Meryll

It did have one

I feel like it'd be weird to tease just a NS2 Edition of Pikmin 4 like that, but idk. Might be a bit too early for Pikmin 5 too. Maybe it's an animated movie, actually

thats pikmin music, I think

Shinya Kumazaki, the director of Kirby since 2008, is also an artist. I love his style!

The future Game of the Decade has been preordered this morning

Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together was released 30 years ago on Super Famicom... I still need to play the Reborn version.

This classic is the favourite game of Hironobu Sakaguchi and YoshiP!
Yasumi Matsuno was on a generational run (Ogre Battle, FF Tactics, Vagrant Story...)

I'm done with Donkey Kong Bananza!
Great action-adventure game with super fun gameplay, level-design and a lot of content.

It's a bit lacking to be a masterpiece (I wasn't always fan of the art direction, and the OST is overall disappointing) but it's one of the best games this year.

This is gonna be my next game on Switch after I'm done with Donkey Kong Bananza (which I'm taking my time with)

Disaster: Day of Crisis (Wii) ✅

Far from a disaster, Disaster: Day of Crisis is genuinely rad and is another creative game worth playing from Monolith. The bold blending of genres works pretty well, and the concept of the story, as absurd as it is, offers a surprisingly fun time.

Wrong, the studio actually got shut down and all of its employees lost their jobs back then.
Then, a few months later, Krafton created a new studio, and bought the name "Tango Gameworks" (not the studio itself, since it didn't exist anymore) as well as the Hi-Fi Rush IP.

✨️ Studios like Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin getting shut down
✨️ Massive amount of layoffs
✨️ Many games announced years ago getting cancelled or MIA
✨️ Huge prices hikes on hardware
✨️ Huge prices hikes on Game Pass

Power your dreams! 😍

Today I've finished Ninja Gaiden Ragebound as well!

Very good game, I've enjoyed the platforming, boss fights and pixel-art. Soundtrack is a banger too. Great to see this series coming back so strong this year!

I've finished Disaster: Day of Crisis, a Nintendo Wii game by Monolith Soft!

It was a blast from start to finish, it's an original survival-action game using the gimmicks of the Wiimote in various gameplay situations, with light RPG elements. Very fun!

Trials of Mana (Seiken Densetsu 3) was released 30 years ago! One of the best looking games on Super Famicom and a great Mana game.

The recent remake by Xeen is also pretty good, but I like the pixel-art of the OG the most!

Game is so beautiful and immersive #KCD2

Now that Clair Obscur is done, I think it's time to play Kingdom Come Deliverance 2.

Quartet ✅

Quartet might be the best retro-inspired indie RPG I've played. With its compelling writing, fantastic OST, excellent pacing structurally inspired by FFVI, and combat taking the best from FFX, Quartet is a great tribute to older RPGs but most importantly is great at doing its own things.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 done.

It's a tremendous achievement from Sandfall as their first game, and I'm looking forward to what they're gonna do next. The soundtrack and art direction were the highlights to me.

Atelier Resleriana is getting positive reviews from RPG players, especially for its combat back to turn-based.

I was kinda mixed on Atelier Yumia's combat (and the game overall) so I'm interested to play a more classic Atelier like this.

It was a decent Xbox show considering they never do anything big for TGS.
Nice updates on Fatal Frame 2 remake, DQ 1-2 HD-2D, Hotel Barcelona, Ninja Gaiden 4.

Forza Horizon 6 in Japan, cool, that's like the only car games I can enjoy lol

I finally got back to Clair Obscur a few days ago, and I've finished Act 1 and Act 2.

I liked Act 1 a bit more to be honest. Now time to do side quests before finishing the game!

I keep kinda good memories from Avowed tbh, some things about it were frustrating but the exploration was really, really good. Now I wish that Obsidian will eventually put that kind of exploration in an overall more ambitious game!

This year has a good mix of new IPs, sequels, returning franchises, original games, both great AAA and indies games... I have to catch up on some big releases still (like Kingdom Come 2) but I don't have FOMO thankfully lol

This week!!!

Happy 20th Anniversary to the iconic Ninja Gaiden Black!

It's not only a great beat'em all with shit ton of weapons, deep gameplay and brutal difficulty, but also a neat action-adventure game with Zelda-like elements (Itagaki was inspired by OoT), interconnected areas & puzzles.

Can always count on Castlevania to have good music

Stacked dev team!

Director: Hiroki Chiba (World of FF)
Producer: Takashi Tokita (FF4, Live A Live, Chrono Trigger, Parasite Eve...)
Composer: Nobuo Uematsu
Concept Design: Tetsuya Nomura
Event: Takayuki Suguro (director of Valkyrie Profile 2 & Resonance of Fate)

Heres the title screen theme 😆

Dynami Tracer ✅

A Squaresoft game exclusive to the Satellaview, made in Chrono Triggers engine. It got an english fan translation!

It's a fun concept in which you need to find treasures and complete mini-games in order to win a sort of galactic race. A run takes between 30 min and 2 hours.

Big fan of this art direction #HellisUs

Quartet done in ~25 hours with all the achievements! ✅

Great retro-inspired RPG, actually the best indie I've played of this kind.

Fantastic soundtrack, neat writing & characters, excellent pacing with a structure close to FF6, good gameplay. Fairly classic but enjoyable story.