Dokapon Kingdom, my favorite party game that everyone else hates. It’s an unholy abomination, a combination of Mario Party, Monopoly, and Final Fantasy. Games take forever. One person often dominates the match early on. Unless you’re playing with a couple of NPCs, too, the game requires players to be capitalistic shith…

I really can’t get enough of Uematsu’s one track, “Hollow.”

I mean, Goro’s efforts never quite sparkle like his father’s do. Poppy Hill was probably his best work, but everything else is just kind of eh? I mean, I always watch them, and I always enjoy the experience, because I really love animated movies full of whimsy and magic, but they generally fall a little flat. Earthsea…

On the one hand, this is hilarious. On the other hand, could this like...cause some kind of financial crash? Something we super do not need in the middle of a pandemic? Like, fuck Wall Street, but whether or not we like it, our economy is tied up in this bullshit.

I love this media reference/language evolution that you’re tracing here, because this phrase is very reminiscent of the early modern English concept of “coney-catching” (“coney” being an old word for “rabbit,”) the practice of conning someone, usually for money but sometimes for the lulz. There’s an entire genre of…

I rented this from GameFly when I was in college, and I loved its weird narrative. I hadn’t owned a DS for very long at the point I played it, so I was just delighted by the mechanic of pretending my DS stylus was a magic time pen. Also, that theme song is catchy. I still get it stuck in my head periodically, helped…

This isn’t the kind of game I’d play even if it were stellar, but my partner got it for Yule and does want to play it. Unfortunately, his PC won’t run it - I’m not sure if that’s because his graphics card isn’t good enough or if the game is just poorly optimized or what. I wonder if the player base will do CDPR’s work…

I haven’t thought of this game for over a decade. After finally obtaining a PS2 and discovering that Square was an amazing company that made amazing games, I slowly rented everything with SquareSoft or SquareEnix on it from GameFly, including this...but I was baffled by this game. It wasn’t fun to play, and I couldn’t…

This reminds me of the limited-time seasonal offers that seem very prevalent in Japan. So maybe it’s a little less weird in that context.

In my 20s, I played the only Changeling in a WoD LARP, and I built my character specifically to fuck with and annoy vampires, but I had a Mage bodyguard so that I would not immediately be murdered the first time I pranked a vampire.

What an excellent piece! Thank you!

Siiiigh, PROBABLY. Mage is way more popular. Changeling was always the weird outlier in WoD. But I can’t even tell you how much I want to wander around a city as a pooka, slipping in and out of the dreaming and chilling with the Seelie Court.

Cool cool, we’ve got our Vampire: The Masquerade games and our Werewolf: The Apocalypse game, now where is my Changeling: The Dreaming game?

I would buy a t-shirt that said “Let us all protect our wholesome game culture together.”

Well, I’ve found the thing that will convince me to actually play a musou game.

Oh my god, now I desperately want to play a game in which I am a skald.

I, too, want a Xenogears remaster!! But they’d need to relocalize it for it to really be worthwhile, and that seems like more effort than Squeenix typically puts into a lot of these remasters.

I need to see a [redacted Chu Chu plot point, you know what I’m talking about] in glorious 4K.

My partner and I were just talking about Monolith and wondering about how they started out with the janky and brilliant Xenogears (which I LOVED and my partner HATED) and ended up managing to make Xenoblade Chronicles, our absolute favorite game on the Wii. This answered all of our questions! Thank you!

This is why I always wait to buy a console til hardware release 2.0.