Phelpssan
@Phelpssan@lemmy.world
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 2 weeks ago:
All three metroidvania games from that developer are great. The other two are Touhou Luna Nights and Blade Chimera.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 2 weeks ago:
A fantastic game, and the remaster looks gorgeous.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 2 weeks ago:
I think the only recent re-release of that game was for the PS4, so unless you have that console it’s probably easier to emulate the original.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 2 weeks ago:
I fucking love the more “linear” first half of The Messenger, but didn’t enjoy the “metroidvania” second half nearly as much.
Still a great game though.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 2 weeks ago:
FYI that Nine Sols has a “Story Mode” that lets you tweak damage numbers (and AFAIK only locks you out of a single achievement).
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 2 weeks ago:
If you didn’t like Hollow Knight you probably won’t like Silksong either.
The game is good, and incredibly polished, but feels aimed at the people who 100% the first game and wanted more.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 2 weeks ago:
Played a lot of these in the last two years, with Ender Magnolia and Nine Sols being my favorites among them.
All-time I think I’d still go with Super Metroid, despite its age and having completed multiple playthroughs I still end up playing for hours anytime I boot it.
Honorable mentions for Rabi-Ribi (don’t let the cutesy anime artstyle fool you, this is a fantastic non-linear game with some of the best boss battles in the genre), the recent Momodora games and the Team Ladybug games (with Touhou Luna Nights being my favorite of the three).
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 2 weeks ago:
I’ve migrated not too long ago from Win10 to Kubuntu which is very Windows-like, and the adaptation was quite easy.
However, I have to ask: Are you comfortable typing commands on a terminal or editing configuration files? I ask because while it’s gotten much easier to use Linux with just a graphical interface you’ll still bump into some annoyances here and there where you’ll Google how to fix and it will often tell you to ‘run command x in the terminal’
- Comment on When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game? 5 weeks ago:
Last week. Super Robot Wars Y has some really funny character interactions.
- Comment on [Episode] May I Ask for One Final Thing? • Saigo ni Hitotsu dake Onegai Shite mo Yoroshii Deshou ka - Episode 5 discussion 5 weeks ago:
Scarlet is 100% correct in immediately going “you’re getting punched” after that trolling of his.
- Comment on [Episode] May I Ask for One Final Thing? • Saigo ni Hitotsu dake Onegai Shite mo Yoroshii Deshou ka - Episode 1 discussion 2 months ago:
Double release too!
Still at work but will happily watch Scarlet elegantly beating the crap out of corrupt nobles later today.
- Comment on Fall 2025 Anime Chart 2 months ago:
There’s only two I’m watching for certain:
- A Wild Last Boss Appeared!
- May I Ask for One Final Thing?
There’s a couple more I may give a try later, but I’m still going though a backlog of series from the last two seasons.
- Comment on The Purpose of Difficulty | GMTK Mini 2 months ago:
The secondary weapons are mostly useless and as the video said, you need to farm resources to be able to use them.
I’d argue these are some of the few “useful” upgrades since some of these tools are really strong. But I agree they made them quite annoying to use due to the need to manage/farm resources.
- Comment on The Purpose of Difficulty | GMTK Mini 2 months ago:
Fair. Act 1 is fairly tough but one can still go through the mist to skip last judge at least which is where most struggle.
Though that’s quite well hidden and very few people will find that without some Google help. I’d also argue that it’s probably harder to go through Sinner’s Road and Mist than fighting Last Judge, though YMMV.
It goes from 5 dmg --> 9 dmg --> 13 dmg.
That didn’t match my experience, I did a lot of tests after getting the first upgrade and it definitely didn’t cut down the hits by that much.
So I was looking into that and according to tests made by a redditor there’s some kind of “damage reduction” stat in place that negates some of that buff. Their page is a work-in-progress but they’re documenting the exact damage and # of hits to kill each enemy with each upgrade.
- Comment on May I Ask for One Final Thing? | Official Trailer 2 3 months ago:
The “engagement broken in a party” setup is ridiculously common in female-led fantasy or isekai. It’s the genre’s truck-kun.
They tend to make better use of the setup though, with some very fun variations like the one you see in the trailer.
- Comment on May I Ask for One Final Thing? | Official Trailer 2 3 months ago:
I hope she still pulls the ‘one more thing’ after every episode and beats the hell out of someone anyway
Answer, minimal spoilers
From the manga adaptation I don’t recall her using the “one more thing” line after the first chapter/episode… but she does beat the hell out of a LOT of people.
