Or a 21st century robber baron, as it were!

I'm interested to hear you say that about Xenoblade Chronicles and 3D, only because I found that the 3D effect really punched up the N64-era graphics in the two Zelda remakes.

I know some day I'm going to play through Bloodborne again, to meet all the characters and see the areas I missed and get the "true" ending, but I think it will be a regular old NG for me. I was very uncompelled by my brief NG+ experience (partially due to the fact that I did a skill build, wanted to switch things up,…

Sir, I'll have you know that Wario is a bonafide entrepreneur, whose work ethic has allowed him to build a successful video game franchise… based around a theme that he does a half-assed job on the game's he makes to save labour costs.

I'm having a similar experience with my buddy playing the Souls games for the first time. Had to lend him my Dark Souls II for XBox360, so I was forced—forced!—to pick up Scholar of the First Sin edition for my PS4.

Never had the problem of buying a PC port of a console game, but if that was something I was even slightly tempted to do, I think all the stories I've heard of shitty ports would be enough to dissuade me.

Yeah, it didn't bother me too much on first playthrough because the Threaded Cane was such a satisfying weapon. But it basically killed my desire to immediately replay the game and meet all the NPCs.

It's horrific! I don't even have a fear of snakes and when that first guy's head burst my immediate plan of attack was to scamper up a flight of stairs while shouting "ah! ah! get away!"

I think the replies to your original post are a pretty strong endorsement of Nintendo's music department!

Towards the end, I was dropping bosses left and right! The One Reborn, Micolash, and the Wet Nurse all went down on the first try. Amygdala on the second try (and my first try was way too early in my playthrough). Magnificent bosses, all, but they were no match for my fancy cane and top hat!

I complained about this in my own post, but man, the NG+ enemies are damage sponges! Particularly if you focused on building your Skill to max out Threaded Cane damage on your first play but now want to switch to literally any other weapon. To kill a standard townsperson with the Kirkhammer, I need to wale on him for…

Agreed 100%. This is slightly tangential to what @avclub-6a468de7d95c61884c9375028e903849:disqus was saying, but one thing that always drives me crazy is when someone criticizes an older game or song or TV show for being "dated." Everything eventually becomes "dated," because that's just how time works! It's either…

I didn't realize I was about to beat the game and would never be able to return to Nightmare of Mensis, so I missed out on all the exploration (basically, every random direction I chose to explore first turned out to be the "correct" choice and the area didn't take me long).

"Sure, hyrdas and brain parasites are cool, but why must we always treat them as separate concepts?"—From Software thought process.

Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask for me! Maybe a little Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Oh man, I just reexplored the sewers yesterday and still didn't find any crow lady! I hope I didn't kill her on sight earlier by mistake.

I had not thought of the "preserving the surprise" explanation, which is super valid. I was delightfully surprised to find those elements in the story, since I'm a huge fan of the that kind of cosmic horror.

This is a great review, so I'm going to be an ass and nitpick it:

When you get it all clicking it's so very satisfying. The part where you climb a big ladder up out of the sewers as you're drawing closer to the Cleric Beast, and there are two riflemen and one rat man? I had a fantastic moment of climbing up that ladder, sprinting across the bridge while transforming my cane to a…

I had such a great time running down that street just caning motherfuckers to death once I finally cracked the feel of the combat!