It turns out that Mina just has like a really awful onboarding stage (as evidenced by many reviews quitting the game in the first 2ish hours, and I don't blame them). Once you get past your first dungeon though? It's honestly kind of shocking how much more playable and addicting it gets

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Brainstorming

Messed about with Mina the Hollower a bit. FIrst impressions are just like. Man. Is there an expiration date on "every game is Dark Souls" yet? It would be nice if we could get over this hump at some stage (and take "every indie RPG is Chrono Trigger" with you when you go, thanks)

The DQ12 update is neat and all but like: Holy shit is that Bianca and Nera??? A spin off related to 5 is exactly what I didn't know I needed

I don't usually post the non-RPG reviews here, but I feel like I should make an exception. This feels like the type of game that might get some bad press for being too short or "not worth the money", but I find myself disagreeing

I can't wait until the day I log onto Steam or Backloggd and see someone completely unironically saying some shit about Bubsy 4D being "woke propaganda"

Finally, it's time for a REAL videogame

RPG #76 - Custom Robo: Battle Revolution One with a really banging soundtrack and a cool aesthetic. Overall pretty decent, but held back a bit by a really short runtime, a kind of weak story and some repetitive/sloppy mechanics/design.

Backloggd's new retroactive GOTY list feature has really elucidated the fact that there's a yawning chasm between 2010-2020 where I literally couldn't tell you what I felt about the few things I played. (Which "suspiciously" aligns with the period that my depression and drinking was at its worst)

This may be a new record holder for the most atrocious evil team uniform of them all, just... WOOF. Like the forgotten lovechild of Gurren Lagann and Pokemon Platinum

RPG #75 - OFF Another entry in this "sub-genre", another game trying (and failing) to survive on vibes while having a sloppy and poorly constructed core.

The first time

I hate to give a CEO credit but I mean, turning yourself into a 9 foot tall robot and posing with your enormous hell sword is a pretty good flex

Bubsy ushering in a new era of marketing with raw power

God how I wish Early Access would die off, and games could just fucking release, the cloying "we want YOU to get involved and pay for a half finished product that won't at all resemble itself after half a decade of drip fed updates change everything about it" is poison

Been wanting to do a Klonoa piece since I went through 1+2 earlier in the year. Had to be one involving Ghadius, top tier villain design #furry #furryart #art #kemono #klonoa

RPG #74 - Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana The second Ys titled I've played. Bad choice for a #2 I guess.

I guess it wasn't that deep

COMMISSIONS Decided to try some slots now that I'm feeling more settled into a method for doing work. I'm trying out two for May, will probably do bi-monthly if it works out. If you're interested you can find info here/send me a DM: www.furaffinity.net/commissions/... #furryart #art #commission

The year is 1997: Nintendo is making Star Fox 64 The year is 2011: Nintendo is making Star Fox 64 The year is 2026: Nintendo is making Star Fox 64

real

Dorothy Gale, essentially the version from the 1986 anime (my favourite adaptation of the books)... This was really off brand for me, really challenging/different in a lot of ways- I'm not sure if I enjoy it a lot but I needed to push through on it #art #digitalart

RPG #72 - Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga A supremely good comedy RPG, finally managed to finish this one after playing it as a kid and making another attempt like 10ish years ago. Was definitely worth revisiting.

Didn't realize I ordered the fuckin' ENORMOUS size version of Children of Strife, god damn

It's a living

Them

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Shvein Hax He possesses the resolve and conviction to disregard his own well-being if it serves his purpose. I believe I have successfully depicted him as a formidable adult figure standing against the children who are the protagonists of the story.

I have to say, I really enjoy Opoona's Y2K/Fruitiger Aero art design- I wish more RPGs, and more games in general would tap into that well, but...

You deserved better than this, Arthur

Dawg day afternoon

When I started Opoona I really didn't imagine that there would be normal anime men in it alongside the emoji people- which brings into light the excellent concept that Tizians just look like that normally, it's not stylization, they really are just emoji aliens

Let it pour

Kind of a short review, although I guess its fitting for a short game. It was a fun time, though, even if I didn't have a whole lot of substance to say about it. Looking forward to trying out some other Sgt M/Torch60 stuff in the future.

Finding out that the lead artist/character designer for the Fuga games is not only on Bluesky but that they're taking commissions might actually be the most excited I've been about anything all year

I received a request via Skeb from Steyr. bsky.app/profile/stey... The request was for a birdwatching scene. Looking at their account, I saw many wonderful bird photographs, which showed how serious they are about the subject. I felt that I needed to be careful with the details to do them justice.

Another Mei Marzipan piece, "Sunlight" #furry #furryart #art #kemono #fuga

Ara Fell- polished and pretty, but kind of iconically average overall. The most "that sure is a game" JRPG I've played in ages.

By popular demand... Goth Patty! 🦊🖤 #foxpopvli #art

Ara Fell may be the first 2D game I've seen (or the first RPG in any case) that properly balances the "glare" level from a cloud layer underneath a dark area like this, it's a very nice and subtle effect

Desmond

Patty and... hooman Patty! Now with some Easter spice! #foxpopvli #art

Doesn't hold up quite as well after nearly 20 years, but it's still a pretty average game- one of those titles with a killer first act that suddenly realizes "oh shit I'm a JRPG" and falls down a flight of stairs trying to cram in lousy genre expectations instead of building on its strengths.

Totally forgot that in addition to being the first actually good news in like 10 years the Artemis II mission means we get more completely breathtaking photos from beyond Earth Orbit (photo by Reid Wiseman)

I have realized, going through steam every now and then over the last few months, that we've reached the point where every single AI generated image looks the exact fucking same. (Which is good, really- the red flags are now apparently inescapably built in to the process)

2026 Mood

落書き🐰

Hanna Fondant. Was originally gonna be a study of Yashiro Nanaco, but I felt it worked better "normal". Similar to the Sheena one but I don't mind, very happy with it, good way to cap off March. #kemono #furry #art #furryart #fuga