A new addition to the shelf of random video game ephemera! It’s a tiny little Kid Icarus strategy guide (aww). Kid Icarus is a game which used to scare the shit out of me as a child (🤷‍♂️) but which I’ve not really played since. I hope to rectify that, now that I have the “guaranteed winning strategy”!

A slightly more high res version! I'm pretty sure I had this as my desktop image for a while in the late 2000s.

Time extension have a great article about seminal first person dungeon crawler Dungeon Master! #blutoid #drpg

Post a game you remember playing but nobody else remembers. Every year I same the same: got to finally beat it. Playing this as a kid was my initiation to horror. The physics were next gen for 1999. #blutoid

Portrait of Ruin continues to be ridiculous lol 10/10 #blutoid

Ys 1 manual teaches Adol how to make friends on his adventure #blutoid #ys #ystoid #adorableadol #adolrable

This book is completely insane! Don’t be put off by the fact it’s an old dusty Russian novel- it’s completely off the hook! 😂 in a good way, I should add!

I was recently getting hot under the collar about the art on this random Ys leaflet, and WELL I came across an SMT art book on internet archive with work which looks like the same artist - and it is ✨glorious✨ If you know the artist please let me know! 🤩 #blutoid #smt #ys

Sword of Hope for the Game Boy is a RPG/ADV …thing. It’s quite a cool game, but the English manual entirely lacks Visual Art! The Japanese manual fairs little better (it’s called ‘Selection: Erabareshi Mono’ in Japan btw), however it does have this little map and an image of the evil god Mammon

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Concept sketches for the 1994 Capcom D&D arcade brawler 'Shadow over Mystara'. The D&D Basic Set's successor, the Rules Cyclopedia, was the most popular version of the game in Japan and was starting to pick up some momentum alongside Lodoss RPG/Sword World.

Cottagevania #blutoid

Currently reading, in a very frosty England 🥶: #bookstoid #blutoid #books

I’m just in love with Charlotte in Portrait of Ruin. She can attack with different books (this one’s Don Quixote!), her double jump is on a lil broom, and she gets vroomed by Persephone! #castlevania #blutoid

I finished Dragons of Autumn Twilight and it was amazing! Pure pulpy, cinematic, dungeon crawlery, cheesey, Tolkien-lite, escapist fantasy. Just awesome. Can’t wait to read more. #books #blutoid #bookstoid #dnd #d&d

Settled on Portrait of Ruin because why not 🤷‍♂️ looks awesome. I mean look at these two emo dream boats. I think I’ve got a cd by these guys somewhere. #blutoid

Trying to decide which game to play…. #blutoid

2025 was an INSANE year for indies, so thank you to all who put Detective Instinct with their favorites of the year. For a first-time developer especially, it means a lot! If interesting, heartfelt mystery stories are your thing, maybe it could be one of your favorites, too! 👀 #gamedev #indiegame

Okay, to actually talk about the game, Super Zangyura is a remake of the 2004 doujin game which still retains that awesome vibe. Despite being a Castlevania clone, it's more puzzle focused and has 3 very distinct difficulty modes. I felt done after hard mode. It took me 572 lives! #Blutoid

WIP WIP WIP #AbbayeDesMorts update

Here’s some superb dungeon crawling music for ya! It’s short but goodness gracious! 😀 #blutoid #drpgs

Where to next? I really want to play an older, less polished dungeon crawler next so I think it’s a toss up between these two. Shining in the Darkness being in English gives it the upper hand, but Dinosaur also looks really fun! #blutoid #drpg

At the End of the Millennium... And an era. Artwork by Phantasy Star artist Hitoshi Yoneda, used for a two CD memorial drama and fan book bundle released in 1995.

