No creo que pueda aportar nada que no hayan dicho otros antes de mí, llevo un buen rato tratando de escribir algo sobre este juego que es la secuela de unos de mis juegos favoritos pero estoy bloqueado, si me gusto pero realmente no creo que pueda aportar mucho pero ahí voy.

Me gusta como el juego es una representación del mundo interior de un adolescente de la misma forma que el primer juego es una representación del mundo interior de un niño, el reino de la tranquilidad que representa la seguridad algo aburrida del hogar, el reino del gozo que representa los placeres de la carne que comenzamos a experimentar, el reino de la discordia que muestra la desesperación de sentir que el mundo se esta cayendo a pedazos por un montón de guerras absurdas, el reino de la indecisión que representa las inseguridades y la presión social por encajar en algún sitio y por último, el reino de la tristeza, uno que muchas veces se prefiere olvidar y hacer como que no está ahí, pero ocultarlo no hará que desaparezca, no se puede vivir en un mundo sin dolor pero eso significa que haya que sumirnos en la desesperación y que todo nuestro mundo se cubra de pesar, hacer como que el dolor y el pesar no existen solo nos hará miserables, durante la adolescencia fue bastante difícil para mí aceptar eso (creo que ya lo estoy haciendo) no quería sentir dolor, no quería ver la tristeza y eso me hizo actuar como un imbécil con tal de huir del dolor, la única forma de vivir en paz es aceptandolo y haciendo las pases con el. Gracias por todo Klonoa, no se si volveré a verte pero gracias por recordarmelo

I will put 3 on this because I made this game so giving this a huge score is cheating. Also, the game development is not finished and I'm not fully satisfied with this yet.

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2022-04-21
Gotta update half-star up, because this game is getting closer to my ideal with enough dev works.

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2023-02-20

Magenta is an uncertain color. It’s a color spectrum beyond the visible purple, and since our eyes can’t receive it, we just replaced it with the average of red and purple and call it that way. It’s a recent day I found out that my second favorite color (the first being deep blue) has that story behind it, but knowing the story made me think of a thread for the conceptual work; the land of uncertainty.

When I was making that concept work, I was miserable, as my main job wasn’t satisfying at all and my side projects were ruined by a chain of misfortunes and my terrible choices. Chaotic overthinking was devouring my life, and my failure as a game dev cast a shadow over my confidence.

One thing good about being an artist is that there’s a way to express negative emotions via mediums, and it can be a catalyst for personal growth or even a pride of conqueror.
At that moment, I wanted to express the feeling of navigating through the uncertainty, organizing the chaotic situations with improvised methods, and the frenetic flow of my train of thought.
And I had to do it all alone because only I can make this work to be true, only I would take the burden of work, and only I wanted to conquer it.

So that’s how the concept of Magenta Horizon was born and the world was set in the afterlife. It’s a good place to start the concept work as the purple spectrum has some connotation with death in many cultures, but also there is an excuse to draw tons of grotesque monstrosity -my go-to drawing subjects-.
Personally, I’m not spiritual at all, but the afterlife setting can be a canvas for the world of aimless chaos, especially if the world after death is only a purgatory full of demons, and no heaven or hell exists. It’s a story about a little reaper from a human-led soul sanctum, and she has to find the meaning of her existence in this barren land. Even though in a literal sense, I didn’t suffer as much as the protagonist of this scenario, I tried to reflect my own experience in the story about tidying up the uncertainty and overcoming the odds.

Also, I wanted this setting to be expressed via my favorite genre of video game - Combo-action games. Not many games can provide the feeling of conquering and mastering hectic situations like the Devil May Cry series or the 3D Ninja Gaiden series do. Enemies come from below to rip and tear you apart. At first, you will feel panic. The erratic movement of foes doesn’t make sense at all and your options are too broad and vague to fully utilize at first. But you get a grip one by one. Each erratic chess piece reveals its pattern one by one, and you start to punish them accordingly. And then, you start to play with them, making your own comfort zone in the most stressful situation. Failures will be there, but that’s okay. You still learn from it. And after all that, the mountain of enemies is no more, chaos is calmed down, and the game pats your back with a good score.
That’s the feeling of conquering Magenta I wanted to capture.

This work might not be the most intuitive thing you will ever find in the market.
The tutorials are rough, the visuals and music are both noisy, and the obstacles don’t wait for their turns and rush at you. It will be an intimidating experience for most people.
But if you are ready to accept and embrace the premise I’m pitching, I urge you to try it out.
"Soar over purgatory and reap all the foes."
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2023-05-31

4/5. I'm getting there.

Siento que son muchas las razones por las que este juego es algo único dentro del mito de un personaje como Mario y es el conseguir evocar el vacío y existencialismo que causa un ambiente como el Espacio sin olvidar que se trata de una Aventura infantil y sin dejar de lado la vibra alegre y divertida de los variados mundos que conforman una galaxia que resguarda el más vivido lamento de una niña que tuvo crecer forzosamente para afrontar un destino lleno de tristeza pero con la bendición de poder ser una madre.

