Peanut

I feel like most of us could say that about multiple games every year. I can't even remember Last of Us anymore.

I'd like to see P4G ported to consoles before seeing P3 remade.

I think they somehow look more ridiculous than ever, which is both awesome and dumb. My biggest problem is the lack of consistency with detail and design. Despite how stupid 99% of the demons looked in previous games, they had a consistency to them that made them all fit in. Now, it feels like every few demons look like they're from an entirely different game and some, like Fuxi, lack detail that others do.

It's weird. I still like how some of them look, but I find myself thinking about how bad/dumb a lot of them are most of the time.

This is stupid, just like it always has been, but fucking lol at people who think taking footage from let's plays = stealing someone else's work. Let's plays are just people talking (usually poorly) over someone else's work, so what the fuck sense does that make?

That's the same thing as ROM dumpers whining that someone stole their "work" when they remove shitty readme.txt files from the download folders.

I can hear his fantastic laugh right now.

The answer is Animal Crossing.

Kinda can't wait for the PC elitism bullshit to die again. Goodness.

I've played it for a few hours tonight and it's a cute little game, but I still can't exactly grasp what it is. Basically, you run around as this little kid and just hang out with friends and people in town. It seems like it's supposed to be a Japanese nostalgia trip adventure game, which is obviously hard to grasp for those of us not from Japan, but the feeling of imagination turning mundane things into exciting mysteries certainly comes across.

There are 25 or so "episodes", equatable to quests, that play out over (what seems like,) a single Friday in a small town where one of those 70's kaiju television shows is filmed. There's very light, and I mean light, puzzle solving involved and it seems like the main piece of "gameplay" is a little Rock/Paper/Scissors monster card game you can play with your friends. You walk around town collecting glowing orbs that equate to a specific kind of card and when you collect enough orbs you obtain that card for use in the battles. You also get orbs for finishing episodes and beating your friends in battles. So far all but one or two card battles have been entirely optional. There's a weird mechanic tied to the card battles where, depending on if you win or lose, you become the "boss" of the friend you beat and you can put a "magic spell" on them that makes them fall down on the ground. You can even customize your spell, so the kid says more random nonsense while casting it. I honestly don't know what impact any of that has on the game in the slightest, outside of what seems like small changes to dialogue depending on if you're the boss of a friend during specific conversations. There's also a way to combine and power-up cards, although I haven't really seen much use for it yet. It's kind of hard to grasp how deep that system gets, or to what purpose it serves besides being a silly little thing that just exists.

I will say, a few hours in and the game certainly has had a few weird moments that have made me question exactly what the hell is going on, though right now I'm inclined to believe the weird things that have happened have all been in the imagination of the main kid.

I guess what I'm saying is I don't have any fucking idea what the game is about, but I think it's really charming and I'm enjoying it between bouts of frustration with SMTIV. There's not enough niche Japanese stuff like this out there anymore that isn't some creepy anime sh*t.

Ryan is a fucking force of nature. Look at how he brought this entire god damn industry to its knees in his wake. So fucking incredible and a true testament to the man.

This just fucking sucks. Rest well, Ryan. You were a hell of a duder.