christian

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else guilty of this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Telling my five-year-old that if they can beat Ecco the Dolphin in front of me I will take them out for ice cream, but I’m not sitting down to watch more often than once a week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just finished Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember not enjoying this one anywhere near as much as Dawn of Sorrow. I remember I saved right before a boss fight that I was pretty confident was Dracula and would be the final boss (could have been mistaken in thinking that though) and then never felt compelled to actually enter that room and finish the game. There was also a plot turn that kind of annoyed me just because I had been expecting it from the start of the game. I did enjoy the voice acting during the boss battle where he keeps yelling at you for being a “stupid disciple” though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what video game deserves to be in a museum?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I clicked your link not expecting to watch more than thirty seconds but watched the full thing, that was a great lecture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Octopath Traveler 0 – Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Being clichés was exactly it, I would find all of the other things perfectly tolerable if the characters had depth. I think three of the four introductions I saw just felt like “this character has actual values that you, the player, will totally align with” but completely hamfisted. (The fourth came across as a generic oonga boonga beast woman so not exactly reason for optimism.) If the protagonists are going to be the good guys then a story making that clear should be enough, rather than having “being the good guy” be an entire personality at the very start.

  I expected they’re all going to be given more depth as the story advances but I didn’t feel excited to wait around to see if that makes them less annoying, especially with four more intro stories remaining.

  If you’ve played the second game I would like an opinion on if the second game has a better cast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Octopath Traveler 0 – Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried the first one a few years back and it seemed right up my alley as far as art style and gameplay but I gave up after finding my fourth character because all four of them had personalities and dialogue that were grating on me. I like jrpgs and I can’t remember another one I bailed on explicitly because I found the dialogue annoying.

  When I looked through reviews it seemed mostly positive, and even for the critical reviews that did share my complaint it was mostly an afterthought to other concerns, most of which didn’t bother me. If anyone felt similarly and also tried out the sequel I’d really like to know if it’s any better in that regard because I really wanted to like the first one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mid games review: American McGee's Alice (2000) and Alice: Madness Returns (2011) PS3⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got the first one a year or two after it came out and I remember I really enjoyed it. I think once I got the jacks I barely needed any other weapon.