I've played all the Yakuza games and while I didn't mind the frantic combat, Like a Dragon is just so much more approachable for me with its turn-based combat.
It's funny, Final Fantasy is getting more like classic Yakuza in its combat and Like a Dragon more like classic Final Fantasy. It actually gives me hope we'll one day see a return to form for FF as Like a Dragon proves you can do turn-based in a very engaging way.
However, Yakuza had its charm and mini-games to push me through FFXVI... not so much.
Once you're finished up with it, I really recommend Monster Train. Slay the Spire is great, but I never finished it 100%. Monster Train I still go back to randomly even after putting 100+ hours into it. The game actively encourages you to try and break it, finding the right combination of cards and artifacts to truly be OP. I think it would even be impossible to beat most of the difficulties if you don't lean into that.
I agree with you... But if RTD decides to continue it into New New Who then I imagine folks will be quite lost. I have a feeling he might just forget about it or have a throw away line from an episode where someone says 'oh I made that up to mess you... Anywayyy'
Edit: this was supposed to be a response to another comment. Seems like Wefwef doesn't do threaded comments that well yet!
Hi, folks 👋 When I was deleting my account from the other place I found this post of mine. It seemed a shame to delete it entirely as I imagine a lot of folks will be starting up watches/rewatches in prep for the new series.
Jodie's Doctor is portrayed brilliantly but with some poor writing stopping her from ever truly shining in the role. That said, she does have some standout episodes. There are also some overarching plots too which we're currently unsure if they'll come over to what I'm going to take this opportunity to dub 'New new Who'.
Here is a spoiler-free list of episodes you should watch, and episodes you can skip over:
- The Woman Who Fell to Earth
- The Ghost Monument (An otherwise skippable episode but there is an important scene for the overarching narrative. Here it is on YouTube if you want to skip. You also get to see the new TARDIS interior for the first time too.
- "Spyfall Part 1 and 2 (Return of an important enemy)
- Fugitive of the Judoon
- Ascension of the Cybermen
- The Timeless Children
- Revolution of the Daleks (So so but important if you care about the companions)
- The mini series: The Halloween Apocalypse, War of the Sontarans, Once, Upon Time, Village of the Angels, Survivors of the Flux, The Vanquishers (They're all linked together and none of them are true stinkers. As a whole, they're alright, worth it for the introduction of new companion Dan who you'll see more of later) (You can cut a couple of these, but I'd recommend seeing the whole thing just to see the end of the story).
- The Power of the Doctor (the big pay off to the main narrative, and regeneration scene).
Honourable mentions: Jodie actually had some pretty great episodes outside of the overarching narrative.
- Rosa (A historical!)
- Demons of the Punjab (another one!)
- It Takes You Away
- Resolution (Daleks!)
- Can You Hear Me? (Some great companion story development)
- The Haunting of Villa Diodati (Doctor hangs with Mary Shelly as they are inspired to write Frankenstein. Leads into Ascension of the Cybermen. Episode itself is pretty fun)
- Eve of the Daleks (Many will say skip this one, but I'm a big fan of Time Loop stories. This isn't the best, but it is fun.)
This all reminds me of the big Digg migration. Reddit likes to think that people chose it because it was special. For a good majority of us, especially the 10+ year accounts, it was Digg's terrible redesign and very poor product decisions. The nail in the coffin was not understanding its core content producing users willingness to move. History repeats itself.
I went with explicitly mentioning my right to erasure under GDPR and how you can absolutely identify me via my account. Really interested if they undelete as I'll be complaining to the ICO.
I have an idea for a show I'd call 'Great and Bountiful' which would chart humanity's first major steps with alien species that don't result in the doctor having to interceed.
While I love Star Trek as an aspiration, I'd actually offer up Stargate as an example of 'humanity gaining access to alien tech and slowly improving'. We know from the lore there is a mass migration to the stars eventually, but humanity in those early years would be great.
One of my favourite shows RTD has done is Years and Years, while I would want a Who show to be that cynical, it would certainly be an interesting take on things to strike that storytelling format.