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Some Psychonauts 2 and Dragon’s Dogma.

Still going in as blind as I can, but I’m glad they’re featuring it.

The iOS/Android chronology thing.

Hard to really know what I want this time before seeing the prices. This might be the year I fill out some of the SquareEnix catalog, since they never get bundled or drop all that low.

What a beautiful game. It's rare for me to play something and gawk at the art the whole time, but Greak does that. It looks like Hollow Knight tried to be more like Ori. Here's a random screenshot I took in a basic cave - this is the visual mark it hits throughout: Plus all the music is orchestrated, which is a treat in a 2D indie. Gameplay otherwise isn't quite as polished, but gets the job done. It's a puzzle-platformer at heart, a light Metroidvania mixed with Lost Vikings. Aside from alternating between characters to solve puzzles, you can control all of them simultaneously. They'll often desync from one another slightly - if you've played Ice Climbers in Smash Bros, you know what that means. There's minor flaws here and there. Enemies are a bit too repetitive. Story and lore never amount to much. Having to manage each character's health and inventory individually is annoying. Combat never feels great, partly due to the three character dynamic not working out well within boss battles. Still it's a better overall package than those faults imply. I was still really up on it by the end. It feels like a hidden gem in the same way that Teslagrad is. Not an absolutely must play, but if you tried the genre's heavy hitters and want something lighter, try it. 8/10 2022 Death's Door - 8.5/10 Torna: The Golden Country - 9/10 Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion - 7/10 Mail Mole - 7.5/10 Yooka Laylee and the Impossible Lair - 9/10 What the Golf? - 8/10 Greak: Memories of Azur - 8/10

I've got $25 of credit from idling this time. Time to blow it all on games that will show up in bundles & giveaways soon!

Visuals aren't a bother to me when I'd be able to get solid resolution and framerate on my aging PC.

Hmm, all this talk makes me want to try it. Just picked it up in the Capcom Humble Bundle. Random question: Should I play it instead of Witcher 2 if I'm deciding between them?

"Vanilla space song" lol Even though it looks decent, he's right that Starfield wasn't the show stealer this year. Capcom and SquareEnix won the day.

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"New players might even enjoy starting their FF7 journey with FF7 Rebirth." LOL, that's like starting Tolkien with Two Towers. Bad idea.

FF7 itself gets a lot less streamlined after Midgar. I’m not really worried about that aspect of it. More that they’ll make it feel more linear and closed in than it was. On the positive, this was definitely one of the best announcements of not-E3. FF7R2 coming so close to FF16 is legitimately surprising. Plus a Crisis Core remake this year. Square delivered.

Good game. Tad repetitive, but it's very enjoyable. Just don't worry about 100%'ing it, the payoff isn't worth it.

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/supraland Highly recommended.

I might need to finally give this game a shot. Not done yet, they're about 4/5 the way through the code. Bonus:

Played some more Greak in between the Next Fest Demos. I just love this game's vibe, it keeps drawing me back. Illustrates to me just how good it is in comparison to lesser indies.

Midnight Fight Express - It's like a Dreamcast-era beat'um up with a darker tone and skill trees. Not bad, but I wish it went in a cheesier direction. There's also a bit too much tutorial. If you liked Anger Foot, this is worth trying.

I didn't and thought it looked great, oddly enough. I normally can't stand CRT filters in Retroarch. Even that Frogun game looked gross with them.

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I have some faith this won’t run as poorly as Xenoblade 2 did. Just played through Torna on the 4K TV and it was fine. The pixelated depth of field effects caught me more off guard more than the performance did.

Oh, and God of War Ragnarok is still up in the air. Plenty of reason to doubt that, not the least being no E3 showing.

Scrubbed through release dates, these are the AAA games coming this year after the shows: Xenoblade 3 Saints Row Splatoon 3 The Last of Us Remake Overwatch 2 Marvel's Midnight Suns Forspoken (...doubt) Gotham Knights CoD:MW2 Pokemon Scarlet/Violet The Castillo Protocol Sonic Frontiers Hogwarts Legacy Mario + Rabbids Spark of Hope (... doubt) Annualized sports games as well, but that's a given.