Jun Inoue

Started The Silver Case (Silver Jinken) and... I'm not too impressed, for now. The game itself kind of stops or avoids all the tension and seriousness that I'm guessing we're meant to feel in these scenes and cases of murders, terror and mystery.

Kenshin, this has been announced for months now! xD

Ready for anything and everything.

Same as Soulless said. If anything, P5 could be a bit easier to get into thanks to more fluid and improved gameplay, but if you couldn't get into the essence of P4G, then the same will probably happen for P5. If you wanna go for it though, I'd recommend P5, which in turn might hook you into the core ideology of the series and make playing later on P4G more rewarding.

What... the... fuck.

I've yet to watch the third episode of Royal Tutor, but I'll confess that the second episode disappointed me quite so. I was expecting more of the "don't bs me mate" attitude from the MC that basically sold the first episode, but instead got "pink tales of the hurt princes."

Hori shito. Good for you, though.

Oh no, it's definitely true. The world itself in BotW is beautifully crafted. It quite shows that they put their time and effort into it, which is why it sticks out like a sore thumb to me that the monsters (roaming or in bases) are so... well, boring. There are very few kinds of monsters that act the same, and there's like a couple of different kinds of bases. It's why I spoke of "faulty areas". Kind of following in the topic you touched upon, this breaks the immersion a bit, since the world itself feels so alive, but the enemies not so much. The weapons system is kind of a grey topic, and so are the divine beasts. It's pretty much a really good game with a couple aspects that feel sorely lacking in contrast (hence why I consider it an 8/10 game). Your mom had a spare PS4? Wut? O.o

True enough, but there were always some webs here and there that took it a bit more seriously. But the BotW phenomena has just been insane. 10/10s as the standard with most reviews not really being able to back it up half-decently, I don't remember that many game releases where this kind of stuff has happened. It's been all over the place, with the most supportive reviews claiming it's the best game of history (and I don't mean the classic 2/3 nuts). Well, I mean, if you don't want to discuss I won't?

I do have it (played and completed most of it), and I'll say that that idea is basically 50/50. BotW takes the open world idea and gives it some nice extra ideas, like more interaction with the environment and objects thx to Link's runes and physics. But the world is also a bit simplistic, the monsters very few in details and variety, and the game loses kind of their imagination after the 50/60th shrine. It really doesn't take the formula anywhere forward. The thing is, BotW is a reaaaaally great game. But a really great game implies an 8, maybe. But scores are so very inflated, and mainstream franchises are always so hyped up, that the game got insta-10/10 everywhere even from people whose review basically admits that the game is faulty in some areas and aspects. And I agree, but I think that it speaks of one of the ills that "we" have in the videogame world that we care so little for objectivity sometimes. And we are at a point that if a game gets less than a 7, it's considered a failure. We are at a point where videogame scores are starting to mean nothing, and annual prizes are delivered to whoever makes more noise, not quality. I do not agree to the last part, though. I don't consider asinine to be critic of the culture of the overhype and score inflation that we have and see on most games. I don't consider myself superior for seeing P5 as the better game, but I do think that it's definitely more good than bad to dislike the current situation. I'm not about to lead a rebellion to change the world, but I do still think about this stuff.