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@Fizza I still think nothing beats the original:

https://youtu.be/r6xpEV-W60I?si=e0OeDcs6GYs3ZhqZ

@MasterGraveheart To be fair, they were going to give Sonia another game with Castlevania Resurrection, but you know how that went

I disagree with the music being bad in Legends, there are some great tracks on there, but they’re too short before looping.

It has an awesome boss theme: https://youtu.be/tiPLBm8QU8M?si=DVPFeVBGd6fr7J81

@UltraZelda64 Just because you’re not 13 years-old anymore doesn’t mean ***** to 13 year olds.

@somnambulance I’d imagine the use of turn-based battles would mess with the flow of the Metroidvania formula and pacing

@samuelvictor Wow. You’re ‘first place’ sounds amazing. I love it when games can recreate feelings of past times and places, differently for everyone

@samuelvictor Yup! I own them all on Steam 😀. I basically like all of Tomb Raider, and I get people wanting to play the early originals (but those were really designed around keyboard control). I hope they found a good in-between for the controls, or like you can set it either way

@brandonbwii Yeah. Why not just release that one first

@samuelvictor Ah ok. They look so similar.

Maybe they are analog but just include a lock-forward button to line up jumps

@brandonbwii If it is based off this release, like I think it is:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/8000/Tomb_Raider_Anniversary/

Which was fantastic and controlled great.

But I’m not positive, because this new collection is also listed at Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2478970/Tomb_Raider_IIII_Remastered/

@brandonbwii It’s full analog control; none of that tank control crap.

Isn’t this just the Anniversary edition released a decade ago on PC?

@Ade117 Yes it’s reminiscent of the Mario99 game’s asynchronous multiplayer.

@Chlocean Demon Souls/Dark Souls did the asynchronous multiplayer first

@Gamer83 It’s because of the equipable badges; those change the play style now

@luciobar1980 Yeah they did show a lot of things

@rushiosan The Ultrahand controls are great. It’s crazy the stuff you can build without an actual separate grid loading up like other vehicle editors. (There is a snapping system but the grid is hidden)

Also FUSE fixes a lot of things about breakable weapons

@Dimjimmer More like: “Find out over the next 20 episodes of Dragon Ball Z”

To make it even more fun, I purposefully try to build up characters based on ones from Castlevania, so like “what upgrades would Simon Belmont have vs Sypha Belnades vs Alucard”. It’s fun to see how much I can shape the avatar into those Castlevania characters. I also sometimes turn off the Vampire Survivors soundtrack and pump some Bloody Tears through Spotify 😀

@demacho Good to hear

@demacho Define big

@PlasmaticSnake Blows it outta the water in boringness

Wow! Look how evenly our choices split 😎

Smiled at the fuse-dog-with-stick part. Spoiler: You actually can’t do that in game… but now I wish you could! 😂

@Zeldawakening Swap the titles and you’re correct

@Serpenterror They are completely separate adventures (with special linked pass codes); it isn’t akin to Red/Blue at all.

But yes they were both released at the same time. It is one of the few multi-releases that is actually worth buying both for

@MysteryCupofJoe

I mean he musta asploded

@rjejr

Just like the first one: it’s as hard as you make it to be. Nintendo’s ‘difficulty settings’ are in the many tools at your disposal to tackle the task at hand, and from what I’m hearing the tools are very, very vast this time around

@OldManHermit Sounds like an excellent Switch commercial in the making

@AlienigenX This is the way

@k8sMum I hear ya 🫠

@Doomcrow Was Majora’s Mask a DLC 🤔

@Jhena Many, many sites gave it a 10 and absolutely lovely things to say about it

@Grandiajet 12am EST / 9pm PST in USA

@ChromaticDracula that’s the downstab and it first appeared in Zelda 2 Adventure of Link.

@Uncle_Franklin “my rumpy doppelgänger”

@Goofonzo That’s such an awesome little game

Star Fox Zero. I love the tune that plays

Runner up is Mario theme for that super quirky music

@Mauzuri https://images.app.goo.gl/LRA4nB8Luikf1ukS6

He’ll show up only when needed

@bippity_bop https://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltjf1iRJ011qzmprzo1_500.gif

Maybe he’ll reign in a renaissance of all Pokémon in all hats

@RubyCarbuncle

Oh yeah? Well Eevee can go eat a sack of sh—!

@EVIL-C https://youtu.be/DaOgZwk9rN8

I wonder how much labor goes into a new hat

@Vexx234 I’d say stuck in beta. It needs a much larger budget and variety, and speed (in the zone levels) but the 3D control is the best it has ever been and the freedom of exploration is a complete breeze.

The desert area on PS5 is also beautiful

@spacely_sprockets Yeah… “love” 😡

I’m happy you are able to play and understand it like it should be

@smithyo It’s because SotN is an amazing game that continues to age very well. It’s also infinitely replayable.

But also Simon’s Quest was an early open world action RPG too, although it didn’t have many stats to grow. This is why the genre is beholden to this series, as much as Metroid is

@OldManHermit

Metroid (NES) did all that first. Also Simon’s Quest is closer in design to Super Metroid than Symphony of the Night. Except Symphony does have the super-jump (like the dash jump). Neither SQ nor SM had actual RPG stats, other than health and in SQ’s case a very basic Leveling system.

Symphony was the first Castlevania to use RPG stat modifiers

@Olliemar28 Oh I totally do that too; I even go so far as to turn down the game’s soundtrack and pump Castlevania music through a portable speaker under the TV. I do this with Elden Ring and Vampire Survivors too 😀. Castlevania LoI and Curse of Darkness especially have versatile tracks that fit well.

For Elden Ring, once I found where the whip was located, I restarted a new game, created Sonia Belmont and pumped that music, changing tracks per area. It is great fun, and the Soulsborne series takes a lot from Castlevania anyway.

@Snatcher It’s nice enough… until you realize it’s bark scrap stamped with a vague image

@Hwatt also, though we lose the mirror reflection (which always looked tacked on), we gain amazing ice reflections of the morph ball and even surface light refraction. The thick ice instances look awesome in the remaster

@Hwatt The look-down-when-jumping thing is actually available to turn on in the options (listed as “foot checking”). Guess DF didn’t notice that.

However, it can definitely get in the way of combat situations with the dual stick controls setup. That’s why it’s off by default

@Truegamer79 Yeah that bugged the hell outta me with the Wii version; THANKFULLY the water and the way it ripples looks way better than ever before, featuring full specularity and wave deformation on (most) bodies of water. (If the original didn’t have wave physics for a specific body of water, it remains without it in the Remaster.)

It looks so good I find myself just randomly shooting my charge shot into water frequently; just to see those gorgeous ripples. It even has secondary ripples when hitting the edge of a wall

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I was thrown by the music one because the Zelda 1 Final Dungeon music chords do play in Eldin region, but not the normal Dungeon theme . In addition the main Zelda 1 Overworld theme also plays while riding a horse long enough.

I had no idea about Hestu preferring Link naked. I also couldn’t recall any large eggs in Rito town, and I would not have remembered the one chick mentioning them.

@Hopeful_Cynic I did the same shizz in a little known brick breaker DS indie gem called Alpha Bounce; I would choose my next level by making sure I “surrounded” the proverbial enemy’s planet from all sides, and pretend their main base is at the center or wherever. It always felt like higher stakes when I took their “base”.

Sometimes you have to use your imagination to fill in all those meandering seconds of video game minutiae you take for granted