nostr:npub1e8vknlqfajjexgag4v3sjjy8yeuluyrwd35s47fdyejwqs99z4wsyvs7yy Kinda sounds like The King of Kong, only for Tetris, and without a villain that ends up becoming the boogeyman of the speedrunning community.

I’ve never been much of a Pikmin fan, despite the series typically being highly regarded by most other hardcore Nintendo enthusiasts. Now, I certainly recognized that Pikmin 1 was a quality game, but the time limit stressed me the fuck out, and while I did reach the final area, I never beat the final boss. Naturally I skipped out on Pikmin 2. However, I *did* end up buying Pikmin 3 (as a Wii U owner in 2013 I didn’t exactly have many games to choose between), and I actually really enjoyed that one, beating the game and concluding that it was quite excellent. However, being quite a short game, I wasn’t exactly getting that much time to enjoy it, and at the same time I never felt compelled to find all the collectibles after beating the final boss, so you could say it didn’t ultimately make that strong of an impression. All in all, if you had asked me just a month ago, I’d probably have ranked Pikmin quite low among the existing Nintendo franchises.

For various reasons however, Pikmin 4 managed to grab and hold my interest in a way no previous Pikmin game did. Part of it was simply building on the gameplay that already made Pikmin 3 so much fun for me – that unique formula of growing Pikmin, then using the little creatures to fight much bigger monsters, gather materials, break down walls, build bridges, solve puzzles, collect treasure and generally prove indispensable as your little spaceman explores a familiar, yet alien and mysterious world. There’s no longer any overall time limit (not even the purely symbolical time limit of Pikmin 3) that has the potential to softlock you, but you still only have a limited amount of time each Day to explore an area, thus continuing to incentivize efficient time management. The end result is a good balance between relaxing and stressful moments, keeping the experience fun and exciting throughout,

Pikmin 4, like all Pikmin games, takes place on earth, the twist being that both your spaceman explorer character and the Pikmin he commands are barely even ant-sized, giving you a whole new perspective on both the natural world and man-made objects. When you’re that tiny, a molehill actually does become a mountain, and as a result seemingly ordinary, mundane locations end up delivering all sorts of striking and unique vistas, as well as tons of cool and creative obstacles and landmarks. Furthermore, Pikmin 4 breaks new ground for the series with an area that takes place entirely inside of a modern house. This place, called Hero's Hideaway, very much reminds me of New Donk City from Mario Odyssey – a type of modern “real-life” location that’s nothing like anything you’ve previously seen in the series, and which could potentially have been a shark-jumping moment, but instead is so cleverly designed, and so well adapted to the game’s setting, that it becomes a high point instead. Hero’s Hideaway 100% feels like a proper Pikmin area, just an especially unique and imaginative one, turning the likes of air circulator fans and even domestic drones into key mechanics for traversing the house.

There are A LOT of new mechanics to grapple with in this game, starting with your new dog companion Oatchi. This giant dog (well, giant compared to your little spaceman character – he’s ultimately still just the size of an insect) can not only act as a second Pikmin master, but do many things that the main character can’t, like ram into objects to break them or cause out-of-reach collectibles to fall down, carry around Pikmin (including swimming across bodies of water with Pikmin that can’t swim themselves) and even jump, adding some light platforming elements to your Pikmin gameplay experience for the first time ever (Hey! Pikmin doesn’t count).

Indeed, Pikmin 4 really expands and enriches the standard Pikmin experience, whether by bringing back elements from past games (Pikmin 2’s caves), integrating side modes into the main campaign (Pikmin 3’s mission mode), giving you singleplayer versions of multiplayer modes (Pikmin 2 and 3’s bingo battles) or by adding brand new elements like night expeditions (a basic, yet still fairly enjoyable tower defense-like mode), a hub world, a surprisingly huge cast of characters as well as side missions tied to them, and new Pikmin types – not to mention giving you a total of 9 different Pikmin types to play around with! For the sake of reference, Pikmin 3 only gave you 5 different Pikmin types, since White and Purple Pikmin didn’t return for the main singleplayer campaign. Pikmin 4 gives you ALL the old Pikmin types, as well as Ice Pikmin (an addition that’s such a natural fit that you’ll wonder why it only now appeared) and Glow Pikmin, which are the exact opposite of their glow-in-the-dark IRL counterparts – cute and useful, but with limited availability.

…and if all this is sounding a bit too much, you later on actually unlock something of a simplified prologue story, one that plays as a throwback to Pikmin 1; You only have 15 days to collect 30 ship parts, and only Red, Yellow and Blue Pikmin are available (you still have a dog companion tho). I actually found the time limit, in the context of this shorter side mode, a welcome addition. It’s strict enough that you really do feel the pressure, yet forgiving enough that it doesn’t require autistic levels of optimal Pikmin gameplay. The first few days I was actually slightly behind schedule, so when I finally pulled off an extremely productive day (with 4 different ship parts found) it felt extremely satisfying, and I eventually ended up finishing the prologue story with 2 days to spare.

