I don’t have the time (or interest) to sit through those 17-minute speedruns of Ocarina of Time, so a video like this one is much more to my liking.

Great post! There’s too much in it for me to give it a proper reply. I like the point about nostalgia (I’ll add that if nostalgia was necessary to enjoy games like FFVII, no one would have liked it when it originally came out), and the close comparisons between the two openings. Personally, I’m concerned about how…

Heck, when I replay Final Fantasy VII, I don’t even reach 25 hours before I beat it, and I don’t try to rush through it by any means (however, I do zero grinding). The original is not a long game, and this opening suggests that the first part of this remake will be stuffed to the brim with padding.

And I got the definitive edition for Christmas. I think the DLC is probably best played spread throughout the game (which is what I did) and not after it’s already finished.

I didn’t meant that you’re too young to remember the games. I meant that you might not have remembered them right if you hadn’t played them in a long time. Years, things that stumped me as a kid are not always so confusing now.

On Earthbound: I didn’t have a copy of the guide, since my family got it used, and I didn’t…

You might not really remember how old RPGs are, exactly. In those games, grinding may make up a larger percentage of the overall play time, but older RPGs are mostly far shorter games than modern ones. For instance, I grinded a fair bit in Earthbound the last time I played through it (about two years ago), but I…

I’m not sure if my least favourite is Final Fantasy I, the only offline mainline game in the series I’ve never finished, or XV, the modern master class of bad game design. Personally, I think I don’t like them because I view neither as fun to play, but, sure, I’ll go with the reasons mentioned here.

The word “savage,” furthermore, probably isn’t even that high on the list of pejoratives that Indigenous people want others to stop using, seeing as how hardly anyone uses “savage” in reference to them now.

Hey, she’s one of the hostesses from Yakuza!

I’m probably more anti-random in general than I am against one of these particular types of randomness. Some of my favourite SNES games, for instance, like Super Mario World, Link to the Past, and Super Metroid, have little in the way of randomness, aside from health and money drops from defeated enemies, which…

Perhaps you should have given him a chance?

In any case, I think his Metroidvania series of Boss Keys does too much nitpicking, in general. I haven’t watched most of his Hollow Knight video yet (because I haven’t played Hollow Knight yet), but I got the sense that he thinks that Hollow Knight is the only game in the…

I’d say he’s the best gaming critic on YouTube, as no one else comes that close to him in terms of quality and quantity.

He mentions Fire Emblem briefly, as well as how the designers do not give  the true hit percentages, since a 90% hit chance in the series is more like 99% in practice.

Whatever. While I find some glitches like these neat, I can’t say I’m at all interested in watching these speedrunners play the game. I’d much rather play the game myself and go through all the dungeons; I wouldn’t even want to skip most game if I could, since why would I want to avoid everything I find fun about…

I’m okay with the addition, but Byleth is one of my least favourite Fire Emblem protagonists and I think any of the other house leaders would have been stronger additions (Edelgard, given her popularity, makes the most sense). I’m also slightly annoyed that another gender-variable character is default male again.

I’d watch a modern-day slavery show...if it was about the slaves joining together in a bloody uprising and slaughtering all the racist slave owners. Like Django Unchained, except in modern times.

I’m another white guy, but I’m cool with playable female characters. Many of my favourite games have female protagonists (Super Metroid, Final Fantasy VI, Trails in the Sky, and so on), and even I get tired of playing a generic white dude yet again (no offence, Link, but I’ll be much more excited for the Breath of the…

I’m still annoyed that Nintendo had a bunch of playable generic Toads instead of Peach in New Super Mario Bros. U.

I’m still not sure if it’ll actually be good, but whatever. I’m not going to be playing the game until it reaches bargain bin prices, anyway.

Another year, another batch of Oscar nominations I don’t care about.