Ghost Trick is one of those games where I see it mentioned and I feel a compulsion to tell everyone in earshot to play it. Definitely worth checking out. If you can’t track down the DS version, the iOS version is a perfectly acceptable substitute- the original was pretty much all touchscreen anyway, so it’s a pretty…

Secret of Mana has been re-released/ported three times in less than a year’s span if you count the PS4/Vita remake as a single event: first in the Switch collection, then on the SNES Classic, and now this. Yet the Switch collection shows no sign of getting localized, the SNES Classic doesn’t support a third player,…

A friend of mine played FFVI for the first time on Steam (which uses the same base as the mobile remakes), and absolutely loved it. The visuals are definitely a downgrade from their SNES originals, but V and VI are such excellent games beyond their spritework that they can survive taking that hit. There is a control…

Here’s the thing with Hello Neighbor- it got too popular too quickly. After it took off due to YouTubers playing the alpha, the “updates” were really just content changes to shake things up for the sake of it, rather than moving toward a cohesive design. The end result being something that was rebuilt for the people…

DBFZ’s whole lobby system is this weird, glaring blight on what is otherwise a fantastic game. Everything about the game itself is great, but the convoluted mess it makes you go through to actually play it is a headache.

This sounds like it could be a hit- a real graveyard smash.

I’ll be honest- the only reason I play Tien is because sending Chiaotzu to explode on people’s backs amuses me to no end.  

the Canto Bight sequence

Which is why you have speed running categories. Popular games are usually broken down at least into “Any%” and “Glitchless”, sometimes “100%” and “No-Warp” categories too depending on the game. And it’s because of the very reason you’ve uncovered- what counts as “beating the game” is many times open to interpretation.…

The best part of playing Tien is sending Chiaotzu to die on an opponent’s back. There’s something darkly hilarious of seeing him fly in and make a noble sacrifice in a battle that actually wasn’t going that badly for me.

I think that EX raids in general are a bad idea, as they basically force you to decide how much you’re willing to schedule the rest of your life around the game. But it would do a lot to fix them if they tried to build the invites around a player’s play schedule. If I’m raiding it’s almost always from 5:30 pm to the…

Also a problem with EX raids: jobs. I actually don’t raid that much (at least not in the past month or so), but got my first EX raid invite a few days ago... to a raid that’s happening at 3:30 on a Wednesday. I understand that they don’t want to encourage people staying out super late, but the current raid schedule…

The answer will always be some sort of exploit. In this particular case, it’s glitching in an ability that says “kill all monsters”. Sometimes it’s not so blatant, maybe just a particular combination of equipment and abilities that just so happen to counter the final boss. AI exploits are also common, such as forcing…

He’s not listed in the credits for Sonic ‘06, it appears the last Sonic game he worked on was Sonic Riders. Interestingly, there does appear to be a QA guy with several Sonic credits named Yuji Nakamura, but given that his earliest credit is from 1999 (2003 for a Sonic-related one) it’s almost certainly a coincidence.

OK, I was reading the article’s “recent high-school grad” as meaning “within the last year or so”, but I suppose there’s room for a few more years there. That also gives the timeline a little more room to breathe, as the gap between 2 and 5 feels longer than 4-5 years in terms of how several characters have aged.

What’s weird is that right now I’d almost rather just have a Smash 4 updated port in the style of MK8D than a whole new game. Smash 4 is pretty polished with tons of content, and honestly Smash has gotten so deep into its unlocks that the older I get the more I dread the idea of going through a checklist just to get…

I’m pretty sure the birth years were used in Street Fighter 2, which was originally released in 1991 (making Ryu 27 at the time). I think the games use a sliding timeline now to keep things in the present/near future without having to age the characters at the same rate. But if we assume Ryu was 27 during SF2, that…

You know, the way we’re probably supposed to interpret this is “Ryu is significantly older than Sakura and is playing dumb to let her down gently”. But “Ryu has spent his whole life studying martial arts and therefore is basically clueless when it comes to romance & sexual attraction” is funnier, so I’m going to go…

THE WORLD ENDS WITH YOU

I knew this game was trouble when it walked in.