For me its definitely Saber (Arturia/Artoria Pendragon). Yes, Visual Novels are games. Yes, it was a porn game (in 2004). And yes, she is in fact the best thing to ever happen to Arthurian Legend. Thank you, Kinoko Nasu for creating her 20 years ago. A flawed king, a flawed human, but one worth traveling to the ends…

Glad to hear it. Video game romance is all weirdly transactional and reductive anyway, sometimes to the point where its effectively “insert faction currency to doink” and it takes time away from something more interesting that could be done.

Pentiment got snubbed both in 2022 and 2023, for different reasons.

Pentiment Release Date: Nov 15 2022.
TGA eligibility cutoff date: Nov 18 2022.
TGA nominations announced: Nov 14 2022.

It came out before the cutoff date in 2022, but after the nominations were already announced. So maybe next year, right?

A year later,…

Heroes is by far my favorite MOBA style game. I still get my friends every few months to play for a couple weeks and hammer out some more quick matches with Mecha Tyrael or Deathwing Brightwing. It is a game that deserved more than it got. But they absolutely refused to learn any lessons from that debacle, because…

Planetside 2 has given us Tandem Equipment, for when your rifle isn’t quite long enough for your bro to help you with.

Quick, someone bring Princess Elise to kiss him back to life again.

During my lovely time at gamestop, i only can recall one instance like this. A nice lady came into the store and asked for 1000 in Steam cards, because her grandson was in Africa and “the country is so poor that gift cards are their real currency”. Myself and my boss managed to convince her otherwise, but its always…

As someone who has been presently watching Konnichiwa Anne after recently finishing Lassie, Katri, and Heidi, I fear that Capcom is in my walls, watching me.

I just want the option to go back to the FE9 Base menu and solve all the world’s problems with a few menu prompts. I don’t want some loading screen, cutscene, or minigame to make a sandwich or talk to a magic dog wearing sunglasses to get 12 extra exp. I just want to do my supports, replace my items, and go to chapter…

Cecil’s rework from Dark Knight to Paladin was pretty darn iconic as far as costume changes go. Yuna going from priestess to gunslinger half-skirt idol is a heck of a change too, thanks FFX-2

I dont think its impossible to separate the two (favorite vs best) because I think that you can see the flaws in your favorites enough to make a call on it.

My favorite game of all time is Lufia II, but I will never dare claim that its a better game than say, Mario Galaxy.

How do I categorize this? Well, Mario Galaxy…

Billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne? The one born with the silver spoon in his ass? You expect me to believe that that glass-jawed rich boy shares a birthday with super cool vigilante Batman?

Neat.

4chan after a decade of Pokemon leaks:

ive been a huge proponent of returning to the Tellius menus for years. Short and to the point, but you could still spend 30 minutes prepping between battles if you’re support/equipment inclined.

I think the compromise is by doing both over time. The multi-route design of 3H is borderline incompatible with the sheer amount of social interactions, making subsequent playthroughs (which is encouraged) a slog at best. Separate those concepts into their own titles and it may work better. Strap multiple routes to a…

It reads exactly like something someone would say if they were trying to be coy about exclusivity NDAs that are chained to them. This has happened many times to many different people. It is not a secret that it is coming to PC, its just a matter of how much after the Dec 31 deadline it will be.

Beat Pokemon Unbound last year and that was one of the best poke-experiences Ive had in years.

Massive pokedex (up to gen7 mons), brand new region, improved gameplay features (gen8 mechanics plus some QoL changes), a mission system to provide special one-off sidequests and rewards through the game, and most importantly:

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As someone who was on board fully with the Tellius games and who desperately wants a Jugdral Echoes game, returning to the more classic roots are exactly what I want. Everyone else is welcome to come along too. We will have punch and pie.

ive been making do with romhacks. Just finished Unbound last week. It gave me 4 combat difficulties, 2 puzzle difficulties, plus options related to EXP Share (including a story-oriented level-lock) and item use in battles. The game was a blast and I would attribute quite a bit of my enjoyment to the wide variety of…

I feel the behind the scenes stuff also added some weird layers to the final 2 story arcs. Namely, why let Satoshi win now, and why did it feel so disconnected from his actual journey?

The fanbase ABSOLUTELY wanted XYZ Satoshi to win the Kalos League. He had become a full scale Shounen protagonist with an ultimate form…