I'm looking forward to your thoughts about Eiyuuden!
I've seen there's a season pass, I hope at least it's good

Thanks, I appreciate that! You're one of the people I've known the longest on this website too, so it's nice to drop by and say howdy again.

I very much am enjoying RE3 thus far! Super fun. Very interested to see what the rest of the series brings! I'm the most anticipating playing RE8 just because of how popular it was, so there's quite a way to go yet lol.

Hey! Sorry for the re-add, I left Backloggery for a bit and was torn between clearing out my Multitap beforehand lol. I hope you've been well

I just finished the base game story and did the FF16 event quest... and a bunch of the other side stuff that pops up after you beat the MSQ. Pretty sure I'm just gonna avoid doing any hard dungeons at the moment if possible... multiplayer really doesn't appeal to me... especially multiplayer that requires legitimate teamwork... I'm willing to put in the work but not actually take the chance someone else isn't... and honestly, I'm never going to be good enough to do any of the things as good as I'd like in a team setting so it would drag the fun down anyway.

I have MOST of my crafting and gathering classes to 40-somethings or around there with mining and botany past 50 now. (the stories for those all cap at 50 without expansion like MSQ) and I maxed my rank with the Flames... but I don't know if I'll ever get the opportunity to get a house or apartment... I have the 300000 gil sure, but the availability is... terrible. My FC occasionally has a new one free but since I'll be gone for a while in a week I'd rather let a long-term player use it.
I did a few Tribes stories for each faction... and will likely pick up more later... but really focusing on main stuff at the moment due to lack of time.

I like slow paced games... boring is fine with me. I didn't enjoy all the gimmicky stuff in the FF16 event... re-affirmed me not wanting FF16. or any other action RPG that heavily relies on Souls-like stuff or Rogue-like stuff for that matter... actually, I'd really rather avoid action games all together at this point... but I know I won't cuz I suck at life.

I have actually played it before on PS4 during another set of free trials... I am even using the same account... though I did end up making a new toon because of how much has since been added I was dreadfully unaware of what was going on outside the MSQ... so many more side things to do... even crafting has stories now. The FF14 free thing is just 30 days, a unique minion and a unique ear ring with crazy high stats and bonus XP till LVL 80. I like free things. I will definitely get the expansions and a sub at SOME point but to answer both questions, this are still pretty awful and I just can't afford to do the expansions or a sub at the moment.

I'm playing FF14 right now as well. The free 39 days from game pass perks applied to my existing account which I liked. Using it as much as possible right now.

Watching Robotech. Can we hear that theme again?

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I, love this theme. It's like Deep Space Nine combined with something from a game I could've played in the N64 era. Really makes me feel like a kid watching this.

Disks aren't in the best condition though, I might have to get em resurfaced if I experience problems. I already experienced some hesitation at the end of episode 3.

My holidays were good, thank you for asking, DarkLink, and a very belated thank you for the Backloggiversary wishes~ Sorry I didn't reply right away...

And yeah, I'm still enjoying my Sega Saturn quite a lot! It's crazy to think that I had it for almost two years now, and yet I still remember the day it arrived like it was yesterday. Wow!

[Link] Recently on my blog I covered a full review of Popoitto Hebereke on the Saturn (my first video game review of 2024, and my seventh individual Saturn video game review on my blog), which I felt was appropriate given the recent release of Hebereke 2/Ufouria: The Saga 2. I love puzzlers, though I feel like I'm not quite good at talking about that genre at length, but I tried my best to in this case. I hope you find it a decent read whenever you get a chance

Oh! ❗ On the subject of Hebereke, and I only just found this out last night (and predownloaded purely on impulse), on the Nintendo Switch eShop I learned about Hebereke: Enjoy Edition, which is the original 8-bit game as it was originally on the Famicom but with special features (like seeing the cover and pages from Hebereke and Ufouria: The Saga on the menu, achievements, different wall paper, and a "special snap" feature which you unlock any time there's a dialogue sequence which you can compare when accessing its menu how it was worded in the Japanese version--with translation--and the officially released PAL version). It is 383 MegaBytes (had to free up some room), but I'm glad the series starter got its new lease in life~ The music's tempo is not upscaled and sped up like in the Virtual Console releases, but I found myself not minding that so much as the music is still good (the Hebereke theme, no matter the rendition, is *chef's kiss* 😚)

I hope you have a good day, and happy early Easter!

Did some body say final boss? [Link] Track 418 Don't worry, least you've got Auto Life.

Did some body say horse racing? [Link] Track 51 "Waaah!"

Yeah, Homebody is developed by *the* Game Grumps haha. Don't let that dissuade you, it's not what I would expect from them at all.

RE0 is definitely a toughy. To be honest, I want to put it off and preferably play something like Revelations instead. I don't really know a lot about Revelations other than it looks very arcadey, kinda similar to Mercenaries, but I love Mercenaries anyway.

I've heard about Sweet Home. And apparently that was also based on a movie? I didn't know RE1 was initially supposed to be a remake of that though, that's interesting. I'll have to check it out.

