Games From The Black Hole

They are! My daughter has a Gabby’s Dollhouse one. Gave me big Mighty Max flashbacks.

Boardwalk Times @ D23 @BoardwalkTimes Pixar CCO Pete Docter asked Hayao Miyazaki, "When do you make changes for you and when do you make changes for the audience?" during the INSIDE OUT 2 press tour. Miyazaki replied, "I never think about the audience." #D23 Two separate photos of Pete Docter and Hayao Miyazaki, respectively.

thinking about the time Hayao Miyazaki bodied Pete Docter and Pixar

Liquid Kids – Cute and bubbly One of the all time great arcade developers, Taito is a legendary company whose name is most obviously associated with Space Invaders. On that game alone, they earned their place in the history boo…

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Liquid Kids/Mizubaku Adventure is a fantastic entry in Taito’s line of cutesy arcade platfomers.

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Made even more boggling by the fact that while the aesthetic and fidelity is linked to the RE2 remake, the gameplay is equal parts RE4 and PS1-RE1. Not a complaint in my eyes; it’s a fantastic pastiche of RE history, but almost certainly lost on anyone who hasn’t been around since the start.

You can find write-ups for all of the following over on the blog…

Head Over Heels
Shining Force 3
Ys VIII
Mr Driller
(Return To) Monkey Island
Alien Breed (Tower Assault)

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This week’s arrivals… All lovely birthday presents.

Oh boy yes. Excellent game

Remember when Marvel gaslit us all into thinking this character was in Wandavision only to reveal he was a guy called Ralph Boner? Feels like that would never happen today.

My choice had a pipe too

Great bonus stage in that top left one

This is me

The Manga Bible, UK edition out today, with German and French editions. Hot pink covers overprinted with black graphic imagery by Baron Yoshimoto. Block capital lettering in yellow for the title and white for author name.

Happy New Book Birthday to me! #TheMangaBible is in the shops today. I can't go into town and seek it out on the shelves because I have to stay at home until my shoulder heals, so please help me see how it looks in the wild. Pls post any sightings - photos if poss! - and link to reviews you see.

That’s Resident Evil Requiem finished. My hot take is that it’s the much more successful execution of what Resident Evil 6 was trying to do.

Today is my birthday!

As a present to me, why not load up my blog and choose a game to read about?

I’ve got thoughtful posts on all kinds of games from 1979 to 2025, across all kinds of systems both popular and obscure.

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Honestly think my favourite genre of film/performance is unlikeable people who become fractionally more likeable as the film goes on. See… Bruce Campbell, Simon Pegg, Stephen Chow. No idea why but it’s clearly a thing.

Haha. I was the one who gave Time Extension the news tip. :)

Today is my birthday!

As a present to me, why not load up my blog and choose a game to read about?

I’ve got thoughtful posts on all kinds of games from 1979 to 2025, across all kinds of systems both popular and obscure.

gamesfromtheblackhole.wordpress.com

Shining The Holy Ark – Dungeon mastery If Shining Force III (the best game ever made) is an amped up, firing on all cylinders, 32-bit rendition of Sega’s classic tactical RPG series, then Shining The Holy Ark is the same thing but for S…

Hopefully this tips you over the edge…

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Yuppppppp. It’s a shame a generic sports game will sell a lot more to the general kids and casual crowd more than even a half decent RPG would

Totally agree! Shining The Holy Ark does the same thing.

The senior leadership who made Golden Sun and Shining Force are very much still there but getting very old. I imagine they could still make a great traditional tactics RPG, if they staffed up. But do the economics make sense?

The truth is that the games industry is brutal right now and at least Camelot is still going when other small devs in Nintendo’s orbit (Skip, AlphaDream) have long since disappeared. I imagine they’re glad of the work.

I’d LOVE a new Camelot RPG more than anyone, but that’s not Nintendo’s fault.

I’m not sure Nintendo is really to blame for this. They don’t own Camelot, who remain independent and are instead keeping them going with good, reliable work. Sure the could commission a new Golden Sun, but Sega could commission a Shining Force, Square Enix could commission Dragon Quest Tactics…

I don’t know how to use chatgpt etc but I imagine it’s going to a website and typing “oh no what groceries do I buy please tell me false god for I am so weak I cannot go on” as your brain atrophies and leaks out of your ears from disuse and the machine is like “buy eggs milk bread and a horse”

Oh man. Hope you and yours are okay.

It’s nice to see this get a fan translation even if it’s not that great. You can read about it, and literally every other Lupin III game, in this epic blog post: gamesfromtheblackhole.wordpress.com/2022/10/30/l...

Oh boy

Gley Lancer – Modern options elevate a classic Gley Lancer is one of those shoot-‘em-ups that’s always kind of just been there in the background for me. I’ve never owned it or even played it before this week, but had somehow reached an unchalle…

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Classic Mega Drive shoot-‘em-up action with Gley Lancer.

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Listen to the latest Big Picture podcast if you haven’t already. There’s a great interview with Matt Johnson in which he discusses the editing and the hardest shot they did.

I assumed as much