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NEW TRAILER FOR NEXTFEST WOOOOOO wishlist the demo for my ego store.steampowered.com/app/4353960/... #tnfαgame #indiegame #lightgun

I've seen the argument AI doesn't necessarily make things easier, but rather allows to shift your thinking to a higher abstraction level, like you're managing junior devs. Instead of writing low level code, you're writing architecture, etc. As someone who does that IRL I'm somewhat open to it, but…

Remember when King Neptune AI slopped his hundreds of awful burgers in seconds and SpongeBob painstakingly made one delicious burger by hand

Why do these books get uglier every time they reprint them

This is, I think, one of the best Metroidvanias of the last 15 years and you can EASILY finish it within this timeframe. Hell, you don't even need to feel bad about not paying Ubisoft, because they disbanded the team, anyway!! Also it runs at a (99% consistent) 60 FPS on Switch. Do it do it do it.

From a consumer perspective, Enigma is probably better. It's completely offline, no online license check, no activation limit. From a mod developer perspective I'd much rather have Denuvo. Enigma has much harsher anti-debug protection. Denuvo really doesn't get in the way of mod development at all.

Kirigirisō (PC) The final Kodaka story game I'd yet to play. Kyoko from Danganronpa & Kohei from Otogirisō explore a mysterious mansion in the woods. A decent bite-sized little mystery novel, but things devolve quickly after the first true ending & it's honestly not really worth playing past that.

Shuten Order (NS2) A love letter to the mystery VN genre with some of the most ambitious world-building in any Too Kyo game. You will probably hate at least one route, but the payoff is worth it every time. It is quite the time commitment though, and does feel like it drags on a little sometimes.

DISHES (MY JOB) is out now 🧽🫧🍲 A totally normal game about washing dishes in the woods (because its your job). Made for the @hauntedps1.bsky.social Summer Camp Jam. Takes like... 10 minutes tops to play. 🦴🍎🦷 chickenhat.itch.io/dishes-my-job

Hero of Law (Emu) True labor of love & must play for any Ocarina of Time & Phoenix Wright fan. The references in text, music, animation are on-freaking-point & had me laughing out loud constantly, and there's even an awesome new mechanic. Connecting Link's Awakening unlocks something truly special.

Dark Auction (PS5) The characters & plot are good, but man is the setting poorly handled. It's jarring to see a story based around Hitler have so little to say about WW2's atrocities; at best, it feels cowardly. Use of gen AI taints the game's visual identity even if some of it was patched later.

This is nice but if I can't put the disc in my PC and play, it's not backwards compatibility, it's a rerelease.

World's End Club (NS2) What appears at first to be a cutesy puzzle platformer turns out to be an amalgamation of Kodaka and Uchikoshi's greatest hits. Many ideas from their previous works make an appearance here, and it does feel a little derivative as a result, but it doesn't overstay its welcome.

Digimon could, in fact, not pull this off

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (NS2) I don't mind a linear Metroid, but MP4 purports to be an open world, yet is in fact even more handholdy than MP3. Not once did I feel challenged on navigational awareness because each level is a straight line. The GFX do be looking great though. 120 FPS is awesome.

ReCore: Definitive Edition (XSX) This game feels like a vertical slice that was stretched out to full length. Movement & combat are fun & feel good to play, but story is thoroughly lacking. Its best moments come after the credits, where it really does shine; sadly only for a brief, fleeting moment.

No disc drive = no buy

I feel like when your soundtrack ends up being MORE expensive than the actual game, you've really goofed up your pricing.

I never really checked, but Shooting Star - Misora Live Version and Shooting Star - Sonia Live Version do have some slight differences in the melody to accommodate the Japanese/English lyrics. Only in the Arranged versions, of course. Maybe these never were meant to get vocal versions after all?

All my existing mods for Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection work out of the box on this new update. I was hoping they'd fix MMSF3 field music not resuming, but I guess not.

Boy I love when Nintendo announces a Direct during working hours one freaking day in advance

Trying out ImHex for the first time and wow, I've been missing out!

The reason the new Star Fox game is named "Star Fox" is to avoid confusion