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  • I’ve tried those.

    Sea of Stars looks as pretty as Chrono Trigger, but its writing is noticeably worse and it completely fails at one of Chrono Trigger’s great strengths, pacing. In Sea of Stars’ defense, it is generally better than Chrono Trigger at interesting dungeon design and its battle system has more potential. But those don’t compensate enough for poor writing and especially pacing.

    Chained Echoes tries really hard to fit a 32-bit plot into a 16-bit running time, and it doesn’t quite work. Still, it left me interested in more by the same dev team, especially if trends and tech change so that they can switch to doing a game explicitly inspired by Xenogears and its ilk.



  • Looking at feddit.org’s homepage now, it has this rule:

    “Content that is illegal in Germany, Austria or Switzerland will be deleted and can lead to an immediate ban of the account.” (emphasis mine)

    I am totally ignorant of how German law applies to social media hosted in Austria and moderated by Germans, but the intent to not host content illegal in Germany seems clear and a clear motivation for their censorship. I also can’t evaluate the quality of their censorship because I’m not familiar with the requirements of German law.

    I wish some of those comments “just expressing dissatisfaction and questioning the policy” had survived, because without them it’s your word against theirs. :(