like i’d rather have the olden days of blurry af post-processed AA than bouts of ghosting so intense that it puts the shittiest, cheapest LCD screens ever made to shame

keep it mind aw1’s enemy variety is arguably worse than 2 and it has those shitass possessed objects that throw themselves at you too
genuinely an exhausting jank-ass game

control in particular burned me a little because it leans on AAA semi-RPG design trends and it really fumbled that game for me between the (iirc) gear system and enemies becoming damage sponges over time

i do not care for their encounter design & gunplay across alan wake 1, control and aw2
aw2 is better off cus it’s survival horror rather than action but like the first game plays like legit ass to the point it feels insane knowing it came from the same ppl who made mp2

I like a lot of what’s goin on in their newer games except for the part where you actually play them

that arc in the anime’s pretty cool between all that and the “it’s time to cut to bulma fucking around and occasionally being uncharacteristically stupid” filler

ppl always liked xenogears more afaik and in comparison square generally treats that game w/ more reverence even if they haven‘t been bothered to re-release it since it hit the psp/ps3 store as a psone classic. namco might have kos-mos show up in something every 15 yrs if they remember they own her

a ps5 exclusive remaster would sell five copies max

xenosaga especially tbh because like. imma be real man p. much nobody’s gonna give a shit about a remaster trilogy outside of xenoblade fans

in their case it already felt like the only reason we got two numbered xenoblades (on top of two very substantial DLCs, one of which was literally available standalone) on switch 1 was because 3 was very asset reuse-friendly

depending on how long monolith’s next game has been cooking i could easily see that being the only thing they put out this gen lol

on its own that isn’t super egregious but they ultimately still bruteforced their way in as a platform during a time the worst you could reasonably expect from a PC game you copped on CD/DVD was annoying DRM shenanigans

the full-fat discrete ff15 experience