PWB May

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Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
Turns out I last picked this up about the years ago so I restarted. I'm having a very relaxed time, erm except for one conversation which turned to shocking homophobia out of nowhere. I guess that was acceptable/expected in Japan twenty years ago?

The Messenger
I play a level of this every now and then. It has a great sense of humour.

Want
Really tempted by the Playdate. It just looks different. And the games are pretty cheap so even if half of them are just gimmicks that's ok.

Estelle is a bit of a sheltered idiot in Trails FC, not that it makes it okay of course, but she does learn.

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Gacha Gaming - Put a lot of time into Wuthering Waves recently, which just had a great patch released for it and I put so much time into it n one day the only reason I stopped is because it crashed on PS5, oops!

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Forza Motorsport 6 - I tried to get on with the other Forza series, the one where you can off-road and do challenges, but I am really bad at driving games and I wasn't sure about the stuff you do in between actual races. I think this is the actual racing series, like Horizon vs Motorsport? Though I have seen footage of you just driving around the map again so whatever, hopefully there's no influencer bullshit and what have you this time.

I'm sure this is going to sound very 'Thing, Japan' of me but it being set there is a big draw for me, I still want to go back there one day and this won't placate that feeling probably but it might make me feel better. Also I will actually engage hard with the driving now, my brother said just follow the racing lines so I'll keep them on for a bit I guess.

Bin
I don't really have anything currently going on TO bin, Xbox Live probably bought itself some more time, although I think I might just still prefer the money to be honest. I'm constantly teetering on the edge of the urge to buy an AYN Thor.

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Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
Turns out I last picked this up about the years ago so I restarted. I'm having a very relaxed time, erm except for one conversation which turned to shocking homophobia out of nowhere. I guess that was acceptable/expected in Japan twenty years ago?

The Messenger
I play a level of this every now and then. It has a great sense of humour.

Want
Really tempted by the Playdate. It just looks different. And the games are pretty cheap so even if half of them are just gimmicks that's ok.

I love mine dearly, but I could be tempted to sell, or lend it to you if you wanted to give it a go. Not sure when I'm next near Edinburgh tho….

@cavalcade good to know. I'm skint this month anyway, maybe I'll make you an offer next month before I go to France.

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I'm going through a bit of a Resident Evil binge at the moment. 6 is ridiculous, 4 Remake is still sublime, Zero lost me when I forgot to save and knackered an hour of progress.

I'd never played the 2 and 3 remakes (in fact I'd never played 3 OG either), so I picked up the double pack on PS5. (12 quid at the moment, bargain!) God these games are great. I don't have any real attachment to the originals, so I don't care about any missing content. They just feel so damn good to play. Capcom are essentially just a bunch of wizards right now, aren't they.

I'm getting slightly burned out on Leon B, so I might put this to one side for a while. (I'm in the sewers, Ada has a crap gadget, and I'm a little bored.) But it's been 8 or 9 hours of first-class gaming up to this point. And 3 is equally great for different reasons. I can see me going back to 3 every 12 months or so, just for another run (the first run only took me 3 hours something!). A wonderful rollercoaster of an action game.

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The current 'to buy' list is: the new Story of Seasons, Yooka Replaylee, Pragmata, Kirby Air Riders, DQ7, Octopath 2, Borderlands 4, Sonic Crossworlds, Ghost of Yotei.

If people could stop releasing games for a bit, that'd be grand.

Oh man, I went a good while without playing RE2 OG, I need to bo back to doing that!

6 is ridiculous, 4 Remake is still sublime, Zero lost me when I forgot to save and knackered an hour of progress.

I enjoyed my time with 6 overall more than 5, but I don't think I'd replay them anytime soon, 5 can fuck off on solo at least. Zero is QUITE difficult/mean, the only other classic Resi as mean as Zero is Code Veronica, which feels like you can soft lock yourself in. How about that train section in Zero though eh?

Honestly, if you're playing classic Resi, REmake is the way to go, the snake cutscene still makes my jaw drop

Anyway RE2 Remake is my favourite game in the series, but it's much easier to replay the PS1 original on my RP Mini on the go, also I got the HD mod on the PC version MPH, you're a Graphics Enjoyer are you not, what do you think? (Purists will kill me, but I've played this a million times I do not give a FUCK)

Even without the context of the cuts from Resident Evil 3 on PS1, I still think compared to RE2R, RE3R feels really rushed and on rails. Without THAT context and solely on its own, it's not a bad game, but I think it's fair to judge it as a remake still, it is presenting as one after all. I will say, you talk about replaying RE3, the PS1 version literally has different events and stuff depending on the way you go through it making different playthroughs feel fresh. (beating a dead horse with the RE3 OG vs Remake thing, but had to bring that up if we're talking replayability)

Though really, Resident Evil is timeless for a reason and I think you can feel it as you play the remakes

Capcom are essentially just a bunch of wizards right now, aren't they.

They've been on top form for a solid few years now and don't seem to be in danger of slowing down