monhun is booming again in my server which has me wanting to go back and really sit down with the series again... but unfortunately I've become obsessed with a different kind of rpg-adjacent slop (Two Point Hospital)

BIRDCAGE review backloggd.com/u/Durandal/r...

I wonder, for other backloggd crate diggers, if a game having a good looking 3:4 poster thumbnail gives it a psychological edge over many of the games still remaining that have unedited box art or no image at all

laughing at this review of Wii U kusoge horror gem The Letter that calls it "unnecessarily eerie"

roared when I topped out and my cat flipped out

finished another new and epic puzzler game finally! this one's a cool little battleship clone where you gotta suss out spaces on the board with dice patterns. check it out :) www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/... #newgrounds #gamedev #indiegame #gamemaker

finally doing an editing pass on my rhythm crit article (I had done a basic one but I hadn't done proper line edits) and I just realized I used "stickler" when I meant "sticking point" 😭 very funny how the mind can accidentally muddle random idioms/informal terms like that

placed third in our server's project justice tournament with very solid combo game but absolutely zero fundies, and then today placed third in our fighting ex layer tournament with absolutely zero combo game but very solid fundies 😭

finally got my big post out on rhythm game critique thanks to @lunaendlesswitch.bsky.social's request! in this, I cover four main ways that I analyze rhythm games, with guiding questions for each that you can use in your own reviews, plus plenty of examples. link below!

unfortunately read that ign article on the kojima/zerocalcare backlash. to explain how kojima's work actually runs counter to zerocalcare's YPG sympathizer stuff, they link to a random tweet replying to the kojipro apology that has zero likes from a person with three followers 😭

was in a grind with work + other stuff (multiple small injuries 😔) for a bit but we got a major extension today and hopefully life will slow down a bit... I'm working on an overview of rhythm game critique for a Q+A, so expect that tomorrow or the day after!

insane stack next to my crt rn

shocked by how rich the lumines arise music and skins are after being underwhelmed by tetris effect. we're seeing a master at work...

too late to call my shot on this but we're already past the apex of the current moment of japanese gaming dominance. the question now is how many years do we have left until the pendulum swings back the other way and western dev takes back over

dropped by a round 1 to finally try sparkle shower and some guy turned on the 10 minute premium free mode with multiple people in line 😭

yep... think I'm gonna sit down and play an Intelligent Action Game (IAG) tonight...

back on the TAP grind and it honestly feels like every time I take a break I have to relearn the game in a new way. I've got more esoteric wallkicks and overhangs in my game now but executing them properly in that 1-5G range has been frustrating after learning them only at 20G

jealous of all the people basking in the glow of having zohran as their new mayor while we have to grit our teeth through our awful new blue dog governor

can we admit that kamiya is upstream of literally every issue with modern action games?

i just posted my first scripted essay in six years

keep getting distracted by this final world series game but I eked out two quick playthroughs of clock tower over the last couple of days! disorienting, inscrutable, unwilling to give answers, it's a surprising early horror title and still resonates. link below!

clock tower is done but no review until tomorrow... got too much stuff going on tonight 😂

I nearly finished/reviewed rondo of blood for halloween but I'm glad I didn't bcs jeremy parish ended up doing a video on it lol

we gotta dial it back on the militant "the designer is responsible for making the design space lock-tight and removing all exploits or overly efficient actions" rhetoric. really throwing the baby out with the bathwater here

the biggest episode we've done in a while, it's a full-game look at boku no natsuyasumi 2! the whole crew jumped in to try to play this every day for all of August and soak in the culture of rural japan. one of the best games I've played in a while youtu.be/D3FVgL-Yiv8

sorry for the wait. as frustrated as i've been with the editing process on this one, it speaks volumes that rewatching some of these scenes and listening to the music again effortlessly stirred up those same powerful emotions i felt while playing boku no natsuyasumi 2. please enjoy.

