the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

Hmmm. Taurs.

Metroid Prime 2's menu system: WHY.

random thought: Is there a gba emulator out there that can link to a real gba using an official gamecube controller adapter in conjunction with a gamecube to gba link cable?

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I don't hate memes in general or anything but

sometimes it just feels like I'm being bombarded with information that I have no context to process and seeing other people understand it and react in ways that seem baffling--even putting out more information that I have no context to process--and it gets really stressful and bad

Anything can be soup if you add enough water.

A video game where you have to go back in time and assassinate the ancestor to all of humankind:

A first-person shooter

Samus must be incredibly resistant to dizziness, considering the constant spin jumps and morph ball rolling.

I was just playing Metroid Prime, and I realized something about (one aspect of) what makes a metroidvania good, and why some of the less compelling ones we've seen have felt so uncompelling.

Items that give you new moves to access new areas are at the heart of the metroidvania genre. Let's use the example of Super Metroid's red doors: you need to have missiles to open them.

At the start of the game, you can explore a decent-sized chunk of the world before you get your first missile tank (don't ask me why missiles get stored in tanks). But there are a few red doors that bar your way--you have to get missiles before you can go through them.

If these were the only red doors in the game, that would be a little annoying, wouldn't it? You just have to get missiles to get through this one door, but nowhere else are there red doors.

But that's not the case. Even in parts of the game you can't get to without missiles, there are still red doors to make it feel like getting those missiles was worth the trouble, because even if you'd somehow found a way around that first door, you still had all these other doors you need them for.

Compare this to a hypothetical (because all the examples are very forgettable) bad metroidvania where you get an item, use it once to open a door, and then forget you have it afterward. It feels like a pretty useless item, doesn't it? Little more than a key.

This sort of thing does actually exist in some good metroidvanias too, and I do feel it's a mark against them. Think of Symphony of the Night's Jewel of Open, for example. It does nothing other than allow you to open one or two blue doors--and even then, there's no special action that reminds you "hey, you can get through here now because you figured out the puzzle and got the thing!"; you just open it like any other door, as long as you have the jewel of open.

facetious is a good word. It has all five of the standard english vowels in it, in the same order as they appear in the alphabet.

learn how to pick pockets just so you can put money _into_ people's pockets without them noticing

@not_on_pizza@weirder.earth I dunno. I just know we saw something about Ristar being considered for a company mascot

I know the game boy color's last game was Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which was a pretty good finale, easily one of the best licensed games ever