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I should be finishing up Norn9 this coming weekend. Only 4 more routes to go and they all seem pretty short. I MAY try to queue up P5 Dancing but we'll see.

hack//G.U. Last Recode Can't wait to replay this series once I finally get a PS4. I really enjoyed the PS games so I'm excited to see The World again someday

Kingdom Hearts Final Mix I'll admit, this game gives me a lot of nostalgia since it was the first game I ever played on a console. Plus, it's a series that I always really enjoyed, the story (now matter how mind-bending it gets), the characters, the gameplay and just the look of the games. I have a whole lot of keyblade, heartless, nobody and so on themed items and clothes, it's nuts. That all aside, though, I'm going to try to give this game a fair and only semi-biased review. Visuals/Music: As I mentioned above, I've always loved the look of Kingdom Hearts and I think it aged decently well. Not amazing but with the Disney/anime look to everything I think it comes off much better now than a lot of its contemporaries. I'm pretty easy to please with visuals so I think it looked fine, although on the bigger TV a few weird facial expressions did stand out. The music, as ever, is the real star of the show, though. While I still prefer the original music of the opening to the remix version, it's still so enthralling. I love how the music sets the tone and it's all just beautiful to listen too. 20/10 would buy the soundtrack. Gameplay/Trophies: Clunky gameplay continues to be clunky. I'll admit the game is a little awkward in spots and continues to be so. Trying to platform around with a camera that can get stuck and run into walls isn't great but it's also an issue that the game had to begin with. I still really enjoy the game but even I see its flaws. Aiming jumps can be a little bit trial and error and the Proud mode was not balanced well at all. It seemed to be Standard but you took 2x more damage. That is not a well-balanced difficulty level, that's just learning how not to get hit. This leads to my opinion on the trophies: overall I was fine. I disliked the Gummi ship but I understand the missions inclusion for trophies. That I really didn't like was having to play it three times and the Speedster trophy. Kingdom Hearts is a long story-driven game, why would it try to rush me to get everything done! I did use the "over 100 hours" trick since I really didn't want to rush and frustrate myself. Still overall one of my favorite games of all time and I am very proud to finally have it on my profile.

Well I haven't been playing much of Norn9 recently (I'm SO CLOSE to platting Kingdom Hearts...) but I did pick up and get Access Denied ready to pop. It was a cheap and fun puzzle game, I enjoyed it. One of the puzzles was WAY too obtuse but I enjoyed the other 35.

If I had to pick one...multiplayer. But the close seconds are difficulty related and most of all...speed runs! I will straight up not play games if a speed run is required, such as Shadow of the Colossus. I loved it on PS2 but I am not ever doing that game in a speedrun

I really like Trails of Cold Steel. I played it on the PS3 but it reminded me of Persona in gameplay/story balance. I had a few issues with it but I think the second one may fix some of that. Enjoy~

The Hyperdimention and co games have some of the BEST opening themes so no one can fault you for that. I love that music! Glad you liked it, though, I just picked up up at the last sale since I'm a sucker for that series. I've been seeing a lot of talk about London Detective Mysteria so that's good since it seemed really interesting for me. Personally, still working my way through Norn9. I should have it ready in time, though. 3/9 routes down.

Ah. So I'll just set my expectations low and grind it out. Later. First gotta get back to Norn9! 2/9 routes completed.

Since it is still on my list to play...can I know what's so horrible about Mind Zero? Glitchy or game design or just all of the above?

Yep. Um, it's short, at least compared to the other's I've played. I finished one route in an afternoon but I paused midway to work on finishing Kingdom Hearts so I can't tell you how long. Longer than 10 hours but much shorter than anything else I've read. Maybe 4 hours/route (with 9 routes)? And that's with me listening to their full dialogue. Only an estimate, though.