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maison's interview in gamest 12, sept 1987, says he started playing gradius "about two years ago" (late 1985?) and perfected his recovery patterns around "january of last year" (jan 1986), so sounds like it took him a few months to fully learn recoveries, back in the days before savestate practice

largely posting these for myself so i can find them later but maybe other people like this stuff too. two-part article about the gradius 1 counterstop effort note.com/modern_broom... note.com/modern_broom...

isn't this literally onoda's backstory from yowamushi pedal. what if this guy got into bike racing instead of gradius

oh thank god japanese ocr tools are smart enough to convert vertically oriented text to horizontal text. that makes sense but i was worried it would just come out as nonsense

making a list of gamest issues with gradius 1 coverage and lol there was a three issue break between the publication of the loop 3 stages 5 & 6 recovery patterns and the loop 3 stage 7 recovery patterns. i like to imagine it took them 3 full months to figure this shit out (from issue 25)

seeing the phrase "dark fact" outside the context of ys is like a flashbang

i need to sleep but i'm watching a salamander stream and now all i can think about is that post that was like "the salamander from salamander"

posts you make when you should be going to bed

is there like a siivagunner rip that's salamander by deco 27 in the salamander soundfont. or maybe like the salamander stage 1 theme but it's miku

the fire stage in salamander is so funny there's like no tell for the big flame arcs as far as i can see? it's like memorize this bitch

i'm amped up from my gradius clear i want to watch people play gradius but all i can find is someone on twitch playing salamander.

i think i'm satisfied with my gradius run (for now?) i want to record a commentary for it, but like, an effort one like my druaga commentary instead of "just rewatch my replay and say whatever" like i did for the 2-all

gradius 3-ALL!

developing new frontiers of upsetting my friends with annoying shmup terminology (referring to the score strat for mother and child ships in gradius stage 3 as "mother milk")

おはぎ、始まりました #うさぎ #Blueskyうさぎ部 #お彼岸

Millennials are only afraid of one thing.... not getting 10 million points in Gradius 🤣

i've combined gradius and sweety to make a new word

Even after 130hrs, it's hard not to keep playing Gradius.... I'm slowly getting better at loop 2 recoveries, but dying on or before 2-4 still usually means the run will end on 2-4. Same with 3-4 when i make it to loop 3.

I need to eat sylvie strawberries or I'll die 🍓☠️

I need to 💻Develop a 🐇Videos Game.

I need to dink water

I am playing too much Gradius.... never play video games for more than one hour per week

it's frustrating when, for example, in a platformer, there's a really hard jump right at the end of the level. so you can come up with game design rules like don't put hard jumps at the end of the level, put something that looks scary but is actually easy to make the player feel good, etc.

the other reason i'm kinda ehhh about to trying to good game design your way into making runbacks more enjoyable is because if you simply don't give a fuck you end up with stuff like the capra demon fight. and the capra demon fight is really funny

runback woes are kind of just one example of "having to repeat something easy before you get another attempt at something hard" which is everywhere, everywhere in difficult video games, i don't think you can really get rid of it without just getting rid of long-form challenges altogether

when the save system code is so horrible that you can't tell if the struct copying bugs are your fault or gamemaker's fault

I used to make video games, but I think the only one I released so far this year is my 34th birthday game.

THat's one hell of a kitten

Taro baby photos, for health

i feel like industries outside of video games don't leverage the adjective "pop'n" enough

I will never put runback in my game because I don't believe in looking to the past, I only have runforwards.

RUNBACKS are GOOD GAME DESIGN because they are TEDIOUS! HAHAHAHAHA

la mulana defies the expectations imposed on metroidvanias, resulting in a singular experience

would i get anything out of playing these or is this another "animal well defies expectations imposed on metroidvanias by not having double jump powerup"

becoming a conspiracy theorist but only for the belief that bizarre windows issues like "all audio stops working except the sound effect when you adjust the volume slider" are a scam to get you to restart your computer and inadvertently trigger a windows update

Softly watching…

i keep watching this clip and laughing every time

you may not like it, but this is what peak boss design looks like youtu.be/9p1Hb1klK0o

uwa! almost had it, couldn't recover from 3-7-B.... i think loop 2 and loop 3 up to 3-7-A were deathless (i died like 4 times on loop 1 though lol)

thinking about what a good run of games saga 1 > saga 2 > romancing saga is - first ever gameboy rpg, messy yet ambitious and captivating, turbo banger - excellent sequel with mechanical refinements, a bit more streamlined, maybe slightly more conservative dungeon design - then he made THAT

I couldn't stop thinking about Gradius in the middle of the night, so I played it, and I got to 3-4.

backloggd.com/u/Herbert/re... maybe you'll enjoy my short review/essay. there's not a lot of writing about Gradius which is too bad it blew me away when I gave it a real chance.

People are talking about Silksong instead of Gradius..

I want to read posts about Gradius, or maybe watch an interesting Gradius video.

augh, i got greedy and tried to fight big core instead of timing it out and ended up getting game over on the 3-1-D recovery.... at least i have a 2-all on the leaderboards now instead of a run that dies in 2-7 lol

Everybody is enjoying Gradius these days.