Playing Mountain of Faith, and Waterfall of the Nine Heavens is kicking my :butt:

Haven’t at all figured out Momiji’s bullet pattern yet other than “Don’t be on the left side of the screen when she appears” and even if I do make it to Aya, I usually have 0 lives and immediately get trounced before seeing a single spell card, challenging!

I’m talking new gameplay innovations, enemies, level designs, movement techniques! The characters are just what bridges it together, the differences between Mario 64, Galaxy 1&2 and Odyssey are miles apart! The only major thing they have common is the standard Mario cast, everything else is new and different.

Bah, I don’t even buy Nintendo products anymore (:pirate-jammin:), so I shouldn’t care, but I do, cause I still think they’re good and innovative games when they put their best into it.

Yeah, Odyssey was the exception last decade, and so far Nintendo has definitely let their developers and design teams play more fast and loose with their most recent entries. I think if the games see good sales numbers, then they will keep the trend up into the upcoming “Switch 2” era. But, if the sales numbers are deemed to be disappointing by whatever arbitrary metric is used by the company, then we might just see a reverse in course, and doubling down on the restraint-of-wackiness, “reinforcing the brand” once again so they can profit of Mario and Co’s recognizable design for merchandise and keep the games only to remind people that Mario is in fact a video game character with all his wacky pals (NOT: Toadsworth, King boo, E. Gadd, Any and all Paper Mario characters, Petey, the Piantas, the Lumas, the Bees, those woodcut fellas from Galaxy 2, anything from Odyssey, and many many more characters that will *never* return! ).

Nintendo: “If its not making us all the money, it might as well be in a 6ft deep grave!” :quark:

Well, if I were to guess, it has to do with Nintendo’s entire “securing the brand” thing back in the late aughts to late 10’s. You know, when every single mario game was basically just New Super Mario Bros? When Paper Mario started to really blow? And the party games forgot their entire gameplay loop? I dunno why, but for over a decade Nintendo played everything super safe with the Mario series, there were like 3 new enemy types each game. People like Scott the Woz and Arlo put it much better than I ever could (simply watch 7 hours of Wii U reminiscing), but the point is. Nintendo is scared of a console or franchise doing bad, and they often come to the wrong conclusions as to why their projects fail. The Gamecube wasn’t out competed by the PS2 or XBOX cause it was a bad console, but because it didn’t offer the conveniences such as dvd playing or catering to the teenage-male-dominated market Nintendo helped to grow the previous two decades. (Talk about getting hoisted.) Nintendo went on to make a more convenient and popular console, sure, but their conclusion was also to play it waaaaaay safer with the Mario brand. Aside from the Galaxy games (all 2 of them), the Mario games lost a lot of their personality. Just look at the travesty that is PM: Sticker Star , or the blandness of NSMB U and NSMB 2. So a lot of their previous decade’s catalougue was very lacking in both old “off-brand” characters and new fun ones. And probably for the same weird reasons, Nintendo has an aversion to GC era characters, cause it was one of the worst revenue-wise for Nintendo aside from the Wii U (Which was also created from the same unnecessary caution, wacky, eh?)

Geh, enough ranting, I gotta go get back to playing Mountain of Faith on the Windows PC! (Why don’t we have any Reggie Fils-Aíme emotes)

The last time I can clearly remember the police going armed for an extended time was after the Utøya massacre and terrorist attack on the AP offices, otherwise cops don’t have guns other than one locked in the trunks of cruisers.

Personally I prefer Gleeby Glep: Gleeb Zams Nilp over Gleeby Glep: Zeb Bleps Dorbagarp, but both are very Ack Ack Ack

I found this at 8 am while browsing this morning. It is now 10:30 and I am not even halfway through. Holy shit death to America and death to Elan what the absolute hell is this. Thank you for sharing this website, I’ll make sure to inform others who I know will be interested in this

Still sick. Lost all my appetite, I can barely drink tea, I can’t find joy or entertainment in anything right now, I am completely mirthless. And cause of this, there is no way I am going to that b-day celebration I am invited to tomorrow, cause 1, I feel like trash and 2, infecting people with contagious disease is usually perceived as rude.

The WOKE Romans with their WOKE DEI (Divide Et Imperia)

This is my favorite Men At Work song, eking out the top spot right over It’s A Mistake

It’s that time of the year again, I got a throat infection and everything sucks now. And I have an eye exam today, can’t wait to show up completely tapped of energy to get told that my eyes suck and get my lenses ordered.

Hello! But, why he so bolus?

Check out the big castle, it’s big and is a castle

Zamn… the world will never again reach this level of racism, the westfalen

Ah, finally bringing back squarehead as a slur?? Let’s go??? :isaac-pog:

I do wonder how much of the sabre rattling is just so the MIC can make a gazillion dollars off of the up-armament then the USA will just suddenly stop heavily antagonizing China (Let us not kid ourselves that the USA would ever completely normalize relations), turn it’s attention to a much more meek target and unleash its arsenal there instead.

I mean, that would be a more “”“ideal”“” outcome than the US and China duking it out. The MIC makes its gazillions, the US keeps importing treats (such as steel and literally everything else) and China doesn’t have to break their lovely neutral foreign policy and keep doing their SWCC undisturbed. Sucks for the other country the USA is going to terrorize, hence the ‘“”“”“”’'s around ideal, the US always hungers for more blood.

Nothing cause who in the world reads gaming magazines anymore?

Yes, very.

Just, be wary of some of the writing, these games are from the early-to mid 2000’s for the most part.

And definitely do not skip the spinoff series with Edgeworth. The Investigations games are very good, and the sequel is P E A K AA. (You’re gonna have to get the fan translation tho as it was never released outside Japan lol, lmao. (ProZD has VA work in it.))