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This Week in Games - Hot Wet Leak-tastic Summer

The Sega CD is easily emulatable, we don't need another Mega Drive or Genesis Mini with Sega/Mega CD support,

how come there isn't any Final Fight representation?

they need to do a Saturn mini badly as Saturn while far easier to emulate now than 5 years ago, is still something that is only for mid end computers and mid-high end tablets at the minimum. Also, the Dreamcast Mini even though tiny emulation machines can run Dreamcast well now, since they are still very niche.

"Fire Emblem, Persona, yeah," Solomon cuts in. "When Fire Emblem: Three Houses came out, we were a couple of years into development on this, and the name of the place [in that game] was the Monastery or something like that. It wasn't the Abbey but it was real close to that, and I was like, holy shit, you've gotta be shitting me! But yeah, I played a lot of Persona, and I went even deeper than that. Japanese developers have been doing awesome tactics games combined with RPGs – especially relationships. It creates this resonance where I'm worried about [characters] in the short-term in combat, and then I'm worried about them in this meta way back on the strategy layer. It creates this interesting loop."

Solomon even looked to dating sims for inspiration, particularly as Firaxis was toying with "the idea of coming up with mechanics for increasing friendship". You'll see this influence reflected in the way the Abbey functions, and in the way you can interact and bond with the various heroes around you.

Moellers recalls watching anime with his daughter before and during the development of Midnight Suns, and what he saw would ultimately shape the way the game presents its heroes. "I was watching these scenes like, how? Why does it feel so good, like what's going on?" he says excitedly. "And it's like these full-screen flashes that they're doing on impacts, they're holding anticipations, they're going through these extreme camera angles. They're speeding up and slowing down time to ridiculous amounts. In the MCU, I think that stuff feels really good, but they just go double and triple the power and strength sometimes with some of this stuff."

Moellers points to a few popular moments from recent anime as standouts in the highlight reel he assembled and studied. Levi shredding the Beast Titan (opens in new tab) in season 3 of Attack on Titan, for example. Tanjiro eking out a win (opens in new tab) in episode 19 of Demon Slayer season 1, which lit the entire internet on fire when it aired. He also looked at Dragon Ball Fighterz, which he praises for nailing 2D flourish with 3D models.

"Yeah, you were also very upfront with Marvel that that was the animation style. You were like, 'we're going to be very anime-influenced with the animation'," Solomon adds. Moellers responds: "And they were cool with it!"

The Sega CD is easily emulatable, we don't need another Mega Drive or Genesis Mini with Sega/Mega CD support, they need to do a Saturn mini badly as Saturn while far easier to emulate now than 5 years ago, is still something that is only for mid end computers and mid-high end tablets at the minimum. Also, the Dreamcast Mini even though tiny emulation machines can run Dreamcast well now, since they are still very niche.

They need to do a Saturn mini badly as Saturn while far easier to emulate now than 5 years ago, is still something that is only for mid end computers and mid-high end tablets at the minimum. Also, the Dreamcast Mini even though tiny emulation machines can run Dreamcast well now, since they are still very niche.