On the one hand, I don't want to be the jerk nerd who forces video games onto his girlfriend, but on the other hand… maybe it's time to revisit The Adventure of Cookie & Cream?

I don't normally reply to three day old posts (or post much at all anymore, to my own dismay), but, being in a similar boat, I'll try to help out as best as I can (which isn't much, I'm afraid).

And that's not even mentioning how majority religious art certainly benefits from being at least somewhat timeless. I mean, I hope Jóhann Jóhansson's music won't be forgotten too soon, but if people in the future won't quite know what to do with a composition titled "Magnetic Tape Punch" I can't be mad at them.

They're both great films, but I really don't think there's a connection. They draw from different sources and tonally they're not really anything alike, I think. I'd say that part in Ugetsu is a morality tale while at least the Hearn version of Yuki-Onna is a fairly romantic yarn.

That doesn't matter. As long as the game cartridge is a regular DS one (which it is, in this case), there's no region code on it and post-DSi devices couldn't block it if they tried.

I mean, yeah, mechanically it's nothing to write home about and it's saddled with inadequate hardware, but it's got such a lovely soul to it. If there's a better game about the subjectivity of beauty and merit then I've yet to come across it.

Yo, Joe! Turn the disk! It was a thing of beauty, as was to be expected of Epyx. I can't imagine the game holding up, but unless I'm forgetting something, it was the best in that "genre". Certainly better than the Transformers or He-Man games I had. Hell, Transformers (not the one…

Ha! My exact sentiment, to the point where a simple upvote wouldn't do it justice.

Huh, I had no idea (the other) Murakami wrote Audition. I even checked to make sure it's really the same guy 69 is from, and yes, it is. That's… unexpected.

…and so on and so forth for just about every Super Scaler game. Kart = Like The Wind, F14 = After Burner, motorbike = Sprinter…

Oh, thanks for the heads-up regarding Big Grams. I knew it was coming, but I didn't know it was out already. Sounds like an excellent thing to listen to right now.

I, uh, fell sleep during Early Summer, so… where do I hand in my badge? Totally not the movies fault, before anyone asks. The things is, I finally got up to get me a library card this week, so I'll be binging on arthouse stuff for the foreseeable future. I'd never seen copies of, say, Ugetsu or Diary of a Country…

Apart from Boku no Kazoku (which is its own, different thing) they're all region-free on PS3 and PSP, but as far as I know there aren't even translation scripts for any of them. Someone tried to at least have Part 3 on Youtube with subtitles ( https://youtu.be/VMvLJvLxBOg ), but quit halfway through. So, to my…

Personally, I'd go with Rune Factory 4, which is excellent in every way, but on the other hand the new version of Grandia II has a hard mode, I think, right? That might actually make it interesting as well.

I'd just found out that a good idea for checking out dual wielding is starting with an adventurer. Whatever weapon it is you start out with, you can get a second one really soon and you only need about 5000 souls or so to level up to a point where you can power stance.

Oh God. I'm sorry I inadvertently did this to you.

Don't give up yet! The final boss in PW is way more doable alone than some of the later "hunting" missions. You just have to play it cool and use cover or otherwise get out of the way from time to time.

I'm not going to spend 10 bucks on something I might toss aside after 30 minutes, but I do love the idea of playing a game with knobs and faders. Demo, please?

You don't need Unreal Engine 4 to do that, I'm pretty sure I've already seen it in a Quake map circa '99 or so.

Yes, except it was a cover version by Kula Shaker, complete with (of course) a random "Narayaaaan!!" shout.