#The original guy might've been a weirdo but like.

[the-scungles-of-crungles]

As a certified woman, I'm not taking you seriously if you use the word "incel".

Why are cishet men like this...

[veebs-hates-video-games]

Since last time I bounced off a few more games, so let's note them for posterity.

After finally giving up on TWEWY for good I tried NEO: TWEWY because people kept saying it fixed a lot of stuff that didn't work very well in the original. Sort of? It definitely feels a lot better to play because it's not super clunky touchscreen nonsense, but that still only brings it up to mediocre. I'm not convinced Squenix knows how to make a fully real time action combat system, because even the ones people tell me are good keep kinda sucking (although I still haven't tried FF7R or FF16 yet).

Also I didn't really like the starting duo in NEO: TWEWY as much as Neku/Shiki in the original. The new guys have potential and maybe get more interesting later, but I really miss the weirdos who antagonize each other but are stuck with each other vibes from the beginning of the first game. Shoka was the only character that really got my attention in the first few hours (aside from occasional glimpses from Rindo), but she barely exists up to that point unfortunately. Might go back to it at some point, but don't count on it.

And then I also wasn't super into Tales of Vesperia either. I was really surprised it was a 360 game originally, because it feels dated enough to be a PS2 game. And it's not like I haven't played older Tales games before. Tales of Symphonia was great back when it was new, and I even played the fan translation of the original SNES Tales of Phantasia before they started releasing games in English, but I might've just been spoiled by newer games at this point. The characters and story just didn't really grab my interest, and it felt a little clunkier than I was in the mood for putting up with right now, and mostly it just makes me want to go back and finish Tales of Berseria because that one's great. Unfortunately it's also on my computer, and that's hard for me to play games on right now because I can't hold it six inches from my face like the Switch.

And then I also also very briefly tried They Bleed Pixels, which I had been meaning to do several years ago but just never got around to. Not really my thing I guess. Nothing really seems wrong with it, but the movement and combat style just wasn't really clicking with me even though it seems to all work fine and be fairly expressive. I dig the art style for the intro and other larger more detailed stuff though (the in-game stuff is fine too I guess but less compelling).

And then I actually played all the way through Aria of Sorrow, but that one gets a separate post.