u/Solid_Jack_Frost

While doing some research on 1 v 1 boss fights (Stuff like Dante v Vergil and what not) I discovered I'm having a hard time finding some good examples of dopplegangers, which is kind of weird since I feel like "fighting yourself" is a trope in a lot of the games this sub likes!

Dark Link comes to mind given how striking his fight in Ocarina of Time is, in fact his fight in Zelda 2 might be one of the earliest examples of a doppleganger fight in games as a whole.

I dont think I'd consider someone like Shadow from *Sonic the Hedgehog* to be a doppleganger since he isnt explicitly trying to be Sonic, Metal Sonic on the other hand IS a doppleganger since... hes a Metal Sonic. (Wheres that guy that wrote that essay on Metal Sonic in one of these threads I wanna talk about Metal Sonic with you.)

What are weird spinoffs of games franchises you like? Stuff like Metal Gear Acid being a Deck building RPG Metal Gear game or the Persona Dancing games being... dancing games in the Persona universe.

I've been going back to my PS3 lately and while digging through some classics I found the one Yakuza game I never finished: Yakuza Dead Souls.

So I popped it in and playing it again feels weird, I genuinely do not remember anything about it even though I got all the way to Kiryu's segment before stopping.

But man its so bizarre, a Zombie game in the Yakuza series... BEFORE 7 I might add. It almost edges on feeling... wrong, like these characters and narrative structure should not be compatible with a Zombie story and a lot of the time it feels almost like its going the route of parody but it reels it in enough to know they were trying to be genuine.

And then theres the gameplay... Resident Evil 4 this is not and boy howdy does it make that clear with its... oddly counter intuative shooting mechanics? Maybe counter intuative is the wrong word but the game teaches you how to shoot in a 3D environment followed by how to at least lock the camera over your shoulder to straif around before taching you how to actually lock your aim so you can hit weak points and it just feels... weird.

Im gonna keep playing it because of how weird this game is, and Id like to see how exactly they decide to end it, could also make for a good video segment but overall... what an odd game.