Recent content by PsychedelicDiamond

Valid, honestly.

Also, what do you mean "Divide between critics and gamers"? It has 88% approval on steam and 85% on Metacritic. Critic and player feedback are pretty close to identical. There's much less of a divide between critical score and audience score than Crimson Desert, for example, has.

That aside, seems like one of those games where how much you enjoy them seems to depend entirely on how much you enjoy the writing and presentation of it. I dunno, I don't really see much of a point in calling out a game for lacking gameplay. As long as you have any input beyond starting and...

No, there are plenty of things to it that I would call good without any particular caveats. The combat system. The art direction. The world design. The graphics, natch. The physics. The puzzle design, with some exceptions. The presentation of most of its big setpieces. Sure, a big part of what...

Not that the Delesya chapter didn't have a lot of really cool shit, but now that we're starting to do 2001: A Space Odyssey and Wizard of Oz references, maybe it's time to start wrapping up the story.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) Okay, what is it with that title? Why "The Super Mario Galaxy Movie" and not just "Super Mario Galaxy" or "Super Mario Galaxy: The Movie"? And, yes, I might as well have asked this about the Mario Brothers Movie too, but still. Makes it sound like a Seltzer &...

Just like Trump's approval ratings!

Here's a post on reddit going over a document in the game that spells out some of the more ambiguous parts of the plot: And here'l are my thoughts on it: It is interesting. I was always eager to defend the games story, there's a lot of interesting stuff going on there, even without the...

And I finished it today. Overall it is a very competent TPS, probably moreso than I'm able to realistically give it credit for, having only finished it on normal difficulty without diving much into the post game. While it lacks a bit in enemy variety, the core mechanics of the combat are...

After Hours (1985) Dark comedy, directed by Martin Scorsese. Griffin Dunne plays Paul Hackett, a frustrated office drone in New York City. Paul meets an eccentric blonde named Marcy (Rosanna Arquette) in a diner. After being invited to her apartment in SoHo, late at night, a sequence of absurd...

Taking a little break from Crimson Desert at Chapter 9, waiting for some additional patches to release and hopefully smooth over some jank in the latter chapters, I decided to give Capcom's recently released new IP, Pragmata, a try. So, Pragmata is a third person shooter, set on a large moon...

He didn't say that, he said that he empathizes with the people who criticized it and wishes he there would have been more time to fill in some gaps, but they chose to polish up the gameplay instead. The story's good, but yes, it could have used more direct exposition and relied less on optional...

What political capital does being Catholic in a majority Protestant country even give you?

It could be attributed primarily to the work of one single guy. That one single guy can't (and likely doesn't particularly want to) work on it anymore. Metal Gear spin offs without Kojima were hit or miss, and, honestly, leaning on the miss side. Like, which ones do people actually enjoy...

It was a pretty good movie. I overall enjoyed Beau is Afraid more for some of the big swings it took. Even though, at the end of the day, I have too good a relationship with my parents to really relate to it. Eddington didn't get quite as weird with it but, eh, it was pretty good. It had an...