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Glen-i

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  1. Starting to think he bribed the Millennium Star to win that game. I'd like to nominate this as the new "Unluckiest Performance in N-E history", please. Naturally, S.C.G won all three of his Game Guy games. Missing the timing is one thing, but it just had to be Whomp straight after, didn't it!? All that health means jack when Chain Chomp just hits everyone anyway! And for the final step in my humiliation conga line... At least BowserBasher and DCubed were entertained...
  2. Animal Crossing: New Horizons

    That head is too big. Christmas ruined! Merry Christmas to you too.
  3. Heads up, @S.C.G. An hour until we kill each other.
  4. Doctor Who

    Right, caught up, just in time for the Christmas special.
  5. The Best Gaming Music Ever.

    Anyone here played Pizza Tower? You should, the game's amazing! If certain bits of that song remind you of Wario Land 4, that's not an accident. The whole game is like that!
  6. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Online Thread

    I think we can all agree @Dcubed deserved to win that last one. Of course, Smash Bros don't care, and that's why I love it. Good games!
  7. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Online Thread

    @Ike, perfectly symmetrical violence is never the answer, even if knocks us out.
  8. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Online Thread

    Right, Stamina matches tonight starting with Custom Stages from 7:30pm. Normal stages at 8.
  9. Final Fantasy XVI (22nd June 2023)

    Yeah, that's not happening. The series has been weaning itself towards action game since FF 12. Team Asano's output is the closest you're getting from Square, these days. There's a reason I refer to Bravely Default as "New Final Fantasy". I wish it was just a Final Fantasy trend, but you're seeing it more and more. Even Pokémon is starting to try and make battles not the actual main focus. Mad props to Yakuza for trying to counteract this trajectory! Takes proper balls to take an actual risk like that.
  10. Final Fantasy XVI (22nd June 2023)

    OK, so I've not played FF XVI yet, but some of the songs did get added to Theatrhythm recently. The song that I assume plays during that bit actually gave me chills, and I was playing a rhythm game, can only imagine how it must feel in game. Absolutely astonishing composition!
  11. Your Gaming Diary 2023

