If you're looking for more JRPGs, have you given the Atelier series a try? Two of the three games in the Arland trilogy have come out, and while they focus on crafting a decent bit more than fighting, they're actually really fun. I'd wait until later this month though: the updated version of the first game in the…

A new true Paper Mario is pretty much all I want (though I did like Super Paper Mario a fair bit). If I had to get really selfish, Paper Luigi based off the stories he and his partners told in The Thousand Year Door is all I really want, but that's just a dream that will never come true.

I also really liked the interviews with the developers. They were really well done, and you could tell how excited and passionate everyone was about their games. It was really nice to see :)

It won't let you redownload it under Settings? How absolutely odd...

Mario Kart 8 is actually surprisingly fun online. It's, uh, actually the first game I've ever played online. I'm into individual experiences like you, and when my boyfriend bought it for us to play a few weeks back while he was in town, I was afraid I wouldn't touch it after he left. It's actually be quite the…

I'm always super interested about the fact that people would be unexcited for a Zelda game simply because of its visuals. When you say that, you're certainly not alone, but I wonder why that's such a determining factor to people about this franchise in particular. Skyward Sword at least had some legitimate criticism…

Starting last month, I made a promise to myself that I wouldn't buy any new games until August so I could start getting through my fairly substantial backlog. It was hard at first since games definitely want have been coming out (my boyfriend bought Mario Kart 8 for me though, thank god), but it has actually felt…

It might get lost in all the E3 talk (though I've heard more about it than I was personally expecting), but I'm sure by the time the game is in its marketing period and released, it will have its time in the sun :)

Have you tried the Etrian Odyssey series before? I'm not honestly a big fan of 1st person dungeon crawlers either, but I managed to get into that series easy surprisingly. I'd really recommend giving Persona Q a chance :)

I know that her poetry was supposed to be god awful, but man, I seriously cringed every time any of it was read out loud. I'm sure the localization team had a lot of fun with it hahah.

Hey, if you're a fan of this kind of stuff, a 3DS is a great purchase no matter the circumstances, so I think you'll be happy with it long after you beat Q :)

THANKS CENTRAL TEXAS FOR HAVING A STORM ALL NIGHT. THANKS A LOT.

This was very interesting to read! Thank you :) I actually played the original version I lot when I was very young, so usually (and rather embarrassingly) I made up my own stories as I rode Epona through the world. (I'm pretty sure my brother left the save file that way so I could do just that). When I later went back…

Exactly what did you not like about the remake? Personally for me, it actually helped a lot because since it was a good deal brighter, I could actually play through a lot of points that used to be much too dark on my TV (brightness didn't help for some reason). And overall I've heard mostly positive things about it.…

I think the big thing too is that, at least in my experience, what you're describing is much more the default position of a group of female friends going out than "let's bag some guys." And hey, if other people are out doing the same thing and happen to be guys, all the better :)

Shhh indeed.

I think the big thing with this too is that if a guy doesn't care whether he gets some or not, then most likely he's going to be much easier to get along with and there's much more potential for something more than a one night stand out of him. For me and my group of friends at least, we avoid guys who seem desperate…

I think you might feel this way because in media you haven't seen otherwise. I'm sure you can at least agree that fiction can only reflect certain aspects of life with some (sometimes major) discrepancies. For example, if a person from another country watches a bunch of American rap music videos and has no other…

I'm currently writing for a video game company. I'm not sure how much authority that necessarily gives me, but I think it's at least worthy to note. Now, from what I understand about the situation here (I'd much rather classify it as "situation" than "controversy" since I think the latter is strong), this doesn't…

I don't think Bella is even close to a good example of why people don't like female characters. None of the characters within the series are well-crafted and even typing one of the books into a search engine will quickly give you a well-though out argument to why the books in general are just not a good example of…