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I’m a life-long JRPG fan, but this just looks dull. Dull with terrible names. But I’ll wait for more information and reviews, Octopath 2 didn’t look great in its promotion but had a lot more depth than appeared

@Kierant202 it’s not real ;( PlayStation 1995 breaking my heart and enraging my soul almost as hard as 1996 did thrusting Bubsy 3D on little me. I’d pay too dollar for a Lost Odyssey remaster, such a beautiful, sad game

A focused, linear experience like 1 will be great, hopefully it’s a strong story too. The graphics and animations look a bit rougher than they have in other promotion though. Looks like a game that will win hearts over awards possibly.

I was weirdly pretty intrigued by this, imagine a game where you build up a cute village, have wild parties with your hobbit bros and idle away the days frolicking in the knowledge one day it will all end. Could have been great, but sounds like it was lazy, tickbox design

Norman Reedus and his pornographic feetpics

This looks like it could be a lot of fun, a solid AA taking bits and pieces from Uncharted, Dead Space and Alien. Definitely on my radar, but as ever will wait for those reviews.

It’s only a matter of time. And money. And considerable luck. And when I say time, I mean several years of ‘almosts’ until anyone who remembered is just about to retire, then Square Enix will discover the heretofore untapped retiree market. Then they won’t release part 2 until we’re dying. We’ll never finish the trilogy. Anyone younger won’t remember FF9. It’ll kill off Square Enix. The Japanese game market will crash. The global games market will follow. Without gaming to distract us discontent will overflow. The revelation will come. World Peace will follow the inevitable war. But at what price, Square? At what price?

d&D: Honour Among Thieves meets Deadpool, I’m down

I’ll definitely grab this is a sale, shame no progress carries over. But generally sounds like the base game, a lot of fun with no bells or whistles, jus a robocop, a ridiculous pistol and goons to mow down

@rjejr I was thinking of films like Dragonheart, Robin Hood: Men in Tights (not strictly fantasy-fantasy), and the various 90s fantasy tv shows. But that whole aesthetic of, as you mentioned, 80s and 90s fantasy. Cheap costumes and effects, but a lot of heart and a proper sense of fun and adventure. Something like the recent Dungeons & Dragons film

They all took themselves a little too seriously in the 00’s, or got too saccharine

I still can’t see this coming out as anything other than a cheapo 90s fantasy throwback. So I hope they just lean full tilt into that, give us Zelda: Elves in Tights with a devastating ending like Dragonheart that knocks you to the ground and thunderstomps your pendulums.

Please don’t just give us a ***** 00s Disney princess straight-to-streaming film

@KyushuTrail glad to hear! It was the same for me, but someone else gave me the same advice.

Enjoy the rest of the ride!

@KyushuTrail unless it’s really not, I’d plow some time in.

It’s one of those games that gets better and better the more you play - the gameplay opens up, and the side quests will throw you through the full gamut of emotions (genuinely made me cry at times, and has a fantastically unnerving horror side quest)

A great month, but I’ve already played or own the games I’d want to play from it. But something quality for everyone!

If anything, I wonder if the original games were an influence on Souls games - they share a similar difficulty and atmosphere (I was like 12 when I played Onimusha 2 though, so maybe it’s not difficult).

I just hope we’re not stuck with annoying checkpoints, and a game that puts difficulty front and centre. It all looks and sounds sick though!

Can recommend the phenomenally terribly named ‘HyperX Cloud Alpha’ headset, have a pair myself. Lightweight, comfy and push out good sound. Just try not to think about the name, try really hard.

The base game was just plain fun. I didn’t have particularly terrible frame rate, but it was charmingly clunky (not unlike a certain cyborg). But the action was crunchy, it was surprisingly funny and the story had moments of real heart.
I’m hyped for a bit more janky mayhem

@Czar_Khastik what do you mean, ‘RED’ is obvious: Rad Elongated Mongrel

13 is just his age.

I’d love a 2.5D glow up, keep most of it as it was with some modern flourishes, maybe some good voice acting. I
t’s such a beautiful story full of wonderful (and some frankly unhinged) characters, where almost everyone has sweeping arcs.
Just please don’t make us do 100 rope skips again with terrible delayed timing

@thefourfoldroot1 100% agree, and luckily it is taught in schools. I think it’s a powerful lesson that seems to have been forgotten, with this global rise in the far right and neo-fascism.

But also hard to make a proper conclusion on this specific game without context, maybe it’s the opposite, they didn’t want to offend neo-Nazis.
Doubtful though, not sure they’re a key demographic of non-pornographic Japanese VN’s, but we still don’t know enough to make a snap judgement.

ITS POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAYAD! But actually sounds sensible, it could cause issues with distribution, even if obviously not pro-Nazi the iconography and theme might conflict with various T&C’s.

Plus ‘Dictator X’ gives it a nice global feel, is it Hitler? Mousellouini? Kim Jong un? Mr T? The Action Man villain who had a great design but not sure what his actual deal was?

Essentials was excellent, which makes up for this beige fizzle in a saucepan. Hopefully we’ll get something more exciting

Finally, an excellent month for all entries, varied but all games I’d love to play but was wary about investing in - time to start another potentially endless RPG I guess

Very much looking forward to buying and starting this next month, when I’ve got the expendable ££ - it sounds like a fantastic experience, it’s wonderful for a new studio to knock it out the park.

