Recent content by Tothoro

Embracer has had to sell or shutter Gearbox, Volition, Saber Interactive, Free Radical, lay-off over a thousand employees, and cancel something like 20 games. They also announced that they would split into three companies. Their financials don't paint a rosy picture, but that's a trailing...

With Embracer circling the drain, there are really three things that I keep coming back to here: Margins on a lot of the stuff they sell are huge. Not so much standard copies, especially since they were struggling to hit MOQ around the time they turned off the order quantity flag, but CEs that...

I think 2019 was the tipping point where things really went to shit. They went all-in on quantity of releases and chasing big licenses, their production and logistics couldn't keep up and they've been cutting corners ever since.

This is where I'm at. Have to pick your battles at a certain point. What bothers me is games either skipping the platform entirely due to the concerns (a la Chaos;Head NoaH, Aokana, probably others) and stuff like Senran Kagura essentially being banished to the shadow realm as a result of the...

Shiren-style "apology" incoming

I keep telling myself this about Final Fantasy XIV. But hey, if I ever do break my back and end up stuck in bed for six months it's at the top of my list.

I've seen a bunch of people elsewhere talk about P3R, but I think leading up to launch there was a lot of skepticism about how they'd handle The Answer and general reticence to buy-in given how quickly a lot of Atlus games drop in price. I'm still looking forward to it, but I'm not planning to...

IIRC links stemming from the forum automatically get CAG's affiliate stuff appended to it, whereas on social media they have to manually append/redirect and all that fun stuff. Either way, appreciate the link and explanation! Also, H2 Spring Sale at Play-Asia...

ow.ly is a link shortener, I see it used relatively often. My guess is they just grabbed the link from a tweet or something to share here. But in general, yes, it is a bad idea to click shortened links from untrusted sources.

Finished Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. Platinum took me 173 hours. Everything I said earlier still holds true but I would emphasize that all of the AI shortcomings really flaunt themselves on Hard and especially the Brutal/Legendary VR challenges. Though again, it's hard to fault the game too much...

The PS3 and Vita stores are still up and running, although they are annoying to use. I don't really think it's unreasonable to expect content to continue to be available on a storefront, especially when no announcement about delisting was made.. On the note of Tales fans having already bought...

Bandai-Namco's hatred for Tales fans continues. All of the games are available on-disc, but the story DLC for Zestiria and all of the other miscellaneous DLC are lost to the digital void.

Yes, thank you. Too many acronyms with this series, haha!

I'm expecting Atlus to release a P3P Complete Edition once the DLC drops in the Fall, so I'm just waiting on that. And if they don't do it I'm sure the game will be like $20-$30 by then. Either way, no harm in waiting.

With regular encounters you're not going to get to use Synergies or higher-level Limits. The endgame content and Hard Mode let you experiment more, but I really wish there was better enemy variety in some of these challenges. The Six Person Advanced Bouts are the same five enemies reconfigured...