    Digimon Survive is a Visual Novel/Strategy RPG game that released on Switch, PS4, and PC last year. Developed by Hyde, published by Namco, it's, as far as I'm aware, new ground for this series. Credit where it's due, Pokémon hasn't dipped it's toe into Visual Novels (It's done a strategy RPG, though. It's good). The game follows Takuma Momozuka, a secondary school student who, along with 5 other students, is on a historical studies extracurricular activities camp. He visits an unnamed village to study an old local temple that once was dedicated to the worship of "Kemonogami". However, a landslide has blocked access to that shrine. A local kid (Miu, on the right of that picture) shows two of the students another way to that shrine. Takuma and the other 3 notice this, and follow out of concern. They meet Miu's brother, Kaito, who's looking for her, and arrive at the Kemonogami shrine. Things go wrong, some kind of rock monster attacks the kids, and another landslide seperates them all. Takuma is followed by that same monster, and before Takuma meets an entirely premature end, he's saved by some kind of baby dinosaur called Agumon. Good to know He's not the only one, the rest of the students also meet up with various Kemonogami that insist on protecting them. Takuma and 2 other kids he reunited with quickly decide to go back to the school their camp is located in, only to find it completely dilapidated and abandoned. Naturally, this is very weird, so Takuma decides to try and find the other kids, and find out what the hell is going on with the help of Agumon and the other helpful Kemonogami. Man, talking about this game is an utter minefield of spoilers... If you're even remotely interested in this, avoid the following spoiler tag like the plague. Most of the gameplay consists of the Visual Novel aspect, you read dialogue (No English dub, so yeah, reading for me) and point and click all over the place. The choices you make can strengthen your affinity with other characters and can also affect one of three karma catagories that Takuma has; Harmonious, Wrathfulness, and Morality. Those karma catagories determine various things, such as what Agumon evolves into as you progress. Along the way, you'll inevitably be forced to fight hostile Kemonogami. This is where the Strategy RPG aspect comes into play, as you command the Kemonogami around the area to fight. It's not all fights, sometimes you have to protect something, or make a break for an escape point. There's a decent variety here. And the stuff you do in the Visual Novel sections can have an actual effect on the battles, both advantageous and disadvantageous. Note the word "Evolution". Trust me, that's proper weird. Positioning is important here. Attacking from the side or from behind is more effective, and attacking from higher places is also helpful. Having more then one Kenomogami near an enemy can activate chain attacks as well Wait, three different catagories of morality? A format that's more Visual Novel then Strategy RPG? Position based combat? My word, this is basically Triangle Strategy! I'm gonna assume it's a massive coincidence, giving the long development hell this game had. Don't misunderstand me though. Triangle Strategy does it better. The combat in Digimon Survive is servicable, but not overly complex. It does the job. And the Visual Novel part is the real star of the show anyway. Said visual novel aspect is not without faults though. The localisation gets a bit slapdash around the middle of the game. With more then a few typos. It gets back on track after that point, but it's very weird. What happens throughout is that a few of the Kemonogami keep getting referred to with different genders. The localisers couldn't seem to make up their mind on whether some of them were male or female. English localisation seems to be a constant afterthought with Digimon games (Cyber Sleuth was even worse in that regard). Namco don't seem to see value in it. And it's a real shame, because I really enjoyed the plot here. The visuals are really good! Characters are depicted with gorgeous spritework that blurs the line between sprite and 3D model. It's a very convincing illusion, and really heightens the quality there. I can't sing it's praises enough there. Some of the Kemonogami do still look really silly though The soundtrack is... well... that would be spoilers. It's very good though. Digimon Survive may not be quite as amazing as Triangle Strategy, and it's nowhere near my favourite game I played this year, but it's easily my surprise hit of the year. It's a bold direction for Digimon and I would honestly love for future games to follow its example. For the first time ever, I feel like Digimon has made steps to be something other then "that Pokémon copycat" with this game. It's truly special.
  12. He's not wrong. 4 Game Guy games happened, and they all ended in wins. Suffice to say, both of them were rolling in money. And then, on the last turn... Which led to... Absolutely disgusting!
  13. Pipesqueak Our third duel board has a dumb name, but a pretty straightforward gimmick. Jumping into any of the pipes in the corners will take you to a different pipe. What pipe you come out of is chosen at random (You will always go to a different pipe then the one you jumped into). It's a cool risk-reward thing that means no area is truly safe from a surprise attack. These will be the matchups this week, basically we'll be facing whoever we haven't dueled against yet. @Glen-i VS @S.C.G @BowserBasher VS @Dcubed Dcubed and I should be free whenever over the Christmas period, so I'll leave it to our opponents to determine a time.
  14. N-E Mario Kart 8 DX Get Together

    BTW, @Dcubed's first video becomes infinitely more impressive when you see it from my point of view. And then he ruined it later on by attempting... This... If you can't see it, look behind my helmet just to the right of the glider pole. That was never getting close! Still...
  15. Favourite Games of 2023

    Nah, Captain Falcon was actually known back then. Fire Emblem is when people legit asked, "Who the flying eff is Marth!?" That said, Captain Falcon is very much in that camp these days. He lives on purely through Smash.
  16. So, an average Devolver Digital presentation, then? Will check a look later.
  17. Final Fantasy XVI (22nd June 2023)

    Hey, you did read it! You passed the test!
  18. Final Fantasy XVI (22nd June 2023)

    Literally could be talking about any open world game, from where I'm standing.
  19. N-E Mario Kart 8 DX Get Together

    Player's Choice tonight at 8pm.
  20. OK, so if this is anything like Dragon Quest Monsters Joker, then synthesised monsters will 99% of the time have better base stats then whatever you used to get that monster. Kinda like how Shin Megami Tensei does it, or if that analogy means nothing, think of it like using a Master Seal in Fire Emblem. It's not Pokémon, you can't get attached to your party, because they'll soon be outclassed, no matter how high a level they are.
  21. Favourite Games of 2023

    You know how a lot of people first discover a series because it features in Smash Bros? You know, the "Fire Emblem" effect? Well yeah, Fortnite is that to a factor of a million.
  22. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Online Thread

    Oh, actually. That reminds me. @BowserBasher, @Ike, @S.C.G. Next Saturday will be the 23rd of December. That's pretty close to Christmas, some people might have commitments. If you would prefer to have our Smash session on Friday instead, let me know. (Or let me know if you absolutely cannot make Friday)
  23. General Switch Discussion

    You know Xenoblade 3 is good, because both @Hero-of-Time and I love it! It's a massive time sink though, so be prepared for that.
  24. Have you played Demon's Crest on the SNES? Basically the big boy sequel of the Game Boy game. It's very good.
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