imagine looking at ayami kojimas original artwork and then making that in response

they really gave one of the coolest castlevania games conceptually scooby doo artwork and okami paintbrush mechanics

@moschidae
it's very unfortunate. it didn't have to be this way

@theia
on one hand wrangling the stylus mid bossfight to draw symbols is something I'll never get used to. on the other hand I never touched a DS in my life until yesterday and I feel like one of those old timers who tried wii sports and had their entire world turned upside down when it lets me do stuff like sign my name and break blocks with the touch screen

You shoulda warned me before I opened that link, I nearly swatted the poor bastard.

Take me back to when dev teams weren't doing baby shit like ""trying to naturally integrate hardware gimmicks into their games"" and instead did sick awesome cool moves like make an entire separate drawing tablet to do dope kung fu as Po from Kung Fu Panda.

I've cooled on DoS over the years but man the downstep still gets to me. Going from one of the most tightly made video games ever made to a game that's sorta good but too long and loose in its teeth is a tough feeling to get over. Been meaning to give it another chance though, particularly with the Definitive Edition+ patch.

So true (confused)

@vee
sorry sorry trying to delete

@henryvines
I'd never seen this before but I'm gonna go ahead and say this kicks ass in a big way

@blazingwaters
aria's a tough act to follow but what I miss the most from the gba trilogy is how each of them went in completely different directions. it makes sense for the most polite and well rounded of the three to have a very buttoned up sequel, but it's a little more familiar than I'd like. still having a good time, but I hope the other ds games are a little more experimental

@_yalp
15 Forbidden Places Even The Belmont Is Not Allowed To Visit

I do really like how balore inexplicably has dental braces tho