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So here's a fun thing: There are now ~500~ posts on my site, all ready and waiting for you to read them! The articles span over 40 years of gaming across almost as many formats - I'm sure you'll find something you like if you go take a look :D
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Time for some fresh air! Turn up the volume and enjoy the gentle music, birdsong, and bugs of Boku no Natsuyasumi!
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Chrono Cross, 1999
This is absolutely one of those "Graphics don't need to get any better than this" kinda games :D
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PS2 games:
(OK, I think I've made my point!)
(Sorry for the emulated upscaling in some of the screenshots in this thread - I went through a "Ooh, what's this look like in HD?" phase)
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Squaresoft really did weave some real magic on the humble PlayStation...
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@necrosofty
I hate everything about that statement. I hate the idea that ~playing a game for fun~ is not "contributing" ~to a game~
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Every time I think Super Wing Commander's voice acting couldn't possibly get any worse, it pulls out a scene like this:
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Baroque's used of light and shadow (however much of a cheat it may actually be) is just ~phenomenal~ :D
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OK, time to go digging through my own EX Troopers folder! Everything in this thread is official art pulled from old Capcom websites, etc.
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When I rule the world, every 2D action RPG/RPG-ish game will have a cool bit near the end with a faux spinny stair climb :D
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Games, in order (L-R, top to bottom)
1st tweet: Castlevania: Lament of Innocence/Boku no Natsuyasumi 2/Tori no Hoshi/Xenosaga Ep 2
2nd: Silent Hill 2/King's Field IV/Resident Evil Outbreak/Metal Gear Solid 2
3rd: Metal Gear Solid 3/Gradius V/FFXII/Unlimited SaGa
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@Battlehork
Right! "Oh no, did this game have a unique visual identity and not take 800 people 6 years to make?"
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Clock Tower WonderSwan version gameplay sample (do turn the volume up a little bit just so you can hear the sound effects!):
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LOOK AT GRANDIA'S FISH!
LOOK AT THEM!
They're this perfect little ~suggestion~ of a shape swimming against the current!
Look at the sunlight playing on the surface!
Look at their shadows underneath!
LOOK AT THE FISHIES PLEASE
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Last RT:
And on that note: Whenever I see "Looks like a PS1 game" in a review - ~you bloody wish~
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OMG
【お知らせ】現在、緊急クエスト「アークスシップの炎渦」で流れている、アッシュ版や新録英語版を含めた3種の『Burning Hearts』をすべて収録し、撮りおろしのドラマパートも収録したCDが発売決定！ドラマのオリジナルキャラには声優の関智一さんが参加決定！
#PSO2
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Last RT: I swear I will never stop trying to make people understand what FFXII's doing with Vaan (and Penelo):
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PleasepleasePLEASE can we have more games where "Looks good" means "Has it's own style" and not "If you enter photo mode and zoom in you can see individual beard follicles"
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Seeing a lot of "How come QA didn't catch ~that~?!" today so here's AFAIK how game QA actually works:
-QA find a problem and report it ASAP
-A manager looks at the report, sees the bug doesn't break the game, and puts it in the "That's nice" pile.
-There is no step three
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How to have an amazing game collection:
1) Never buy "For the collection"
2) Don't fill gaps in series just b/c there's a gap
3) Sell games you don't enjoy
4) Don't try and force yourself to play classics you "should" like
5) Don't let other people tell you what you're missing
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~Woah~
Just watch the sun in the top-left of this Gun Hazard clip!
It doesn't just come and go - there are separate fades for the sun itself and that artistic lens flare, and when it's fully visible the whole screen gets tinted an outdoorsy blue! :O
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For your viewing pleasure: Perhaps the ~most~ PS1 game of them all ^^~
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Here's a quick GIF demonstrating the fantastically smooth movement found in PC-98 game Elmknight
(And that incredible cockpit surround too)
(Micro Cabin, 1992)
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"What's this kanji? How can I not know this word? I'm so, so, stupid..."
*looks up kanji*
AND IT'S ALWAYS EITHER
"This is an outdated term used exclusively when a female frog is addressing a tree under the harvest moon"
OR
"Just a really weird way of saying 'a spoon'"
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@sheepytina
It does bother me that "8-bit" has been taken to mean either "Kinda crappy-looking" or "NES Mega Man" and nothing else.
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The Visions of Mana demo, the majority of Square-Enix's recent output in general, and games like Eiyuden Chronicle are your semi-regular reminder that developers still do make weird, wonderful, & experimental mid-budget RPGs. It's on us to show up and support them! o/
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~The Eldorado Gate Corner's finally here~
Everyone can hop on over here and read over 12,000 words covering all seven discs of Capcom's epic Japan-only Dreamcast RPG!
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Koumajou Remilia Scarlet Symphony (yay!) is out now!
Please, you've got to play this ace Touhou X Castlevania game:
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Hey I know it's only a simple little thing but I just want to share a quick clip showing how effective Twilight Syndrome's 3D/camera positioning is:
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Hey, please take a look at this gorgeous pixel art of cyberpunk Manhattan I stitched together from BloodNet's scrolling map screen :D
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I will not die until I achieve something.
