So, if you changed the instrumentation it could work without the vocals. That seems it would be a given, but I’ll concede the point. Regardless, Uematsu seems to prefer these sorts of vocals, as evidenced by pieces such as Melodies of Life, Eye’s on Me, Answers, and so on.

That may not be your cup of tea, but it works…

I’m sorry but, you’re way off base here. If you pay attention to the instrumentals alone, it’s clear they fade back and become far more subdued when the vocals become prominent.

Oh, Sonic SatAM is excellent. Probably still the best animated Sonic series even after all these years. I’m sure other series have had better humor since then, maybe even better action and animation. But, SonicSatAM had a great balance of action, light-hearted moments, with occasional dark bits thrown in for good…

You say this, but if this game successfully recreated the pre-nerf FFXIV Alexander Savage experience, you’d spend six months to beat the third floor and hate yourself a little more with each passing day. Basically, you wouldn’t be a happy camper! XD

I’d say, “one of the best,” in this specific genre. Although, I guess using the phrase, “second to none,” may have been a bit loaded. As for whether it counts as a JRPG, I’d say yes for the following reasons.

First, it follows most of the major mechanics of a classic JRPG. Mostly a menu-driven interface, JRPG style…

Hmm, I agree with most of this, though I’m not terribly fond of Lunar 2's soundtrack. I personally would’ve added Dragon Quest VIII and Undertale’s scores to this list.

The former, because for the US release at least, it was a fully orchestrated soundtrack, and was really good and atmospheric for the most part. That…

Okay, maybe TellTale will stop releasing endless additions to the Walking Dead, and make a The Wolf Among Us sequel. Yes, I know, but a man can dream!

Between Undyne and now Sidon, I’m just going to assume the internet has a thing for fish people at this point.

I’m betting that Dragon Quest Heroes is that size, only because Square Enix didn’t bother to trim down the file size any for the Switch Port. After all, the game isn’t exactly terribly expansive or anything.

Gonna agree with all of this. Not that we need all of these features day one, but, it’d be really nice if we could get at least most of them by the end of the first year. Preferably sooner or course, but I’ll take what I can get. XD

I’d certainly love to see more colors being used in consoles. Heck, I wouldn’t even care if they were mostly black or white with only a splash of some other color. I’d just like something to visually differentiate consoles from something like a DVD player or set-top box.

Wii U’s are mostly black.

Matte, matte everywhere!

Right, the original design wasn’t perfect, but visually it was far more pleasing to look at than the redesign. The white slim fixes that, to a large degree.

I actually like this a bit better than the black one. The reason for that is that the black one ends up looking a bit plain without any other colors or finishes to break up its visual design. With this, you have the black line running down the middle, and that breaks up the design nicely, giving it a bit of visual…

Yeah, turned out to be a fairly overt popularity contest. That’s, not horrible of course, but it is a bit frustrating. I mean, “GlaDOS,” for villain most in need of a hug? Don’t get me wrong, she’s a great villain, but she isn’t the most tragic.

Same goes for the sad game award. Not to badmouth The Walking Dead, but it…

Lots of reasons for this really.

First, the lack of an endgame is kinda wearing on people. Without a real end-goal in sight it’s kinda hard to keep people engaged, you know.

Second, the violence is starting to grate on some people. Even though it’s TV-MA, most people still expect shows to pull their punches a bit on…

I feel like this category is almost specifically made for Undertale. o_0

Dude, just chill a bit okay.

I’ve been apart of a few different fandoms, and the Undertale fandom is nowhere even remotely near the worst. Sure, there are some socially maladjusted people within it they can be obnoxious, but there are socially adjusted people that don’t belong to any fandom at all either.

So instead of…

I might note that all of this is supposedly in reference to the Nintendo Switch Development Kits, which aren’t finalized. Not only will Nintendo not know the exact battery life is until they have the final retail models version ready to go, but dev kits often have radically worse battery life than the retail versions…