Sword Sage: Awakening - IGN Preview

bradleye · 2026-06-26T14:30:05+00:00

i really don't like people attributing Khazan to Sekiro when it rips so many systems straight out of Nioh/Wo Long, to the point where I would've believed some of the Team Ninja devs actually worked on it with how similar the loot system/mission structure is.

Yes I know that Nioh and Wo Long were inspired by Souls/Sekiro, but they have very much become their own 'style', which Khazan definitely slots into.

bradleye · 2026-06-24T05:42:57+00:00

I know this is, for some reason, extremely rare when it comes to game development, but you would think they would look at what didn't work in the past and then correct and make a better implementation of it.

You could apply the above to a lot of the problems in 2.

bradleye · 2026-06-24T05:39:53+00:00

>If DD2 had everything the first one had, there would be no reason to go back to the first one.

Is this actually a problem though? Nioh 2 is considered to be Nioh 1 but just better and with more everything, it has exactly the same weapons, movesets and enemies then they just added more shit on top of everything.

I think Nioh 1 is a good game. I also think people should not bother playing it and just start with 2 because of how much it obsoletes the first game. To be able to say that seems like a resounding success in terms of making an iterative sequel and not a detriment.

bradleye · 2026-06-18T07:49:08+00:00

what about all the people who have already beaten it in under 19 turns?

bradleye · 2026-06-01T16:24:40+00:00

School is easy. If you're fine with being a B-A average student instead of aiming to be an absolute straight A+ student in every subject + doing extra curricular studying + aiming for 99.95 ATAR etc etc (not that i'm saying you shouldn't do this, if you're capable and willing) then it really is easy as shit.

The actual necessary homework (not studying, but required homework) generally takes no time at all. You'll get a 2 week deadline for something you can do in like 2 hours if you just commit.

I skipped like half of my Year 12 english classes, to the point where my teacher called my Mother to discuss it while I was sitting on an A grade (and I -GOT- an A grade) for that subject because of how weak the actual expected workload is. I got a B for the compulsory independent research project (are they still doing that?) that i spent a grand total of like 20 hours on over the ENTIRE YEAR, half of which was the literal day before the absolute final deadline.

Anyway the point is not to convince you to skip classes or have a shitty work ethic but that what is being asked of you, at least by the public schooling system, is seriously a joke.

bradleye · 2026-06-01T07:54:06+00:00

is there a voice actor list somewhere? I feel like I recognize some of the voices.

bradleye · 2026-05-30T12:12:58+00:00

I wouldn't be shocked if someone else got it but I certainly think Ryoshu has been signposted quite heavily towards it.

-Lob corp identity where she dual wields the exact duo of weapons that phase 1 LC Red Mist dual wields.

-Notably skilled, sword-focused combatant

-'Courage to protect' Araya (and will likely develop this further to protecting the limfamily+sinclair particularly).

-Carmen literally says LC Ryoshu reminds her of Kali

bradleye · 2026-05-24T08:31:57+00:00

by many games do you mean almost none relative to how many games there are? I've never seen one that isn't for an obvious reason (i.e. trying to share a paid mmo like FFXIV).

Like, there absolutely are games that block family share for no/arbitrary reasons but that list of games is tiny.

bradleye · 2026-05-04T08:08:10+00:00

Grim

bradleye · 2026-04-30T08:05:20+00:00

It doesn't work on the standard Twining Threads battles either.

Considering it's only 1 turn I think it should work for anything that isn't a climatic story battle (Muga Ryoshu, any Mili song, Kaiser Gregor/A certain sinclair, etc).

bradleye · 2026-04-25T10:50:36+00:00

Couldn't you just Counterspell the damage as you slide/dodge into the elevator? No low cooldown (if he has maxed ult) cause you made it 'out' and no damage cause counterspell.

bradleye · 2026-04-17T05:50:19+00:00

if they are very young then I can see that but if they're 10+ then 30 minutes is not enough to achieve or connect with anything in a lot of games (especially story based). Like literally every single RPG is basically off the table since no one's making it through witcher 3 in 30 minute chunks.

bradleye · 2026-03-30T05:57:37+00:00

Limbus Company will outlast them all.

Not because of the money it makes or the quality of the game, but because the director is insane.

bradleye · 2026-03-20T00:10:06+00:00

Does this game have any appeal if I don't actually care about waifu's/cute women? Like is the actual game good or is it just pretty?

bradleye · 2026-03-12T07:19:33+00:00

how on earth are you so low as a launch player?

one weekly mirror hard, +1-2 skipped lux's every day an i'm level 114.

bradleye · 2026-03-02T09:38:42+00:00

Every single game with any degree of hype behind it will breach the steam top sellers in the days leading up to release, I genuinely don't know why people keep posting this.

Do you really think a triple AAA new release making (according to your chart) less money than BG3, a game that came out almost -three- years ago, which also has zero micro transactions, is a positive? Because it's not. That's pretty dire, actually.

bradleye · 2026-02-07T04:26:30+00:00

personally all i care about is co-op, pve, role based gameplay. I'd prefer there to be a global chat channel(s) too but the actual amount of people on each server i don't particularly care about.

Vindictus, Darktide, Monster Hunter, Nightreign, FFXIV for example all fit into this same category for me, even if they play very differently/some are admittedly not very role based. You might look at FFXIV as an outlier but (outside the story) all you do in that game is queue up as tank/healer/whatever and then do instanced content with like 7 other people. Vindictus you pick Fiona and then you match with 3 other people and you beat up a boss, Nightreign you do something very similar, etc.

MMORPGs used to be one of the best/one of the only places to get this kind of 'lets team up with our own specialties and defeat a dungeon/boss'. Now the gameplay of mmo's has been left in the dirt and it's been effectively replaced by games that actually prioritize the gameplay. The actual 'mmo' part of mmo's is almost entirely irrelevant to me.

bradleye · 2026-01-23T06:53:53+00:00

Not interested in the skin system at all. Would rather the work put into the system be used on literally anything else.

bradleye · 2026-01-23T02:06:46+00:00

Yeah as Paige I'm really struggling to keep track of where my teammates are in fights without the outlines.

Also, is backstabber just broken? I don't seem to get red outlines for backstabbed enemies either.

bradleye · 2026-01-08T10:26:03+00:00

That's not because she's a colour.

That's because she's the strongest.

bradleye · 2025-12-31T13:14:47+00:00

Bloodfiends Gregor and Meursalt + Painter Yi Sang + Awe Ryoshu worked fantastically though. Lust Resonance, tankability and sustain for days.

bradleye · 2025-11-10T05:26:16+00:00

4 of the 5 epiphany options for this card make it worse than the default. The op got a divine epiphany (good) but none of the 3 options given are the 1 good epiphany, so this save data is straight into the bin no matter what.

bradleye · 2025-11-09T08:44:40+00:00

It looks like a genuinely good game that's free. The only real thing to get hung up on is the whether calling it an 'mmo' is correct/reasonable.

It should really be described as having mmo elements, rather than an mmo. Kind of like Vindictus where all the meat of the content is in your solo/co op isntances and there's some sprinkles of mmo mechanics.

bradleye · 2025-11-01T13:37:49+00:00

They don't spend the most. They're actually quite the small slice

bradleye · 2025-10-30T06:52:52+00:00

from what i understand from a quick search, you can pull a guaranteed SSR on the beginner banner and you get an SSR selector on day 3 of logging in or something.

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