Nei

I still haven’t bought the DLC but the free stuff is amazing! Loving the photo mode (so robust!) and the new photo missions

Acquisitions are disgusting but I’ll admit It’s a good investment and a good fit for a lot of reasons.

They should acquire Square Enix and manage them properly

It's a slow year only if you have poor taste
Brilliant year of gaming full of charismatic titles.

Like @Matroska said, you just need to buff/debuff - those abilities aren’t there just to make the list longer, be strategic! No need to grind as the encounter rate is high enough

I was obscenely over-leveled in Fantazio because of my obsession for Archetypes builds, so this feels sooo right atm

That’s actually rather impressive!
I feel like next year DS2 might explode in a way we are not expecting with new tweaks to the (brilliant!) gameplay making it more palatable to a wider audience.

Ok now remove SOTET dlc and Metaphor and replace them with Silent Hill 2 and Stellar Blade and that’s a relatable list. I guess it would have been too much PlayStation to handle for those who are into console war and all that stuff.

The way the “airship” was implemented in XV was technically impressive, interesting and weird (like the whole game tbh) so I am curious to see what they’ll do.

This team has my complete trust. I liked Remake and with Intergrade I started to think they really knew what they were doing. With Rebirth they just gave us what I consider the best modern JRPG I played. Finger crossed 🤞🏻 for goty awards season.

I’ll gladly support the game! They have been very generous

@Loamy you made me spill my coffee 🤣⚰️

I am honestly loving it and having a blast playing on it but it’s definitely not a product everyone will enjoy…you should know yourself (and the technology around you!) and decide! I find it much more noticeable than last gen’s upgrade, game-changing at times, and this was a no brainer for me. I wish the Switch got a similar upgrade 4-5 years ago.

Great! A sequel is inevitable at this point 😁

That looks so crisp

Astro Bot, Rebirth, Stellar Blade, Wukong, Helldivers II! I still have to play SH2

Metaphor is fine but definitely not goty material imho

It’s a bit unsavory to talk about acquisitions after they have been laying off people, closing studios and can barely manage what they have at hand

@LifeGirl yeah - yoshi is a male dinosaur laying eggs and nobody thinks too hard about it. Also what would happen if Ranma got pregnant? There you go

Pro patch would also be nice do this one!

@Nexozi this! If you are in this sort of things, Pro consoles are much more justifiable than High-end phone models.

Yeah, the stellar blade ost is really good but I can see why it's not being selected over fully orchestrated scores @bahamuht

Metaphor Re: Fantazio didn't make the time cut but also is a bit of a mixed bag imho: it really wowed me at first and has some killer tracks (that battle theme!) but also has some pretty generic/not so special tracks that water down the experience.

FFVII Rebirth has insane quality and quantity but maybe wasn't considered because of its remake status or reuse of pre written music?

Still...the list is so unsatisfying.

Yay, it's finally coming! I played through the games twice but will surely come back to play with this dlc and have fun with the photo mode - the game might have been surrounded by another kind of discourse but I loved the silliness of Eve striking a pose when she finds a new can and other little goofy touches.

The look of this game is downright incredible on the Pro - starting NG+ as soon as I finish Metaphor (almost there!) as this will be a much needed balm for my eyes!

May this save me from having to play Metaphor in short sessions because something about it (most probably the effects combined with the uneven frame rate) makes me nauseous?

I am impressed this is just by raw, unoptimized hardware power but this also solidifies my opinion they could do a much better job optimizing the game

It’s been a long time coming and heavily hinted at and I am so happy about it!

Yay! I still have my copy, I wonder if we will get a free update ー　would totally replay it

Fantazio and Horizon - I have some gripes with Atlus’ latest but it still is very engaging and I am enjoying it. I am also tinkering with Horizon (it looks so good!) but I think I am going to leave it for the pro

I have fond memories of playing the first game and would love to revisit it - I have kept my ps3 discs and all! It really should be let out of that prison

@truerbluer you forgot Stellar Blade and others but yes if I had to get one single piece of gaming hardware, I’d say Ps5 is the best choice atm as you pretty much get everything without having to wait years for ports! And I say this as someone who plays on PC a lot -

@LavenderShroud yeah, I mean - give me a SNES with Super Metroid or whatever can play PSO and I am good for life but in terms of latest meaningful releases the PS4 hasn’t got us covered

@riceNpea I mean, just talking about recent-ish releases but you can’t play Astro bot, Stellar Blade, Baldur’s Gate 3 or FFVII Rebirth. I am sorry but PS4 is utterly useless atm @Dr_Rocanlover

It’s been an insane year for PS, tbh, and a PlayStation dominated year by any measure. That said, I wouldn’t mind having one year- even 18 months of hype before a game releases. I feel like we might be in for a few surprises in the second half of the PS5 life, though.

