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Sword & Squire by Will Bowerman Wrangle your unruly knight in this short RPG! Made for the Cookie Cutter rm2k3 jam.

New game! Manage limited resources - and your unruly knight - in Sword & Squire!

Had a lot of fun putting my personal RPG design theory to the test while making this for the Cookie Cutter RM2k3 Jam - I hope you'll enjoy playing it!

will-bowerman.itch.io/sword-squire

it looks the size of a saturn. they're bigger than you think.

well, this is just a natural result of the constant hostility engendered towards the mainstream gaming press, I suppose. It follows naturally that we all exist a little downstream of that. the spectre of gamergate still haunts us all.

I'm a little surprised at how fast the gamer consensus seems to have pulled an RE2Make and decided RE9 is unquestionably 10/10 and any gripes about it will result in people getting aggro

given how people to this day get weird at me for not liking 2Make, it's discouraging to talk about them at all

might have to start locking my replies to non-followers again because I feel like every post I've made recently has generated extremely tedious replies from annoying people

no and I'm not sure how you arrived at that conclusion but that would've been cool, I suppose.

as someone with two of them. that is very obviously a sega saturn what are you talking about

i have no personal involvement here but i have been working on a theory as i observe discourse around marathon and all other live service shooters and it can be summed up as this: everyone just wants to play team deathmatch

A screenshot from Mitsumete Knight (PlayStation). My character has just met Sparkster, of Rocket Knight Adventures fame, in an ordinary street. In spite of the fact that the game is otherwise full of ordinary humans, he is still clearly a goggles-wearing possum in blue armour.

A screenshot from Mitsumete Knight (PlayStation). We fight on the cobbled street. Sparkster's proportions are more "realistic", but it's still recognisably him. His rocket pack gives off little gusts of air.

A screenshot from Mitsumete Knight (PlayStation). Still, in battle, Sparkster prepares for a special attack. The cut-in art shows him smiling, ready to strike.

A screenshot from Mitsumete Knight (PlayStation). Sparkster rocket boosts towards my character, turning blue and smeary in the process.

YOU REALLY NEED TO SEE THIS SEMI-SECRET CHARACTER ENCOUNTER IN MITSUMETE KNIGHT

there's always a method to reset your savefile to nothing but the main thing is that a lot of people are extremely lazy and leaderboards tend to be moulded around those types so not sure how this is gonna shake out

I am curious how the leaderboard structure will work for Requiem because it's another one of those games where you can't turn NG+ unlocks off or simply start a fresh file but unlike RE7 where you can just choose not to take NG+ stuff out of the box, some upgrades are permanent and passive

i don't like the implications that resident evil 1 is a game that exists inside the resident evil universe. that thought has only struck me just now but I'm going to lose sleep over it.

imo the greatest sin Requiem commits is inaccurate portrayal of Saturn game cases. Get it together, Capcom.

it's just one section but it goes on for quite a bit.

honestly I thought that bit was a highlight because it's not something they've done in a modern resi for a hot minute. but yeah it would suck very bad if you're very arachnophobic (I am pretty bad irl but I handle video games ok?)

that is the popular consensus but I am probably the world's most dedicated RE2Make hater

it is on face value so strange to me that RE9 bills itself as doing this big grand return to past locales, look guys! look where it all started!

but it's all filtered through the lens of the RE2Make version! that's stolen valour! that game isn't even that old! you can't nostalgia bait for 2019 dude

re2make continues to be the worst thing to happen to this franchise

like ok it's not constantly awful or anything but I do think the game loses serious momentum and it was really disappointing that part had basically nothing new to show me? It felt like playing through whatever the opposite of a Greatest Hits compilation was but authored by a mediocre cover band

the resi remakes, is the thing I'm alluding to here.

i guess re2make is seven but I digress

Finished Resident Evil Requiem!

That first half is pretty good! That second half is pretty not! Very odd choice to do a bunch of nostalgia bait bullshit for games that are like 5 years old and also bad. Remember this? yeah, it was bad. why are we reprising this.

#FugaMelodiesofSteel

Punchy - Twitch Finishing Resident Evil 9! yes I know everyone is playing this. that includes me.

www.twitch.tv/punchy Finishing Resident Evil 9!!!

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of course the only way to get better would be to just do it but that's the thing I just wanna play cool games and talk about them? I'm not incredibly interested in the idea of learning how to write snappy character dialogue? I appreciate those who can but it's not where my passions in specific lie?

I sometimes have to translate sections of game for my videos for the audience which I am still not that comfortable doing and I tend to run such things by a bilingual friend who is actually experienced with writing character dialogue because he tends to have more elegant ideas than me lol

some people have the idea that all you need to translate effectively is an ability to speak both English and Japanese and while that is obviously a pre-requisite, it's more complicated than that? It's creative writing and that's not a skill you just acquire naturally as a consequence of bilinguality

also ok tertiary thing but I do get a little annoyed when people kind of implicitly demand I should spend huge amounts of my time to create free translations just because I have a functional amount of japanese in my head

I am not a writer? Not of the fiction kind, anyway. It's not really my field?

and u see unlike the kinds of people inclined to fake it with AI, I possess a basic level of self-awareness to recognize when I am completely unqualified for the job in question

like it's one thing to play the game when you don't understand all the jokes, it's another to *translate* it that way

some dickhead in the replies of one of my segagaga threads was like "why don't you translate it yourself if you care so much" and I look at this and am like yeah no I'm not qualified for that lol

i don't get like half of this, man. i ain't watch enough anime for alla this

and I think you should probably shut up