I have not played a single second of Far Cry post 2 and I feel like Far Cry 3 is where they found their master formula or at least where the series truly became what it was today, every time I consider buying one a new one comes out though…
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Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht - After two and a bit open world epic JRPG Xeno games I am very glad this is essentially a traditional RPG with so many long cutscenes I barely even need to do anything but walk the straight lines between them. Thankfully, I find it fun to play when you get to do so (let's be honest, it has much better combat and dungeons than Xenogears), and the story is full on 'Xeno-' loaded sci-fi/philosophy/religious themes and references and vague links and I am extremely about that shit tbh. I am absolutely in awe of how cool the one time Namco poster girl for cameos, KOS-MOS is, a sleek android who can summon Gatling Guns out of thin air and turn her hands into cannons and swords and punch massive cracks in spaceship windows that can withstand space debris impacts.
The rumours of a HD remaster for all three have come up yet again and since I'm playing through the first they are probably true this time so everyone is very welcome for my sacrifice.
Trails of Cold Steel - On the Vita, I bought this a while back and never finished it because I don't get a lot of time to play it but shit commute game or not I will just cut through it bit by bit if I have to. It's not my favourite game in the series but it is a bit of a special game for me and probably my favourite of the four Cold Steel arc games, something I couldn't say if I didn't play the previous five games which really build up the Erebonian Empire on which this arc is set and based.
Besides that it's still got a fun combat system imo even if the sequels expotentially improved upon it in the gameplay department, including having mech combat.
Want - someone to replace the Fan Translation group that got nuked by NISA so we can get Kuro no Kiseki 2 sometime before 20-fucking-26, for reference, It comes out in two weeks in Japan, and it's the sequel to Kuro no Kiseki 1 which hasn't got a release date yet in EU and Kuro no Kiseki 1 is a sequel to Hajimari no Kiseki which hasn't got a release date yet in EU other than a vague 'next year' so we're three games behind in a period where games are a few months apart at worst or straight up simultaneous worldwide releases, like Tales of Arise. These Fan Translations were an alternative for that, thanks to them I am only one game behind instead of three and no one got hurt in this process because most people bought the games officially off Japanese PSN or Steam anyway and were planning to double dip. There seemed to be a peaceful co-existence between 'us' until one day they decided to just roll over a group of passionate fans and remove that alternative option for…why exactly? Greed? Ego? Whatever the reason is, I'm sure they were legally right but morally it just leaves a very sour taste in my mouth.
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NISA - If your official translations take longer to come out then the game takes to make and a fan group puts out work several years before you maybe you're just really bad at this? I was going to double dip on Hajimari/'Trails to Reverie' when it comes out over here next year and now I can't bring myself to, nor can I bring myself to buy Trails to Zero this month (which comparitively looks like dogshit on PS4 compared to PC/Switch, were you ever going to mention that lol). I've heard people say boycotting NISA over this is childish and people directly linked to the company taking the line of 'Not only should you not boycott, but you should be actively buying because you will kill the series if you don't' which as a debating tactic makes me want to fucking vomit, but also very weird for people to suddenly assume control of my wallet like that.
EDIT -sorry for people being currently subjected to my pathetic flailing on the floor about this on Twitter all week, and bringing that to here, but I'm still really bummed out about it.