The last Metroid is in the finished pile. My replay spree is complete.
Dread was so much better than I remembered, I think precisely because I replayed the whole series in a row. No longer is it its own thing compared against my favorite individual Metroids, now it’s a series finale tonally and mechanically paying off what the past three games have been setting up.
Now I have to avoid the genre until the new one comes out so I’m not sick of it then.
Running through 2D Metroids in release order, up to Samus Returns right now. It’s weirdly a lot more fun now than I had when it was the newest game. I’ve been avoiding it since Dread came out and was just it but more and better but it turns out there’s something to be said for its relative simplicity. I find myself doing riskier and less efficient things I used to avoid because I feel so unthreatened now and feeling cool is more of an option.
Koopa is Bowser. That’s his name in the original Japanese and we used to call him that internationally as well. If you had been a fan when the movie came out you’d have mostly played games and watched cartoons where his name was Koopa.
And what do you mean it wasn’t endorsed by Nintendo? Nothing that’s in the movie is there without their explicit permission. The studio literally asked permission to make it dystopian cyberpunk and got the okay. They put their faith in the movie industry to turn out a good movie. That may have been a hilarious mistake but it was Nintendo’s mistake.
My answer is Battleship. It was a bad idea to even try.
There was Troll before it, actually. 2 isn’t really a sequel to 1 in terms of creative intent but it was titled as such for marketing purposes because the rights owners figured a movie with no plot connections that didn’t even have a troll in it was still close enough.
First they make their console come in versions with and without disk drives where the disk version is rarer and more expensive, now suddenly there’s not enough demand for physical games to keep manufacturing them.
“Shifting consumer preference” indeed.
Final one made by him, specifically, with the explicit plan being to then sell the property off for other people.
It’s destined to turn into a zombie regardless of what he does but he wants one more go himself before then.
Even though its spectacle isn’t unique anymore, slow-mo on the prince’s stunts still wins me over. It frankly is very cool that he can flip over guys’ heads and run along walls and more games should revel in their own coolness even when it’s not new. I run along walls in new games and the camera doesn’t zoom out to show me how dangerous it would be if I somehow fell and they make me feel nothing.
Also, Warrior Within’s chase music rules and anybody who thinks it doesn’t belong in the game just hates fun.
Dressing up like a clown, at least, is an established James Bond move.
It also found a rise in suspensions and a dip in students’ feelings of wellbeing in the first year after a ban as schools adapted to the change. “Over time, however, disciplinary impacts fade and wellbeing rebounds, becoming positive in subsequent years,” the report said.
So it sounds like the winning play is to not give them phones in the first place. Then you skip straight to positive impacts without going through the negative ones first.
I played it when it was new. Spent hours on the demo alone. Killed a dragon with a stick.
I liked 1 a lot better than 2 but apparently that’s an unpopular sentiment.
The claim Nvidia’s making that you can apply it selectively within a given frame kind of makes me want a game where only one character looks like that so as to emphasize their otherworldly wrongness. A Dishonored game where only the Outsider has it, that kind of thing.
Having recently read the book, I don’t really see how there could be.
All the ads I get are about getting the foreign libraries in streaming services.
Yeah, “you shouldn’t have to learn how to use a house” makes me think of my mom who never learned to load a dishwasher and, even when it’s pointed out that the sprayers are blocked from spinning, refuses not to fill every cubic inch of its interior. I’m broadly against smart anything but thinking any technology requires no effort on the user’s part is laughable.
If there was ever a difference between being far-right and being disinformation, there isn’t one anymore.
The whole article is fixated on Grok being far right and never seems to care that an LLM is citing another LLM instead of an actual source.
The show is so much better written than the Bethesda games that this can only be a positive for them.
It’s more about companies getting people killed, less about companies doing a bad job at making video games.
There is no severity of raw capitalism that makes this makes this make sense to me.
This was my third time through it. The first time I fell for the lies, second time was after I read about that slide jump and I tried all game long to break it all as hard as possible. Maybe context isn’t the only thing that made this run special, maybe it’s that I can finally bring that same balance of mastery and whim-following that I have with Super, where sequence breaking doesn’t even feel like I’m resisting anymore.