Of course mate, no problem.
If you have any specific questions or want to see any more pictures, just say the word.
Excellent comparison, btw!
I know it probably sounds like a total platitude, but please take care of yourself. Sounds like your intense relationship with this genre is affecting other elements of your life for the worse. If you need to step back a bit in order to regain some of your equilibrium, do it.Stanshall wrote: ↑February 9th, 2020, 10:19 am I feel like I should give them a break for a while, but then I think, well, they're the games I most enjoy and find most exciting. It seems stupid to stop playing Battle Garegga just because it makes me unable to get into Tokyo Mirage Sessions or something.
This is really solid advice and the relationship analogy is fucking spot on. It's a great game but it's not a fun game for me. It's got under my skin but that's not enough in itself, nor is it necessarily healthy, like going out with a girl you really fancy but who is an emotionally withholding droid. As I say, I've never been so frustrated by Futari or DOJ or Psyvariar or Rolling Gunner or even DFK. Go beyond the genre and I never felt so frustrated and annoyed by Bloodborne or Dark Souls or Celeste or Sekiro or Cuphead or Tropical Freeze or any other 'hard' game I've ever played. Ikaruga is just so particular and restrictive that there's not enough sense of success or joy in the mere act of playing it, for me, at least.
Yeah, that makes sense. It's certainly a very special type of game and I've also noticed it doesn't lend itself at all to the pick-up-and-play nature of most CAVE games, for example. Tried a few times to get back into it and found it positively impenetrable.