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@ShogunRok seconded!
I am happy they reverted the situation because it didn’t have any sense to delist the game in countries that have no access to psn, just don’t sell it there in the first place. Players from the remaining countries (95% or so, I’d imagine) could really benefit to learn to read before buying 🙃

PlayStation’s strength is its variety so more first party titles will be very welcome when they release.

As for me, none of PlayStation first party studios has the ability to produce something I would enjoy on the same level I enjoy Rebirth or Stellar Blade, so it’s definitely working!

@Pixipantalon Thank you, will indeed try! I am also a native French speaker (my mother is French, my dad is Italian) and I thought the French dub was alright! Italian one has more striking Adam and Lilith!

It’s a 9 for me! It is so much fun and Eve is adorably sweet. Maybe not as challenging as I hoped it would be, as it gets a lot easier as you get new abilities and equip, but that is my main gripe. The Italian dub is significantly better than the English one, so I switched to it. Will try Korean for NG+

TMI Akihiro, TMI 😝

Absolutely appreciated the DLC for this game: Kairos gate in particular is really addicting stuff! While I vastly prefer the approach that SE had in Rebirth, XVI can be a very intense game.

@shonenjump86 just did that! Surprised by how easy it was!

@Deljo it’s not really what is happening, as you can see from the poll results. It’s more like Microsoft published studios “begging” to have an audience that justify their development (not to mention acquisition) costs.

The game discourse since the beginning of the year has been heavily centered around PlayStation exclusives anyways (Rebirth, Helldivers, Stellar Blade…) 🤷🏼‍♀️

The designs are so cool. Looking forward to photo mode so we can have some nice shots of Eve’s goofy advertising-like poses when she picks them up.

The likely follow up could have better chances to strike a deal with soda companies.

Stellar Blade is providing me with quality no frills-gaming (much needed) with a side dish of suggestions on how to use the ignore button more often 😂

Ok, now that the edgelords are pleased can I have Laura for season 2 Capcom? Please!🙏🏻

Akuma is always playing hard to get @NxtDoc

Returnal was the best game experience I had on PS5 till Rebirth dropped

@Nepp67 I see

Completed the NG+ skipping the prologue but luckily this didn’t happen.
It’s good they are advising and informing players, less cool they found this almost one year after the release of the game.

@Elitepatriot if it can be of any help, it’s more like playing god of war on the hardest difficulty settings than a souls-like, even though it has the bonfire mechanic and some other element taken from the genre. The demo really makes it seem harder than it is, once you start piling the abilities and equips you can make the game forgiving.

@JohntheRaptor I agree. Eve might not be in the same class as Bayonetta in terms of charisma but I like her more than 2B…Nier automata is a good game but she’s not really what makes the game stand out.

Playing it with my husband as the first game we actually play together (and I mean sharing the same playthrough) since Elden Ring! It’s lovely.
Nothing too innovative but it hits that sweet spot between playing a souls-like and god of war on hard. Having a blast so far

“Meeting players where they actually buy games.”

I would have bought Hi-fi rush in this sale if Stellar Balde hadn’t come out.

I am so ready! It feels like we’ve been waiting forever

@Northern_munkey will definitely give it a try this weekend

For all the annoying new trends in games, I must say I like the “roguelite dlc” one.
GOW Valhalla was awesome and FF16’s not bad either.
There’s a copy of this game in my house, still sealed…

It looks really good but it also looks more of the same and I am growing extremely allergic to formulaic games. Could end up being my GOTY but also one of those game everybody loves but I find incredibly boring.

I did’t know I needed a hobbit life simulator but I do. These animations are quite something though 🙂‍↕️

Look like a fighting game’s patch notes hahaha!

@Cloud39472 hugs. We can leave it behind 😂

But will it be more difficult than Aerith randomly having to face those 3 pyros in the Corel fighting pitt? (thank you, elemental materia)

Jokes aside, really looking forward to this, I greatly enjoy 16’s combat.

Yeah, I had a couple of conversations with younger passengers and went away impressed by how much they liked Ff16. It was their first FF, though.

Guys, it was a fun mini-game, c’mon.

No but seriously, that was absolutely terrible! I was staring at the screen like I needed to interpret it as some kind of convoluted homeric translation. So glad it’s been fixed.

@Mikey856 it has always been smooth frame-rate wise, a very stable 60fps, nothing like FFXVI. The game used to get kind of blurry in performance mode (mind you, it took me some time and sitting very close to the tv to notice what many were saying) - now they have introduced a sharp performance mode that addresses this but I would recommend the graphic mode anyway, it looks a lot better (especially the lighting) and flat out incredible at times.

