Sal Romano

Going to retweet this every year until I get offered a million dollar record deal.

Platinumed Easy Delivery Co.—great game, thank you @SweatersJPG. Am now 10 hours or so into Pokopia, majority of which I’ve probably spent hydrating withered terrain. But mostly enjoyable so far.

Nintendo Direct was good. State of Play was good. CyberConnect2 announcement was good.

If anyone is wondering, my game of 2025 was Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter. @nihonfalcom deserves all the praise. (Though I only actually played a handful of games.)

It’s that time of year again that I remind you all that I can be the hottest on the mic since [insert favorite artist here] if someone just gave me a cool million.

Just got back after two weeks in Japan (in case you’re wondering why Gematsu schedule has been so out of wack lately). It’s been six years, but had the best time reuniting with old friends, meeting new friends, and returning to BitSummit. That heat was something else though…

Bought this yesterday. Coincidentally, today is the 29th anniversary. Happy 29th, PopoloCrois~

Late update, but it actually ended up arriving Friday! Haven’t had a chance to mess around with it yet though—too busy covering summer games events for @gematsu. Hopefully tomorrow… #switch2

Happy Switch 2 launch day! No new console for me until next week (thanks, superstore), but hoping everyone is enjoying the launch lineup. On an unrelated note, shoutout to all the PR sending out embargoes for SGF announcements / making my week just a tad easier.

Played a bit of Bravely Default: Flying Fairy HD Remaster today—particularly the mouse control minigames. Ringabel’s Panic Cruise is the equivalent of driving with a car full of nagging children. But I did alright somehow! It was fun to try out!

Had a great time at the Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Orchestra World Tour last night. @lorenallred‘s performance was especially great. Go play Rebirth!

#TheGameAwards tonight! @geoffkeighley always does a good job with the announcements, so am looking forward to what he’s cooked up for the 10th anniversary show.

It’s that time of year again. Still waiting on that record deal.

I think they came out pretty good. Same pumpkin btw. @DragonQuest @Pokemon

Voted early again.

@zackreese Fastest penmanship wins.

@SalRomano arena fighter

A RAIN CODE-style adventure game would be dope, but I imagine this’ll end up being a visual novel or something. I’ll probably buy it anyway.

@nhamaguc @BetterCallPrahl Also part of the reason why I don’t really agree with there being one “Game of the Year” in award shows. I think it’s totally fine and makes more sense for there to be a “Games of the Year” prize awarded to multiple games.

@BetterCallPrahl Yes, all of the titles are great and I respect them! I'm proud to compete with these titles and excited to share them with the community☺️

I'm feeling more competitive than Hamaguchi-san. My crazy self is counting raw Metacritic and Opencritic averages (this graphic is accurate for both). But Astro Bot is stunning, Erdtree is peak, and Metaphor is amazing. And I can't wait to cozy up to Dragon Age. 2024, man.

What a great year for games this has been! Incredibly happy to see the P5 team’s new IP launching to similar praise.

For $700 I’m going to need that disc drive included.

My #Dreamcast25 story is going to Toys R Us after finally saving up enough to buy a Dreamcast, only to be told by an employee that they’re out of production so if I buy it I should know there won’t be any new games coming. I didn’t buy it. I regret it, but I was also like 9.