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I'm trying to figure out what the geopolitical situation in Sonic's wacky alternate universe is. Doing some reading the best I can come up with is that the United Federation is some kind of World government (or at least has a ton of territory) but is also the United States. G.U.N. is the UF's milita...

I'd just like to comment that I love the backgrounds in Chaos Angel, especially the way the indoor segments scroll.

here's a fun video for more info on advance video I stand corrected. The 2 in 1 paks did have two movies in 64 MB. I'm pretty sure the GBA Video cartridges not playing on the Game Boy Player (that thing you can use to play GBA games on the Gamecube/your television screen) was probably due to the sh...

Looking a bit into GBA video, the entire "there's a volume 1 but no volume 2" thing was pretty common. Sonic X isn't really an example of that, as there was supposed to be a volume 2 and volume 3, but both were cancelled. Most things had a volume 1, but a volume 2 never made it to the soli...

I remember there being adds for GBA video in the boxes that games came in.
I recall that there was a SpongeBob one as well.

Recently, I finished warpless runs of Super Mario Bros 2 and 3 (SNES). My lukewarm take is that while SMB3 has the world map, more power ups and in general more stuff going on, the level design in SMB2 holds up a lot more. Even with more defined world themes, SMB3 levels feel like 50 second affairs'...

Recently played Night in the Woods. There's a lot I like about the game. The dialogue's great and sometimes thought provoking. It has lovely atmosphere. The music's pretty good, I especially like the main menu theme. I really like the way the characters move. However the ending through me off. The c...

The SMB3 aesthetic run last month made me think about level themes in Mario games so I compiled a comparison of the world themes from some of the 2D games; Super Mario Bros 2 and 3, Super Mario World, Yoshi's Island, and the New Super Mario Bros games. Marioworlds.PNG For New Super Mario Bros 2, spe...

I for one pretty much only used the rosary throughout my playthrough. The rosary was the only weapon where I found that I could constantly time inputs to do combos. The sheer difficulty I had with pulling off combos was the main reason I never returned to Okami. That said, this might have been a pro...

Cyberpunk 2077, because uncommonly for video games it's been getting a lot of attention from mainstream media, with articles on the six o clock.
Not that they say anything good; it's mostly about how everyone's offering refunds because it failed to perform on so many levels.

I'll go with Adventure 2.

Also included is kanji for those of us who don't know Japanese. All the stuff swirling around on the screen during enemy encounters is pretty nasty.

So I was looking through the wii version manual and found the mythological notes section. One thing that I find interesting is that in game, Amaterasu is intended as a gender neutral entity instead of female.

I specifically remember the song "Last Christmas" from a very peculiar moment in my past. The high school I went to had their talent show in December. One year two guys wearing sunglasses and silly hats sung an off key rendition of "Last Christmas" while a third guy spun around i...

It's been years since I touched this game. For the record I played the Wii version. My overall thoughts were that it was a fundamentally good game weighed down by far too many minor inconveniences. I have no major complaints with game, but around 22000 nitpicks. I'm sure now that I'm older and less ...

At the very least is it a nice controller?

Super Mario Bros 3 levels are a lot shorter than I remember.

Turns our there's a good reason lizards aren't usually associated with speed; because of the way their muscles are set up, most lizards can't run and breath at the same time.
Clearly, Espio is just really good at holding his breath; it must be part of his ninja training.

I played a fair bit of the GBA remake of SMB3 as a kid, and raocow mentioning the 2-2 secret is the first time I've heard of the white toad houses, which shows how much I really know about SMB3. Out of the five 2D mario platformers with the koopalings as bosses, Morton is the world 2 boss in three o...

Team Dark's theme is one of the most early 2000s thing I've bore witness to in a while and I love it for that.

Also in Dark's team blast, Shadow and Omega do all the work, Rouge just stands there looking pretty.

Knuckles' "Have you been playing with that girl's heart?" is exactly what I would say in a similar situation.
Dialogue like this is so different from how Knuckles was introduced all those years ago; instead of being a mysterious rival, he's more of a bro.

Towards the end there, I feel as though raocow had a brief glimpse into the horrid dystopian alternate timeline where everything is exactly the same except that McCain controls the World's supply of chicken in addition to the supply of potatoes.