They’re fully on a Konami trajectory, huh? This just looks like generic, grindy dogshit of the kind I could download from the Google Play store on my Galaxy.

It’s been a week or two since someone has dunked on a Crypto Bro with a shitty NFT avatar in my timeline. I hope that means the craze is over but I doubt I’m that lucky.

It’s got a real “preserve your seed for energy” bullshit you see a lot in the MRA and Incel communities. 

Strong moves. Alienate what’s likely a majority chunk of your player base(including many who may have lost loved ones to covid), then double down by insulting them on Twitter.

a multi-headed dragon, set in some sort of factory

I haven’t played the Steam version but I’ve messed around a bit with the mobile version on which it’s based and I’d say you’ll be fine. This isn’t like the Final Fantasy games where the different ports can be pretty significantly different; this is more or less a straightforward port of the SNES version.

Yes, it’s probably the best version to play at this point, unless you got a DS laying around.

Oh, I totally get that. There are a few genres and series in which I’m complete garbage but I still have to throw myself against the wall at least a few times whenever a new game comes out.

Absolutely see where you're coming from, but I came around to liking Octopath's dumb battle quips enough I don't think I can agree entirely :P

Gotta wonder if adding all the proper d-pad controls and bigger UI stuff is because they’re about to maybe go and do just that....

This is kind of like Tolkien writing the Fellowship of the Ring and the Two Towers and then wandering off to write about various tedious Numenorian kings.

To admit such a thing, it would have to be true. The fault isn’t on the author.

I’ll concede that it’s on the story-heavy end of the spectrum, but I feel like a lot of folks saw “tactical RPG” and were expecting something more like XCOM or Into the Breach and forgetting that that’s not how JRPGs roll.

I play FFT about once a year and it has less than half of Triangle Strategy’s interminable cutscenes. The game opens with a tutorial battle and then you are assailed with over 30 minutes of cutscenes and map walking before you can get into another one.

Hey folks. I just wanted to drop in and say thank you to everyone here for all the kind words, and also for reading what I’ve written at The A.V. Club these past nine years. I know I wasn’t always the most consistent presence in the comments, even before the Kinja transition, but I dipped in fairly regularly, and for…

I have one who asks to be let out on occasion, but mostly just curls up under a shade tree for a while, then asks to be let back in. The other two, along with all cats I’ve raised as indoor kitties and most that I’ve converted to that lifestyle, seem quite content with their lot.

Yes, Momo seems like she is being treated quite cruelly. She used to go outside but now doesn’t like it out there.

... you ever get the feeling that “below expectations” involves the same kind of magical math that makes the most successful films of all time never be profitable, except for the fact that all the suits get all the money from them?

They have no one to blame but themselves. They fucked up Avengers, and people took one look at Guardians and said “no thanks” (myself included).

I’m the same kind of player who can’t stand never-ending open worlds with tasklist-like quests. HZD is certanly refreshing in overall game design and IT IS SO MUCH FUN to hunt robo-dinosaurs or dino-robots whatever you choose to call them thanks to clever enemy design and the best bow mechanics in gaming.