flesh.

But even if I had, it felt like the game sacrificed it’s story to implement it. Having these companions without any personality alone killed a big chunk of the charm these games usually have.

There is a shitload of cosmetic DLC, background music and gestures.

But, I’ve clocked in about 300 hours and never got promted to buy anything. I had to look up the DLCs and was suprised myself. You never feel like there’s something missing and there are no mechanics you could speed up or avoid by paying money afaik.

Also no paywalled monsters, missions or anything.

The vouchers to change your appearance are scummy, no question, but you don’t see your character anyways. (If you play with helmets on.)

Sad story, but I kind of lost my favorite. It used to be Dunsparce, but they ruined it for me with the new evolution. I honestly wish they would leave old lines just be.

Anyways, now it’s probably Espeon and Umbreon. The best legendary is Lugia. But I’m also super partial to the GC games.

Finished Vol. 1 of .hack// G.U. Last Recode.

The game stayed quite easy throughout the second half. These volumes are also somewhat short, I’ve done almost everything for a 100% completion within 30 hours. I usually don’t care for completion, but carrying everything over to the second game was suprisingly motivating.

The biggest thing introduced in the second half was a second battle system. It’s not used often, mostly for story boss encounters, but it was quite a fun addition.

Not much progress on the Ace Attorney Trilogy.

Since last time, I’ve only done the Steel Samurai case and it’s not even finished yet.

Unsure about this one. I loved the Joker games as a child, but Dark Prince made me question myself on whether I still enjoy these. I didn’t even have the heart to go back to Joker since then to see if Dark Princes changes were the problem or the core gameplay just isn’t my jam any more.

Regardless, this game seems to land in the middle mechanics wise. E.g. special synthesis recipes return, size variance seems to stay. Definitely will be a game I’ll wait for the general opinion to settle on after its release.

Wenn du <Pedanterie aus> zu machst, bist du dann wieder pedantisch bzw. war das dein am wenigsten pedantischer Kommentar?

They are always eager for violence, but paying for universal healthcare? Food and housing? Suddenly, they spew some bullshit about personal responsibility or somerhing.

I have this game on wishlist for over a decade, how does it play? Not too dated, I hope. You are piquing my interest, and a quick look shows it doesn’t look too bad.

Quite dated, to be honest. You’ll mostly be using basic attacks - either charged or as a combo - and blocking. There are skills, but there’s a cooldown attached to using skills, and you don’t get many of them. They are mostly used to cancel enemy skills by using them while they cast their own. Later on you get different weapon types, but I’m not there yet. And there’s an ultimate skill you get to use every so often.

However, often it doesn’t matter. The game has a strong level scaling, as in you’ll one shot everything 5 levels below you. This, along with the EXP bonus in this remaster made most encounters a breeze. You can generate areas above your level for a challenge, but this will only further overlevel you.

That being said, while it did bother me in the beginning, I still came around to liking it. Maybe it will expand more with future unlocks.

Legends is a tough one to rate, I think. The first area was some of the most fun I had with a game made by GameFreak. In fact, I had so much fun, I left with Lv. 50+ Pokemon and a maxed Pokedex for everything in there - which ruined every area thereafter.