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- Comment on 3 months ago:
The Switch 2 launch felt oddly rushed.
Lack of details, initial backward compatibility list having only ~20% of games with basic testing finished, the need for SD Express cards that are hard to find. Even the GCK situation is probably due to cost/availability issues that will improve over time.
This DevKit situation looks like another example of this.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 months ago:
Finished three games:
- ATRI: My Dear Moments
- We Love Katamari Reroll+Royal Reverie
- Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition
Will be posting more details on !nintendo@lemmy.world’s “What are you playing this weekend?” thread tomorrow, but I enjoyed all three games and can recommend them to others.
Started playing two more today:
First impressions are good but it’s too early to recommend either of these.
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 3 months ago:
Like others said, it’s not just Gen-Z.
Funny enough, the main reason I’m spending far less is the gaming industry’s push to kill physical copies.
I used to buy a lot of physical games at full price because they would be much harder to find later on, but since I’ve been forced to go towards digital games this is no longer an issue, so I just let them sit on my wishlist until I they’re massively discounted.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 3 months ago:
- Persona 4
- Ar Tonelico 2
- Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Honerable mention to Warcraft 3 TFT.
- Comment on Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin • Isekai Mokushiroku Mynoghra: Hametsu no Bunmei de Hajimeru Sekai Seifuku - Episode 5 discussion 3 months ago:
I think this episode shows that the production team is lacking in budget, but also shows that they care about the source material and are trying to do their best within their limits - and decent direction and voice acting can go a long way towards it.
That Atou face was just perfect.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 31] 4 months ago:
Finally started this season, only two shows so far.
- 7th Prince: The MC’s design will keep turning people away from this series, which is a shame because of how consistently fun it has been to watch. Production is also really good, the magic spell effects are beautiful.
- Mynoghra: Isekai+Nation Building+Strategy Games is a combo of my favorite genres, so it was impossible for me to resist this one. They definitely don’t have a great budget but have been doing a decent enough job, Atou+Takuto being dorks is really fun, and the small bits of horror have been quite interesting.
- Comment on "I Left My A-Rank Party" Season 2 Announced with Visual 5 months ago:
Unexpected, but I’m in for another season of Yuke x Rain flirting.
- Comment on What is your most memorable anime binge session? 5 months ago:
Arifureta S1.
I asked for recommendations on something trashy ,“so bad it’s good”, and ended up with this. And it worked perfectly - I was in just the right mood to laugh out lout at the horrible CG monsters and chuuni bullshit.
- Comment on New report suggests third-party Switch 2 game sales are "below estimates" 5 months ago:
Are they? If you didn’t buy the game with the intent of lending/reselling later I feel they’re even worse than code-in-a-box.
- Comment on New report suggests third-party Switch 2 game sales are "below estimates" 5 months ago:
Not surprising considering that most 3rd party games are:
- Ports of old games so anyone who has a PS5/Xbox/PC can get them for cheaper.
- Overpriced ports as well, and in a system that is already rather expensive.
- Game Key Cards which won’t appeal to collectors who could still buy them despite #1 and #2.
- Comment on What Romance Anime Do You Consider the Most Wholesome? 5 months ago:
Some series not mentioned yet.
- Tonikaku Kawaii
- Aharen-san wa Hakarenai (more focused on comedy but has surprisingly good and wholesome romance parts)
- The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity (upcoming)
- Comment on What game has the best tutorial, in your opinion? 5 months ago:
There’s a lot of videos and articles like this one discussing how Stage 1-1 of Super Mario Bros for the NES is a cleverly designed tutorial for the core game mechanics.
- Comment on How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years? 5 months ago:
I’ve been using backloggery.com for more than 15 years.
It’s a simple, manual site, but I think that’s also its main strenght - I’ve had too many issues with other sites where I wanted to add a niche game I played but it was not in their databases, inconsistent naming between games in the same series, no ability to add duplicates when I occasionally double-diped on a game and so on.
It has all features I need - you can add reviews, notes, track priorities, wishlist, borrowed games, make custom lists, get stats… it’s also community supported with no ads.
The site was a bit stale without development for a while, but Drumble (the owner) finished a major rewrite last year and started developing new features again. You can check his profile here for an example.