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I picked up Shaolin vs Wutang day one, unusual move for me, but it felt like it was made specifically for me when I saw the trailer for the first time. Admittedly, the game has sat completely neglected like every other thing I pick up. I played a bit of it at first, but forgot about it. It’s really cool, and definitely a love letter to martial arts movies from multiple generations. I’m not a fan of the weapons, they could have done without them, and they feel kinda slapped on without much thought, I’d have rather seen the unarmed fighting the focus of this game (it is anyway, with weapon stuff thrown sloppily in at times). Overall, it is a fun, simple fighter with a cool aesthetic and some sweet special moves.

Thanks for the reminder this game exists, I’ll have to fire it up again. I’d have loved to have seen a BLACK DYNAMITE Unlockable or dlc to fund more Michael Jai White movies! 😁

Personally, I would try out a free demo of any of the Steam or Mobile versions available. As for the games themselves:



Wrestling Revolution 2D contains one fixed camera angle and more cartoonish-looking Wrestler sprites. M Dickie was going for a game that replicated
the arcade feel of yesteryear, and it shows. The graphics here are more on par with sprites from the Fire Pro series.




Wrestling Revolution 3D features a full 360 degree view of the action, as well as more realistic/larger Wrestler models.
The graphics overall feel of the 3D version veers closer to the WWF/WCW PS1 & N64 games of the late 90's.

With a bit of looking around, you can find free full versions to play online, should you wish to explore more of the game
than a demo with randomized Wrestlers.


Wrestling Empire

The current title with regular updates. There's a modding community and Steam Workshop for created Wrestlers (via the PC version).

Every time I settle in to just do a few drops in Helldivers, I always end up playing 5 or 6 hours and not even realize it.
Community has Heeth 100% Liberated and Angel's Venture is at 96% and climbing in the Terminid sector. Definitely getting liberated in a day or two.

Decided to head over to the Automaton sector where progress is going much slower. Totally different fighting style you have to deal with. Automatons use guns, grenades, dropships, artillery and some heavy machinery. The Terminids you can strike hard and push in assault style. Automatons are heavily fortified and battles are pitched long range gun fights and often times the Helldivers will need to fall back as the terrain they are using for protection gets whittled down. Definitely have to rely on stratagems and stealth even more against the Automatons to keep them back. The Terminids basically just see you and rush at you. The Automatons seem to try and encircle and trap you and if you let it happen you have to punch your way out and run. And I'm only up to Medium difficulty on them.
Recoiless rifles are pretty much a must against the Automatons, to knock their reinforcement dropships out of the sky before they can deploy entire squads, although it's fun shooting squaddies out of the dropship and watching them tumble.

Linked my Discord to my PS5 which according to the people I was playing with only worked halfassed. Everyone I was playing with was on PC while I was on PS5. I would keep cutting out, but it was nice being able to use the controller as a mic. And speaking of the controller, the Haptic feedback for Helldivers is insane. Guns have their own unique responses and going full auto with a heavy MG literally has the triggers jumping. Also if you unload long enough your Helldiver will start doing insane Rambo yelling or shout something hilarious.

The Helldivers servers have been jammed for the last three days. 400,000+ players online. Used the opportunity to break out Final Fantasy Crisis Core for the first time to get ready for Rebirth. Wish I had played sooner. Really filling in the backstory to FFVII. Never knew much about Zack before but he was pretty important to the story of FFVII. The story about how he gets the Buster Sword passed down to him from Angeal, knowing it will eventually get passed on again and become the iconic symbol of FFVII. Meeting Aerith and a young Shinra soldier named Cloud.

Combat is excellent, story is excellent, graphics are good for a PSP upgrade, but what I do hate is all those damn filler missions from the save icon. I guess I can't complain because they are optional and are mostly there to just help you build you character and materia. I've done just over 35% of them now and am like, enough already. But I'm only in Chapter 4 of 11 so I will probably just keep doing them to ensure I'm strong enough to finish the game.

Not a big fan of the Limit Break system in this one either as it basically happens at random. You have that literal lottery system rolling through every battle and depending on what it lands on you get random character buffs and literally have to rely on that lottery to get access to your Limit Breaks, which are also random. Ugh. Can see why they scrapped that in the future games.

Also getting to know a Sephiroth who is still currently a good guy and not insane is very interesting.

Nomura said on X that they've started development on the final part of the FFVII Remake trilogy, but that it likely won't see the light of day until 2026 or later. The trilogy started on PS4 and could literally end on the PS6.

Info drop for Rebirth.

✅Main story is 40 hours
✅Full completion with side content will push it to 100 hours
✅Nomura won’t confirm or deny whether the story takes place in an alternate reality
✅Zack’s storyline is completely original
✅Story has many surprises and mysteries that unfold following the original
✅Gold Saucer date has same and opposite sex romance options
✅Gold Saucer has 7 areas
✅New characters will be introduced alongside longtime original ones
✅Vincent’s gameplay in Rebirth will be similar to Red XIII, and will be fully playable in the 3rd game
✅Vincent and Yuffie’s storylines will be fully incorporated into the main story giving further depth and connections to other characters
✅The game is 150GB in size, split into two discs on PS5
✅The story events culminates at the Forgotten Capital
✅All areas will be included, b hit the events leading to that ending won’t necessarily follow the same order
✅Wutai won’t be in the game, and is saved for the 3rd game
✅Players with Remake saves receive unknown summon materia when they start Rebirth
✅Mini-games have been expanded: In one of the. Cloud collects soldiers and arrange them in Rufus Shinra's inauguration parade for different results
✅Chocobos expand world exploration with different breeds unique to each region, each with their own ability like climbing or flying..etc
✅Playable Sephiroth flashbacks
✅Character-specific skill trees and lots of customizations
✅New Materia and synergy abilities
✅Many Summons including Alexander, Odin.etc) with side quests based on some summons