The Manor Lords dev came out recently saying the opposite of this, basically there shouldn't be an endless grind after the release of the game. He seems not to be bound to the "ultra-popular game gotta get content done ASAP" grindset previous games got sucked into.
I've never played Manor Lords, and barely played Palworld, but there are so many games out now why sink 100 to 200 hours into a popular new release, only to complain about the lack of content a week later?
I bought the game during last year's sale and dropped it because it doesn't explain anything and the constant anxiety from unavoidable events was not fun in my opinion. I never got a refund for it but I don't see myself picking it up again.
I've successfully left Gamepass for over a year and came back recently, no problem. All my saves were still on their cloud from two years ago, and I had access to games I wouldn't have considered buying, like Lies of P.
I'd regularly play Eye of Judgement, Dissidia: Final Fantasy, MGS Peace Walker, both Ac!d games and, because my car had some mean subwoofers, I'd use my PSP as a skip proof media player (bass was so hard the CD player would skip anything I burned).
Power Stone (both) were great but inevitably there's always the one person who hangs back and avoids combat to stealthily get all the stones to transform, making it unfun for casual or new players.
I know because I was that person. I was a big fan of a little known game called Armada on the DC, as well as Jambo Safari and the 2k Sports games.
Oh yeah definitely recommend checking it out, I may have to get an emulator because my PSP is deep in my closet in several different pieces currently. I've been itching to play Metal Gear Ac!d anyway, so this may be my excuse.
I've never researched a PSP emulator for Android but I may now so I can still play on the go.
I think, if Sony owns the rights to it, a standalone game with the original rules would be great. The main things I loved were the direction based attacks, the variety of cards, and the elemental/flippable game tiles that could affect a lot of different classes.
They made a PSP version of the game I used to play WAY more than the PS3 version, but I think the people who bought the full game had a sour taste in the mouth when they found out you could print the right code and "own" whatever characters that were in the booster packs.
Surprised to hear someone mention Dallas Tort Worth ever since The Incident.