Saturnine Tenshi

Purchased some $130 boots for my wife for Christmas.

You guys keep talking about this game! FFF! Don't make me buy it! It's presently $12.49 on Steam; I wonder if it'll drop lower during the winter sale. I'd probably get it now if I hadn't just purchased three games I intend to play ASAP.

Still watching Chu2, but I also picked up Chihayafuru at the fervent behest of some guy who . . . I don't even know why I listened to him. He's some guy. Anyway, it's good.

Heavenly Sword.

I typed some things here and realized they'd probably just make people dislike me. | :

http://cheylock.tumblr.com/post/36032733313

That's what I was thinking . . . I just don't know where the rest of it came from. Her "partner" and the setting she was recruited from.

Finished Hotline Miami.

I think this about answers not only this, but several other threads around the forum.

Yeah, she was from the Demon's Run episode. But when he recruited her I thought it was because she'd appeared in past episodes as the other recruits had and I'd somehow missed her. I thought she might have been covered in something somewhere. Even in one of the novelizations.

Whoop! Thanks, Dean. Actually, question regarding that . . . lizard woman. Forget you guys. I'm not going to remember her name or race. When did he meet her? I've watched the peripheral episodes and webisodes, but I guess I missed hers.

I . . . had more Madcatz N64 controllers than I feel comfortable remembering.

I eat cookies all day erryday. Also, holy crap is that cheating, Rev. You're circumventing all the troublesome nature of a pomegranate to just eat the good parts! I had no idea they sold those already plucked.

I just pictured you doing that, Chewie. Sometimes having photos of people to reference for imaginary scenarios is very amusing.

I think you're just being contrary for the sake of it at this point, FDS. I'm not even saying it's a bad game (or saying it isn't a great game for that matter), but poor level design is poor level design however you want to spin it. I'll concede that it probably isn't my type of game as I haven't the slightest penchant for punishment; that does nothing for the state of the game. I've more to say, but I don't feel inclined to really put my heart into it if you're just going to resort to flippant, haughtier-than-thou replies. You should dismount before engaging people in conversation every now and then. Edit: I suppose I should add that they've addressed this to an extent with the bonfires in Dark Souls. So at least they've acknowledged their mistakes and learned from them unlike many a dev.

I've been listlessly keeping up with this one, and I'm still not sure how I feel about it. I think it's the characters: they don't mesh together in my mind. Smash Brothers just felt right—even now with its Sonic (who was the anti-Mario for so long).

Okay. Then it should have them closer to the bosses. I don't consider those post-boss checkpoints legitimate checkpoints so much as they're used to partition the level between bosses. It would function fine if they weren't seeking to pad the game's hours and add that sought-after "difficulty". Though I'm not sure where difficulty ends and poor game design begins here, but I'm going to go with the latter. As far as the hour padding is concerned, I'll surrender that it's fairly common throughout the industry. Whether that excuses it is another thing. I just can't see backwards level design somehow being excused for the sake of a supposed challenge.

Yeah. I don't expect it to be anything super-deep, but it's nice that they aren't relying fully on the light-hearted slice of life and silliness.

Just finished watching the latest episode of Chu 2 Byo. Switched moods quickly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YySGy_4Wag I've been listening to this song for an unhealthy length of time thanks to Cyber.

@FDS: With save points or proper checkpoints.I don't think doing something for a challenge excuses decade-or-two-old game design. I'm hoping to happen across a large mace. There are never enough of those. Edit: I riddled the Tower Knight with a salvo of arrows. Our first encounter had him splash me across the cobblestone with his shield. But is it all right to discuss the first game in this thread?

I'd be one villainous mother fucker.

I almost pity the Youtube generation.

Maybe I didn't get far enough for it to be useful. Far as I was, it was pretty damn useless. Playing it now, I remember another reason why I loathed it: dying means you go all the way back to the last boss you fought. Just sort of supplanting modern game design for punishment.