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@jjer94 I never finished Clair Obscur but I enjoyed my time with it. My only complaint is that it really felt like it was an Unreal Engine game, in terms of the level design and graphics. That Unreal aesthetic is becoming fairly homogenous nowadays. I loved the art direction though. Much more easily accessible for JRPG unenjoyers as well. The parry system kept the turn based battles entertaining and there was some great sound effects and attack animations that felt impactful.

The new water temple's environmental design & atmosphere is reflected better with this arrangement imo, the whole place is less spooky and more mystical. I liked the switch up. That's why some areas almost have the exact same arrangement when the original music fits it exactly, at least what I've noticed.

The first or second? They're not very polished gameplay wise, I stuck with them for the rest of the experience. I've not played the third one yet.

@Someone here thanks for sharing this

I really like what they did here, great re-imagining of probably my favourite tune in the original other than the shadow temple (not got there in the remake yet).

My favourite example of relatively modern RPG storytelling is Pathologic 2. Beautifully meta plot & the writing is brimming with personality.

Disliking JRPG's is totally fair, there's a lot to dislike in them, beyond even the gameplay mechanics. I love Japan, go there for 3 months a year, am making a seinen manga inspired visual novel and can speak Japanese, and even I find most anime style stuff in anything pretty cringey. Also, Japanese stories can often feel fairly formulaic, how many Japanese, or Japanese inspired games end with killing God? Once you notice that trope it gets very tiresome, despite how intricate the plots are in FF there are a lot of painfully similar plots that are flavoured differently. 6 has the best story and since it's a 2D game with no voice acting, it's much less annoying than the hyper-anime feeling games from X onwards Speaking of anime, the Zelda remake has some super cheesy, OTT, low-budget sounding anime voice acting which is the very worst addition to the game. It is crazy how a game this important and revered has such a bad VA cast, when Studio Ghibli movies and certain exceptional anime series have brilliant dubbing.

Definitely. I imagine that being the source of most of his suffering while he's doing time.

Yeah Pokemon has been trash for a long time, fully agree.

These are two of Jesse's better videos as of late.

I didn't share it because it was believable, nobody in their right mind thinks Daily Mail is a credible source. I was sharing it to show the lunacy of UK tabloid's.

I'm playing the remake right now and enjoying it a lot. Gave some of my thoughts here:

Awesome!

Came out last year.

Donkey Kong Bananza came out last year and that game was mechanically original in various ways. Yes, it's the same IP, but the actual game was completely different to anything they'd made before in the plaftorming genre.