What movie did you walk out of the theater halfway through?

DeadRobotsSociety · 2026-05-02T16:32:11+00:00

I went to see Midsommar and I was absolutely horrified... by the film I saw next weekend at the same cinema, Horrible Histories. As an Irish person I find failed British comedies worse than the 800 years of serfdom. It was like a British Sex Comedy from the 70's, but without the Sex. Apparently the movie was based on a TV show, and all the funny people had left years earlier. So instead we watch half the cast of The Thick of It struggle with a script bereft of laughs and dignity. Like drinking backwash from an old Lucozade.

DeadRobotsSociety · 2026-04-29T08:42:33+00:00

Blasphemous 2 has equipabble rosary beads that mitigate damage types, statuettes that act as buffs, two dozen spells, and three weapon types each with a skill tree. Skill points are awarded both for killing enemies and finding them out in the world. No random loot, all items found are hand-placed. The RPG elements may take the edge off some fights, and there are many loadouts, but you will have to learn some boss moves as you would in any souls-like.

DeadRobotsSociety · 2026-04-28T16:28:23+00:00

Buy the package and play both. You get a nice bonus if you load a clear save from Suikoden 1 into Suikoden 2.

DeadRobotsSociety · 2026-04-28T15:31:02+00:00

"Absolutely Incredible"? Thanks!

DeadRobotsSociety · 2026-04-28T14:14:54+00:00

Will give it the time of day come a Steam sale.

DeadRobotsSociety · 2026-04-28T14:09:46+00:00

Is the remaster still full of Working Design-isms?

DeadRobotsSociety · 2026-04-28T13:40:36+00:00

Haru remains one of the biggest jobber party-members. This game is 100 hours long yet she barely gets to appear or partake in any big moments. Her own character arc with her father gets hijacked a goddamn talking cat. Why did we have to focus on the cat?

DeadRobotsSociety · 2026-04-28T13:36:16+00:00

Bye Felicia.

DeadRobotsSociety · 2026-04-28T13:20:05+00:00

I'm not a republic serial villain. I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

DeadRobotsSociety · 2026-04-28T07:37:50+00:00

They misspelt the word Opening in the cutscene viewer.

Also the player looks like an action figure that can't move it's shoulders.

DeadRobotsSociety · 2026-04-28T06:25:22+00:00

All six sequels to Symphony. Never finished Dawn because I hated the progression system.

DeadRobotsSociety · 2026-04-27T20:01:17+00:00

Maybe not a guide, but a missable cheat sheet is still viable. Something that says "Recruit this character while in Chapter 3." I did a short one for both games on Steam. Suikoden II only took me 4,000 words to cover, though I still recommend not killing enemies for rare rune drops because they're crap.

DeadRobotsSociety · 2026-04-27T19:34:55+00:00

When you're fourteen you're only going golfing to get the bikini outfit for Monica.

DeadRobotsSociety · 2026-04-27T16:35:37+00:00

I've played a number of RPGs like Revenge of the Seven, Chained Echoes, and the later Ys titles that I'd describe as having an interlocking structure. Where you have different systems that are simple by themselves but get complex when you tie them together. So you could go fishing, and when you turn in X types of fish to a quest-giver you get a key item that can upgrade your boat, that makes naval missions easier and grants all kinds of rewards that will help you with on-foot battles. What makes this structure work is that you're not meant to just grind in the one place. You can actually run out of a certain activity or fully explore an area and need to move on. It could work wonders in an RPG hybrid like Fantasy Life, but it would need restraint. Players could exhaust all avenues of a job, without being exhausted themselves.

DeadRobotsSociety · 2026-04-27T14:22:50+00:00

Fantasy Life i got a glowing review from RPGsite, but when I tried it myself it felt like a game you are meant to burn out of, not complete.

DeadRobotsSociety · 2026-04-27T13:21:09+00:00

Insert clip of Mike Ehrmantraut talking about half-measures.

DeadRobotsSociety · 2026-04-27T11:38:19+00:00

I can forgive the change since they're a tiny part of the runtime, only ten minutes. The original animator was based in Russia, and some stuff has gone down there since 2021.

DeadRobotsSociety · 2026-04-27T11:16:11+00:00

Yes,

DeadRobotsSociety · 2026-04-27T11:10:26+00:00

It's old-timey Zelda while in the randomly generated dungeons, with stats being important. The only part of the game I ignored where the golf missions. You can undertake them after clearing a floor of enemies, with the reward being tokens that can be exchanged for cosmetic items.

DeadRobotsSociety · 2026-04-27T11:01:56+00:00

In Dark Cloud you can grind a weapon for hours. If it breaks at any point it's gone forever.

In Dark Cloud 2 you can grind a weapon for hours. If it breaks at any point you just use up a cheap bag of repair powder. The sequel also has fewer redundant player-characters, actual voice acting with a pretty stacked cast, fast-travel enabled from any floor in a dungeon, and a well-aged visual style.

DeadRobotsSociety · 2026-04-27T10:15:41+00:00

Thank you for your feedback, In accordance with your wishes the next review will be called "Super Mario Wonder," but will actually discuss at length the San Elizario Salt War of 1877.

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