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(U)
SNES
SNES Classic: Secret of Mana
Past Jabberwocky

Updated about 5 days ago

(U)
Steam
Granblue Fantasy: Relink
Chapter 4 Achievements: 12 / 54 (22%)

Updated about 2 months ago

(U)
Switch
Super Mario RPG REMAKE
Past Punchinello

Updated about 3 months ago

(U)
PS4
Yakuza Remastered Collection: Yakuza 5
Kiryu Chapter 2 Achievements: 2 / 57 (4%)

Updated about 4 months ago

Yerocha's Status

(U) Unfinished ?No significant accomplishments.     (B) Beaten ?The main objective has been accomplished. Usually marked by the defeat of a final boss and/or viewing of credits.     (C) Completed ?For games which are 100% done. All extras and modes have been unlocked and finished. All significant items have been collected.
151 (U)
  83 Unplayed  
55% of Unfinished
10.9% of Total
19.9%
377 (B)
49.7%
230 (C)
30.3%
Wishlist  0 ?         Top-Rated  41 ?????         Master Runs  0 (M)
Nintendo Switch 19 (U) 26 (B) 7 (C) 52 Total
Steam 42 (U) 124 (B) 56 (C) 233 Total
Switch Downloads 1 (U) 11 (B) 8 (C) 24 Total
Wii U BEAT 8 (B) 3 (C) 11 Total
Virtual Console (WiiU) BEAT 6 (B) 6 (C) 12 Total
Wii 5 (U) 11 (B) 5 (C) 22 Total
Virtual Console (Wii) C O M P L E T E ! 2 Total
GameCube 2 (U) 13 (B) 9 (C) 26 Total
Nintendo 64 BEAT 8 (B) 7 (C) 15 Total
Nintendo 3DS 5 (U) 20 (B) 5 (C) 30 Total
Virtual Console (3DS) BEAT 2 (B) 4 (C) 7 Total
Nintendo DS 5 (U) 27 (B) 9 (C) 42 Total
Game Boy Advance 1 (U) 10 (B) 10 (C) 21 Total
Game Boy/Color BEAT 8 (B) 6 (C) 15 Total
SNES 5 (U) 4 (B) 6 (C) 25 Total
NES 2 (U) 9 (B) 12 (C) 32 Total
PlayStation 5 10 (U) 0 (B) 3 (C) 13 Total
PlayStation 4 8 (U) 38 (B) 18 (C) 64 Total
PlayStation 3 15 (U) 22 (B) 16 (C) 53 Total
PlayStation 2 16 (U) 20 (B) 27 (C) 63 Total
PS2 Classics 2 (U) 0 (B) 1 (C) 3 Total
PSOne Classics 3 (U) 2 (B) 1 (C) 6 Total
PlayStation Vita 2 (U) 2 (B) 5 (C) 10 Total
Genesis / Mega Drive 3 (U) 1 (B) 3 (C) 8 Total
Xbox 360 4 (U) 2 (B) 1 (C) 8 Total
Xbox 1 (U) 0 (B) 0 (C) 1 Total
PC BEAT 3 (B) 0 (C) 6 Total
All Games 804 Total
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about 7 years ago

Badges
Minion of Bak'laag: 100+ unfinished games
Consider Yourself a Hero: Majority of games are beaten
Treasure Hunter: 1000+ games
Your mileage may vary, but the story just feels like bad fanfiction.

For a start, there's a disconnect between what the story wants to be. There's beheadings and violent content, yet there are also scenes where characters talk about 'missing their mommy' and celebrate 'sushi!' (which in itself feels very fanfictiony - they sure love their Japanese food in that community).

In addition, the script is CONSTANTLY referencing things that either didn't happen or were shown off screen. At one point a character says 'remember what happened to my ship in the valley!' to my character.... but as far as I knew, nothing happened. When I met him, he didn't have a ship. There's a whole sideplot about the main characters being part of some organisation and then leaving, but it's mentioned maybe 3 times, is never explained properly and never recieves any resolution either. It just seems to be an excuse to introduce a 'badass anti-hero' Shadow The Hedgehog character to be honest.

The game also features some really forced emotional moments, which are terribly written, with the character motivations poorly explained. Every character you encounter is basically antagonistic in some way, and multiple of them in ways that don't make sense - I was sent as an ambassador to a foreign land, who then sent me back as an ambassador - and the original guys arrested me...for some reason? All of it is hampered even more by the 'not awful, but still very high-school drama club level voice acting.

I'm normally not too sensitive to bad stories in games - they don't bother me. But this felt like some 50 shades of grey level stuff here - badly written fanfiction for an already badly written franchise that takes itself way, way too seriously.

The story also takes up about 1/3rd of the game. The gameplay is decent fun, I highly recommend sticking to Classic. It would have made me like the game a lot more if I'd never given it a chance to tell it's story I think, as sad as that is to say.
about 9 years ago

Badges
Herald of Bak'laag: 500+ unfinished games
Master of Unlocking: Majority of games are completed
Treasure Hunter: 1000+ games
Focus: Only playing one game
I dunno who's more awesome; Revy or Mikoto Misaka...
about 9 years ago

Badges
Herald of Bak'laag: 500+ unfinished games
Master of Unlocking: Majority of games are completed
Treasure Hunter: 1000+ games
Focus: Only playing one game
Gotta love Revy~
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