• they/them...for now

weird depressed person trying to make a game? actually not sure. yeah i should probably more thoroughly interrogate my appreciation of the referenced video game character


lankyfromnowonbutprobablynot
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(in order of most recent to least recent, I think)

Snakebird Primer - (this is going to look weird) I played part/most(?) of this on a whim after spending too much time playing Snakebird (proper) and only finishing one level...that I'd already seen before. (more on that in a bit) Primer is actually still surprising in its own ways. It initially seemed to me like an oversimplification, but once you get past the first few levels you see that, while it is simplified Snakebird, it still manages to present some clever mechanical reveals/teaching moments, and after about 40 levels I actually got stuck. I know it's odd to release a brutal puzzle game and then make a new version of it that functions as an introduction to the original title, but I think it's probably good that Noumenon did this, because...

Snakebird - I heard that a bundle of Snakebird and Snakebird Primer was announced for Switch (which I might start evangelizing about), so I decided to see if I could still have some fun with the original after a few years. Short answer: yes. Long answer: holy shit this game is evil but compelling. Snakebird looks and sounds cute but it quickly dispels the notion that it will be a breezy casual puzzle game. Somehow I cleared a late puzzle (probably for the first time), and then went back to the first few levels and...got stuck. Noumenon did not pull its punches here. It's a great game to fiddle with intensely for a little while and constantly has me asking the classic hard-puzzle question: HOW?!

B3313 - After trying and failing to find an easy way to build a PC port of the Super Mario 64 romhack B3313, I'd almost given up the idea I would get anything out of this. I'm very glad I tried it anyway in Project64. I've played Star Road and most of Last Impact, maybe a couple other popular romhacks, but already B3313 feels like THE romhack of SM64. Probably deserves its own post after I put another few hours into it, but yeah, highly recommended (for some people).

Super Mario 64 (PC Port) - After claiming for years that it's my favorite game, I figured I should actually play the damn thing again. Luckily, the game is still great. I kind of suck at it, but there's something to be said for playing a game on (more or less) its own terms (port notwithstanding) just to have fun going through the motions, and BOY are there some motions. Probably also a good idea to make a separate post on this.

Sephonie - Analgesic Production's much-anticipated (by me) followup to Anodyne 2 (a fantastic game) is a mostly low-poly 3D platformer/strategic puzzle hybrid. It's pretty damn good, but for some reason I haven't had the follow-through to finish it, despite being very close now. I think I'm worried that finishing the game will send me head-first into an overly-pensive/depressive pit, and that I need to allow adequate time for the finale to wreck me if it so chooses. Another separate post, I'm sure.

More whole/coherent thoughts later, maybe!



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