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Badge system has a bunch of cheater badges which is nice. Strong push for self-imposed challenge. In my case I best the story blind, then went full God Mode while scouring for collectables; more games should let you do that

Base difficulty curve ramps up quickly - feels like it's a fan's game for fans, "you know what you're here for", but it also has difficulty modifiers to make progression harder or easier (more/fewer coins, damage dealt, health etc)

Meaty dungeons, all different enough (including boss setpieces) so you don't feel you're going on autopilot throughout the story, nor are they 'gimmicky' (a slog to get through). Ended up playing the game in 8-hour bursts

That song was helpful to inspire the right atmosphere for the fight scene and the pre-fight confrontation in space. Seeing the intro come together in the trailer still gives goosebumps

I enjoy the shape language of her ponytail and bangs

I started out with the mindset of 'these were made to be seen on certain displays' and made art accordingly, with strong single pixels, dithering etc. It's still not second nature to retain the idea of cluster theory or how nicely your stuff will read really up close on clean displays

Some form of Raptor/Talbain fusion would be peak monster fighter design I feel

These people are very good at not doing anything and taking credit when other people do, especially if they can make it fit their #theresistance narrative

My policy with hardware is to wait at least a year, two years - expanded library + price drop - so the current console price isn't too big a worry. Game prices are very funny. Maybe we'll see discounts or changed minds at Nintendo

Also also, they're likely just covering their asses, which is fair -but the way the upgrade system is phrased makes it sound like they're rolling compatible games like they do the Virtual Console - e.g. drip-feed - and that's no fun either

I think I'm better suited as a background/concept artist but more than once I've been contacted specifically for sprite animation work