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by Sage + Onion Knight
January 25th, 2024, 8:48 am
Forum: Volume 13
Topic: 622: Elden Ring
Replies: 13
Views: 2413

Re: 622: Elden Ring

Elden Ring was a huge part of the first few months of 2023 for me. I have a weird relationship with the FromSoft games in that the quite minimalistic and interpretive approach to world-building and narrative is absolutely up my street but I often run into a bit of a wall when it comes to the difficu...
by Sage + Onion Knight
January 25th, 2024, 8:47 am
Forum: Volume 13
Topic: 633: Tekken series
Replies: 1
Views: 15670

Re: 633: Tekken series

I don't have a great deal to say about the Tekken series, beyond them being something of a mainstay of my childhood gaming life. Tekken 2 was one of the first PlayStation games I played courtesy of the demo disk, and the future entries into the series were always at friends' houses. My overriding me...
by Sage + Onion Knight
January 25th, 2024, 8:46 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...
Replies: 2
Views: 5525

Re: 609: NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...

On another (non-gaming) forum that I post on, I tend to get tagged whenever anyone mentions that they're starting that game or considering getting it. Playing that game was as much a revelation for me in my mid-twenties as playing Final Fantasy VII was as a kid - so I was over the moon when this rem...
by Sage + Onion Knight
September 11th, 2023, 11:41 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Norco
Replies: 6
Views: 36761

Re: 596: Norco

It’s fair to say that Norco is like catnip for me. I loved the original wave of point-and-click adventures growing up – not just for their storytelling, but for how everything (from character to puzzle design) furnished those games with a unique tone of absurdity and surrealism that it’s hard to fin...
by Sage + Onion Knight
April 30th, 2023, 9:52 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Life Is Strange 2
Replies: 4
Views: 1952

Re: 575: Life is Strange 2

Weirdly, my experience with 'Life is Strange 2' is kind of the inverse of my experience with the original. I can acknowledge that the first game in the series was incredibly flawed and borderline inept in areas, and yet my experience of playing it is still one of my most cherished gaming memories. I...
by Sage + Onion Knight
March 28th, 2022, 7:59 pm
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
Replies: 3
Views: 3004

Re: 549: Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne

Having loved Persona 5 (my first and, to date, only other exposure to this massive series), I was excited to be able to play another game within the sprawling Shin Megami Tensei universe on the PS4. My overall impression of Shin Megami III is that it's a 7 out of 10 game... but in that really intere...
by Sage + Onion Knight
March 15th, 2022, 7:28 pm
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Kentucky Route Zero
Replies: 11
Views: 5368

Re: 512: Kentucky Route Zero

I’m kind of surprised at all the comparisons to Lynch here. Though David Lynch is certainly an influence, I think what I always liked about KRZ is that it *isn’t* trying to be Lynchian. Where I find so many openly Lynch-influenced games to be kind of insultingly surface-level (‘Virginia’ was this, f...
by Sage + Onion Knight
February 13th, 2022, 10:35 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Maniac Mansion
Replies: 6
Views: 3423

Re: 534: Maniac Mansion

LucasArts adventure games were the first games I really loved as a child and, when I idly clicked “Use computer” on 'The Day of the Tentacle', my six-or-so-year-old-self thought he'd uncovered a secret that nobody in the world had ever seen. Obviously this wasn't true. But 'Maniac Mansion' has retai...
by Sage + Onion Knight
February 11th, 2022, 10:36 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Resident Evil Village
Replies: 13
Views: 5601

Re: 538: Resident Evil Village

I'll be honest, I think Resi 8 is possibly my favourite experience with a Resident Evil game. Having come to the series quite late, I've really come to enjoy what they seem to be doing with the series at the moment. As someone who played the games wildly out of sequence, I have no real interest in t...
by Sage + Onion Knight
January 26th, 2022, 9:01 pm
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Kentucky Route Zero
Replies: 11
Views: 5368

Re: 512: Kentucky Route Zero

I'm obviously really glad that people can enjoy Kentucky Route Zero as a full experience, but there's something bittersweet about the fact that no-one will be able to experience it like I did over the slow episodic release period. It sounds pretentious to say but it suited the feel of the game so we...
by Sage + Onion Knight
March 24th, 2021, 9:43 pm
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Dishonored 2
Replies: 4
Views: 3475

