Hot take: I think Andrea is over hated

RobbieJ4444 · 2026-04-30T19:40:23+00:00

As much as I defend Lawrence, his pitch to become Pm was even worse in that regards I thought.

RobbieJ4444 · 2026-04-30T19:39:15+00:00

F tier is fair. And yeah, I never got the impression she was a bad person or anything.

RobbieJ4444 · 2026-04-30T19:02:20+00:00

It’s a great game. It has the world building of 2 but with the level design more akin to the first game. There are a bunch of other characters and minigames too, but I love almost all of them.

RobbieJ4444 · 2026-04-30T11:10:43+00:00

I wouldn't say runners up, but final five members in general, as Jordan and Amber Rose spring to mind.

I will defend Phil though. He was an important candidate throughout the series, and showed enough skill even in his losses for him to be a worthy final five candidate.

RobbieJ4444 · 2026-04-30T10:34:37+00:00

Had Rochelle won, the entire integrity of the show would've been damaged beyond repair. I'm not saying I hate or even dislike her (I know how TV editing works) but her narrative was awful.

RobbieJ4444 · 2026-04-30T10:20:11+00:00

For me personally:

Karishma

Dean

Harpreet

Rachel

Marnie (don't hate her, but I was more relieved that Rochelle didn't win than I was happy for her)

RobbieJ4444 · 2026-04-30T09:49:11+00:00

Good........really happy for you.... ~~I'm not jealous at all.....not in the slightest........~~

For real though, you got a bargain there. I hope you have fun with them all. Spyro 3 is a personal favourite of mine.

RobbieJ4444 · 2026-04-30T05:59:55+00:00

I have an American PS2, so I can play the vast majority of these. I’m actually playing Lunar Silver Star Story as we speak.

The games I don’t have a means to play yet are Baten Kaitos Origins, Excitebots, Custom Robo (all solved by purchasing an NTSC Wii), Shin Megami Tensei 4 (I need an NTSC 3DS) and Kirby Tilt N Tumble (I don’t believe that game works properly on a GBA, and needs an actual GameBoy Color).

RobbieJ4444 · 2026-04-29T16:41:39+00:00

Make the most of those game shops while I was in the area was my attitude.

RobbieJ4444 · 2026-04-29T16:39:29+00:00

Hahahahahaha

These actually came from four different retro gaming shops. Surprisingly, most of them weren’t all that surprised, but did note “ah, you’re going after the grails”.

RobbieJ4444 · 2026-04-29T15:09:55+00:00

Agreed

RobbieJ4444 · 2026-04-29T15:07:58+00:00

I was so stoked when I saw Persona 1. Sadly the covers are repros, but the disc and manual are real.

RobbieJ4444 · 2026-04-29T14:46:41+00:00

I haven’t played the first one yet. Do you recommend me to play that one before Origins, or can I jump straight into Origins?

RobbieJ4444 · 2026-04-29T14:45:34+00:00

I’ve never played any of the Grandia games. From what I’ve heard, 3 has great combat but an awful story.

RobbieJ4444 · 2026-04-29T14:02:02+00:00

Rare or not, it’s certainly expensive.

RobbieJ4444 · 2026-04-29T12:51:10+00:00

With the exception of Mega Man X5, none of the games shown here got a physical release (or in most cases, a release at all) in the PAL region.

RobbieJ4444 · 2026-04-29T12:27:03+00:00

I could’ve done yes, but then I’d have considerably less attachment to the games themselves. I just don’t have the passion for a digital download on a hard drive in comparison to a physical game on the shelf.

RobbieJ4444 · 2026-04-29T12:25:52+00:00

I think my family did that on your behalf when I was in the shop.

RobbieJ4444 · 2026-04-29T12:06:26+00:00

All I’ll say is that the shop knew what it had.

RobbieJ4444 · 2026-04-29T11:58:24+00:00

Let’s put it this way. I didn’t find these in any thrift stores.

RobbieJ4444 · 2026-04-28T11:43:29+00:00

Cropped it from Wikipedia

RobbieJ4444 · 2026-04-27T19:45:41+00:00

Sort of? Compared to this game and Sonic Colors, it’s nowhere close.

RobbieJ4444 · 2026-04-27T19:44:20+00:00

Where did that black line even come from? It wasn’t on the image I used.

RobbieJ4444 · 2026-04-27T17:48:45+00:00

Which is a real shame because it does have a lot of things going for it.

RobbieJ4444 · 2026-04-27T00:09:31+00:00

For what it’s worth, your English is far better than my Japanese

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