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That's a bit difficult to answer because so many of the Zelda games are so different from each other but I'd definitely go toward the Alice in Wonderland end of that spectrum. A lot of the characters have strange personality quirks and some of them are downright mentally ill. While the games do sometimes explore the recesses of the mind, particularly in Majora's Mask where you repeat a 3 day cycle over and over and meet people going through the final moments of their lives before they all die and get to see how they cope with that, they never go quite as deep philosophical as PST.

Which is exactly why I find it so hilarious when those who claim moral high ground call them reprehensible based on that, while also neglecting to even mention the actual victims. Also, when someone commits a grisly murder and jokes about it on the internet, but your biggest problem is how other people react to it, your priorities might not be in the best place. Let's have some respect, people, and try not to forget the real issue here: a person has been killed by an actual lunatic. That's the real tragedy, not how some hipster girl tweets about it. So wait, you mean to tell me that when someone uses a real life tragedy that has nothing to do with them as ammunition and a way to draw further attention to themselves, we're the bad people for pointing out how morally despicable that is and not just ignoring the obvious immoral action? Congratulations, here's your medal for mental gymnastics. I don't think anyone is painting what Wu did as a tragedy, we're simply pointing out how morally despicable her actions are. Obviously, the tragedy here is a murder and the victims are that person and their family. I feel terrible about it same as I do about anyone senselessly lost. I don't know any of the people personally, or in any way at all, for that matter. Some random guy on a random forum that none of these people will ever read offering condolences isn't going to do anything for them, furthermore, it would be disingenuous of me to do so given as the victim here has not touched my life in any form, making it impossible for me to feel any loss or sympathy on a personal level, beyond the pain and sympathy I feel for any life tragically lost. Seems to me, that the best course of action would be to leave the grieving family in peace so that they can find comfort with the people who did know the victim and their family and were touched by their lives. Except, you know, someone had to dig this up so that they could use it as a bullet in their "justice" gun and some of us pointed out that that's kind of a ****ed up thing to do.

It's the stories and the adventures that you get into and the characters you meet. The Zelda games are filled with weird and unique quests and weird and memorable characters. You know how BioWare games have a couple stock characters they recycle for every single game or how in Skyrim every character is just a cardboard cutout and the vast majority of quests are boring copy & paste quests? In Zelda games, you meet a bunch of weird, unique, and memorable characters each time out and they send you on interesting and weird adventures (they don't get any weirder than Majora's Mask) with unique quests and circumstances.

Heck yes! While I'm personally tired of all the remakes and reboots, I will make an exception for Majora's Mask because it's an amazing game and it really deserves to be played by a new generation of people. I know this may be blasphemy, but I consider this game to be better than Ocarina of Time. It's such a unique entry in the series, so dark and twisted and just plain bizarre. This fills me with so much joy.

It's a great system, I highly recommend it, particularly if it's not going to be your only gaming system. The Wii U's biggest weakness is the lack of cross platform games. If you already have another system to cover that (PS4, XBone, or, like me, a gaming PC) then that doesn't matter. The Wii U has, in my opinion, easily the best catalog of exclusives for the current gen systems (granted it had a head start). Black Friday and Cyber Monday are right around the corner, maybe you can get one dirt cheap (assuming they do such things where you live)?

Dear Lord, what did they do to Alyx? They took a perfectly attractive woman with a distinctive look and turned her into every single generic barbie doll from every single "beauty mod" ever made. Otherwise, the graphics are nicer than before.

But Firefly didn't have much combat. Mal and his crew were actively trying to avoid combat as much as possible. Another bonus. The game will be storyfocused, with tactical combat used only where it must. In that case, I very much approve.

I always liked the Friendship "finishers" in MK games. Speaking of friendship, Bayonetta sends her love, the only way she knows how.

A game where you get to play as a KGB agent? Interest level rising.

I'm up to chapter 11 in Bayonetta 2. If this game has as many chapters as the previous one, then I should be almost 2/3 of the way through the story. The best part is that once I finish the story there's tons more game left. A nice touch is that for tag climax, the co-op challenge mode, you can use a CPU partner as well as a human partner. Not enough games include that option. They pretty much thought of everything for this game. They even improved the weird one-off levels which served the purpose of breaking up the fighting, but were frankly not very good. They're much better in the sequel.

But Firefly didn't have much combat. Mal and his crew were actively trying to avoid combat as much as possible.

Warning: Adorableness Overload https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqWf5WR0b1I Gotta love the lazy Toad sleeping on the cloud toward the end of the video, my kind of Toad. Also, I kind of wish it was called Captain Kinopio over here too. Captain Toad sounds fine, but Captain Kinopio sounds better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl9WARUTels Flute axe? Violin sword? Hilariously oversized cross rifle? Oh Japan, never stop being Japan.

