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@saffeqwe You might want to actually read comments before commenting on them...just a thought.

@Neonix I mean I'm one of the people that bailed because the games on Essential are rarely my cup of tea and I'm not going to get a more expensive plan when I already pay $50 a year for NSO + Expansion...

This review is a 1/10. It's hardly even a review and is more of a literal joke as in it's actually satire instead of, y'know a review? Also the game is actually really good and it feels like the reviewer didn't even play it and instead relied on it being as bad as its predecessor to slam it, which has backfired since it's one of the better games in the series...

Welp, definitely getting Tales of Arise this week at that price, unless something unexpected happens.

I have an account on Switch for PGA Tour 2K21. Should I change my 28 character password or should the extremely strong password still be safe?

@IonMagi I don't think so. Probably not Crash 5, but I'm guessing it'll be a spin-off game of some sort.

@get2sammyb @UltimateOtaku91 That's assuming the deal goes through in Europe, Asia, and the US. If any of the big 3 regions kick it back there's a good chance Activision and or Microsoft would call-off the acquisition as it wouldn't be lucrative to not be able to release anything in one or more of those regions.

@ShogunRok Is the DLC PS5 exclusive or is it also coming to the PS4 & Switch versions?

PS4 and Switch?! Pog! That said this looks like a gorgeous and enjoyable Visual Novel and JRPG hybrid!

Looks amazing, too bad it probably won't come to Switch's successor and I'll likely never be able to afford a PS5, since the supply chain issues mean that the system will likely only go up in price rather than seeing any price reductions, but I digress.

@Grimwood Not of 3-D games like this, but ok.

@NEStalgia There wasn't a Wii U version. That got cancelled super late in development.

@get2sammyb Will this be coming to Switch as well? Personally prefer the PS4 version, but my parents prefer playing on Switch so it makes sense to get that version if there is a Switch version.

@Quintumply Will the dlc be delisted as well for those of us whom haven't gotten around to purchasing them? 🤔

@get2sammyb Agreed, nice to hangout with friends on the other side of the planet and chill out with some Dragon Ball Super. 🤓

@IonMagi they are definitely eyeing them, but ultimately it's all down to if Square puts themselves on the market to be purchased.

@4kgk2 Probably because there's nothing positive to talk about. Sony abandoned the handheld market and their Japanese teams. Are eyeing Square Enix and if they do get them will probably Westernize them to the point that their games will unrecognizable and would likely become story driven cinematics like the other 1st party games, etc. I do like Sony IP and many of their games, but as a company they are every bit as bad as Microsoft, just with less money to throw around.

@get2sammyb Is this the first time in history that game devs have developed games in a literal war zone? 🤔

@Areus Preeeeeety sure Square Doesn't own rights to Lufia. Last I checked Natsume held rights to the series after Neverland went under.

@Korgon Also @ShogunRok does realize it's unfair to lump Falcom in here right? I mean ANY work on a native PS5 version of a game takes quite a few members of their relatively small team and a ton of their resources to port over. I'm not saying full price for the PS5 upgrade for YS VIII was a good idea on Falcom's part, but $10-$25 wouldn't be an issue in their case unless Robert wants Falcom to go bankrupt? 🤦

This is a "get gud dev" moment if I've ever seen one. 😂

@ShogunRok Is this coming to Nintendo Switch as well? 🤔

@get2sammyb Don't you mean "in the plastic". 😜

@Blacksmith1985 @thefourfoldroot1 Yeah Sony has turned me back into a primarily Nintendo gamer again. If it weren't for Final Fantasy XIV I wouldn't play my PlayStation consoles much outside of retro games on PSOne/PS2/PS3/PSP.

@LiamCroft What about PSOne and PSP Classics that we've actually purchased with money? 🤔

@Quintumply Will Sony remove any PSOne Classics or PSP Classics from our libraries that we actually purchased though? If so I'm fairly certain they'd be breaking some laws since in most countries it is required that purchased games not be taken from consumers and stay in their download library so long as the digital storefront for said console is still online. 🤔

@get2sammyb So will I be able to freely download any PSOne/PS2/PSP Classics released on premium if I had them on PS3/Vita even if I don't have PS+? It's what it sounded like in the PR release, but I'd like to confirm. 😎

@SuperPotato316 Technically Monster Hunter is NOT a GAAS game. It's an action-RPG with online elements, but most certainly NOT an MMO since most games in the series are fully playable offline.

