When I first had Spicy Nacho Doritos as a child they used to be so spicy. They are not spicy any more but I'll still try them from time to time, hoping that they will be as spicy as they were when I was 10, but they never are. They had to have changed the formula at some point in like 2005 or something.

This game kind of feels like the Spicy Nacho Dorritos from my youth. Not in an old is better kind of way but the very particular kind of spice and hotness. This games got it. The spice.

Episode 2 in particular.

Driving games at arcades are inherently great and amazing and worth every penny. Feel the wheel, the pedals, and the gearbox at your fingertips (and...toe..tips?) is so recognizable and yet gameified.

Crazy Taxi excels in its framing giving you more of an excuse to freestyle routes and regularly back up and brake hard. In a race you wanna forward and take the optimal line but the raw adrenaline derived from Crazy Taxi when you are approaching your destination and you slam your foot down on the brakes and rotate the wheel to slide into the spot is unmatched and unique to driving specifically an "arcade taxi."

This game was pretty cool. I thought the ways Beastia and Jacopo in their respected storylines struggled to accept unconditional love were effective, empathetical, and sad. The 4th wall breaking with the chat history was neat, the music was good, art was great, and the narratives twists and turns were mostly unexpected and were entertaining enough.

This is my first time with the medium of visual novels and I think I'll give a few more games a try but these are definitely more novel than video game and I'm pretty picky about my prose narratives.

It was a really fun game :D

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could have worked on the pacing in the middle chapters and the humor got a bit exhausting :3

This game is really pleasant. I think the gameplay is weirdly satisfying. Like throwing a water bottle with 20% of the water in it. It has the arc you'd expect from throwing any projectile but there is a chaos you have to adapt to on the fly and can never truly master. You have some control over what is going on but it is designed to not feel fully controlled. When you successfully string together the movements to ascend it feels quite good.

I don't have any real goal of beating the game so losing progress doesn't bother me too much. If it does bother me I normally just quit and jump back in on another day. It's what Bennett Foddy told me to do and I think he has good intentions. He wants it to be frustrating not to make me angry but to make me ponder frustration, ponder perseverance, grief, loss, love, what is success, what is failure. And it does just that.

I like chewing on the quotes, I like swinging the big meaty hammer, I like shooting my guy into the air, I like the little meditative pause after losing huge amounts of progress that just unconsciously happens. When you get away from the meme aspects of the game it's a truly unique experience that makes you think about yourself and the medium in a new and interesting way.

NOTE: as of 1/20/2023 I have gotten to the bucket and slid down the snake. I think in a video where Bennett Foddy plays this game with Tim Rogers he says that riding down the snake is the real way to win. I'll eventually get back to the bucket and maybe even climb it but for now I'm satisfied considering this game completed. It was pretty fun to slide down the snake.

I loved the rap songs. Every time one of those played it really boosted the atmosphere. Voice acting and story were also pretty cool. The rest of the game was just alright. It's repetitive but the gameplay is satisfying and fun but definitely not fun enough to justify the repetitiveness. End of the day I had a good time with it but didn't leave too much of an impression. Wish I had more to say :( the game oozes cool but there is something lifeless in the core gameplay. The main dude IS cool but he doesn't make ME feel cool playing as him.

The gameboy advance castlevania games are still good everybody.

This port has a little rewind function that is very convenient for farming enemies for drops. Pretty sweet.

Nathan Graves is my dad.

I played just the soccer game where you gotta knock down the 7 goombas. It was on master difficulty and my friend and I were getting absolutely sauced for like 45 minutes straight. Then we played our 6th "last try" and for a few precious moments we became one. Our minds and bodies were connected not just with one another but with the trees and the animals. We saw the universe and the universe smirked back.

As far as I'm concerned I played this game and it was the greatest moment of my life.

Main game Mario Party really do be some bullshit sometimes though.