I’ve recently gotten into I Wanna Be the Guy fangames. This is an interesting, ironic development. Why? Because I wasn’t a fan of the original I Wanna Be the Guy for the longest time. From memory, I first played it at MAGFest VI (I went to MAGFests before they were named by year cool!). For …
Category: Non-Rhythm Gaming
Jan 09
Rest in Peace Jonas Neubauer
If you don’t know the name “Jonas Neubauer”, I’m frankly a little unsure how you found this. But a brief primer: Jonas, or “NubbinsGoody” as his Twitch stream was known, was a pillar, maybe the pillar, of the Classic Tetris community, specifically NES Tetris and its Classic Tetris World Championship. Let’s start there. The Classic …
Jun 22
Reflections on Doki Doki Literature Club!
I seem to be slowly turning into That Visual Novel Guy. Anyway. Most of this will go behind a cut, mainly due to massive Doki Doki Literature Club! spoilers. I mean, more than the Steam/Twitch tags and content warning already spoil it.
Apr 29
The Least Work-Safe Thing I’ve Ever Written for this Site
Which is saying something, considering I reviewed Lesbian Spider-Queens of Mars as part of Games I Beat In 2014. So yeah, I’m going to put most of this behind a “Read More” link. This is a Content Warning for two things: Spoilers for the game Ladykiller in a Bind A cishet dude (That’s me) writing …
Nov 17
Game Review- Haunt the House: Terrortown
(Disclaimer: I received this game for free as part of Indie Gamer Chick‘s Indieween event) Haunt the House: Terrortown is a 2014 expansion of a 2010 game by SFB Games, who recently released Snipperclips Plus for the Nintendo Switch. In this game, you play as a ghost trying to scare people out of various locales …
Nov 15
Some Quick Mini-Reviews of Stuff I’ve Been Playing
Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars (Demo)– Played through the demo after seeing a deep discount on the Nintendo eShop, but missed the window to actually get it at that price. A 3D dungeon crawler with socialization elements, probably superficially similar to Persona (Which I’ve never played, honestly). The method of party member creation …
Jun 06
A Way-Too-Detailed Analysis of Final Fight’s Continue Screen
Final Fight is a beat-em-up classic. It was one of the first games, possibly the first, to utilize your classic three-character strong-fast-balanced selectable character archetypes, and the huge sprites, fluid gameplay, and variety of moves helped take beat-em-ups to the next level.