woooo let's go! My first ever online win in #FightingEXLayer! I'm glad to have found an opponent with a more acceptable connection.

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I love how solid #FightingEXLayer feels. I've never gotten deep into 6-button fighting games, so I'm having to adjust a lot. I'm torn between easier execution = less damage versus harder execution = more damage.

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I revisited Festival Mall Alabang which has an indoor amusement park. It used to have many arcade candy cabinets, but these are all that remain. This is where I used to play Psikyo shmups back in the 2000s.

In the Sailor Moon beat 'em up game for the Mega Drive, if you do Sailor Mars' anti-crowd move (C button), you can spam the pause button and get an upskirt shot. My early puberty teenager brain thought of that.😂

The recent beat 'em up discourse made me revisit the Sailor Moon game for the Mega Drive and do a 1CC with one of the autocombo characters (Sailor Moon).

One afternoon of playing made me go 180 on my 25-plus-year-old opinion about Sailor Venus being the easiest character.😂

I probably wouldn't recommend it. The game has a cheese strat where you can just stay back and shoot charged projectiles till the enemies are dead. This works on most bosses too. And obviously this strat kinda ruins the point of it being a beat 'em up.

I used to play the Sailor Moon beat 'em up for the Mega Drive as a kid, but I cannot remember if I ever 1CC'd it back then. So I revisited it today and got a 1CC of normal difficulty with Sailor Venus whom I also used back then.

I haven't practiced shmups/STGs for two years. I revisited Crimzon Clover World EXplosion hoping to beat my PB of Arrange Boost mode with Type-I.

Started Stage 5 with seven extra lives, started chain-dying at the hell of hall, and ended with a choke at the final boss.😆

This game from 1983 does better at teaching positioning and thinking about potential threats before they show up. If you remain stagnant, you get snowballed on.🤣

With the availability of arcade games via modern ports and emulation along with tools to help a player practice, dismissing arcade games for having "cheap" and "unfair" design now speaks more about a person's taste and/or refusal to stand up to the challenge than a game's design.

I bought #FightingEXLayer. I haven't played any 6-button fighting games extensively, so it's gonna be a big challenge getting used to it.

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If I'm gonna whiff a dashing attack, at least I'd want to look like I fully committed to it before I eat the punish.

I'm not really into the parry-centric gameplay that you see in Sekiro or Lies of P, but if I will play such a game, then it's going to be Dinoblade.

Since it's spooky month and there's a second remake in the works, I've decided to replay Fatal Frame 2, one of the three survival horror games I cleared in the late '90s to mid-2000s alongside Dino Crisis and Kuon.