Hacía mucho que un juego no me ponía de tan mal humor, y no, no lo digo por su dificultad.
Sinceramente me gustaría que a los videojuegos se les catalogara más por las emociones(terror, suspenso, drama) y menos por las mecánicas (RPG, shooter, hack n slash) . Me da igual que al tacto sea lo más pulido, dinámico y responsivo, me da igual que como "RPG de acción" sea lo más cómodo y accesible. Digo que me da igual porque nada de eso sirve cuando todo lo que me rodea tiene nula inspiración. Elden Ring es, no estoy segura pero quizás, el peor o uno de los peores juegos de aventura y fantasía que he tocado en mi vida.
Porque nada de lo que pretende lo cumple, pero NADA.
Creo que hasta empecé a sentir un poco más de aprecio y respeto por el hype que se había ganado Dragon Quest en su lugar y tiempo, ahi dentro de todo lo puedo entender, pero esto? Para esto ya estamos en los 2020's, la información abunda y no hay que ser Holmes para ver que la fórmula de los juegos de Miyazaki se volvieron en el nuevo McDonalds.
No entiendo bien que valor tiene Elden Ring cuando buena parte de lo que propone ya lo hicieron un montón de juegos, otra vez, como el caso de Dragon Quest pero mucho mucho peor.
Digo, está bien pretender solo dar un juego de mundo abierto destacable (ponele) con fantasía y epicidad sin pensarlo mucho al jugarlo, pero es que justamente ESO ya nos lo dieron otros juegos y mucho mejores.
Curiosamente antes de jugar Elden Ring jugué Dragon's Dogma, un juego de mundo abierto con fantasía heroica y medieval. Superficialmente ese juego es mucho más genérico, pero esconde un montón de decisiones puestas con mucha cabeza y corazón para poder transmitir al máximo ese clásico estereotipo de fantasía medieval, yo no le pido más porque supo centrarse enteramente en eso.
Elden Ring no sirve ni para eso porque no ha habido tan solo un encuentro que realmente diga algo, lo pretende todo. Es de lejos una máscara imposible de creerle.

Don't think you're the hero, be the hero

this game, elite beat agents, and gitaroo man are all the proof i need to happily declare iNiS as the kings of rhythm games. a plethora of genres intertwined yet every song feels connected thematically. the note tapping is silky smooth and glides along to the beat naturally. all of this coated with a thick layer of inspirational emotional motivation and personal charm, presented strongly with a fun-filled artstyle. ends on such a gleeful note that erupts a certain fanfare inside all of us. transcends the boundaries of language with music as a device to communicate with the human spirit. reaches the zenith of the mountain and then shoots for the stars. bursting with overwhelming charisma. this is what video games are all about. goddamn.

Bayonetta is a franchise that's always meant a lot to me. The drama surrounding the release of this has been absolutely disheartening. I lost a lot of respect for what I considered to be one of my favorite voice actresses and the way it was handled by Kamiya especially was very awful. This had quickly gone from my most anticipated game of the year (or perhaps ever really) to something I felt sick thinking about it. I wasn't sure what to do. Seeing the way Taylor muddied the waters of an important topic for personal gain, throw the new voice actress under the bus and then for the cherry on top asks people to donate to an anti-choice organization just fucking blew my mind. And then finally the previews and reviews started rolling in. Reading and hearing people talk about the game made me feel like I could finally get excited again. I was able to get it a day early and just the experience of completely ignoring the internet until I finished it was such a relief. The gameplay is refined from what I already thought was perfect for me to basically just the next level perfect. I'm a fan of all the changes and everything they keep the same. The story wasn't necessarily the direction I was anticipating but in the same vein I enjoyed it a lot more than I would of thought. Even if you're not a fan of it the gameplay alone is more than enough to keep you engaged. Genuinely such a blast to play and experience. For a franchise I once thought would be dead forever to get an entire trilogy and shine even through unfortunate controversy is not what obliviously gay thirteen year old me sitting and playing this christmas morning would of ever expected. I'm glad to of gotten to play these each at a pretty pivotol moment in my life. I wholeheartedly loved this and even as I'm writing this review I am starting up a second playthrough to explore the mechanics more thoroughly.

Jennifer Hale is a great Bayonetta.

ENG/ESP

I have no problem with the game as such, but with the localization.

It FRUSTRATES me how such stupid mistakes were made with the love that the remake had. It feels like disrespect.

I'm not going to do spoilers, but from the huge shit they did with Pogo's word "love" replacing it with a generic scream, the extremely pretentious dialogue at times, to other nonsensical changes like the name of some oersted's phobias (who never was portrayed as someone with unpleasant overtones, but as a little tragic protagonist.) and the disconcerting change to the iconic original final speech.

Sometimes it seems that the localizer is a frustrated writer or seems to want to emulate the dialogue of other games to one that DOESN'T HAVE IT. You probably won't mind so much if this is your first time playing it, but as a passionate fan of the first game, I'M FRUSTRATED that I can't say for sure that this is the ultimate live a live experience. Hopefully one day a fan is willing to make a patch that fixes these problems (which the Japanese version does not have) and thus be able to have a more faithful and polished version.

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No tengo ninguna problema con el juego como tal, sino con la localización.

Me FRUSTRA como se cometieron errores tan estudipos con el cariño que tuvo el remake. Se siente como una falta de respeto.

No voy a hacer spoilers, pero desde la enorme cagada que hicieron con la palabra "amor" de Pogo sustituyendola por un grito genérico, el dialogo extremadamente pretencioso a veces, hasta otros cambios sin sentido como el nombre de algunas fobias de oersted (quien nunca fue palntesdo como alguien con tintes desagradables, sino como un protagonsita tragico.) y el desconcertante cambio al iconico discurso final original.

Aveces parece que el localizador es un escritor frustrado o pareciera querer emular el dialogo mas grandilocuente de otros juegos a uno QUE NO LO TIENE.

Probablemente no te importe tanto si es la primera vez que lo juegas, pero como apasionado fan del primer juego, ME FRUSTRA no poder decir con total seguridad que esta es la experiencia definitiva de live a live.

Ojala algun dia algun fan este dispuesto a realizar un parche que arregles estos problemas (que la verison japonesa no presenta) y poder asi tener una verison mas fiel y pulida.