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As others have mentioned, Holocure is absolutely worth checking out. For a free thing, it's incredibly well made and enjoyable regardless of your interest in the associated HoloLive v-tubers.

I'll also second that Boneraiser Minions deserves consideration. In spite of some cringe "boner" humor, it's one of the better Survivor-like games that I've played.

Of the entries in this genre that I've played, Halls of Torment and 20 Minutes Till Dawn are probably my favorites alongside the OG Vampire Survivors.

Look, I still love this website, but not because of timely and relevant coverage of new video games. Grubb kills it on the news front and rarely misses anything of significance, but with respect to coverage of new games, most big releases get maybe a single mention on the Bombcast and that's it. With anything that isn't a big AAA sort of release, it's a toss up on if it gets mentioned at all.

This is one spambot necro bump that I think we can all wholeheartedly support.

I think Oppenheimer would be better suited to a format like Subsurface Circular or Paranormasight that focuses almost exclusively on dialogue.

But the real answer is that it's impossible to know. The bar is relatively low for video game writing, but it would still be highly dependent on how it was adapted to the medium.

I was always curious about this game as a fan of Vertigo and other Hitchcock thrillers, but it sounds like I really dodged a bullet by never giving this a try.

For the folks that are on team "FFXVI isn't a real Final Fantasy", I'm curious what your feelings are on Lightning Returns, FFXV, FF7R, and Strangers of Paradise. Do those meet your criteria?

I'm also curious if the perception of the very MMO-like sidequests in FFXVI might be colored by how much time people have spent with FFXIV.

To me, FFXVI feels like a pretty natural progression of the franchise and the direction it's been slowly headed in with everything since FFX, but I also don't necessarily disagree with the opinion that it's relatively RPG-lite.

Aside from a small handful of people that just love being contrarian, I don't think it's common for people to hate all good/popular/well-reviewed games. Even when people get distressed about not having enough time to play everything that they want, I can't recall ever seeing that situation lead to someone actually hating good games for simply existing.

Monster was relatively recently added to Netflix, so I watched it there not long ago. I kept thinking that the concept (which is basically The Fugitive but anime) would eventually run out of steam, but it managed to stay engaging until the end.

If you like Monster, I'd also recommend taking a look at Psycho-Pass. It can occasionally get a little up its own ass when they start quoting authors and philosophers, but it's still a decent crime story set in an interesting cyberpunk dystopia.

I just watched Parasyte recently, and a few specific nitpicks aside, I agree that it's great.

As someone still relatively new to anime watching, I still have a big backlog of older series to dip into that can keep me occupied, but there are newer series that I've really liked as well.

Initially, I did mostly watch the standard shounen and action fare, and I think that if I had stuck exclusively to that, I probably would've gotten bored and burned out on anime/manga. Having now branched out a bit more into other genres, I find my overall engagement with anime and manga to be a lot higher. Some of the stuff that has grabbed me the most lately like Oshi no Ko and Insomniacs After School (and with respect to manga, Blood on the Trail and Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You) are things that I never would've considered watching/reading a couple of years ago, but now, I find that they're the things that I'm most excited about.

The political maneuvering of the various warring states that feels the most like Game of Thrones is largely just there to set the tone and serve as the setting where these larger than life battles can take place. I don't see the GoT aspects as the main course.