I just noticed the new podcast today. I'll check it out this week!

I've finally gotten a Wii U and I've sent you a friend request on it. It evidently expires in 29 days though.

Ascension was okay I thought. Things were feeling a little same-y though, and I thought they could have done more with the time-manipulation mechanic.

Thanks! I'm enjoying it quite a bit so far. It feels like it's filling a gap that was missing on the PS3. My only issue is that it's not fluid trying to move between different types of attacks and moves, but over all I like it a lot to this point.

I see you've posted a new podcast; I'll check that out very soon!

Gamersvantage with Steve and Jake

Episode 53: Paper Mario and What to do After the Zombie Apocalypse

In this episode Steve and Jake talk about Mass Effect Andromeda, Paper Mario, both the original and Color Splash and Persona 4.

Jake gets triggered due to Steve's opinions on Paper Mario, so that's fun.

We talk some news and then launch into a lovely discussion about character creation which gets us to our question of the week:

When you have a game with a character creator, do you accept the default or do you create your own? If you create your own, who do you make it look like?

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In all seriousness, Ai is probably my favorite Social Link in that game. If Funky Student were a Social Link it would be the best thing in video game history, but alas, we have to stick with the glory of his riddles. I'm not using any hyperbole when I say he is my all-time favorite video game character. I'm weird, I know. But then someone makes something like this: [Link] - and I feel vindicated.

The Social Links are absolutely the backbone of the game, and without them I'd say Persona 4 would be a solid but relatively unremarkable game. As it is, though, I think it has the greatest cast of characters in a video game, bar none. Even people like Devil Nurse or Death Grandma beat ~90% of JRPG characters in character development, to say nothing of more fleshed out characters like Dojima, Nanako, Kanji, or Brosuke. Heck, even Teddie, the mascot character, gets pretty interesting.

I guess my total love for that game shows.

At last, Persona 4, yeah!

Have you fallen in love with Chie yet?

I'll check out the podcast then

Would you recommend Paper Mario?

She didn't like the feel of X-2, so we (slowly) have moved on to XII and she likes it better.

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Episode 49: Will 3DS Fans Make the SWITCH?

This week we discuss the upcoming Nintendo Switch and how it will affect the handheld market.

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Episode 48: Did Donky Kong really happen?

We talk about Paper Mario, Persona 3, Final Fantasy XV, the Mario timeline and Yoshi's Island and some other random stuff.

We finally have a GV10List so listen in and enjoy.

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I think Knack is the type of game that deserves a sequel. A chance to build on the things it did right, and avoid the things that held it back. I hope they do just that with the next one.

I wouldn't call it horrible, but it's not great. When I'm playing it, I'll keep playing it, but when I stop I don't miss it.

My first playthrough of Venetica took my 24hrs (doing everything I could possibly find, with a bit of aimless wandering about too), so it's not too bad on a time-scale point of view.
Contrary to that, my first playthrough of SaGa Frontier II took about 40hrs and Unlimited SaGa took me 370hrs (65hrs for 1st character), so you should probably just add Venetica to your 2017 RPG list and handle some of the SaGa games when you have weeks to spare