It really is true what they say: ignorance is bliss. Once you’ve learned something, you cannot unlearn it, and there are definitely things that you wouldn’t (or even shouldn’t) want to know, even if you think you do. I can think of plenty of things I was happier not knowing.
Umineko’s Answers Arcs falls into that category.
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The SaGa series has been on my to-do list for…a while. Since Romancing SaGa 2 was released on the Switch. I own all of the games in the series released on the platform up to this point – and will probably be getting SaGa Frontier Remastered in a few days, knowing me – and I hadn’t played any of them until this point. No time to start like the present, no place better to start than with the first game!
It’s only about a month younger than me. Christ, I feel old.
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My Nintendo Switch is a mess. This is partly Nintendo’s fault for not making the UI better – come the fuck off it guys, folders are not rocket science! – but also partly mine for obsessively buying things. Usually in sales, but sometimes not. Anodyne has been sitting on my Switch for at least a year and I have no idea when or why I bought it. Maybe the visuals pulled me in. Maybe it was on sale.
I certainly hope it was; I wouldn’t pay full price for it.
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This is actually the first life sim game I’ve ever played! I know so little about this genre that I had to actually look up what it was called. I mean, I’ve played every Animal Crossing title, but it’s not quite the same in the sense that there is no resource management. My experience with the AC series – I get bored after anywhere between two weeks and a month – has actually put me off trying the likes of Stardew Valley, Story of Seasons, and even Rune Factory.
Littlewood has me strongly considering trying them.
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I told myself I wasn’t going to play this when it first came out – I have a soft goal this year of completing 50 games (this is #28, so I’m well on my way!) and painful experience with Generations Ultimate (over 1000 hours) and World (about 250 hours…on both PS4 and PC) has taught me that Monster Hunter games consume me utterly once I get them. The gameplay loop is addicting, the multiplayer is satisfying, and…yeah, this is a series that has grown on me.
But I really wish I’d waited.
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A piece of unsolicited advice from me to anyone who may happen to be reading this: never force yourself through something if you’re not enjoying it. If you’re not enjoying it, there is no shame in dropping it. This is a sensible thing to do, because there is nothing worse than suffering through media you’re not enjoying if you don’t have to. Your time is valuable, and anything that doesn’t acknowledge that isn’t worth being acknowledged. If it’s bad, then drop it and never look back. Damn what anyone else says.
I need to practice what I preach.
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It’s not very often that I buy a game based solely on its visuals, but the second I saw this I knew I’d be picking it up eventually. Grabbed it in the sale last year and went in completely blind (haha) because sometimes it pays to have zero expectations and let a game surprise you every once in a while.
Not sure if I’m really surprised by this, but I’m not exactly displeased either.
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To this day, it still appalls me that Square Enix were surprised by the original Bravely Default’s reception in the West – it shows a clear lack of understanding of their audience, and of what made their older games so popular. That Tomoyo Asamo felt the need to apologise for Bravely Second also shows this. Sometimes it feels like blind luck that Square Enix actually make an enjoyable experience, because they clearly didn’t intend to if they can’t recognise when they did. They’ve been wholly swallowed into this ridiculous notion that the JRPG genre is dead – and oh my god, isn’t that ironic – and their repeated attempts to “modernise” their games over the years have been more embarrassing than Sonic’s repeated re-designs.
But I think if we get an apology for this game in the not-too-distant future, it won’t be entirely undeserved.
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I’ve been a Spider-Man fan for most of my life – since I saw the first episode of the 90s TV series. I grew up reading the comics, was absurdly excited for the original movies (although not the “Amazing” movies or the awful MCU ones) and I still keep up with the comics now. Yet I didn’t immediately jump on this when it came out…mostly because my PS4 was in full jet engine mode by then.
But it came with the PS5 bundle, and I am so very glad it did. I really needed this game right now.
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