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snackerfork 🔞 @snackerfork.bsky.social · 13d

hi, i don't really use this

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snackerfork 🔞 @snackerfork.bsky.social · 6h

sprite comic ass

snackerfork 🔞 @snackerfork.bsky.social · 6h

was playing more LBTW, i somehow forgot it has A Maple. really cool especially since it doubles as a callback to Real Maple being in LTTP's gba port

but i ALSO didn't realize gba maple is this like barely edited copy paste of her GBC sprite. my girl deserved better!

A screenshot of LTTP for GBA showing Maple in place of the shopkeeper. She's a GBC sprite with barely any more colors, making her look weirdly tiny and undetailed next to the SNES sprites of LTTP

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Viz 🏳️‍⚧️ @invisibleup.com · 7h

Super Metroid, too.

Nausicaä walking through a dark, lush, green cave

Nausicaä sitting on the skeletal remains of some large bug while spores rain down

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snackerfork 🔞 @snackerfork.bsky.social · 8h

correction because i made a booboo: in the alt text for the second pic i said the protagonist was "fleeing" the bug but it should be "flying alongside"

forgive me for this grievous error

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Um Jammer Heather @dogladyheather.bsky.social · 8h

it's insane how much of an inspiration nausicaa was for so many massive games. watching it for the first time had me mentally dart between it and early final fantasies like oh, i see.

snackerfork 🔞 @snackerfork.bsky.social · 11h

playing crystalis and it is funny to me that games going "wow cool aesthetics" about ghibil is basically as old as ghibli

The protagonist of Crystalis for the NES fighting an enormous green bug with large bulbous red eyes.

The protagonist of Nausicaa fleeing from an enormous green bug with large bulbous red eyes.

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snackerfork 🔞 @snackerfork.bsky.social · 11h

"yeah the movie is explicitly about how we should coexist with the scary giant insects instead of killing them, but what if you could shoot laser beams at them with a sword"

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snackerfork 🔞 @snackerfork.bsky.social · 11h

playing crystalis and it is funny to me that games going "wow cool aesthetics" about ghibil is basically as old as ghibli

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snackerfork 🔞 @snackerfork.bsky.social · 1d

any game will break if you throw 100,000 QA testers working 24/7 to break it at it, but people do this for things that aren't discovered until the game is *reverse engineered* by hacking/decomps

if it takes that much effort to find the glitch that sounds like great programming to me!

snackerfork 🔞 @snackerfork.bsky.social · 1d

is a game that doesn't have any speedrun discoveries for 30 years brilliantly programmed until the moment somebody stumbles onto or notices a glitch? and then it just isn't now?

that's incredibly stupid, right?

snackerfork 🔞 @snackerfork.bsky.social · 1d

something that drives me nuts about "this game is held together by duct tape and glue" type comments is...

does a game magically become badly programmed, lazy, rushed, whatever, the moment a gamebreaking glitch or oversight is discovered?

snackerfork 🔞 @snackerfork.bsky.social · 2d

this isn't steven universe where the gems are your extended family but were being misread as IRL fascists, this is the game outright saying your abusive parent is blood related so you can't disown him. and maybe he isn't that bad and you just need to talk to him and forgive him

which is *abhorrent*

snackerfork 🔞 @snackerfork.bsky.social · 2d

(and with good writers, the abuse being obvious to zagreus but his own extended family dismisses it as unimportant has potential!)

the thing is hades shits the bed because at the very end it *literally* says you can't run from your abusers because they're your parents, and this is good actually

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snackerfork 🔞 @snackerfork.bsky.social · 2d

i read the first game as unserious in as much as it has a pulpy tone, so characters doing whedon quips and being unconcerned about zagreus' abuse is fine. if anything i think the olympians not giving a shit reinforces moments when zagreus stops and flashbacks to his father's abuse, through contrast

snackerfork 🔞 @snackerfork.bsky.social · 2d

i have a big problem with the most popular backloggd review because i don't at all agree that zagreus' abuse in the first game is "unserious" or "petty", that he's meant to be viewed as just a "rebel"

i just think supergiant are garbage whedonist writers with no understanding of abuse

snackerfork 🔞 @snackerfork.bsky.social · 2d

(hades 2 spoilers i guess)

i should not seek out information about hades 2 but learning that it extremely doubles down on hades 1 is lol

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snackerfork 🔞 @snackerfork.bsky.social · 2d

"and now to write it yours-"

no

snackerfork 🔞 @snackerfork.bsky.social · 2d

it had a line like "our children would have scratched lines in the dirt with yours"

goes hard etc etc

snackerfork 🔞 @snackerfork.bsky.social · 2d

had a dream about an anime that doesn't exist which was about a guy accidentally enabling a genocide of another planet, and when he finds this out using his powers to join the survivors and lead a roaring rampage of revenge against the genocidal fascist empire

snackerfork 🔞 @snackerfork.bsky.social · 3d

even the way you enter it by going around the right side and sneaking through an underground shortcut is barely disguised from LTTP but it took me *forever* to make this connection

snackerfork 🔞 @snackerfork.bsky.social · 3d

it kind of fucked me up to realize after decades that the existence of "kanalet castle" in LA is so they could reuse the hyrule castle assets they made when it was still a LTTP demake

which is why it's in the exact same spot in the dead center of the map and has a nearly identical layout

snackerfork 🔞 @snackerfork.bsky.social · 3d

weird realization but in some way every portable nintendo console but the DS has LTTP in some form

GB/GBC: LA/DX (started as demake, sequel?)
GBA: LTTP x FS (direct port)
DS: nothing
3DS: LBTW (direct sequel)
Switch: EOW (hyrule based directly on LTTP map)

almost a tradition...

snackerfork 🔞 @snackerfork.bsky.social · 3d

also learning that it's way easier for me to play games on a small portable device like a 3DS than it is on my PC or a steam deck. it's not just something i can do in bed while resting but it's a lot more ergonomic for me - the steam deck is enormous and really uncomfortable on my hands

snackerfork 🔞 @snackerfork.bsky.social · 3d

honestly, if i had a nickel for every time nintendo remade LTTP on a portable console but slightly differently, i would have three nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened thrice

snackerfork 🔞 @snackerfork.bsky.social · 3d

super making me want to go back to echoes of wisdom too. i hope nintendo knows from these games that there's plenty of room for topdown 2D zeldas that aren't loosely based on LTTP or are remakes - there's so much potential with these!

snackerfork 🔞 @snackerfork.bsky.social · 3d

been replaying link between worlds so i can play its archipelago randomizer (which works on real hardware!) and... what a comfy game

i don't even have much nostalgia for LTTP, i played it once on GBA, but it just feels so cozy. i love how it uses the wind waker stained glass style for the paintings