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Meryll @ffmeryll.bsky.social · Mar 19

📌 Hello! (´｡• ω •｡`)

My favorite games series:
🗡️ Final Fantasy
💫 Kirby
🌻 Mother (Earthbound)
🛡️ The Legend of Zelda
🧟‍♂️ Resident Evil
🦖 Tomb Raider
☄️ Star Ocean
🧠 Metroid
🌹 LocoRoco
🌫️ Silent Hill
🏐 Katamari Damacy

I'm collecting Final Fantasy items.
Favorite games and JRPGs 🔽

#gamesky #promosky

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Meryll @ffmeryll.bsky.social · 24m

Played a lot of Final Fantasy Tactics this week and I'm currently in chapter 4.
Had to go through some of the famous difficulty spikes but still having fun experimenting with jobs and comps.

Meryll @ffmeryll.bsky.social · 5h

Good opportunity to say that before Mario & Luigi, AlphaDream made Tomato Adventure on GBA and it's super fun.

Turn-based combat with a lot of different "gimmicks" (pretty much mini-games), and a silly story. There's an english fan translation now.
I've finished it, I recommend!

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Meryll @ffmeryll.bsky.social · 1d

PlatinumGames game but he wrote the story :p

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I gotta replay this Yasumi Matsuno game everyone is talking about

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Meryll @ffmeryll.bsky.social · 1d

Greatness.

Meryll @ffmeryll.bsky.social · 1d

My Top 4 games of 2025 (so far)

Meryll @ffmeryll.bsky.social · 2d

They were one of the three studios making Streets of Rage 4 yes, alongside Dotemu, and Lizardcube. If you didn't check it out yet, Shinobi: Art of Vengeance from Lizardcube is also great^^

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Meryll @ffmeryll.bsky.social · 2d

Another small french studio finding success this year, like Lizardcube with Shinobi: Art of Vengeance ; or Sloclap with Rematch.

Guard Crush Games worked on Streets of Rage 4 years ago, and now got to make their own game with Absolum.

Dotemu is also doing a great work as a publisher!

metacritic @metacritic.com · 2d

With the first 44 critic reviews lodged, Absolum has a Metascore of [86] www.metacritic.com/game/absolum/
"I didn't want to put Absolum down, and I slightly resented when life would make me." - Steve Watts, GameSpot

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Meryll @ffmeryll.bsky.social · 2d

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 ✅

CO:E33 is an impressive first game and a notable achievement from Sandfall.
Artistically, the game stands out for both its aesthetic and its music. The story is also nice, but even though it’s a very solid game in general, I wasn’t completely charmed by the gameplay.

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Meryll @ffmeryll.bsky.social · 2d

Keeper is releasing next week and as usual, Xbox marketing for this game has been extremely poor since the first reveal.

What's the goal, to shut down Double Fine after a few months like they did for Tango Gameworks? How do they keep being consistently so bad at basic stuff lol

Meryll @ffmeryll.bsky.social · 3d

If you wonder what he became after leaving tri-Ace... He's now an owner of the studio GRDRIVE, with Kenji Goshima (director of Star Ocean: Blue Sphere)

It's a support studio working on the visuals & animations for many games, notably the Kirby series!

(grdrive.co.jp)

Meryll @ffmeryll.bsky.social · 3d

Takayuki Suguro 🐐

Planner:
- Final Fantasy Tactics
- Vagrant Story

Director:
- Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria
- Resonance of Fate

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Meryll @ffmeryll.bsky.social · 3d

Since Expedition 33 reached 5M copies sold I was trying to see what are the best-selling 🇫🇷 games.

Seems like Detroit (11M), Dead Cells (10M) & the first LiS are leading.

Some games like Dishonored are 5M+ and there's successful series like Rayman Rabbids or Just Dance with no clear numbers.

Meryll @ffmeryll.bsky.social · 3d

(≽^•⩊•^≼) #FFXIV

Meryll @ffmeryll.bsky.social · 4d

It did have one

Meryll @ffmeryll.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like it'd be weird to tease just a NS2 Edition of Pikmin 4 like that, but idk. Might be a bit too early for Pikmin 5 too. Maybe it's an animated movie, actually

Meryll @ffmeryll.bsky.social · 4d

thats pikmin music, I think

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Meryll @ffmeryll.bsky.social · 4d

Shinya Kumazaki, the director of Kirby since 2008, is also an artist. I love his style!

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Meryll @ffmeryll.bsky.social · 5d

The future Game of the Decade has been preordered this morning

Meryll @ffmeryll.bsky.social · 6d

Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together was released 30 years ago on Super Famicom... I still need to play the Reborn version.

This classic is the favourite game of Hironobu Sakaguchi and YoshiP!
Yasumi Matsuno was on a generational run (Ogre Battle, FF Tactics, Vagrant Story...)

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Meryll @ffmeryll.bsky.social · 8d

I'm done with Donkey Kong Bananza!
Great action-adventure game with super fun gameplay, level-design and a lot of content.

It's a bit lacking to be a masterpiece (I wasn't always fan of the art direction, and the OST is overall disappointing) but it's one of the best games this year.

Meryll @ffmeryll.bsky.social · 9d

This is gonna be my next game on Switch after I'm done with Donkey Kong Bananza (which I'm taking my time with)

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Meryll @ffmeryll.bsky.social · 9d

Disaster: Day of Crisis (Wii) ✅

Far from a disaster, Disaster: Day of Crisis is genuinely rad and is another creative game worth playing from Monolith. The bold blending of genres works pretty well, and the concept of the story, as absurd as it is, offers a surprisingly fun time.

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Meryll @ffmeryll.bsky.social · 10d

Wrong, the studio actually got shut down and all of its employees lost their jobs back then.
Then, a few months later, Krafton created a new studio, and bought the name "Tango Gameworks" (not the studio itself, since it didn't exist anymore) as well as the Hi-Fi Rush IP.

Meryll @ffmeryll.bsky.social · 10d

✨️ Studios like Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin getting shut down
✨️ Massive amount of layoffs
✨️ Many games announced years ago getting cancelled or MIA
✨️ Huge prices hikes on hardware
✨️ Huge prices hikes on Game Pass

Power your dreams! 😍