Still think Ivy the Kiwi is set to have one hell of a speedrunning scene for it one day if just the right people discover it. I was kind of blown away when I saw a video of that and realised how wrong I’d been playing it. Actually handed the Android version to a few friends on occasion and they all had similar reactions when I showed them the go fast strats.
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Y’all not giving the full name is driving me nuts Ivy The Kiwi? .
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this is the deep cut version of not punctuating nights into dreams correctly
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hi I’m finally getting around to this
why does Yuji Naka respect my intelligence and agency more than 95% of other developers
other games: you gotta jump through our hoops or learn how to break our baby
Balan: look you can do it like the very obvious way we are signposting or you can just take whatever costume and skip shit and make up your own solution or whatever, you seem smart, figure it out
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Physical copies of this are dirt cheap now so I, winker, bought it
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Hell yeah. Welcome.
The actual reveal for the girl’s story is: the maids were throwing her a birthday party thar was just the maids and her parents. It was stupendously sad.
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Oh shit
Yuji Naka realising that the real nightmare is SQEX itt
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there is a reason why nobody who has worked with Yuji Naka,
wants to work with Yuji Naka
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If Hirozaku Yasuhara could blood potion this, he would.
Edit: idk why I originally said Ohshima
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WELL WHAT’S STOPPING HIM
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actually ohshima was probably one of the guys who pushed him out of balan so
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damn he just cut the man out lol
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Oh my god this is game of the decade so far
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this is the best game on PS5 right now
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As I mentioned in the deals thread, I recently acquired a physical copy of this game for $8.50 from Best Buy, and I’m now committed to playing through it ONLY while stoned.
I had my first session last night and made it through the first 2.5 areas. Here are my assorted thoughts:
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This game’s aesthetics are truly mind boggling. It’s like someone made a AAA licensed game of the generic, ultra-cheap toys they sell at CVS and the Dollar Store, but then cranked up the psychedelia to MAX. And I do like those psychedelic touches – the ways the spaces warp and bend, the way the air in front of you ripples to the music… It’s neat.
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The music is actually great so far, and I think some of it is consciously trying to do a NiGHTS Into Dreams thing, which I always approve of. The combat music in the second level is SO jarring though. I’m going through this calm water level with pretty, ambient music playing, and then suddenly before I even notice an enemy, the music switches over to frenetic tribal bagpipe jazz fusion!? It totally threw me off every time. And the enemies infinitely respawn (a huge problem for me) so that music kept coming back.
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The disappearing giant people jump scared me every time, it’s like the giant Eileen head in Silent Hill 4.
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I still can’t tell whether these kids can trust Balan. Here’s what I know so far about Balan:
- Balan lures children into his realm with no explanation
- Balan has enemies and does violence to them, but never in front of the children
- Balan is impossibly fast and agile, and likes to disorient people by zipping around them
- Balan is deeply proud of their theatrical realm and loves to present it to people. They are happy to keep you captive and put you in dangerous situations so you’ll experience theater.
- Balan has a puckish nature. They have a complex and inhuman sense of humor that they are driven by, and it is not bound by ethical considerations.
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Oh yeah also I am so jazzed to see every cutscene in this game. That lavish opening is captivating! Even though it’s just straight up the “Friend Like Me” scene from Aladdin with Balan in the role of the genie. The music’s even super similar! In fact, I think Balan’s whole thing might be that they’re the Robin Williams Genie crossed with Gene Wilder’s Willy Wonka but represented as a palette-swapped NiGHTS.
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