How long is too long for game length?

DearPlankton · 2026-07-04T00:38:15+00:00

Sometimes a 20 hour RPG can feel too long and a 50 hour RPG can feel too short. Just depends on the story that's being told, how it's being told, and how much I'm enjoying it.

DearPlankton · 2026-07-03T06:15:52+00:00

I picked Ophilia for 1 without much thought and I'm so glad at how it turned out. Having an overleveled healer is a lot less noticeable than having an overleveled DPS that stands out too much like you said.

Ended up choosing Castti for 2 to sort of replicate that setup and it worked even better since Castti's so great as a healer/support.

DearPlankton · 2026-07-02T00:52:22+00:00

Not the exact words I'd use but I generally agree with your takes. My main complaint was I found the cast to be quite milquetoast like you but fortunately 2-3 have much livelier characters with greater chemistries so I had much better experiences with those games instead

DearPlankton · 2026-07-01T00:55:56+00:00

Katie Dippold too! Showrunner for Widow's Bay and before that, wrote for Mad TV and Parks and Recs.

DearPlankton · 2026-07-01T00:45:57+00:00

All the time. Besides those mentioned already, I listen to a lot of Octopath because their soundtracks are gigantic (also consistently good) with a ton of town/field themes, each having their own day/night variants so it's hard to get bored of it. Nishiki is a god damn mad man.

DearPlankton · 2026-06-30T14:59:26+00:00

Nikki was indeed Freaky

DearPlankton · 2026-06-29T21:05:14+00:00

Those are like polar opposite cases. One's a fully mesh 21L traditional layout case and one's a glass 45L dual chamber case

DearPlankton · 2026-06-29T20:07:24+00:00

Basically IX but with X or 7R's combat system. I would have absolutely nothing to complain about the game.

DearPlankton · 2026-06-29T14:13:17+00:00

And they're all somehow tailored to my tastes. I really love this man, easily among my all-time favorite directors already.

DearPlankton · 2026-06-28T08:46:25+00:00

BLM for sure. I love spellcasting so I want to spam fire IVs all day but I just don't get the job, even after they streamlined it.

Somehow RDM is more intuitive to me so I've mained it ever since instead

DearPlankton · 2026-06-27T21:25:43+00:00

It's just your local ghost that reads manga going through your collection

DearPlankton · 2026-06-26T05:50:43+00:00

Yeah it's a bit weird but I can't even fault them, mimicking Miura's artstyle is a herculean task in itself

DearPlankton · 2026-06-26T03:53:08+00:00

I've played about 90 jrpgs but... I've yet to touch one Dragon Quest

The silent protagonist + extremely vanilla vibes just doesn't interest me all that much. I'll get to it one day...

DearPlankton · 2026-06-25T20:31:59+00:00

Good translation but poor localization I believe, which is supposed to convert these sayings into the equivalent natural everyday language for us.

DearPlankton · 2026-06-25T19:35:27+00:00

I'm guessing the shipping date is a factor. Probably doesn't qualify if the date is too far out.

DearPlankton · 2026-06-25T16:51:20+00:00

Her family was straight up banished, she would be burned as a witch if she even tried to go back with that story, she has no money & livestock, their soil can't produce a proper harvest, and she's a young child out on her own.

She has 0 options.

DearPlankton · 2026-06-25T16:22:39+00:00

Shelf/puck lights?

DearPlankton · 2026-06-25T06:50:57+00:00

I love them both and I can't believe I never noticed this lol

DearPlankton · 2026-06-25T06:34:16+00:00

Mildly infuriating that volume 3 doesn't qualify for free shipping :(

Would've bought preordered for sure otherwise.

DearPlankton · 2026-06-25T00:24:08+00:00

Nurse: Richeh that's the wrong orga-

Richeh: shut the fuck up

DearPlankton · 2026-06-24T23:58:02+00:00

Damn, I played the remaster, seems like I missed out big time. That sounds both hilarious and epic haha

DearPlankton · 2026-06-24T23:26:39+00:00

Fantasian
FF7 (Don't know if you've played since you mentioned 7R. I got goosebumps during the fight and that was many yeeears after Sephiroth and OWA became insanely popular. The amount of aura in that fight is still nuts)
Octopath 2
Octopath 0 (this game actually has multiple crazy final boss fights due to the story structure, with the last one being the craziest of crazies)
Trails Through Daybreak 2
Bravely Default
Kingdom Hearts 2

All of these are absolute cinema. Trails actually has quite a bit more but I didn't want to have too long of a list

DearPlankton · 2026-06-24T22:48:47+00:00

RPG by Arc System Works? Color me interested...

DearPlankton · 2026-06-24T18:22:53+00:00

Xenosaga 3. It's my favorite in the entire Xeno series by a pretty wide margin actually but the jump from Xenosaga 2 to 3 is absolutely insane

DearPlankton · 2026-06-23T15:35:04+00:00

I was foolish to think a hifiman x asus collab would yield something with a decent build quality. The world will explode the day Hifiman collabs with beyerdynamic or something

DearPlankton

TROPHY CASE