So long as that's the only part of them it's passed through.

Tell me he at least uses different bills for wiping his ass and flossing his teeth.

This is a weird answer, maybe, but I think I'd actually go with Skate It, the portable entry in EA's Skate series for the Nintendo DS. Because the DS hardware was so limited compared to the PS3 and 360, they had to scale the game way, waaaay back, and that meant cutting NPCs out first and foremost. They actually…

Oh man, I'd never seen that vid before. What excites me most about P5, honestly, is the assertion that the cast this time is supposed to be a bunch of burnout dipshits who use their powers to commit petty crimes for fun. The P3 and P4 protagonists have implied personalities—3 is moody and sensitive, 4 is supportive…

Somebody said "Life Is Strange" so here I am, do it buddy go for it.

*blows kiss*

Hello my loves.

Would it be cheating to choose Pokémon X and Y for Phantump and Pumpkaboo? I know the latter day 'mon designs are not widely admired (although I personally think the designs get, if anything, better on average as the series goes on) but I have a huge weakness for cute ghost types. My favourite is still Drifloon, but I…

Episode 1 is really big on setting, character, tone, and table setting. Most people describe episode 2 being the point at which they got hooked, if they got hooked. I recommend at least continuing to episode 2, and if it's still not for you, then hey, you gave it a shot.

yes sir sorry sir

I'm debating doing a 999/VLR replay to refresh my memory on the Zero Escape series. It's just that these games are going to be super hard to replay, for like, a bunch of reasons. Replaying a story-heavy game framed like a mystery to which you already know the twists is hard, re-solving some of the more obnoxious VLR…

My heart is still broken over Bravely Default. Pretty much the exact instant I realized what the twist was, I lost 100% of my interest in continuing it. When I flew my ship into that pillar of light for the first time, I assumed I was on my way to the final dungeon. I had put in about 40 hours by that point, which…

Alright you caught me. In terms of number of levels, the Day levels make up about a third of the game, with another third being spent in Night levels and the last third taken up by Adventure-style map navigation/NPC interactions/quests/minigames. In terms of time spent, the Day levels can be blown through in between…

Modern Sonic games are widely considered flatly "bad," but they've actually fluctuated in quality in really interesting and weird ways, and peoples' perceptions of them change a lot with the times. The Adventure games are today mostly considered almost unplayable, but until a few years ago they tended to get thrown in…

Yeah, I'm in the "Mass Effect 3 is the best in the series, middle fingers up!" camp myself.

When you lay it all out like that it really does sound like complete nonsense. God damn I love that game. I also really dig the world itself, the sort of "lush natural wildlife with assorted real world crap everywhere" look it had going on. It's one of the reasons I never warmed to Cyber Sleuth: it's set half in the…

I've been on the fence about trying Remember Me ever since I became insane after playing Life Is Strange, but this has helped push me away again. Apparently LIS was partly born out of a desire to take Remember Me's only good element, extract it from the surrounding morass, and give it the good game it deserved.

B-/B for Guns of the Patriots is super generous imo.

If I'd known I had this power I would have used it more responsibly.

I rewatched Adventure 01 last year, and a week or so ago I started rewatching Adventure 02. A little campy to revisit, and the pacing is stretched a little thin, but still surprisingly solid.