>lovely roguelike

>I don't see what's wrong with this one

Eh, real roguelikes aren't going away, and the creators do largely know what they're talking about in describing their games.

Constantly invoking the original Rogue is a silly tactic of people who ignore the games that have truly followed in its footsteps, because they are largely ignorant of them.

It's not a good term, but at least it's an accurate one. Taking influence from roguelikes =/= being a roguelike.

No it isn't, though. In nearly every case I can think of, this alternative use of 'roguelike' is borne solely of ignorance of the actual genre. Commercial indie games are more popular and more well-known than largely open source roguelikes, but they shouldn't be given priority over true roguelikes that have been…

Ugh. 'Roguelike' is not an adjective or a shorthand for randomization and permadeath thrown into genres that aren't roguelikes. A first-person shooter that incorporates elements from roguelikes is still a first-person shooter. So is a dual-joystick shooter, and a platformer, and a spaceship combat game, and anything…

Like I said, it's also unnecessary. The game does anything but fuck you up in every way possible.

Again, since you can't seem to read very well, I'll put it bluntly: I don't hate VC.

>let people turn off invasions

Then don't use co-op to fight bosses. With the exception of O&S, it is almost never necessary.

That didn't make any of the story interesting. The gruff, 'serious' anime take on capital-W War fell flat in every case but the sister stuff, and even that was just a cheap gut-punch sniper shot, which is also an old cliche of war fiction. The moment you saw the - what the fuck is the name of it, Valkyrian? ruins -…

>unfair enemies

>get together with someone mid-story

(Just to preemptively sidestep the same fanboy charges, I bought a PS3 in 2007 for five hundred and ninety-nine US dollars. The only good games for a long time were Resistance and The Darkness. I've never even played on an Xbox 360.)

Ends? Of course that's how it ends. They become a couple at the very last second of the story, after spending weeks boring us with their silly, unrealistic reticence, as if Japanese writers think the build up to a relationship is more interesting than portraying that relationship itself (it isn't.)

Everything about the younger sister stuff was pretty good.

It's. So. Fucking. Slow.

An ending, hopefully? Shounen manga Western superhero comics. They are perfectly linear, single narratives. They can't go on forever, can they?

>fuck up the tactics you die in one hit