The post-2.0 story is a bit of a slog but it picks up immensely at the end (and I do mean immensely), and Heavensward and beyond are amazing.

...I’m sorry this is such an amazingly scummy thing to do BUT I’M LAUGHING AT THE SHEER AUDACITY OF IT

I played it on PS2, I played it on Xbox 360, and I’m glad it has a home on PC now.

...It sounds a lot to me like what you want to play isn’t chess, but D&D.

There’s already a random element to chess. It’s called “the other player.”

...I’ll admit, being able to revisit places that are long since gone would be one reason I’d be hyped for that kind of technology.

It just now occurs to me that Drakengard 3 is a mirror image to NieR: Replicant/Gestalt.

I only beat Drakengard 3's ending with the help of a YouTube video that featured note markers. Still took me well over a dozen tries and much, much cursing.

Love Obra Dinn. While we’re talking about murder investigations involving fanciful gadgetry, let me take this moment to recommend AI: The Somnium Files, available on Switch, PS4, and PC. It’s by the creator of the Zero Escape series, if you’re familiar with that, and the publisher of Danganronpa, so it can get a bit wa…

*screaming*

The Share button took a lot of getting used to. At first I instinctively recoiled against them apparently “eliminating” the Select button entirely, but once I realized the touchpad was basically one giant Select button - and got into the habit of screencapping funny or memorable bits of dialogue - I warmed up to it imm…

I still haven’t played Odyssey and I’m sitting on a copy I bought during Black Friday two years ago. Any news on how that runs?

This is giving me such Viva Pinata vibes.

Most of what The Lost Levels has going for it is the cachet of being “the REAL Super Mario Bros. 2" and “the game Nintendo thought was too hard for dumb Americans.” Now, I’m not exactly a diehard fan of SMB2USA, but I can’t deny Nintendo made the right call shelving SMB2J in favor of it.

“Then I flip a switch don a mask and fluffy is everything-”

I’m only personally familiar with the first two games but Origami King came heavily recommended by a friend and I LOVED IT SO MUCH

I honestly didn’t know that! I always assumed it worked the same as the Nintendo Switch.

The first-gen models had no onboard storage and required you to buy a (ridiculously expensive) proprietary card, yes.

I’ve seen that place in the Yakuza games, I shouldn’t be surprised that it’s real, and yet here I am.

I played the main game through and I can say this: there are parts right at the end that made me want to put my controller through my screen, namely a lengthy gauntlet sequence with no checkpoints and a ridiculous number of enemies. There’s sincerely nothing like it up to that point, and it smacks of cheap,…