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Still playing through this. This game really has some excellent character writing, and some great romance/bromance options. In particular my boy Wallace, who kind of plays a similar role in the party's dynamic to Ziggy in Xenosaga.

A cover of a Famitsu issue I found while browsing japanese fansites for another game. I recognize the artist as the guy who did the art for Maximo and some other old games (Tomba? Maybe Ghouls 'n' Ghosts?). For some reason Chaos is a furry.

Random Xenosaga related magazine pages

Started the Growlanser series, playing the first one with its PSP version. Very unique combat system, well written and likeable party members, and a lot of player choice (ie. skill point allocation and lots of dialogue options, both of which are rare for a JRPG). It feels like what I wanted (and...

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I'd do a search for any PCSX2 cheat codes to make Episode 2 less painful. I have a few saved for the japanese version like an encounter toggle. I think I saw a link somewhere on this forum with a summary of the plot differences between 2 PS2 and 2 DS, as well.

I haven't read his works, but they're on my to-read list. Oddly my only real exposure to Discworld was running into the PS1 game at one of the local rental stores as a kid. I was reminded of the series today when I was saving a bunch of book recommendation charts and came across this: Very cool.

It was an enjoyable and beneficial read, it kind of re-framed for me a lot of concepts and ideas I'm already familiar with from Buddhism, which was (and is, maybe?) my first religion that I studied and practiced after having been raised atheist. The City & The City sounds interesting, too.

If nobody here knows of a translation project, then I'd probably assume there isn't one in the works. I wouldn't bet on getting to play through them anytime soon without learning Japanese.

This has been a big year for getting back into reading, for me. Particularly religion and philosophy, though I do want to get into fantasy and history (maybe some sci-fi and others) as well. What I read this year: The Tao Te Ching The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu / Zhuangzi The Reign of...

Well, I got to Phantasy Star 3 expecting it to be one of those games that's hated just because it tried to do something weird and different (ala Dragon Quarter) but nope, it's just legitimately a bad game. Neat ideas, neat character designs, but both are completely wasted on it.

Welcome. Despite big social media and Discord's best attempts to kill fan forums and fansites, there's still a few kicking around... Have you looked into the original Phantasy Star JRPGs? 1, 2 and particularly 4 are great sci-fi fantasy JRPGs. I also have to recommend the .hack//IMOQ...

Finished Phantasy Star 2. If you can get around the rough edges of the gameplay (typical old JRPG stuff) then the premise, characters and atmosphere are easily some of the best in the genre. Played the Phantasy Star 2 text adventures as well. I think this game just put Phantasy Star up there...

I've been playing Phantasy Star Universe on the Clementine private server. It's quite cozy. Also got me in the mood to go back and play through Phantasy Star 2 and 3, as I've only finished 1 and 4. Good sci-fi JRPGs are so rare.

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I recently played both the Sonic Adventure games for the first time. Took me a while to warm up to SA1 but I really liked it by the end. SA2 had a lot of level design I disliked, but the ambitious story and the character stuff in general (Knuckles & Rouge's weird sexual tension, Shadow in...

I was only just made aware of what this G-MODE Archives thing is today from the new Marsh vid on Last Bible. Would be very cool if we could get Pied Piper from them.

Short of roms getting wiped off the surface internet entirely (which is doubtful given the demand, especially as long as countries like Glorious Brazil continue to exist) I reckon it should stay relatively accessible. I always associate Mitsuda with the Chrono games myself, though I do like his...

Well, at least it's a certainty that Xenoblade is getting some new people into Xenogears and Xenosaga. With the way modern games are/are headed I can only imagine more and more younger folk who are passionate about the hobby will go back and play older stuff for something different. Yeah, I...

Yeah, I've heard about that. But it's hard for me to imagine considering how detached Xenoblade has felt from the other games. It's like people trying to link Armored Core and Dark Souls by pointing at stuff like the Moonlight Blade being in both. I am curious to see what comes next however...