I finally started EarthBound, and I’m totally digging its humor and vibe.
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The Castlevania show on Netflix has gotten me really hype about the video game series in general. I’ve decided to start playing the NDS entries in the series: Dawn of Sorrow, Portrait of Ruin, and Order of Ecclesia.
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I’ve beaten that game at least 40 times as a kid, enjoy it and have a blast.
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They’re all good enough that I would play them all again.
Maybe I should play them all again.
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Sounds like a good idea to me. I recently watched this video on this history of the Castlevania video game series and I never realized how many games there are before.
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I recently replayed EarthBound for the first time since the SNES era, and found the inventory management system to be incredibly antiquated and cumbersome. The idea of each character having a very limited inventory space, and everything else needing to be stored in a vault that you don’t have easy access to all the time is so painful in retrospect.
Old Man Rym Voice: But that’s the way it was and we liked it!
I kept trying to play the GBA ones and I kept failing for some reason. If only I had bought them when they came out I probably would have beaten them, but i would probably be a lot less good at Mario Kart: Super Circuit.
Maybe I’ll put them back in the queue.
I never liked that. I was also mad I couldn’t have more than 99 potions in FF1.
99 potions you had to buy individually.
Weird inventory is part of the charm, and this is definitely a different way to do it.
I’m trying to avoid FAQs but I did look up what a Skip Sandwich was.
Return of the Obra Dinn is haunting, intriguing, and straight up delightful to play. I finished in a single day long session. Go into it completely blind (and turn off pixel smoothing in the options).
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I just hit Moonside.
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Welcome to Moonside and Bye
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And beat EarthBound! Now watching an EarthBound speedrun from GDQ 2018.
If you want your head to explode check out either Pajama% or Pokey%
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Those DS Castlevania games are so good but god DAMN Ecclesia is balls hard.
I’m finally a proud owner of Switch and Breath of the Wild. I don’t think I can say anything about the game that hasn’t been said before, but I’m just amazed how easy it is to get lost wandering in the world, go for a shrine in the distance, see another one while on the way, pick flowers, find Korok seeds, just wander and do stuff. Also surprisingly challenging game, at least early on with no good armor or weapons or health. Of course the punishment for game over is insignificant, which is fine for me, my style of overcoming challenges in games is to mash my face against them until I succeed or give up.
Aside from the copious amounts of Mario Kart I’m playing, I just had a remarkable experience in Civ VI where two civilizations were eliminated by losing loyalty in all of their cities. Reminds me of the Lincoln quote “we will live forever or die by suicide” (paraphrasing here).