ChiaroBen

@chiaroben

Audio Engineer, Musician, Gamer, smalltime Streamer. #1 Final Fantasy III defender. Politically left. He/him Precognition lacks in hindsight. Music: VODs:

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ChiaroBen@chiaroben· 25d

Looking for a Fallout alternative that actually had soul? Underrail is getting a sequel soon.

Artwork for the indie rpg Underrail, showing a character in spiky dystopian future attire wearing a gas mask and holding a grenade, looking around a corner towards two armed soldiers.

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· Jul 11

"We love Wii games in this house! Post some of your favorite Wii games."

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· Jul 9

You know what, that's actually a pretty amazing feeling:

Screenshot of a Discord message from Hellpoint Design Director Matt Gropwell, writing (about my Rescoring of their game):
"that's amazing man! what an honor to hear the game through someone else's ears, very unique! many thanks"

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· Jul 2

A bit of a timeline cleanse from my buddy Vulgrim.

My bearded Dragon called Vulgrim looking up and directly at the camera, with his lower half under/behind a root.

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· Jun 24

Gut reaction ranking of the Final Fantasy mainline games I've played so far:

Tier list of mainline Final Fantasy games, I-IX

S: VI, VII, III
A: V, IX
B: I, VIII
C: IV
D: II

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· Jun 24

Always good to have this ready:

Screenshot from the Disco Elysium Steam achievement called "The World's Most Laughable Centrist"

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· Jun 20

Fuckers'll be like "but Kiel is so ugly".

Photo from the northern side of the Kleiner Kiel, looking south towards City Hall, showing the pond, theater, and church tower.

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· Jun 15

Introduce yourself with 4 games

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· May 24

Finished the main story of Persona 3 ReLoad. Yeah, it's fantastic. Just like with P5 and P2IS, I really grew to love the characters. I think I'll take a break before jumping into Episode Aigis. Also now I'm even more looking forward to the P4 remake.

Screenshot from the Main menu of Persona 3 ReLoad, taken after beating the main story, with a bright day shown and the characters absent.

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· May 23

Good thing I have my card on me. (also thank you so much for the nice words!)

Shin from Dragon Ball Z, squinting and smiling, with a badly photoshopped human hand in front of him, holding a card saying "Crumbles under pressure"

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· May 17

Screenshot from Disco Elysium, showing a conversation with Steban the Student Communist and Echo Maker, going like this:

You - "And what about the liberals? Are they liberals, too?"

Steban, the Student Communist - "Of course not. The only people who actually call themselves liberals are mouth-foaming reactionaries."

Echo Maker - "Basically indistinguishable from fascists. You'd need an x-ray machine to tell the difference."

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· May 16

Well @allieinchains.bsky.social did it, so by law I'm required to post it as well (you know I love lists):

Musical grid with several albums:

Favourite Album: "Self-iSH" - Will Wood
First Love: "Master of Puppets" - Metallica
Latest Love: "The Coral Tombs" - Ahab
Under Appreciated: "Master of the Moon" - DIO
Overrated: "Death Magnetic" - Metallica
Best Overall Discography Consistency: Coppelius ("Kammerarchiv" for the picture)
Favourite Live Album: "Live Scenes From New York" - Dream Theater
Best Debut: "Berserker" - Beast in Black
Best Final Album: "Arcturian" - Arcturus
Biggest Personal Impact: "Arcturian" - Arcturus

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· May 16

Start vs. finish:

All different parts and components of the Plinky V3 DIY kit layed out on a black rubber mat.

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· May 11

Oh hey, got mail while I was away.

Alicia Cordisco's "My Restless Temple" vinyl.

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· May 2

What's important for you in games? For me the most important thing are atmosphere and world building. If you give me the feeling of experiencing something truly special just by standing somewhere, I'm willing to forgive a lot of jank. (The following games are not necessarily janky)

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· Apr 22

Hell yeah.

Screenshot showing the talked about account in the quote post blocked me as well.

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· Apr 17

Winter's now definitely over. The lizard said so.

My bearded dragon Vulgrim sitting with pancaked belly next to his water half on one of his stones, looking up at the camera with an annoyed (his main mood) glance.

