99. Hawkeye I went into this show knowing nothing about it and had no expectations. I had an absolute blast watching this. That being said, I got hit with the psychic damage quite a few times because the Internet has absolutely ruined the term larpers. Especially when it comes to Marvel.

I have encountered the character who sounds like they were recorded within the cardboard box.

20 minutes into Ys IX and I'm hit with an opening that goes kinda hard like it was pulled straight from a movie, Adol hitting his edgelord phase at the age of 24, and an excessive amount of melodramatic cursive. So long as it doesn't fumble, I might fuck with this game based on the vibes alone.

One day I'll actually catch up on Deltarune before I get completely spoiled on Chapter 5. ...After I finish the last Ys game that's in my backlog.

It kinda sucks that Dogi's only a party member in one game because I know that Trails fujoshis could manifest it happening again if they were to lend even a fraction of their power. However, I know the monkey's paw will curl and Geis will be brought back to mald over Adol stealing his shtick again.

This game feels like it can genuinely be really good, but it makes a bunch of weird decisions because it's insecure that it's going to be too short. It permeates everything from the story, the backtracking, and even the grinding for materials for sidequests and weapons.

Jarr's Media Thread@jarrmediathread.bsky.social · 6d ago

96. Ys SEVEN This would have been a good game if it wasn't for the entire blemish of making you backtrack to all the main dungeons you already did just to pad out the game's runtime while also just COMPLETELY WIPING YOUR FAST TRAVEL POINTS. Also this game doesn't tell you about Flash Guard.

Oh Ys Seven, making me backtrack to the dungeons I already did and wiping my fast travel points just so you can extend the game by several hours? You shouldn't have~ Really, you shouldn't have.

I think the main difference I have with this compared to action roguelites like Binding of Isaac and Hades is that you can generally make up for shitty RNG if you're good enough at the game. Meanwhile with Slay the Spire, if you're fucked, you're kinda just fucked.

Jarr's Media Thread@jarrmediathread.bsky.social · 2w ago

93. Slay the Spire (Successful Heart Run) Yeah, I don't actually gel with this. My relationship with deckbuilding games is already very iffy, and adding in the RNG factor of sometimes your deck or relics just not coming together really made me not like this game at a lot of points.

If nothing else, marathoning the Ys games guaranteed that I would end up listening to some very sexy music.

There are two types of old women in Ys SEVEN.

• Man shows up knowing Adol • Has blue as a major color in his design • Uses his fists to beat the shit out of enemies • Introduced with a shady profession • Calls Adol his buddy • Is also not Dogi Falcom when I get you.

Jarr's Media Thread@jarrmediathread.bsky.social · 4w ago

89. Ys: Memories of Celceta I had a lot of fun playing this. I can understand why some people would say this game's soundtrack is weaker than the other games', but I still found it to be pretty decent. Them shoving Dogi offscreen just to have Diet Dogi be a party member was a crime though.

Me going through the Ys games thinking the only ones that are interconnected are 1, 2, and Origin until Memories of Celceta shows up and goes, "lol" and hits me with a freight car.

You know, I never expected Memories of Celceta to include the significant detail of the amnesia making Adol fruity enough to match his hair. That's entirely my bad.

Having a really fun time Ys: Memories of Celceta but every so often I need to brace myself for the town theme that's so funky that I briefly forget I'm playing an Ys game.

86. Marriagetoxin Yeah I had a great time with this show. The action is great, a good amount of the characters are crackheads, and the ending song is incredibly catchy. Also you will never meet a person who loves Fun Dip more than this man.

Ys: The Oath in Felghana giving Adol the dash, fast travel, and double jump all within an hour after having Adol be incredibly slow for the first few hours of the game sure was a choice they made.

While this game doesn't beat Ys VIII for me on a personal level, it's still REALLY good.

Jarr's Media Thread@jarrmediathread.bsky.social · 2mo ago

67. Ys Origin (Yunica Route) This is the story of a girl realizing there is no need to use magic when you can swing an axe like it's a butter knife. Good combination of fun combat and difficult fights. As always, Falcom music [REDACTED FOR PUBLIC DECENCY]. No idea when I'll do the other routes.

Yeah, Ys Origin fucks super hard.

Adding on to this, experience and gold is a lot easier to grind for compared to the last game.

Jarr's Media Thread@jarrmediathread.bsky.social · 3mo ago

66. Ys II (Chronicles+) This improves upon the first game in several ways. Bump combat isn't nearly as much a pain in the ass and the introduction of magic makes things interesting. That being said, I have things to say about how magic and bosses work. The music is still incredibly sexy.

Very excited for Peggy Carter to beat the shit out of more people in the next season.

Jarr's Media Thread@jarrmediathread.bsky.social · 3mo ago

65. Agent Carter (Season 1) Okay yeah Steve, I completely get it now. It's absolutely wild how this show hooked me within the first 10 minutes of the first episode and never really let go from there. The show's very strong and the characters are an absolute delight.

13 minutes into Agent Carter might be too early to say this, but I'm finding this show delightfully charming.

My experience with descending back into the hell of Overwatch is funny in the case that I went back to it thinking that I would mostly play support. I am currently learning my 4th tank.

Now to be slightly mean, this is the game that you introduce to Persona 5 fans if you want them to play a different RPG, but don't want them to undergo an anaphylactic shock.

Jarr's Media Thread@jarrmediathread.bsky.social · 4mo ago

51. Metaphor: ReFantazio Yeah this is the best Atlus game that I've ever played. There were so many moments where I got really excited as I realized how they were just pulling a bunch of ideas from their other properties and using them here. It's genuinely wild how I didn't get spoiled on this.

I've been thinking. and people who say Kingdom Hearts' story is convoluted would never survive KagePro The entire story is spread out across four types of media, with the anime being the finale of the story requiring knowledge from both the light novel and manga, which had not finished at the time.

im crying over this www.nintendo-difference.com/news/tomodac...

I've been having fun with Ys, but nothing else in this game has compared to the unimaginable joy that I had when I finally saw this name pop up.

Ys I is a game with the first boss makes you adopt a strategy of finding the right timing to hit the boss among the flames. If you get reckless and rush, the flames completely demolish your HP. But you can also lose your timing to hit the boss. Then the second boss is, "just run in a circle lmao."

People who play social deduction games will watch this and either fumble horribly trying mimic the strategies, or possibly become the most obnoxious people possible.

Jarr's Media Thread@jarrmediathread.bsky.social · 5mo ago

40. Gnosia (Anime) Probably the best game to anime adaptation that I have ever seen. The events revolving around the original gameplay loop surprisingly don't get stale, and most of the characters were given more depth than what they had in the original game.

38. Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) This was absolutely fun to watch. The animation was neat, the fight scenes were cool, and some people may or may not have received receding hairlines.