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A leak of a build of the old and bad fan translation of Zero is out in the wild. So god damn tempting but I feel like the translation job would mislead and confuse people on the story and lore. But shit, it's Zero. Do note that another fan translation for Zero is in the works and there is also the one for Ao. Supposedly, one of those were getting close to completion. So yeah... XSEED should handle the port and edit the hell out of the fan translations. They literally just did it on Zwei II! So it is possible. I WANT TO BELIEVE. ZERO AND AO 2018. SEN III 2019.

He must be jumping for joy that the White House linked/sourced an InfoWars article. Edit: I'm kind of bummed that I'll be working while Comey is doing his thing on Thursday.

Makes you wonder what's she is working on that she talks about it this way. Nobody teases about stuff like the one I posted in the Trailers thread or Zwei II. Those just kind of dropped. And who knows, it could be a non-Falcom game. Eh. Zwei II was Nick's game. And they licensed the fan translation that was in the works. Which is super cool.

If I get a Switch, I'm unsure if I want a game on the Switch or on PC. Anyhow: XSEED just announced that they're localizing this game for the PS4 and PC. My hotel wifi is shit so it's hard to tell how nice it looks but it seems to play fine. I also welcome more games that came out in Comiket to come on over.

Oh yeah... Death Stranding Maybe we'll get more info about it then wait a year for release date (at best) for 2018 or a teaser for another day for them to announce it for early 2019 or something. Still, all the merch for the game is just bizarre. We don't know shit about it besides some cool teasers. Honestly, this may be the game that make or break Kojima for me.

Needed something simple for my laptop to run while I'm out and about. Saw this on sale and it seems good. Probably not Hollow Knight good but it seems to be decent enough. Say Shantae level.

I'm looking forward for any news on Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord. It should be time that we get a release date. Us Mount and Blade fans waited for so long... Need more OG Vergil.

PS4/PC Western release when? LWA lives through it's Western audience (the BD sales aren't so hot in Japan) so it'd be odd to not have this come over. Anyhow, looks like it's a side-scrolling beat-them-up that's split into three lanes. Also, still better 3D work than the Berserk anime.

Since I probably going to be traveling for work for potentially weeks at a time, I want a stronger Switch lineup. With a job, the Nintendo Tax isn't as much of a big deal (still annoying).

The "for Dogs" bonus tracks are glorious.

I feel that Ubisoft is kind of kicking a big hornet nest here but yeah, it's an interesting direction.

Sen and Zero/Ao are more linked together than Kiseki to either of those two (going to use the Japanese shorthand from now on, make more sense). Sen and Zero/Ao happens side-by-side and Sen III is finishing up the majority of the things started in Sen and Zero/Ao. So yeah, makes sense we're going to have more Zero/Ao involvement. In ways, it mirrors Kiseki's characters involvement in Zero/Ao. I think you can figure out who from Kiseki is in Zero/Ao. On a different note, I got spoiled a bit for Zero/Ao and Sen regarding Ouroboros. I doubt I can forget the names of certain members. Like I know number 6 but not the rest. And I guess stuff regarding Rean from Sen I and II. I need the Sen games in my blood now. and of course, Zero/Ao. I got to say this though, replaying the games before Zero/Ao (one way or another, they'll be here) comes is going to be awesome. That's an understatement. And I'm a bit annoyed that there's no GOG release. I personally prefer my games on GOG... and it gives me an excuse to double dip if I feel generous. Quite a bit harder for NISA.

That beaked dragon CGI is a bit... eh but the rest is quite nice. I'm with the folks who are not quite hot on Adol and Dogi's design. Especially Dogi's. Also shoebill at 2:04. And here's some info regarding the future of Ys. It could be IX, a remake of an older title or a spinoff. And they mention something about "Adol's son". Who did he finally bang? He seriously left a wake of broken hearts in his wake so it's odd to see he actually settled down. And does Adol got some unfinished business with the winged folks?

I put this on during my dive down to LA. Such a fantastic album and I can still sing along (Thank high school years!). And might as well post the first metal song I ever got into. Like metal is more than screaming, which I now find is quite nice in some situations. Life is strange. And I still cannot believe Roy Khan became a born-again Christian. Such a loss for metal but I respect his decision.

Rising Storm free on Humble Store. One of the best squad based FPS.

Damn son.

Die monster! You don't belong in this world!

Fucking serious? It would get me to crumble.

That song stole the show with In game version here:First with some formal apologies then with drawing his sword and going into his stance and a declaration of his name and (former) title, the song starts. Perfect. Of course then there's this song. I have read some comments elsewhere where the commenters believes that the soundtracks to the Trails games were lackluster. I believe you can argue that the implementation was a tad weird but the composition of the songs are stellar. --- And I am trying out Spotify on here. Let me know if it's a problem.

Samurai Jack fans just cannot win. Edit: Meaning that ten episodes was not enough to flesh out what they tried to do.

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd I think I like this one the best so far. At least we have Cold Steel games coming soon and I cannot wait. Bummer about the school setting but it's more Trails and it's in Erebonia at that. Arguably more interesting than Crossbell but damn did 3rd mention Crossbell a lot. Very fair assessment. Game play while similar throughout the three games evolves and get rebalanced with each game. While there is one issue (see Falcom thread if you're really curious) I think they got it just right with 3rd. To be sure though, some design choices are kind of bad even if they make in-game sense (it's very Ys like in this regard). But yeah, even with the gameplay flaws, Trails is easily my favorite turn-based RPG series (there's only so much you can do with a turn-based game). Falcom's Ys series is my favorite action RPG... Falcom is very competent in making games. Like Nintendo but less insane.