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tain @kntain.bsky.social · 1d

finished Consume Me today and it's good

tain @kntain.bsky.social · 1d

some loose thoughts on Battle Garegga
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_Raizing, Arcade, 1996_ Shinobu Yagawa’s star game. A vertical shooter that takes an awful lot of influence from Taito’s Gun Frontier, but with a theme that leans into an overcast future full of scra...

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 2d

A peek at GAME FREAK (Yep, *that* Game Freak!) tips 'zine issue 22 from 1985 where the solution to arcade Time Gal is lovingly and painstakingly illustrated and written out scene-by scene. 💜

A scan of the photocopied zine with an illustration of protag Reikas sat coly with legs crossed and a marker pen held in one hand, with cheeky doodles drawn over the game's villain's face and a piece of paper. "Time Stop!"

A snap of one of the pages, with painstakingly drawn recreations of hte various scenes of the QTE based animated footage gameplay with directional inputs for each of them.

Another snap of inked illustrations of Reika in one scene and line artworks in the other. Directional inputs can be seen below.

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tain @kntain.bsky.social · 2d

seeing a lot of thoughts about this flying around today so i just wanna be clear on my thoughts from skimming the review and playing the demo: the full review suggests to me that this is not my kind of game, and separately i disagree with suggestions that it reflects an arcade style of design

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ohfivepro.bsky.social @ohfivepro.bsky.social · 2d

Likewise. Join up & join in. No teams, no stress, play w/e you want as much as you want. Everything provided

「ＹＡＳＥ」MasterWho @masterwho.yase.world · 2d

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I will be playing in Calice Cup 11! 😤
#shmup focused high score tournament throughout Nov.!

Free to join for all skill levels, if you're shmup-curious and looking to get some broad experience, or if you're a seasoned shooter- come play STG!

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La Calice Cup 11 Trailer

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tain @kntain.bsky.social · 2d

i obviously don't think two loops are necessarily a bad thing, but what the review describes isn't even particularly analogous to makaimura doing that

TESTAMENT✙ENJOYMENT @testamentenjoyment.net · 2d

Spoilers for Absolum, but you actually might want to spoil yourself on this, because this is some of the worst meta-progression bait I've ever heard of

(Also a great review overall, one that's for once made from the perspective who gave beat 'em ups a deeper shot)

If you don’t believe that Absolum prioritizes the grind above all else, then I’ll have to pull out my trump card and talk about the last boss of the game. Don’t read the next paragraph if you don’t want that spoiled. Or do, honestly, because I recommend knowing this ahead of time so you don’t make the same mistake I did.

Once you complete the game once, you find out that actually you need to beat the game again to fight the real final boss. Kind of obnoxious already, but sure. I immediately started another run, but died early due to the game introducing a new extra-hard challenge that I wanted to try out. No problem, I had unlocked one extra from the progression system. I decided to carry on and actually ended up all the way at the end to fight the final boss.

Just before the fight, a merchant warned me that the boss had a fatal scream and recommended that I purchase an absurdly expensive extra life. I kind of figured that merchant was referring to some difficult to dodge attack and braced myself for it. No such luck - the final boss seemingly just instantly and unavoidably kills you at the start of the fight, so my run where I was otherwise super powerful and at full health ended right there. This more or less killed my interest in playing further.

The goal of this decision seems clear enough: the developers didn’t want you beating Absolum too fast and this insta-kill gimmick was a good way to keep you in the hamster wheel. Wouldn’t you know it, my very next permanent upgrade gave me another extra life on top of the two I had, so my next run would have definitely been the run! If I were the kind of person who got addicted to the progression system, I could easily see myself getting sucked by this bait, hook line and sinker. Sadly for Absolum, I am not that kind of person. I don’t have an addictive personality. Most of the psychological tricks that modern video games employ don’t work on me – I don’t need things to be addicted to, I want things that enrich my life or give me some personal satisfaction.

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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 3d

I think I’m gonna do arcade guys and I am really glad I don’t have the money to get hooked on buying arcade cabinets because seeing some of these guys setup makes me jealous

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tain @kntain.bsky.social · 3d

playing arcade games and trying to beat them without continues is very fun and probably makes up most of my gaming time now, i will almost certainly recognize some usernames here

tain @kntain.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks!

tain @kntain.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you!

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tain @kntain.bsky.social · 5d

youtu.be/nunjs8I84AI The full credit. I'm pretty happy with the score for a first clear, tbh

Battle Garegga 1CC (Golden Bat, 7mil)

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tain @kntain.bsky.social · 5d

after something like 80 hours of playing, I FINALLY got the Battle Garegga 1CC! :]

this is the toughest STG clear I've done, and I'm glad I decided to give it a try. It's really one of the best games ever made

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tain @kntain.bsky.social · 5d

might cap out the hands-on-the-controls game timer before clearing the game lmao

tain @kntain.bsky.social · 9d

wait it doesn't have the original mode too? I just assumed it did! Pretty annoying

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Sean Seanson @seanseanson.bsky.social · 10d

Taito New Years Card 1994 by the developers of RayForce. text reads

'taito 1994, we are giving this game to you. for all of game freaks.'

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Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 11d

lots more laseractive rips for ares went up in the past few days, including....

techdocs.exodusemulator.com/Console/Pion...

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tain @kntain.bsky.social · 11d

THREE fights with Glow Squid yesterday, including a final phase fight where I was too slow on the bomb 🫥

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POLYGON BIRD Games @polygonbird.games · 12d

The new DEMO is a slice of story mode. We'll release with both this and arcade mode, which strips all narrative elements from a run.

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tain @kntain.bsky.social · 12d

doesn't seem to be, noted

tain @kntain.bsky.social · 12d

someone let me know if it's arcade-structured

POLYGON BIRD Games @polygonbird.games · 12d

The WORLD-EGG has begun its descent!

Our sword action shooting game BIRDCAGE, launches on PC; Tuesday November 18th.

Play our new DEMO on Steam, right now!
store.steampowered.com/app/2618150/...

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jin @ghangaji.bsky.social · 14d

i think about this post every time i watch a movie

tweet that reads:
Lady behind me at The Thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? You watch it and information is revealed"

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tain @kntain.bsky.social · 14d

fought glow squid on stream a couple more times today. new PB

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tain @kntain.bsky.social · 14d

made it to glow squid again this morning but only once

tain @kntain.bsky.social · 14d

this is going to be the hardest video game I have ever beaten

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 15d

If I was a tutoring company and I wanted to convince you that I could teach your kids maths, I would probably not have an advert that said “3=2” on it!

That’s just me though.

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