My finest gameplay moment in City Trials so far is seeing two guys fighting over who gets Hydra and stealing from both just before the game ended. There is no more euphoric feeling I've had playing a game this year than this.

If this seems like really high praise, it's because Sakurai is one of my favorite game designers of all time, and he still hasn't lost his touch. He has in fact only gotten better with time.

Tides of Annihilation? More like Tides of Scripted Events. Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all day.

Now that I've gone through the Metroid Prime trilogy I can say this: They're good! The shooting is fun, the bosses very rarely miss, morph ball sequences are an absolute triumph in quiet time design, atmosphere and music are fantastic across all 3 games and I really like how Samus is handled

I am having fun with the Metroid Prime trilogy, but one thing that's a constant hinderance no matter what game I'm playing is that there's too few shortcuts. Going back through areas to 'explore' is a task that feels like home work due to the level design of these games and how spread out areas are

Expedition 33 nominated best indie game and debut indie game

Arlo complaining about annoying writing when any of his videos make me do this

That IGN preview of Prime 4 said something that pissed me off more than any dialogue possibly could've pissed me off: "So in classic Metroid fashion where your most recent upgrade is usually the key to beating a boss". Since when has this EVER been normal Metroid design? That's Zelda you muppet

NPCs being around and talking to you throughout the duration of a Metroid game is not new, and honestly the way it SEEMS like they're doing it in Prime 4, I VASTLY prefer to Adam in Fusion and Dread or AU242 in Prime 3 Corruption. As long as it doesn't get in the way during gameplay, it can work

Trump after giving Clinton a bob on the knob

Someone needs to stop Vince Gilligan. He can't keep getting away with putting Rhea Seehorn in these situations

The biggest takeaway from yesterday is that Steam Machine is not a good name for that thing. Almost immediately people called it a Steam Box instead of Steam Machine lmao

Looks fun! I had fun with the first one despite the obnoxious licensed music usage. I'll prolly have fun with this too

pain

Somebody should let me handle what games are greenlit, I'd be great at it. $300 million multiplayer game? Canceled. Repurposed for 14 Ape Escape sequels.

I wish I could refrain myself from groaning at the "SEE NINTENDO! THIS IS WHAT WE WANT" comments that obviously were going to follow, but I just can't cuz as good as this is for a year long solo(?) project, I wish liberties were taken in terms of how Nintendo already has converted 2D Mario into 3D

It took me over a decade, but I have finally beaten the prologue to Trails in the Sky through the new remake after 8 hours. The combat is very fun, but so far this story is doing absolutely nothing for me. The dialogue is so incredibly flavorless and there's so god damn much of it.

Can I like just time travel 10 days into the future so I can play Air Riders again? That would be nice. I'm fiending for that game like MAD

Air Riders was fun. ... I wanna play Air Riders again

Due to the Kingdom Hearts Real-Time Fandub, I will just forever think the 100-Acre Woods is purgatory from now on

I don't find eating bugs to be disgusting, Timon and Pumbaa made that shit look delicious.

OMFG it just hit me. The way people talk in Sora AI videos remind me of dialogue from Robot Alchemic Drive

When one of my projects get far enough to the point where I would consider adding achievements, I will make the most bullshit, stupid, insane achievements you will ever see in your life.

uh oh

The added characterization of the cousin crew in DQ2 HD2D is just lovely. It reminds me that these games are truly at their best when you have a party of bright personalities to bring along for the ride.

This is the year of me looking at people having trouble with games and going "Wasn't that bad for me". Between Silksong and apparently the newly added bosses for Dragon Quest 1&2 HD2D, I'm noticing a trend where people who continuously die to a boss think it's is automatically badly designed.

Amazing final game of the world series. Boring outcome, but the game itself was fun to watch and both teams played out of their minds.

Excuse me if the next couple of posts are very danish. My brother invited me to watch some Anders Thomas Jensen movies. He's one of the most significant writers in danish film culture. He mostly writes, but he has a couple movies where he's both writer and director, and those are the ones we watched

regarding the Dragon Quest HD2D remakes, if you wanna keep at least a little bit of the essence of these games, then when starting a new game, make sure to switch off objective markers when prompted. These games are best experienced through the NPC interactions who give you hints on where to go

Just doing my daily watch of this to feel better about myself

I will also say that this version of the game is vastly different to any other version. There's a heavy emphasis on story and narrative. The original Dragon Quest you're told from the start "go kill the dragonlord and maybe also rescue my daughter" and that's about all the story you got.

The sigils in DQ1&2 HD2D are really cool. I think it's sick to have special moves that you can only do when in specific states. It's made some boss fights about figuring out which special attacks are the best to use and I can't wait for it to get more advanced in DQ2.

very red morning

Case and point in terms of the money situation. I'm barely an hour in and I already had enough money to buy a steel broadsword at Galenholm for 1700 G. That's something that would've taken 3-4 hours in any other version of the game.

Shiny Spots in DQ3 HD2D felt like a balance attempt for a game that doesn't need balancing. DQ3 already had balancing done on the SNES/GBC remake that made it a pitch perfect playing experience, so shiny spots on top of that was overkill.

This new ending for Dragon Quest 2 better blow my fucking pants off with the amount of teasing they've been doing. Between all the advertising and now asking streamers and youtubers to refrain from immediately showing it, it better be world shaking.

Small release-day housekeeping note: The Steam version... is alive! You can get it right now! store.steampowered.com/app/3649490/... The eShop page for the Nintendo Switch version will be up in 1 hour and 45 minutes! Please hold the champagne uncorking until then!

Absolute Batman breaking a white supremacist's arm in the latest comic 🦇

computer works again. What a fucking nightmare.

not having access to my main computer makes me realize how dependent my mood is on having one, which I really don't think is healthy, but I don't know what to do about it. It's my primary entertainment center. Will prolly need to pick up Stray Children on Switch if I can't fix it today.

“BE NOT A STRIKE”

Very excited for this. I heard they've implemented balancing for dodge patterns and leniency on save point positions which is great to hear. Some of the initial impressions I heard from the japanese version about low amounts of checkpoints and very far setbacks on game overs, made me worried.

what in the fuckin hell? One of my favorites of the year just keeps getting new content. I still have the opinion that it honestly didn't need this, but it's cool nonetheless. I hope the new content is great. I'll take a look at it later when I'm not swamped

I woke up and it feels like I fucking missed the Royal Rumble equivalent of fuckin Baseball. What an INSANE game last night

If this game proved anything it's that Katamari isn't a solved series and you can innovate with it. Also Yuu Miyake still being on soundtrack duty and massively delivering as always, is worth 40 euro price tag alone.

as cool as it is to see two specific characters get more stuff with this latest one piece flashback, we're kinda wasting time. This current arc already hasn't been the most active for the straw hats and with the last arc, I'm kinda missing the crew actually mattering.

adorable callback to the GBC cover