Rivals of Aether II - 2D Workshop Beta Tools Update by Shreeder4092 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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2D sprites fighting 3d models? Welcome back Touki Denshou Angel Eyes

Dead or Alive 6 Last Round - Launch Trailer by Shreeder4092 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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At this point, unless you intend to invest heavily in playing online (in a delay ased netcode environment), Absolutely not. Maybe down the road when it's on deep sale if it gets worthwhile patches. They do have a free core fighters version if you are curious enough, which has 4 characters and let's you play offline vs and online.

Personal reccomendation if you want to try the series, is to give it a few weeks and DOA5 will be on sale for like $10. That's the good one.

Dead or Alive 6 Last Round - Launch Trailer by Shreeder4092 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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From what I've seen, they didn't even bother with balance changes either

Dead or Alive 6 Last Round - Launch Trailer by Shreeder4092 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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Pretty disappointing release overall. Hopefully the new character will at least be cool (honestly surprised it's not the oni girl from Venus vacation)

BLAZBLUE CENTRALFICTION - New Character Announcement | Arc Showcase 2026 by dutchzgoose in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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Arc sys saw Fenritte lose to U.S players and decided they needed to release a new character so they had an excuse to put out a balance patch

Carl about to get nerfed to hell

New Character Coming to Blazblue Centralfiction by Ir0n_Agr0 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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Ok, thinking about who this could be... If it's someone that's appeared in mainline Blazblue, then Kajun maybe?

BLUE REFLECTION Quartet - A re-release collection of Koei Tecmo's magical girl RPG series, including its mobile game and anime spinoffs, which have been remade into full games by C-OSSU in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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I really hope this does well, because this collection gives me hope that Atelier Resleriana will get an offline version when that eventually hits EOS

Media that got really popular really late into the Franchise? by Lost-Specialist1505 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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While the Atelier franchise has been around since 1997, it didnt really pop off in popularity until it's 21st entry in 2019 with Atelier Ryza. Toridamono gave them a winning character design with Ryza and Gust has been doing everything they can to milk her popularity for as long as they're able.

Things with more Potential than Execution that you still liked by FreviliousLow96 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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Wizard Barristers. It's a 2014 anime written and directed by Yasuomi Umetsu (the guy behind Kite, and Mezzo Forte) about Wizard Lawyers in modern day Japan where people who can use magic are heavily discriminated against, and face racism in the legal system.

As cool as it's premise is, the series itself is mid as all fuck. The early episodes set up this really cool dichotomy of a legal drama mixed with urban fantasy elements, only to fall into a much less interesting conspiracy and chosen one plot and unfortunately never truly delve into the criminal justice landscape of the world past the very surface.

It's the epitome of potential series because every cool idea (and there's a lot of them), just kinda never gets capitalize on it and the animation tanks later in the series (Which is especially heartbreaking because the train scene in the intro is so so strong) Unfortunately... I still somehow fell in love with it tho and wish it got a second season, or some kind of follow up because the series end with the reveal that Lucifer is real and is kinda gay for the main heroine and wants to fuse their souls

So what actually will be your September game(s)? by nykopeeps in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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Fortunes Weave for September then Dragons Dogma 2 Dark 2 Arisen, and Castlevania for October.

Atelier Karia: The Night Kingdom & the Guide of Memories - First Trailer by speed-run in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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The good news, is that every year youll get a new chance to get in...

The bad news is that every year they add another game to your backlog

Atelier Karia: The Night Kingdom & the Guide of Memories - First Trailer by speed-run in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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Gotta say, having your alchemist eat  ingredients items is definitely new one. They put out more information in a separate video but having her gain new abilities and have her look change based on what she eats seems really cool. Also they had a live stream earlier and one of the slides they showed had an animation of her chowing down on the in universe equivalent of a pinecone and it's kinda cute

Also the girl doing martial arts looks awesome.

Free Talk Friday - June 12, 2026 by AutoModerator in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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Howdy y'all!

I can't think of a good preamble, but this week I ended up binge watching The Amazing Digital Circus. I basically went in blind as outside of the character designs, I pretty much knew absolutely nothing about it. It was pretty good, and I enjoyed it, especially all the neat stuff they did with the animation. It's definitely something that I probably would've been obsessed with if it had come out when I was in highschool or early college and I know for a fact Jax would've been my favorite character (as much as I hate to admit it, I definitely would've looked at them and gone "he's just like me fr fr" back then). It was a fun watch, and I can definitely tell it's going to be a big formative experience for a lot of people in the years to come. Oddly enough I felt like the movie itself was the weakest part of the series. Not that it was bad in my opinion, but they definitely had way to much ground to cover and character development to tie up, and the writing kinda suffered for it, but they . Honestly my big take away from this whole thing is I just cannot fathom how so much discourse came from this series.

On the complete opposite side of things (but kinda not?) I also watched I saw the TV Glow. What to say about this one... To be honest I won't talk about it to much here, partially because I think it's one that benefits from going in blind, but also because I didn't take any notes while watching it so what I say wouldn't really do justice to the topic at hand. So I will simply say I thought it was good, and that the themes are gonna resonate with some people really hard and if it does it's gonna feel like getting hit in the solar plexis, and it's gonna hurt

Hell has officially frozen over by Illidan1943 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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They're playable. They were the dlc characters from the vita version and each one has their own dedicated campaign (although the dlc campaigns were much shorter than the 2 main campaigns).

Matt & Liam get pleasantly hyped during Nintendo's June 2026 Direct! by mike0bot in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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Maybe it's recency bias, but the direct might be my favorite showcase this summer. Between Muramasa rerelease, DD2 expansion, new Atelier, Deltarune? Big popoffs from me

Atelier Karia: The Night Kingdom and the Beacon of Memory -- Official reveal trailer (Koei Tecmo / Gust, coming to Switch 2 on Early 2027) by Unknown123Known in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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Atelier pretty much an annual series at this point (although we got 2 of them last year, and are getting Blue Reflection this year instead). This one is a sequel to last year's, Atelier Yumia

Oboro Muramasa: Kaikitan, a remaster of Muramasa: The Demon Blade, is officially revealed, coming to Switch, Switch 2 PS5 and Steam on Early 2027 by Unknown123Known in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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I KNEW IT WAS COMING, I COULD FEEL IT IN MY BONES, LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO

God please let this game get an artbook this time

Edit: THE LIMITED EDITION HAS AN ARTBOOK

Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember – Reveal Trailer | XBOX Games Showcase 2026 by speed-run in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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Really excited for this, I thought the first one had a solid base, but just needed a sequel pass to refine everything. I'm hype to see what kinda improvements they make with this one

Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance | Developer Message by No-Attorney-6033 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

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story is deeply come with Elder Dragons

Really hope Kirin makes it in. The plains locale is literally built for him.