@pyrrhic_victory which got leaked months ago 🌚

Ayt, time to pretend this doesn't exist for another three years until the next teaser is dropped.

This was actually pretty good and kind of flew under the radar because it originally launched alongside FF13, right? Might be thinking about something else but if it's the one i remember then it always looked really unique and interesting to me.

Gonna plop this on my wishlist but I'm entirely too busy with recent releases with how "terrible" the release schedules this year have been 😅
Definitely a year with almost too many great entries in series I love.

I already did everything the game had to offer - which wasn't particularly great - so I doubt I'll check this out.

Definitely this year's case of "wtf in their right mind thinks this is GOTY material", it's a solid 7/10 but 80% of that is the story doing...some medium-weight lifting.

The demo already made me expect it to review the way it did. Seems like a fine, goofy romp but rn we're loaded with goodass games - from capcom in particular, funnily enough - and I doubt I'll get much more beyond OoT this year anymore. Still got Onimusha on the back burner and I kind of want to try to squeeze in a hard mode run of FF7R, finally, before the final game in that trilogy.

@BrockSmith it's aggressively mediocre. Absolutely not worth full price but the story is overall pretty engaging.

Beyond that the game does nothing particularly outstanding in anyway but it's fun to play through. Once.
The world in particular is pretty bad, though. No interesting world building, the design is straight out of the 2010s in the worst way and combat is also incredibly one-note, making the bad encounter and quest design worse. Ironically it's easiest to play on the hardest difficulty because enemies aren't obnoxiously tanky. Also makes combat more...digestible because you legitimately fight the exact same four enemy types for the entire run - the only exception being bosses that still only really add one or two attacks at most and the combat entirely hinges on a weird game of Simon Says, basically.

Buy it when it's less than 40€

This is the best release of the year, to me, and it's not even a little bit close.

They nailed the dark fantasy vibe, the exploration is probably among the best ever in these types of games, combat is even more elevated by how intense encounters in (hard mode) Norgan can be and the story is actually incredibly intriguing this time.

Took them four attempts, but Dark Arisen 2 is epic as hell beyond the gameplay. I specifically took a few days off to no-life the hell out of this and after way more hours than I'd like to admit - because it might legit be a little sad lol - i STILL havent seen the full story and I already know for a fact that reaching the end of that is maybe two thirds of the meat here. I also haven't really done the bulk of the other additions within the DLC..

Capcom are out of their mind and Kinoshita is legit earning GOAT status for this expansion.

It's spot-on, no denying that.

It's also ugly as hell.

I bought this for 40€ the other day, physical.

Curious why they did that but I'm also not complaining about that insane price drop after...two weeks? One?

@Northern_munkey yeah, that's my stance, too. DD2 was always a great game with some weird and incredibly overblown criticisms.

I will say the title updates have made many great additions but acting like the game was "salvaged" by those is kind of...stupid, imho.
The eternal ferrystone lowkey ruins the first playthrough tho, i think that one should've been a reward for reaching the conclusion of the story.

One thing I'll disagree with about the base game here is that the characters aren't particularly good: i think the real issue wasn't that but that they have likeable characters in battahl and vermund who don't go anywhere.

The SETUP for dragon's dogma 2's story in the first stretch is great and even intriguing. But they completely drop that for new story beats in battahl. And then they soooort of do it again in the third section of the game (if you know you know) outside of giving...one character per town/area their own little quest there.

If Dark Arisen manages to actually tell a full arc for Eir and whoever else appears in the quests without seemingly getting bored with them right before a satisfying conclusion to their arcs that's obviously great, but i don't think the cast itself was lacking in vanilla.

It's not cynical to view the "deluxe version" or w/e as the actual game and the "normal release" as a stripped down one, right?

Because from that viewpoint it's obvious why people would want to buy the more expensive one.

Whatever they make next will be a purchase on a DEEP discount because wukong ain't it..

I find it funny how so many of these start to look exactly like (launch) genshin the second they throw in combat of any sort.

I think hard mode in the original Dark Arisen was just inflated stats, which is lame AF.

Hoping for different spawns for rarer bosses and maybe some of DD2DA's new enemies instead of everything just hitting harder and taking more time to kill.

