it and UFO 50 are the happiest I've been gaming this year, highly recommended

if the traversal in Nikki was just a little more interesting I think it'd have a much broader potential audience, your only unique moves atm are a glide and a ground pound, something that felt as good as the hat in Odyssey would make this worth playing just to move through the world like that

I'm not much for gacha games but at least right now I feel no need to engage with the monetization, it's either gacha rolls in the shop for clothes that aren't my style (it's mostly princess dresses atm) or a battle pass for more currency for said rolls

this might be the one to get me

and, of course, you can fish. what more could you ask for

it's got the dense level design of Mario Odyssey, the post-post-apoc fantasy world of Breath of the Wild, a style battling system structured like Shadow of Mordor, one of the best photo modes ever, a fleshed-out world with interesting conflicts, goofy but sincere writing, it hits on so many levels

KEF's centers are worth a look, their Q series make good surrounds as well

Yamaha amps are still pretty bulletproof too, good power and performance but a little pricier than some of the modern options, this site's a good resource if you want some objective measurements of audio equipment www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index....

the speaker or headphone will always be the biggest determiner of sound quality, stuff before that (digital-to-analog conversion, amplification, etc.) should not color the sound (with the exclusion of purposeful EQ or tube distortion if that's your thing)

wonder if James Gwertzman and Jeff Gerstmann have ever interacted