KH3 is bad. If I wanted to rank the main games, it'd be KH2, KH1 Remastered, KH1 with the original terrible camera and platforming, and then KH3. It's not functionally broken, but it's such a disappointment.
The story is a hot mess because you need to play Birth By Sleep to know who Aqua is, and KH 0.2 to figure out how she got to KH3, Dream Drop Distance to know how Sora and Riku got there (which also builds off KH:coded) and to understand why you're fighting Organization XIII again after you defeated them entirely in 2 and why there's multiple versions of the big bad, and KH X (the Greek letter pronounced "key") to know what the hell a random thing that shows up toward the end of the game is. And I'm probably forgetting stuff. I hadn't played everything, and by the end, I was just sitting back and saying "Yeah, that's another thing that didn't make any sense" for about every story point.
The attractions have no place in combat. They make it insanely easy, and I decided to turn them off entirely after I beat a boss just by juggling it on a pendulum ride. The Disney worlds kind of feel bare bones despite their size. It's pretty, but it's also empty.
I wanted to love this game so, so much, but they had to cover over a decade of lore because the creator couldn't finish FFXV, and it's not brought together in any really coherent or satisfying way. The combat managed to be a step down from KH2. I finished the game, and I was just frustrated because it just was not good.
All that said, for buying it, this game is supposed to tie up all the endings started in the other games. I'd just grab 1.5+2.5, and you'll still have a good chunk of content if you've only played the main games. But if you also want to grab 2.8, buying the bundle is just cheaper.
I played a ton of it, and it basically consumed everything I did, but after a while I just dropped it. I technically beat the game, but I think it's probably the worst-kept spoiler that finding the 46th room isn't finding more than a fraction of the puzzles the game has to offer.
At this point, it's less of a fun payoff and more of just a feeling of "finally" for the puzzles. There's a room that allows multiples of another room whose puzzle I never managed to figure out after multiple tries, even with heavy RNG manipulation. I have another puzzle that I have to have specific rooms to place as well, which means more RNG. When it's giving good puzzles, the game is a wonderful onion. When you're stuck on a bad one, you're either cursing the RNG required for it, or wondering how the hell the devs could ever have expected that to be solved (looking at you, Room 8's predecessor).
I've got what feels like a ton left to find, but it kind of feels like I'm at the point where the satisfaction is outweighed by the tedium or the sheer confusion the puzzles have. All that to say that this game has totally been worth it, even if I couldn't find myself finishing it.
Monster Train 2. The first scratched the itch I had when I had run out of steam with Slay the Spire, and the second has built on top of the first with some new card classes, giving you different abilities for your engine, and five new races with new mechanics for each. It's fantastic, and really feels like everything you'd want out of a sequel. And as a nice bonus, it's not too hard on the Deck's battery.
There's definitely people who unwittingly spread misinformation, but the rule wasn't for people who just post once or twice, but people who have posted misinformation and been warned previously multiple times. That's not a mistake at that point, that's a pattern of behavior.
Since Legault took power in 2018, I've come to remember him for:
Thinking the been on face coverings and religious symbols hasn't gone far enough
Blaming nurses, not employers, for patients' issues rising from the nurses' strike
Bill 96, which has let them require all businesses have French signage (replaced at their own cost), prohibition of already-existing English government resources, and limits the number of students in English speaking schools
Limiting funding to English-speaking universities in Montreal
Limiting immigration in an attempt to make sure that a limited amount of non-French speakers move in
Forming a committee literally named "The Committee of Sages" in order to determine protections and rights for trans people, which also has no trans people, or any LGBTQ+ people
Advocating for removal of an anti-Palestinian protest camped out on a university's grounds
And now for fucking with strike protections. When the one good thing I can think to say is "He didn't fuck up the COVID response," that's a pretty bad track record.
Why would repeatedly posting electoral misinformation during an election only result in a ban until the election was over? I don't think these people would become good actors just because the election ended.
I volunteer with my party, and we got told last week that our candidate's campaign would kick off tomorrow, the 13th. Maybe they got wind of something like that.
