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I remember Exist Archive's reception being very ho-hum when it came out but I never got around to playing it myself.

I heard it's really good, one of Tri-Aces best. Wouldn't say the reception was poor, more that the press choose to completely ignore it as they only cover big name games.

One thing I do know about it, that soundtrack is little chef's kiss good.

It's an unreal engine game as well and don't think anything has been said about exclusivity.

.... Would really like to see SMT3 though as well, and the rest of the PS2 SMT games.

Digital Devil Saga 1 and 2 in particular. The european releases are 50 Hz garbage. And I played the US versions on PSN but they are awful with really slowed down gameplay and graphics don't look right.

9 S???

As in the updated switch version? Might mean a roll out across other consoles.

Moon: Remix RPG has a release date of 27th of August on Switch.

If you don't know, it's a game most japanese RPG fans would rank up with Earthbound as one of the best RPGs of all time.

I'm still shocked it's coming out in English as it's been a translation holy grail for a long time. Between this and Seiken Densetsu 3 english releases it's a such a weird time for official holy grail translations. Maybe we will also get Linda3 and the Trails Crossbell saga eventually as well?

Apparently there's rumours of a Live A Live english release in the works.

Panzer Dragoon Saga is the big one I'm hoping for. Such an amazing game that feck all people have played.

Finally finished faffing about and finished FF13-2. You need to get into the post game anyway to get a lot of post game items and abilities. Still have the DLC and post game content to do as well as pick up a load of fragments.

Overall had a blast with the game. It's a great example of how to handle being handled a poison chalice. They took what was great about the first game, music and battle system, doubled down on that and added improvements of their own to that with the monster catching system, although the grind and complexity of levelling up the monsters is a bit too complex.

The story is complete and utter garbage but unlike FF13 which was straight faced and took itself too seriously, FFX13-2 just has a lot of fun. Plenty of light hearted moments even if I couldn't care less about the characters and storyline. The time travelling was also a good idea to let the developer reuse assets given their limited budget, although it's very obviously a low budget game.

The variety and sheer weirdness keeps the game going although not everything works, the chocobo racing, lucky 7777 fragment, monster compendium fragments are all bull****. And keep a clock puzzle solver web app open on your phone because the clock puzzles are rubbish.