Just to note, I actually *love* the touchscreen-based rhythm gaming on offer here, and feel it’s head and shoulders above the button-based rhythm gaming — and I typically *hate* touchscreen things! It just feels like I’m drumming along with the rhythm, which is immensely satisfying, and the touchscreen “swiping” gets…

Supposedly the Genesis version is better. It doesn’t look or sound quite as good, but it came out later, and apparently its difficulty was rebalanced in accordance with feedback from the SNES version to be a lot fairer and more in line with what the devs initially intended. Don’t know if that translates to any of the…

My pick would probably be Tokione from Opoona — an underrated game, and an underrated city within that game that feels like a fully-loaded college campus inside an alien biodome that you absolutely WOULD want to visit. In fact, pretty much all of Opoona consists of some of the best cities I’ve ever seen in an RPG,…

Actually, I was in college. And I replayed it not that long ago, and still found it just as good as I did back then — if not even better, since I’m so used to the blander and more hand-holdy plots of the modern generation.

Huh. My mistake, then!

“The story isn’t great”? Seriously?! FF7’s story is kind of legendary. It has easily the deepest and most well-developed world of any game in the series, and its story did something no other Final Fantasy title has before or since: it let you figure things out on your own, without holding your hand and directly…

I think you’re misremembering FF7. It had the lowest encounter rate in the series, barnone, and it was in no way a difficult game. Its battles were generally a joy to fight, too, as they went by quickly, had flashy animations, and were just strategic enough (with the materia system) to remain interesting and get in…

Have you ever watched any of Makoto Shinkai’s works? I think you’d really appreciate his style — he utilizes “silent shots” like that a lot, and to better effect than anyone else I’ve ever seen. 5 Centimeters Per Second is practically a whole movie of that, and The Place Promised In Our Early Days does a great job of…

No, just replying to a much older comment where you talked about how the word “underrated” was inappropriate to use here. I feel like Super Mario Bros. is absolutely an underrated film — I enjoyed it as a kid, watched it again as an adult, and actually enjoyed it even MORE as an adult. If you just watch it as a movie,…

I completely agree that it’s underrated. To be honest, I rather liked it! Except for the last 15 minutes, anyway — the ending made no bloody sense. But the rest of the movie was a unique dystopian sci-fi tale set in a world of dinosaur-people, and that’s honestly pretty cool. It’s not an intelligent movie in any way,…

Same developer, actually! D3 owns the property and published it in Japan, but Tamsoft developed it.

You opened a hell of a floodgate with this topic, I’m betting. Personally, I loved Earthsea, and rank both Whisper of the Heart and From Up On Poppy Hill among Ghibli’s best, so my list would clearly be VERY different from yours.

“Read it if you want to; I hope you won’t.”

See, I quite liked this game. Screw the haters! It was a well put-together platformer, albeit overly hard — but I still was able to make it to stage 4 consistently, which is pretty good all things considered. The underwater stage didn’t give me much trouble, it was the dark stage with the searchlights that always…

Sounds like you should’ve swung by our XSEED booth in West Hall. We had 9 playable games on display, all of which are (hopefully) coming out in 2015 (though it’s possible one or two of them could slip into the very beginning of 2016).

“The promise:

I dunno, I disagree. I liked the writing in Freedom Planet! It felt... genuine. Clearly child-friendly, but very innocent and heartfelt. Which is something I haven’t felt from any of the Sonic titles.

“You know what was a good Sonic game recently?”

Also Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim this Tuesday, on Steam, GOG and Humble!