Rose Thorne(She/Her)

"As you pull the blade free, it begins to rapidly rust away. The legend was never the blade itself, it was the strength of the heroes who led the way.

That strength has caused the ground to shift, rocks fall, everyone dies."

Has Phoenix Wright been a documentary about the Japanese legal system this entire time, and we just wrote it off?

It was supposed to be a part of one, until the studio went into bankruptcy and ended up being partially owned by New Jersey.

The story behind KoA is absolutely nuts. They wanted to make an MMO sequel, with R.A Salvatore still on the writing, but due to bloat and mismanagement, ended up massively in debt and plans for a sequel got scrapped.

I haven’t opened a PTCG pack since…

The OG Starter Decks.

Yeah, even if they want to keep it primarily to the collecting, there needs to be more.

I know it’ll never happen, but I remember Konami putting out Yu-Gi-Oh cards with special codes on them to coincide with some of the games. You typed in your code, you unlocked that card in-game. Would be nice if TPC could work out something similar, so your actual efforts could be part of your digital collection.

I’m kinda surprised, actually. I’m enjoying it, so far, but it’s pretty bare bones if you’re not looking to drool over pretty cards. We can’t even trade them yet, at best you have battles or putting them in a display.

WotC and Pinkertons.

Vampire Survivors has got me back in its grip. The Ode to Castlevania DLC dropped on Halloween. I really don’t understand where the time goes when I play that game.

Also picked up Webfishing, an absolutely adorable time. I don’t know that I really consider it “playing”, the actual gameplay is pretty basic, but I’ve enjoyed the peaceful nature of it and have had fun just chatting.

This is seriously dating myself, and probably hyper-specific, but it feels more like chatrooms back in the late 90s to early 2000s. Most of the rooms I’ve been in have been relaxed. Having a talk about life while someone strums “Simple and Clean” on a guitar somewhere in the background. A bit of roleplay going on.

The small lobbies, the small map, the chill gameplay, all makes for a cozy, welcoming place. Like you really did just stumble across someone’s campsite, and they invited you to sit.

Xenogears deserves the FF7 treatment, damn near. They’d have to straight up recreate the second disc that was absolutely butchered into what we got.

Now, if we can get that rolling, can we also throw Saga into the mix? Please? Fuck, just pretty up the front half in an emulator, but give us the proper ending. 3 totally redone, in it’s original design, and a complete 4th chapter.

Tell these stories right, the way they were meant to be told.

Only if there’s a 6-hour unskipable praise session towards the Enkindlers.

Have we figured out which of the 5 will make us their bitch yet?

This is one of those questions you ask, and let sit for months. Long enough that most of the table has started to forget you ever asked.

I cannot wait for Absolute to touch on this. We’ve already seen that he’s more brutal, but I really want to see how they handle the weight of the double life without all the training and “I can powernap for 15 seconds with my eyes open and get enough rest for a month”.

Was there a reason? Like, I’ll even take some Mystery of the Druids “kill a homeless man to steal his change” logic in this.

Wasn’t this also in the big FPS Wave of the era? I keep wanting to put it alongside Resistance: Fall of Man, and kinda remember that being the defining trait of most of those titles. Decent, but overall forgettable, experiences.

That somehow culminate in the existence of Haze, and we should be ashamed of ourselves as a species for that.

Where they gettin’ arrested at this go around? Gotta top what happened in Greece.

I mean, have you looked at HoI4 lately?

Look, I get it, but the state of DLC in Paradox games has moved beyond even the memes. I think they took those as inspiration. There’s a fucking monthly pass now!

I deeply enjoy their games, but the DLC bloat confounds me.

It’s about the only staple of the series left.

Diablo had Hellfire, 2 had Lords of Destruction, 3 had Reaper of Souls. All decent titles for an expansion pack.

Why I stopped shitting directly into the volcano.

The gods get confused if you run enough plumbing.

You know he’s never going to give it to you.