I'm cruising through a very idle replay of Dragon Quest XI. I platinumed the original version of PS4 at launch, and it was firmly settled as my favourite entry in my favourite JRPG series. That makes this Xbox run of the expanded version a good game to pick up when I want to play something and nothi...

That was a great episode and worth the years of waiting. I meant to leave some thoughts on the game for possible inclusion but life happened and the next thing I knew there it was, in my patreon feed. Perhaps I'll get there with Metroid II, aka the only core Metroid I've never managed to stick with ...

Mixed results so far. I kept trying my Switch version, and kept wondering what was wrong with it. It had that particular feel to it, the one which I associate with bad PAL ports. I'm sure a lot of you here know it: a certain stickiness and cludginess to the controls, a feeling that the action I'm se...

I've been playing Castlevania: Harmony of Dissidence [...] Anyone else played this game ?? I've finished it twice. Once back when it was new, once early last year. At release I loved the game. It was Circle of the Moon but iterated upon. Smoother controls, easier to see, more to do, less grinding t...

Thank you all for the helpful suggestions. That's exactly what I was hoping for. I do like the idea of starting with Mega Man 4. In addition to the points made, it's a game which doesn't have the same weight of opinion attached to it. Sometimes second-hand love for a game can be motivating and enlig...

Help a newbie out? I've been wanting to get into the Mega Man platformers since discovering the world with the original Battle Network on GBA. After years of looking, wishing, then avoiding, I picked up Mega Man 11 at launch and had a blast finishing it on one of the easier settings. Picked up the l...

I joined the patreon in December, and also wanted to say thank you. Well, I guess if one of those two things is going to take months longer than the other I picked the right one. Life! Thank you, Cane and Rinse crew past and present. Your podcast is the most enjoyable I've listened to. I've tried ma...