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  • Video games are part of our culture and reflect our society the same way as movies, books, and other media. And, like with old books, preserving and studying old games allows us to understand the environment and time in which they were created, as well as the concepts and ideas that they drew upon, or that newer games drew from them.

    • Tumblr - my first real main social media platform, mainly fandom stuff, used to post fanart there as well, I've been on that hellsite for half of my life now and will probably stay there until Automattic pulls the plug
    • Mastodon - My main Twitter replacement, really good for fandom since it's easy to talk about spoilers with custom CWs
    • Bluesky - Second Twitter replacement
    • Lemmy - As reddit replacement with less lazy engagement bait posts (this is really a problem on reddit especially in game-(dev) subreddits
    • Discord - for Gaming-buddies, fandom communities, and gamedev communities
  • I didn't censor it. The original says "my bals" but there's only a single "bal" at risk here, so I adjusted it (badly) to fit the joke

  • Got myself a Switch and started playing Cult of the Lamb and Jack Jeanne! Cult of the Lamb is incredibly fun, and I've just started the second dungeon~

  • Yes, More TWEWY love!! I'm kind of sad that's the franchise seems to get overlooked a lot

  • The DS series was the peak handheld generation for me. I like that the console's design encouraged creative game mechanics, and it has some of my favourite games of all time. I have a DS Lite, a 3DS and a new 3DS, though I think the original DS line had the better game library compared to the 3DS. The camera and 3D effect were rather gimmicky and didn't add much value for me.

    I think the game that best encapsulates what I love about the DS is The World Ends With You, a JRPG set in modern Tokyo that used both screens at once in its action combat system - to control two different characters. The character on the bottom screen would have you use touch gestures to trigger attacks, while you needed to do button combos to control the character on the top. It was insanely fun!

    Other games I liked from the early DS era are Hotel Dusk, a detective game that is played in "vertical mode" so you hold the console like a book - and Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan!, the original Japanese version of Elite Beat Angels, a rhythm game.

    I also played all romance/otome games that were available in English for the DS, my favourite was Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side.

    The DS figured out touch-based interactions way better than smartphones which are like the main touch-based "handheld" nowadays. That is because you could dedicate the entire touchscreen to gameplay input, since you still had the top screen to show relevant game information. Smartphones on the other hand need to utilize the entire screen both for input and displaying stuff, which just doesn't work as well imo.

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    Kitsune Tails, the colorful platformer inspired by Super Mario 3, is out now

    store.steampowered.com /app/1325260/Kitsune_Tails/
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  • he needs to be shared with the masses 😌

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  • You tell me

  • It's from some generic android game I used to play years ago, where you're playing as one of the chinese emperor's concubines. I don't remember much about it tbh

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