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I just started playing Xenogears last Friday and do agree with the first few paragraphs of the article. Stopped reading before halfway through when I realized it was getting spoilerish, though. Playing this and Kingdom Hearts 3 back to back makes me realize that the charm some of the classics have is not pure nostalgia, but I still can't put my finger on it. Saying that, Persona 5 is a recent JRPG that I thoroughly e…
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I’m finding a lot of disco- and funk-influenced easy listening pop; am I listening to the wrong thing? Is there a particular song that would help me see the connection?
Most Castlevania games since playstation era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ljSD1rZzUE Pieces of Sonic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0g79mTyjE0 Bits of Xenoblade Chronicles (esp gaur plains): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8xfT4l2Gnw UMN / cities in various Xenosaga installments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cj8yrPSo_Q
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AFAIK FFXV had a much better story planned out; but they were pushed to release it half-baked, so they cut out a bunch of content to make it smaller-but-semi-coherent, planning to add all the extra context back in the form of DLC. But then the first DLC didn't sell amazingly well, and the rest just got cancelled :( (Pretty much the same thing that happened to Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, also by Square Enix...)
I only just played this game last summer/fall (I guess once it showed up for PC). While there were definitely enjoyable aspects and I played through the whole thing, it really did feel like half a game. I'd played most of the NES/SNES/PS1 entries (some all the way through, some partially before getting sidetracked) and while the stories were often convoluted or just poorly localized, they were lengthy and had a lot t…
I've played a few since, but none quite sucked me in so much as VII and X.
I just started playing Xenogears last Friday and do agree with the first few paragraphs of the article. Stopped reading before halfway through when I realized it was getting spoilerish, though. Playing this and Kingdom Hearts 3 back to back makes me realize that the charm some of the classics have is not pure nostalgia, but I still can't put my finger on it. Saying that, Persona 5 is a recent JRPG that I thoroughly e…
Can I play Persona 5 without playing earlier games?