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If I were to best describe it into words, it would be anemoia in videogame form, that nostalgic feeling for a time you've never known, which would be 80s Japan to me. And that yearning is always there whenever I think of Shenmue.

I'd pick Alan Wake 2. Though I have yet to play it, the Silent Hill remake doesn't seem to stray away from the original PS2 design in any way other than adding a few extra puzzles to lengthen the game and the modern controls.

About the live adaptation... After watching the first 3 episodes, I found it to be really bad. I don't mind the plot and characters not matching their gaming counterparts, but it's baffling that there is no honorable anti-hero, brotherhood chivalry motif as one of its main themes (so far), with...

I'll take the greatest as being the game or series with most encompassing mechanics, design, complexity and immersion, so I have to say it's a toss up between Shenmue or Yakuza. With Sega in my eyes being the company that always leaned towards the arcade side of the gaming experience on some...

I personally do not find Niaowu worse because of story content. My issue is that though it was bigger, the main gaming loop was focused solely on QTE, a few fights and grinding (gambling) mini-games on a rinse and repeat. Sure you had maybe a forklift or some puzzle based quest here and there...

Haha yeah, the film is in theatres all over North America at the moment. Hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did.

Just watched "Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In". Wow, it was even better than what was advertised. Pure adrenaline rush, top tier HK martial arts cinema. Can't recommend it enough, especially if you are a Shenmue 2 fan, with all the nods to most of the locales Ryo traversed in HK represented...

Batman Caped Crusader. A bit of mixed bag for me, as it felt at times a carbon copy of the original animated series, which it is not negative per se, but when compared to what was done animation wise recently with the likes of X-men'97, Arcane and Castlevania, it looks like a cheap project. On...

I believe I've seen people in this forum asking for any movies focused on Kowloon, so here you go: If anyone is asking what's up with all the superhuman wire-fu stuff, that's because it's based on a classic comics and it's more in tune with the wuxia genre, so I guess it'll be similar to a...

From what I understand, the four wude characters aside from YI appear to be all Kanji, so a Chinese person likely would not even know how to read your tattoo (Technically YI is also a Kanji word). Probably not even Japanese people would know what to make of the tattoo as it would appear to be...

May I ask for the link for the PDF manual or where you found it? Just asking as I have never seen an official one up to date. Thanks and hope you enjoy the rest of the game. The stuff I enjoyed the most for S3 were the combat system (though not perfect and with steep learning curve) and the...

It has been years since I've touched S3, and I've never played it with m&k, but as I recall there was never a tutorial for the fighting mechanics. Mashing buttons and mapping techniques with the shoulder buttons was mostly encouraged for the general public as it worked just fine. To play it...

Baldur's Gate 3. Had it since last year and still not close to complete it. I don't know why but I tend to be really slow and through with RPGs, seeing all the possible outcome choices and such within a single playthrough. That's also why I avoid the genre like a plague if I can.

Just finished playing Sons of the Forest with a buddy. If anyone is looking for a great co-op survival adventure game, this is the one to play. The AI enemies never seize to amaze you as they change behavior and tactics over time. One example would be seeing enemies crying over their dead...