For the unfortunately unfamiliar: Persona 5 is a story-based game developed by Atlus. Famous on release for it’s viscerally pleasurable jazz-rock soundtrack, fresh take on turn-based Pokemon-style combat, brilliant story and all-around dripping with more style than Roadman Shaq doing the fusion dance with Sidney Poitier (rest in power king). One story mode playthrough averages at 100 hours, so it’s basically like a playable anime season… Or about one one-trillionth the length of One Piece! Speaking of manga, Persona 5 has one of those, find out more on that here!

Needless to say, I guess you could say I am a bit of a Persona 5 fan.

I finished my first playthrough around 2018 or 19, not long before I’d go to university. This was on account of not wanting to have to balance education, exercise, a part-time job and social time with their real-world equivalents! Cut to around 2020, I then did most of another playthrough to see character storylines that I didn’t explore my first time around.

Now it’s January 2022 and Persona 5 Strikers has come to PS+ for a month. I was aware that Persona 5 Strikers was made in the style of the Dynasty Warriors games, so in lay terms, the gameplay would be less turn-based strategy and more hack-n-slashy. What I wasn’t expecting was for Strikers to replicate Persona 5’s style to such a faithful degree: The slick art style, the menu interfaces, enemy health bars being shaped like hearts, the visual-novel audiobook-meets-comic cutscenes, all that good stuff. After the tutorial combat mission, the story scenes kick in and it’s all self-aware to a sacharine degree, with the in-game cast from Persona 5 reminiscing about how it’s been a long time since they hung out together. Business as usual so far, then comes a point where the main cast are talking about how they’ve been getting along with their lives… Then Ryuji, the team’s resident himbo, casually asked “what about you? How’ve you been holding up”? I then preceded to laugh out loud maniacally (lol), only to then read the three dialogue responses I could choose from. “Things are pretty nice”, “eh, it’s whatever” or “… I missed you guys”… AND THERE IT IS! That’s the moment I started crying like… Like… *insert comically hyperbolic parallel here*!

So, what have we learned from this? That it’s cool to be nostalgically passionate about something? That being wink-nudgingly self-aware and poking fun at things doesn’t make you immune to feelings? That maybe attempting to monetize real emotions (or the presentation of real emotions if you want to be cynical) isn’t always bad because it’s sometimes entertaining? In the words of Big Joel, “I don’t know, maybe”! At the end of the day, I wrote this because I had fun doing so and think maybe my way of retelling the story could be fun for you folks too.

If you want to give Persona 5 Strikers a go on Switch or Persona 5 Royal, click here for more.

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Dank Souls. Dank memes. Freddy? Liz? Dank Queens. Smash both. LEGO Ninja team.

“Annie, get your gun, gal“! Her mech appeared. “Shooty bang-bang, y’all”!

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Okay, let’s get the obvious reason out of the way, Capcom Cup 2021 and the Street Fighter League World Championships 2021 LITERALLY can’t happen! It’s 2022 for Dio’s sake!

On a simultaneously more AND less obvious note, Capcom, the company behind hit franchises Street Fighter and Resident Evil, have decided to cancel the Capcom Cup gaming tournament due to rising COVID-19 cases and concerns around omicron. This marks the second time Capcom has cancelled in-person events for this reason.

Rather than the initially planned February ’22 date, the event will instead take place online.

On a vaguely related note… Nintendo. Honey. Baby. My adorable f*ck-master of galactic destruction. Maybe take a couple notes from Capcom on this and DON’T give third-party tournament organizers a hard time for doing something that LITERALLY promotes your games! For more on that, check this article on the topic and if you’re a slightly-insane lefty with a penchant for deep-voiced political commentators, maybe also MoistCritical’s video on the topic here.

Now, in case Nintendo happen to coincidentally release a video to their YouTube channel showing they’ve been contributing to charity causes for starving folks in Africa or the like, here’s a significantly less Nintendo-critical article. BOOM. Both-sides successfully covered.

Due to the rising cases of COVID-19 and after careful consideration, Capcom once again finds itself in the difficult position of having to cancel #CAPCOMCUP. We will be producing an online season final similar to last year. #CPT2021 #SFL2021 details following: pic.twitter.com/BwW8YqN9F4

— Capcom Fighters (@CapcomFighters) January 7, 2022

It’s been quite some time since I’ve written original Product Poems, so strap down and sit on, it’s story time!

There once was a SteamPunk called Tina! Who pals around with her mate, Kena! Kick-punching baddies, not bahdies, bad-laddies, with style just like Ballerina.

Ode to Nintendo: Hundred and sixty-six products here, yo!

Capcom Bolero: “Lucky” 13… ‘Bout dat Vampire Booba!

“I’m Lottie, please take me… Wait, wha- NO! Not like that, pervert”!

For more on the oddly-specific origins of my Lottie-mocking, have a butcher’s at my blog on my time with Go2Games so far.

