yea its like 15 min long and throwing out a fairly vapid caricature without much else there. i think its audience is meant to have the effect of "theyre just like me!! wow so terminally online poisoned and subculture" but nah i promise you everyone mods 3dses and tweets about blahajs these days lol. though the dismiss yourself shirt is new. idk you actually honestly could make something half-decent that actually bites off the stuff this attempts, theres just nothing here really. dont misconstrue that as me saying thisd be better if it referenced more obscure shit btw, im happy without more ready player ones and neptunias or whatever. this isnt morally contemptible just sorta nothing

anyway the REAL reason im posting abt some throwaway thing is bc im still ultimately disappointed at how much its caught on to call things fed jobs (jokingly?) like in the top review here. come on lol. nothing about this actually comes across as "how do you do fellow kids" to me or whatever the rationale was there. i promise youre allowed to make inoffensively mid itch io vns without Doing Covert Ops, and we should reserve the actual cia accusations for like unhinged astroturfed political claims and not reduce it to this

the egg carrier theme alone means anyone who gave this game a 3.0 or under is out of their mind, sorry. im sorry u werent entertained by sonic going "ready?? 🤓🤓🤓" every time he has to charge a light speed attack or big the cat SOLOING chaos 6 in what has to be the shortest boss battle of all time (tvtropes powerscalers say hes capable of class z-2 omniversal annihilation in this one), or gamma just somehow managing to tell an oddly emotional existential story completely lacking in the bombast that strings the rest of the game along. thank you random npc

people dont even hate on this game for the right reasons. having to play sky chase 4 times and fight chaos 4 3 times is way more annoying than any of big's levels lol. you literally play sky chase the same amount of times as big has levels and each one is longer!! and its just kinda braindead!! fuck sky chase it sucked in sonic 2 and it sucks in this!! and i also read someone calling the final boss bad. did you even watch dbz?

its very funny to imagine the universe where sonic adventure came out as an rpg as originally intended. people would be comparing its multicharacter storytelling with live a live and all u fishing in rpgs ppl would have SOYED at being forced to fish for an entire campaign. but alas

look at amy's face. thats all i have to say there, its an aesthetically distraught face. thats like half a star on its own. thats the face of a girl who breaks a tony hawk record tenfold every time she swings her hammer while running

the virgin "koji kondo loads a cart with rompler sounds" mario 64 vs the chad "we got 5 people on guitar and 6 people on bass" sonic adventure. u get this free y2k-ass 3d platformer with talking animals alongside that album you bought, how cool is that. no wonder they stopped making consoles 3 years later with a business model like that. they mustve run out of the sound budget when it came to recording eggman's lines bc they reuse them so hard that its incredibly funny hearing him say "he's not going to get away with this!" like 5 times in the egg viper fight and then the exact same line w/ same cadence in a super sonic story cutscene shortly after

huge fan of giving sonic a very broken spindash and tails the ability to fly and making the levels large and branching (like the classic games) with this in mind. the proto-parkour of the future. shame it never returns for any other sonic game ever!

i rated this 2.5 initially because i was like "yeah that sure showed me the deck's controls alright," but ive decided to lower it another half star a few days later after realising this is the one portal related thing that didnt make me laugh or smile once. i was expecting a fun little thing that happened to demonstrate that my deck didnt need RMAing, since i was going to swap out the ssd and didnt want to open it up before that. i couldve just opened a calibration menu instead and saved myself 30 minutes really, i had more fun imagining all the games i wanted to play while i went on blueballing myself through this. just do that instead lol

its more splatoon, but the single player is actually good now and they finally (after 7 years) figured out that its fun when youre able to play with your friends. holy shit. just ignore the communication errors. paid online service btw.

maybe i was just really burnt out when splatoon 2 dropped, as it hadnt been that long since the first game which id poured hundreds of hours into. but that game simply didnt grab me the way the first one did, and the way this has been doing. i cant stop playing, its summer 2015 all over again. i love how fucking stupid everything about this game is, the cheesy dialogue, the music going BEN BEN w/ the among us theme, getting spawn camped on mahi mahi because some genius decided it should have like 10cm^2 area now, getting tenta missiled by 3 flyfishes while waiting 10 years to do a roller flick because some genius decided the current salmon run rotation should have dynamo roller, trying to get the shades to sit on the moai head in your locker just right, keeping lil judd in your peripheral vision at all times after beating him in a childrens card game, etc etc

i dont want to be out here talking about how splatoon's core game design is genius or whatever because i dont actually play other shooters these days. likewise i dont want to be talking about how innovative this is because splatoon has gotten pretty comfortable now. 1 was the trailblazer 7 years ago, this is the third rodeo. ive already started seeing people unhappy that the word "splatoon" has gone from meaning "creative new weird wii u ip" to "hugely successful series that has started putting out entries that all look and play the same" which is fair really. maybe ill be more cynical when we get around to like splatoon 6 with idols called like Carol and Reefe ready to announce the single worst map rotation youve ever seen. as of right now its simply too fun and charming. now if youll excuse me i have to grind to level 98 so i can unlock the dab

i actually really appreciate how much fanservice and polish the collection has outside of the actual games. like theres a bunch of little goodies here most other compilations dont bother with, dressed up in some really slick menus and cool music. like damn sure ill spend 1000 years in the art gallery if it sounds like this. actual peak music. well still second to the sonic mega collection, but nothing else competes.

