continuing trying to get back the hang of Pokemon sun; apparently i stopped right by the climax of the story. nebby is back and better than ever. meanwhile my team is kinda looking for a sixth member as i never figured how to evolve chargabug (intentionally. i want to see if i can find it out by my own accord, being one of the few details i remained spoiler-free)
not sure what to do about robobot and streaming to my girlfriend, i decided to go back and give triple deluxe a better closure. it's a lovely game i liked a lot for many reasons, and while i have some small gripes with its rougher edges i feel much better about it refamiliarizing myself with the game and giving the true arena better runs. hopefully this makes me in turn appreciate the extra polish of robobot more

being without a computer for a few days had me try out, of all things, sky: children of light. it's a very good-feel kind of game by the creators of journey , which is a game i've always been impressed by. wandering around a world and interacting with other people makes it a kind of unique but beautiful game that feels familiar to the kind of thing i like but also being a hecking phone social game being very unlike anything i've played. i think i'm too shy to feel like i'm playing it properly, but it's still very very nice.


also for some reason i've felt like fussing with glitches in oot3ds. i don't know, it's kinda nostalgic

Originally posted by sofi

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on Nanashi's recommendation i started playing Metroid II: Return of Samus and even though it's so difficult i actually quite like how dark and atmospheric it is. it's perfect to play at night in the dark on a Game Boy Light, and it has a really refreshing pace compared to all the slower RPGs i'd been playing

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i'm glad you're enjoying the game! it's hard to approach but an extremely good example of how good the gameboy can be at dark and tense atmospheres and conveying danger and threat

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for some strange reason, yu-gi-oh. master duel, in particular. i'm bad at it. i haven't played yugioh in many years and it's extremely overwhelming. how do i even make a deck.
i randomly got a wicked god card, which, nice? it's been a long time, i don't know what even is a strong card anymore-- a god card equivalent that the effect is essentially "it's stronger than you" seems good, but so much of the game is immense pileup of effects to summon 9 monsters at once and negate everything else that it's hard to tell

also got back to robobot and it's extremely good. like, wow it's extremely polished in respect to the previous two kirby games in the engine. everything feels tweaked to feel much better, the enviromental design is a massive step forwards too-- getting a really nice balance of feeling like proper spaces instead of extruded 2d, doing really nice yet subtle things with the 3d. everything about the game is really, really good, and it keeps pleasantly surprising me.
it honestly is starting to look like one of the outright best kirby games for me.
i am using a very jank streaming setup but, it works fine?

also uh, i guess there's this meme

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actually getting back on track with pokemon sun and holy heck this game is, important. and really good.

the way lusamine is very skillfully and chillingly written as an abusive mother and the way of lillie standing up against her with all the complicated and difficult feelings it all takes is, so very genuine

this is a game i needed to have played as a child


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also been playing monolith, which has aesthetics that are very much the kind of thing me and Q would make together

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