Me too! I also have never gotten motion sickness from anything in any game other than the boat section.

Meanwhile in Philly, we only got rid of subway tokens a few years ago.

You can play with random people.

I got the game last week and joined the Discord, and I’ve found the veterans to be super willing to help out the influx of new players from Steam.

Oh hey, it’s KishPrime! It sounds to me that the current Japanese scene is probably like Melee in 2008-2010 when Brawl came out. Most people are playing the newer game, and there’s no money in it anymore so only the Melee diehards are still playing. Rather than the pre-MLG era where there wasn’t even any history to…

A game being good competitively doesn’t mean it’s bad for casuals.

Minor correction: The amounts per country on Esports Earnings don’t show the total prize pools in each country. It shows how much players from each country have earned. Sweden has $352k because two of the top Melee players (Armada and Leffen) are from Sweden.

It’s mostly combat. There are a few puzzles in some of the games but it’s not the focus of the game. I look at Zelda dungeons like “solve the puzzle in this room, and here are some enemies to obstruct you” whereas Ys is the other way around - it’s “kill these enemies, and oh here’s a simple puzzle we threw in”.