oh, huh, ok! yeah, maybe!
Apple Arcade is honestly pretty good if you like playing games on a phone or tablet. i was using it fairly regularly when i still lived in a world where i commuted on a train, but i don’t like using my phone to game any other time, so
uemetsu is doing the soundtrack again. I’m curious to know what his work sounds like in 2021. I didn’t really like the original contribution he made to ff7r.
late period uematsu is greatly exposed when not working with ian gillan
EDIT: lol blue dragon came out FIFTEEN years ago fuck
I earned every achievement in Blue Dragon. I got every single nothing. Don’t let anyone tell you I don’t know what sadness is.
Blue Dragon is absolutely depression:the video game.
Still better than Lost Odyssey.
I’ve never played or even seen Lost Odyssey, but I must have listened to this song 200 times by now.
Oh I have to play it now
Objection!
LO is as life-affirming as a Lykke Li x David Lynch collab, which… actually happened!
I thought it said “I’m Walking Here” and now I’m disappointed
the grand back-and-forth between underground and overground game cultures continues unabated
To further state despite everything it is this grey sludge of a video game. You play it and gain more and more numbness. The feeling drains out of you.
blue dragon positives: the save point noise is one of the nicest i’ve ever encountered
blue dragon negatives: extremely disrespectful of the player’s time, certain late-game enemy encounters were sometimes 60-90 seconds before i could even select an attack. it was like watching a powerpoint presentation about how finite my life was
whoa, Blue Dragon actually owns. Some of Toriyama’s most impressive work, really built a distinguished world that feels lived-in. Story surprisingly goes to some dark places despite feeling like a Saturday morning cartoon. I mean, if Bravely Default 2 is the event RPG we’ve been waiting for then give me B-Tier Sakaguchi any day of the week.
agree 100%
i would mark for a ‘remaster’ with a few performance + speed tweaks and a harder difficulty
the trajectory of the japanese console rpg over the past two decades is largely depressing to me. there was a certain scope in which i think they excelled and when the capabilities of hardware and budget (as well as the expectations of the consumer) went beyond that all different sorts of studios seemed to flounder in all sorts of different ways.
i’m not a huge fan of the genre but there are more of them released between, say, 1993-1997 that i’m interested in playing than there are from the past twenty years combined. like i can’t believe that squaresoft and enix combined into one company and then their first huge collaborative creation was kingdom hearts
opoona looks cool tho i wanna play that
my two requirements for JRPGs often boil down to
in conclusion: play dragon quest 9 (opoona looks cool as heck)
Xenosaga 3 cured my completionism, perhaps BD would also prove beneficial
honestly “depression: the videogame” is every game a publisher has ever described as a “lifestyle game”
please, the technical term is “self-abnegation”
