they should of made starting with the m4 and blowing through all it’s ammo in the opening standard on all difficulties, not just easy mode
Oh wow, I would play the hell out of that.
I think of how excited I was to find out you could rearrange the menus in Meteos; now do that in an RPG? Ahhhhhh.
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yeah i think i always knew they were the same person but super star has several things that show up again in smash. i think the weirdest i noticed is that one of the powers you get from an enemy, i think the wizard? gives you a block move that looks suspiciously like the shield block in smash bros. just weird stuff like that, i was wondering if anyone ever made a complete list because i am too easily distractible to do it
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i don’t know that anyone has, but i think i always jsut assumed that Smash started as Kirby the Fighter and the Nintendo stuff was a way to get funding to make it a whole game.
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Mushroom 11 is real cool. It’s a physics-y puzzle platformer wherein you control a radioactive blob and your only method of controlling it is by erasing parts of it, which in turn makes other parts of the blob spontaneously regenerate roughly opposite of what’s being destroyed.
The physics-based nature of it makes it occasionally exasperating but on the whole it manages to be a pretty chill game. I’m not sure if I’ll play all the way through it but I’ll keep going until I hit a bad fun/frustration ratio.
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The ideal way to play MGS4 is twice twelve years apart and never again.
It’s so so strange how the absurd homoeroticism (e.g. Vamp licking Raiden’s “cyborg blood” off his crotch knife) works and the male gaze latex boss fights are enough to ruin the game.
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I made this realization a while ago and have never heard anyone else verbalize it. Super Star in particular, with the ability for your partner to literally become the enemies (often with slightly different powers than when Kirby copies them) feels the most like Smash.
Subspace Emissary is a Kirby Game.
The thing that locks it for me is the, uh, whatever you call it when you hit someone and the whole game freezes for effect. KSS does that all the fricking time and it’s great, makes the entire game feel like punching brick walls (that explode when you punch them)
the other game that Smash (after Melee) owes a bunch to is Kirby Air Ride, specifically in its “multiple ways of playing the same game” and the checklist of achievements that act as progress markers (and also dish out rewards/new cars/etc.). Also City Trial shows up almost verbatim in Smash on the 3DS.
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Weirdly, I think this is because Kojima is straight. Homoeroticism is something he has to think about and apply artistic effort to. His own personal horniness is unexamined and gross
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Picked up Control when it was on sale a little while back, finally played it last night.
Every bit as great as everyone says. Really enjoying it.
Also best played at 2am!
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it is absolutely 100% the opposite. he’s gay so the loving homoeroticism and romantic friendships between men come naturally to him, but because he’s closeted he feels obligated to include excessively compensatory objectifying het stuff, and since he both doesn’t understand heterosexuality and also hates women and finds them disgusting (unrelated) it comes out like that.
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these theories are both credible and I feel confident in saying that kojima is not bisexual
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Speaking of which, my brother got me Death Stranding for my birthday yesterday. I played through the prologue and I’m going to yell if every single cut scene is framed to show off Fragile’s beautiful reflective ass whenever possible
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Otacon is impossibly hot for the scenes where he’s supposed to be ugly with glasses on it’s very ???
Oh, I’d also like to say that I couldn’t do the fucking microwave hallway without an electric toothbrush in 2009 and definitely couldn’t do it now. Fuck you Kojima, I’d flip the bird if not for the horrible arthritic pain.
None of that nonsense in Death Stranding, right?
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there is one qte near the end of the game and it’s pretty mild
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yeah this is it, all the way back to snatcher even
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I was sincerely surprised and pissed off to actually fail the microwave hallway last night. I assumed it just lasted the length of the splitscreen cutscene.
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no you need to fail and endure your body disintegrating better, Snake
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In the cutscene when Otacon’s like “let’s try a different doctor” my partner was like hey it’s us! T_T
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I never ever
ever
want to play that game again but I’m happy to have experienced the most expensive flouncing troll in history
Prepping for the microwave tube, everyone debating how much of Snake’s skin will melt off while scolding him and taking his cigarettes; it just radiates petty contempt and contempt is an expression sorely missing in games, especially a decade after Mass Effect ending controversies and spiraling cycles of obeisance to the loudest and worst voices.
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To this day I find it shocking that Kojima does not care about Snake because he is a clone, and so he just won’t allow him to be human.
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