what in the hell are you talking about
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jesus christ
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I did not read this post previously, or any news or articles about FF6 or FF in general, recently, at all, but I absolutely did wake up this morning about half an hour ago and was for whatever reason half dream thinking about the new HD2D opera scene in the final fantasy six pixel remasterā¦
I guess some of you were posting about FF6 yesterday thatās probably itā¦but stillā¦the ripples in the etherā¦reach us allā¦
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Two instruments down.
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Kinda tangentially related to the Chrono Trigger/ FF6 talk, but a JRPG thing Iāve been thinking about lately is how they all just feel way too long.
But i donāt think itās anything to do with the actual length of the game since Iād be feeling the same whether itās Xenoblade Chronicles X or Lunar. I think itās more that developers just donāt really know how to let the game end.
Thereās always a point where the game signals āthe endgame is nighā and it puts me in a mindset like, okay the game will be over soon. But then it either turns out to be a fake out and thereās still another whole story sequence and final dungeon left, or the actual final dungeon is way too long with an unnecessary boss rush. It always kills the momentum when the game keeps promising youāre almost done, just one more thingā¦
IMO, the final dungeon in an rpg should be the shortest. Another reason Phantasy Star IV is great
(although that dungeon really hurts my eyes)
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sorry 2 say I will be recommending clair obscur yet again hereā¦ I finished it in about 25 hours flat after doing maybe 1/3 of the optional stuff and found it very satisfying.
I have so many positive things to say about itā¦ imo there are fewer than half a dozen games in the last 20 years that have really successfully evoked the spirit of 90s jRPGs while still being modern and interesting and fun to play the whole way through (I would put both Niers and FFXV on this list, for instance) and this is one of them
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That game is definitely on my list, just as soon as i get through my always increasing backlogā¦
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Itās definitely horny in exactly that pg13 ps1-ps2 era rpg way. Didnāt know I missed it until I got it back.
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Same as Clock Tower, the killer this time, the āScissor Walker,ā is of course a little dopey, right? But I think the scariest thing is how someone dopey like that comes to kill you. When someone super-serious and shrewd comes to kill you, itās kind of easy to accept, isnāt it? But being killed by someone who you think, āthis guyās kind of a dumbassā makes it exponentially scarier.
from an interview with hifumi kono (clock tower, nightcry)
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Do yourself a favour, throw away that list and play The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls
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Or at least sub it in for Seasons
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I have four instruments now.
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I like Link Between Worlds over all of these, but I also hate 3D Zelda.
Even with LBW, the post-Awakening/Zelda64 style of making every villager a weirdo but having it have no payoff or importance to anything annoys me. Itās cute in Awakening but gets more and more aggressive every game after until there canāt be normal people in the world, they all have to be some kinda weird little freak. Which is normally great and Iām fine with it, but they converted all the nice villagers in LTTP into freaks for LBW and I was so put off by that 
But the new structure for how you can rent any sub-weapon and take on the game in any order you want is so good and still feels fresh today IMO
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I love Link Between Worlds, it was pretty much my GOTY when it came out. Iām really digging Linkās Awakening. I appreciate how bite-sized the dungeons are.
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ON CT
That makes a lot of sense as an interpretation now that I think about it. When I played it I saw this as the point in the game when the gang became confident in their ability to solve problems and realized they had a time machine and could take theirā¦ time about things.
I always want to take my time and explore at my own pace in games if I can but I think its a strength to have a mix. I kind of donāt like knowing the plot will not advance while I do side quests when the main quest is going HURRY UP OR DIE at me. Ya know?
If was thinking about CT on MD and while that seems like a perfect storm to me. Looking up the genesis covers for the music, the good ones sound so much like the SNES versions its rendered redundant.
Now sega genesis Dragon Questā¦
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Thinking about the Shining Force III Translation which started in 2009 and is still being updated to this day, are there any other similar projects with this kind of active longevity?
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how the nepalese royal massacre was perpetrated with firearms nearly identical to the arsenal of half-life 1
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This bit from an Oxford study testing well-being against video game playtime.
We, therefore, do not find evidence for a meaningful relationship between playtime and well-being at any timescale, but cannot rule out the possibility of one existing.
However, we did find evidence of direct positive relationships linking life fit to well-being separate from playtime (figure 5): those who believe gaming to be beneficial to their lives tend to be also more likely to report higher levels of well-being, regardless of how much they play.
The idea that simply believing gaming is good for you makes you a fundamentally more mentally well person even if ur not actually gamingā¦I choose to believe this and ignore any potential flaws in the methodology of the study.
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