Does he stay the same size during the course of each game though, excepting the effects of power-ups?

Shades of “Seductionof the Innocent” by Fredric Wertham and the hysteria that caused. This is just something whatever newest medium/form of expression has to go through, especially in the US.

Stop brutalising those ghost kids.

I thought Ryu was ace.

Yay Broken Earth!

Not just here, everywhere! It’s one of this best things I’ve played this year, and ties with Guacamelee for best “recent” Metroidvanias for me but it’s getting so little coverage.

That’s a question you should ask yourself, Activision.

There’s no plot but there’s a sense of a lived in world. The draw of the multiplayer is in the high you get from beating strong monsters through cooperation, and a sense of camaraderie (provided you’re not bumping into one of THOSE players). There’s a lot of charm and silliness that goes into the worldbuilding that’s…

I think the list of people who watched Rescue Rangers and weren’t attracted to Gadget is very short.

I love this guy. I finished reading Henshin just yesterday!

Really enjoying these posts. Loved the Vagrant Story and Chrono Trigger ones in particular. Thanks!

Well, the dude does seem happy to watch 22 dudes kick around a piece of plastic on a big lawn for 90 minutes, so maybe it’s outside the scope of his imagination that people might want to watch more fantastical contests?

Oh, but the reversals in Day of Reckoning 2... two masters who know each other can go deep into a reversal cycle.

Yeah, it’s amazing how she manages to make the shapes of her features appear different.

Yep. I’m relatively new too and what I’ve discovered is that there’s a little wait for release and a bit more for fixes that actually lets the game deliver on the better hardware’s promise, sometimes appearing in the form of mods.

I’m going to start up Dragon Quest VIII for similar, or I guess parallel reasons. My brother loved it but I never played any of the games. I’ve been putting it off though. Hope you get some kind of catharsis from your next, hopefully successful attempt.

That’s very rough. I know it sounds trite to say so but I remember certain things I couldn’t look at after my little brother died, like Dragonball Z or Fullmetal Alchemist but now I want to play Dragon Quest VIII for the first time to remember him - he loved it. I know your mum might not be connected to you through…

Don’t mind politics here at all but Mario’s nipples are so relevant this week!

Hurry up and name it EX Fighter already!

(Stockholm Syndrome).