My local arcade brought in an MK2 machine and I swear I must have blown a year of allowance on it. Which retirement home are you leaning? I thought Palm Oaks looked nice
Just finished Adventure Time for the first time. Finn’s loss of his arm trying to connect with his selfish father and its replacement with a demon-laden version of himself followed by cold metal is a rich examination of the dehumanizing reduction of man to utility expanded upon by almost every other character (but particularly his disembodied mother). That said, Jake was totally his cure for male loneliness.
Something I noticed when reading your excellent posts is that you don't capitalize your i's. I have no opinion on whether you should or not, but it did get me thinking—the English language has always seemed a bit interesting to me in that regard. It's the only language I know that does this.
German capitalizes all its nouns, and lots of languages capitalize God and "You" if they're talking about Him (not me though atheist fuck as I am), but only English capitalizes "I". Almost seems a secular statement, if I didn't know better 😅
Pseudoregalia has the same endless space for skill expression in the movement - the platforming is deeply satisfying and scratched a very similar itch for me!
As others mentioned, A Hat In Time is delightful and has similar room for skill expression
Celeste is 2d but the single best platforming game I have ever played. Its movement system is so, so satisfying and deep
You might enjoy Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart - its a ton of fun, but a slight sideways shift in genre
I also found Cavern of Dreams pretty delightful as a cute 3d mascot platformer
I would be failing you if I didn’t mention A Short Hike - it’s short, as its name suggests, but it is an absolute blast
The second I saw someone mention A Hat In Time my mind sprung to thinking Yooka-Laylee as a viable option. It’s made by a studio founded by ex-RAR employees, IIRC, and has been a game I’ve played on and off but find a lot of fun. Especially from an exploration standpoint.
Game is basically running through a giant hub, going from level to level, collecting magic book pages, all in order to get back a book that was stolen from one of the main characters. Levels are pretty big too, with expansions as well. Has a Banjo Kazooie vibe, from what I know about that franchise.
There’s also a switch port, assuming you don’t feel like spending $19.99 on Steam for the original ( 7.48GB space required ) or $29.99 for the remaster ( 25.96GB space required )
I didnt “get” yooka laylee. I played like 1 or 2 hours and I was just deeply bored compared to something like a hat in time or odyssey - is it just a slow starter?
I think it is more of a slower game in general. I’ve only been to maybe 3-4 levels and it definitely isn’t as fast paced as games like odyssey. Doesn’t help that there’s usually a quiz about the previous level in between being able to access each new area in the hub world after the first level.
Cannot say whether the remaster makes the gameplay any faster or not considering I’m still trying to beat the original.
I think I just didn’t see much room for expression in the movement system, but I guess that if its a banjo kazooie type game you might only unlock ways to do different things later on
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