OotP has a strong libertarian bent no matter how some might pretend there isn't. You've got the equivalent of mass media being shit and in bed with the government, and the government getting very hands-on about educational reform.
Which always struck me how odd it was that lefties attached themselves to the series. Then again, the last two books weren't as good as the first five when the fandom was at its peak size. Also every movie after 3 was trash, which were released during the time the fandom peaked, funny that.
Left and Right are useless dichotomies at this point. Everyone just puts all their values in the basket where their politics belong and call it Left/Right.
Just use a 100-axis political value system for max accuracy tbh. :^)
**Atelier Ryza **. Pretty much the comfiest Atelier game so far, especially since they did away with turn in deadlines. An entry-level entry to the series and once you understand how to break the alchemy system, you're set.
**Disgaea 5 Complete **on Switch. From what I hear, avoid the PC port, its shit and is missing all the DLC content that Complete edition has from the get go. Otherwise, its the standard Disgaea fare. Hit max level before reaching the final story boss, then go on a grinding spree to farm in Item World for a thousand floors.
The entire process has been streamlined so you don't have to suffer early game item world just to get a full stack of EXP innocents, which is pretty great. Unfortunately, the characters didn't grip me like the other games TBH. As far as my rating of the story and characters goes, D1 = D4 > D2 > D5 >> D3.
Xenoblade DE came out a few months ago. If you want a pretty good JRPG story, highly recommend. Gameplay is fine, but questing may become a little tedious due to some quests becoming missable and ruining a perfect save file.
I started Daemon X Machina, might go back to it. Its a pretty cool mecha game, but it plays a lot like an old late-2000s portable console PVE action rpg with the mission system. The amount of mech customisation looks pretty great.
M.A.S.S Builder is an Early Access PC mecha game, but far slower than DXM. The customisation for your mech though is absolutely insane. You can paint and customise every single part of your mech. You can choose a very wide variety of paint jobs for each individual part, and parts of parts. The only problem is that grinding is tedious.
The controls also feel like KB+M isn't the optimum choice with some of the default bindings (LALT for secondary melee attack, wtf?). The mission pace is slow enough that I think I would prefer playing with a controller instead. Missions last at most 10 minutes so I think I'll give this a try with a controller next time since mashing melee will probably break my mouse buttons.
Persona 4 Golden got its PC release. I've also transferred over my Vita save so its just a standard NG+ run for me. If you don't have the money for P5R or have no PS4, this is a fine entry point into the Persona series. Comes with Dual Audio unlike the Vita version.
5D Chess was just released a few days ago. Its chess, but your pieces can travel backward in time, as well as sideways into parallel universes.
So how does this work? Well all your standard chess piece movements are there, but they are also mapped into multiverse movement and time travel movement. When you send a piece back into the past, you create a new timeline and play until you catch up to the 'present' of the original game. The catch is that all the pieces in that new timeline can attack the pieces in the original timeline since you can multiverse travel.
For instance, a knight can make an L shaped move on the board.
But if you time travel, you can move 1 move backwards, and 2 spaces straight from where you started; or even 2 moves backwards and 1 straight. You can also do this when you have another parallel timeline, 1 level deep, 2 spaces on the board, etc.
Overall, its a cool concept, but often doesn't work very well. One of the issues that some people noticed is that you can play a perfectly normal game of chess then inadvertently checkmate the king in the past. This also goes both ways.
The puzzles are pretty cool, but pvp sounds like it might just be a novelty.
Republicans did what Democrats could never do: kill Fox News