your reviews are dope, happy holidays

Afevis, I looked into this, you're correct, the ROMs are just used for assets apparently. That's really interesting considering M2 previously didn't put this much work into Legends of Mana or the Advance Collection.

A small correction for your Castlevania Dominus Collection review; the reason the "emulator" appears more stable is because it's actually not an emulator at all - the collection has been recompiled natively for each platform it was released on. It's a PROPER port. This has been confirmed by unpacking the game's data files in the MGSN discord, seeing proper natively compiled code as opposed to a ROM / ISO present. :3

great reviews mate!

@Professor Finesser, I have been taking advantage of sales and bundles on legitimate dev-provided key sites for a while now, as for playtimes, a combination of being unemployed and trading card farming. With my library I managed to get about $100 solely from selling trading cards. I've also been habitually grabbing any giveaway I can that's reasonably easy to do.

Also, I've been sharing a lot of my library with my brother so he's been chipping in on things he's interested in playing.

I recommend Is There Any Deal, as that website only catalogs key sites that get keys directly from developers. GG.Deals has both legitimate and grey-market resold keys marked off into different sections and a good price tracker.

I'll pop you a friend request.

Apologies to whoever got DC'ed at the end of a map in Vermintide 2, my internet went down with awful timing.

+Rep, Great taste in games

I used to know her but I haven't talked to her in a very long time, about 6 years, sad to hear that. I remember her, although that whole time period is a blur for me. Feel free to leave the comment up if you'd like.

Hi, I don't know if you were close with Alex, but I saw you were on her friends list. She passed away May 1st and I'm trying to get the word around to her friends. I'm her brother, so if you need to talk I can, but I can also delete this comment if you want me to as well. Thank you.

Oh, so it does have an additional story bit via this new true ending added. That is what is important to me, so if I am ever to play the game, I'll start with the remake. You should definitely add to in your review as well.

Well, thank you for answering my questions. Also, enabling comments would be appreciated by many.

I know of some I need to go back and correct so I may do that in the future. I know I got some MINOR details wrong in my YGO Master Duel review.

Just a tad too lazy to go back and tick them on all the reviews, so I'll do it going forward.

It's actually the default on Steam (or at least it is for me) to disable comments on reviews, but from now on I'll enable them in the future when I see the tickbox is disabled. From what I can tell the story is basically identical between the two versions outside of the added true ending route in the remake, which is kinda cryptic to unlock, but it involves collectible items added in the remake.

Thank you for your clarification, it was quite helpful. But just to make sure: Are there no other changes, like to the story and dialogue? For example, Hyperdimension Neptunia's Rebirth versions, which I heard are considered remakes, made significant changes to those aspects.

Also, as a side-note, your reviews are really in-depth and well-written. Why do you disable the comments? I'm sure there'd be nice and informative comments for the most part. I encourage you to enable them.

There's also a bunch of battle system differences, as the remake outright uses the battle system from 2 with the old magic system, and TBH, I actually prefer the changes the remake made to the battle system. For example, in the original, Gimmicks didn't damage in battle, and dodging was significantly more powerful. BUT, I personally am more of a fan of old-school disorienting large dungeons, which I why I mentioned that originally.

In short, the game is significantly altered to match Mary Sketler 2's mechanics. Which isn't a bad thing, it's just different, and that's why I say the original is worth playing, because it's less like a DQ11 vs DQ11 S situation, and more of a situation like the Resident Evil 1 remake, where the changes are enough to make each version a different experience, even if overall the remake is preferable.

Hey there. You disabled commenting on your review of Mary Skelter 2, so I comment here instead.

At the end of the review, you mentioned how it's still worth playing the original first game, despite the fact that Mary Skelter 2 contains a remake of it. It's difficult to wrap my head around it. Does the original have anything else different than just the dungeon layouts?

You can reply to me here and also possibly edit your review afterwards. Thank you.