@Carck Amen to that, so worth it!

Unintentional wall of text 🥲

@Martijn87 kind of 😂 but metacritic says hello and it will be a goty contender at the end of the year while safe cash grabs like P3R will be forgotten (unless they manage to somehow irritate the fanbase even more with a “Royal” kind of edition).

I liked Rebirth a lot but it was objectively a very good game, it’s insane how much care they put into it

I wish stellar blade a lot of success and will be there day 1 anyway but …what a strange comparison 🤷🏻‍♀️

It’s been a crazy start of the year and I played like 1/3 of what I wanted to.

My two cents: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth has been a dreamlike experience and I still cannot believe its scope and how meticulously crafted it is.

I, like many, cannot stop playing Balatro and need help.

Dragon’s Dogma 2 is adventurous and random and has an opaque quality that makes it incredibly charming.

Persona 3 Reload is unimaginative, incomplete, overpriced and unnecessary. Go with the remaster of P3P! Or at least wait for a sale.

Looking forward to playing Unicorn Overlord and Stellar blade.

I am not in a hurry just make it good 👍🏻

New Astrobot > every other PS exclusive

Quit playing games with my heart

Looks dangerously like something I would like more than I would care to admit 🫣

Astrobot’s big adventure 🫀

@UltimateOtaku91 yeah I feel like I want to know where we are headed and what is cooking on PlayStation’s grill even if it’s way in the future

Doubtly!

I love how this ends up on Triple Click’s prediction every year and never materializes

That’s great news and I look forward to getting this! I liked all their games so far but I haven’t LOVED one, this might be it as the demo had its hooks in me.

My personal fave so far is Muramasa Rebirh, a game I wish would see a modern console port

All things considered, I would give it an 8: it might seem high but this actually went a lot below my (admittedly lofty) expectations - I thought this would realize the incredible raw potential of the first game and really blow us all away and become this generation’s TW3.

It’s still VERY absorbing though: If you liked the first one, buy this without minding the discourse about it…the MXT are completely not necessary and the technical problems, while actually serious here, tend to become white noise as you progress. Or at least until you play the Stellar Blade demo for hours and then come back and feel like you are playing a slideshow 😅 then it takes another couple of hours to adjust again

Ah, kombini - one of my favourite places in the world 🍙. I will surely keep this on my radar.

To anyone interested in knowing more about these amazing Japanese shops I recommend the short novel “Convenience Store woman” by Sayaka Murata. It’s really about conformal rules and society expectations but it does offer some views on how kombini really work.

@Voltan thanks! I feel like my mental sanity improved knowing there’s a way out of it LOL. I would just play DD2 and then do a few tries and fail miserably 😅 but all the other quests are progressing.

Oh, that’s way I couldn’t complete that quest! Well, I’m sure they will fix it later on…platinum is definitely on the cards but not in the near future.

@SuperSilverback That makes two of us. And I am decent at fighting games 🥲

I really like Promises to keep. It rubbed me the wrong way when I first heard it outside the game but then the instrumental version hit me and I couldn’t stop humming it for days

@danzoEX This! And then you get some stunning games and people still complaining about the look of them …

@Darude84 though there are some similarities in the setting that are enhanced by the music, the game is very far from Nier in terms of gameplay. This is more like Lies of P or boss fights in GOW (2018).

@pyrrhic_victory love your Roman history user name. Yeah I was wondering about the statue too, seems pontless for like 3 vitcoins. I also found out that when you come close to the first body of water, you can go right and find a rare enemy thingy.

The plan is to get Stellar Blade and the FF16 DLC, then it’s finally time for me to get seriously into a PS5 playthrough of Hi-Fi Rush and/or Unicorn Overlord.

If Sony announces a big Astrobot platformer this will be the best PS year ever for me

@Icey664 @Voltan
Well, for my exploration yes! I made a second play through (very rare for me for a demo) and now I am before the boss grinding enemies for skill points and exploring but I couldn’t find it :/

Guys, any way to unlock the chest you find in the bar? I have managed to unlock the one in the drugstore but I’d love to get this as well.

P.s. upgraded the parry window and now it’s much easier

Turning RT off definitely helps a lot! But the game looks a lot worse imho

This is so my kind of thing! Stellar () combat, not too easy but not frustrating and nice polygon models. The only thing I don’t like is the PS360 era brownish palette.

Edit: husband now calls this “the perverted souls-like” but already said he is available for a shared playthrough 🤔

Piano music is excellent, I need that South Corea Vynil

Biggest problem of the game for me is being played after Rebirth where every quest (not the open world stuff) was endearing on some level. I still like the game a lot, though!