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This is his first turn-based-combat game, so he's had to get used to all the mechanics and systems that come with that. The parrying+dodging stuff is a challenge too

a man with a beard is holding a gun in front of a building Alt: Clair Obscur Expedition 33 gif. Gustave, a 32 year old man with wavy brown hair, stands in front of some very dusty post-apocalyptic Paris scenery. Some flower petals fly in the wind.

Since the start of this month I've made a lot of progress in Clair Obscur Expedition 33, but admittedly I got a bit burnt out on it over the past week or so. I'll get back into it this weekend

On the other hand, my Dad's started playing it now! 😆 He completed Final Fantasy 16 last month

a video game character named luigi is holding a key in his hand Alt: Luigi from the Mario series. He smiles in a mansion room and is holding a key in his hand

As it's now been added to the GameCube app on Switch 2, I've just now *finally* played Luigi's Mansion for the first time

It's pretty fun! I'd only ever seen random bits of gameplay footage on YouTube until now, so actually playing it felt interesting

Definitely feels like an early GC game though

2025 might've honestly been the darkest, emptiest year to be a Kingdom Hearts fan.

Reeeeally hoping there's just *something* KH4 related at the Game Awards in December. Even if it's just Square saying things are still going with it

"Deep down there's a light that never goes out" n' all

BIG MAN BENCH item in the new Animal Crossing New Horizons 2026 update. He's a giant cartoon manta-ray but in the shape of a bench to sit on

BIG MAN BENCH

BIG MAN BENCH

#AnimalCrossingNewHorizons

Good lord

Sure, but just don't make him speak full sentences like that bizarre Skylanders thing about 9 years ago

I've been playing this with a friend from work recently! (After both of us have completed It Takes Two in 2023 and Split Fiction this Spring) 😄

We're loving it so far, but still early-ish into the game I think

Thing is, this'll just confuse so many people because they'll think the 4th Sonic movie is a CD ("music CD") and not a DVD

YouTube video by SilverTomMedia Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - "Rain From The Ground" (Goblu Boss Theme) || SilverTom Remix

A bit of a different remix on my YouTube channel:

This is my spin on one of the (surprisingly funky) boss battle tracks from Clair Obscur Expedition 33!

En garde and enjoy 😎🥖⚔️

youtu.be/3ir7I07doEQ

#ClairObscurExpedition33

Thank you! I'm looking forward to trying those out soon 😄

Also this one stage in the demo is b i z z a r e

I love it. I thought Tetris Effect's scenery was wild but this is absolute chaos

The same studio behind Lumines Arise and Tetris Effect should eventually make a Puyo Puyo game that has this same fancy psychedelic style and all of those particle effects

I'd purchase that instantly

A clip from the Lumines Arise demo I played last night.

I'm still a Lumines noob (I keep playing it like it's Tetris trying to fill the gaps, or Puyo Puyo trying to make long colour connections)

But I somehow made this big square when I activated the slo-mo powerup thing and it was VERY satisfying

Screenshot of Lumines Arise on PS5. A typical block-puzzle game grid is on screen, featuring coloured blocks. The aesthetic of the entire game is dreamlike and ethereal, with glowing light beams and transparency. For some reason two chameleons are on the sides of the screen, illuminated by the glowing aura, with their mouths open wide, and their tongues out.

In recent years, Tetris Effect has been one of my favourite games ever (not even just a favourite *puzzle* game") so recently I tried the demo of Lumines Arise (from the same devs)

I've never played a Lumines game before, so it took a bit of getting used to, but DAMN it's satisfying and psychedelic

Then I was in a sort of tall train station / airport with lots of parallel staircases going up and down. I was walking with someone and waved goodbye to her as she went in another direction (I think we even hugged???), but now after waking up, I have zero clue who she even was

...What on earth

Had a dream last night which was one of those "multiple parts" dreams

First, I saw a new Kingdom Hearts 4 trailer in a cinema (for some reason). Saw Roxas+Axel+Xion in the new photorealistic style and it had some sort of temple world

Then I was in a gift shop that sold nothing but wooden spoons

(I think we knew this since early 2020, I don't know why he's saying this now??)

I can't help but feel this statement is slightly... odd?

Games don't "stop running" and many systems nowadays have backwards compatibility allowing you to play the classics like you'd watch a classic movie.

Movies also don't last forever if they're only temporarily viewable on streaming services

Also much like Uematsu, when it comes to my own music or any work I do (including game development) I also don't use generative AI and never plan on using it

It's far more rewarding to learn and hone your craft yourself, rather than type some prompts for a soulless AI to shit things out for you

He's RIGHT there, come on, give him his own game

Also much like Uematsu, when it comes to my own music or any work I do (including game development) I also don't use generative AI and never plan on using it

It's far more rewarding to learn and hone your craft yourself, rather than type some prompts for a soulless AI to shit things out for you

King. Legend. Top tier mentality

I've been working on a new Remix recently and throughout this week I've been in that phase where I'm naming my render files like

song_final
song_final_v2
song_final_v3WithBetterBass
song_final_BetterBassV2
song_finalfinal_thistimeforreal

🫠

.....Yeah, this won't work. So many DS games have UI elements in the corners of their screen

If, like DS games on the Wii U, they just provide screen layout modes like side-by-side or vertical (via rotating your Switch sideways) that'd be ideal

M*crosoft "make good software and firmware and stop ruining everything and collecting data" challenge [impossible]

It worries me that in about 5 years from now, a ~70 Gigabytes AAA game would probably be considered "small"

Congratulations! 🎉🥳

The last time I remember having this "Tetris effect" feeling, was October 2021 when Metroid Dread released.
Played it in long sessions from its release day on a Thursday(?) to a Sunday night, and on each of those nights, my mind would pretend to navigate through imaginary 2D Metroidvania rooms