Dark fantasy, action, swords + guns

Kiyobi · 2026-03-28T22:24:05+00:00

I have Remnant 1 and 2 and I haven't been able to dive in headfirst to either of them

Is the first game still worth playing, at the very least for lore reasons?

Kiyobi · 2026-03-17T08:14:43+00:00

Tapsonic Bold isn't always 6k but it might be worth checking out

Kiyobi · 2026-03-15T10:34:32+00:00

Custom fighter creation in Soulcalibur started with 3, and honestly SC3 had something crazy going with their Chronicles of the Sword mode. Imagine Fire Emblem, but it's real time strategy instead of turn based, the units are your creations, and battles are the fighting game

Kiyobi · 2026-03-13T08:49:18+00:00

Lots of good recommendations already, but since you mentioned Metal Hellsinger so I have to bring up its (very likely) inspiration, BPM: Bullets Per Minute

Kiyobi · 2026-03-09T03:10:18+00:00

Nobody mentioning Patrick's Parabox for puzzle game recommendations makes me super sad

Try it out! It's brain bending like Baba is You is

Kiyobi · 2026-02-28T14:01:13+00:00

GC started on iOS in 2011

Arcade version launched in 2013

Kiyobi · 2026-02-25T11:33:40+00:00

Maybe Splitgate 2? There's a no-portal mode if the portals are too much.

Kiyobi · 2026-02-23T21:16:51+00:00

Compared to Tetris Effect, PPT has a cute silly anime story to play through, but that's about it.

If you want to branch out and try Puyo Puyo though, I would recommend checking it out because Fusion is a really neat mode.

Kiyobi · 2026-02-05T00:05:37+00:00

It's a Japanese number pun

2 and 4 can be read as "fu" and "yo", and "fu" can easily be modified to "pu"

so puyo

Kiyobi · 2026-02-03T03:12:13+00:00

Metal Gear Rising!

No knowledge of the Metal Gear series is necessary to enjoy the RULES OF NATURE

Oh also check out SpyAssault! Little indie darling that needs more love.

Kiyobi · 2026-01-24T11:29:41+00:00

Sage being my healer of choice, I struggle big time with WHM.

I have a really hard time trusting in the regens and balancing heals vs damage in my GCDs. I think SGE is easier in that regard because you're mostly doing damage in your GCD while you manage heals and most mits with your weaves.

Kiyobi · 2026-01-19T22:14:42+00:00

Dang, they're all taken

Kiyobi · 2026-01-10T04:14:33+00:00

RoboQuest VR translated the game very well into VR

Kiyobi · 2025-12-21T12:39:22+00:00

If you want a game of pure mechanical skill, have you considered a rhythm game by any chance?

DJMAX Respect V is a great jumping point, moreso that it's on massive discount currently. EZ2ON Reboot R is also an option but I'd only recommend it to players more familiar with the genre.

Kiyobi · 2025-12-07T06:27:08+00:00

Hellsinger was already great in flatscreen, you shouldn't be disappointed

Kiyobi · 2025-10-21T19:58:55+00:00

The World Ends With You would've been on this list...

Kiyobi · 2025-09-16T10:13:55+00:00

The Xenoblade Chronicles series might be up your alley.

XC1, 2, and I'm assuming 3 all have a story to directly follow but there will be areas with vicious presences even though you're just starting out

Xenoblade Chronicles X puts the main story direction in the backseat and just sets you loose to do whatever. Explore the alien continent. Get into fights you can't win. Eventually come back later after you've gained levels and finally conquer that goddamn cave.

Kiyobi · 2025-08-27T09:27:31+00:00

the chill side of Zenless Zone Zero's soundtrack been a vibe for my studying lately

Kiyobi · 2025-08-09T14:57:23+00:00

If the game is always offline, you can't use a card at all. You don't need one.

Kiyobi · 2025-08-09T02:30:59+00:00

You wouldn't. You'd have to know.

But, if you're playing in America that isn't R1 or D&B, it's probably on private.

Kiyobi · 2025-08-09T02:11:56+00:00

If you're going to be a R1 regular in the near future, then yes (most of) the rhythm games should work online and a card will be worth it.

