This looks like a major update to a well-established improvement hack. A retranslation with ability name changes, more detailed maps, and that Bishop softlock bug should be long stomped.

You’ve just described the entire language of Toki Pona. The same string of words can mean “bear” or “elephant”, and I copied a phrase someone used to mean “tiger trap” and it was read as “bamboo arch”.

Many cats are demonstrative. Meowing + running off = “follow me!” Meowing + food bowl = “feed me!” Meowing + walking up to you = “pet me!”

Undertale is the obvious suggestion, although it’s more deconstructive than Earthbound.

Chrono Trigger is around 25 hours for a casual playthrough. Great game with a very fast pace for its genre but it seems way too long for OP.

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars might work. It’s going to be difficult (fear the spear) and you’ll want to use those items, but it is overall easier than Chrono Trigger. And it has a remake coming out soon with some system changes.

Final Fantasy Mystic Quest was intended for your situation, but it’s balanced in all the ways you dislike.

Otherwise, possibly the very easiest remakes of old games like the Final Fantasy 4 Pixel Remaster.

Dragon Quest is the OG for a reason. The remakes are a lot less grindy and don’t use ye olde Englysshe so they would be easier to read but less educational.

WBridge5 (http://www.wbridge5.com/) is a free award-winning bridge program. It won't teach you how to play the game, though.

DQ5 wasn’t the first generation game or the first monster-catching game, but it was one of the earlier games to offer either and AFAIK the first game to offer both.

That looks like the point. They brought in using health to boost and spinning from F-Zero X, so just surviving to the finish line takes some skill and discipline.

If you have one part of the Masamune, go to Porre and ask around.

If you have two parts of the Masamune, an in-game cutscene told you to visit Melchior, near Medina.

The old guy at the End of Time will often give you a useful hint if you’re lost.

Nothing else reaches the same quality as Chrono Trigger in the same way. You have to settle for lower quality with similar pacing, or try to reach the same level of quality in a different way.

Similar pacing, lower quality: Phantasy Star IV, Super Mario RPG, Final Fantasy IV
Comparable quality, different style: Earthbound, Final Fantasy VII (FF6 is the real answer, but FF7 is the most similar game to FF6)
Similar aspects, lower quality: Dragon Quest IV, Radical Dreamers & Chrono Cross, possibly Radiant Historia

The pixel remaster attempts to do for FF2 what its GBA grandfather did for FF1: force a weird old game into later series mechanics, balance and challenge be damned. It went even worse than you’d expect due to a weaker understanding of FF2’s mechanics. It is easier in more respects than not, though, and it got rid of the special monster closet encounter rate.

I like 2 better than 1 because it has a better villain, better side characters, and a wild streak. 1 and 3 are boring by comparison.

What are you asking exactly? Are you wondering about standard politeness in English, or wondering why Adobe wrote an announcement in the style used for friends and family of the dead and published it as a press release?

I’ve never seen the word before, but calling Ukraine’s president – who is Jewish – a “nazi” was a staple of Putin’s propaganda to support his war of imperial re-conquest.

In the USA it’s not a crime to be racist, promote a religion teaching that God wants you to be racist, say most racist things in public, or even join the American Nazi Party. The line is set at threatening, inciting, or provoking violence, and judges don’t accept online arguments that saying racist garbage is inherently threatening.

As a technological problem it could have a technological partial solution: the darker the skin, the higher the threshold to declare a match. This would also mean more false negatives (real matches not caught by the software) but not much to do about that.

Interesting. The small subreddits I follow either moved or are just as active. Most are just as active.

I’d like to spend more time here, but Lemmy is still not attracting enough people to support a lot of the small subreddits I follow.

“Shorter than Persona 4” is an awful lot of JRPGs. But it sounds like you specifically want something with a fast pace or more action.

Chrono Trigger got a DS port. Ignore the monster arena minigame and the “Lost Sanctum” dungeon. Both were added to the DS port and are bad. The “Dimensional Vortex” dungeons were also added to this version but they’re well enough done to not warn against.

Final Fantasy IV had a PSP port and that’s a short, fast-paced game.

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga is an option if you can stretch to GBA games. I liked it a little more than Bowser’s Inside Story because it has more exploration but you might like it less for the same reason.