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Sandy

I’ve been sitting on this one for a while and finally decided to finish the sketch. Catch her with Maxwell in the library

Takane Yamashiro My favorite character from the new Touhou game, and probably one of my new favorites from the series overall! I haven't 1cc'd the game yet though because it's hard and I feel like I got worse at Touhou lmao This new style has been fun to experiment with, but I think I'm gonna go bac...

I always forget to post my drawings :sad: Remilia Scarlet I was going to do a Drawloween challenge that a friend sent me but I realized I’m not good at drawing most of what was on there; gonna have to practice that. To keep up the theme though, I drew our favorite vampire from Touhou, but I gave her...

Some new drawings. Gonna try to do a lot more now. Samus Aran To celebrate Metroid Dread’s release, here’s Samus! I’ve been waiting for this game for like 10 years, and it’s been a blast to play so far. Samus is also one of my favorite video game characters ever and my first fictional crush because ...

This was a blast! Loved seeing all of these creative ideas and set-pieces. I really hope that anyone who reads my reviews understands my positions and (hopefully) gets an idea about what sort of levels I enjoy and don't enjoy. There were so many great levels that it was hard to pick a favorite after...

Do check out Legend of Dragoon and Shadow Hearts if you like timing puzzles in your turn based RPGs, they're the first ones to come to mind beyond the Mario games. Need to play them myself. Timing puzzles are a bit fun, but I do remember Ffydwyrr on here (Galdera on Discord, he's been out of Yelsey...

Fire Emblem is newbie friendly? (only played five minutes of Thracia so far lol) I only say that because it seems like it's what gets a lot of people into the genre; the fact that Awakening and Three Houses were so popular made me think that a lot of people could kinda just pick it up and go from t...

A lot of new reviews came out since I last posted! Check'em out!!

9001st post get talkhaus struggle tweets a shame but i understand, turn based strategy can be quite dense for people who are more into actiony stuff like shmups, battles can take like 10 minutes a pop in a strategy rpg even. i'm only into them because i love the idea of jrpg chess wrt games like ar...

Sami

I fell in love with her when Nintendo revealed the Advance Wars remake during E3. She's now my wife.

... it's just too bad that I hate the gameplay style of Advance Wars so I'll never play it lmao

Another character sheet, this time for my OC Nora! She’s probably my cutest character tbh

Ooh, this should be fun! I've been meaning to contribute to more projects aside from A2XT, so I'd like to apply for a judge position! I've been working on the level reviews and should hopefully have them done and sent to you pretty soon, Enjl!

I feel like I got worse at Touhou somehow? I've been trying to 1cc 18 but man, I can't even get past stage 4 without continues. :( I even lose lives in stage 3 in stupid ways. I wonder if somehow my reaction time's gotten worse or something? It's super frustrating; I beat almost every other game in ...

*REPOST* Had to do a few minor tweaks to proportions and stuff to make it look better!

I finally made a character sheet for one of my OCs! Ciara’s a lunatic, but she’s MY lunatic~

It's been a bit! In between my bouts of absolute 0 motivation to do anything, I finished/am playing some games. 1. Finished Cyberpunk 2077 . Loved it. Basically got 100% other than a few annoying missions and all endings. Absolutely stunning world (probably one of the most fleshed out worlds in any ...

Ah, it's finally time for the Rush trilogy! Granted, the "third" game was released a few years later, but still. I really love these games, and they have some of the best music in the series (I especially love Rush Adventure's OST)! The first game has some growing pains since it basically ...

I did finally give up on Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity unlocks. I got to 95% completion when I realized I'm gonna have to just go through all the levels looking for Koroks and I do not want to do that and I don't wanna use a guide to find the one or two on all of the story levels that I missed. ...

While I can see the logic behind this, having a sonic game with the gameplay loop of Thumper would be amazing. I can see that working, especially on the visual/spectacle side, but I would still worry about how much gameplay variety you could actually have with something like this, especially if you...

like this is the first draft of the boost formula so i'm not expecting a masterpiece but man do you just not have the level of control the game seems to think you do. and then doing collection in these levels is a pain because woah hey wow did you know if you're going super fast it's hard to spot o...

Still been in a shmup mood. I rediscovered my favorite shmup from when I was a kid; I played it at the arcade all the time but forgot what it was, only to randomly find it in a shmup recomendation YouTube video. It's called 19XX: The War Against Destiny and replaying it made me remember why I loved ...

Tabooless Basket

Greater Devil of Forbidden Fruit (and also one of my favorite shmup final bosses ever lmao)

Some new reviews have come out since last time! Check them out if you wanna!

Reisen Udongein Inaba

This started as a simple practice sketch but I ended up liking it so much that I decided to run with it; it wasn’t even originally gonna be Reisen lmao

But hey, moon rabbits work in mysterious ways

Two new reviews came out recently!!

Not too bad so far! Yeah, some are definitely easier to find than others, but like you saw, they automatically get saved after you collect them, so at least you don't have to worry about dying. Plus, you're using the optimal team combo, too. Just requires a little patience and keeping tabs on routes...