Also, going back on a new save, I was surprised at how much muscle memory I had for all the different minigames.

It took me a lot of tries originally to do tier 2 sit-ups, but in my current run it was relatively painless.

3D Brawler is one that gets a lot of deserved ire, but it's perhaps the best example of why iterating would be better than straight removal.

It's Punch Out.

I'd rather they improve on making the moves a little more readable than remove it. Sometimes it frustrates, other times I'm locked in.

Queen's Blood and Chocobo racing are the overstated standouts, but they also clearly had the most development time and interweave through the whole game.

Desert Rush feels like a nice difficulty and nuance for the more one and done minigames. It's a lot of route planning and learning the layout.

In theory, I could boot up a PS3 and alphabetize the list from there, but PS5 games don't show up in that view so...

Don't even get me started on Alan Wake 1 and 2! Will there be an Alan Wake 3?

I sure hope so! I definitely need to wait a good decade to see if it happens and only then get the Alan Wake 2 DLC trophies plus platinum the first game!

This is all extremely normal behavior. Why are you backing away?!

Get the few remaining DLC trophies in Control?

Absolutely not! I've got to wait until Control 2 comes out...

...except Control 2 will probably have DLC of it's own so I should actually wait until that is all released!

At the very least if that FF9 remake happens it'll probably be ATB turn based!

I actually think this incoming era of Square is pretty primed to bring back turn based as an active branch of the main series. Maybe not in the form of FF17 or 18 but some kind of 3rd pillar alongside CS1+3's games.

I don't think you need settle for a spin-off though it may be 5-7 yrs off.