The product of Saudi Arabian studio Semaphore, this title was intended to launch an episodic franchise of third-person action-adventure games. Overwhelmingly negative reception put those plans on indefinite hiatus.
Dearly beloved, we're gathered here today to honour the life of big banker, embezzler, and landlord Wishbone, Boyks' old favourite, who we now must unfortunately END
reminder that Red Candle Games, developers of Devotion, have released Nine Sols today. it's a metroidvania cribbing some ideas from Sekiro, with a gorgeous setting combining technology and spiritualism. the cultural influence is just as prominent as the dev's past games, and it's a real blast to play from the short time I've spent with it
this and last year's laika have a surprising amount in common aesthetically despite hailing from two different continents. if you're jonesing for good indie metroidvanias while you wait for the next hollow knight thing, remember that there are some very cool games in a similar vein to check out
i really hope someone succeeds at chasing the retroarch devs out of the emulation scene for good. jeff gerstmann just talked about using it on his podcast recently and i'm sick of them still being relevant. they severely harassed several LGBT people, one of which famously committed suicide from a kiwifarms harrassment campaign that originated directly from their private IRC chatrooms. their behavior towards the developers whose emulators they fork is so toxic that it was the sole cause of several famous emudevs either quitting entirely or going on a years-long hiatus. yes, im well aware that it's the only way to get multiplatform versions of certain emulators. but if you support emulation then you should just use the standalone emulators on your PC and phone instead. the retroarch developers do not deserve your support. the project is rotten to the core in ways that can't be fixed by just forking the source code. emulator frontends are simple to set up if you know basic tech stuff. you well and truly do not need retroarch.
seriously this. they are a shit-stain on the emulation scene. they don't deserve your support. in fact, some of them deserve a punch in the face.
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