It feels weird that so many people out there think they want to make a metroid-like, but in practice they just end up making mareos with intestinally shaped levels.
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the retranslation iāve been playing uses his Japanese name, which made looking at old gamefaqs guides pretty confusing at first
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Iāve just played Chasm for one hour and it might be the most generic videogame of the millenium. Iām not exaggerating . Any strong contenders?
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wow, this looks even less inspired than timespiner from the same year
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Nearly identical-looking game Flynn: Son of Crimson
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But nothing beats the confluence I called out a while back, a fistful of games with Occult Western settings all titled _____ West
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Hey Timespinner is good!
I played Chasm at release and never posted about it because sometimes I donāt want to be mean.
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Bionic Bay is exactly the type of tiny character in a big world game I like to see. I was afraid it might be one of those super difficult precision platformers but itās more of a puzzle game like Oddworld or Limbo. I like it so far.
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Been playing Goodboy Galaxy which has a very satisfying Metroidvania-lite gameplay loop involving going through a level multiple times with different powers stripped from you.
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i played a bit of Timespinner for festival judging one year and my only comment i left was āitās Castlevaniaā
there are a lot of generic Metroidvanias that are fine but not interesting. they seem to consistently sell decently regardless as long as they hit the expected notes.
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played a credit of streets of rage. the second stage is supposed to be a run down, almost abandoned slum. thereās a part in that stage where you stop and fight in front of the big doors of a townhouse or maybe a small apartment building.
that place is probably worth millions now, that stage has definitely been gentrified in the intervening decades.
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Okay, you two convinced me to spend $2 on GOG to check this out someday. If I hate it you each owe me one american dollar >_>
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The first level is worth the cost of admission by itself (and its also by far the best level, later levels have way less interactable scenery per area and are consequently less fun)
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They added an update to the banana game that makes it a basic cookie clicker and now my rarest acheivement showcase is fucked up because no one has any of the achievements yet and I just loaded it up on my steam deck on a lark.
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i played ffxiv and blue prince today!!! i will continue playing only one of those!!! bye!!!
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Tempest 4000 (PS4): still canāt get much further than 25, alas. also still not quite getting where Minter & Co. are coming from re: wanting to make games that feel good or h/e he put it- T4K doesnāt project quite the same feeling of being sentient and hating me personally that Space Giraffe did, but iām struggling to recall a single moment when it made me smile. as an aside- anyone know how this compares to TxK on the PS Vita?
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I might finally beat The Sabotaur except the final mission is: you have to go around town and you can no longer sneak through checkpoints, and you have to go through several of them, and you canāt go to a checkpoint while having a wanted level, so itās just an endless loop of losing and gaining wanted level while getting shot at. Its impossible to lose them because the city is full of watchtowers that spot you FROM ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE MAP. I once ran into the wilderness only to get spotted from an enemy that spawned from about half a mile away. I keep running out of ammo. Iām tired.
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If you like it Iāll donate 20 bucks to the charity of your choice.
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