grinning_serpent

Open world games have gating, and not just being stuck on tutorial island for a while.

You're off your rocker if you think Zelda hasn't always been one of the examples of "open world game." Most of em, anyway.

Nintendo has fuck you money and lots of teams. I doubt this was any kind of mutually exclusive thing.

OoT3D isn't a reskin, it's a remake. A lot of stuff changed under the hood, which is one reason most OoT speedruns stick to N64.

Don't need TP remake. Dusk is already out and Courage Reborn is supposed to be arriving soonish.

Pass. Ship of Harkinian already exists and other than some of the QoL features like assigning d-pad to item shortcuts like ocarina, boots, etc (which Ship and the randomizer both offer), OoT is one of those retro games that really doesn't need changes or, IMO, even significantly benefit from them. You can't improve on perfection.

But if people want to spend $80 for a 30 year old game to justify buying the $650 console, more power to em.

I'd rather Nintendo just pull a Konami and bundle related old games in a prepackaged emulator and sell that instead.

I've only played 5 and it was the typical teen boy becomes a god and changes the world kinda thing. I wish JRPGs would escape that crap but I guess it's part and parcel of the genre.

Yeah. No offense to Iga and his team but RotN is just outright ugly in many cases, even at launch, and 3D models don't age nearly as well as 2D sprites. The aesthetics are good but the texture quality, lighting, etc... well, it's a long way from being as beautiful and timeless as something like SotN.

Yeah, I hadn't realized it's been so long. But I sure won't complain about an excuse to do another run. I still think it might be the high water mark for the MV genre, even above SotN.

Hopefully it's harder (on the hard difficulty settings) than P5R is. Hard in P5R kinda hits the apex of its challenge with the 2nd dungeon's boss and the Merciless mode actually makes the game really easy.

Wouldn't mind if the protagonists were older too. Maybe college aged? I'm in my 40's! It's hard to take seriously the difficulties of teens that haven't even had to deal with the misery of the adult world yet.

They're pretty good in Dark Souls 2 and Bloodstained 😭

The whip feels really weak to me. Being limited to attacking in 4 directions while enemies can approach from 8 is really limiting and the upgrade to deal more damage on a tip-hit was depressingly minor. I think I should have just put the 2000 bones towards another base attack upgrade.

Skill issue, I'm sure, but the hammer seems to be by far the strongest and overall best weapon.

First fight of the game with the PC and that random assasin flailing at each other with daggers until someone gets lucky and the other guy falls on their weapon 😂