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The X Button - Import Roundup with Shin Megami Tensei

Zero Escape fans are no doubt familiar with Sigma, Phi, Akane, and Junpei, though Zero Time Dilemma remains coy about just how they might have changed (Phi still calls Sigma “old man,” so there's that).

One thing strikes me off the bat: Spike Chunsoft replaced the marvelously talented Kinu Nishimura with Rui Tomono as character designer. Tomono's a good artist, but Nishimura's distinctive style was one of Zero Escape's strongest suits.

Estival Versus improves on the viewpoint controls and comical excesses of its predecessors, though its entry fee remains steep. It's not the actual cost of the game. It's the fact that every character is a walking, talking mass of excuses for pandering nonsense at best and cartoon misogyny at worst. The game never misses an opportunity to show them losing their clothing, wincing in agony, or landing naked and exhausted in a basketball net. That's the sort of game Senran Kagura is, and no cover changes will wash that away.

Uchikoshi said that this was to give impression that the series have evolved and uses more 3d cinematics, and so that it's more likely to be well-received on the west

Ace Attorney 6 shows an older Maya, presumably more experienced as a spirit medium, meeting up with Phoenix during his trip to the nation of Kurain

That sounds exactly like Mega Man (and its upcoming spiritual descendent Mighty No. 9)

and ineffectual gimmick Klavier Gavin.

It's how they hide bizarre secrets and screw over each other.

It's the fact that every character is a walking, talking mass of excuses for pandering nonsense at best and cartoon misogyny at worst. The game never misses an opportunity to show them losing their clothing, wincing in agony, or landing naked and exhausted in a basketball net. That's the sort of game Senran Kagura is, and no cover changes will wash that away.

Paper Mario: Color Splash: As usual, the Paper Mario fans are in anti-Nintendo mode. After Sticker Star and Paper Jam (which was just a crossover with Paper Mario simply being there), they're already looking at this as a failure. It gets so tiresome seeing people repeat "It's nothing like Paper Mario 64 and Thousand Year Door!" over and over again. I don't think there's ever going to be a Paper Mario title like the first two because they're trying to do new things with the series (and the same argument can be made with the Mario & Luigi series). That's why Super Paper Mario was different, and despite the initial attitude toward it, people have grown to like it for a number of reasons. I understand Sticker Star removed way too much of what made the series so memorable since its inception, but I don't think that should be a good reason to label Color Splash as bad by default and that anything Intelligent Systems makes from now will suck no matter what. I swear, Mario fans have become as nasty as Sonic fans.

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It's the fact that every character is a walking, talking mass of excuses for pandering nonsense at best and cartoon misogyny at worst. The game never misses an opportunity to show them losing their clothing, wincing in agony, or landing naked and exhausted in a basketball net. That's the sort of game Senran Kagura is, and no cover changes will wash that away.

Geez Todd who pissed in your coffee this week?

What gimmick is Klavier supposed to have especially since he's no longer a musician on the side.

As an action game, Estival Versus improves on the viewpoint controls and comical excesses of its predecessors, though its entry fee remains steep. It's not the actual cost of the game. It's the fact that every character is a walking, talking mass of excuses for pandering nonsense at best and cartoon misogyny at worst. The game never misses an opportunity to show them losing their clothing, wincing in agony, or landing naked and exhausted in a basketball net. That's the sort of game Senran Kagura is, and no cover changes will wash that away.

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As an action game, Estival Versus improves on the viewpoint controls and comical excesses of its predecessors, though its entry fee remains steep. It's not the actual cost of the game. It's the fact that every character is a walking, talking mass of excuses for pandering nonsense at best and cartoon misogyny at worst. The game never misses an opportunity to show them losing their clothing, wincing in agony, or landing naked and exhausted in a basketball net. That's the sort of game Senran Kagura is, and no cover changes will wash that away.

The main games actually tell fairly dark and decent coming of age stories, especially Burst/the original. I guess that would require one to look past the gratuitous fanservice the game's have though. I didn't enjoy SV because character arcs weren't balanced.

Hopefully, Estival's different in that regard because I really dig the character arcs that the main games have.

The main games actually tell fairly dark and decent coming of age stories, especially Burst/the original. I guess that would require one to look past the gratuitous fanservice the game's have though. I didn't enjoy SV because character arcs weren't balanced.

Hopefully, Estival's different in that regard because I really dig the character arcs that the main games have.

I'm curious as to what you mean about SV's character arcs not
being balanced.

I feel like the cast exploded (to the benefit of the gameplay) so instead of the massive walls of text that the original/Burst had, they toned it down so you don't have as much monologues with said walls of texts.