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Jon finally returns to us, and as such he gets to kick-off New Business. He starts with impressions of Dark Souls: Remastered, for the Xbox One X - The World's Most Powerful Gaming Console™. This is his first time with Dark Souls, although not the Souls series as a whole, and he seems a bit puzzled at the game's "legendary difficulty." Speaking of remasters and re-releases, he also has impressions of Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection. It's a flashback to a simpler time for our future Evo champion. Lastly, to complete the theme, he looks at the new release of RFN-favorite Ikaruga - now on Switch. Guilluame asked Karen to join us so that they could talk about Yoku's Island Express - a "Metroidvania pinball game" that they both really love. Guillaume reviewed Baobabs Mausoleum Ep.1: Ovnifagos Don't Eat Flamingos, it's odd. James finishes up New Business with yet another review game: Milanoir, a brutal love-letter to Italian cinema that ultimately isn't much fun.
After the break, we knock-out a duo of Listener Mail. This week we examine the value if small levels and breakdown the announcement of Pokémon Let's Go!. You can follow us around with questions by sending us an email.
Next week is our RetroActive on Henry Hatsworth. You can contribute thoughts to the talkback thread.
I could have been clearer: grinding may not be unavoidable in Pokémon, but it's kind of the whole point of the game for most people. You're building up a team, possibly to face opponents in multiplayer.
Otherwise, the appeal is to collect them all (which I say is another form of grinding), or you're playing for the story, which as I said, I found boring.
or you're playing for the story, which as I said, I found boring.
I understand completely Jon's issues with fighters seeming too onerous if he hasn't been keeping up with the genre. That said, some fighting games have done good to offer simplified ways to play or to lower the barrier to entry so you can at least have fun from the start. Dragonball fighter Z has auto-combos (hitting the same attack several times yields an automatic 3-4 hit combo) and most moves seem to be a hadouken-style circle turn + button input to execute. The technicality then becomes learning your timing and counters when playing against others.
I think the game inputs are less impenetrable than the fighting game player base online itself. When I played Street Fighter or Smash Bros with my local friends, I was typically the better player. When I went to college, I got exposed to people who were worlds better, and I regularly got bodied before I got better. But when you get matched-up online with people, you're gonna get paired with people who make the game their job and will capitalize one mistake to take off half your life bar.
I have yet to meet this person that plays Pokemon games for a narrativeHello. Nice to meet you.
I have yet to meet this person that plays Pokemon games for a narrativeHello. Nice to meet you.
I feel like BW1 was really the only place a Pokemon game's narrative got remotely interesting because of the questions it raises about the core conceits of the franchise (that it then promptly dumps without any proper resolution because the villain just is using this question of morality as a power grab.) MAYBE Colosseum with trying to do something for .5 seconds with it's protagonist and being in a region that's a madmax dystopian shithole before just dropping everything altogether?
I feel like BW1 was really the only place a Pokemon game's narrative got remotely interesting...Someone has never played the second set of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games.
Pokemon Black and White for Retroactive. Let's go people.
Someone has never played the second set of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games.
Pokemon Black and White for Retroactive. Let's go people.
Mop it up, I'm curious... is Lysander every bit the poorly motivated, ill researched moron I think he is? because I was taken aback at how dumb his heel turn AND his grand scheme was.Honestly, I had to look up that character name to figure out what you were talking about, hee hee. It's been long enough now that I don't really recall the story in Pokémon X, so it must not have been interesting enough for me to remember. But I now vaguely recall a late-game event that seemed kind of random for the sake of drama, and didn't really make sense. So you may be right.