Hmmm, that’s the opposite of what I read. Hope it’s the case!

It’s . . . good. You still get a weird gatekeeping contingent that pokes their heads above ground sometimes. Overall, it’s nice to get appreciation for older games, but there’s always a rancid pack of assholes everywhere you go, even moreso if you’re in a gamer space

I am absolutely the target audience for r/patientgamers, because I am cheap and old and therefore don’t carve out as much time for gaming as others do. About three nights ago, I fought the Valkyrie Queen in God of War, and that’ll be that for that game. I don’t feel the need to grind out Niflheim or do advanced…

Hope you and other AVC writers form a Defector-style collective, Dowd. Keep us posted on your next steps

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Or...just don’t play them

Do you really think it’s cool to unleash a fairly massive spoiler like this a week after a show has aired?

So far the only discourse I’ve seen has either been people not being unhappy about the show getting cancelled (of which I am one), or people saying “damn anime fans . . . they ruined anime adaptations!”

Damn, you’re right. Missed the AAA part, though I hope the Hades devs are investing those Hades stacks

Here’s an extremely good and thoughtful thread about it:

The Dead Cells devs are in a co-op so everyone shares in a game doing well, and we haven’t heard anything bad about their conditions (YET)

Ooh ooh, I can answer this!

I watched the first ep, and the tone was just . . . completely off. WAY too wry and self-satisfied

5 is the best one in the series because it has the perfect bridge of grounded (or “grounded”) action with the sense of fun that the series has; the entire vault sequence is sooooooo fucking gooooooood

I guess I’d argue that the SCRIPT is jaw droppingly bad, but the actual presentation is pretty great. The fight scene with the waves crashing is stunning and continues to stick with me. I’d watch RoS to fast forward to individual setpieces

Great callout. It’s a fucking masterpiece of a movie, and STILL something I recommend unreservedly to people who like tense movies without tipping all the way into horror.

How??? There are hyper block sections where there’s no room to build up a charge. Please tell me, I must know . . . even though I’ve already beaten the game and have no plans to get the remaining items

Same. Honestly, I ended up looking up a walkthrough for the final boss because some of the attacks made no sense to me (I STILL don’t get why you can’t slide under the third phase’s dash attack tbh) which helped, but actually beating the guy still took me a long time. Not ashamed that I looked it up tbh

The difficulty spike for bosses really is something else. And tbh maybe kinda needed? I’m at 5 tanks rn and running through the stages is decently easy; the platforming and figuring out to get items is the main source of difficulty

I’d agree with that if the company that would be making the Symphony sequel were anyone but Konami