YES! I'm way too happy to finally see someone else repping for the Doppelgang here.

Well, I know that there are couple of notable bossa acts. Naomi & Goro are Japanese, I think, while Lisa Ono is a fairly well-known Brazilian-Japanese. Then there's also Tigarah, who started out by doing music inspired by funk carioca.

I've started Suikoden on PSP. 8-directional movement confuses me. Finished the RPG mode of the newest Taiko Drum Master. It was funny and everything, but I'm glad I can just play the songs at my leisure now. And of course I'll still take the occasional photo for Chibi-Robo. I recently tricked it into accepting a comic…

Good to hear! I think I already felt bits of that uniqueness in part 1. To me, it felt like those weird picture books you sometimes borrowed from the library that were in the childrens' section, but that were terrifying anyway. And that feeling is why I'm more interested in giving Skutnik money for this series than…

NO SWANK, SWEATY!

Plus one of the best uses of ludonarrative consonance in a while, I thought.

I disagree with that video. I think in pretty much every decent fighting game, fundamentals trump input sequences. You don't have to learn every combo in your character's arsenal before you start having fun, you need to have a solid grasp on the difference between your single button moves first and foremost (and I…

And that's way I like it, baby, I don't wanna live forever!

It should be out on Wii U soon-ish, I think (it just came out in Japan, so it should be more or less good to go). Off-screen play is probably a cool feature for this kind of game, too. Alternatively, I have no idea why people hate the Playstation versions that much. I got FF5 from PSN last year or the year before —…

Are you playing Divinity with your husband? I'm interested in it mostly for the co-op, so I'd be thankful for some impression if you have them.

I might get this somewhere down the line, but I'm a bit disappointed to hear that the diaries aren't very interesting. That was what mostly drew my attention, because of good old Wings. Not only did it have the best gameplay out of the Cinemaware titles, but… hell, it's been forever but it might be one of the best…

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That is exactly what I saw. Rarely was I so invested in someone living up to the memes that sprung up around them as I was with Ochoa when the penalty kick came.

Man, I was really hoping the Netherlands would lose after the awful first half. That was the same kind of ugly football Germany showed against the US, and it's also exactly the kind of football I could happily live without.

Evangelizing these albums is my mission for 2014, so I'm happy to oblige. Definitely look for Takuya Kuroda's Rising Son and Kris Bower's Heroes + Misfits. (I want to say Ambrose Akinmusire's The Imagined Savior is Far Easier to Paint, too, but it's pretty much straight jazz. Still, I want to say it, so there.)

Because I'm terrible at finding my way without one and any ready-made map from the internet would've spoiled the exploration/dungeon entrances.

Sweet, thanks for the reply!

The first one for 3DS already had a story mode with a very, very light equipment system, and this time they went further and made it a… well, not quite full-fledged RPG. But yes, it has a world map with treasure chests, NPC chatter, health items, and you can befriend monsters to add them to your party and all that…

Any word on the different versions? I'd prefer getting it on 3DS because I like the d-pad and buttons better than anything I could plug into my PC, but different or missing content or performance issues might sway me.

I made this https://dl.dropboxuserconte… over the week (why yes, my niece did leave some colored pencils here when she visited). I think some people here might recognize what it is, and yes, I finished this game for the first time.