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Also, have you ever seen any of the portrait sheets from the original Grandia? They drew dozens of expressions for each character!

That Twitter is lovely.

My sole claim to early internet fame is a mention (from ECM!) in Gamefan's import review of Grandia for the Saturn. I wrote a translated script for it back in '98! I had the biggest crush on Feena...

I've always felt like the first game would have been as fondly remembered as Lunar 1 and 2 if Vic Ireland had played nice and localized the proper version. His style suited Takeshi Miyaji's games really well for whatever reason, and it was such an incredible technical accomplishment on the Saturn. It still has one of my favorite battle systems ever and the Iwadare soundtrack is superb; maybe his best ever.

Perhaps it's time for me to revisit it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilmeqSsaNvM

Glad to hear Record Breaker is great, Finch! I Wanna dive a bit deeper... but the monsters... they need hunting...

And the Pokemans need shuffling...

Right now I only have Overclocked, although I do have the original version of 2 on the DS. I'm a huge Career Soft fan (the Langrisser/Growlanser guys), and a lot of their staff were picked up by Atlus back in 2004/2005 and put to work on the Devil Survivor games. Easily the most overlooked SRPG devs in Japan, imo.

Record Breaker looks like a far more extensive remake than Overclocked. I really want to play it.

I am playing DS2: Record Breaker! Monster Hunter 4 keeps stealing me back, but those two are my current commute games. How ya likin' it so far?

bVork's got pretty good taste in games (if his Steam library is any indication), so that doesn't surprise me. Goodbye Despair is sitting on my shelf waiting to be played once I finish up a couple other Vita games. Freedom Wars is weirdly addictive!

My stepdaughter just asked if we could play through both halves of Persona 2 over the summer together. So proud.

Also, I've been thinking about requesting a name change. Back when I registered (mostly out of frustration), I didn't expect to actually participate here beyond the initial post, so "no one" seemed appropriate. I was just a lurking nobody to the regulars here.

Lately I spend more time having conversations on profile pages than I do on the forums themselves. I'm pretty apathetic to shitty attitudes on the internet at this point in my life, but being told everything I like is terrible whenever I venture an opinion is draining. It's disappointing to see so many grown men espousing the same pointlessly caustic opinions I outgrew in middle school.

Since you turned me on to Steins;Gate, I've been hopelessly addicted to visual novels. I suspect I'm single-handedly keeping JAST USA afloat right now. At the moment I'm making my way through Yume Miru Kusuri: A Drug That Makes You Dream. I don't play a lot of eroges, but this one is surprisingly well-written.

It was obvious Sushio was involved about 30 seconds into the first episode. I love​ the character designs.

I ended up watching all of those...how did you even find them?

Gaijinworks is announcing a new PSP game this week. I know it's not going to be Tengai IV, but I really want it to be Tengai IV.

That Eikichi is pretty good!

Yeah, I pulled the Duo out of storage and started playing around with some of my old games last weekend and ended up getting sucked into Fuun Kabuki Den all over again. I wish someone would have taken a chance on Tengai Makyou in the west; I've gotta think the PSP port of IV would have done okay over here given the setting.

Red Company was so good in the 90s.

There's something so weird about seeing anime characters hip-hop dancing to JDK Band synth pop. Gurumin is crazy charming, even for a Falcom game.

Finch. Hey.

You should totally be an animator.

Rajyaki is the best.

Even without going to the actual YouTube page (I subbed), I knew straight away that I was looking at a Finchie cartoon. Placing the white bowl under the frog as it "jumped" made me laugh - so clever! Some of the effects during that crazy ass ending looked pretty complex, too. Did you do all the voices and sound effects?

I'm so glad you shared that with me. Thanks!

Thank you for sharing such a wonderful story!

Finch! You made a cartoon! It's amazing! The charm is so charming!

I don't hear youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu *plugs ears*

treat yourself to a birthday rock show!

Dear Finch,

Please come to the castle. I have baked a cake for you.

Yours truly,

ARBM

Happy Birthday!

Happy Bday Mr. Fanch!!!