Ratchet and Clank in Japan.

I'm learning about Linux for class, and the textbook is teaching me how to use some ancient command line text editor called vim that clones an even more ancient app from UNIX. All this, despite the fact that Linux has had GUI-based text editors like gedit and emacs available for decades.

It's weird how there were so many Wario platformers but they apparently never sold well, to the point that the franchise is all WarioWare now. Wario Land would constantly reinvent itself every couple games, and it made revisiting them so refreshing. You'd think a new one would come out for Switch.

It's that time of the year. New media thread. 2026 in the house.

So have people come around on Metroid Prime 2 Echoes? It seemed to be the ugly duckling of the trilogy for the longest time but most of my friend group seems to like it the most of the trilogy.

I gave this Game Gear an overdue upgrade. USB-C rechargeable batteries, clean audio board with stereo support, new shell, IPS screen, and HDMI output.

Apparently at some point Nintendo fixed the map in Mario Kart World Free Roam so you can track all the stuff you've done without needing a paid app. I swear it wasn't like that when I last played (right before Bananza came out).

I'm convinced Metroid Prime is a cursed game that does not wish to be recorded. The number of times I've replayed the first hour and a half and scanned all those Frigate nodes only to find out something went wrong with the recording is like... six.

I'm going to present this convo from the Gimp Muverix Discord Server. Like if you guys thought I wasn't hot on Unleashed in the review 100 years ago, playing it on Gimp Muverix with @mistertitanic.bsky.social and @alonzo64.bsky.social left me in the position of defending it.

I was enjoying Wario Land 3 more than I remembered, but the second half of the game already feels a step down from the first. If I can get two chests in one visit, why kick me out and make me come back? Why do you have to get all eight coins in one visit? All to unlock the annoying golf minigame?

It's frustrating that Hispeedido is the only company making IPS mods with HDMI out, because they always seem to get 90% there and then screw up something important. The PSP kit cuts off two columns. The GBA TFT kit has video noise. The GBA SP is 480p with overscan correction you can't turn off.

I just finished Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, and I have thoughts, which you–the reader–may choose to endure. I'll keep this spoiler lite, but consider this a warning.

Great website. I try to tag images as spoilers with the "labels" and it did nothing. Anyway, I somehow missed the Super Ice Shot. The bot just... didn't mark it. Contrary to what Google's stupid AI generated response will tell you, you do NOT need every green crystal for Item 100% in Prime 4

At long last, I have figured out how to translate Pokefan531's handheld color shaders to the .cube format that a video editor will read. NDS footage recorded from a DS Capture Card can be color corrected in post!

Guess I get to be at the lonely table for one of people who actually liked the desert... but only because I'm an insatiable klepto.

I'm guessing this is only me, but as I was playing MP4:B yesterday (I got about 5 in game hours in), I was reminded of Halo 4 more than once. As in "this looks like that sniper section in Mission 5 of Halo 4." I say only me because I'm likely the only one who finished that game multiple times.

...this is the NPC the internet went all doom and gloom over? I was expecting much worse.

Why is it that every once and a while a random bleet will just get hundreds of interactions out of nowhere? When it does, people apparently only get the first post because they tend to send me gotcha replies that mention things I already brought up in the second post of the thread or something.

I didn't realize until recently that the original Game Boy came out in 1989 and wasn't succeeded by the Game Boy Color until goddamn 1998. That's roughly nine years of black and white portable gaming being the de facto standard! And I thought the 3DS lasted too long.

Metroid Nukem 4ever is here! ...right before finals week. Reminds me of when they released Other M the week I started high school.

These alphabet soup Amazon company names have gotten out of hand.

Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...

...you can't make this stuff up.

My kingdom for a Sega Saturn Hdmi mod. It makes recording games that switch resolution modes constantly so much easier. Even the 3DO has one now.

Every time I try to play Abe's Oddysee, I try that first hidden encounter and remember just how ridiculous this game can be. The Mudoken AI just seems to do whatever it wants. If you actually saved all 99 of these guys, you have the patience of a saint.

I'm usually pretty good at recognizing voice actors and remembering what they sound like, but I have yet to recognize Xander Mobus in anything despite him showing up everywhere. He's in Pac Man as the evil ghost tree, and I legit thought it was Dan Castellaneta doing a Vincent Price impression.

Wonder if the Steam one can give us the answer

I was going to play this for about an hour and then go to bed but ended up playing it for three.

Yeah this game is great but I really wish there was an optional mission I could play where I ran around and collected oranges. Mmmm… oranges…. 0/10

Thanks for that, video game.

Windswept came out, lfg.

There's a Black Ops 7????

Are hispeedido kits for GBA supposed to be total crap? They keep shipping LCDs with pressure spots on them (obvious dark splotches). The HDMI either has noise, the passthrough to the screen doesn't work, and one kit had a broken voltage regulator that causes the screen to get brighter over time.

"Beats to relax/study to" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofrF...

Noctua! Spin on that thang.

Despite having started a new degree program recently, I did finally find some time to work on the Donkey Kong 64 script again. I'm not sure how soon I can voice and edit it, but all I've really got left to write about is the endgame.

Grrrrrrrrrr...

You'd think I'd be more excited to hear that one of my favorite, most replayed games is getting a modernized remake. However, that post that got shared around a week ago where one of the creatives bragged about using AI Generated assets killed any interest I had before it was even announced.

Really baffling that Nintendo surprise dropped a patch for Pikmin 4 two years after release and it's somehow not a Switch 2 upgrade.

It seems like every time The Office does something interesting to the status quo, they immediately undo it a few episodes later. Jim gets to be co-manager for half a season. David Wallace decides to transfer Holly back to Nashua between episodes. Ryan is Michael's boss for almost a season.

WINDSWEPT 🦆🐢 RELEASING NOV 11, 2025 🎉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3e...

It happened, chat. I finally read "hydrocity" as "hydro city" in my own head.

Halo 4 and Halo Infinite had good campaigns. That is all.

Listening to the new NIN album, and are my ears tricking me or does the opening straight up copy the Queen Sectonia boss theme from Kirby Triple Deluxe? www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB80...

Here are my detailed thoughts on this year's big rom hack, Super Metroid X-Fusion: bsky.app/profile/exop...

Somehow I have trimmed my time down by 3 hours since the review. Guess which level still took the longest.

It is done. Jesus Christ.

It occurred to me that we don't know who is doing the soundtrack for Metroid Prime 4. Kenji Yamamoto is so inextricable from the trilogy and is responsible for the series' best music, yet he hasn't composed for the series since Prime 3 in 2007. Same for Minako Hamano from Super/Fusion.

I hate that it's come to this, but we've been unexpectedly hit with a big car repair, and we're kind of out of options. But I don't like asking for help without offering you *something*, so: Ask me anything in the message section, and I'll respond here with a *video* answer. ko-fi.com/geekcritique

The mind boggles at how someone managed to take Barrier Core X and turn it into one of the hardest bosses of all time. I'm playing on Normal and it took me twenty tries!