Yay! This is one of the games, if not THE game, I was hoping the most to get a pro update!

I would love a demo for this one, patiently waiting for the reviews

@get2sammyb this! I kinda want one now

It’s pretty bad but still irks me way less than Metaphor’s horrendous performance tbh - I am looking forward to finishing the game so that I don’t have to stare at those atrocious magla effects

There is something oddly satisfying about how clean they are making the cut though I am really sorry for anyone whose contract might be badly affected by this

Thank you for the review - sounds just like what I wanted.

The good thing about “bloated” side quests is that we can just ignore them altogether if we are not feeling it.

As soon as I can finish Metaphor it’s either this or Dragon Quest III

I would love them to publish the demographic spread for the beta testers, this game might have a lot of surprising (and less surprising) niche followers

@Stickleman and believe me, I am glad for that, but I think their impactful days as a force in the console space are coming to an end. They will release a new console but how many will buy it? When games are coming out on the rival platform the choice seems pretty obvious …they will transition to publisher in a a few years

The saddest thing is that there is not another game I’d actually want to have on PS besides Hi-fi Rush 😅 maybe Forza Horizon but that’s it. Oh well! I am sure there will be more waves of ports - I am actually sorry for their “fans” as the writing is pretty clear on the wall…

The Horizon level in Astro bot made me realize how well this could work! Gonna keep an eye on it

I wish we could get the disc drive for this price but it does make sense as: 1) saves them from doing two versions of the console 2) makes it a little less obscenely expensive 3) some people already have the disc drive from their digital PS5.

Metaphor
Astro bot
Capcom’s Fighting Collection
SF6

@Cloud39472 I think Trails and Ys look better and for sure they run better. I find Metaphor particularly hard on the eyes, its beautiful static art only exacerbates how bad the game actually looks and runs. But I am glad you and other persons have not this feeling and don’t get me wrong, I do like the game! I just wished it had better graphics or at least a decent framerate.

@Cloud39472 I know what you mean but this game is on a whole different level of bad graphics. The low polygonal models, the terrible textures, the nausea-inducing visual effects, the poor frame rate...it's not an exaggeration to say that it looks like playing a not particularly good PS3 game through a poorly working emulator.

While I do wish there were more big budget JRPG (I would love Sony to produce one) my expectations are around something like Granblue Fantasy or the HD-2D games...not this mess.

40 hours in, I am liking it so far but I wish it was a greater departure from the persona formula and it is really, really…really technically underwhelming- I think beautiful visuals really are part of the magical videogame equation. The archetype system is so much better than fixed personas for your party members. Solid 7,5.
Edit: wait, the OST is genious, let’s make it a solid 8.

1. Rebirth
2. ASTRO BOT
3. Stellar Blade
4. Balatro
5. Dragon Dogma 2

Metaphor has its hooks in me at the moment but it is so technically underwhelming in every conceivable way that I would not dare to put it on a game of the year list. I have played many prettier ps3 games. P3 Reload is redundant and incomplete at the same time, so it really underwhelmed me and I would recommend the porting of P3P over it. I wish ReFantazio had P3Reload's "not cutting edge, but kind of adequate" visuals, though. Sorry, Atlus XD Not trying to hate.

That's kind of interesting, if true - but Xbox can be a little random and difficult to read at times, so I wouldn't give too much importance to this alleged decision...
While there are surely aspects of Nintendo's and Sony's vision that I don't like, I think I have a general an idea of their direction. With Microsoft it just seems they don't have any direction at all or that said direction is changing every other week.

Can’t wait to dive into this after work!

@CielloArc totally. Square is not impressed by the game sales, even if it’s not their game.

★★★ "The visuals are largely adequate" - Sammy Barker, Push Square.

Btw I did some parkour through the pitfalls and death traps of TLOU2 references, not unlike Lara herself XD. Still have to play that.

Well, that is surely gorgeous - reminds me of Cuphead (<3) I hope it has quality gameplay to back its style up.

I could swear there was an article stating the opposite of this, months ago. Here https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2024/06/players-wont-see-every-dungeon-in-metaphor-refantazio-jrpg-offers-a-lot-more-freedom

This is one of the elements I wish the game had left to the Persona series tbh!