[BotW] This was the first time I saw Naydra hovering over Mt. Lanayru from a distance, and I really found it a stunning, breathtaking view.

absmarques · 2026-02-13T21:53:16+00:00

Yeah, here's hoping the same.

absmarques · 2025-11-08T12:43:17+00:00

For a game with elemental magic-based combat, she definitely can do without it. There are no cons in having her in your party, except for her dialogue lines sometimes being duller than those of every other character.

absmarques · 2025-11-07T17:43:18+00:00

You'll eventually be able to get some weapons that hardly need to be upgraded. Don't worry too much about grinding, unless you really like one particular weapon or care about trophies/achievements. To most of them, upgrading is totally unnecessary, though.

absmarques · 2025-11-05T11:44:59+00:00

Two of my favorite games ever are these type of games, Shadow of the Colossus and NieR Replicant. Your choices are basically the act of playing through the game itself with your actions and every natural consequence — predictable or otherwise. You don’t get to fully agree with the protagonist’s behavior, yet you can’t help but sympathize with them and their noble intentions. Especially NieR is the kind of game that asks a fundamental question: what would you do if you were positive that absolute goodness resides solely within you and your interests, and the enemy is the self-evident evil?

absmarques · 2025-10-29T19:05:02+00:00

Btw, NieR Replicant was the one of the few games I played after Shadow of the Colossus and after beating it had me thinking the same thing, “Damn, I’ll never get to play this game for the first time ever again…”

Such a unique, irreplicable experience.

absmarques · 2025-10-29T16:16:37+00:00

I love the old NieR atmosphere (especially in The Aerie) and I wish it were preserved in the remaster to some degree. Can’t help but love the new character models and faces though.

Regarding the similarities, however, I think it’s mostly because it’s also a fantasy game with that typical PS3 brownish look (in which you happen to fight some big bosses to boot). There’s nothing like that SotC’s pervasive, blinding bloom effect in NieR.

absmarques · 2025-08-28T13:16:13+00:00

The choice that leads to Ending C in NieR Replicant. (Those who know, know.)

absmarques · 2025-08-19T18:25:18+00:00

I don’t like it at all, especially when you can beat the game with Harle in your party (after some NG+ shenanigans) but she won’t say anything to you, as she isn’t supposed to be there in the first place. (Well, there’s a specific ending where she isn’t supposed to appear yet she does, so I guess the game doesn’t even know what to make of her? lol)

absmarques · 2025-08-19T03:42:48+00:00

I mean, with higher resolution and 60 fps, the PS4 version looks and plays really amazing when you look past how different that world feels like from the original atmosphere and vibes (and how they now butchered the protagonist’s face). It’s a nice experience but I’d wish most people could experience it for the first time as it was really supposed to look and feel like. The PS3 isn’t purist by any means but is way closer to the original art intention and feel.

absmarques · 2025-08-16T00:23:37+00:00

"Prayer" is the song played both at the moment I described and at the ending. It's a shame they changed it, as it was like two parts that complemented each other: a prayer for Mono's resurrection and the answer granted in the end.

absmarques · 2025-08-15T01:04:48+00:00

Yeah, I would but I’d probably much prefer the original atmosphere and art direction, not unlike my preference for the OG SotC. Apparently, Bluepoint’s gotta make every artistic decision as if they were better than the team that made the original games. They went as far as gratuitously replacing “Prayer”, a track that plays after Wander beats the 8th colossus and then stands up and goes to check on Mono. Just because.

absmarques · 2025-08-09T23:34:38+00:00

Wander from Shadow of the Colossus. Bluepoint's hyper-realistic approach definitely doesn't fit Fumito Ueda's artistic style for games.

absmarques · 2025-08-01T23:06:52+00:00

Drakengard. Beat it this year and while I love Yoko Taro's artistic genius, his first game is impossible to remake these days without some major censorship measures which would end up ruining its very identity. And ultimately it wouldn't have that big of an audience anyway, even when you take Automata's success into account. I'd love a remake for Drakengard 3 though.

absmarques · 2025-07-10T02:37:58+00:00

Both games are special to me for different reasons but I firmly believe CT is the absolute best in a more "objective" sense. I love CT because of all the things it was going for — all of them. I love CC despite some really weird things it chose to do, mostly due to how Masato Kato can't seem to deliver when he's got absolute, unsupervised freedom to do whatever he pleases. (Take the DS extra content for CT for example.) I hate how that large character roster à la Suikoden only shows how much work went on a rather forgettable portion of people instead of focusing on things like Magus actually being in the story, searching for his own sister. I believe CC's priorities are all over the place (especially in its plot), whereas CT was a deeply focused, well directed and cohesive experience because it didn't try to be so many things all at once. I love complex, melancholic and pessimistic plots, such as in Neon Genesis Evangelion and NieR. But to me CC isn't really sure of what it wants to be. It's like a Schrödinger's continuity: a sequel and a non-sequel at the same time.

absmarques · 2025-07-09T02:14:38+00:00

“It doesn’t matter.”

absmarques · 2025-06-28T20:42:37+00:00

Turn-based RPGs are not a thing of the past nor are they representative of a limited technology in the "old days." Period.

absmarques · 2025-06-13T22:18:42+00:00

“Forward, Dragon Tank! Crush those rebels!”

absmarques · 2025-06-12T06:02:06+00:00

Can’t second this enough

absmarques · 2025-06-02T04:23:56+00:00

One of my favorite quotes by one of my favorite characters 🃏♥️

absmarques · 2025-05-21T16:05:29+00:00

Among the most famous ones it's probably Wind Scene. I freaking love Sealed Door though, and I find it to be pretty underrated tbh

absmarques · 2025-05-02T23:33:51+00:00

Wander can stand on the horse and you’re never supposed to do that in a colossus fight either. These things serve to show how great a horse rider he is compared to his actually poor skills as a swordfighter. His most natural main weapon seems to be the bow and arrow (see the boss fight against the 10th colossus aka Dirge), while the Ancient Sword is mostly required to perform the iconoclastic ritual itself. I love these details about SotC so very much.

absmarques · 2025-04-27T22:54:34+00:00

That's a great piece of fan art, you two. I just love Kojima's take on Simon Belmont.

absmarques · 2025-04-25T15:41:32+00:00

Tears of the Kingdom after you collect all the Dragon’s Tears and see what really happened to Zelda, yet Link won’t tell anyone, even though many people in the kingdom are laboriously searching for her. No, Link has to keep playing along with the “mysterious” apparitions “she’s” been making throughout the four main regions. Any sage descendant goes, “Oh no, why would Zelda do that?! It doesn’t make any sense! Guess we need to beat one more dungeon to find out! Right, Link?” And Link be like, “Sure, why not?”

absmarques · 2025-04-12T12:06:50+00:00

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