@sorteddan I started that recently too. It’s the thief of time, sleep and general life.

I’m going to try and break free from its grasp and finish off Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and then go back to the other massive time sink in my life, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

An incredible game I just couldn’t handle when it came out, though I plan to go back to it soon.

I’ve never played a game that’s been so profoundly disturbing to play, the way ‘enemies’ react to finding others dead was horrific.

Only a truly special game can put you off playing because it feels too real, too bleak.

They keep releasing these live-action games without really promoting any hook or novelty, besides a nice art style.

What separates this from Concorde, from Suicide Squad, heck, even the online parts of Mass Effect: Andromeda? You run, you gun, you get experience to run and gun better. Maybe there is more to it, but that’s what needs to be pushed.

Not wildly surprised, I’ve not a couple of issues with all these ports to other consoles:

• Terrible advertising (if any)
• Priced too high for older games

Offer them at £30, treat it like the launch of a new game, address any underlying critiques where you can in a patch.

Shame though, I think 16 is easily the best since 10. It has some astronomically bizarre pacing issues, but when it comes to crunch points it hits incredible heights. I’ve not been so excited playing a game for years at those points. It just follows those up with “QUICK, HERO, BRING US SAND” quests for a couple hours

@Scottyy it’s mad that in the current state of the world this could as easily be genuine as a joke.

But the game sounds…intriguing. I think I burnt myself out on VN’s in my younger years, but we may get an anime out of it, if it’s good and popular!

Totally forgot about this, sounds very interesting. And far less traumatic than ‘This War of Mine’ but no less thoughtful

This was looking dire until the second half - Katamari id love to revisit, original was glorious, madcap Japanese fun. Eiyuden has been on my wishlist for ages, and Endless Dungeon has me intrigued. Train Sim might get a look in, depending how wild I’m feeling

I don’t think anyone’s going into this expecting the greatest action game ever made - but if we get a janky fun takes-itself-seriously-to-unintended-hilarious-heights rollercoaster I’ll be intrigued.

Looks a bit clunky, but I’m still intrigued.

As long as there’s strong RPG elements I’ll be sold, I’d love to be able to explore a big map, make big decisions for my settlement and form or break alliances through different means.

Or just give me a fishing game and the ability to name my villagers and warriors dumb names. Either/or

I’m sure a lot of time and effort has gone into the game, and £70 isn’t therefore unfair to ask, but it won’t sell at that price.

I enjoyed the first game, but it had a weird, clinical feel to it at points, devoid of love, which multiple people I’ve spoken to felt. You can’t sell a full price sequel well when the original was a “I think I liked it?” Bought in a deep sale

The atmosphere and world look fantastic, but apprehensive about the “30 Days and Nights” - not a fan of overall game time limits, especially in open world affairs, but will see how it goes.

I wonder if I’ll be an absolute emotional wreck blabbering throughout the entirety of this game too. Spiritfarer is an absolute frickin ORDEAL.

Can’t believe Bethesda have started getting other studios to remake Skyrim now.

Performance aside (in the trailer, really?), this looks pretty badass. Combat looks stylish, great aesthetic, wolfy dog companion, I’m intrigued!

I’m over 100 hours in - there have been performance issues, but it’s only crashed a handful of times, I think I’m one of the lucky ones.
The fact I’ve just been running around doing bs instead of many guild or main quests may be what’s saved me. Still not got any Oblivion hates though, just ran right past Kvatch, bliss.

@DennisReynolds that’s fair! 60 frames would be pretty swish. There are just moments where I have to remind myself it’s not already a PS5 game, with the graphics, scale, physics and lighting.

This looks horrible. Upsetting. Disturbing. Terrifying. I want it. I also don’t, i’m a big baby with horror games. But I want it.

Looks interesting! wonder if there’ll be a Japanese with sub versions - I’m not a purist, but the voice acting sounds a bit distracting. Music sounds beautiful too

It looks absolutely stunning as it is, outperforming many ‘native’ PS5 games, so I don’t think there’s been a lot of clamouring for a PS5 patch. But it’ll be great to see, as long as it’s free for people who already own the game

I was not prepared for that headline.

It might just be a tech demo, but it’s an incredibly impressive one. The atmosphere and characterisation I’m sure will carry through, and it looks absolutely on point for The Witcher.

Very excited to see how this pans out, I’ll never pre-order a CD Projekt Red game again, but I will have money ready to go at release if it releases stable

It looks fun, like the latest robocop mixed with GTA….delivered, by the looks of it, far too seriously. Hopefully some unintended humour will keep it breezy though.

I’m not really interested in any of these, may check out Alone in the Dark, but at least it’s varied. I just wish the bonus 4th game was a game and not a DLC, I suppose that’s why it’s a bonus.

Man I misread that title badly, I thought I saw “plushie” and “king” in the same title - granted, it seemed odd, but my heart did skip a beat.

They did a fantastic job of hiding it away as best they could, the fact you had to access it through the website and not the console itself was terrible, and likely obtuse by design.

A loyalty system is fantastic for the consumer, but I can’t see a company like Sony doing something that might eat into maximising their profits.

Hour 6 million in the Oblivion Remaster, feeling cute, might do a single actual guild quest today

70-ish hours and one crash, with a few minor inconveniences fixed with a close and re-open of the game. I’d definitely appreciate sone QOL updates though, the inventory and magic is a nightmare to navigate. Spells particularly. 8 quick use slots isn’t near enough