8-4 Play: 3/5/2021: UP IN SMOKE

Sad to see Sony wind down Japan Studio. Further explains why a lot of Japanese gamers don't care about / silently hate the PlayStation brand, due to recent management, politics and policy changes. A lot of people used to socially identify and associate the PlayStation brand with Japanese gaming, but that definitely isn't the case anymore.

In the small preview box at the homepage, I thought the picture was of Final Fantasy 6 Floating Continent.

I can't get my head around why anyone would like final fantasy 7 remake. It has all the cringey, pernicious, sexist, racist and homophobic tropes of the worst anime I have ever seen. Yet, people I KNOW to be in complete opposition to those things praise this shit pile to no end.

It's legitimately an embarrassing game to have on tv.

I actually think less of people who endorse this game. I've never been more regretful of a purchase in my life.

@2kings: here is a game just for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiXlqUdsMk4

Enjoy! :*

Ys8 is what I like to call a "fastfood game"... It doesn't do anything too special or revolutionary, but sometimes, that super simple, tried and true format reminiscent of PS2 era games is very comforting and addicting. A game designer type probably wouldn't care for it much since it provides nothing in terms of nutritional value (i.e. game design ideas), but for the common folk consumer like me, it's surprisingly pleasant to experience once in a while.

Not to mention Ys8 is probably one of the more refined entries in the recent Falcom catalogue. I've heard not too great things about the writing quality in recent Trails games, but Ys is much less story heavy compared to Trails, and has been actually fairly decent with what it does have... at least to where I've played of it. (I was actually running a blog series on this site where I play through the Trails in the Sky trilogy, but I hit a THICK wall near the end of Sky 2 due to god awful writing... and if the recent ones are worse than that.... Sheesh. I'm on a multi-month pause because of it, but I do intend to finish the series eventually, as I still think there's something that shines underneath.)

The Yuffie episode is not free with the PS5 upgrade.