EA has been dogshit for years but JFC this isn’t good.

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Yotei looks like a solid instance of your standard open world game. I’ll definitely play it, though not sure when - Hades 2 & and Silent Hill f definitely take priority over it for me, and I’ve already got stuff on my plate.

Just finished reading Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - what a beautiful piece of fiction. Nice short read, too.

Hey, do you know what game also had a sick Wolverine kicking ass?

I somehow didn’t even know there was a State of Play tonight. Got some catching up to do! Wolverine trailer is great.

This poster’s gonna do mad numbers among the 18-25 demographic in HMV.

I can’t believe the new Silent Hill is actually good. End times shit.

Sign this if you can. This game is fantastic and deserves to remain accessible.

I think I find DK Bananza quite stressful, actually. It’s too dense with collectibles. I feel like I’m missing stuff constantly, or like I’m failing to pick up all the shit I’ve spilled all over the place, and as I go to collect the stray bits, I spot a half-revealed treasure and the cycle repeats.

Golden retrange rover

Silksong: how about they add an emblem that spawns you right outside the boss room, but it prevents you from being able to heal? Therefore it’s used as a tool for learning patterns quickly etc. A gentler version would be disabling rosary collection, or the use of tools.

Quote with your fan art ✨ #silksong

This conversation has inspired a fun creative prompt: rather than being inspired from great works, take something flawed that you nonetheless appreciate, and create something in its spirit that attempts to execute the idea better.

Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score

Vlad’s mind was absolutely blown.

THIS - it’s a great power-up, but it also very much gets in the way and can make things harder due to the control implementation.

If you liked the Challengers soundtrack, boy do I have good news about the new Nine Inch Nails album for Tron: Ares.

That runback specifically is brutal…until it’s not. Until through the act of performing multiple runbacks, you master diagonal dives, pogoing past enemies, sprinting and dashing to close distance etc. and can quickly get through it without thinking. It’s initially brutal, subsequently trivial.

Sending him back…

Okay, yeah, addicted to Three Houses. Edelgard, my Cainhurst queen <3

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Bruh

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This is a fucking Batman villain from the 60s

Mind the gap

Same, Vlad. Same.

I miss playing Silksong. Stockholm syndrome 👀

Oh my god

In the absence of an Arkham entry, this is probably going to do mad numbers.

my fav metroidvania gals #metroid #silksong

The runbacks in Silksong are necessary to force you to develop the mechanical skills that are required to beat the game’s ultimate challenges. You’re motivated to reach the boss again quickly, and the result is you end up being able to pull off complex manoeuvres lightning-fast.

Reached the true ending in Silksong. Damn, that was a challenging game, but really wonderfully put together.

It’s a bit mental to call Soulslikes and metroidvanias conflicting genres when FromSoft’s souls games ARE metroidvanias 🤔

Pretty mental that the film preceding Thunderbolts had a villain nicknamed “Thunderbolt” and yet this has nothing to do with how they get their name.

Would’ve been nice to have known about the act three needle upgrade *before* doing this 😅 Internet was real quiet about that one! Seems people are still figuring the game out…

I am very curious as to whether there’s anything in Silksong tougher than the Coral Tower because fuck ME that was a pain to get through.

I’ve never played a Fire Emblem game. Where’s the best place to jump in?

Lmao

Hornet is such a great character. Did Hollow Knight ever talk? I can’t quite remember. But Hornet’s presence is wonderful. She exudes such a strong personality.

I can fuck with this.

Act 3 is awesome - it’s definitely worth doing the legwork after beating Act 2.

Man, this game really makes you WORK to reach act three! I’m into some serious sicko shit now…

The Silksong experience is thinking “Surely they’re not going to make me do THAT?!” and they are

technically Silksong boss nerfs are actually just bug fixes

Skateboarding is sweaty business. Fuck me 🛹

Social experiment: what genre do you consider the band Gorillaz to be?

I like when the minions say “ooo banana”.

The thing about Silksong (and Hollow Knight) is that it’s not just a metroidvania - it’s a SOULSLIKE metroidvania. I feel like that element seems to have evaded the discourse, somehow. The difficulty is going to knock people on their asses if they aren’t prepared for that.