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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Well, sometimes you have to distinguish your opinion from those of critics, I guess.

A google search for Creep (a 2014 movie), and google's preview shows:
Creep (2014)

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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Overall, the tempo of playing through a level and world is masterfully crafted. Following a quote from Takashi Tezuka, producer on this game: (www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/...)

Tezuka: I was already thinking about what kind of Mario game we should make next when we were developing Super Mario Maker 2. At the time, some journalists and players were saying that Super Mario Maker had eliminated the need for another 2D Mario game. But I kept saying that the next Mario game would be completely different from Super Mario Maker, so there was no need to worry. In hindsight, those kinds of sentiments may have been what motivated me to come up with ideas for this game

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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Super Mario Bros. Wonder is just too fun. A 2d platformer with so many unique levels, mechanics and cute touches. I've been loving the switch lite as someone who hasn't had a Nintendo console since the gba.

Cover image for super mario bros wonder. Mario, Luigi and the whole crew is there.

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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Just received my copy, today is a good day.

Photo of book: The game narrative kaleidoscope

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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

One day of playing Hunt: Showdown and I'm working on MÖRKBÖRG enemies. I'm such a wuss but also so drawn into some horror elements in media.

Page of handwritten scribbled up enemies for MORKBORG

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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

A very well written review that echoes my own thoughts on Bahnsen Knights, a short and sweet interactive fiction game that effortlessly lifted me away from my house and into this ominous, electric, violent, attractive world. I've yet to move on from it. www.eurogamer.net/bahnsen-knig...

Bahnsen Knights is magic in general, whether it's the plot that is so light-handed at pencilling in its themes, leaving the player to do the crucial part of writing that ties the narrative together, to the way that the action finds interesting gaps for you, whether you're manoeuvring a car on a busy road or realising that you have run out of interesting things to say to a vital contact, or whether you're using a Tarot Card system to organise the case you're making against the enemies who you've had to pretend to be pals with. It takes you deep. I emerged from it all in a daze, and then I went straight back in to see what else was contained within its space.

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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Time to install this one, hearing good things about it 💫⌛ Another attempt to play a game to completion, with a completion time of > 20 hours, something that I've not done successfully to reach the actual game finale since...checks notes... 2023 with Tyranny, and before that 2022 with God of War.

Screenshot from GOG Galaxy installing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
Give me strength.

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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Why do I go into this trying to photobash something for MÖRK BORG and come out with an vaporwave/ glitchy electronic album cover 🙄

Photobashed image, yellow and blue, with a figure looking down at you, holding a weird object. Her nose looks chopped off, her eyes are all asymetrical.

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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Playing through Jusant, which is charming, and ... I might need to try out that cult of a hobby called bouldering as well 😵 And I definitely need to figure out how to look this cool in sunglasses and a poncho somehow. I think these are inspired by Inuit goggles? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_go...

A screenshot from Jusant. A rocky cliffside, with sparse vegetation. The main character is standing all cool looking with their poncho, and their cool looking sunglasses. Oh and a cute, blue blobby creature is on their shoulder.

Inuit goggles made from caribou antler with caribou sinew for a strap

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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

This sums up the experience of playing this + the weirdness of posting to a social media shaped hole in a network somewhere.

Screenshot from The Talos Principle. poster with a QR message saying:
Sure, I could stick around here, set my hopes on eternal life, on righting every wrong. But the closest I'll ever get is these words on the wall before you.

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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

My screenshots folder is filled to the brim with this one. I can only imagine what the original experience of this in a basilica must have been like.

Some plants in front of a deserted stone gate, with more plants overgrown around it. A red sky. In the backround, a yellow glow.

A glowing orb, eye-like and structureless, illuminating some plants with a yellow light.

A b&w landscape, with a hazy light in the background, illuminating two wire fences on either side of the camera.

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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Add to that striking visuals, and a photo mode that has reminded me that I love photography in a digital space as well, it's safe to say I'm looking forward to the remainder.

In-game photograph, of a nun, in front of a lit candle and a traditional painting of Jesus.

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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The game jam experience was amazing, I loved the last few days rushing to finish my submission. I got to play around with card game balance, audio editing, art, used Arcweave for the first time. This is what a successful jam submission looks like. (+ a lot of dirty dishes) Onwards and upwards!

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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

A story told in 2 pictures, Balatro got me too😓

Played Balatro for the first time today.

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