Day 307, random old school TTRPG art from random book: “FR1 Waterdeep and the North”, TSR 1987, Keith Parkinson, cover. #ttrpg #tabletoprpg #d&d #dnd #osr #ad&d #fantasyart #art #ttrpgcommunity #dndart #osrart #waterdeep #beholder

So I did try Fault 1 for about an hour and erm I didn’t like it at all. I didn’t like the music very much (too short a loop for a start) and the writing is quite awful lol sorry The character art is great but… hmm it’s been refunded lol 😅 #blutoid

1/After 75hrs, I finally finished the main campaign of Etrian Odyssey IV 😃 I enjoyed this game a lot and have really enjoyed following along with the art book too. It’s got an amazing soundtrack and I love the dungeon themes. Definitely an evolution of EO3, but I maybe enjoyed it a little less…

A couple of recent winter mushroom sightings & a nice walk in the woods (we forgot the wellie socks so actually my eldest was complaining the whole way that his toes were cold; the photo makes it seem peaceful though lol). #blutoid #mushrooms #fungi

The full range of anime emotions 😦 #blutoid #adv #luxpain #nds

Ys 5 completed while baking chocolate chip cookies! Closing out this year right. That was one of my favorite endings in the series!

I grabbed four visual novels in the steam sale 🎮 📖 #vn #blutoid

Saw some tenth century stone carvings at All Saints Church in Bakewell yesterday. Hello from a thousand years ago 👋

I’m obsessed with my son’s latest and possibly greatest painting! I’ll explain it: a car in the foreground, a monster looming behind, in the sky you can see clouds, and that heavy glob of black tar? The new moon! 🌑 #blutoid #art

Alisia Dragoon #アリシアドラグーン #ゲームアーツ #メガドライブ

After a short break reading Christmasy short stories, I’m back on Dragons of Autumn Twilight, starting Book 2 😈 Let’s continue our surprisingly doom-laden journey through war-torn Abanasinia ⚔️ #d&d #dnd #blutoid #books

Omega 6: The Triangle Stars (down to $3.74), a retro sci-fi ADV written/designed/dotted by Star Fox's Takaya Imamura in collab with Happymeal (Hokkaido Serial Murder Case remake)—I'm shocked it's still so under-the-radar https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/omega-6-the-triangle-stars-switch/

Sea breeze and big mechs 🎶 If not for the trailer behind it with the giant robot, then this could totally be the ending cutscene for a classic Sega arcade racer. 📺: Metal Slader Glory: Director's Cut, HAL Laboratory, 2000 (Super Famicom)

Played Forest Shuffle again, and again it’s amazing! 🌳🦇🌲🦋 🦌 Bested my own high score, but my wife destroyed me with 80 more points than me 😭 #blutoid #boardgames

Almost done posting about the Sand Leviathan. I feel like its design is possibly inspired by John Tenniel’s 1870’s illustration of the Jabberwocky from Alice Through The Looking Glass. He’s got the same loveable goofiness, sans waistcoat sadly :( #blutoid #etrianodyssey

From another angle #blutoid #ilovehim #etrianodyssey

I love him 😍 #blutoid #etrianodyssey

Another piece of Christmas promotional art; Oath in Felghana cast ready to deliver presents 🎁 Funnily enough, the big Ys art book incorrectly labels Chester as Adol (who is conspicuously absent from this scene, suggesting he’s actually a bit of a Scrooge when it comes to Christmas!). #ys #blutoid

Lost Kefin update: Etokapa has been doing a lot of testing to make sure that the beta/alpha build is at least decently playable. Turns out there's been many crashes, freezes, and errors that I' showing here with no context for fun. Thankfully most of these have already been fixed!

I finished Detective Instinct this evening; it’s such an impressive game for a tiny team! I enjoyed the twists and turns of the story very much. A really fun and heart felt mystery 🕵️ I was impressed with the music too which elevated the whole experience! Short but sweet :) #blutoid #adv

I made a list

A star glimpsed through branches. Wishing you all a peaceful holiday ⭐

Here’s tiny piece of Etrian Odyssey 2 Christmas themed art reportedly from a Christmas issue of the Altus Express magazine 2008. Found preserved on someone’s personal blog. Thank you to them! Link below #etrianodyssey #blutoid

Merry Christmas to all of those who celebrate it :D Here’s Arthur Rackham’s Father Christmas looking like the madman he truly is! #blutoid

Drawing in progress 😌