I'd really like to get back to marathoning the REs, but I'm currently sidewinding out of horror games into grindy games I never expected myself to like haha. I'm juggling too many long titles at once but I'm not willing to drop anything either.

"Gridania"

Grandia?

I'd love to see a remaster of the second game. Make some quality of life changes because some of the game mechanics haven't aged all that well. Heck, I'd love to see VC3 remastered as well, though I don't know how much needs to be changed there.

I need to earn a Platinum trophy for the PS4 version. That will be interesting because I'm so used to the speedrun, I'll play similar to the route.

Thank you for linking me the Persona 1 wikidot!

In the meantime, I've been working my way through the Legacy of Kain series. I'd play Soul Reaver 1 with the HD remaster, but my computer is getting repaired. Blood Omen 1 was a great time. I vibed with the setting and enjoyed Kain's voice acting.

I see DS games on your memory card!!!! It's my favorite console ever. You've added some really cool games, specially TWEWY/Kirby/Hotel Dusk and more

In case you need some more recommendations, here you go:
- Ghost Trick
- Last Window (Hotel Dusk sequel)
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky
- Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside Story

While there's a 99.9% chance you're distracted by FFVII Rebirth, here are some more teeps for Gotta Protectors.

- You must implement both strategies of offense and defense. Sometimes, a good defense goes a long way since something like Archer with Spread and Pierce can keep repairing barricades and turrets while striking attackers. A good offense can help when it comes to bulky enemies (Charge helps a ton)
- Mage's magic can be useful for hordes.
- For Ninja, I prefer to have him be a suicide mouse bomber. With very little gold to use, dashing on through with bomb trap on the bases can be a useful strategy. Again, it's not set in stone, you can have him (or anybody) be your main fighter (Note that only Fighter and Ninja can learn Charge.)
- Some skills can still be useful throughout the game, like Tomahawk when it's powered up. Other skills like Recycle are better early on than later.
- Try to use your gold before you lose it. Level up, build barricades or turrets, do what you need to do. You can always horde gold later on certain levels (preferably on lower difficulties.)

General Leo Edition is a very mixed bag so far; all I'm going to say is that it sticks mostly with the original translation, but throws in some new things now and again, and the new writing is SO fucking weird, and the writer doesn't really get Terra's character.

Color changes are based on progress; basically, I'm wearing the corpse of my Steam backlog right now, and GOG is next, so expect another shift... whenever I pull that off. Looking at what I've got left, I think that's going to be a few months tops; I don't think anything I have left is all that long until I get into my where I've got the Yakuza games and shit.

Oh, they have gotten SO much worse. Years ago, I had someone try to explain Guilty Gear to me at a casual level, and it was like... I know what those words mean, but not in that order; what the FUCK is a Roman Cancel? I also tried a BlazBlue game, and couldn't even get through the INTERMEDIATE tutorial; just sat there in disbelief as some snotty little anime bitch berated me for being stupid and incompetent, because video game developers think that's funny.

Game, singular; unlike Street Fighter, the numbered sequels are more like the Championship Edition and Turbo versions, so just play 3: Jedah's Damnation for PlayStation and you'll have the entire series in one game. Darkstalkers is my go-to, because I've always favored Capcom's Fighters, and it just feels like the culmination of everything Street Fighter 2 was building; anything after that was a completely different beast. Oh, I know the feeling; there are many times that I want to dive into a new Fighter, but then start stressing out about learning a completely new system and all the characters in it. That and I can't play them anymore? It sounds fucking stupid, but I seem to have trouble with the basics now, and I don't know if that's the round d-pad on this controller or what, but I can't seem to get back into them. I'd like to try them with a PlayStation controller, since those have individual buttons for each direction, but they're fucking $80 a pop! I've kinda given up the ghost on Dragon Ball FighterZ; I don't think Namco's ever going to remove Denuvo at this point, and for how much difficulty I'm having with Fighters anymore, I'm just gonna say fuck it. I don't need it, and Namco's a garbage company that I'd rather not support in any way; I find myself saying that with more and more companies these days...

As I understand it, a lot of people did; most people are pretty shocked when I tell them what I paid for it. I've only ever played the GameCube version - I've never played anything on an actual Dreamcast, physical or emulated - but I like that it has the extra content; the music quality never really bothered me, and the soundtrack isn't all that special to begin with, if you ask me. I will say that the higher encounter rate might actually be in its favor, though, since Skies of Arcadia has the annoying habit of locking unique items behind extremely low drop rates; I remember spending HOURS in that one dungeon just trying to get one specific weapon.

Then they aren't using it correctly; it becomes a pointless term otherwise. It's like how people use terms like gluttony, lust, and greed more broadly, but the whole point of their existence is that they mean very specific things, because otherwise, they all mean the same thing and don't even need to exist; if you can be a glutton for money or lust for food, then they just become generic words that mean desire. Honestly, Ozma's a completely pointless boss, like many optional superbosses in Final Fantasy games; you get next to nothing for it, and it's not a battle you can win by strategy (you have to follow specific instructions), so you don't even get bragging rights. I can't speak to any of the DS remakes except 4, but I thought it SUCKED; I have no desire to see how they bastardized the rest of them with their goofball humor and lazy difficulty spikes.

