The PSP emulator runs it perfectly, and additionally has the best version of the game available.

I actually feel the reverse: as an adult, I think you get more out of Persona 3 simply because the story isn’t just about a “plucky young teen saving the world,” but more an intense rumination on how people from all walks of life deal with death—metaphorically and physically—in various different ways. You really start…

All of these are excellent points, and things I—largely—agree with. Here’s my additions to what you’re bringing to the conversation.

And deciding to get them all...is still...a choice? That you can say no to? Holy shit, how is this not getting through to people.

The fact that you think any of this is the creators somehow manipulating people into doing something pretty much tells me all I need to know about how much you think about videogames.

ok o7

Again: you have to do this ten times to get the trophy/achievement.

Again: you have to do this ten times to get the trophy/achievement.

So imaginary xbox points don’t matter, but the equally imaginary virtual actions players take toward an imaginary virtual character do?

Except, in this case, there is no offer???

You seem hung up on people “choosing” to do things and that somehow being a marker for judging them as people, but you don’t seem to recognize that half the point of playing a video game is to have the freedom to safely explore things you wouldn’t do in real life, by doing them virtually.

oh no what will i ever do i didn’t platinum one game out of the approximately several hundred that exist

Turning one of my favorite characters, with a mouth as foul as her heart is big, into an object to gawk at in order to score invisible video game points is childish and offensive.

Sure, but the nature of timelines and work being printed on a weekly basis makes things a bit different for Japanese Mangaka.

Okay, but other artists also evolve their styles. Just look at the difference between early McFarlan and later McFarlan.

Gacha games don’t make up even 10% of the games that are available and widely played on mobile devices. Try again.

Such a file could alter data “in any arbitrary way (inserting or removing text, email, photos, contacts, files, or any other data), with no detectable timestamp changes or checksum failures,” the blog states.

It’s not just a Japanese thing, though.

In 2020, mobile games revenue in the U.S. reached a record 10.73 billion U.S. dollars, and thanks to a wave of technological advances, digital innovation, and nationwide lockdowns amidst the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the number of U.S. mobile video game users is now higher than ever.

Can this dude really only do like.....three character designs, tops?