he clearly adheres to the only ethnic stereotype that is acceptable, of the mysterious finnish janitor
sorry, felix
Dangerously tactical number of scopes
my copy of deadly premonition 2 (or as it says on the box, dead2y premonition) arrived today. i played the quite extensive intro and a few little early missions. the writing is still good! wonât be able to properly evaluate this until i get over the joy i felt at hearing new dialogue from york, but they really did make another deadly premonition game.
missed an opportunity to have the box art just be francis york morgan giving a peace sign next to the Deadly Premonition logo like the ghostbuster 2 ghost.
I really enjoyed D4 as a really accessible Swery-take on point and click adventures and am sad there probably wonât be another one. They also reused Yorkâs original name for the MC from the earlier more overtly Twin Peaksy version of DP1
Checking out OFF, the French âbatter vs. ghostsâ RPG. Pretty kooky and some nice flavour to the writing. It occasionally goes a bit too meta but itâs good stuff for a pre-Undertale indie effort. Great music and good use of stock illustrations too. Something about having a batter as the main character in a game that otherwise has no references to baseball is really doing things for my mood.
While waiting for Deadly Premonition 2 Iâve also been playing Sakura Wars (PS4) despite having never played a previous game in the series. Itâs not quite as horny as it looks and Iâm enjoying the premise a lot (more games involving theatres is something I didnât know I wanted).
The structural presentation is very deliberately close to a serial TV show with ânext time onâ and the opening theme really feeling like an opening theme. These kinds of devices are always weird in games but Iâm playing a long with it because I love the style and music so far.
Does anyone know what this musical style would be called? Itâs kinda inspirational anime showtunes? I imagine a trumpet blasting off into space every time I hear the opening stinger.
The combat kinda sucks and doesnât really go beyond basic Musou. Also the camera is so drawn back when youâre in a mech that it feels like youâre piloting a collectible toy. The snap dialogue choices and silly office drama of running a theatre/mech launchpad is more entertaining despite being very simple.
sentai funk
i donât know how to describe it because that sentai opening sound is very 70s disco/funk-ish in general.
I think it loses a lot being a boring Musou instead of an easy SRPG like the others. I def recommend checking out the Saturn original that was recently fantranslated if you like this one.
Itâs harmless enough but I can definitely see this working better as an SRPG. Seems even weirder considering the Valkyria Chronicles devs made this one.
Itâs mainly because theyâre such ensemble games that an SRPG is the only way everyone gets to participate all the time. It also has harder stats to effect picking the right dialogue options, etc.
Theyâre charming games and like you said with this one, theyâre not THAT horny and the opportunities you do get to be a pervert youâre rightfully punished for it.
Seems even even weirder when Sakura Taisen 3 onwards is basically prototype Valkyria Chronicles
i really like the music in that opening, i am really bad with genres of music but it reminds me of this stuff i like to hear from time to time:
Except by Gunbuster, i never watched the other two actually.
Marble It Up is great and literally just Marble Blast Ultra with cooler aesthetics which is fantastic imo
Demonâs Tilt continues to be really good
Cross Fight frigginâ rules I love Cross Fight
Yeah the original theme is almost a direct copy of Takarazuka show music. The modern version has a bit more idol influences. I will ask Lady Rude for some youtube links later.
I finally found that Bill in Nocturne yesterday.
That was hard for me, and I wonder what challenges await me next 
Edit: ah, itâs that skeleton Iâve always heard aboutâŚ
i do not know why but i am playing minish cap for the first time and like itâs completely unremarkable aside from a few superficially neat ideas but I am still playing it for some reason