nostr:npub195y9xavl68lgy4mgtjd03ycj9uxn9n4ygsqrkf3scf8ckvkd7nyq730tcw nostr:npub1enzazs0wcxxkgs32q0ztxqc2k2w2ld396ltqnz2eeg73sxd6rsfq6fe904 *normal*, not "cis", which is irredeemable fagspeak. Great post otherwise tho.

nostr:npub1enzazs0wcxxkgs32q0ztxqc2k2w2ld396ltqnz2eeg73sxd6rsfq6fe904 The actual freaks desperately want to pretend that normal people are just as sick as they are, if not more so.

nostr:npub1e8vknlqfajjexgag4v3sjjy8yeuluyrwd35s47fdyejwqs99z4wsyvs7yy nostr:npub1w05u3hjwdyrczy9gtne5jhnkxusffapaudf0uyvqjxx42hwfjcxq89ghck nostr:npub1xlmu28r46xw3p2sqk3d5cjp804zpzdk8ttrusdlk4zpmkcg45l8qm5phlu nostr:npub18k6zlzcfgdgj989uv0h7xg9mxk55fszwjsyttexfvlj4h2ase9vq549kqm Any Fediverse Nazi is welcome to host my reviews and writeups if they have an appropriate site for spicy video game content. I could even help track down some of my older stuff (Baest actually has a decent Search feature).

nostr:npub1w05u3hjwdyrczy9gtne5jhnkxusffapaudf0uyvqjxx42hwfjcxq89ghck nostr:npub1e8vknlqfajjexgag4v3sjjy8yeuluyrwd35s47fdyejwqs99z4wsyvs7yy nostr:npub18k6zlzcfgdgj989uv0h7xg9mxk55fszwjsyttexfvlj4h2ase9vq549kqm nostr:npub1xlmu28r46xw3p2sqk3d5cjp804zpzdk8ttrusdlk4zpmkcg45l8qm5phlu They probably are, but even so, they're *extremely* tame, so even if they weren't, I'd consider them a non-issue. The first one took me aback and had me initially worried about it being the sign of much worse to come, but it really wasn't, the second, later joke was even more gentle.

nostr:npub1w05u3hjwdyrczy9gtne5jhnkxusffapaudf0uyvqjxx42hwfjcxq89ghck nostr:npub1e8vknlqfajjexgag4v3sjjy8yeuluyrwd35s47fdyejwqs99z4wsyvs7yy nostr:npub18k6zlzcfgdgj989uv0h7xg9mxk55fszwjsyttexfvlj4h2ase9vq549kqm nostr:npub1xlmu28r46xw3p2sqk3d5cjp804zpzdk8ttrusdlk4zpmkcg45l8qm5phlu AoT is a weird one, maybe I'll try scoring it after the anime is finished. Expect a schizo score.

However, the ORIGINAL Attack on Titan, the French novel Camp of the Saints, definitely is a +4.

nostr:npub1e8vknlqfajjexgag4v3sjjy8yeuluyrwd35s47fdyejwqs99z4wsyvs7yy nostr:npub1w05u3hjwdyrczy9gtne5jhnkxusffapaudf0uyvqjxx42hwfjcxq89ghck nostr:npub1xlmu28r46xw3p2sqk3d5cjp804zpzdk8ttrusdlk4zpmkcg45l8qm5phlu nostr:npub18k6zlzcfgdgj989uv0h7xg9mxk55fszwjsyttexfvlj4h2ase9vq549kqm Highest score is +4, lowest is -5. Clown World being a thing, there's more Bad than Good out there, and anything short of the 1- to -5 scale becomes too limiting.

Here’s a rule of thumb: -1 is a deal, but not really a big deal. -2 is kind of a big deal, but not a dealbreaker. -3 is actually a dealbreaker. -4 is Evil. -5 is Very Evil. General fuzzy old-school liberal vidya politics would probably not net a game anything worse than -2. Explicitly invoking Current Year GloboHomo bullshit like tranny insanity and anti-White shit (including race-swapping characters and infinity nigger historical revisionism) will quickly earn a game -3 though. I’ll however try to avoid slipping into rightwing hypersensitivity, and always keep the greater context in mind: As I’ve mentioned several times by now, Danganronpa V3 is long-ass visual novel that includes 2 extremely tame, throwaway Trump jokes. Is that enough for a -1 on its own? I’d say definitely Not. Is Mario Odyssey’s infamous ending enough for a -1? That’s a much harder question, and for me would ultimately come down to the Intent behind the scene: Is it a Feminist Peach putting Mario the Entitled Male in his place, or is it just meant as a cute way to preserve the all-important Status Quo? I lean towards the latter (the rest of the game is all about Celebrating Mario, not tearing him down), and so I would score Odyssey as Neutral, rather than a -1.

nostr:npub1708609lmn43zrawglw7yzv0t3h43a88smnzjhgyva6asp2t99qxq2tl57w Drive them all to California, then nuke California.

nostr:npub1e8vknlqfajjexgag4v3sjjy8yeuluyrwd35s47fdyejwqs99z4wsyvs7yy nostr:npub1088gu4yv42ke4cat2wmg65z69u8ewj84van8n8hu4lne7f5wyq2qhk25rc nostr:npub1xlmu28r46xw3p2sqk3d5cjp804zpzdk8ttrusdlk4zpmkcg45l8qm5phlu >If that scene is left in the remake, some Quartering-tier retard will make a video about Mario RPG going woke despite the scene having been there for 30 years. Remember this post!