"They like doing stuff themselves"

Lol, lmao even.
Can't wait for blue Cinder ace.

This was a free update right? And I assume there's still a decent amount of stuff to do.

People need to f***ing touch grass and stop treating everything like it's an MMO. At this point gamers can't tell me they hate live service models because every single time a game is just complete the way it releases or gets a one-off mode/update all hell breaks loose.

Pragmata 101% SHOULD have gotten even higher scores. It's damn close to being perfect and my only complaint are two or three of the challenge missions being a bit TOO punishing in their requirements.

GTA will probably get a similar score, as much as I disagree with anything in that series deserves it, if 6 isn't significantly better than the other s***. Legit don't get why people praise those for their stories at times.

Sand Land definitely surprised me. It's still very much a "Bamco anime game", and there's a little bit of fat that could get trimmed, imho, but the story and characters are surprisingly good and the vehicular combat and customization is way more fun than it has any right to.

Got the platinum which only really STARTED dragging towards the very end of the combat /arena missions and it made me buy the (amazing) Manga. It's interesting to see how different the two are and it's a pretty cool achievement that they managed to weave their additions so seemlessly into that framework, let alone that they managed to extend the story in a satisfying way FAR beyond the original work.

I think it's a 20-30h affair if you just do the story and the more important side quests, 50 or so for 100%. Definitely recommend that one if you're even remotely interested in Toriyama's work, action games with tanks and robots and junk (literally) or just a fun, a bit whimsical story with goofy characters.

There's zero point in having physical releases if the bloody product isn't even usable with just the disc - or cartridge, in a certain other publisher's case.

Trashy as hell, not gonna lie.

The titles aren't even written in the exact same way, not to mention that the comic's title isn't just Clair-Obscur. The artstyle is a far cry from the game, the subject matter is probably completely different.

Who the f*** would ever confuse the two properties? And what do they think they're doing acting like that about a generic art term?

Are we going to get an Eva series that's actually well written?

That's crazy...

I wasn't even aware that this HAS a coop mode. Granted, I'm not interested in the game in general, so I never checked out PR blurbs or the psn page, but saying it has multiplayer in both and then requiring you to finish the game once to unlock that is beyond idiotic.

At that point half the magic of playing a game in coop is gone because one person already knows every level, the enemies and the story. I know many people these days see multiplayer games as something you jsut bumrush with friends but a huge part of the coop experience, to me, has always been experiencing those things together. And for the first time.

Isn't this the loser who couldn't figure out how to shoot a ceiling in metroid?

Definitely ended on a bit of a...wet fart here.

Looks bland as hell, ESPECIALLY with Konami revealing Castlevania right before it.

"it's been over seven years since The Elder Scrolls 6 was officially announced"

This is 100% going to end like Starfield.

ATLUS are so unbelievably lame when they're not making actual, new games.

I really like Grace just from the very, very few actual personality traits we got a glimpse of of her so far. And maybe it's because I'm a little b***h myself when it comes to horror games but I think that's because I can 100% sympathize with being scared out of my mind lol

It's easy to dismiss their explanation /goal for having two very distinct playstyles in the game but they're not doing this since yesterday, and 7 - and parts of 8 - are proof they know how to craft some genuinely terrifying, tense moments.
I also think Grace outright allows them to have those in 9 at all, because I can't see Leon ever reacting as strongly as someone like grace or even Ethan to even some of the scariest parts in both of the previous games. And I'd argue he's been that way since his introduction, including his portrayal in RE2R. He's been Mr. badass cooldude since damn near hour zero. If grace turns out a good, interesting character having her alongside Leon probably makes both characters more engaging in requiem, given they have some pretty solid setup to play off of each other.

"But as hunters made their way through the main story and eventually stumbled into endgame hunts, the cracks started to show"

Lol, lmao even...
Technical issues on PC aside this is THE best high rank only game in the series. I hope people who rode the world train into the ground eventually realize they just don't like monster hunter

I'm stuck in an eternal cycle of getting excited whenever I see Bub in a news thumbnail only to be let down when it's another Bubble Bobble game, and not Puzzle Bobble 😢

Looks interesting, would need to play it for myself to tell if gameplay is fun to me, of course, but I will probably check it out.