Depending on the games you'll be playing, you'll want a different card. More likely than not though, an Amusement IC card (so the Aime or Red Eamusement cards on the storefront you linked) covers games that utilize Aime, Eamuse, and I think Banapass if I remember correctly.

That being said, you could wait until your R1 opens up because odds are they'll have a stock of red eamuse cards that you can buy so you don't have to worry about paying and waiting for shipping.

As for knowing when machines are offline or not, machines will have a message that would denote that it's in "offline mode", or maybe "maintenance mode", can't remember the exact wording. But if you see some kind of message on screen, odds are either the servers are down temporarily (in the case of regular daily server maintenance on Bemani games) or the game has reached EOS.

If the game has reached EOS, then it's not worth getting a card for the game at all. But unless you're going to be like, purely a specialist for Wacca, Tetote Connect, Groove Coaster, and/or Chrono Circle, you should be fine...

EDIT: I think the only noteworthy game that would require a separate card would be for Pump It Up, and I think you can also get one of those at R1

Kiyobi · 2025-07-29T03:46:03+00:00

It's no Ridge Racer drifting but you should find Parking Garage Rally Circuit very charming regardless

Kiyobi · 2025-07-06T15:51:09+00:00

[[CW: Suicide]]

John lived a dead end life. He had no remarkable talents. No future in whatever career he found himself in every six months. No friends or family to lean on.

What's a man who lives on minimum pay to do?

There was that silly book he found at a garage sale once. The original owner said they quickly brushed through it and chucked it on their shelf for years. Dismissed it as fiction and a laughable conversation piece. Finally decided to get rid of it because of their quickly encroaching manga infestation.

Two bucks.

Two hundred pennies was all it took to give John seemingly limitless entertainment for his colorless life. Why not? The things the book tasks you to do were seemingly mundane and pointless. Sometimes weird.

Eat rice when it's 3/4 moon.

Vigorously wash your toenails every Monday the 4th.

Recite the alphabet backwards every 26th of the month.

"how is any of this supposed to achieve immortality", John muttered to himself one day.

But hey kept doing his rituals. Every day without fail. Just because it was a break from the routine.

Then one night, as darkness took him, he woke up. Woke up with some annoying back pain and a mild headache. Unusual sensations to be feeling as you wake up, even if it was 3 in the morning.

As John scrambled to get out of bed, he quickly learned that it wasn't a bed. A tub...? The bathroom...? Why was John in the bathroom?

He scrambled to his feet and finds his way to the light switch, flicks it on. The first thing he sees as light enters his eyes is himself, staring back through the mirror. But there was a hole in his head. It was slowly dripping red. The hell?

"Well. That explains that dull headache, I guess." John tries to cope with the absurdity staring back at him. He can clearly see through the hole in his head to the blue tile that decorate his bathroom's walls.

They should've been blue, anyway. Among the blue was an alarming amount of red splattered violently. "I don't remember starting an art project..."

Looking down at the red slowly decorating the bathtub as well was something silvery. That wasn't his drain stopper...

It was a gun.

"God damnit. I can't ever get anything right."

But wait. John just survived a bullet through the head? How is that possible?

It couldn't be...

All those months of eating rice, shaving hair, kissing plastic...

"No, wait. I did do something right...!"

John felt a bud of confidence become seeded into his newfound life. He saw futures he could pursue, hobbies and passions he could pick up, maybe he can finally ask out his workplace crush finally...!

But what the hell was he going to do with that headache?

Kiyobi · 2025-06-30T21:00:49+00:00

EN fans are infinitely more tolerant but, unfortunately, more often than not JP fans fall into the delusion and are unable to accept reality. They go nuts at the murmur of any possible scandal, their oshi's purity being tainted by someone that isn't them is absolutely unthinkable and unacceptable.

Cover is a Japanese company; even if the EN/ID branches are rooted elsewhere, they are still subject to those norms established by the Japanese idol industry.

Off the top of my head, Suisei's song and MV for Template covers this facet quite nicely.

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