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05/19/2025 St. Elmo's Fire 3 Comments

Inside: Evoland, Evoland 2, Anode Heart, Dragon Spirits, Mind Over Magnet

Action, Monster Collector, Platformers, Precision Platformer, Puzzle Platformer, Recommendations, RPGs, Video Games Anode Heart, Dragon Spirits, Evoland, Mind Over Magnet

Müller on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33You can have emotional intelligence—or whatever you mean by "empathy skills"—and still find the opening of Up boring. We watched two fictional archety…
AuthorDude on Dresden Files Summer Knight Ch7It wasn't so much Butcher trying to show he can write formula as him trying to show that writing formula is bad. As Butcher tells the story, he had al…
St. Elmo's Fire on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33Up? You're citing Up as your example of the most emotionally moving work of all time? I'm now 99% certain you are literally a child. Please stop embar…
Miller, son and Donkey Fable on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33Bet you two think Up’s first ten minutes is extremely boring then with your level of empathy skills (and it seems that your empathy skills is “try to…
Socordya on Slay the PrincessI remember playing this whent it came out. I only did a few routes because it was indeed pretty underwhelming. See, the real explanation for what’s go…
KichiMitsurugi on Dragon Age, Choices, and Railroading> even if I reduce the rest of their party to a red mist in the first ten seconds of battle I am surprised this did not bring over Project Moon sle…
KichiMitsurugi on More Underwhelming Bullet Heavens> Is this how the dev conceptualizes their audience, as morons who want to be spoken to like babies? Who are content to shell out money for a game…
Roarke on QuickRecs: RoguelikesI hope to leave Stoneshard to my grandchildren. In seriousness though, Stoneshard as-is is mechanically and visually one of my favorite games in the g…
Roarke on QuickRecs: RoguelikesIt has permadeath, and no metaprogression. The dungeons are procedurally generated. It's like halfway between Diablo and a traditional roguelike. But…
Act on QuickRecs: RoguelikesLook, I'm not going to have an Internet Argument about this, seriously. Please don't bombard me with comments about it.
Nerem on QuickRecs: RoguelikesLike, what exactly separates a 'deckbuilder' from a 'roguelike deckbuilder'? There's no actual difference, 'roguelike' just got pinned on there to mak…
Nerem on QuickRecs: RoguelikesI'd say they don't have anything in actual relation with a Roguelike or even a Roguelite. That doesn't make them bad games. I really love deckbuilders…
Nerem on QuickRecs: RoguelikesThat's why I hate the dilution!! It makes it a useless term! Also is Stoneshard a Roguelike? I thought it was just a regular RPG. I looked it up a lon…
Act on QuickRecs: RoguelikesI have very much been waiting with baited breath for Stoneshard to leave EA. Hopefully it happens lol. Qud has been on my WL forever but it hasn't dis…
Act on QuickRecs: RoguelikesI am extremely uninterested in having a "only traditional roguelikes count as roguelikes" argument tbh. In 2026 "roguelike deckbuilders ACKSHUALLY are…