raocow's talkhaus

okami is one of my top favorite games aaaaa
I've played it on the ps2, wii, and nintendo switch. Unfortunately the wii had terrible

drawing controls

but they are really good on the switch. Haven't tried it on steam but I hope it plays well for raocow here.

A bit late with this because life, but might I just say that some people — who happen to be both in the youtube comments and here on the forums — took things too far by invoking a certain other level yesterday? Said level already got substantial flack back when raocow first played it. Continuing to...

some dev commentary Before the contest I was reading the SMW glitch list on SMWCentral for any interesting things that can be done in vanilla, and one of the things that stood out to me was the water glitch where only sprites have water physics applied. I was also inspired by k3fka's and eevee's cit...

It's funny how controversial Swiss Sparkles' palette/aesthetic choices are. I remember helping Enjl with the colors since it was his first time with SMW.

Meanwhile Fish n' Bits has an awesome "improved SMW" aesthetic style, with great level flow to boot.

wow I forgot I wrote that for Luminous Hollow way back when in lolyoshi's stream chat.

There were several times in lolyoshi's judge streams where I was helping lolyoshi summarize his thoughts on the level. So I guess some of those chat messages just became the judge comments.

Some of lolyoshi's comments I agree aren't good, but they do get more detailed. He seems to put effort when he sees effort. The context for his comments is missing as well because he streamed and reacted to the entries live, the recordings of which I believe have been lost. Also, VLDCX is around the...

i thought Vertigo was a Flash Black inspired high effort troll level.
With how solid objects disappear and reappear and how blind everything is, it really feels deliberately bad lol. IIRC Minimay did something similar in VLDC9

Rameau's Nephew commentary was a blessing in this contest

KobaBeach wrote:

FrozenQuills wrote:

happy birthday you musky husky

i already wished fp a happy one on smoo-c

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yeah ship shape used to be a LOT harder in terms of satisfying everything, as the captain used to get mad a lot faster. I had a lot of trouble with it pre patch, but IMO it's quite fun now. It's unfortunate that you need to know absolutely everything about the ship, though, which can make navigation...

oh shoot i didn't realize raocow is playing this
I also love this game, especially the DLCs and one of the later

movie-themed

worlds.

chachas are some of the best enemies in this game

i like how the title screen shows all of the characters awkwardly staring in various directions

anyway as we get closer to the top 10 we get closer to more judge favorites

FPZero's is 9th place
Mine is 3rd place
Ryaa's is 2nd place

(reviews) You mixed up my review of SWEET DREAMS with Have Sweet Dreams lol Have Sweet Dreams ------------------- DESIGN | 50/60 CREATIVITY| 21/30 AESTHETICS| 9/10 TOTAL | 80/100 ------------------- COMMENTS: well this level title is familiar, now im actually having the sweet dreams A lovely level....

The emoji judgement thread on SMWC shows the order of what I judged, and I played the bramble level near the end.
Fun fact: I played mountan castle last by pure chance lol

just noticed that i gave all of these consecutive levels a 65, interesting

tfw everyone noticed an entry having a time limit of more than 500 seconds in my emoji judging thread but not Infinity's blatant 5 lives

edit: and now I noticed Vanilla Plains (103rd place) should also have been dq'd LOL

The average level quality is better in VLDC11 than other VLDCs imo, so I'm happy that raocow is already considering these entries as great level territory.

this is how i felt about today's level

iirc I only thought of the darkness as a minor annoyance and not game breaking.

but looking at raocow's playthrough, that is WAY darker than what I saw lol

oh i didn't see this coming

btw yeah beware there are very hard levels in this

Added some of my courses.
Also y'all could just enter my author ID for all of them: 4VS-M5V-2WG

yeah the enemies outside of beanbean castle are hard on your first visit especially since you're learning how to defend with the hammer, and if you don't beeline straight for the castle you'll be taking a beating. I remember having the same issues as raocow.