the monhun discourse is making me want to go back and finish freedom unite. I need to drop the "it's AI-manipslop" take and end all of the revisionist history stuff once and for all

in the first of what will hopefully be many everybody's golf reviews (and maybe just golf in general?), I finally finished the campaign for the ps4 everybody's golf soft reboot. a heart-breaking progression system for such awesome course design. link below!

surprisingly fine line between "the game's esoterica actually expands the depth of the game and adds options to the decision-making" and "there's next-to-no merit for this game's design unless you're primarily concerned with Knowing Things about games"

reading through golf design materials, and it's interesting that the best modern courses are moving towards holes with a wide range of options, where high handicap players can slop through comfortably while scratch players will have to pursue risky/uncomfortable shots to hit par

was confused at this sports player I didn't recognize in some of these ads during the world series, but it finally clicked that it was reilly from letterkenny, and that's when I realized I had been watching the Canadian broadcast this whole time

Yesterday my friends and I got in a terrible life-threatening car accident. While we walked away with no bodily injuries, my car is totaled. As a Behavioral Technician that travels between counties for work, reliable transportation is needed. Any donations or shares are appreciated ❤️

I can sympathize with the "arcade games munch quarters" crowd bcs at first glance it seems like that would be the materialist analysis, but the more root material truth is that arcade games have to keep people rotating on the cabinet, regardless of financial intake

the only consistently good thing about older games (and media in general) is that: 1) people have decided which popular things were actually bad 2) people have decided which unpopular things were actually good

in light of the ridiculous refusal by microsoft to denounce the use of imagery from halo in ICE recruitment advertising, I'm uploading this slidedeck from my OOP/software systems class from last fall that gives a primer on Linux, its history, main distributions, and how to navigate the command line

day late dollar short on the ps2 birthday trend... but it would've just been zoe2/mgs2/dmc3/katamari so nothing too interesting

hopefully flapjack writeup soon featuring this, smt4, wizardry gaiden, and a repost of my old dq4 bullet review. I fear I might just be past playing most turn-based rpgs at this point in my life

a quick one in my q+a series with a question from @blazingwaters.neocities.org regarding minigames in 3d platformers. the tldr: all depends on how solid its underlying system is, and very little could be worse than banjo lol. link below!

my 00's jp cult classic franchise revival purchase this fall is probably gonna be lumines arise but I'm sort of curious about the new katamari... if I liked the psp one alright then I probably would enjoy the new one too

one of the few good vgm beat flips imo youtu.be/rF5drL96G_o

my rambling has gotten so much worse on the podcasts this year lol, especially in terms of cutting off my own sentences with new thoughts. hopefully the boku recording is better lol I'm finally digging through this gta3 episode and it's driving me nuts

if you're a self-styled Music Knower and aren't listening to tagabow you're missing out on a diy rock scene as vital as 2010's post-punk or 2000's dance-punk. don't wait until it's dead and over!

azeez al-shaair needs to get suspended. still sore from the dirty hit on tlaw last year, and that darnold body slam was uncalled for. not his first ugly play for this season either

was at a diner for breakfast while I waited for my car to get worked on, and a mother and young son got turned away because the AWS outage had taken the ordering system offline and they couldn't handle any more customers

trying to look up stats on people with disabilities in STEM for a job application diversity statement but all of the government reports got nuked since trump came into power

other than some clock tower I've really dropped the ball this halloween... not too late to just get some sh4/dead rising in and polish those off but my mind just hasn't shifted to the horror mindset this year

not sure why it took me so long to realize but I was tucking in for the night and it suddenly hit me that complexity exploration should've never been the second article in the state space series, it should've been the third. aesthetic obfuscation always was a prerequisite

sat down at the library to work a bit between other engagements and immediately burst into sneezing/coughing/throat-clearing fits 😭

I like my action games like I like my dance music

laughing at this so much. I'm official an IAG fan (Intelligent Action Game)