Double release too!

Still at work but will happily watch Scarlet elegantly beating the crap out of corrupt nobles later today.

Any recommendations for Mecha anime? 😀

Plenty. Some interesting recommendations among series featured in SRTY:

• Gundam: Witch from Mercury: A recent, self-contained Gundam series that is making its SRT debut.
• G Gundam: The strangest Gundam series, I often joke it's "DBZ with Mechs". It's often silly and campy, but really fun.
• Code Geass: While I think this series is overhyped it's still a good watch. It's also extremely popular, and due to that its world and plot is used a LOT in recent SRT games. In fact, the first scene of SRTY is based on the ending of the TV series and will contain massive spoilers if you haven't watched this. 😀

Other suggestions from my favorites:

• Gurren Lagann: I think you mentioned having already seen this.
• GaoGaiGar: Starts as a fun, old-school "monster of the week" series... then gets a more consistent plot running midway and turns into non-stop hype.
• Gunbuster: A very influencial short series (6 episodes). Despite its length it ramps up incredibly, starting as "high school for pilots" and going into epic battles against alien hordes. Episode 5 has favorite battle in this entire genre. NSFW warning for classic 80's Gainax fanservice.

Why is your version of Super Robot Wars Y named different?

Out of habit! "Super Robot Taisen" is how it's called in japanese, and I've been playing them for so long that I got used to that name.

Super Robot Wars Y is on my wishlist and will be my first game in the series.

Make sure to try the demo first, it carries into the game, and you even get some bonuses from having a completed demo save.

As much as I love the franchise the gameplay can get somewhat repetitive and won't be for everybody's tastes. It helps a lot if you're a fan of mecha anime like me. :D

Finished CrossCode!

I think this is one of those "good game, but not for me". I loved the puzzles (even though they can get crazy hard), but didn't care about exploration or combat. I ended up lowering difficulty and rushing through the last 30% or so of the game.

Combat felt way too chaotic, and tracking what's going on became a frustrating exercise for me. Exploration simply wasn't rewarding, as you would often spend time figuring out a complex plataforming puzzle to get to a chest and earn... crafting material you could farm somewhere else.

Playing Witch on the Holy Night!

Not as focused on this as originally planned but I still got decent progress and reached Chapter 4.

Aoko continues to be the highlight of the game, she's such a fun character. Sojiro is also getting a lot more attention now, and I suspect the two will share the "main character" spot. Very curious about his past, I think the game is hinting there's something important hidden there.

Played a bit of Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter!

This game is a delight. It's completed redone in terms of gameplay and QOL with all the good features from recent games, while also keeping the mood and charm of the original.

Even though I only played part of the Prologue I'm almost certain I will have high praise when I come back to play it properly.

Playing Super Robot Taisen Y!

Right after starting Trails in the Sky I got a package from Play-Asia that I wasn't expecting for a couple more weeks, so I decided to change plans and go for this game since I think it'll work better with my current mood.

Considering I've beaten 38 games from this series (some of them multiple times) it's safe to say I'm a big fan. It's probably the biggest gaming "comfort food" out there for me, and I'm very happy to have a new game to play after 4 years.

That being said, it's clear this one had to work with significant budget constraints. Reuse of animation is common in this series, but it's really glaring here since the many of the new additions use a more "plastic/toy-like" artstyle with sharper lines and shinier sprites, where the reused ones look softer, more "anime-like".

I'm liking the original units a lot more than the ones from the previous game (SRT30). I chose the female protagonist (Forte) who uses the Lunedrache II, a good take on the "Ninja Mech" concept. And I'm surprised by how much I'm liking the main battleship despite its strange design - the A.Advent being a flying city is a cool concept that I think it's underused.

I won't be surprised if that's where WOTC ends, but I don't think it's going to happen that quickly.

There's only two I'm watching for certain:

• A Wild Last Boss Appeared!
• May I Ask for One Final Thing?

There's a couple more I may give a try later, but I'm still going though a backlog of series from the last two seasons.

The Switch 2 launch felt oddly rushed.

Lack of details, initial backward compatibility list having only ~20% of games with basic testing finished, the need for SD Express cards that are hard to find. Even the GCK situation is probably due to cost/availability issues that will improve over time.

This DevKit situation looks to me like another example of this.

This controversy is pretty much "You're having fun in a different way from what we intended. This is not allowed so we blocked it.".

Which is a very "Nintendo" thing to do. But hopefully they'll change things in the future and give a "classic" option or something similar.

Not surprising considering that most 3rd party games are:

1. Ports of old games so anyone who has a PS5/Xbox/PC can get them for cheaper.
2. Overpriced ports as well, and in a system that is already rather expensive.
3. Game Key Cards which won't appeal to collectors who could still buy them despite #1 and #2.

There's a lot of videos and articles like this one discussing how Stage 1-1 of Super Mario Bros for the NES is a cleverly designed tutorial for the core game mechanics.

So if it were clearly written on the Steam page, I don’t really get the complains.

It was optional for several months and the info on the PSN page contradicted that, so there was a lot of room for confusion.

Not surprisingly that PSN page was edited earlier today, but there's a million screenshots floating around already, plus you can check the previous version in the Wayback Machine.

And even if it was clearly written on all places, it's still a "too bad you didn't read the fine print, now you're past the limit time for a refund, so either let Sony track you or lose access to the game" situation which is very shitty. There's also the fact that they sold the game to people in countries where is PSN is not available, which should not have happened if that requirement was going to be enforced in the future.

Not hard to see why people would get pissed and lose trust in the developer. I also think that players have been annoyed for a while with this type of requirement (not specifically in this game), and they are now getting a good outlet with a lot of publicity around to vent about it.

The review chart is hilarious.

Doubt Sony or the developer expected this would happen.

Edit [May/04, 14h UTC]: Updated chart. More than 70k negative reviews already.