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I used to type like a manic pixie girl.

If you expect someone to do work as extensive as modding for you they'll expect compensation, no matter how simple you think it would be in your head. The age of the game doesn't matter or the genre or whatever, no super generous saint is going to come along and do some unimportant task like...

As a big fan of SMB1 I enjoy DS' return to basics while keeping most of what I like about the sequels before and building upon'em, find it more easily enjoyable than World and 3... and the diabolical Famicom 2 twins. I've grown to appreciate NSMB2 more after playing the original, it's actually...

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I use d-pad and that still happens to me, my biggest issue with that version of the game now that I think about it.

I think you just articulated my exact thoughts on the control scheme and the ones of 3D retro games as a whole better than I ever have lol.

Favorite parts of Final Fantasy 1 were the world exploration and its mixture of sci-fi and well... Fantasy! That ending was subversive in a way I haven't seen from this type of game before, it was way less generic than I expected. The dungeons and some of the battle encounters were frustrating...

LGM made some point about the old one compared to Mario's suit long ago but like. yeah. this was a major improvement in hindsight. What's a tanuki without some roundness? One that's not very much a tanuki at all! I like the poof. The princesses desperately need sillier outfits, more comedic...

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I believe I do, the difference for me is I find the horrors enjoyable lol. Silly old computers trying to be conventional cartoons and failing appeals to my taste. Seeing more promo material, looking at the series' developing aesthetic through a critical lens and learning more about the artists'...

I've smelt an anti-SM64 sentiment growing 'round... an EVIL agenda by a brainwashed shadowy cabal surely, I'm not a nutjob. I love 64's low poly kids' anime aesthetic with digital artifice and its masterfully composed soundtrack. When you let yourself adjust to its controls and familiarize...

That one combination of reddish orange and blueberry blue hues with black and white tickles my brain. The only official example I can think of is NSMB DS but I've been playing the Super Mario Bros. Special NES rom hack port, it kinda gives me eyestrain but I also kinda love it lol.

smrpg snes vs superstar saga GBA which would you rather play through again? I'd go for Saga any day.

So, recently I've been playing through an old German RPG Maker game called... Well, y'know. Which roughly translates to "On The Road In Darkburgh" and I've been having quite a fun time with it! It has a lot of character, it very much embodies that indie dev spirit of a person's determination to...

why must flying enemies have the most annoying sound effects in Mario spin-offs

The obstacle design is mind-boggling, every enemy is more obnoxious than the last, its punishments are too steep in general. I hate the score system, having to nab every collectible in one run feels so redundant when you fail your first time, miss one red coin and you have to find everything all...

I've said this before and I'll say it again, Yoshi's Island SNES is a poorly designed platformer, and I don't quite care for it at all. I'll take Yoshi's New Island and Wooly World over it any day.

You can tell a character's an antagonist in one of those toy commercial cartoons when they have distinct shape language. Okay, I've been watching Bratz clips again because its aesthetic fascinates me, another Flygon yaps about archaic 2000s thing in-coming. I'll start broad, its outdated...

absolute cungadero

do you think wd's gonna get a bluesky or what. iykyk.

Remembering Yoshi has a regular human name and his entire species shares it made me laugh. Just imagining someone coming across an island of prehistoric creatures and they're shouting "BOB!" at the top of their lungs. Researchers pitch down their cries and hear some dude in his late 20s making...

The Switch 2 has got to be the greediest egg I've ever seen.

Giana Sisters DS is pretty good.

Toby Fox games that he finished but I forgot Arn's Winter Quest, I don't know much about Arn's Winter Quest. Don't expect full essays. Undertale Halloween Hack Internalized homophobia Andonuts is an interesting character. You can see some of the seeds planted for Fox's future projects...

I like Prince Peasley, the thing he has going on with Luigi is more entertaining than what Luigi's got going on with Daisy. I like Kamek's and Bowser's father son dynamic it's also why I subscribe to the adopted Koopalings fanon, the idea's cute. I really like Bowser in general, I had fun...

Wishing I had more than a craptop so I could play through all of the Paper Marios folks care for. Can't run Wii, I can run N64 so the first is on the table, and TTYD is on Switch but... I want to play the original version of that one. The remake has QOL or whatever, but its script has been...

The thing would've been more positively received, more reflective of the worldbuilding of the source material. I like the one we got, the bros being characterized as a duo of constantly annoyed New Englanders will always be funny, but damn would I have enjoyed the fantasy version more. I love...

New Super Mario Bros' power up gating was a very annoying design choice. Blue shells are a pain to get, mini mushrooms are annoying to find again after you inevitably lose them.

Video series by an actual historian, I've been checking out US history on my free time more recently. What do you mean there isn't some shadowy cobalt hiding beneath the sheeple's noses? Government incompetence?! Idiots having lucky streaks and other idiots having unlucky streaks?! Pfft, no, my...

Vid as the reporter from Ringside is an idea I like. Gamer Cat as Ethan from Ctrl Alt Delete is another one. Bunny Ditto... someone with a British accent idk it used to be Elizabeth Afton but she's too old for that now.

Did you know the Koopalings were caricatures of Nintendo devs? I love that trivia, it's so humanizing, I like learning about the PEOPLE behind big video games.

100% of Peach's Adventure. Best. Rom. Hack. Ever. Had me grinning ear to ear.

Lack of analog control doesn't bother me, I'm biased because I grew up with it though lol. I prefer its art style over the original, there's more graphism to it, but it still has that low poly crunch and just the right amount of it. I can vibe in DS's world more than I can N64's. Well, it's...

Danganronpa 3 is better than V3 in concept when you notice the meta narrative. Everything past 2 is about deconstructing the faults of the franchise and I think the train wreck of an anime is the most fascinating attempt. The execution? Really bad but I like thinking about it more than the...

Mario 64 gets better every replay, worst stages in the game are the water levels and they aren't even all that bad. I think it's genuinely my favorite 3D Mario game, Sunshine takes second place maybe, I don't like Galaxy or Odyssey. 64 feels so fugging good when you adjust to it, it has this...

Undertale and Deltarune's retro JRPG artifice but self awareness but earnestness just scratches this personal itch I have so well. Insect games.

Gen 6 of Pokemon is the most otaku-coded one of the bunch, very fanservicey in many ways, it's the one that had softcore porn artists on the art team after all. Not like the other gens weren't reflective of their pop cultural moment but 6 is the one that wears that influence on its sleeve. It...

I forgot what a Womble was, so I asked British strangers to identify it, here was the picture I showed them depicting my vague memory of one.

The first seemed like it got chopped up and slimmed down to an excessive amount to cut corners because it was the best-looking and most detailed Illumination movie at its release. The Mario movie was the first time the studio's output actually wowed me, they're cheapskates and it shows for most...

The gopher from Petz 5 and its dumb little victory dance. Hatred.

Pokemon's worldbuilding is scuffed, it's gameplay loop restrictive, but I enjoy it for some reason. What if exotic pets loved their owners? What if you could domesticate them? Use them? The series can go up and down across town yelling "Pokemon are friends, not tools" but, no, lol, animal...