the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

also, the game probably doesn't need to be nearly as hard as it is
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random thought: who makes the bottles and cans that sodas and beers and stuff are sold in? i'm sure that especially the smaller companies don't make their own
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arc rise fantasia, so far, seems like a pretty decent but not outstanding jrpg

- the story, while interesting, seems to have been *heavily* inspired by trails in the sky
-- this mostly applies to the very early game, now it's starting to become its own thing. the main character's middle name is still Bright though which is really on the nose
- the politics of it are so far kind of all over the place?
- the combat system feels generic at first but has some depth to it, if not as much as it seems they were going for
- the music is by Yasunori Mitsuda, so there's definitely some high points there
- there seem to be a lot of romantic undertones in the plot that probably didn't need to be there
- the voice acting is kind of bad? we've heard worse but this isn't the best
- one character's victory pose has some intensely uncomfortable eye contact

why don't they do detents in analog sticks anymore? only nintendo ever did them to begin with but it was nice
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Chili:

hmm.

you're pretty good, thanks for existing
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it's pretty distracting when, within a single conversation, the same place name is pronounced in like three different ways
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tip to anyone making video games that have voice acting:

make sure your voice actors agree on the pronunciation of names, unless you have some reason for the *characters* to disagree on that
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today's mood has just gone downhill and i don't know why
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today is one of the twelve days of the year when europe and north america agree on how to write the date
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/863590/Starcom_Nexus/

huh. this looks like a spiritual successor to star control 2

reviews are good, might be worth a try sometime
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if there's aesthetics is there also rsathetics

this is a bad joke
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for your amusement, a pair of words that should not go together in any way shape or form:

pasta sandwich
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pet peeve: people linking to a wikipedia thing, linking to specifically the mobile version of the site
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consider: friendly hexapedal dragons the size of rats

no particular reason, they just sound cute
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current mood: ???????????? i have no idea but not great
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why must video games always have human protagonists
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concept: a species that looks like the snake-tailed version of a chimaera but the head that's in the "normal" place is one of those fake face things that some animals have to scare away predators
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