Still getting on with this, I must be on around 36 hours - I'm hoping it kind of starts building towards the end soon. I've enjoyed it, but I'm ever so slightly getting fidgity for the end. And I wish Tidus would stop referring to his dad as his old man. It's total cringe every time he says it, it ...

I never really had a problem with the voice acting, even Tidus, whom magazines and the early internet seemed ready to hate right out of the gate. I, too, will defend Teedus and the game's VO. Tidus's English voice actor did a *phenomenal* job - if you compare the Japanese performance to the English...

Final Fantasy X gets a lot of things right - the art direction is outstanding, the battle system may be the best in the series, the story has a lot of emotional strong points, the characters are memorable and well-defined... And it should go without saying that the soundtrack is one of Square's best...

Want to add some additional commentary relating to the Genesis version. This is a game I've owned 3 times now, because it's so inexpensive and is frequently featured on "best of" Genesis lists. But I always wind up selling it, because it just does nothing for me. So I sat down with my thir...

Oof, Leon giving Sonic the Hedgehog a run for his money with that response speed. Speedy lad!

Can anyone explain ray-tracing to an idiot? Because ever since I heard the term I'd thought it was that technique used in the movie, A Scanner Darkly, where they animate over live footage. But it's not! Online I read its something to do with reflections and stuff, but we already get those in games,...

The Christian Whitehead version of Sonic CD that’s officially available to buy (cheaply) has the option to switch between the Japanese and US OSTs. I have it on PC, but for some reason I can't quite define, I never play PC games? Like, I forget I even have Steam games, and I have 300 of them. I thi...

Been playing around with PS Classic modding for... God, just shy of a week now. This little box is absolutely incredible. A few points of note: - It runs PSP games *flawlessly*, and at full 60fps. They look and perform better on this thing than on a real PSP hooked up to a TV. - It runs N64 games ve...

Already pre loaded cuphead for switch. I’d go for final fantasy 10 on switch but only 10 is on the cart and 10-2 is a download code. Which usually also makes buying a preowned copy pointless, as I found out on Vita. Imagine if it was the other way around though? You buy it a decade from now, the PS...

I sent Vampyr to a friend of mine in France cuz they're out of work and going through a rough time. Huge fan of vampires, so they should be happy. Also sent Horizon: Zero Dawn, Dishonoured 2 and Bloodborne, which I picked up for $40 *total*, which seems a ludicrously low sum to me. After modding the...

Just an update on the PS Classic... This is easily the smoothest mod experience I've ever had. The software folks have created for this thing is absolutely stellar. You can either use a REALLY easy to use server to upload games directly to your PSC, or if you wanna get really crazy, you can get into...

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Looks like that Capcom arcade stick thing might be illegally using an explicitly non-commercial emulator without permission. Whoops!

PlayStation Classic was on mad clearance in Canada today. The Source (formerly Radio Shack) had them for $20. Sold out, of course. Best Buy had them for $30, and I managed to get an open box one. $30 for a weekend modding project? That's one hell of a great thing. The PS Classic may be rancid arse a...

All this passionate talk of cleaning products has made me feel like I’m missing out. I’ve got a pile of carts which don’t work which I’m going to try and resurrect. I may even take them apart. They are worth nothing unless you’re into Barbie, Dora et al. You could do a few things: - fix them as pra...

Aww, that reminds me of going to the arcade with my dad as a smol bab. Area 51, Raiden and Galaga were some of his faves.

Einhander is a special beast for score attack. If you go in vanilla, you will probably get curbstomped. If you've unlocked all the weapons and ships, you can beast it. I recommend, at very least, unlocking the Riot, Canon, Hedgehog, Grenade and Vulcan permanently (you can pick them up in-game, but u...

It made it onto the shmups forum's top 25 games of all time this year, so I guess it's doing OK. The lazy shorthand is that it's 'the Undertale of shmups'. I'm looking forward to it coming to Switch, definitely. I'm picky at the best of times. I didn't especially like Ikaruga, Tatsujin, Thunder For...

I don't like using Q-Tips because they leave little fibres in the cart. No bueno. I’ve never had an issue with using Q-Tips, or ‘fibres’ being left in the cart restricting its use or functionality. Generally, anything left behind by a damp Q-Tip is taken away with a soft cloth wipe. It’s good to be...

The game's certainly not shy about where it's inspiration comes from. Got very blatant nods to R-Type, Gradius, Raiden, Cotton, Touhou and a few other "maybes" in there, in either the art assets or music. Needs more Thunder Force tho. I got to... Inside Skeleton Jim? And now it's just kind...

Here, I'll start the game on my computer right and make sure I've got vsync set to on and then I can upload it and you can replace your file with it, hopefully that'll let you get in and start playing. Give me a minute. I appreciate your help, but I figured out the problem. For whatever reason, thi...