Yeah, that’s just boring and disappointing. Take X, insert a Pi into it… “GUYS! I HOLLOWED OUT A PUMPKIN AND MADE IT A RETRO CONSOLE!”

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“LOOK! THIS FISH RUNS DOOM!”

An excellent game, also similar to King’s Field. Another great PS2 Fromsoft RPG is Evergrace. Horrible translation and voice acting, but interesting when you look at it like a precursor to Elden Ring. Lots of similarities.

Voices of the Void has been my go to time waster for a couple years now. Dev is a little weird, but the game is amazingly well done and gets somewhat regular updates that expand the story and add new content. You are essentially a scientist sent to work at a SETI-like site in Switzerland. Your job is to maintain the site and search for signals in space, analyze them, and then ship them out to your colleagues, for which you get paid to buy supplies and other things. As you play, random events occur, some funny, some scary. There’s tons of items to buy and decorate your base with. Lots of locations to discover. Sooooooo many secrets to find. I’m constantly impressed by all the work they’ve done with a very small team.

My only complaint is having to reset my save when an update comes out. It’s generally worth it, as there’s usually new events that you’ll miss otherwise, but having to redecorate the base and lose collectables you’ve spent hours on is a bummer… That and I hate the new drive storage rack. I wish they’d bring back then old one as an additional storage item.

Also, the whole damn game is free.

Exactly, they’re apologizing, not committing seppuku.

Funko: Hey, chatgpt… Write an apology letter to the gaming community about getting itch.io shut down. Something like “Sorry, we fucked up. Please don’t hate us and continue to buy our stuff!” but make it sound like it came from an intern in HR.

Chatgpt: I got you fam…

How I imagine AirBNB furniture looks after a year of rentals

I just started playing Terraria again for the first time in a few years. TMODLoader is now a supported extension of it, so there’s a ton of extra content and difficulty modifiers to play with. Having a randomly generated world with a mess of new and unknown stuff definitely scratches that exploration itch.

The steam fall sale is going on right now.

That song is the main level theme for an SNES game called Smart Ball, originally Jerry Boy in Japan. It was developed by Game Freak, same company that created Pokémon.

Nobody asked, but there you go.

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But really, how could you forget Lufia 1&2?

Overall I really enjoyed it as well. But I never went into it expecting it was going to be the original like a lot of others did. Most episodes were solid. The cast worked off each other very well. It’s clear there was a ton of love that went into the whole production.

However, one of my biggest complaints was that Faye’s character leaned way too far into tomboyishnes.

My other huge one was how much of a pussy they turned Vicious into. I appreciated the arc, but it turned HBO so fast. Making Julia the mastermind and turning Vicious into such a snivelling little prick was just bullshit.

Then there was Ed…

Picked it up the other night and streamed it. Basically, I recommend it if you’re a Rocky Horror fan. If you’re not, you’re getting a somewhat mediocre and extremely short $10 platformer.

The good… It was super funny. On top of the obvious show story, there’s a whole mess of references to 8bit games that hit just right. I had to stop and take a break a couple times because I was laughing so hard. The music is great, but instrument choices are a little too “farty” sounding in my opinion. Still enjoyed it, sang along and said callbacks during cutscenes.

The bad stuff…

Some of the deaths are kinda cheap. There’s platforms that will collapse that have no indication of such. The only way to find out it when they fall. Likewise, most of the hazards in the game are spiky balls and weights that swing or fall to kill you. There’s moments where stuff falls from off screen. Only way to find them is when they’re coming down to smash you.

There are only 3 regular enemies throughout the game, a screaming skull, a brain with googly eyes, and a zombie/skeleton maid thing. In my opinion, they could have thrown in Transylvanians, dogs, could have even justified mutants or something and called them failed experiments.

There’s only like 3 levels, visited by each character. Each run through the level gets harder with slight pathing variations. Also, Brad is the only character who takes more than one hit. Janet and Dr. Scott are instant death. Doesn’t impact things a ton because in their levels, as getting hit would probably be instant death anyway.

I feel like they really missed the opportunity to include a church level. Instead the game starts off in the car on your way to the castle. Could have had skeletons and zombies in the graveyard, ended the level with either Pastor Tim Curry fighting you because he was pissed about you writing in the church doors. Could have even called him an asshole. Also, perfect opportunity to do an American Gothic Riffraff/Torgo cross reference.

Lastly, boss fights are super random, but ultimately the same. They have a jump and an attack. They’ll randomly do either one. No patterning, so getting hits can be erratic. I only got hung up on the last one.

Ultimately, $10 was cheaper than going to buy a ticket. The game only takes around an hour to complete. I ran through it twice and still found it enjoyable. Whether that seems worth it is up to you. Normally, I’d have been a little annoyed at the play time and there’s obvious flaws, but I still enjoyed it a lot because of the theme. It’s an established story. They respected the content and didn’t go nuts and try to deviate from it. Having grown up with LJN’s travesties, I enjoyed this. Get it if you like the show.

Knight jumps queen! Bishop jumps queen! Pawns jump queen!

Wait till you see what happens in chess.

“I have never met a person who can…”

Who the hell are Becquerel or the Curies!?

As a stupid American, I ate the egg whole… What now?

I think he said moose and squirrel!

I better be able to get a pu pu platter somewhere along the way…