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I saw this. Not quite as good as the games it aspired to, namely Secret/Trials of Mana or Earthbound. Interesting though.

The team that made this game went on to form a company called Craveyard, made of Square employees in Washington who wouldn't relocate after Square moved its US headquarters to California to be near Sony, and they made a PS1 RPG called Shadow Madness that attempted to be a Western take on FF7.  It was packaged with a demo of Jade Coccoon. It didn't do too well either. They were supposed to do a N64 RPG based around Caesar's Palace in Vegas.

So you died while playing the T2 arcade game from the 1990s?

Vesperia is amazing, and I've grown to appreciate it more over the years. The playable cast has such good chemistry. I finally beat it on Switch. I wish they'd port Symphonia to Switch, only make it based on the Gamecube release instead of the PS2/PS3 release. The Gamecube version was 60 FPS where the PS2 and PS3 versions were only 30 FPS.

I do too. The game certainly might have looked disappointing if you were looking for Final Fantasy level graphics, but the detail put into the game world was amazing. The monsters had interesting designs. The only real downside were the two-frame sprite animations during battles.

Each of the stories has its own strengths and focus on a different area of the game. My favorite story is Emilia, but Asellus is the fan-favorite.

I can't argue that, and I don't think the team that worked on it would argue that point either. It's not an AAA RPG, but I think it does (and did) have interesting style. And that music.

My first exposure to Pokemon was the Nintendo Power article where they first talked about Pocket Monsters, I got Pokemon Red in 1999 for my 21st birthday. But I also had a young nephew with whom I'd watch the Pokemon cartoon, and i got him and myself one of the gold-plated Pokemon cards from Burger King.

Of the Pokemon spinoffs, Pokemon Stadium on N64 looked most interesting, mostly because i thought it was going to be a full on RPG and I wished to God that Nintendo would make a couple of N64 RPGs, that being back when I still held out hope for Earthbound 64.I could see the appeal of having your Pokemon live on TV in 3-D. A lot of the battle animations were actually more detailed than in Sword/Shield. That said, didn't invest in Stadium. I never played Colosseum, either, but I was kind of interested because the region it's set in is based on Phoenix. 

Other than Pokken, I never got into the other spinoffs.

Is it still up there for free? I'll have to get this. Never plated one of these games before.

Stage Select (took me some time to think about this):

3. Dragon Quest XI S: This is quite possibly the perfect turn-based Japanese RPG. It's the pure essence of RPGs, from its visual presentation to its music to its gameplay. And on top of that, it seems to have a nearly bottomless pool of content. 

2. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: When I played this, it was like playing the original Zelda for the very first time. I loved just exploring the world and battling monsters, and not feeling pressured to go to the next quest goal. The little things in the game are also fun to play with. The Zelda series is my favorite game series of all time, and BotW captures everything I love about it perfectly.

1. Final Fantasy VII: This game is pretty timeless, and while game design has advanced over the years, nothing has quite come close to improving on the total package that is FFVII. It will never get old exploring the game's world, collecting materia, and facing Sephiroth.

I've been hearing a lot about "blue light" contributing to depression. I just wonder why they don't engineer screens to filter it out on their own, similar to how CRT TV manufacturers were ordered by Congress to develop better shielding for TVs after it was discovered that color TVs were emitting gamma rays back in the 1960s. Even in late model CRT TVs i remember you could feel the electromagnetic energy from the screen if you were close to it. If you remember your parents yelling at you for sitting too close to the TV, that's why.  The joke in the Simpsons where there's a shadow burned into the wall with a silhouette of young Homer visible in it was an exaggeration, but maybe not much of one.

They were both founded by the same family but split apart decades ago. I liked Fry's Electronics. They had a combination of the kind of stuff Best Buy has with the kind of stuff Radio Shack had, plus things that neither place had. I bought a TV and a few odds and ends there over the past few years before they shut down. I remember back in the early 00s the one in Tempe AZ had a PS2 hooked up to a Jumbovision display with Virtua Fighter 4 running on it, and I played a few rounds. Then a few months ago, I went in, and most of the shelves were already stripped bare.

The Fry's grocery store chain is the local Kroger's affiliate.