Symphony of War should be at the top of the list.

• Mortal Shell

counter counterpoint: just rewatched it last week.

The Last of Us was probably my favorite game of the PS4 generation. Now, stuck at home in quarantine, I find myself playing Animal Crossing, Ni No Kuni, Celeste, Lonely Mountains: Downhill, and other gentle, kind-hearted games that make me feel good inside.

Hey, it’s not a slideshow. Good work!!

At least I never used the word florid.

Hey, they don’t spend a lot of time on the modern day stuff, either.

Been coming to AV Club for years and I’m really disappointed to see this slideshow bullshit. I won’t click through another one and if it continues, I’ll lose this bookmark just like I did with Deadspin. I hate it for the writers that are having to go along with this terrible idea.

booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo to slideshows.

Yeah it’s a total mystery as to why their name might also come up in this article about a branded chain of video game stores that’s endangering their employees, and by extension, their customers and others, during a global pandemic. Real head-scratcher, that one.

For fans of FFT that would prefer to stay away from the F2P trap, I’d like to throw out Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark. It’s a super solid TRPG with all the old things we loved about FFT: dozens of classes, mix-and-matching learned skills and a compelling story. It’s even got a few things we would have loved back in the…

worth noting both shining force one and two are part of the genesis collection on switch

Oh man...Vandal Hearts...that first battle with the mind-controlled villagers fucked my army up something fierce.

Are you talking about Superman the arcade game where the 2nd player was red with white instead of blue with red? I always just considered the 2nd player to be Captain Marvel/Shazam haha. 

Precisely, the main reason I stopped shopping there was the stores were way too aggressive about other promotions and pre-orders and would even flat out lie to get you in stores and then shame you for not pre-ordering. It was a terrible business strategy.

On top of it they never offered valuable sales.  Unlike Best Buy…

Yep. I rented the original Playstation from a Blockbuster video and spent the entire weekend playing Resident Evil. I couldn’t save my progress due to a lack of memory card, (or whatever it was they used back then to save your progess), so I kept the Playstation turned on for all three days that I had rented it for.…

Remember when you could actually rent entire consoles from Blockbuster? That seems insane in retrospect.

Most exciting line in the trailer:

You sweet summer child. 

I consider you in the minority and a contrarian.