@NEStalgia I'm honestly worried Sony may do something absolutely insane and buy-out Square Enix, Capcom, and Sega and assimilate them into their GAAS scheme effectively destroying Japanese gaming in the process.

@Rural-Bandit It's all stupid, since internet infrastructure just isn't good enough for most of us to play modern games on the cloud. My internet in the Phoenix suburbs is barely sufficient to stream NES, SNES, GENESIS, and N64 games on the Nintendo Switch Online service and I have the best net in the area. Tried PS Now and the lag was so bad there was like a 5 second delay.

Outside of areas like LA, NYC, and a handful of other big cities the infrastructure is sorely lacking. And that's not even counting the fact that over 4 billion people in the world live in areas that don't have access to high speed internet.

In short, if gaming goes Cloud only, the vast majority of gamers will be squeezed out of the hobby they grew up with and enjoy. 😫

@Mostik Funny you should talk about Cyberpunk 2077 because that's probably the year Witcher 3 will drop on PS5! 😂

@Tasuki The magic system and D&D elements felt like a big change to me. 🤔

@jFug Yeah Push Square reviews feel off, like reviewers trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. 😋
In all seriousness, it's not that the reviews are wrong persey, just that it seems the reviewers are constantly reviewing games from genres they don't even like... 😬

@Quintumply "and it's a cutesy RPG about little ghouls searching for the afterlife" Ghouls!? I thought ghouls are undead corpses while ghosts are dead people whose spirits remain? 🤔

Does anyone know how long the load times are in the PS4 version of this game? 🤔

@HeeHo It's easily a 7/10. This is legit the lowest score the game has received anywhere. Don't let the review sway you too much if you're a fan of SMT or Persona, it'll be an enjoyable experience for you. 😉

@get2sammyb @ShogunRok Does the base PS4 version have the option of Dynamic Resolution like Zero Dawn had or is it exclusive to the Pro/PS5 models this time around? 🤔

Great review Sammy! I agree that this game is quite fun in short bursts. 😺

@get2sammyb I like the anime art direction. Colorful doesn't = ugly...smdh. It does look dated, but there's no way to create a 24 player online 3-D arena royale game with modern graphics as no one would be able to run the game even with 5G internet lol. 😂

We won't get Kuro before Reverie lol.

@Fight_Teza_Fight That's a steaming Hot-💩 take on this situation. Yes Take-Two has that right, but you're acting like they should sue instantly without giving them a chance to cease-and-desist. Companies that do that should be shutdown as companies like that will sue everyone. Remember Blackberries? We have to call the berry Black Raspberry now because a mobile phone company forced us to rename a freaking fruit that was discovered and named thousands of years earlier because of "copyrights"...

@Littlemidge1986 Please, the engine is relatively new and TBH nobody has even remotely mastered using the engine yet, it'd be like saying the PS4 was tapped out by 2016 and that we should have just moved on. The engine has loads of untapped potential plus It'd also be unfair for PS4 owners if they started switching focus on a separate PS5 version as there aren't all that many completed full games on the engine yet. There's a fine line between drawing in new players and alienating existing players, PR requires a very delicate balance between the two or your company's reputation turns to mudd.

@Quintumply Hopefully an RPG template will be added in the future.

@Americansamurai1 Right now the PS5 is bottlenecked in its potential growth because of the chip shortages. The PS4 will still have more active players than PS5 for at least another 3-5 years as a result so while I agree that a PS5 port should come eventually, it is not really necessary for the foreseeable future.

@Quintumply Is it possible to use the templates with created or imported assets? If not that suddenly makes the feature pretty useless.

@MidnightDragonDX Yeah, why choose Christmas of all times? Sony is Grinch confirmed. 😡😠😈👿👹👺💀

Godfall is perfect! Not a game I'd buy, but a game I know I'll get enjoyment out of nonetheless. Lego DC Heroes is a Lego game I actually don't already have so yay! Overall great month if true! 😍

@ChrisDeku Hard disagree. It sounds more like you're burnt out with the JRPG genre which is fine, but the genre is fine as-is, last thing fans of the genre want is even more games trying to change JRPG's into a completely new and unrelated genre...

@ShogunRok This article is an exception to the no review scores rule right? We don't have to worry if we actually comment what score we'd give the game?

@LiamCroft I've got a letter, hyphen, and a word for you...X-Men!

...welp my PS4 just initialized a factory reset upon booting it up. 🚽