The short answer: Quality pleases me Quality means quite a few things to different people. I also have a Joker Review of Breath of the Wild, and I tore that game apart to hell and back, but I still view it as a 7/10. And yes, I hate BOTW. New games have been sacrificing Quality for Graphics, and this pisses me off. This trend really started to take off thanks to Square and Final Fantasy 13. They admitted they had to scrap over half the game because they blew their budget on the graphics of the game, and you could feel the quality drop. Now, in terms of Quality, obviously I'm not talking Graphical fidelity. I'm talking about the game play, how the game works, the mechanics it employs, any and all gimicks or mini items between gameplay, and how well the game itself plays out in general. In my RE2 demo review, I tore the game apart for many things. When you keep getting stuck on doors because the game engine is genuinely limited, that's a problem in the gameplay department. When you aim at a zombie and miss because it dodges, that's honestly on the player. But if you aim at a zombie, and miss because the reticle swings wide, that's a gameplay problem. When the zombie can grab you 3 arm lengths away, after the reticle hitbox decides it wants to bounce wide since you tried to step back, and your *shotgun* misses when you were aiming at the head, that's a controller breaking point. Other aspects I see when are limited by the game engine are the first 30 seconds of loading RE2 up, when the trucker reaches for a burger (which looks like a rock sitting on kinda cardboard, sitting on a lump of congealed vomit) then eats it. He doesn't actually chew, his face just waves like the ocean from one side to another. Their engine is unable to animate chewing properly. Little things like that are easy for me to see. As for the KH3 comment, my issue is not with the gameplay itself. I didn't want to say more due to spoiler reasons, but it's mostly focused on story aspects that kinda ruin the idea of me playing it new. I'll bargin bin it. The older I got, the easier it was for me to see that "high praise" from critics is actually a load of shit. This was glaring to me with Breath of the Wild when everyone tried giving it glowing reviews of it being a flawless master piece, but the game is heavily flawed and far from the 10/10 everyone kept saying it was. This was a bad combination of Zelda starved fans, and reviewers who were given special treatment in exchange for flawless scores. So I'll always be critical. Every time. Now to answer your last question: Divinity Original Sin 2, Persona 5, Earth Defense Force 5, Bloodborne, Shining Resonance: Refrain, Xenoblade Chronicles 2. These are some games that got high praise from me off the top of my head. Trying to remember a mixed bag of different genres to give you an idea that I'm not biased to one type of game. I'll gladly go into more detail if you'd like, so done hesitate to ask me to elaborate on anything, as this is a very light touch on the topic at hand.

When are we getting a Joker Reviews Farming Simulator 2018? It's ESports worthy now.

thanks, but you give high praise to xenoblade 2, but not BotW? i haven't read your botw review (and i probably will now), but what would you say xenoblade does that makes it so great? i've just started xenoblade 2 so i'm more talking gameplay than story

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has a very strong cast and crew. The jokes were on point for me, and the game play allowed for multiple styles of a choose your own battle system. Not including the pokemon system they have in it, just experimenting with auto attacks and mixing it up making my own combos of slashing and abilities drew me in quite a bit. The colorful cast and crew (not the voice acting. the VA can burn in hell) made me want to know more about the game, and I could appreciate how it actually felt alive. This feat is very difficult to pull off in open world fantasy lands, as most devs fall into the same problem of making huge land without filling it in. BX2 gives me the impression they increased the size of land based when it was needed, and not for the sake of size. I did eventually burn out of the game and stop playing it many hours in, as the game does have a problem with clairvoyance, and does not guide you very well after a certain point, so I ended up getting lost and started power leveling but lost interest as newer games came out. I may go back to it one day to finish it, as I liked the concept the story gave, and it was extremely fun to play. I just wish they ironed out the open world aspect a tad bit more in conjunction with story quest direction.

Any other questions? I'm actually kinda enjoying the mini Q&A

Can we get some Joker RP threads? W e n e e d m o r e J o k e r R P .

Give me your preferred bloodborne build, pretty interested in what you used.

Xenoblade 2's story seemed generic, like a generic Shonen plot.

