.hack// G.U. Last Recode

I have this game on wishlist for over a decade, how does it play? Not too dated, I hope. You are piquing my interest, and a quick look shows it doesn’t look too bad.

Star Ocean is old school. It has been a while since I had to make sure my characters are topped up with the healing items of all kinds, or they will just die in the dungeon. My usual play style is to not spend any money on curative items, just hoard whatever I loot and then finish the game without using most of them. That doesn’t work here. Have to make proper use of everything in the dungeon, which is not to say game is difficult, because it isn’t, I have just forgotten how older games used to be. Which is just to say, I might not be a great judge of how the game is.

Phoenix Wright is great, I have only played the first trilogy yet and I am already a fan. Plan to start the next trilogy soon.

While I remember the criticism, I felt the general response to the game was good. It was something different, so people liked it.

Na, I think that is how you are supposed to play this one. If you go with the mindset of just going for the main goal you miss out on tons of other things.

Nice. I still haven’t played Engage, so won’t be getting Fortune’s Weave on launch, but its nice to see so many exclusives for Switch 2.

I didn’t do the difficult researches in the main game, that could be the reason that I felt the difficulty spike.

Ah, interesting.

I tried Medieval Dynasty with a friend, our first survival game and it was such a chore with just two people. It could’ve been fun 3 or 4, some more people helping with stuff.

Elden Ring … is pretty chill.

Uhh… I think we have different meaning of chill.

Hehe, thanks!

I skimmed through your review but don’t think I saw how long the game is?

Game Chat might be okay, but I was so annoyed thay there is no way to have a text chat. Who makes a chat system and doesn’t add text chat! Nintendo can be so weird.

I like your names for Yoshi. How are you finding the difficulty level of post-game? I got stuck on the first one when I tried it, which caused me to take a break from post-game and just do the remaining stuff in earlier levels.

What’s that about not able to do 100% without Amiibo? Also, there are new Star Fox Amiibos?

Congratulations on finishing Visions of Mana! And good luck with the post game!

Welcome to the dark side! You were one of the people who were going to get one eventually, but what made you finally take the plunge?

Which other Compile Heart / Idea Factory games do you think are worth playing? I have a few of them on my wishlist, but haven’t looked them up in detail recently so not sure if they are worth the time. Namely, Death end Re;quest, Fairy Fencer F and Mary Skelktor. There might be more but these are the “oldest” ones in my list.

I loved Muramasa: The Demon Blade! I thought the same thing when I saw Majogami! Glad you are liking the game. I also have multiple Inti Creates games in my wishlist. I guess that’s what happens when you have a wishlist spanning more than a decade. 😆

Heh, well I didn’t comment to be the top comment, just having a conversation. 😀

Yeah, I don’t have much issue with the story (though I am still in early game), but I agree with the rest.

I think the game deserves good reviews, but I’m not quite sure how it won so many GOTY awards. Perhaps it just wasn’t the game for me.

So, I haven’t played the game, and haven’t read most of your post because of spoilers. The reason I opened the post (and why I am replying to this specific part) is that most of my friends who have played the game consider this one of the best game in a very long time, if not ever. One of the very few 10/10 game for them. They loved the gameplay, the music, and the story (and probably more, but I didn’t delved deep into it cause didn’t want any spoilers). Oh, and they did find the platforming unnecessary too. I don’t think I heard anyone counting that as positive, it just the game was great despite that.

This is just to say that it wasn’t just the awards, lots of other people loved it too and consider all the awards well deserved. It is possible the game just isn’t for you. I have had similar issues with some very highly rated games (case in point, Red Dead Redemption 2 which I am playing right now). Different people have different tastes. No matter how universal acclaim a game is, there will be people who can’t get into it.

Interesting. Thanks for the link.

Don’t think the game is for me, but it looks good for people who enjoy such games.

Can you play discs on PS5 without making PSN account?

Where’s our review?

I have heard really good things about Cyber Sleuth, and this one also has very good ratings. If you want to check a review, SwitchUp did one recently and they said it’s one of the best “Pokémon” they have played in recent years (or something like that).

I just have a manual list, but if you can find a source that list all upcoming first party games it should be easy enough.

Yoshi and the Mysterious Book was the first game to do that. Nintendo announced that their first party digital games will be cheaper from now on, and all games have been $10 less than the physical since then.

Cool. I will try to pick up Fight in Tight Spaces at next sale.