You can come back to get Saga’s collectibles (until the signposted point of no return), but Alan’s are sometimes blocked off once you finish a level. I missed on some in the subway station, for example.

This could be a reference to the tutorial boss in Elden Ring, the “Soldier of Godrick”. There’s a community joke about him being the most powerful boss in the game - the “Soldier of God, Rick.” (Including joke mods that make him a superboss.)

maxes out her dexterity stats

Their treatment of mental illness and abuse in The Medium rubbed a lot of people the wrong way, and given the core themes of SH2 that worries the fans quite a bit. As for the reviews, they’re the classic example of a developer that reviewers love because they have the veneer of art, but the actual substance of their…

However, the only thing clearly differentiating dev messages from those left by other players is your ability to appraise them, a subtle distinction and one that’s easily missed.

Because Revolutionary Girl Utena originally, I think.

“...or Rei will have to do it again.”

This HD remake of The You Testament looks pretty good.

at least Jim Carrey is always great.

Some other good responses to this, and I do get your point (and agree that it can be very frustrating when random chance messes up story beats). Personally I’d be interested to see more “diceless” non-random RPGs; the only one I can remember is Amber and it worked really well in the context of that setting.

The really destabilizing thing about Black Lotus was that it could be used to win on the first turn of the game before your opponent even got a move. Use it to get three green mana, tap your mountain (has to be a mountain) to get one red mana, use the green card channel (costs two green mana) to get 19 colorless mana,…

One major feature this is missing: a predefined list of targets that you’re working your way through. (Present in AC1, AC3, AC:Syndicate and AC:Origins.) Definitely lends those games more of a structure than the others.

But unlike in Origins, you can whistle for the horse while running, and it’ll run beside you and let you automatically mount your horse without slowing down.

It’s worth noting that British comedian Robert Llewellyn (Kryten from Red Dwarf) had an almost identical show called Carpool two or three years earlier than Seinfeld.

The level cap in Origins is pretty soft anyway - once you hit it you keep gaining “levels” and getting skill points, but your level number doesn’t increase and neither do your base stats. (Or the amount to gain a level, so increasing the level cap may actually make maxing your skills out more difficult.)

Cited wikipedia as source on paper, automatic F.

DLC set in a full Rome map for Origins would make perfect sense, especially since they already have a lot of Roman assets in the game. Follow Aya’s adventures in Rome during the civil war after Caesar’s death. (And throw in some Cleopatra closure as well.) The ancient mechanisms in this game (and a sidequest way back…

It’s also explicitly a reference to Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles. There are graffiti tags for Barbelith, King Mob and Tom O’Bedlam in the gang’s hideout. Probably more I didn’t spot, too.

The Heists system in the single-player felt very underutilized as well. You level up your NPC buddies, but never really get to use them much, and there’s a lot of stuff that is way to expensive to buy without severely gaming the stock market and the assassination missions. It seemed logical to me that there would be…