@Sarinman - That one Leblanc thread I made awhile back was enoughl ol @Pancake - My preferred build is a Dex Rakuyo build, mixed with the Executioner gloves as anti-PVP, which makes invaders dodge into my spinning death. My for fun build is the Burial Blade or Ludwig's Holy Sword When I need things to die: Beast claw/Transformation build When taking on later Chalice Dungeon fights: Arcane blaster using 99 ARC and Executioner for boss melting time. I have a character made for every occasion in case someone needs my help at any time. @Mono - It is generic. But it's kinda a guilty please for me. Like the anime Blue Exorcist: I guessed every plot point 3 episodes in, but I still found myself enjoying it regardless.

I do why, but I feel like you're BigChungus. The account i mean, Joker.

I'm actually BigChungus. I was bored and felt like I needed to do something literally nobody asked for, so I gave an attempt at RPing. I feel like Joker would do a far better job.

I mean, What's Up Doc?

Oh, okay, nvm joker

Oooh, never was a big fan of DEX weapons but I can respect it, especially getting a beast claw build, those chalice dungeons are pain. I've never found arcane very useful, even at 99 the damage seemed underwhelming, Blue Exorcist is great, I remember really liking that, has been a while though.

What do you think of the older kh games, mainly kh2

Screw gameplay we need more glorified movies.

Can we get a Joker Reviews for Persona 3 FES (Plus The Answer :)) and Persona 4?

@Mich - I'm slowly starting to experiment with other accounts. I only have one other I'm really poking with but it only has like 3 posts total lol @Pancake-Knight - The ARC build only works at 99, and it's very specific. 0-40 ARC min-maxees elemental weapons. 0-20 gives decent damage boosts for the Executioner Gloves, and gives almost nothing for 20-90. Once you break 90-99, you get huge damage boosts to Execultioner's glove specifically, and you can melt bosses with no problems. @egull - I liked KH2 generally speaking. I appreciated the shift to more dark/Final Fantasy themes then Disney, and the fixed gummy ship mini game made it fun. It did get tedious at times, as it felt like they were trying a little too hard with a few themes, and bouncing off from Chain of Memories made some story elements less than favorable, but the clothing mechanic brought in a new element that brought a clean new design that kept the game fun. There were one too many bad gimicks though, like Pirate's invulnerable stage in the shade, and some bosses being weak for entirely too short of time. @Sarinman - No on P3 FES. I have zero desire to play The Answer, as I really hated how it demolished established character personalities, and was entirely too grinding. I may do P4G one day though. Maybe.

what are your hobbies (aside from games)

Ah, I mostly used the comet eye ball and star storm, I might check the damage on my executioner gloves then,

@elmco - Aside from gaming? this does not compute. Lol, I use to be heavily into computers, but in my free time (what little exists), I practice martial arts (Muay Thai and kick boxing mostly). I would really love to go further in my artwork, and find more time to read books, but my schedule consists of sleep, work, get a small amount of exercise in after work, and balance gaming, and apartment hunting until I pass out. I've been eyeballing some side hobbies that will maybe let me get paid for game reviews as well, so that's a thing. @Pancake_Knight - The black comet and A Call Beyond are kinda crap. If you really wanna use a 1 bullet spell, use the tentacle. It can knock things down and it's quick. Otherwise, the idea is this: Get fire enchanted saw weapons to min max beast damage (I personally use a Fire Saw Cleaver here) Get bolt enchanted swords - melts aliens, and cainhust mosters (I use a bolt Ludwig's Holy Blade here. Short sword for demons and aliens, 2-hand for situation awareness and beasts if need be) Anything arcane is for Chalice Dungeons. It's good against anything that's not a boss, though. So mix and match your favor canon fodder weapon. (I personally have an arcane beast cutter for fun here) With these three, you carve a path to the boss with minimal effort if you have a friend, get the choir bell, blood bullet yourself so it costs you 2 bullets instead of 7, and fully heal you and a friend. In a boss room, spam Executioner's Glove. Nothing else. Things melt very fast. PVP is where the other hunter tools come in. Call Beyond, black comet, mini tanturas, etc. Unless you are using a blood build. Then Madara's whistle is a scary thing

nice, good luck with the apartment hunting

Paid to review games... That sounds like a dream job. I wish I could do that, but I need to practice reviewing before I even think of doing that.

That's why I've been practicing with my Joker Reviews lol