The Bazaar be like

PLAYER: buys chocolate bar
CURIO: "That's been sitting there twenty years--"
PLAYER: immediately returns chocolate bar and gains health

some CRPG and adjacent games have the "player character's Intelligence is low" dialogue

Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines has "player character always speaks in riddles" dialogue

please welcome to the stage pop-punk and emo cover band Good Shallot

that's Gllang.

quietly playing a double feature of draw-your-own-creature games Graffiti Kingdom and Amazing Island. if you haven't played them you should check them out

instead of paying my phone bill I could get another commission

I won't. but I *could*

I can't argue that Dark Cloud 2 is generally a better game than the first one, but if anything has stood the test of time in Dark Cloud, it's the OST. Front to back bangers, just an amazing soundtrack