I actually just did this last night in Sword Art Online: Memory Defrag, after I read that there’s a fairly limited number of F2P currency available (outside daily quests) and the game is much easier with certain characters. I already wanted a character that turned out to be one of the better ones, so I decided to just…

I might pick this up if it drops down to $20 at some point, but I have very little patience these days for the type of game that punishes you for playing casually and not wanting to pull out spreadsheets and walkthroughs. Cyber Slueth finally started wearing out its welcome when I tried to get every digimon form…

That actually sounds really useful. One of the problems I had with the other games is that it drops you in with tons of stuff turned on all at once, and certain parts of the songs are just insanely difficult, but several minutes into the song. The game I got through the farthest in was where there was an option to…

Which is unfortunate, as I like having physical copies, but in this case it’s a high enough number of songs for the price that I don’t have a problem with it.

I will definitely be picking this up after I get paid next week. Although I enjoy the music a lot, I’m not very good at these games, so everything being unlocked up front is a big plus to me. I’d rather get right to playing the songs I like than struggle trying to get through the content I don’t just so I can unlock…

I think the problem with this angle of argument is they almost never make it out to be remotely that way. Peach throughout the vast majority of Nintendo media is made out to be pretty much a “trophy” rather than a true ruler. Most of the games are extremely light on story, and Peach is given a highly stereotypical…

Maybe this explains why there are so many 8 and 9 scores on reviews that read like they should have been scored lower. Almost every review notes that the story is a total wreck, and there are problems in various other parts of the game, but then gives it an 8 or 9. To me, an RPG with a terrible story should be hit far…

Kingdom Hearts Unchained X may not require you to buy much to get through it, but it is by far the most filler laden game I have seen, and is very much structured to make you want to buy badges to get through all the cruft in a reasonable pace. The randomness also makes it so that if you want to get all the quests…

As long as the games are GOOD I have no issue paying for them. That’s the problem with mobile games, most of them are not, or have the game play compromised in some way by micro transactions to try and skim additional money over the long haul. Before the flood of “free” games in the app store, I used to buy a ton of…

This game absolutely feels like the sunk cost fallacy at work. And they seem to be more and more paranoid about it not selling, constantly adding to the tower of game versions and spin-off products to try to recoup costs.

I agree really, these lists are becoming increasingly irrelevant for a LOT of games. They should really be split up as something like “Top 5 PS4 Exclusives” with one for each console/handheld (maybe a top 10 for the handhelds since they tend to have more exclusives) and “Top 15 Cross Platform Games”. I was looking…

No, the fact that they’re not saying anything for two months in itself is a problem. They should be getting the bad news out of the way now and then inundating the public with all the good stuff right up until release. And they SHOULD be talking about this through the holiday season so there’s a chance people save…

Except they have literally nothing for the holiday season outside Pokemon, which is a single $40 game. They’re not going to canabalize their Wii U sales, because those are already in the toilet and they announced the new system coming and showed Wii U games on it, so who would buy one now? If they had given more…

My worry is they’re burying bad details, like crappy battery life, or a high cost to the system if you want all the functionality. There’s really no good reason not to be talking about the technical specs right now, and to get any lumps over with so that they can then try to re-hype anyone disappointed with the games.…

Seriously, this controller design screams “How many $60 pro controllers can we get them to buy?”. IF, and that’s a big if, they manage to sell me on the console in the next few months, there’s no way I won’t be buying at least two pro controllers to use with this. Yet again their default control scheme is tied to a…

Agreed, so far they’ve shown off a nature and basic fighting simulator in an engine that clearly struggles to perform on the console they started developing on. Does it look pretty? Decently so if you like the pastel blurred look (and if the game should be looking better, that’s Nintendo’s fault for posting 720p…

Keep your expectations on this reigned in. They apparently have the rights to the name and the third game, but not to any of the content or aliens from the first two. And despite this they’re placing the game in between the two they don’t have on the time line, which means they’ll have to go with an alternate universe…

Something that needs to be taken into account here, and maybe there will be some people who aren’t happy to hear it, or want to deny it, is that anime is not being made for the rest of the world in the vast majority of circumstances. It is being made to bring eyes on to TV sets in Japan so that people watch the…

I had the Smoke Mountain sandwich mentioned at the end for lunch yesterday, and it was pretty damn good. It’s actually lower calories than the pork belly solo version because it has extra BBQ sauce in place of the mayo.

I have to just not do this. I cannot buy more cards, no matter how much I would love to have that art. I won’t play the game and I’ve already spent what anyone sane would consider an obscene amount of money on Force of Will and Magic the Gathering with the last two months set releases. This is just not a thing I can…