Played the demo to Trials Of Mana and fell in love. I like how they kept the brightly colored whimsical aesthetic intact as opposed to deciding to make it more "realistic" which more often or not is just a call to stifle creativity and throw burkas on all the female characters. Fortunately Angela is still sporting that hawt red skintight leotard and Reis looks just as stunning as ever! I also enjoyed the gameplay that's fully action based along with the satisfying "crunch" when the enemies you're hammering break down into comical tossed bones that's been a staple of that series since it started!

It's gonna be difficult to decide if I'm picking up Streets of rage 4 or Trials of mana. I might get both but that's only if more money carried over from this month than I initially thought.

I know all this seems like the shallow excited ramblings of a "consoomer" but it's either talk about that or how depressed I am due to the lock down and all the authoritarian power-grabbing I'm seeing across the globe. (Examples include people having to carry papers just to go to the grocery store, a batty woman flipping out on two cable workers saying they should socially distance themselves whilst rambling about how "5G" kills people, and a man literally being "forced" to test for covid 19 against his will as he was being forcefully held down.)

Frankly I'm done witth this. I don't know a single person in my city that is sick with the corona virus and youtube has been trying to censor "real doctors" who say the chance of dying from covid 19 are 0.003%. (Apologies if I put the decimal in the wrong place but regardless you're more likely to win the lottery than to croak from Corona chan!)

Call me crazy, but I rather not live in a socialist "utopia" where snitches are rewarded and you better have your papers just to do basic mundane routines.