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Hello everyone. I’ve been working at Go2Games for around 3 months. As today’s a bit slow news-wise, thought I’d take a page out of Aslan’s book and write a little on my time with the company.

How does my work… Work? I’m so glad I asked! Barring extenuating circumstances, most of my Go2Games work varies between two types of tasks. One is the comedy news blogs where I showcase my terminal addiction to “Bobbert Kotique”, anti-corporate mockery and highly suggestive poems about Lottie from Animal Crossing! The other kind of task is ‘descrips’, wherein I essentially write slightly re-worded descriptions and information about a list of products on a shared document that (I’m assuming) will be coming to the Go2Games store. For some ungodly reason, I find the descrips harder to burn through, but have been improving with them.

Why the YouTube Fetish? I have a tendency to link to and source YouTubers in alot of my blogs because inserting links from different places helps improve analytics… Somehow. Besides that, I also understand some people can be skeptical of “oh, you heard someone say that in an internet video? That doesn’t sound dodgy in the slightest”. That’s fair enough in a lot of cases, but most of the content creators I reference or enjoy also heavily cite their sources for different claims, which can SOMETIMES be a good way of separating the Weetabix from the chaff grenades. I say sometimes because blokes like Steven Chowder or Carlgon of Schmitt are also big creators who make a song and dance about having citations, but those guys have gotten their intellectual spanking from every lefty YouTuber and their grandma, so won’t dwell on them too much here. Speaking of YouTube, have a look at my channel Top-Not Analysis.

Product Poems? Really? Really, really. This blog branch of Go2Games has to make money somehow and part of that is through linking products on the Go2Games store into blogs. Some things are easier to integrate than others, so I came up with Product Poems as a fun way to circumvent that by tacking them on at the end.

In summary: Working at Go2Games has been a very fruitful and enjoyable experience. My colleagues and higher-ups have been very friendly, I’m glad to say I’ve had the opportunity to work with them.

My Top Product Poems: My only rule is I’m excluding the Lottie ones for this blog, otherwise things would get really samey really fast! If you want to hunt for them, go to the search bar, type ‘Lottie’ in the blog section and thank me later. Or click here if you want to buy your own Lottie… For the meme!

Doom Eternal. Cute inferno. Shooty-bang-bang on hell spawn, yo.

No straight roads? That’s what he said! I’ll get it! “Not at 3am hun”.

There was once a young woman named Barbie, one day she got bit by a zombie! But she didn’t turn, for soon she would learn, she had no brains- “oh, harder Harvey”!

There is no Street Fighter Five in Ba Sing Se. Shirt? What shirt? God, no!

Chronos before ashes, a God. A God before ashes? A thought.

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Gather ’round ladies, gents and esteemed Paidia pilgrims! Cuphead dropped a trailer at The Game Awards, this time with brand new gameplay and a release date to boot! Gosh-golly, Christmas sure is coming early folks, and so am I!

The DLC in question has actually been in the works for a long time, so needless to say, this was a good time for the folks at Studio MDHR to make a comeback with something suitably spectacular. Cuphead The Delicious Last Course is set to release on June 30th 2022. We’ve also covered news of Netflix producing a Cuphead TV show and you can view the teaser trailer for it right here.

Save your appetite…for adventure! The Delicious Last Course launches on June 30, 2022 on Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PS4, Steam & GOG.

Watch the brand new trailer, and see what awaits Cuphead, Mugman, and all-new playable character Ms. Chalice next year.https://t.co/Xlco6y8Hsm

— Studio MDHR (@StudioMDHR) December 10, 2021

What To Expect from The Cuphead DLC: Based on the trailer, it seems the new and creatively-named ‘Diel-sea Island’ will have four different themed world sections:

Jee whizz, it’s gonna be a doosey folks! We’ve got the mountainous mountains guarded by The Suspiciously Hairy Yeti in desperate need of a Manscape sponsorship! We got the snowy tundras just in time for the Christmas season, that features a cheeky Hollow Knight easter egg for any eagle-eyed viewers! Take to The H’Wild H’west and shoot into that cow girl as if it were Alexis Texas in a Django parody!

We also have footage of a knight (in both senses of the Chess way of looking at things), though sources remain divided on whether horses exist, according to my own rigorously researched… Reddit posts.

Cuphead The Delicious Last Meal will be playable on Mac, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, and Xbox One.

‘Everyone really honed their craft during the course of development, we’re so proud of our talented team, and the meticulous care they put into every element of this expansion. […] (There will be boss fights in the Cuphead DLC that) contain more frames of animation than entirebosses in the original Cuphead’. – Maja Moldenhauer, Chief Operating Officer of Studio MDHR.

Product Poems:

Special offers, could I interest you, special offers, Sonic or Hitman 2? Special offers, maybe a Stream Pack, though our special offers no discount on that.

Dual charging dock. The lover’s rock. For you see… Shared gaming hobby.

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