u/EchoWhiskey_

I love Sara but I dont think she has the fangs out for people like John, she's too nice for it. Venus doesn't give a fuck and will trash people like John. Dude was one of the shittiest, rudest callers in months. Hopefully she'll be able to slap some people around on 8/7!

big spoilers. I played Innocence last year and just completed Requiem (holy fuck). In essence I think I would give both games an 8/10.

The thing that both games have going for them is that they are original, their stories are very compelling, and they commit. Hard. This alone is worth picking them up - I got them both on sale. However, the thing that I found difficult to move past, is that they both have severe movement/pacing problems. I felt slow as hell almost all the time. It was like in Red Dead 2 when you're in the camp. Nearly all of my movement felt like Arthur slogging through the camp like he's in quicksand. Obviously the games draw from survival horrors, most clearly being The Last of Us, but I felt like Ellie and Joel had far more speed and "tacticalness" than Amicia did. Likewise, I wanted a "last ditch" solution/weapon. I hate games where you have to just hide and wait for the enemy to leave the area without being able to fight back. In Requiem, you get a knife, but it breaks when you use it! This is just kinda bullshit imo. I wish the game allowed for you to do silent stealth attacks at close range. Also, I never felt like I had enough resources to upgrade my shit. Especially in Requiem. The extremely strong characters and writing definitely make up for some shortcomings.

INNOCENCE

Going from memory as I did this last year - I just loved how original it was. Yes, it was survival horror, but the historical setting & characters were so engaging. It was very unlike a lot of other games, including TLOU. The rats blew my mind.

REQUIEM

The graphics, already good in Innocence, really got more upgrades. The landscapes are beautiful. But again, the pacing issues really held it back. I felt so slow ALL THE TIME. On my PS5, also, there were some significant stuttering framerates and camera movement.

I thought that the first section was samey to 1, but still good. The part where I started to get really impressed was Part 2 on the island. It was so refreshing, a nice change of pace, and again, utterly beautiful. The ritual scene in Episode 9 was incredible. The jank really got to me though.

Specifically in one epsiode, >!WE should have been the one to kill the slaver Milo. Listen man, if there's a Big Bad Guy I want to kill him. I dont want to see it done in a cutscene. I most thought of Halo 3 where we were allowed to kill Guilty Spark with the giant lasergun. It's cathartic. Gimme the catharsis! Even though the game was working against a kill-em-all approach, I loved fully controlling the rat swarms to murder the bad guys, including Emilia. Fuck you emilia.!< The game really hits its stride in the second half. Area reveals are breathtaking, including big cave areas. The art direction, music all killer.

The finale was likewise brilliant. >!Running TOWARD tidal waves of rats was absolutely bananas.Then you go through several surreal areas, and of course, the ending. Fuck me. I knew the game was building toward it, but I just didn't want to think it was real. I also didn't think that I WOULD BE THE ONE TO DO IT.!<

>!I saw that there was a second ending where Lucas does, which is grimmer (if that can be said). I took out the sling and started twirling it, but I had to put it down when the targeting pip appeared right on Hugo's head. After another minute of wondering what else could be done, I took a deep breath and did it myself. It felt utterly terrible, more so with the hard cut to black on the credits.<!

Thank goodness the team did an epilogue, >! because that'd be way too fucked up to leave it there. I definitely teared up as Amicia said goodbye to Hugo's cairn. What an ending. Damn. !<

Lastly, Amicia's voice actress was wonderful.

...On a non-Q&A night.

I know most people here already know this, but just for anyone curious. For most nights the show is not for friendlies. The reason for this is that it slows down the show and crashes Justin's ratings/analytics, not because he doesn't like you.

Hearing a lot of this lately. Dont do it.

-getting the big obvious issue out of the way first: on expert, bosses are too spongy and deal too much dmg. it just is what it is and that kind of marathon boss fight was not for me.

-loved the anime design

-I'm a souls vet and started at expert but gradually turned the difficulty down about 2/3 through because some of the bosses were ridiculous

-i did spear and really enjoyed it

-skill respec being free was awesome. however, i'd have liked if they incorporated a "build" model, so if you wanted to swap weapons, you could load a prior build so you wouldnt have to delearn and relearn the skills

-I did not like that there were separate inputs for perfect guard, reflection, and counterattack. i also didnt like that you needed to hit a button AND trigger/bumper - on different sides of the controller - to do reflection. may sound weird, but my brain didn't put those things together well. it was a hard adjustment compared to Sekiro's perfect parry being one trigger. i also never mastered the reflection, its timing was too weird

-levels were not as bad as people complain about - they're kinda samey but still detailed and well designed

-plot was not great but worked well enough

-looking forward to dual wield NG+ eventually, because i think it'd be a very different experience already having a huge amount of skills unlocked

Who-all is your favorite category of person to come into the live and get roasted?

My personal favorite is when Justin destroys actual leaders of a church, like a pastor or priest. I think it's because they usually come in with a chip, super confident with the Holy Spirit in them, but they are not used to any pushback at all, let alone a Justin tidal wave. They try to do the condescending "you need the holy spirit" or some such nonsense, unaware that their argument is about to get flatlined. Then there's the surprise at the pushback, the stupid responses we've all heard before, and then finally the hell-threats. It just makes my day. I was reminded of this the other day with POSFF Pastor Mike, who came in confident and left wondering what had happened.

What says the rest? philbros? newcomers? polite people? crashouts? old peeps?