Zack, go back and read your own article.

I played exactly half of Octopath, was absolutely enamored with it the entire time, told myself I was going to take a break before coming back to finish things up... and that was like 2 months ago. For whatever reason I can’t seem to get back into it, every time I try to pick it up again I bounce right off. It’s…

I starred this because it’s very similar to my thought processes. I’ve played on my son’s Switch a couple of times, and Zelda is definitely worth it if you don’t have a WiiU. Also, it’s the perfect format for Stardew Valley. I definitely want to play Metal Goose Solid, and Hotline Harambe Ape Out looks more suited for…

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For Yakuza 0 on my laptop, I ended up having to put it in windowed mode and shrinking it down a fair bit. Annoying but I got used to it pretty quick.

Is it silly to buy a Switch for this game? This and Metal Goose Solid make me want run over to Yodobashi right now.

Climax sounds like a rip off of The Maureen Ponderosa Wedding Massacre

Counterpoint: Season 3 is the best season yet.

Thank you, Salty Waitress, this is great encouragement for people who have just a preference or need actual accommodation. :)

Very good! It’s a turned-based strategy game in the vein of XCOM or Fire Emblem, but focused on stealth rather than combat. You control a small team of spies who have to break into high-tech corporations and steal their stuff. Highly recommended if you have any interest whatsoever in strategy and/or stealth games.  

Let’s wrap ‘er up, folks. It’s time to start on America 2: The Sequel To America. It’ll be a real “back-to-basics” affair, since we lost the plot so badly in the first America. I’m thinking we’ll just have a handful of states, and in The Constitution 2: Consti2tion, there will be failsafes written in to keep this…

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My least favorite thing about BD is the way it punishes you for actually understanding what’s happening by shunting you into a more negative finale if you act on it. ...I should write about that some time.

On the other hand, the remix boss fights in the second half are amazing expressions of “boss fight as puzzle”.

They aren’t the same, as it turns out. Octopath is being worked on by the Bravely team, which is distinct from the team working on Lost Sphear; the latter team, which I believe is called Tokyo RPG Studio, also made I Am Setsuna.

Lost Sphear is the next release from the I Am Setsuna team (which is painfully obvious if you watch its trailer). I don’t think Octopath’s is the same?

I’d feel more comfortable recommending Bravely Default if it didn’t have a nasty bit of artificial game lengthening it really, really didn’t need. But otherwise, yeah, super good.

Real quick PSA regarding WAYPTW: We realize how important it is for the community to have these up at a consistent time and place. So going forward, WAYPTW will hit the Gameological page at midnight Central and appear on the AVC homepage at a later time. Cool?

Yes, clearly the company that hired J.J. Abrams to reboot their $4 billion intellectual property is only looking for the very freshest points of view.

All I know about Guy Fieri is that he lends his name to a line of bacon-wrapped medallion steaks at Costco, which aren’t very good. As I understand the Internet, that is enough to make him worse than Hitler.

I didn’t buy Federation Force simply out of spite (because I love some Metroid Prime on a portable), but I did resolve to buy it at launch after the vitriol it unfairly received simply for not being what others wanted. If all people wanted was a Metroid Prime logo, then they should have shown the stupid logo two years…