Willy

proposing we all begin using "silly copy" to refer to a pirated app

Commission for Vincio and Freddy - Thank you!

This level of effort to get photos was previously only reserved for "doing literal chemistry on film"

doing raws editing on a 640x480 digital camera image. this is good ?

I think this is what you want your histograms to look like. Sharp.

I'm playing the Xenoblade games (not the Wii U one, unless I can reasonably get my hands on it) and I just finished the first. Actually I've had Xenoblade Chronicles in one form or another for quite a while, but was never able to get into it until recently. So it's the Switch remaster that I played to completion.

I have a lot of affection for sincere games full of good ideas executed imperfectly, and that's about where I'd place XC1. I'm familiar with the earlier works under Tetsuya Takahashi's Xeno branding, so this was not a shocking discovery--Xenogears is a standard-bearer of 90s console RPGs and also a victim of development time constraints. Make no mistake, I was deeply invested, and this is a very highly reviewed game in general, if you're concerned about that. But I'd feel dishonest if I didn't say that some of the biggest conceptual swings don't fully survive the translation into things the player has to do.