Because they’re in school?

Trails of Cold Steel and Dangan Ronpa are all I’ve played on my VITA and I consider the expense entirely justified.

There’s a sliding scale then. I live in a top 25 market. $35 a year is completely livable for a single person. You have to have roommates, but you can totally pay off a car and pay rent and save a bit and cover bills. $53 would cover a solo apartment and more. I don’t see how that’s not a livable wage anywhere. Unless…

As a game tester making half that anyone making 50k and bitching can fuck off and die in a fire.

The art style isn’t quite as bland as Pillars!

That sounds like an angle Netflix would be all over...

Ha, that’s like a list of the stuff I’m perfectly happy to see streamlined. I guess I do get reasonably into it in something like Etrian Odyssey or Persona, to the extent that either series does those things, but only as an extension of the combat loop. The combat in those remains involving and fun even as you get…

Combat was a big step up from 2, but still not tactile enough for me. I also really felt like the point of magic was that you roll back and throw out a spell and recovery from rolls was so slow you can’t do that.

It’s like it was actively designed to make it as likely as possible he’d misread it.

Complete opposite for me. I read at a native level. But choosing which phrase is correct and mastering the ins and outs of politeness levels? Fucking ghastly.
I wasn’t surprised he spoke Japanese but I definitely am surprised his accent is that good. He sounds native.

I lived in Japan for six years, and went through a few stages in my own reactions to that stuff. They definitely have some different attitudes towards pedophilia than Americans do, but often not in the way Americans assume based on the most egregious examples, or the casual sexualization of minors in pop culture.
In…

The age of consent in Japan is not 13. This is a myth. The constitution drawn up in the 40s set the minimum age of consent at 13 in a time when arranged marriages at that age were still reasonably common. Every single prefecture has set the age of consent at 16 or 18. It’s a lot easier to change the prefecture laws…

Not to defend it, but every item of clothing in the game can be equipped to anyone. You can still equip the swimsuits to Lin, she is just wearing a larger black diving gear thing under it in the localized version.
I thought the swim suits were fine in the last game, but the designs are pretty skeevy regardless of…

Eggnog is good if you make it yourself instead of buying that nasty shit at the supermarket that way overdoes the fake flavoring. But then you get samonella from the raw eggs.

I hope beating the final boss doesn’t require you to find an optional spell this time.