Maroon

I looove the Ys VI ost, especially Mighty Obstacle and Release of the Far West Ocean

the best F-Zero win of my life

Kirby 64 is kinda meh but Miracle Matter is a incredibly well designed boss fight. Probably my favorite Kirby boss fight tbh.

but the max money in great cave offensive being 9,999,990 and not 9,999,999 makes me ANGRY

The structure of a bunch of small campaigns with unique gimmicks feels perfect for Kirby.

Replayed Kirby Super Star and it was better than I remember. Probably my top 1 favorite Kirby game now (previously RtDL)

Great Cave Offensive is actually incredible.

people love saying 'monster hunter hasn't gotten easier you've just gotten better' and then you boot up one of the PSP entries and realize upon getting sent to the moon by a low tier shitmon that not only have they gotten easier but they have also literally made you worse

this is making me want to play some of the new kirby stuff too
i used to be a big kirby fan before star allies released

i promised myself that I wouldn't get excited for a new game until it releases anymore but kirby air riders looks so good omgomgomg
I can't help it

AAA games should just have lower budgets

Masahiro Sakurai shared a photo of a Game Director dinner meeting he had for Tokyo Gameshow!

Participants:
- Hideki Kamiya
- Toby Fox
- Yoko Taro
- Jiro Ishii
- Kazutaka Kodaka
- Keiichiro Toyama

scores are stupid by the way, but the same applies to if someone where to say a bad game > mediocre game. like idk. people insist they think games are art yet sure don’t act like it. let go of rules. reflect on things. if it brings you some sort of joy it’s clearly doing something right

i think people being unable to recognize that their feelings will always matter more than their perception of a “good” video game is what leads to people making silly thinkpieces like: “a 5/10 is way less interesting than a 1/10” like. Dude. The 5/10 in question *is* a 1/10 to you

when the programmers settle for a quick hack instead of perfectly elegant code, you may be tempted to think it's because they were on a deadline and wanted to move on to more important things, but no. it's actually because they hate consumers and love artificial difficulty

I really liked Silksong. Act 1 and Act 2 are near 10/10s for me.
However, Act 3 was much worse imo. I also loved almost every Act 1/2 boss but only liked a few from Act 3.

the goombas in mario are TOO STRONG. i hope nintendo corrects this mistake in their next patch notes

I wish I liked the other crests in silksong, but the normal one (hunter's crest) is the only one I've really liked using. It has the best feeling pogo to me and I love the angle the dash attack sends you at, either setting you up to be aggressive with a pogo or evasive.

these are not contradicting statements

I hate Bilewater, I love it

Sinner's Road is such an incredible area, I wish it were a tad bit longer though

i have been going INSANE trying to find some of these fleas in silksong

my hot take for the day is that there's so such thing as objectively bad game design. the goal of game design is to shape the player's experience, and even mean, tedious or un-fun elements can be tools to create the desired experience.

Unironically think Savage Beastfly is a great boss. It's one of the best summoner bosses I've fought in a video game.

Might be my favorite boss so far in Silksong (fantastic game btw)

the only thing I found interesting in the nintendo direct was the Kirby Air Riders direct announcement 😭

A lot of Nintendo games don't even have these :(

“I paid money for it, therefore it should be enjoyable to me” is a bizarre take about art and media.

Leave it to gamers to think up mental frameworks that are utterly incompatible with reality.

Ngl World might be my new least favorite Mario Kart.
The 24 racers is what really does it. It feels so uninteractive playing locally with 1-2 other people.

Interactions are so much less impactful now to accommodate for 24 racers, and I rarely even get to interact with the people I'm playing with.

why is there no Attack on Titan fighting game
it'd be perfect for one

see the cool thing about art is that it can make you feel emotions so I think if video games have to strive to make the only emotion you feel in gameplay be having fun then that is bad

games that strive to eliminate any minor source of frustration in the gameplay are boring

Every time they update the NSO Emulators its a really good addition, and every time I hope in vain for them to let me turn off the horrible polkadot borders.