we ended w/ exact same resources too, lol. no extra lives, 2 bombs left.
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AC6 pre-load at 90%. I need to sleep, though.
āLaunch the Polaris,
It doesnāt scare us,
When will this cease?
When the warheads all rust in peace!ā
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I have said this multiple times here but Skyward Sword does have some good things going for it, I know several parts of it irk people to no end but if one can get past that they have some solid ideas when it comes to switching up dungeon design and re-using areas.
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skyward sword is good
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Youāve convinced me to go back to NES Track and Field 2 for the fencing minigame.
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āah, Genshin Impact has finally released not-France and I have time today to do something that isnāt account maintenance. itās a good thing no other phone game Iām playing is releasing France-based content and asking for a chunk of my free timeā
āā¦you know, itās strange that this has happened two years in a rowā
ah well, cāest la vie
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im sorry bg3ā¦ i need the disk spaceā¦
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I literally had to buy a new hard drive for that fuckin game
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played through Super Junkoid again because I was curious if I could get a sub-hour time (which is apparently the threshold for the ābest endingā). In addition to being aesthetically quite nice and grotesque, itās also just a well-crafted non-linear search action game, which naturally compelled me to theorycraft a fancy route through the thing. However, after a suggestion from the author I promptly threw those plans away and tried a different approach that took an early-game detour (Iām still not sure if it helped or not).
I wonāt bore you with any of the nerdy specifics, but it ended up being down to the wire. I made an errant pause right before the end of the escape, and was greeted with this wonderful time on the clock:
Needless to say, the moments between unpausing, actually finishing the game, and seeing the final time were quite harrowing, but I made it:
I ended up peeking at the contents of RAM afterwards to get the exact in-game time, and it was 59 minutes, 58 seconds, 52 frames. Only 68 frames stood between me being a Good Gamer and Bad Gamer. (RTA time was about 1:26 because of several deaths against the final boss.)
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made the wrong choice here imo
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Played some Armored Core 6.
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Anyone else play the MK1 beta? It feels similar to MK9 in terms of movement, and the kameo system is an easier way of deploying the variation of MK11 without having to fiddle through a bunch of loadout options for your character.
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Even the Ocean: After being very disappointed by Sephonie I tried Analgesicās post Anodyne 1 game
Itās a 2D platformer with a dark/light theme. You have a dark / light bar that serves as Ā« health Ā» as if you touch too many dark or light objects in a row you die. But rooms are always filled with items from both sides so itās very easy to recover. Game has checkpoints everywhere and I only died like twice
Finally the messiah (Shining Soul 2 graphics) has returned
Worth the price for this and all the Analgesic Production NPCs. And the ending.
The rest of the story though, you start by doing maintenance work for the obviously evil/misguided mayor, then the point when you turn on him eventually happensā¦ right at the end of the game. Between these points, just an escalation. Come on we need -some- intrigue
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Star Trek: The Next Generation for Pinball FX (PC / Steam)
Seems like a really good adaptation of the table, had kind of forgotten how good the shots and missions and voice work and all are. I just want Captain Picard whispering āGood luck!ā to me always.
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this table in the fleshzone vibrates harder than any other table ive played
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I think Iāve only played it a handful of times in the RL. Donāt remember running across it much and when I did, probably tended to play other stuff first 'cause I thought I was pretty over TNG or something, I dunno. Or maybe I found the size and complexity of it intimidating. I did play it a lot in Pinball Arcade though and yeah now Iām remembering just how dang good it is.
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I kept getting the ball to jump and get stuck on the Bird of Prey like clockwork. I hope the digital version doesnāt replicate that
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Adastra: Concluding thoughts
Yeah, this wasnāt as good as Echo! I mean, as a package. Itās just plain less ambitious, less formalistically interesting, and less dramatic. It also feels oddly smaller in scale for a game about an empire that spans most of a galaxy. Iām glad I picked up that it wasnāt going to go as hard as Echo pretty quickly because otherwise I think I would have been let down a bit after all the like, breathless praise this got?
Still though, itās pretty damn good on itās own terms! This is a very slow burn story, and is in the end, predominantly about the relationship between the protagonist and the Hot Wolf Guy, Amicus, more than say, the space empire. It hinges centrally on whether or not you want to date a Hot Wolf Guy. If you think heās cute, if you want to hug his big soft belly. The characters are still very well drawn (textually and aesthetically), and thatās what keeps it from feeling too terribly em from just feeling likeā¦insert coin get porn, largely because the porn is just gonna happen, and the choices are more about the outside the romance narrative.
These do impact the game mostly subtly, but can impact the ending in a pretty significant way. This is done in a way that I think is very smart, and subtle in the way that Echo was very good at, but definitely less pronounced than some of the route changes in that game.
Spoilers:
The differences are largely about whether or not the space gods are trustworthy to the protagonist, and if youāre skeptical of them enough you get a very, very, solid piece of evidence that theyāre doing everything theyāre doing for reasons that arenāt immediately apparent. Also none of this part of the plot is actually resolved in the game and the sequels seem to have gotten themselves stuck in some kind of development hell. Also if you get this ending the game passes The Tigress Test and features an anthro tiger. Yes Iām biased that the future plot seems to hinge on the actions of a tigress in the past. Sue me, let me be indulgent.
While the gameās romance is the forefront, I did get completely sucked in to the drama around the political struggle by the end, too, but a lot of that was just how much I liked the big dumb dog guy. Iām reasonably sure that in order for this game to work for you, youāve got to be sold on Amicus. It pulls a similar trick to Echo where itās playing with the assumption that youāre into the characters to get you invested in the drama of the narrative outside it. Unlike Echo, it doesnāt play with that element to the point that I think it would be an interesting experience if you arenāt.
Finally, annoyingly, itās definitely setting up the plot for a Sequel. And to be honest, probably several sequels. This feels like book one of a big scifi novel series andā¦the second game while in development is still kindaā¦stuck from writing problems soā¦yeah. Despite my criticisms of it, I really really really want more of it to see where all of this is ultimately going to go. Echo was just subversive enough to keep me guessing, and this game was too, which makes me think the Big Important plot beats still will. All in all though, I think as a romance game it does work well as a self contained experience. Not being as good as what in the end was one of my favorite games ever isnāt a crime.
If you like hot anthro dog boys you should definitely play it though.
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thanks to the suruga-ya free international shipping sale (which is still on!), i have a copy of the ps1 hurricanger game en route to me.
so, i decided to complete the gaoranger game i already have. these games are pretty fun, i wish iād been able to get them at the time they came out, me and my friends wouldāve loved them
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due to this post i spent 2 hours looking at various things before deciding not to buy them due to a combination of despising the royal mail handling fee and people saying stuff from suruga-ya sometimes comes in random condition (??)
i wish i could remember which shipping service never seemed to incur custom charges when i was buying stuff from japan beforeā¦ maybe it was just random and i just got lucky a couple of times
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