Looks intriguing. Hopefully the trailer didn’t spoil too much.

I thought King’s Bounty: Crossworlds was pretty good, and really just wished it were multiplayer. It played very similarly to the Heroes of Might and Magic games, but exploration was real-time and not turn-based, making the game flow much more smoothly. I’m actually excited to see what they do with a proper sequel.

I could be wrong, but I think those are more like Fleshlights.

Yeah, the Disney movie doesn’t really count, regardless of how much I personally like it.

I’m of a similar opinion. It’s why I always recommend Chronicles of Prydain to young adults looking for good fantasy novels.

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Cool. Gonna start calling them Metro Android Castle Transylvanias now instead.

I recently discovered this exact phenomenon with this year’s RPG Limit Break. If anybody reading this hasn’t heard of it (I hadn’t), but has a love for old-school C/JRPGs, I implore you to go watch their VODs on YouTube. What started as a quick “Huh, you can beat Earthbound in a couple hours” turned into a week of…

Peter’s relatively infrequent stints as guest editor are always amazing. He’s somehow got a finger straight on the pulse of my childhood, and it’s amazing to read someone else’s perspective that so closely matches my own. Also, he’s a great writer.

The music for Crystalis was incredible. Easily some of the best arranged pieces on the NES.

My wife watched Chernobyl last week and wouldn’t stop talking about it, so I started up STALKER: Call of Pripyat. It was too easy and I beat it in a couple days. So, I installed the Anomaly mod for it and it’s kicking my ass. I’m addicted to this ass-kickery at the moment.

Honestly, I’m just jealous you got to chat with Leonard Boyarsky. Dude’s been a personal hero of mine since his Interplay days. Also, still waiting to hear if The Outer Worlds has an inventory system.

I think I only have one question: is there an inventory? Please tell me there's an inventory.

You must gather your party before venturing forth.

Zacian and Zamazenta

No, it’s not the smarter choice. It was merely the more economical choice. Teachers don’t teach because they want money. They teach because they love it. Please keep teaching and loving it. The world needs more good teachers, not more technicians.

I feel you. I come from a family of teachers, and the one thing that was drilled into me from a young age was “if you want to make money, don’t teach”. Thus I went into tech.

I stand corrected that the design of the Zebesian space pirate wasn’t shown until Super Metroid, but technically space pirates as an organisation were introduced in a 1986 CYOA book called Metroid: Zebes Invasion Order which, funnily enough, Super Metroid cribbed a lot of its story from.

Nice pun, but that’s pretty clearly a Space Pirate.

The Castlevania one seems like the biggest departure from the source material to me. Far more than swapping out Samus for Dirk the Daring in a bubble helmet. Given the time period, that seems like a pretty natural decision for the suits in charge of a production company like Dic.