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indigozealAfter tackling the entire Sonic library, cousins Keith & Kyle of Run Button have begun a quest to play all the Mario games. Highlights thus far: a sweater-making title; a story during a 25-minute final battle with Wart about, of all people, Vladimir Putin; and a jaw-dropping adaptation of the original game for Japanese PCs. ("Did they sell this?!" "They sold this. --For people." "For PEOPLE?!?")
You can tell from the name of my FF7 tag what I think of the game, but these are legitimately awesome. I almost want to buy a Sephiroth one.
Eastern Mind can be a difficult read; it's not pretentious, as the fellow means every word he says and is honest in his appreciation of artists, but dude's word choice and verbosity can get in the way of communicating his ideas at times. He's inarguably a scholar, though, and provides glimpses into intriguing, sideways Japanese titles that didn't make their way across the Pacific: Yuuyami Doori, a horror title where three childhood friends (and a dog) navigate elementary-school politics to solve local hauntings; Mizzurna Falls, a seeming forerunner to Deadly Premonition from the makers of Clock Tower; Marusa no Onna, an adventure game based on a movie about a middle-aged tax collector... I especially enjoy his "Standard Reception" posts, where the author uses batches of videogames he's newly bought to run rapid-fire through his memories of various systems and eras.
I did not expect a good short POV Clock Tower fic on fanfiction.net centered on Bobby, of all people. Or one on Kay. It's a bit unnuanced, but that's OK; I like its slice-of-life feel.
I like the sprite work on this hack that lets you play as Zelda in the original game, and the idea of zodiac-shaped dungeons piques my interest. I might have to give it a go. (But I still, over 25 years later, haven't finished the original's second quest yet!)
Neat old-school RE shirt. (I like how we're now defaulting to the movie for how the T-virus canisters look.) I also love this Silent Hill 2 shirt but doubt I could pull it off. It's sold out, anyhow. This company seems to have a bad habit of not doing reprints.
Kimimi's Stuff posts rare screenshots, movies, and manual/book scans from the 16- and 32-bit-era, daily images of Saturn games, and media on gorgeous titles (or at least titles with gorgeous promo art) from the unexplored but fascinating nascent Chinese videogame production market.
You've probably seen/heard this particularly "Bloody Tears"...arrangement already, but it's still top-drawer.
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You can tell from the name of my FF7 tag what I think of the game, but these are legitimately awesome. I almost want to buy a Sephiroth one.
Eastern Mind can be a difficult read; it's not pretentious, as the fellow means every word he says and is honest in his appreciation of artists, but dude's word choice and verbosity can get in the way of communicating his ideas at times. He's inarguably a scholar, though, and provides glimpses into intriguing, sideways Japanese titles that didn't make their way across the Pacific: Yuuyami Doori, a horror title where three childhood friends (and a dog) navigate elementary-school politics to solve local hauntings; Mizzurna Falls, a seeming forerunner to Deadly Premonition from the makers of Clock Tower; Marusa no Onna, an adventure game based on a movie about a middle-aged tax collector... I especially enjoy his "Standard Reception" posts, where the author uses batches of videogames he's newly bought to run rapid-fire through his memories of various systems and eras.
I did not expect a good short POV Clock Tower fic on fanfiction.net centered on Bobby, of all people. Or one on Kay. It's a bit unnuanced, but that's OK; I like its slice-of-life feel.
I like the sprite work on this hack that lets you play as Zelda in the original game, and the idea of zodiac-shaped dungeons piques my interest. I might have to give it a go. (But I still, over 25 years later, haven't finished the original's second quest yet!)
Neat old-school RE shirt. (I like how we're now defaulting to the movie for how the T-virus canisters look.) I also love this Silent Hill 2 shirt but doubt I could pull it off. It's sold out, anyhow. This company seems to have a bad habit of not doing reprints.
Kimimi's Stuff posts rare screenshots, movies, and manual/book scans from the 16- and 32-bit-era, daily images of Saturn games, and media on gorgeous titles (or at least titles with gorgeous promo art) from the unexplored but fascinating nascent Chinese videogame production market.
You've probably seen/heard this particularly "Bloody Tears"...arrangement already, but it's still top-drawer.
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