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While that direction might have been a miss for some of the cutscene writing*, the music decision clearly paid off - this game has a fantastic soundtrack. Sweet Mountain was pretty sweet. Most stages feel like proper high-speed platforming stages, and the more gimmicky stages are pretty interesting ...

Orbot explaining the joke was funny, don't @ me

Sonic talking to the camera was ultra cringe, don't @ me

That line is good, but it has ... also not appeared yet in the LP... Anyway, I don't know much about this game other than: It being the beginning for the new more lighthearted and comedic tone of the 2010s era Sonics Was it really the beginning, though? Spud in Unleashed had so much of that "Sa...

That was a fascinating ending, but ... was it really what the slugcat wanted? The family did seem to be migrating in the opening cutscene, and it did reach another slugcat tree in the void, but it also looked like it was missing its family in the early dreams. I don't think there's a way that the fa...

I have absolutely no idea how to sprite chibi humans (not that I do much better in other styles), so here's ... something:

I thought they'd be in the 1.2-1.5 meter range personally, as fitting into pipes and stuff implies they're slightly smaller than humans - but only slightly, since references like the bridge architecture in the citadel seem to put them on a similar scale as humans (or whatever creatures inhabited thi...

Hm, oh yeah, the colors are slightly off on that Discord image. This should be an accurate screenshot? my_hack_000.png The background is HDMA (ie colors must be horizontal stripes) consisting of a deliberately banded gradient, then a golden platform for ground. Like, don't worry too much about the a...

Due to the fact that it threw you into 4th place by the end of the second cup race, I'm deciding to post this - Spoilered, of course. In the event you're interested, I'm putting some images from todays video in the spoiler below of Rokkaku Hill , that one JSRF track with the shortcut you've kinda b...

KobaBeach wrote: ↑3 months ago hexing this fucking thread

What did dear old SA3 do to deserve this? ;_;

most lp - ats
least lp - ats
best lp - ats
worst lp - ats

clean sweep :3

Locus of Control - This never bothered me on my first playthrough for some reason, but it is kinda odd how the green koopas have their normal bright colors and everything that's usually red is just super dark now The greens are supposed to be brighter than usual. Are they not anymore? The yellows (...

Yeah I'm surprised that a comment beginning with "I'm begging you" received this much support in a raocow comment section to begin with. With that said, though, I'd say the different vehicle types make a good case for at least trying other characters at some point, even if that ends up bei...

I never thought much about it, but I guess the Mario Kart minimap helps a lot with building up mini-turbo from drifting? Like, since you can just look at what turns are coming up, you can gauge how safe it is to commit to drifting or something without having to memorize the track. The minimap also h...

My main impression of Galaxy 2 at this point was "huh, that was kinda... easy." I felt similarly. Which is interesting, actually! Because rao's playthroughs is very much a contrast to this impression. Like, in my case, Galaxy 1 was consistently appropriately challenging (well, with a few ...

...actually, one more thing. I haven't forgotten the Train Station thread last year and this discussion seems like it might be on a similar trajectory, so just gonna say before I start my actual DAE postmortem: if you or anyone else wants to spin this off into a separate debate thread then go for i...

Oh wow, these layers-and-events bosses are really nice! Especially the Ninji, which manages to to have rather complex attacks with multiple things going on without becoming unfair. The LunaLua versions are mostly very faithful, and I really see why they would be interesting to reinterpret. Speaking ...

I suppose I'll also cross-post, since this ended up fairly long, making it possibly better suited for the forum format: That was a wonderful boss! Flows very well once you've figured out the attacks and mechanics. I especially liked the second phase's laser attack. I'm really glad you didn't enable ...

EllenHouraisan wrote: ↑3 months ago Is this the Mario Galaxy that has the "trees", by the way? Those things freak me the hell out.

Yes, we'll probably get to them in the episode after the next.

I actually think Megahammer is a pretty good boss, it's a good conclusion to a stage that has revolved around firing Bullet Bills with Yoshi. But I also don't think there's much point to mastering it, like the daredevil comet requires. Especially not a couple days later like this, divorced from the ...

That timeline seems a bit too optimistic, to be honest. I can maybe finish at some point in January. But note: My "maybe", Luck's "my hope", Cam's "if we can find time".

I never really realized this until rao pointed out that both of the first two top path levels feature Yoshi, but world 3 seems to have a powerup theme! Well, at least for the first two levels on each path. The top path revolves around Yoshi powerups (blimp and bulb), while the bottom path revolves a...

People don't like that remake's art style??

I love it when remakes go for a different style, instead of just, like, upscaling everything. Gives both versions their own artistic identity.

Oh, right, we've seen the cosmic clones a few times by now, but now we've had a comet focused on them. As far as I know, this is the first game to extensively feature enemies that perfectly mimic the player's movement, but with a delay. So, if you ever wonder where Celeste or various ROM hacks got t...

That's not a romp, that's a rampage! (I can't believe it's been two years ;_;)

Wow, world 3 has such a beautiful background, not sure how I never made note of that before. Good soundtrack, too. (Unlike Koopa's Road, which I never really understood the appeal of, it's just OK.) If you like this style of linear 3D Mario, good news, so did the devs, refining it in their next two ...