Even though the ideal is high, I never give in.
Therefore, I never die with regrets.
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I don't think I'll ever get tired of Boundary Gate's "crumbling pixels" death animation! I want more 2D games to do this :D
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It's so oddly unsuited to the N64, but that only makes me love it all the more :D
(It looks gorgeous through a CRT TV too!)
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I just like the way old games like this (Racing Lagoon, by the way) look, that's all. I think they're pretty.
(This is Tenchu)
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Hey if you're excited about the upcoming Panzer Dragoon Zwei remake you'll want to take a look at this hyper-detailed breakdown of the game's scoring formulas/route changes/Lagi stats & evolve points/boss strategies/ADEC system/secret bonuses I wrote:
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Hey, watch the background in this little sequence - it's amazing!
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I did it! I really did it! It's only taken me... 33 years, but I've finally cleared Eye of the Beholder! :D
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I am not fond of "The greatest game you've never played" statements, but in Sword and Fairy's case that sadly might be true. This Chinese RPG deserves to be revered as a titan of the genre:
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Every MGS boss:
-I long for battle
-Did you know I trained with the FBI, SOS, TNT, and BBC?
-*weird magical power demonstration*
-Only you can fight me
-*bleeds out for ten minutes, talking all the while*
-FMV cutscene of nuclear things
-War is bad
-Thank you for killing me
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15 posts.
21,000+ words.
The Sakura Wars Corner is a collection of articles, images, GIFs, and video clips examining every facet of the first two games in the series, as well as many of the lesser known spinoffs across four different formats.
#SEGAForever
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Woah~
How is Sengoku Turb this pretty?! When I was a kid and dreamed of actually playing a "silicon graphics" game, this is exactly what I had in mind :O
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I know I keep saying it but please bookmark (and then visit!) all those little sites you use to while away your morning commute or scratch a niche itch.
~Search engines don't work for us~
~You will probably never find us again if you don't make a proper note~
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HORROR MONTH: A destroyed world. An endless cycle. Hold Baroque inside...
(This is Sting's 1998 Saturn roguelike, Baroque!)
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DekaVoice, a gorgeous detective game for the PS2 where you use your voice to command your dog, interrogate suspects, and more:
(I should play this one again and give it a proper article)
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Oh hey, what's this? A PC-98 article on
@pcgamer
? Yep that's right!
Have a read and pass it on - I'm just getting started! ;)
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1 year and 53,000+ words later... it's finally ready! I've written an in-depth article on every single one of the 33 games in the Sega Ages 2500 series, covering remixed modes, optional 3D glasses, secret menu features, and more!
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Forgive me for starting the day with a little whinge but this excessively US-centric view of retro gaming, to the point where ~one region~ is reframed as "Everywhere except Japan and Europe", isn't just ridiculous but actively harmful to honest efforts to record gaming history
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476 articles
42 years of gaming
39 formats
16 genres (somewhat arbitrarily assigned)
3 different languages covered (and counting)
1 writer (that's me!)
0 ads (yay!)
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Oh hey, if you're wondering why that English patch for Boku no Natsuyasumi2 is such a special treat for gamers everywhere:
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🧵~
Going to pick out and repost a few of my favourite articles from this year - I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them! :D
Let's start with King's Field Additional I, a real treat of a dark fantasy dungeon crawler:
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New blog post! Yes, yes, Segagaga's weird... but it's unflinchingly honest too. Read all about Sega's farewell to Sega over here:
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Can I ask my Twitter pals for some advice: Are short video clips like the one below interesting?
Not perfect plays or commentary (beyond the tweet text that goes with them), but just sharing a little bit of a neat game in motion - would that be something you'd want to see?
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Wait, these aren't funny when they're about me
“It’s Really a Must-Play,” Says Fan of Japan-Only PSP Game With No Fan Translation
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It's easy to laugh at this - because it's funny - but this really was the prevailing attitude at the time and in the context of the era 32bit 2D kinda felt like fiddling at the margins, better versions of things we'd seen over and over already on everything ever
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I don't think I'll ever take a Saturn game screenshot better than this one:
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If I had to explain my tastes in 25 games, it'd probably look something like this:
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Please enjoy Sakura and Sumire's ~excellent~ facial expressions
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I love it when you find an old MSX game called DENSETSU NO LEGEND OF DEATH BETRAYAL III with the most beautiful gothic cover art you've ever seen in your life and when you play it it's a flip-screen platformer with six different stat gauges and your goal is to collect 20 keys
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Alright, here we go! Let's take a look at N64 "Communication Adventure" Wonder Project J2, a beautiful game with a heart of gold - and some really painful problems...
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TIL people have no real idea how "ridiculously large" and "completely unusable" old handhelds supposedly are.
So! Here they are next to a Switch for comparison.
Tl;DR: IT'S 2021. NEW PHONES ARE BIGGER THAN OLD PORTABLE TVS. PLEASE STOP SAYING ANYTHING BIGGER THAN AN OG GB'S HUGE
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Now available for everyone!
PAL games are not retro gaming's funny little joke. PAL games deserve to be preserved, researched, respected, and re-released.
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