Hope it's not a gacha, kind of just want them to use their genshin money to make some "full" games like the Nikke(?) devs with Stellar Blade.

If the price is close to what you have to spend on a low-mid range pc with similar specs it's going to be for the people who want a pc but not have to build it and keep up to date with the usual rat tail that comes along with gaming on PC /through steam. No one else.

And that crowd is miniscule.

Deck was a nice additional thing for enthusiasts who game on PC. This is only for convenience or for people who want to break INTO pc gaming, no one who already has a powerful setup is going to buy this unless they literally have more money than brains and it's going to be an ICNREDIBLY tough sell for "casuals" if they don't price the machine competitively.

Anything beyond 600-700$ is going to tank.

Monster Hunter 👏 Isn't 👏 An RPG 👏

Never has been, either.

And.. After feeling like the year has been kind of stacked, seeing the nominees makes me realize how...lame 2025 was, imho.

Thank goodness you're here is a must play. The game's only, like, 2-3 hours long and entertaining AS HELL. I'm not from the UK or a native English speaker so I'm sure a few references and jokes went slightly over my head but the humor is deathly hilarious and some of the scenes legitimately had me wheezing.

I honestly think it was worth full price to me and as a psplus freebie it's a no-brainer.
Unless you don't like having fun, that is.

I hope that, someday, we'll be past announcing games a decade before they're anywhere near ready for release.

Don't get why people get excited for these particular kinds of announcements, either.

VERY excited for Saros. Returnal is still one of THE best games of the generation imo.

@themightyant the fact that he's called Kiefer is hilarious to me, means jaw in German.

You can thank me for Crow Country, bought that last week

@CielloArc world had less unique monsters at launch and got one new one per TU, wilds already got one additional one in TU2, compared to that. The only reason Rise got multiple monsters in a couple updates was that the game was HELLA unfinished at launch.

Legitimately don't get what people expect from this series anymore but I can only assume it's the usual shtick of starting with world, binging content grifters' YouTube Videos and thinking these games are MMOs

If Beelstarmon won't princess carry the tamer, what are they even doing with their time and animation budget SMH

Playstation already knows how old I am, just f***ing put a flag in my online profile for 3rd party titles to check for and stop with the dozen accounts and launchers for every publisher under the sun. Just stop.

That's what psn, steam etc are for, isn't it?

I 100%'ed Lies of P and played through it up to NG+4 and I'm still happy as can be with that addition.

Means I can just download it and won't have to pop it back in every time I crave for more puppet violence.

They figured out that certain breeds of fans will fork over money for anything.
A behind the scenes book would've been awesome to have, probably super interesting to just get official info like that, at least to an extent that's possible for a studio like naughty dog.

But this? Feels like a cash grab, honestly. I can't wait for Intergalactic, and for ND to maybe, finally move past TLOU

It's funny as hell to immediately see who is just here to sling s*** and hasn't even attempted to read the article

I don't know squat about these kinds of things but all those buyouts sure as hell don't seem to pay off so far...

That's a take, I guess.

Also, way to talk about your actors lmao

@ear_wig afaik almost all of their non-pokemon titles are meh at the absolute best.

I think there's one exception on...Wii or NDS but that was close to 20 years ago now. They're not a particularly good dev studio and I doubt this will turn out that different from the rest.

Pragmata is the only one that intrigues me but I'd lie if I said it wasn't a damn good showing. A LOT of good stuff in that lineup.

Who are the sore, joyless losers who voted poor?

I played the companion game/predecessor to this, in a fairly high ranking guild, for a couple years and I seriously doubt this will turn out much better in the long run. Grand Cross/the other game is a constant barrage of new, highly limited characters, you have to spend a TON of the game's currency to even guarantee getting the new characters, power creep out the ***, systems upon systems for endless, mindless grinding just to keep up with whales who have significant advantages even if they don't outright max out characters.

I might give it a shot, just to maybe have some fun with my old guild mates - who almost all burnt out just as hard as me on the first game - but I'm not getting my hopes up. Netmarble have shown who they make the game for and it might as well not be a free to play game at all, if they keep the same stuff up with Origin.

Pretty pessimistic.