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· Apr 13

You know I love lists like these.

Favourite Game: Chrono Trigger
Best Story: Disco Elysium
Favourite Art Style: Okami
Biggest Personal Impact: Dark Souls
Best Combat: Sekiro
Overhated: Dragon's Dogma 2
Underrated: Final Fantasy III
Overrated: Mass Effect 2
Needs a Remake: Sacrifice
Criminally Overlooked: Dungeons of Hinter berg
Favourite Protagonist: Disco Elysium
Favourite Antagonist: Morrowind
Best Soundtrack: Persona 5 Royal
Best Multiplayer: Heroes of Might & Magic III
Not Usually My Thing, But: Anstoss 3
Turn My Brain Off: Path of Achra
Best With Friends: Trials of Mana
Best Retro Game: Chrono Trigger
Nostalgic Childhood Game: Terranigma
Game Everyone Should Play: Disco Elysium

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· Apr 13

Kinda cheating since I couldn't think of a genre I truly hate, so it's more of a setting thing: I don't care for (real) sports, but I do enjoy the management aspect. And I guess I'm showing my age and German-ness by picking Anstoss 3.

Composited screenshot of German football management game Anstoss 3, showing team composition in the back and the cartoon face of a manager in the front (right side)

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· Apr 5

The movie theater in Persona 3 is showing all the classics.

Cropped screenshot from Persona 3 ReLoad, showing a movie poster with two men facing each other in a close up. The title is "Detonator", and the subtitle "A troubling trend for a Dutch"

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· Apr 4

Tomorrow at 6:30pm CET I'll be doing a synth stream again! This time I'll put the Roland JV-1080 through my eurorack synth. We'll see how that goes. Hope to see y'all there!

A rack mounted Roland JV-1080 rompler, with my finger pointing at it.
(below you can see a Victory Amps The Kraken Preamp)

My 4x104u eurorack synth, in front of some acoustic panels on the wall, with my finger pointing at it.

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· Apr 4

Just remember that the only reason you have to kill 4 enormously powerful beings in Dark Souls 2 is to open a mystical shrine, because the road leading around it is blocked by... this:

Screenshot from Dark Souls 2, showing the player character shrugging, standing in front of rubble that's easily climbable, with steps at around knee height.

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· Mar 22

huh. 'bout that.

Screenshot from the 2020 soulslike Hellpoint, with the character standing in an archive reading a record saying:
"2027: Powerful Transhumanist cults force populations to increase bandwidth with AI lest they become part of an obsolete class. The beginning of the great human purge.
Population: 8.014 billion."

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· Mar 22

I mean... come on:

Screenshot from Hellpoint, showing the top of the Arcology, looking at the Black Hole Eye Towers /giant sci-fi towers with big open circles that can be rotated) during an Accretion Storm (reddish sky with orange jets of flame running across it)

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· Mar 22

After finishing the Persona 2 duology, before jumping into 3 I'm doing a nice quick playthrough of one of my favourite games, one of my favourite soulslikes, sadly overlooked: Hellpoint.

Screenshot from the 2020 soulslike "Hellpoint", showing a sci-fi architecture in the distance, bridges, lights, red structures at weird angles.

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· Mar 21

Just finished Persona 2 Eternal Punishment. People who only start with 3 onwards are doing themselves a disservice.

Screenshot from the end of Persona 2 Eternal Punishment (PSP). A grayscale picture from a prerendered cutscene, showing Maya in the back on a crossing, and in front of it Tatsuya on a motorbike.
In the foreground is the golden butterfly of Philemon.

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· Mar 15

Happy 25th birthday to the German janky masterpiece, Gothic! Light some Green Novice in respect, and hope that the remake will be good.

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· Mar 10

Soulslike confirmed.

Screenshot from the PSP Version of Persona 2 Eternal Punishment, with Maya standing at a door, and a text prompt reading "It doesn't open from this side."

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· Feb 26

Aw hell yeah, let's go.

Screenshot of the main menu of Persona 2: Eternal Punishment (PSP Version)

ChiaroBen@chiaroben· Feb 26

Well if you want me to be so understanding then why tf did you not release it outside of japan?