we're so back

sometimes you just gotta play paper mario

killed Sean Bean with a broadsword

this game is pretty good but everything in it is something that makes you go "yeah, i really liked that when I saw that in that other game too"
"oh yeah, i thought that was funny in castle crashers too"
"oh yeah, i thought that was a cool mechanic in binding of isaac too"
"oh yeah, i also like the monster designs in Dont Starve"
it feels mean to say there's no creativity in this game cuz there is, but it would be easy to throw the allegation of no creativity at it. It's hard to make something stand out in the world of pc rougelikes and this is another victim of that

Punched a skeleton so hard it died instantly i and reached level 17

less importantly, i beat the game

At first I thought this was a bad game because you can't press the jump button right when you land on a spring to go even higher, but then I realized it's a good game because you get to fight some funny little skeletons in it.
tbh i do not like this game very much. it's a very generic platformer where it's big gimmick is that you can switch between modern and retro visuals on the fly. Which is cool but accomplishes very little.
The retro graphics are too excited to pay tribute to the developer's "favorite old-school classics" instead of make the art actually look good in it's own right. They're happy with just making you say "this looks like Mega Man!" or some sh*t. It looks more like Abobo's Big Adventure than it does a real forgotten NES game. Plus, there are clearly a lot of moments that are only optimized for one artstyle. If you're having trouble with any enemy or platforming section and you switch the artstyle, you'll instantly see the hitboxes or platforms become much clearer and easier to deal with. If this had been done as an intentional mechanic ["Travel through time! The version of you from another era can solve puzzles and complete challenges in new exciting ways!"], then we would be better off. As is, the game has two artstyles that aren't great instead of one that is. Good skeletons though.
(EDIT: so i wrote this thinking that Wonder Boy III was not a real game. I thought the devs were trying to do like a cutesy thing where they develop a little indie game and advertise by saying "We're remaking a forgotten gem" but that's just a joke; it's just inspired by that era of platformer. So i was totally wrong in thinking the retro graphics were made in 2017 to look retro. But i like my critiques and kinda stand by them even though I got a basic fact wrong. It is actual Sega Master system art but it does still look like bad generic pixel sprites. I know now that it's not but it still looks like when you see an artist posting pixel art in an Instagram reel and saying "Errrrmm does anyone out there still have nostalgia for the master system days???". The fact that i thought the real 80's pixel art did a bad job of capturing the feel of fun 80's pixel art demonstrates why the game feels soulless and generic to me. I mistook the real thing for a poorly executed tribute and that's a pretty bad sign. )

now this is a fuckin video game baby

i'm no good at chess but this seems chill

Demo is really really awesome, couldn't put it down. Unlocked everything there is in the demo. Crashes a lot and some bosses aren't well-balanced (fuck that scarecrow bro) but it ain't done yet so i can forgive that. Really truly got obsessed from the jump. The illusion it initially offers that you can just break everything with the dice mechanic falls apart by the time you're up against the last boss, but there are still a lot of moments that let you feel like you're cheating which is great. Also the animations are nice! (they gotta fix the shit with the sfx during fights with multiple crows though)

had a lot of fun but then i reached a point where i wasnt even able to figure out how to trigger the next step of the tutorial so i walked away, satisfied to play. Very cool game, very complicated game with a very bad tutorial, ultimately equals a quite good experience.

killed a god with a shotgun

killed a demon-bear with my punches

Finished hunting sidequests!

Finally finished where I left off!

Started Sōtenbori exploration!

Screamed "FUCK" upon messing up a combo in a practice dance routine that people outside fixing my roof could absolutely hear me. I had to yell "I'M OKAY" afterwards to ease my conscience and feel a little less embarrassed.
"Coach, I'd like to do an easy lesson." "Teacher, can we have class on easy difficulty today?"
Yay Haruka has a friend. I like this story.
During a loading screen I looked over at some Borderlands 2 gameplay video that was autoplaying on my laptop and said "This game is so good. ... I'm excited to be playing it again." And then realized that's also true of the game I was actually playing!
Appeared on a show for perverts called "Running Girl"
"Oh, Haruka! A fan left this gift for you!" 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘰𝘣𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘈 𝘎𝘜𝘕 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈 𝘕𝘖𝘛𝘌 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 "𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘐𝘥𝘰𝘭, 𝘸𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴."
Just like a real celebrity, I was so excited to get fanmail but then I keep forgetting to read it cuz I was so excited to do other famous person things

Leveled up from making a friend

Spilled coffee on the shirt of a guy who has a sweater tied around his neck, like bro you literally have another shirt to put over that one

THE FUCKING STANDUP COMEDY MINIGAME IS ALL I EVER WANTED IN LIFE
I like how many of the missions are just you making friends and then earning 3,500 XP for it

Hurt people don't always hurt people <3
NEW MISSION: PASS TIME
Have to shelve this again because my usb cord broke and can't play my PS4 until I can afford another, very disappointing