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I've been playing the Zodiac Age version of Final Fantasy XII for PC, and I've definitely got grievances with how they remastered it. Gnarly upscaled textures, 'quality of life' features that cheapen the experience, and loads of ill-considered little rebalances. It's nothing compared to how Square ...

Every few months I think i really want to get into Chess or Mahjong, but every time i think about it i feel like i don't have the brain capacity to focus on everything i already want....someday though...
Also my grandpa always destroyed me in chess. Idk if he was actually really good or if i was ...

I never really played chess growing up, but I like to think FFT and X-COM developed my 'moving guys around on tiles' cortex at an early age.
My forays into shogi have been fun. It's definitely a slower game without a piece as powerful as the queen, but the respawn and promotion mechanics are cool. I ...

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Radha and Lord Krishna playing chess in a garden pavilion

Anybody else into this classy little board game? I've been playing online chess for 5½ years, after picking it up during the summer of pandemic. As someone raised on tactical RPGs, it felt like coming ...

Monster Rancher really is a game about being a boxing trainer. If they showed the player character I would want to be an old man in sweatpants holding the pads

I like looking for roadside attractions, playgrounds, convenience stores etc.

I really want to play the PS2 Monster Hunters soon... hearing that there were private servers up for them and seeing friends play together makes me really want to dig up those crusty roots.

MH1 is a fascinating piece of RPG design. Some hardcore inventory systems that were panned at the time ...

I watched The Exorcist III recently, and it's one of the best horror movies I've seen. I think it helps that it's written and directed by someone who really believes in that stuff.


I feel like such a fake vampire fiction fan AND a fake fujoshi for not seeing or reading anything in Anne Rice's ...

I finally played Castlevania: Curse of Darkness to completion this year and it was awesome. I had the other PS2 Castlevania game as a kid and it was very clunky, so I never gave Curse a fair shake at the time. It's super fun and has a devil-raising system.
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Hector ...