Given the state of JewTube clickbait e-celeb Grifters, there's literally no chance of this being avoided.

nostr:npub1w05u3hjwdyrczy9gtne5jhnkxusffapaudf0uyvqjxx42hwfjcxq89ghck nostr:npub1e8vknlqfajjexgag4v3sjjy8yeuluyrwd35s47fdyejwqs99z4wsyvs7yy nostr:npub18k6zlzcfgdgj989uv0h7xg9mxk55fszwjsyttexfvlj4h2ase9vq549kqm nostr:npub1xlmu28r46xw3p2sqk3d5cjp804zpzdk8ttrusdlk4zpmkcg45l8qm5phlu Oh, that doesn't surprise me at all, I just haven't seen enough of the game to make that call, and I find it more remarkable just how FAST it shows its true colors. The devs must be really sure that the modern gamer's tolerance for poz has reached lethal levels.

nostr:npub1qh2njwwrsmdnlqdrn6ktu2k32txpumqzcln778t2mdasa85kep7shvugqs Femdomfags get helicopter rides too.

nostr:npub1e8vknlqfajjexgag4v3sjjy8yeuluyrwd35s47fdyejwqs99z4wsyvs7yy nostr:npub1088gu4yv42ke4cat2wmg65z69u8ewj84van8n8hu4lne7f5wyq2qhk25rc nostr:npub1xlmu28r46xw3p2sqk3d5cjp804zpzdk8ttrusdlk4zpmkcg45l8qm5phlu Yeah, people complain about there being so many darkies in TotK, but their village existed in BotW as well, it was just an optional location back then. A major mission in the game is indeed to make sure they Go Back.

Also, the irony of Bolson emphasizing the importance of Link giving him Straight tree trunks to work with wasn't lost on me :smug6:

nostr:npub13u6yqy3drvfp3p8rulj9m7txuljaxjsejsm478uvavdg6yddc0tq409agx Even with the flaws, I'd still take it any day over shit like CalArts.

nostr:npub13s88xjv6gafsh9us6tzg480axuzqajkcw284w90m8xevtzeftyss75xv6j nostr:npub1msmfqd4dwmrlu5dnsxkwj4570twc0spacaxe4dem0cefnsv0u8pq640dqu You certainly have won the title of Fediverse Gaylord, true. :100_gay:

nostr:npub13s88xjv6gafsh9us6tzg480axuzqajkcw284w90m8xevtzeftyss75xv6j nostr:npub1msmfqd4dwmrlu5dnsxkwj4570twc0spacaxe4dem0cefnsv0u8pq640dqu Nigger, going for a "woman" with cock and balls when there are literally billion of women out there without cock and balls is obviously gay. Thinking that a woman is somehow *improved* by having cock and balls is even gayer. You cannot win.

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https://s3.poster.place/drc/681b30365692831feb1321f825866519f690255649764b744adacaead227a664.mp4

nostr:npub1088gu4yv42ke4cat2wmg65z69u8ewj84van8n8hu4lne7f5wyq2qhk25rc nostr:npub1e8vknlqfajjexgag4v3sjjy8yeuluyrwd35s47fdyejwqs99z4wsyvs7yy nostr:npub1xlmu28r46xw3p2sqk3d5cjp804zpzdk8ttrusdlk4zpmkcg45l8qm5phlu I don't play Western games, and I don't play Sony shit. I still come across more nonwhites and singular theys than I would have liked, trannylators are of course cancerous, and there's some tepid faggot representation in stuff like modern Fire Emblem, but almost never anything like the kind of shit Baldur's Gay 3 served up in its character creator.

Rasterman can confirm at you'll see less poz during 200 hours of Tears of the Kingdom than in the first 2 minutes of BG3.

nostr:npub1e8vknlqfajjexgag4v3sjjy8yeuluyrwd35s47fdyejwqs99z4wsyvs7yy nostr:npub1xlmu28r46xw3p2sqk3d5cjp804zpzdk8ttrusdlk4zpmkcg45l8qm5phlu nostr:npub18k6zlzcfgdgj989uv0h7xg9mxk55fszwjsyttexfvlj4h2ase9vq549kqm The game straight up speedran getting a -3 on my Based Morality Scale, which is my Dealbreaker score. Not saying it won't get even worse later on, just saying that it doesn't even need to, it's already shit, and I'm gonna judge anyone who buys or shills the game. :pyra_judgesyou:

nostr:npub1e8vknlqfajjexgag4v3sjjy8yeuluyrwd35s47fdyejwqs99z4wsyvs7yy nostr:npub1xlmu28r46xw3p2sqk3d5cjp804zpzdk8ttrusdlk4zpmkcg45l8qm5phlu Why spend 50-100 hours in a virtual world created by evil people who hate you? There are tons of other games out there who aren't made by anti-White cucks who get multiple erections while visiting the nearby zoo.