Do you have a problem with Smash Bros. outside its community?

Like do you refute the claim it is a "good game"?

Would it have saved the Saturn?

A 30 second demo of Sonic running around a hill was totally worth a couple of programmers literally almost dying, I must say.

IX, an overrated and overhyped game that nostalgia shills praise the heck out of simply because it has castles and airships in it, completely ignoring the mediocre plot and writing, gaping holes and contrivances, and especially the poorly done love story of Zidane and Garnet.

Most of it’s issues are explained in detail here in this commentary of the game script: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14012757/1/Everything-Wrong-with-Final-Fantasy-IX

Part 1.
I just beat FFX (on a PS2 + CRT), this is a pretty good game, not sure why it doesn't get more attention.
The music is amazing and they finally made a game where every party member is important to the story. This feels like the game FF8 should've been, there's just so many allusions between the two games (gonna have spoiler text for now but later on I wbf typing them):
>The water and meteorological naming conventions
>Succession of Witches, Succession of Sin
>Big focus on the romance
>FF8's Time Travel, Sin housing a dream Zanarkand circa 1000 years ago
>Sphere Grid is junctioning but good
>GF gives memory loss, Final Aeon gives death
>Squall and Co succeed Laguna and Co, like how Tidus and Co succeed Jecht and Co.

I do have some criticisms of the gameplay and story. Wakka becomes pretty useless lategame since most enemies become immune to his skills. The game is extremely linear as you can't even explore the map until the final dungeon – you don't even get to fly the ship yourself. Rikku does not join your party with acceptable stats lmao. Planning your moves with knowledge of whose turn it will be is cool, but I wish it still had a real-element or just stopped being turn-based like 7R.

Was he a Mary Sue?

Do you go out of your way to play /vr/ vidya that you missed out on back in the day, or is it mostly going back to childhood favorites?

Any good new (to you) games that blew you away recently?

is ff9 as good as 7? just beat 7 and i'm thinking about playing another. skipping 8 because I think it seems quite gay.

Looking for a retro JRPG with light romance.

Nothing as heavy or plot central as the romance from pic related.

Just a classic JRPG love story where the romance is in the background. Sort of like Crono and Marle in Chrono Trigger.

Just a fun little distraction from the main plot.

Rate’em from best to worst