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• Best Remaster. We've already had a "Least necessary Remaster" category, but this year Burnout Paradise had a remaster so let's just get it out of the way here
• Best Spider-Man suit
• Most likely E3 gameplay trailer to be bullshit
• Best World, as in the actual gameworld your character is physically moving around in
• Best Worldbuilding, as in the lore and story and visual storytelling that establish a setting
• Best Dark Souls for the games that try to be Dark Souls, including but not limited to Death's Gambit, Dead Cells and Unworthy
• I think we actually have enough solid ones out this year to do a serious Best Fighting Game category, presented by the Ranking of Fighters research team

I tried out Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai. It's okay. There's definitely a genre of light novels that's "urban magic otaku edition" or whatever, which this, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and Bakemonogatari are all parts of. People suffering from magical ailments or being parts of magical races, helping out chicks in trouble, constant unrealistic banter, self-aware fanservice anime nerd tropes, you know the drill. But if Haruhi is the classic and Bakemonogatari is the wacky artsyfartsy version of it, this just seems like a bland derivative of those. The setting is just a normal town, "filmed" like any other show. The banter is the self-conscious "we're both thinking five steps ahead and just saying whatever we want" kinda thing. It's not really exciting to me that way. It doesn't feel natural, and it isn't funny or interesting enough to work that way. You just get two characters that seem unrealistically detached and confident trading quips and exposition.

I like the concept of the first case. This ex-celebrity girl is increasingly becoming invisible, and eventually forgotten, by most people. That's why she can wander around in the whole bunny girl getup(though she only does that for one scene). It's a heart-wrenching kinda curse to never be seen by anyone, even when that's what you wanted to when everyone kept recognizing you from the TV stuff you did.

Oh my god, that's so similar

@sombre: Nothing changes about stands from this till forever, they're always gonna be guardian spirits/personas that hover around and give you abilities, essentially a visual representation of psychic powers. If you're specifically not into Jotaro tho, maybe hang out till Polnareff gets introduced. The earlier seasons never had anyone besides the main character win a fight that lasted more than say, two minutes. From here on out that's more split between all the different characters. Polnareff and Jotaro split the majority of the fights, while the remaining party get a couple each. Even if you're not big on Jotaro, you get to see a lot of the others.

This weekend me and my buddy finished up Persona 5 the Animation. Still no good! Last episode's direction was a step above the rest, though. They ended on the bad ending of the game, so who knows what they're gonna do for the OVA. It can't just be another 20 minute episode, that's for sure.

I've kept watching Dragon Ball Kai to follow along with All Systems Goku, and I feel like they did nothing at all to this arc. Kai was supposed to trim it down, right? But it still feels like it takes forever.

@animasta: Within those confines, I've liked Planet With, Megalo Box, Hisone & Maso-tan, Oshiete! Galko-chan, Sakamoto desu ga?, Aggretsuko and Erased. I guess Aggretsuko might continue? It's not like someone died or anything. But it felt like it ended appropriately.

Also Zombieland Saga this season seems to be a self-contained, anime original 12 episodes and two episodes in it's pretty great.

I think it's pretty weird that the world is this relatively realistic looking thing while the characters are all cel-shaded. I gives me a weird mashed-up artstyle vibe similar to that Jump Force game.

Watched the first episode of Zombieland Saga. Glad I went into this one blind, I had a lot of good, hearty laughs. The remaining eleven episodes could be crap and I'd still recommend this one. Guess there's no accounting for taste, but I sure thought it was funny.

I guess this is a little late, but uh yeah heads up on Goblin Slayer, it's like The Punisher but for doujinshi rape goblins. The main dude had a Batman-style tragic backstory and turned himself into fantasy Doom Slayer, partly to prevent other victims and partly for sweet vengeance. Having read a dozen or so chapters, I appreciated its focus compared to a lot of these isekai/game-like fantasy world bullcrap shows, it's actually got a protagonist with strong ties to the world, a goal, a singular drive and a strong look. Instead of being an overpowered piece of crap, he relies very much on guerilla tactics and is interesting to watch. But although it's not a constant, and there's gonna be lots of moments of levity and lightheartedness in this show going forward as Goblin Slayer gets his own RPG party, you're gonna have to see a lot of fucked up victims of goblins during the beginning. If you want this season's fluffy, kind isekai show where the protag is some OP nerd who keeps gaining both new abilities and fawning fangirls at an alarming rate, that's the Slime one.

Nothing's really jumped out at me from this season yet besides Jojo, though I'll watch the new Ace Attorney season just to get my fill of that cast again.

The top of the line graphics on first party PS4 games are probably the prettiest I've seen this gen in terms of technical achievement. All the little details and the beautiful lighting look gorgeous. The animations are very expressive, compared to similar games from the last gen.

Problem for me is, I definitely get what people here are saying about it looking too busy. The high detail density combined with motion blur and 30 fps maximum made stuff like Horizon Zero Dawn really difficult for me to look at for the first hours of that game. It just makes my head hurt whenever I turn the camera and everything turns into a mess for half a second. And there's still this endless chase for "realism" rather than an attempt at something stylistically amazing, like what Nintendo's always going for. Sometimes that works okay, but mostly the face captured... faces... just look uncanny to me, even as far as we have come. Like, does Peter Parker in Spider-Man have a better face than pretty much anyone on the 360 besides maybe the Metal Gear Solid V characters? Yes. Does it look in any way interchangable with a real face? Hell no! And even when the faces look amazing, like on whatever engine Capcom is currently using, I don't think it works well for every property. Resident Evil? Yeah, sure. Realistically rendered environments for RE7 combined with realistic faces in a first person view makes that look incredibly scary because you feel more like you're there. Seems to do the same job for the remake of RE2 as well. But when DMC5 showed off its realistic faces on top of old character designs, it feels like a bunch of cosplayers showed up to the party(because they literally did, they scanned some real models and their clothing). I'm afraid they're gonna try it on Street Fighter next.

Anyway, while I appreciate great lighting, detailed textures and some good animation, I don't feel like it's the same kinda leap that last gen was from the ps2/gamecube/xbox, and I think chasing realism has its place, and that's for specific games and in environments. More than anything, I'd like a higher framerate and less motion blur, even if the visuals had to be toned down to make it work. In some ways we haven't moved much forward at all. When Horizon Zero Dawn had to automate the character animation/design process to some extent to get enough NPCs for an RPG, most of them end up looking like weird mannequins with uncanny expressions. Is Horizon as buggy and janky and broken as Dragon Age Inquisition? No, but it also hasn't gotten the NPCs to not look like crap.

So I dunno. In some ways I think this gen is very beautiful, but in others I'm a bit disappointed. Personally I gotta get myself a switch, 'cause HD-ifying Nintendo's usual stylized graphics make them look absolutely amazing, and they don't much go for the busy look with a lot of blur. I wanna see the next Street Fighter with that kinda cartoony approach.

I'm so happy Jojo is back you guys. I wasn't even the biggest fan of part 5 when I read it, but seeing it again here, I couldn't help being hyped the whole way through.

Still watching this clip every month~