I was playing 4u on the bus to a school gym activity one time, and it made me motion sick so as soon i started doing the excerises i had to run outside and throw up in a bush.... I love monster hunter 🥹

I learned from the Luigi Poker minigame in New Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo DS. Thank you Nintendo for instilling the value of gambling to me at an impressionable young age 🫡🫡

funny story i learned how to play poker because my grandpa was a professional gambler lmao

Along with the obsession over Texas Hold’em, quite possibly the worst version of poker that actually uses cards.

But I’m not bitter or anything.

The poker boom was a period between 2003 and 2006, so I am pretty sure it was late high-school / early college.

I can't tell you when I learned how to play poker, I think I just always knew. I have the gambler's soul

you only need to know to play the cards with the same color

pay $2.75 for the guacamole.....

Thank you, I'm unaware of this (also a senior citizen), I shall investigate...

It’s referencing the 96 year old diner post that gets reposted every 2 seconds

A comment says "this 36 year old streamer is still reading chat the old fashioned way", how do young people read chat?

how close to shitting yourself would you have to be to use one of these

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