MHStories3 is so good. I love that they put the dual-element color variations back into the game. It’s a small thing with very little effect on the gameplay (I think it’s +10% for corresponding skills) but the special color variation is what makes it my Monstie instead of all the wild ones.

I’m not a fan of how it looks in this first previews, but I’m interested to see the potential of this in future iterations. For example, I’ve seen a whitepaper of someone running something similar on top of GTA and make it look photorealistic. If this current implementation gets a couple more “papers down the line” this could possibly speed up development of games immensely and allow for a graphical fidelity that isn’t feasible with current tech. But that’s just potentially. Right now, I don’t see what they’ve shown so far to be anywhere near releaseable.

I’m replaying Cyberpunk 2077 on Switch2. I just got it for the collection, booted it up out of curiosity how it runs, and now I’m 70 hours in again.

is currently more popular than ever

Shifted to a collector-based IP. It’s not kids playing anymore, but old guys with sealing pouches.

I’m finishing up some bits and bobs in Metroid Prime 4 before committing to the point of no return.

One problem that got me away from novels for a while was that I’d get ambitious and try to read something that was recommended but really wasn’t for me.

I would recommend to go with series that you liked the anime of and want to know how the story continues. It’s not a 100% surefire way to find something you like, but at least you remove other people’s taste from the equation.

Regardless of style “web novel” and “light novel” aren’t specific to a source country like manga and manwha are.

Both Wikipedia and Wiktionary define them as Japanese. The same goes for the original Reddit community or the database the bot (Myne) gets her info from. I did not take down your comment (it’s still up) but pointed out that it’s the wrong community for that reason. I didn’t do it on a whim.

I’m not categorically against Korean (or Chinese) novels, but they’re by every definition I know simply not “light novels”. I believe that a general book community would be a better place to discuss other translated works. For reference, the place on Reddit to post Korean Webnovels would be r/noveltranslations instead of r/lightnovels.

I think we need to get away from the short format brain rot media that is so popular today, like TikTok and Twitter/X.

As Myne in the sidebar states: “Y’all better start reading more books!” :)

No idea why

Because they are by definition different things. Close in style, sure, but so are YA novels.

Coming as a reddit refugee I just replicated their definition when creating the community. And I still feel the same way since it’s not a general “novel” community. If there’s a popular demand I’ll loose the restrictions.