Bells and whistles are much less important to Kingdom Hearts than belts and zippers, I think you’ll find.

Having actually PLAYED more than a few of those Tiger LCD games as a kid, hard pass. I’ll take a modern portable game over that crap any day. Heck, I’ll take the grindiest, greediest gacha F2P game ever over that.

Off-topic, but I really enjoyed last year’s Murder on the Orient Express movie. While the movie set up (and they’re apparently already working on) a Murder on the Nile adaptation as a sequel, I was trying to think of a decent way to do Murder of Roger Akroyd as a movie and actually capture the impact of the twist…

I’m not going to lie: I genuinely got worried about where the Plague of Shadows plot was going, but the ending is wonderful. In general, the expansions have done a wonderful job of making what could have easily been disposable boss characters into compelling protagonists in their own right.

Yes. The first expansion, Plague of Shadows, has you playing as Plague Knight. It isn’t as intuitive to play, particularly with its new movement system, but it’s still fun and tells a great story.

Maybe? Diablo 2 still gets patched every year, though it’s generally more for compatibility than balance.

FFXIV in general has fantastic music.

I like Redgold, myself, but I’ve got no idea how common it is elsewhere.

I genuinely love the ability to swap the handedness of the system. It’s maybe not as important now, as controller design seems like it’s reaching cultural institution levels of universality, but that’s a pretty cool inclusion for left-handed people.

Water is like acid to all but the oldest vampires in the LoK series; the vortex Kain throws Raziel into is literally an enormous whirlpool, and the water eats away most of his body before he’s taken by the elder god.

Amen. If Squenix were ever to release an HD remake/remaster of the franchise, I’d buy it day one, plus whatever ill-advised Season pass they came up with.

I cook my sauce based on my mom’s recipe, who got it from the grandmother of a patient. She was first generation Italian-American, so I assume it’s fairly genuine.

Cabin Fever gets a ton of love in horror circles, but it did not work for me in the slightest. I can 100% recommend The Void though, which does more with a tiny budget than a lot of movies do with a much larger one.

Man, those songs are entirely too catchy. I find myself humming Let the Water Wash Away Your Sins, and given the context, that’s a bit awkward.

They did do themed motorcycles with Orange County Choppers, I think. Horde and Alliance bikes, with players voting on their favorites and both added to the game as mounts.

I actually feel like Brave Exvius is pretty generous for an F2P game. There’s a few difficult story fights, but not, generally, anything that can’t be solved by having a high-level friend to assist in the fight until you start getting your own six star characters, and once you get one decent six star, you’ll be able…

It was pretty clearly set in the future. I have no idea why anyone would claim otherwise.

I may be misremembering (it’s been a while since I played the game), but I’m pretty sure in-universe Sander Cohen is considered more or less a pretentious hack by everyone in Rapture even before he goes nuts.

I will never make fun of people caring about friggin’ Soap McTavish or whatever, because I genuinely was sad when Ethan died.

I really liked Infinite Warfare. It irritated me when the game revealed, right at the end, that everything in the story had taken less than a day and it was kind of a bummer how mustache twirly the bad guys all were, but I really liked the near-future sci-fi aesthetic. In a lot of ways, it felt like an Expanse game,…