You blew your loaf.

I don't know what a Jontron is. This isn't the fat kid from Drake and Josh?

Moving on up, to the Beta Quadrant.

Ooh, are the descendants predetermined, or do you get to hook your party up in different configurations for different ones, like Dragon Quest 5's kids?

Queen's Domain is a clear attempt at a successor to King's Field, and I like the demo a lot. Crunchy old-school pixely 3D graphics, a great sense of exploration even in the small slice of the demo, gameplay seems reminiscent of old games but plays very smoothly, and it's just wonderfully weird in a way we don't often get in big games anymore. I'll probably pick this up when it drops on the 30th.

Nocturne is already out as of last month, but I still found the demo because of Next Fest. It's a pixel RPG that seems to take place inside a crumbling digital afterlife, and the combat system has you playing Guitar Hero to the battle music. This also seems really good, but I'm waiting to see if it gets a sale soon, mostly because I'm not great at rhythm games.

Gooning aside, this is legitimately one of the best Bejeweled-type puzzle games, with killer music. It's also pretty funny if you like vulgar comedy.

I haven't seen it myself yet, but I hear Station Eleven is about a traveling acting troupe 20 years or so after a pandemic-type apocalypse?

I'll probably move on to trying Saturn/Dreamcast later, when I know what I like from the earlier generations, but I'll add that to my list. Loved both Grandia 1 and 2, we got them on Playstation as well.

Or, hear me out, we dig a massive pit in the desert and fling every AI executive into it.

The skin trench coat by itself would also be pretty terrifying, tbh. It's an ensemble outfit.

They were, yeah. I remember vaguely hearing they were supposed to be better on Genesis though, so I figured I'd grab 'em and compare.

I played the hell out of Grandia 1 and 2 on PS1/2, but I might try the Saturn/Dreamcast versions of them later, once I've had my fill of the older consoles for a while.

I played the Gamecube version back when it was still pretty current. I think I liked it pretty well but it was a looong time ago.

The emulator I grabbed to start with Genesis also has support for the other consoles I listed, so I figured I'd start there and then see if there were any series I wanted to follow into Saturn and Dreamcast. I'm not opposed to any recommendations for them too, I just wasn't going to start there.

Is that some kinda remake with Finn Wolfhard or something?

I replayed Symphonia last year, and it was definitely still charming and fun, but I noticed its age in controls, camera, and a general story drag in some areas.

If you're playing them backwards, does that mean you recently did Tales of the Abyss? That was one of my favorites for characters. I was thinking about replaying it after I get around to Arise.

Slop article that puts rigging in scare quotes to predispose people into disbelieving it, and acts as though the state's canned bullshit is a valid response worth reporting. What a fucking joke.

I think we're on the same side of this issue overall, I just don't think that our current media's end-all-be-all quest for "neutrality" above all else is in any way helpful. Journalists should be digging into issues, performing real investigations, speaking truth to power, not just parroting out the most basic surface-level facts.

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