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Another month, another roundup. I got to a lot less stuff than I was really hoping to this month, but...well, you'll see. My actual watch time was almost the same as last month, but it ended up being concentrated into a few specific things this time around. Psycho-Pass So I finished Season 1. The show manages to spin a surprisingly affective yarn about characters who are (broadly) kinda unlikeable…
You'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise, given the corpus of games that I generally play, but I am very much NOT an anime person. A lot of stuff inspired by anime, yes, but broadly speaking, my position has always been that if I'm going to experience this kind of stuff, I would rather play it than watch it. However, youtube decided to throw me a curveball this year: Three months of Crunchyroll…
Rayman Origins I've never actually played Rayman Origins. I've played most of its levels because they were included in Rayman Legends - a game that I thoroughly enjoyed but have not played since its launch on the Wii U in, uh... checks notes 2013 - but that game has no real context for Origins' levels. They're unlocked semi-randomly from scratch cards, and while I applaud the effort, Legends is…
Telltale Games is dead, long live Telltale Games. Adhoc Studios, founded in 2018 after the collapse of the original Telltale games, was hired on by the newer incarnation of Telltale Games to help develop The Wolf Among Us: Season 2 - and when THAT went south, they set out on their own to make an original IP. Fast forward to 2024, and we get our first view of Dispatch - yet another attempt to bring…
The French are at it again. First they came for our beloved JRPGs and...well, they won a GOTY award for that one , so I guess we can't really argue with results. I don't think they'll be repeating that feat with Memories in Orbit - Douze Dixièmes's sophomore effort 1 is more good than great, and doesn't quite measure up to the Hollow Knight games that they're clearly aping - but it's an admirable…
If I had to make a list of "games I never would have expected to get sequels," Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo would have been pretty high on the list. As a visual novel that leaned heavily on its real-life connection to a city in Japan (to the point where it was co-produced by the town's tourism board), while simultaneously being a game wherein people wield opposing curses and fight…
Three more months come and gone, as we spend yet another winter playing through a collection of smaller games. I honestly spent most of this time working on Trails: Beyond the Horizon (which took a nice, breezy 73 hours, much to my dismay), but we've got a few indie gems to talk about. I even enjoyed most of them! The Messenger Folks, big news - I've finally entered the wild world of indie games,…
When you boot up the game, Pipistrello shows you a fairly accurately modeled GBA as a cartridge with the game's title descends and inserts into the system. It zooms into the screen, plays the developer logo with an almost identical GBA boot up sound, before finally loading into the title screen. If you go more than 5-ish seconds without touching any buttons, the entire camera pulls back to show…
It is functionally impossible to talk about Horizon without spoiling (at minimum) Daybreak and Daybreak 2. I will do my best to keep things as spoiler-free as possible, but like the game itself, I will assume that you are, at minimum, vaguely aware of what happens in the previous entries, even if you have not played them. The Calvard arc as a whole has been done incredibly dirty by Falcom. After…
This isn't how it was supposed to go. Windswept was supposed to be the best of the DKC-likes, the one that brings in a little bit of Celeste and really makes the formula shine. Certainly, no one can accuse it of not understanding the assignment - the game is structured like DKC (DKC2 specifically), gives you two characters with unique and interesting skills (like DKC3), and it takes a lot of stuff…