Re: 463 - Dishonored 2

Somehow it hadn't occurred to me, when I started replaying the Dishonored series this year, how hauntingly resonant these games about political upheaval in the wake of a pandemic are in 2021. There are many ways in which I love how Dishonored 2 expands on the first game – we explore more of this bea...
by Sage + Onion Knight
February 16th, 2021, 9:17 pm
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Final Fantasy VII Remake / Intergrade
Replies: 25
Views: 19054

Re: 463 - Final Fantasy VII Remake

For various reasons, I mostly fell off of the Final Fantasy series after FFX (and more recently, didn't really enjoy the remastered version of XII) – so I felt kind of cautious going into this. Being a nerdy child of the '90s, FFVII holds a weirdly high place in my heart and I wasn't confident that ...
by Sage + Onion Knight
February 11th, 2021, 8:27 pm
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Pokémon
Replies: 26
Views: 14673

Re: Our next podcast recording (13.2.21): 456 - Pokémon gens 1 and 2

As it doubtless was for several other children of the 1990s, these games were a huge part of my childhood. I can still vividly remember, on the day I got Blue, sitting cross-legged and engrossed in the wide open world conjured up by the monochrome graphics and tinny chip tunes. “World” definitely fe...
by Sage + Onion Knight
April 6th, 2019, 7:42 pm
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Persona 5
Replies: 8
Views: 6849

Re: 368: Persona 5

I'm currently playing this, and I think there's a chance I could have it finished just in time for this podcast. Anyway, I've been interested in the 'Persona' series for a while (as a particularly fan of Final Fantasies VI through VIII, it's interesting to have a JRPG series set in a similarly real-...
by Sage + Onion Knight
March 2nd, 2019, 11:31 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Final Fantasy IX
Replies: 22
Views: 14274

Re: Our next Final Fantasy podcast recording (13.4.19) - 365: Final Fantasy IX

This was the first Final Fantasy game I got at the time of release, having been obsessed with VII and VIII. I think I originally - being an early adolescent, at the time - missed the relative lack of grit from those games and found parts of it a bit childish (despite, of course, being a child). As I...
by Sage + Onion Knight
March 2nd, 2019, 11:21 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Game suggestions for the podcast
Replies: 2123
Views: 1444578

Re: Game suggestions for the podcast

I think almost every game I would've suggested is on this year's list! One big suggestion I'd offer is Anodyne - I feel it's very underrated, especially considering how it relates to that warped nostalgia present in something like Undertale and Petscop (it's not a game, but a C&R chat about Pets...
by Sage + Onion Knight
January 25th, 2019, 10:20 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: NieR:Automata
Replies: 21
Views: 15391

Re: 356: NieR: Automata

For starters: anyone who's on the fence due to having to replay the game multiple times - it really feels more like changing discs in an old Final Fantasy game than it does starting the game four times (each "playthrough" is very different and progresses the story in its own way). I someti...
by Sage + Onion Knight
January 18th, 2019, 10:07 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Virginia
Replies: 28
Views: 22649

Re: Virginia

I decided to replay this last night in advance of the podcast. With lower expectations, I was enjoying it a lot more than I had the first time: the atmospheric aspects I remembered fondly really stood out this time round, and I can echo the above sentiments about the score (I'm listening to it now, ...
by Sage + Onion Knight
January 7th, 2019, 8:09 pm
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Final Fantasy VIII
Replies: 35
Views: 24198

Re: Our next Final Fantasy podcast recording (16.2.19) - Issue 357: Final Fantasy VIII

NORG This is my last post in this thread, I promise (but not entirely sincerely): this reminds me of the fact that FF8 is responsible for two of my favourite old uni house share memories. 1. Noting that one of the regulars from quizzers was the spitting image of Garden Master NORG, and making my ho...
by Sage + Onion Knight
January 7th, 2019, 8:01 pm
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Volume Eight
Replies: 168
Views: 89779

Re: Volume Eight

I said to myself "if Nier: Automata's on there, I think I'll donate to the Patreon." May have to put my money where my mouth is! (also I've been curious about Persona 5 for ages; I find the series interesting, but have never played a single one of those games, so here's a nice nudge for me...