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I started playing this for the first time earlier today. Only 3 hours in, but I can already tell why it has a very adamant fan base to this day.

I'll agree that Community hasn't had a single good episode in the last 8 years, but before that it was great.

My biggest pipe dream is an F-Zero with an extensive single player mode that's not even a racing game but plays like a Yakuza game instead. The series has such amazingly stupid characters that it would be a shame if nothing was ever done with them. I want Captain Falcon beating up people in Mute City in that over-the-top Yakuza style.

The achievement is to have all Magnus (cards) in your collection. Some cards evolve over time, like fresh green bananas that deal damage becoming regular bananas that heal and later spotty bananas that deal damage again. The shampoo card is one that, in its description, says you should try using it for two weeks. And they mean that literally. If you have that card for 336 hours, it transforms into a card called 'Splendid Hair'. It's not even a useful card, it just also unlocks the last few tracks in the music collection for some reason. It's legendary in how stupid it is.

And yes, there are 100% speedruns of the game that take slightly over two weeks!

Caligula was okay. I enjoyed the plot of the first one more, but the sequel was a lot easier to complete all sidequests in. For the record, the first game had over 500 NPCs each with a quest and most of them were roaming around certain areas, whereas the sequel has far less and you can easily look up where they are.

Since I've finished Caligula Effect 2, I started the Baten Kaitos Remaster today! The plan is to beat the first one, use Super Mario Bros. Wonder as an interlude, and then jump into Baten Kaitos Origins. Which would have been fine, as I expected to play Baten Kaitos normally, without trying to complete it. But alas, the game has in-game achievements so... "Ah shit, here we go again!". And the 300% game speed option does NOT affect card evolutions, so I'll have to let the game idle until my shampoo has been in my inventory for 336 hours because that's normal, right? That's what normal games ask normal players to do, right?

But there's one more amazing thing I need to share. So the remaster only has the original Japanese voice acting, not the hillarious English one. But apparently, the opening cutscene before the title screen is English in both versions anyway. Except the overall quality in the Japanese version is better than the English one? How did that happen? Why did the developers of the Japanese version hire English voice actors for that intro, despite all the same characters being voiced in Japanese in the actual game? And if that was so important to them, why were they fine with the localizers getting their voice actors from the bargain bin instead? It's all so bizarre!

I also started playing We Love Katamari Reroll as my B-Game on the side. Not much to say about it yet, but I wish there was an easy way to see all the stages with target times for their 'good' endings and what's still to collect in them.

Don't panic, but you might be a robot.

For the most part, I see the two original Paper Marios as equals. They both have good and bad chapters, so it's hard to say which one I prefer on that front. The aspect that pushes TTYD slightly ahead for me is that your stats aren't capped at 50/50/30 anymore. You can play the game with 10HP and a goombillion badge points if you want and the game won't stop you!

Alright guys, you know what to do. Obliberate the sales numbers of Origami King! This is our chance to reclaim Paper Mario!

Though I'm kinda surprised this game even exists so closely to the Mario RPG remake. Or that they announced it before that one's released!

I need to put extra effort in Caligula Effect 2. I thought the Baten Kaitos remaster released at the end of the month, not the middle, so I'm behind pace.

In the meantime, I also started the first Assassin's Creed for the first time. I figured, if the series got as big as it is, it's worth looking into it, especially when you can get the old ones for dirt-cheap in any given Steam Sale. I'm not surprised, but I didn't expect the blueprint to the Ubisoft Open World formula to be this complete this early, in a game that isn't even open world yet. It's fun though, but it's showing its age.

I don't think a remaster would cut it. The game clearly wanted to be an MMORPG and I think they'd have to go all in and actually remake it as one.

Sounds good either way to me.

Did... did they advertise their game by bragging about the amount of money they spent on advertising?