Darklord Rooke

Silly American english *tsk tsk*

From a creator's point of view, if they accept mindless criticism they'll be driven to improve their work even if they got no meaningful information from the criticism. If they accept mindless praise they'll be of the impression that they don't need to improve. Thus mindless praise leads to stagnation from a creator's point of view. Stagnation is bad, m'kay From a consumer's point of view ... I don't see any ill effects from mindless praise or criticism really.

Hmmm, does this mean you do think the Ace Attorney series is massively overrated or have I just misinterpreted your post?

P4D was Persona 4 Dancing all ... whatever, and P4U was Ultimax. I'm gonna guess P5D and P5U will be the same. No clue what AG and R stand for (heh, Persona 5 Racing all Night!)

Greeeeeeat. More dancing and fighting games ... Wheeeee

Happy B'day HMN and Down. I've heard naked pagan rituals are fun ways to spend your birthday ... just sayin'

It's a really good game. Flawed sure, but real good nonetheless. People seem to be shocked because Yahtzee doesn't say many good things about modern JRPGs but to be honest, there are few good things to say about modern JRPGs. EDIT: In general ... in recent times. There's been a bit of a resurgence lately

Hmmm, well take this with a grain of salt because this is just what I'm hearing (haven't confirmed it myself.) The open world genre can be split into two categories, a traditional "controlled world" formula which is like a linear game placed on an open world map. It's like a scripted world, it's open but with cutscenes and fetch quests which means that one player's path will be similar to another player's path. The new kid on the block is the "engaged world", which builds an open world and the game itself is that exploration. It leaves people to craft their own adventures. Craft their own narratives. And these experiences will be different enough to each other to encourage sharing on social media. Which is what's happening to BotW. BotW leans towards the "engaged world" and a lot of people are excited. That being said a lot of people were excited about "The Sims" franchise and I never found it to be an engaging game ... Anyway, that's just what I hear

To be fair, Breath of the Wild is said (I haven't played it myself) to have to take the open world formula (a difficult formula to succeed in) and move it forward. It's supposed to have been a spectacular success. Persona takes a tried and true formula and just releases a polished re-iteration (standard dungeon crawling and dating sim stuff, with a story.) BotW is just on a completely different scale to Persona. Personally I enjoy Persona a LOT but I don't believe it deserves to be a GOTY contender.

Django was being promoted about the same time

I rushed in here thinking they finally announced Django, after so many years of waiting I could taste the fun. Then I opened the topic and ... ... The pain is real man, and so are the tears. Big sobby tears

Unless you've got a spare 200 hours (there's a guide called the 300 hour guide) the anime is quite the tempting alternative. You can't get to the after story unless you've unlocked each characters' sparkly thing (which is dodgy gameplay design imo. Replaying the lengthy common route 7ish times to do each character just so you can get to the ending feels like the developers trolling their fans.) The anime was actually a nice adaption, and if you like that then you can always play the VN afterward for added frustration depth

So close yet ... so very far I feel for you mate, I really do ... cause I was playing the game yesterday and WHO BOY it's really good!

Sure, it's possible to think of my despicableness, my inner darkness as a forum feature that allows the personality of everyone else to shine brighter and appear nicer than it would otherwise. Without my dark contrast other people's 'nice' personality would lose much of it's ... 'niceness', because if everything is white than there would be no white. 'Never to suffer would never to have been blessed' as Poe once, er, poemed. So you're welcome and feel free to thank me with cookies, or some pie ... actually some pie sounds mighty tempting :3 Thank you for the hard work, Tayleen It's all much appreciated

Persona 5 is the 'best game I played' since ... the last 'best game I played'. 100% addicted atm 0.0

Found the thread you were looking at, it's not complicated. Charles pronounced Sharla because Japanese use the French pronunciation (I don't believe it is, in fact I'm looking at a French pronunciation guide as we speak, but let's run with it) -> Sharla is pronounced Sharuru in Japanese -> nickname is Ruru. An easy way to fix that is to localise her name as Carla. Not Charles.

Some pretty interesting data there The graph on Japanese VN lengths is of particular interest to me

They're getting there. The PS3 had less than 1 GB of RAM and sure the CPU was weird but that can be done through sheer power. An average computer is already many times as powerful as the PS3 so it won't be too long before an emulator is released. Some dude got the PS3 version of Persona 5 working at about 10fps peaking at 30fps. That being said, Trails of Cold Steel is getting a PC release soon. Soon as in some time this American summer. So you should just pick that up

It probably should be changed during localisation. If few people in Japan would know that Charles is a boy's name that a girl shouldn't have, the name wouldn't sound weird to them. If that's the case then to keep the spirit of the original during translation and allow audiences in English the same experience as the Japanese audience (aka to not feel weirded the hell out,) there's an argument (that I'd be making) that it should be changed in the English localisation whether Charles is the "correct romanisation" or not.

I don’t think it can. Persona these days is about strengthening the protagonist by forming relationships with (sometimes random sometimes not) people. It’s hard to generating the sort of traditional SMT creepy atmosphere while jauntily travelling the town helping your school’s nurse deal with her boyfriend trouble xD Demon negotiations are back though. The frustrations it's causing is glorious :3

I wouldn't expect them to go back to P2 style of game, and I wouldn't want them to TBH. There's too few dating sim hybrids around and Persona does it so very well. That being said the sim gameplay will naturally dilute the strength of the story and its pacing (P2 better story) and other aspects so it would be hard for them to go back to that style while still incorporating dating sim gameplay. But ... what if it doesn't arrive?

Only a selfish and horrid parent would name their daughter “Charles”. “Charlie” is a boy’s name that’s more acceptable for a girl to use (because it could be short for Charlotte or Charlene,) same with Sam, but a girl named “Charles” will probably be teased, picked on, and/or laughed at for her entire childhood.

He is impossible to like

Pssst take a look at the Metacritic score! Some people are calling it the best JRPG of the decade. Mate, if you haven't played this game then you haven't lived and your soul will shrivel and become a dried husk. Think of Persona 5 as nourishment for your soul, you wouldn't want a malnourished, dried up teeny soul would you? Oh, and good luck on those exams