an incredible level of intimacy

vampires are weak to christianity

I can't wait until you get to the part!

so, you like to play castlevaniaaaa

YOU'RE A ROCK STAR :(

HEY NOW :(

They have Skeletor in this game :D

I can level up? Sweet, I'm a sucker for numbers going up, I just hope I don't have to grind. Please don't secretly be a JRPG

A lot of the retro games happily don the constraints from eras where developers were constantly straining to be free from them. Undertale is pretty fantastic for how it wears these constraints, and takes them off selectively for impact.

But SotN? Even in these first five minutes, they pull out all the stops.

The parallax 3D clocktower in the background as you scale those steps, voice acting, the sprite backgrounds melting away to a 3D noise-textured vortex, and watching Dracula's healthbar melt away as he dies? Fantastic, my mouth was wide open the whole time. I can't imagine how this must have been experienced 28 years ago.

The "first boss is the final boss" fakeout is a well-worn but welcome trope, so I wasn't expecting to be expected to defeat Dracula in that cutscene. A short bit of exposition later, and enter Alucard, stage left, in an entrance that gets you really pumped to be the worlds broodiest twink.

I've really leaned heavily into the "Metroid" side of the "Metroidvania," and all the "-vania" heavy games I've played seemed really bad. The sluggish wind-up feel of the characters is something I'm getting used to. I'm not above being charmed by theatrics-- I'm sold.

Okay, time to go play the next five minutes of this game

sotn deserves all the praise it gets. the sonudtrack is amazing too

Co fucking signed!!!

mads mikkelsen is hot and i like it when he is covered in tar and it looks like he's got runny mascara and he's smoking da cigarette

and therefore can be art

tempted, although I was planning on getting back into OSRS in late November because Leagues V is happening and Leagues is fun.

oh yah, i expect this to be very bad, like runescape. but with many of runescapes good qualities too

that is the day my exams end! i would give it a shot but if the levelling is anything like rs itself i will Not persist because i can't do that shit any more

yayyy :3

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2791440/Brighter_Shores/ This is the steam page. They plan not to do an account wipe after early-access, and screenshots imply some level of offline training as well, which is also good

i'm down to give it a try tbh

okay so Toilet Spiders is anti-spider, is that right?

You don't have to look up what Toilet Spiders is. If you're unaware of the story, Gaynor got kicked out of his own studio during the development of what was going to be Fullbright's next game because he's an asshole, sued to retain the Fullbright name, and now is releasing $5 early access horror games as a solo dev.

if half of your face was forehead you would have a footlong fringe too

her funny animal ears with tufts of funny fur are the only good thing on her head...!

not that bad imo, except for the runway-length ears

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There's a level 3 TAS of Star Fox with even less lag, albeit that's because the emulator used is intentionally inaccurate (doesn't replicate the lag that would've been in the real console). It's so much fun though, which makes it one of my favorite TASes. I can imagine this being exactly how Star Fox defeated Andross :P