Spent 2 hours disassembling and cleaning my old SNES to determine it’s pretty likely just something wrong with the PPUs, ugh.
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bedrotting is managing survival meters while clicking on things that get harder to click on because the meat cube you cant touch with your reticule in front of it moves faster and faster. not gross enough, the writing is bland. only on day seven but this is disappointing so far
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Biomutant is my Gollum, and by that I mean it’s a 7/10 Unreal 4 game that seems like it’s a lost PS2/Xbox era game.
The developers played a lot of Bloodborne, because the default class has a gun and a blade. He also does the “fromsoft protagonist door opening” animation.
Much like Gollum there’s a light and dark dialog system, with a talking angel and devil, and these unlock light and dark abilities.
There is way way way way way way too much flowery dialog and it’s all narrated by one guy. The writing has a lot of proper nouns like Googlide
Ok so what else: there’s melee and ranged combat. There’s a lot of creature and enemy designs. You can upgrade like 3-4 different ability genres, your gun, your sword, you have gear you can equip to many slots. You can craft weapons and presumably gear. You can upgrade your moves. Towns have shops you can buy stuff in and talk to NPCs. It feels like a big hotpot where everyone threw a bunch of systems in and kind of let it cook.
Hit reaction animations are stiff and disjointed and there’s buggy cameras and animations sometimes play out of sync. The game kind of has a hideous vibe to it because of the default Unreal 4 look. It honestly has some charm to it, I can see people trying to emulate this look in a few years using shaders to simulate bad texture popin. I can look past these things because I’m a freak.
Anyway looking forward to playing this instead of Breadth of the Wild
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Finished Indiana Jones and The Great Circle this morning. Didn’t go for 100% (there are so, so, so many of those ancient artifacts, and I missed a bunch of books and notes), but might mop up when the DLC hits.
Anyway, great game. Only complaint I’ve got is that I ran into some bizarre scripting errors where Indy kept repeating the same dialogue over and over hours after it happened, usually on load (it was joined by some dialogue between him and Gina later, but if he was by himself, there he was, talking about Voss’s gold again).
Anyway! Great game. Easily the best villain in Indiana Jones since…probably Temple of Doom (Donovan, Elsa, and that Nazi guy were whatever, Irina was embarrassingly bad, and Mikklesen’s Nazi guy was only really intimidating when he was being a racist asshole to that hotel employee). Just a fun game.
Plus it’s got a sort of psychedelic moment that puts all of Ubisoft’s “now you’re drugged whoaaa” missions in years of Far Cry to shame.
In conclusion: Tony Todd… 
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Pokemon TCGP
If you like the card art and don’t care about battles this game is a free Pokemon card collector that takes up no physical space - ideal for me. Not really a ‘game’ I ‘played’ as such and I’m gonna try and keep it that way.
Aggressive use of timers. I’m getting mildly depressed at my fluency in game currency in recent years.
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re: PTCGP, my friend code is 3123-2882-9685-6132
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and yes, the best thing about it is you get to open booster packs and look at some really nice card art
the battling isn’t terrible, the meta actually has a fair bit of variety currently. it’s pretty simple overall, but i’ve had a few thrilling battles with my Pikachu EX + Zapdos EX deck and i also have a Celebi EX deck that is starting to cook now that i got a second Celebi from a wonder pick
edit: actually, is it possible to put two of the same EX card in one deck? i’m not sure i ever actually tested that in this “close-but-not-the-same” pocket ruleset
edit 2: ok yeah you can have 2 EX of the same card. i guess the one i wonder picked is actually my 3rd celebii (this one with a star art!) since i already had the Celebi EX theme deck built which asks for 2 of the non-star art ones
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played a bit of otokonoko fishing, kind of a redo after softlocking myself going through crossdressing outfits too fast. they all only work once and you NEED that brain destruction sale if you want to afford the items that let you go to new fishing lanes.
the main game, the fishing, is this arcade runner type game with slightly novel hookshot mechanics. you ride the river, collecting crafting materials, then literally tackle fish to take them down. it’s got just a few nuances to controls but is really simple. it’s pretty ok. some of these later fish have been kicking my ass.
the fetishization could be gross, maybe. it’s not an adult game but it’s not subtle about being into cross-dressing boys. the tag-line saying something about “catch fish then go fish for men in town” was funny to me, sorry. the translation is terrible and occasionally makes things impossible to understand but i’ll take it
i’m gonna get the gothic lolita dress i just unlocked and tackle fish in it
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Holy shit this came out? I have to put this on the list
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The game was pitched as being able to swap out body parts - like get Praying Mantis style blade arms or a stinger tail, and instead you can kind of morph your guy into different shaped blobs.
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Oh I absolutely expected this to be Demon’s Spore and I cannot wait
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Somehow in my dicking around on the internet today, I saw someone compare a game called Fairune to Hydlide, so I had to look into that. There’s a compilation of the games in the series on Switch that was 4 bucks.
So I get the Hydlide comparison, though this game is more puzzle-y. But hilarious, it’s also just full of Hydlide 3 references, so yeah, I beat the first game tonight.
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I started playing Firefighter F.D.18 today. After some brief and poorly-written exposition, you get right to putting out fires to save trapped people. Eventually you reach a boss, which is also nothing but fire.
I like the game so far.
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this game is Top Tier B-Movie material, and is Backdraft:The Movie:The Game par excellence. Boss Fires are so trashy-good they wrap around to a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
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I’ve been playing a bit of Let it Die. There doesn’t seem to be much to it, but I like the vibe, I guess, outside of the characters in the Arcade and the stupid grim reaper. The Decal system is cool, and I like that they’re stickers. I maxed out an all-arounder and managed to beat the Floor 3 boss in like, 3 hits of my Metal Bat, which is one of the few weapons I got any blueprints for (outside of the Buzzsaw Blade and Iron Hammer, neither of which I can upgrade anymore because I don’t have the materials). I managed to finally get a ranged weapon blueprint but it was just a Robbers Crossbow and I couldn’t figure out how to aim. 
I’m on Floor 9, there’s apparently a boss on floor 10 which I hope will allow me to get better fighters, but I don’t really feel like fighting a boss right now.
I got some fancy decal that restores 15HP/sec, which is nice.
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More Ridge Racer 6 and, wow it looks good, sounds good, plays good. I played for like an hour and was even doing single races to fuck around. The entire game makes you feel like the coolest dude alive.
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killing the boss will allow you to build better fighters. also, if you want better equipment, you can easily get premium currency and stuff by playing the minigame where you invade other players’ stations and fight the fighters they left in defence.
i think it’s only 2-handed ranged weapons that let you precisely aim, but it’s been years since i played, so i might be wrong. you’ll get the hang of shooting from the hip eventually though.
i really wish they’d release a “pay once and just get the game” version of it, because i’d like to revisit it but i don’t want to play a ftp game again
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I’m Playing King’s Field 2j and let me tell you, lots of skeletons in this game. Was always excited to find the skeleton cave in a Souls, and there sure are a lot of Skeleton Caves in this game.
Lots of KF2 in Dark Souls 2.
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Dark Souls 2 is by far the most King’s Field Souls. I wish it would make it the best of the lot and I’m sure it would be if they hadn’t already started ramping up the obnoxious prepare to die jumping humanoid boss trend.
King’s Field 3 is even more like Dark Souls 2, being a kaleidoscope of assorted environments separated by artificial loading corridors.
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