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There's been a steady shift to shorter seasons and series though. Aside from a handful of the old long-running shonenseries and the newly introduced Black Clover, most modern shonen anime stick to 26 episode seasons. If a series doesn't take breaks, it will eventually catch up to the anime...

Shucks, I wanted to recommend Link's Awakening as well... Well, if you want more 2D Zelda after Link's Awakening, the GBC and GBA games are worth a mention. Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages are available on the 3DS. The Minish Cap was made available to early 3DS owners through the...

Kind of proving my point there by listing two series that aired nearly a decade ago, and one miniseries from 2015.

The typical drama doesn't have many stakes beyond the characters' personal lives though. In Game of Thrones death is not just a personal loss, it's something that affects the course of history. Small world versus big world. (And that big world happens to feature epic shit like dragons, huge...

I enjoy it, probably not nearly as much as the vocal fans, but I don't have any problems with them enjoying it that way either. Because let's be honest, if you want a fantasy series of this scale, it's either Game of Thrones or rewatching the Lord of the Rings movies for the umpteenth time. And...

Then why did you bring up games that do not feature random encounters in the first place? Okay, I guess you just know nothing about programming, hardware or game design... The point wasn't about action games being hard (which they are, if you want to do it right), it was about limitations...

Uh, it's not that simple. Depression makes it hard to think that straight, because all your thoughts are taken over by hurt and when your mind turns into such a dark place suicide starts to look like the best way out of it, you're way past being able to think clear enough to make some sort of...

But you brought it up? And really, what were you trying to prove? Of course a game can't have a slide to control random encounters if it doesn't have random encounters in the first place. That is not what I'm saying. There were limits like how many objects you could have on screen at the...

Well, atleast your favourites are kind to your wallet? By the way, if you're interested in a low-budget Tactics Ogre, the Mercenaries Saga games (available for 3DS and Android) are something worth looking at. They're a shorter and less complex (because they're 15 hour games you buy for like 5...

Uh, most recent Final Fantasies had enemies visible on the screen, many of which you could avoid if you wanted to... Also, just because something was always done a certain way doesn't mean it's the best way to do it. Random encounters and having battle take place in a different environment...

Yeah, people in the rest of the world buy and sell that shit online. Japan can be surprisingly old-fashioned when it comes to online business. I mean, they still have places were you can rent DVD's, and the larger the office, the greater the chance it's run by some old dude who does not know how...

I know, right! If the sex scene is going to be the reward for playing through the game, I want the sex to be the emotional climax of a romance build up throughout the story! Or you know, just have the sex be part of that romance and have the couple be cutely awkward together the first time they...

No wait, how would that be the same? Unless you figure out the right hex values and everything yourself (which would actually be a lot more impressive than grinding exp for a few hours, so kudos to you), there is no work involved. Like I said before, Bravely Default does not offer an option to...

Myep, and slash fiction it's usually more about breaking a character so the actual love interest can take care of him and make everything better. (But I won't claim there aren't some really sadistic yaoi fangirls out there...) Personally, I'm more into the cute and sweet. Anyway, I wonder...

It's the same thing. You get stronger and make the game easier by repeating the same thing over and over again. Just because you don't grind the exact same thing doesn't mean the end results aren't the same. You grind and the game becomes easier. Also, how does a higher encounter rate break...