I get that, but you're also not quite getting the full picture with this specific instance. The community on Reddit has been waiting for Silksong so long that they have been over-analyzing every single game convention for years to see if we're going to get a release date, and had a heated debate over whether or not a blood sacrifice of a member of the community would bring the release. They're a little crazy over there.
Kate. It's a movie on Netflix where an assassin is slipped polonium on a job in Tokyo and has a night to track down the ones responsible before she dies. It's a fun movie.
It kind of felt like the game was trying to tackle language as a barrier to entry in the same way that Tunic did, but ultimately failed to properly teach. The first language is learnable, but most of the others had extremely frustrating attempts to get the last few words. It fortunately tells you when the word is correct in your pocket dictionary, but if you haven't encountered the item it references yet, you have to assign it what you think it is, rely on it, and figure out what exactly is wrong.
I get that it's a puzzle game, but there's supposed to be a moment of "Oh, that's how it works" euphoria when you finish a puzzle, not a consistent "Seriously? I got it this wrong again?" and an encouragement for random trial and error due to frustration. It's cool that there's different languages, based on different existing language structures, but it felt like the execution of unraveling it fell flat.
No, disappearing in a sea of anglophones would be something like making all arms of government communicate in English, making it illegal to access non-English sites the government has after six months, forcing companies to alter signage at their own cost so it's only in English, declaring non-English speakers and enemy to English-speaking culture, and going out of their way to make non-English documents unavailable unless you want to pay extra for translation services. You know, like Bill 96 is doing for French.
No one cares if Legault prefers French. We care that he wants to strip existing things just to make French the only option.
I think (I could be wrong about the exact location, but it seems correct) that this was taken by the BMO Museum just off Place des Armes metro. If you were four months earlier and panned the camera 90 degrees to the left, you would get shots of a few trees and a fountain in front of a huge cathedral. Going past that cathedral would show more trees by the riverside, and a couple of small parks (though the nearest one has been demolished for condos recently). Most of Montreal has a good amount of foliage (when the weather allows), though downtown doesn't have much, especially following the recent renovations on Ste-Cat (this isn't Ste-Cat). It's mostly just this particular street that's urban.
I got the first game for free and was blown away by how good it was for such a simple premise. I can't wait for this one, I'll probably be picking it up day one.
4'33" is intended to be the length of the song, four minutes and thirty-three seconds. But if you read it instead as notation for feet and inches, it's four feet, thirty-three inches, or six-foot-nine. And 69 happens to be the funny sex number.
I just had the chance to read the sample of A Place for the Wild-Built, and while I was skeptical with the preface, it really does seem to echo a lot of the same notes. Really looking forward to reading it.
KH3 is bad. If I wanted to rank the main games, it'd be KH2, KH1 Remastered, KH1 with the original terrible camera and platforming, and then KH3. It's not functionally broken, but it's such a disappointment.
The story is a hot mess because you need to play Birth By Sleep to know who Aqua is, and KH 0.2 to figure out how she got to KH3, Dream Drop Distance to know how Sora and Riku got there (which also builds off KH:coded) and to understand why you're fighting Organization XIII again after you defeated them entirely in 2 and why there's multiple versions of the big bad, and KH X (the Greek letter pronounced "key") to know what the hell a random thing that shows up toward the end of the game is. And I'm probably forgetting stuff. I hadn't played everything, and by the end, I was just sitting back and saying "Yeah, that's another thing that didn't make any sense" for about every story point.
The attractions have no place in combat. They make it insanely easy, and I decided to turn them off entirely after I beat a boss just by juggling it on a pendulum ride. The Disney worlds kind of feel bare bones despite their size. It's pretty, but it's also empty.
I wanted to love this game so, so much, but they had to cover over a decade of lore because the creator couldn't finish FFXV, and it's not brought together in any really coherent or satisfying way. The combat managed to be a step down from KH2. I finished the game, and I was just frustrated because it just was not good.
All that said, for buying it, this game is supposed to tie up all the endings started in the other games. I'd just grab 1.5+2.5, and you'll still have a good chunk of content if you've only played the main games. But if you also want to grab 2.8, buying the bundle is just cheaper.