Dittoid
2005
I just got back into this game after getting my hands on a DS Lite again and finding out about wiimfii's unofficial servers for the game.
I played a few matches against real people for the first time in the years and years I've had this game but not been able to access Nintendo's defunct servers for it (a surreal experience in and of itself), and realised quickly that I was getting smoked every march because the opponent's were well-versed in the fucking insane competitive tech of MKDS that I was completely oblivious to all my life prior.
Needless to say, I started researching, and got into snaking/MB based tech and holy shit, this game has opened up into depths of precision control that I thought were hitherto unheard of in any Mario kart. I have become newly addicted to Mario kart again.
Simply maybe the best Mario kart in existence.
I played a few matches against real people for the first time in the years and years I've had this game but not been able to access Nintendo's defunct servers for it (a surreal experience in and of itself), and realised quickly that I was getting smoked every march because the opponent's were well-versed in the fucking insane competitive tech of MKDS that I was completely oblivious to all my life prior.
Needless to say, I started researching, and got into snaking/MB based tech and holy shit, this game has opened up into depths of precision control that I thought were hitherto unheard of in any Mario kart. I have become newly addicted to Mario kart again.
Simply maybe the best Mario kart in existence.
Finally, someone has answered the question "what if Bayonetta 2 was good?"
2006
This is, to me, the Rocky Horror Picture Show of video games.
It is ultimately a complete mess of incoherent and often alienating elements, but it is so important to a certain subculture and to the wider aesthetic of Sonic Camp that Sonic would simply not be the same icon he is to the same demographic without it. The world would be objectively worse for Shadow The Hedgehog never having a sick Monster car buggy.
It is ultimately a complete mess of incoherent and often alienating elements, but it is so important to a certain subculture and to the wider aesthetic of Sonic Camp that Sonic would simply not be the same icon he is to the same demographic without it. The world would be objectively worse for Shadow The Hedgehog never having a sick Monster car buggy.
of all the platformers to exist Klonoa is one of them
A surreal, confusing, opaque daydream that eventually, after much fumbling in the dark, unfolds into a very satisfying arcade game. With random v-pet elements in the literal background that you can accidentally kill. Because Yuji Naka. Peak Sonic Team.
1998
This games actually great idk what all you nerds are on about
(played with a massively game-altering physics tweaking mod)
(played with a massively game-altering physics tweaking mod)
2022
Go girl, give us nothing
Again!
Again!
2017
Go girl, give us nothing
2021
Perhaps the only game i know of that makes you pay microtransactions to plant seeds in dirt
2023
Capcom really thought to themselves "If we glue 3 existing free-to-play games together, then that has to make a game worth paying $60 for, right?", huh
2023
Yeah this sure feels like a 2016 game that got frozen for 7 years and schlopped out onto PC and consoles in the current year.
Also why the fuck do the audio log portraits do weird Wombo.ai style face movements. who thought that was a cool idea. They should be embarassed
Also why the fuck do the audio log portraits do weird Wombo.ai style face movements. who thought that was a cool idea. They should be embarassed
2019
I really, really like this! Create brings a whole new toy-like vibe to Minecraft that I personally feel like has been a little overshadowed for the past while in favour of taking Minecraft into a more traditionally video-gamey direction. Create's added systems are inviting, unpunishing, somehow engaging while being intuitive and simple to comprehend, and overall just fun to play with. It really does put me in mind of a very well-realized version of a toy like LEGO or Meccano or such. Create just makes the act of making things with the moving, lively tools it offers such an intuitive and kinaesthetically satisfying experience that it genuinely has transformed my view of what Minecraft can be like.
It's also far, far, far more accessible than any comparable minecraft mod I've ever played. Hell, it puts Minecraft's own Redstone mechanics to shame in terms of comprehensibility. It absolutely blasts, say, Tinker's Constructs, in that regard. Where mega-mods such as those are generally content to hand the player an in-game book of instructions for what the hell they're supposed to do with this new mod they just installed, Create's solution is much more elegant:
Practically every item it adds to the game has a "Hold [w] to Ponder" tooltip, which pauses everything to show the player an annotated visual explanation of how the object works, what it does, and what it might be useful for in a practical context. It's great! Incredibly polished feeling for a minecraft mod. It puts me in mind of LEGO instruction booklets, but better, because you can actually see the parts going together. Top tier tutorial system imo. This may not seem like a hugely revolutionary thing, but if you've ever tried to play a "technical" Minecraft mod before, this is like the invention of the goddamn printing press. No mod of this kind has ever made this much sense, it's never just worked the way this does.
Also, you can make fully-customisable, rideable trains and have mobs drive the trains and they get to wear a little hat. It's perfect no notes.
It's also far, far, far more accessible than any comparable minecraft mod I've ever played. Hell, it puts Minecraft's own Redstone mechanics to shame in terms of comprehensibility. It absolutely blasts, say, Tinker's Constructs, in that regard. Where mega-mods such as those are generally content to hand the player an in-game book of instructions for what the hell they're supposed to do with this new mod they just installed, Create's solution is much more elegant:
Practically every item it adds to the game has a "Hold [w] to Ponder" tooltip, which pauses everything to show the player an annotated visual explanation of how the object works, what it does, and what it might be useful for in a practical context. It's great! Incredibly polished feeling for a minecraft mod. It puts me in mind of LEGO instruction booklets, but better, because you can actually see the parts going together. Top tier tutorial system imo. This may not seem like a hugely revolutionary thing, but if you've ever tried to play a "technical" Minecraft mod before, this is like the invention of the goddamn printing press. No mod of this kind has ever made this much sense, it's never just worked the way this does.
Also, you can make fully-customisable, rideable trains and have mobs drive the trains and they get to wear a little hat. It's perfect no notes.
2024
A fun concept, executed elegantly. As with its spiritual ancestor Vampire Survivors, I wish people were more willing to talk about how it's getting scarily close to being the videogame equivalent of an Elf bar but I don't think people are ready for that discussion yet.