It was in that link you sent me. lol did you not watch it before you sent it to me? I deeply resent 10-2, not only because it's stupid to have two numbers in a title - ISN'T IT, KINGDOM HEARTS - but because I think I'd love a game where the class system involves playing dress-up, but I've never heard anyone defend the shit you have to go through to the damn thing, even from those who try to defend 10-1's minigame bullshit. The one I really want to play is Final Fantasy 10-4, though; it's not so much a video game as an audio game, and it's played entirely on a walkie talkie. You have to radio instructions to a real life chocobo who may or may not follow them, depending on how much Tetsuya Nomura hates you. But yeah, collect-a-thon bullshit belongs back on the N64; having recently played Ys 9, I was reminded why my N64 and its anemic-but-somehow-still-bloated library of 3D Platformers spent plenty of time collecting dust.

Oh, I've heard; people are SO fucking excited for that minigame trash, but that singlehandedly MURDERED any chance that I'll ever even look to see if there's a demo for the first part, much less play this overhyped remake. Doesn't matter what else they do with it or how well they execute it; there's no way I'm putting myself through all of that for it.

Right? Imagine hearing endlessly about this LEGENDARY Final Fantasy thing, and your first game in the series being 13. You'd think the entire JRPG fan community was completely up its own ass. At the time, my favorite writer made the comment that Squenix could release anything at all and fanboys would be falling all over each other to release cuts of the latest trailer with Linkin Park's In the End dubbed over it. It was ALWAYS In the End. OMG 2000s NOSTALGIA BRING BACK AMVS! Anyway, I guess I could see that, since I've had all kinds of holy grails over the years, but I still wouldn't say the likes of Smartball or Puss & Boots are among the greatest games of all time.

Right, but if they ever wanted to borrow any of my RPGs ever again, they weren't going to save over my file, simple as that; it's easy to make the terms when you're holding most of the chips. The Super Turrican games are better about all that, and much more polished experiences, in my opinion; Mega Turrican has... that grappling arm that never felt right to me.

Beats me; by the PlayStation era, I think I stopped reading manuals altogether. Valkyrie Profile certainly wasn't without its cryptic bullshit, but I don't think it was any worse than any of the other RPGs of its era; I used a guide I found at GameFAQs, and that got me through it, because how the HELL were you supposed to figure out Ending A!?

Mine had that weird disc, too; I kinda hate those, especially for Fighters, because the whole fucking point of a D-pad is that you don't get more than rigid, four-directional input. Hadoukens are a LOT easier when you don't accidentally wind up jumping because of that "smoother" input; if you want more sensitive input, you use the fucking sticks. But yeah, more and more single player games force an online connection, so many of your physical games are going to be just as useless as the digital ones.

$20 was the cost of that Capcom bundle I picked up. Huh. I wound up not even playing the Steam version because I'm looking to emulate my PS3 copy... though that's been pushed pretty far out at this point for a lot of reasons. I'm hoping to get my Wii shit mostly sorted out today, and then I'll be able to focus on other things the next time I have a week off. At least it's been productive; I got a looooooot of shit sorted out this week. Anyway, yeah, 6 looks really cool, aside from all the other bullshit they've saddled it with, but that's the state of gaming these days. It ABSOLUTELY means I'm not going to be buying it, though; the current state of gaming either means giving up your basic rights or saving a lot of money, and I'm sticking with the latter.

At this point, just cut it, burn it, and give me something new. I love the first four Breath of Fire games, but it's just been too long since the last one for the next one to be any good. When we say things like, "I want a new Breath of Fire/Dino Crisis," we have to stop and think what we want out of them, and whether a big budget publisher would ever make that game, because if all we want is a new ____ game, that's all we're going to get, and it's going to suck. Not to beat a dead horse at this point, but ActRaiser Renaissance is a perfect example: the last game in the series came out in 1993, nobody liked it, it killed the series, and then in 2021, Renaissance shadow drops, and all anyone thought was, "GASP! ANOTHER ACTRAISER GAME!" ...and that's all anyone got. Dragon Quarter sucked, and Breath of Fire 6 was just a crappy mobile game; just let the franchise die; thanks for the memories. The people who worked on all those great games we've loved over the years have long since moved on; it's time we do the same.

And of all fucking games, THAT ONE!? I've seen ads for it; thing looks like a fucking PS2 game! I've got my internal conflict about supporting Capcom, but Ubisoft makes it MUCH easier; I'd be pretty hard-pressed to think of more than two games they've ever made that I care about, and Child of Light might just've been the right game at the right part of my life.

I'm calling in "sick" tomorrow. I have a one-day pass to the Gold Saucer that's non-refundable, if you know what I mean, hahaha.

Can't wait to meet Cait Sith. He's unironically my favourite FF hero.