The games, both of them, basically border on sensory overload during combat all the time, so you either get used to it (I did) or the game will definitely give you problems. I've sort of developed a sixth sense to the game, to the point that I can always "feel" where my character is and what she's doing, even though there are many times that I can't particularly see it very well because so much **** is happening on the screen all at the same time. I imagine that this is how Jedi will train in the future to master The Force. Platinum is just ahead of their time.

Woohoo, my first chapter platinum! I'm pretty proud of myself, even if it was an easy chapter. I thought those 2 silvers I got toward the end would sink my overall score to a gold, but the 3 pure platinums I got earlier were enough to raise my overall score to platinum status. Now I need to be able to do that in the later chapters. Baby steps.

I'd just like to state that I in no way condone or associate myself with this statement. /rapidly backs away from Malcador

Will be a shame to miss out on all of this as I have an Nvidia card - might have one after my upgrade (970) - but I suppose it'll come down to minor stuff. You're going to have a GTX 970 and you're worried about graphics? Unless the game is horribly optimized, you won't need Mantle to be able to max the game out at 1080p or come very close to maxing it out with that beast of a card. Unless you're looking at a multi-monitor setup or are shooting for 4K, you'll be fine. That's my fear for this game and The Witcher 3 as well. Having a giant open landscape is great and all, but you have to fill it with interesting places to visit, interesting people to meet, and interesting things to do. The larger the land area the harder it becomes to fill it with meaningful stuff and the higher the likelihood of there being a lot of FedEx fluff. At one time, many years ago, I would have given BioWare the benefit of the doubt on making characters, areas, and quests interesting and compelling, because of their track record back then. These days I don't, because of their more recent track record which I don't think is good. Anyway, here's hoping my fears are unfounded and both this and TW3 live up to their potential.

It's less uptight and more fun and colorful.

Bally Dancer Bayonetta Fighting a Lumen Sage while his summon fights mine in the background Oh, and you get to play a brief round of rock em sock em robots as the summons, because why wouldn't you?

Meh, Brianna Wu's gender or sexuality doesn't concern or interest me one bit, I don't really see how it's relevant.

I started playing Costume Quest 2. Same charming game as the first one, but they did change combat mechanics a little bit, and for the better, in my opinion. On the down side, I'm finding the enemies to be more unimaginative than in the first game, though I'm early in the game, so hopefully that changes later on. The ability to always roller skate around, regardless of costume, is a welcome one, it makes getting around the areas much quicker. I'm not digging the drink from water fountains to recover health mechanic, though. I'm generally against regenerating health or insta-recovery after battle, but having to go back to water fountains to recover health adds nothing in the way of strategy and simply makes the game more tedious. I'm also up to chapter 4 in Bayonetta 2. I'm really liking the Rakshasa blades and swapped out my guns for the blades in my first weapon set. I'm thinking of buying another set to strap onto my feet (you get 1 set free when you unlock them). That will likely look pretty goofy and it will leave me without a ranged weapon, but my melee flurries will be ridiculous. I have to admit that I quite like the themed outfit you can buy to go with the blades, it makes Bayonetta look like a belly dancer. Yes, I'm a horrible person for liking sexy outfits and boobies, feel free to look upon me with scorn and shame. I went through my first legit boss fight in the game in chapter 3. I got pretty torn up my first try, made it through, but had to use a couple lollipops and got a stone rating for that chapter. On my third try I had much of the timing down for the various attacks during the different phases of the fight. I still only scored a bronze. I'm sure I could do better, but I'll save that for another time, now it's time to keep the story moving. On the positive side, I scored my first pure platinum for any verse when I replayed chapter 1 to get some more halos so that I could buy some techniques. I thought I might score my first platinum for a chapter as I managed platinum on several other verses, but I missed a verse somewhere (I thought I was thorough) and a couple gold ratings and one silver brought my overall score down to gold. Oh well, still a good score that got me a bunch of halos.

That was a crazy end to the SF/STL game.

It all depends on how much D-Wade has left in the tank and whether his body disintegrates or not. How many games are the Heat going to get from him this year?

Finished Costume Quest. I couldn't help myself and fired up some Bayonetta 2. I intended to play it for about half and hour then move on to Costume Quest 2. 3 1/2 hours later... The game is so good, it's everything I want out of the sequel. It's fundamentally the same game, just better in almost every way. The action is slightly faster, there is more weapon variety, the areas are larger and more open, there are more hidden areas and items, more combos, and the game is significantly better looking. Good times.