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And there we go, Rabi-Ribi 0% run complete. The rest of the postgame turned out to be much easier than I expected: the bosses in the boss rush did basically no damage, had very little health, and healed you to full after each fight; Rumi had an Instant Death debuff on her for all except the last of ...

So turns out the Miriam fight is kind of hilarious on a 0% run. The way it normally works is that as the shopkeeper, Miriam has access to all of your equipment, and uses attacks based on all the stuff you’ve collected throughout the game so far; it’s a pretty difficult battle if you’ve been diligent...

Man, this game just keeps being consistently amazing. I had the biggest smile on my face for the entirety of that grocery store level; it’s just the perfect mix of silly and incredibly creative. Also the Chucks being reskinned to pipe tops in the last part of the prison escape level is the dumbest t...

Rabi-Ribi 0% main game clear. The difficulty is really starting to get up there now; fighting level ~16 bosses with no upgrades means I die in five or so hits and they take forever to kill, and even on the lowest difficulty the final boss gauntlet has quite a few attacks that are genuinely tricky to...

Rabi-Ribi hard mode 100% complete! I used a guide for the egg cleanup, though; some of those things are hidden in ridiculously obscure places. Started working on a 0% run next; it was fairly easy at first, but now the bosses are starting to level up a bit while I’m still stuck with my starting blue ...

The cafe kid's story... Four kids play a game... They end the universe... They make a new universe... Aliens and time travel... It's a lot to get into... It HAS been a little while since I last saw a homestuck reference. Now that I see it, it makes perfect sense to me that this game is at least tak...

Well this is certainly starting off with a bang. I was already going “oh this is neat” at the first half of the Dino-Rhino level, and then the second half happened. I always enjoy seeing just how well these types of level flow when you finally manage to fit everything together for the winning run. A...

Picked up my hard mode play through of Rabi-Ribi again. This game is seriously up there among my favourite Metroidvanias ever; the gameplay more than makes up for the rambling writing and ...somewhat questionable character designs. Currently blazing through the postgame, and I really want to go back...

Leet wrote: ↑3 years ago Oh my god YCZ i havent seen you post anywhere in years

Yeah, I’ve always been visiting this place regularly, but I’m kind of bad at actually posting. Let’s see if I can maybe try to change that?

Oh I’ve very much been looking forward to this. It’s always great seeing what kind of crazy things the JUMP team comes up with.

Oh man I'm totally in for this. You can use my old mii from the Tomodachi Life threads. (and if we can pick classes, I'd like to be a healer)

Well then this sounds all kinds of awful. Hope everything turns out okay and you get well soon! D:

My first gaming system was a Game Boy Colour. I never owned more than three games for it: Super Mario Bros. DX, Pokemon Yellow, and Pokemon Silver (saving money to buy new games took forever back then D:) but I have a lot of good memories playing them at school with my friends. Banjo-Kazooie and Too...

Beat the final boss of the main game of Etrian Odyssey IV on my third attempt (probably could have done it on my second if I hadn't forgotten to bring my TP-restoring items :V), and am now moving on to the postgame. I have to give the designers major props on the atmosphere of the postgame dungeon; ...

I'm getting Xenoblade X vibes from this, which is a good thing. Yeah that was pretty much one of my first thoughts as well. And as someone who adored the sense of exploration in that game, this is looking all kinds of amazing. (the limited inventory space for equipment looks like it might be kind o...

I'd like to be a part of this again as well. Just use my mii from last time.

With how long raocow has been playing SMW hacks, I always get slightly surprised when he gets caught by engine quirks like today's "blocks don't trigger if hit even slightly offscreen" or yesterday's "homing bullets don't interact with held objects". Also, although it's kind of l...

Just got all the materials to create the Ares 90 in Xenoblade X, and man, this thing is kind of silly. It can take down enemies with just a couple of its "weak" arts that I had trouble dealing with in my old level 60 Skell (admittedly the freebie one you get from Alexa's last mission, but ...

Almost done with all of the affinity missions in Xenoblade X; I think there's only two left now? Kind of sad that I got spoiled for the ending of Yelv's last mission, because dear lord that's certainly a twist. There are so many questions left unanswered by this game, and I kind of hope this means t...

Still Xenoblade Chronicles X, clearing up the sidequests and affinity missions I have left. Dang millesaurs, dropping all their materials except for the one I actually need. (also for anyone else playing this game: is there actually a way to put a probe in the spot in NLA? It's been bothering me for...

What is it that makes Mario/Boon die when hitting a wall at high speed? Do you partially clip through it only for the game to suddenly realize you're inside a solid object or something? Yeah, Mario goes fast enough to go directly from "not touching the block" to "being inside the blo...

Okay yeah the last part of the tower was kind of silly. I mean I think I see how I intended it to be done, but it's not really all that clear and the constant time pressure doesn't help. Difficulty balancing is always one of the hardest parts of making a level, especially in a context where you can'...

Watching these levels makes me realise how little I actually remember of them. I'd like to provide dev commentary, but it's kind of hard when it has been two years since the actual dev process. Something I do remember, though, is that I took the contest as an opportunity to use some of SMW's sprites...

yeah, morcel proposed this in the request thread and it's where I think I wanna go. Like I keep saying you are one of my favourite level designers and I don't think I ever lp'd any full project from you, it's about time!!!! Man, every time you say this it makes me feel kind of bad that I never actu...

If you're interested, I have a small twelve-level SMW hack I made for an SMWC contest a couple years back. Not anything overly fancy as far as I remember, but I think it got second place?