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One interesting alternate approach would be deliberately trying to make attacks from bosses that weren't actually hostile to you into helpful ones, as happened with Mother Brain's lobster rings. I guess I'm not sure how to classify Shadow in that regard, but under this idea the Hothead and Mushashi ...

All I have to say is, I'm glad Mother Brain's exercises were so helpful to you in the end.

Guess we weren't quite done with the dragons after all.

From the judge commentary, I'm guessing Darkonius didn't either. Among other things, it looks like the up-slash makes it possible to deprioritize the math attack, since it doesn't trigger either answer.

Not that it matters at this point, but I think your problem on the Mars minigame was that you weren't really paying attention to the center of the crosshair. You literally have a pointer that indicates what you're going to hit, at least before the speed picks up it makes sense to use that to make su...

Just going to point out "Very excited and/or a snake" as something to remember from this one.

I feel like it would have been more intuitive to call the heat gauge the "rage meter" or something along those lines. In general, making a machine overheat seems like something you'd want to do if you were trying to destroy it, not something you'd want to avoid.

:demo: Days without an anti-button-mash mechanism for the message boxes: This prompted me to dig up the text. Any spacing errors are from my past self, I'm directly copying. Start of step one: "Step one is very simple. Swim around and gather the rings. You will need to be agile to avoid being ...

I wasn't sure how I was going to do, since I pretty much just threw my entry together for fun. Scoring right around the middle feels fine given that. Mostly, seeing Aqua Ring and Aqua Step together inspired me to do a sequence of water-themed mini-rooms ("steps") based on various types of ...

"I could not mask my face with a banana, because a banana would be too small."

I'm glad posting is working again so I can make a record of this quote here.

I see the title of this thread and all I can think is "Monkey Flee, Monkey Do".

Weird decision not to go for the full set of planets. I guess they didn't have any more ideas for levels with the space physics? Would probably have been fun to use the robots in space, though.

"Ghosts are not real. Shocking! I'm sorry if this is where you're learning about this."

Are you telling me that ghosts have actually been bulldozers this whole time?

What is this, "complete"? Have you no respect for the sanctity of your own arbitrary naming scheme? You had a perfectly good gimmick going, and now you have utterly destroyed it with a single moment of carelessness!

...wait a minute.

KobaBeach wrote: ↑10 months ago has raocow gotten to

the donkey kong land boss theme remix

yet

Not at the time you posted that, but now he has. I was surprised when I heard the song.

The Q actually stands for "Questionable", I think. So I wouldn't recommend eating that ice cream.

google en passant &: That's... Weird. We swear you used to only be able to do one of the Chess battles at a time, and would have to re-find the arena (It moves around on the overworld, and is marked by that ladder appearing.) if you wanted to fight another one? Was that something they changed i...

In the garage, obviously.

The framing device implies that Wario got trapped in the boombox and he's not actually supposed to be there.

But evidently, cars shaped like potatoes and sharks are supposed to be in there. I have no idea how that thing works.

Fun fact: Heavy objects do not actually fall faster than lighter objects in general. There is a specific gravitational constant which determines the acceleration of a falling object, which has nothing to do with the mass or weight of the object - on Earth, this is about 9.8 meters per second per sec...

One thing you didn't catch in the Dodge game is that Level 1 doesn't play any tricks. At the least it doesn't do the "stop suddenly, then move again" trick, I'm not 100% sure it doesn't ever have jumping cars. There were several times when you were expecting a trick when Level 1 came up, s...

Okay, I'm confused. Did you mix up the entries when playing and not catch this until after recording so you don't mention it in the video, or did you play 4th and then a 2nd and then mess up the description?

Here's my entry. Looks like I'm the first person to submit on this side.

Since my name got brought up: my offer in the early days of this hack was pretty much, if you want writing I'm willing to provide whatever level of it you're looking for. And that basically still stands. If you feel that you've got the writing in hand, I'm also willing to look over the script and of...

Add me to the "between games" chorus - not very loud here, but I glanced at the video comments and there's a lot of people suggesting it there. I feel like doing it all at once, whether now or as its own LP, would get pretty draining at the end. But as a goofy little thing you do between o...