unfortunately, the actual games? the things you got this for? yeah, they're basically unplayable thanks to the input lag and idk how it isnt talked about in every mention of this compilation

well, i say that, but i did beat x1 and x2 on the switch version and it was pretty painful. i didnt have much else to do that summer. anyway source is this vid. they're a cool channel.

this is an interesting showcase of the strengths and weaknesses of releasing retro games in the form of compilations rather than a service like VC. you get to make the package look real nice but shit plays worse than nintendo's snes emulator for the wii. the wii kinda owned...

Why the fuck did no-one tell me that this has been playable on PC for 2 years
With unlocked framerate and any resolution
And community mod support including songs from F 2nd, X, Mega Mix, fixed lighting, some customs

How is any of this real what the fuck

Gonna come clean here. This website is currently holding my friends and I hostage. You know how you know you're too far gone? When you make an entirely separate MyAnimeList/AniList consisting of all the anime you reliably remember the openings/endings to, and haven't actually seen yet. When you do this because the game rewards you more XP when you have a wider pool of obscure, harder to guess songs, which lets you unlock character skins (which in all fairness, I could have gone without). But here I am, spending my free time in Solo mode with a ruleset optimised to grind the most XP so I can get more in-game currency.

My evenings no longer exist. There is just daytime and bedtime. You see a message as innocuous sounding as "wanna amq tonight?", and before you know it, you're getting ready for bed at 5am, with "Raspberry Heaven" from Azumanga Daioh stuck in your head.

Before you know it, all of your friends have started watching a bunch of seasonal shows they weren't actually that interested in, and are making a point out of not skipping the openings or endings.

I've memorised mid as hell songs that only play in one scene, in one episode, in shows I haven't seen yet, out of mere exposure. So many in-jokes have resulted from this thing. My friends are all able to reliably guess Promare's music in every game despite it sounding generic as all hell (sorry Sawano) because I once jokingly called it Imagine Dragons. And the entire voice chat starts laughing once the song no-one got reveals itself to be opening 52 for Detective Conan, a show I kept on my AniList because I saw the first 100 or so episodes as a kid. It's airing its 1025th episode tomorrow at the time of writing.
MyAnimeList says that it has 54 opening themes. My personal favourite right now is opening 25. This shit goes.

Sometimes it's okay to admit that you're a weeb. I don't know if this is one of those times. I get shit for reliably guessing Monogatari and I give people shit for reliably guessing other dumb ass shows. And sometimes God is in his Heaven and all's right with the world when the entire crew is able to guess the opening for Himouto! Umaru-chan correctly. But the important part is that we're all cringe together. And being cringe is fun if it means listening to bangers. I guess that's the moral here?

Anyway, I will now post a bunch of random anime openings and a couple endings that have never left my head thanks to this cursed ass game.
"Duvet" - Serial Experiments Lain
"Guardian Angel" - Texhnolyze
"Groovin' Magic" - Diebuster (Gunbuster 2) (ROUND TABLE is a great band)
"Blue Flow" - Haibane Renmei
"G.P." - Great Pretender
"Hanaji" - Maria Holic
"Cutie Honey" - Re:Cutie Honey (the visuals for this one are pretty shamelessly fanservicey though)
"Morning Grace" - Princess Tutu
"Out of Control" - Psycho-Pass
"Paraiso" - Michiko & Hatchin
"POP TEAM EPIC" - Pop Team Epic
"Spatto! Spy & Spyce" - Release the Spyce
"Truth" - Revolutionary Girl Utena
"Shounen yo Ware ni Kaere" - Mawaru Penguindrum
"Koi wa Chaos wo Shimobenari" - Haiyore! Nyaruko-San W
"The Beautiful World" - Kino's Journey
"sky's the limit" - Persona 4: The Animation
"Bomb A Head! V" - Tenjou Tenge
"Kami-iro Awase" - Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School - Despair Arc
"99.9" - Mob Psycho 100 II
"mathemagics" - Owarimonogatari
"Wareta Ringo" - From the New World