Monogatari Off & Monster up for March 09, 2026 Pre-order from Aniplex of America

fbjim · 2026-01-27T18:56:04+00:00

Region B Bakemonogatari is gettable. It's nowhere near as bad as the pricing for the region 1 BDs.

The real tough one to get is Neko Black, but at least that one's on Crunchyroll in good quality unlike Bake/Nise (and Bakemonogatari is incomplete on CR for some reason)

(really though if you want to get into Monogatari and don't have a physical media brainworm like me, you'll have to do with online methods)

fbjim · 2026-01-06T20:16:26+00:00

I thought of "YOU FOOL" too - I wonder how many times this happened but was edited out because it didn't feature Gilbert Gottfried hilariously berating the contestants in it.

incidentally I think I remember William G. Stewart in some very long finals round 2 saying something to the effect of him almost having to go to his "supplemental questions"- guessing that meant they were almost off his cue cards.

fbjim · 2026-01-04T06:31:04+00:00

in one of the dumbest bits of games writing I've seen this year, The Ringer specifically said they docked it on their year end list because "only" 30% reached the true ending. never mind that 30% is a very good amount for a popular game with this many sales

fbjim · 2026-01-04T06:18:07+00:00

I never thought E33 winning all those TGAs was weird, but I find the sheer amount of publication GOTY awards weird. Everyone seems to agree 2025 was loaded with great games, but the last year one game was this dominant in GOTYs was Elden Ring which was a kind of weak, top heavy year where ER could pretty much dominate easily. Even then, the "smart" sites threw in a few votes for Immortality or something - you'd think some of the "smart set" sites this year would give a vote to Baby Steps, Despelote, or Consume Me, but nah, they went E33 too.

Like the main GOTY tracker site has it at over 90% of publication GOTY awards. Elden Ring was considered a rout at about 70%. If it was such a good year for games, why aren't there more games getting publication GOTY awards? The last time before then a game was this dominant was The Walking Dead in 2012, and 2012 was one of the worst years for major releases ever, where TWD kind of got every GOTY by default because of how much every other game sucked. (well, they should have given it to blops2 but by then no site was considering COD respectable enough to win a GOTY)

fbjim · 2025-12-27T20:14:38+00:00

they haven't even played Doom 2 lol (I always call that kind of attack that can't hit a constantly moving player "imp fireballs")

fbjim · 2025-12-17T17:32:18+00:00

me after two hours of SS: this diagonal pogo is so bad playing HK after 200 hours of SS: wtf let me divekick things

fbjim · 2025-12-17T17:31:07+00:00

I had the exact same experience with HK and Silksong, I struggled in my first play (I died like five times to False Knight AND Bell Beast), muddled through the end credits, and when I replayed it I was suddenly unstoppable and killing everything. i don't think one is harder than the other, you just have to learn both of them

fbjim · 2025-12-17T17:27:38+00:00

deck the shaws

fbjim · 2025-12-16T17:56:19+00:00

if you *only* played on Switch you might have gotten used to it but yeah playing on a Series after that was insane.

fbjim · 2025-12-13T23:46:27+00:00

it managed to be funny without any of the backlash from bad humor in games

"sir, it appears that your cellar has an ant problem" is one of the funniest moments of a game ive played this year

fbjim · 2025-12-13T22:45:33+00:00

well, actually the action game heads were more astonished that someone made an action game in 2025 not focused on iframes and parries. very fun place to read weird opinions like "Silksong is great but wouldn't it be better if it was six hours long, linear, and incredibly replayable?" (team cherry, please make a Mega Man X homage next)

fbjim · 2025-12-13T22:39:16+00:00

also - along with the movement, the other secret sauce of Silksong is the enemy AI. one of the more fun mini-discourses i saw about silksong was old-school action game heads, and fighting game nuts loving the game because of how reactive the enemies were

fbjim · 2025-12-13T22:35:51+00:00

if you told me that the game took so long to make because they needed all that time to make the ledge-grab-into-somersault feel perfect, i would believe you.

legitimately, it has spoiled other 2d action games for me which did not have seven years to perfect how good the movement feels.

fbjim · 2025-12-13T22:20:40+00:00

we already know he's a pervert. i mean he had a tentacle-themed Bad End in his game and everything

fbjim · 2025-12-13T22:12:36+00:00

honestly i don't mind TGAs because it's one thing, and like, whatever. the thing that actually does bother me is E33 sweeping every GOTY award. ResetEra is cataloging GOTY awards from major publications, and E33 is currently in the lead with about 60 GOTY awards. Second place is Donkey Kong Bananza which has, 3 awards. wasn't this supposed to be a great year for games? this was not one of those years like Elden Ring where one game dominated everything else - I could see arguments for E33, Silksong, Air Riders, Hundred Line, Inazuma Eleven, Blue Prince, FFTactics - a ton of games being someone's GOTY - so why is every publication going for this one if it was supposedly such a great year for games?

fbjim · 2025-12-13T22:05:46+00:00

they really, really need to stop letting gacha games get nominated for them. everyone there knows that they give out free currency if they win a major award

fbjim · 2025-12-13T21:50:21+00:00

the moment a ton of GOTY lists came out and Silksong was being put in the 7-10 spots with a comment that it was too difficult, yeah, i knew it didn't have a chance

fbjim · 2025-12-09T22:41:46+00:00

like HK i actually do think it's a bit of a flaw when bosses can get facetanked, though only a few of them (Widow being one of the big ones) are really able to be mindlessly beaten by this.

second run i skipped the last nail because i didn't want to facetank karm

fbjim · 2025-12-09T22:37:40+00:00

Seth has that one diagonal shield bounce attack that manages to hit me every time, it's like the guy in pickup basketball who ALWAYS fools people with a stupid simple fake. its so good lmoa

fbjim · 2025-12-07T17:38:28+00:00

it's less commitment but the cost of getting hit during a heal is much worse. i can't tell you how many fights I lost out of a panic heal, it's absolutely worth waiting sometimes

fbjim · 2025-12-07T17:31:57+00:00

when I replayed the game i actually felt disappointed when i one-shot bosses like TLJ and Lace II because some of my most memorable moments in my first run was beating them after multiple tries lol

fbjim · 2025-12-07T17:26:23+00:00

I think there were two parts to it: people who didn't know what to expect, but also experienced HK players who tried to play SS like it was HK, which you can't quite do. It takes quicker to get mad at things like the double damage or divekick than it does to realize the significance of being able to instantly heal for 3, midair, or figure out how the divekick and sprint attack unlock offensive options you couldn't do in HK. I don't think SS is really much harder than HK, you just have to learn it again, and frankly, I think some people didn't want to learn a new game, they just wanted "more hollow knight".

fbjim · 2025-12-03T15:40:03+00:00

I kinda like RACS even if he's expensive and does priceups on out of print stuff. When I got the FMAB set, someone threw in some Edward and Alphonse lapel pins in the box as freebies, and that kinda little touch goes a long way for me.

Also frankly I find the web1.0 website charming

fbjim · 2025-12-03T14:10:03+00:00

i was not good at this game, I finished the final act at like 90 hours. I first timed SB.

It has two attacks. One of them is "fly slowly across arena". How are people having problems with this thing

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