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Is there??? 'cause enemies overall haven't had any contact damage so far. Enemies can still juggle you with actual attacks, but I'm not seein' knockback I'd put near the level of the NES trilogy; even Medusa Heads merely drop you down with their one attack

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 12h

Dude did I start something by posting this bsky.app/profile/blue...

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

No way dude, they straight-up reduced Medusa Heads to homing attack fodder They legit gave these guys the "Sonic homing attack chain" demotion

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Fighting Medusa Heads in a Castlevania game with no contact damage is like seeing an athlete who was never the same after that life-changing injury years ago: Depressing

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Did you know that all the bosses and enemies in Koji Igarashi's games pop out against the background so it's easier to read their moves? Just thought that was a fun fact to share

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"Color contrast is important because people often have difficulty seeing content when there isn’t sufficient contrast. High color contrast are easier to distinguish without difficulty; lower contrast can cause people to miss important information." - Nobody on the Belmont's Curse development team

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My brain reading this post too fast and somehow only seeing "Helluva Boos" in the mix:

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Finally, a death cry worth of contesting the legendary 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐆𝐁𝐀 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦...

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thinking about how Lament of Innocence has one of the funniest "guy falls down a bottomless pit and dies" screams in gaming, even though there's only 2 rooms in the entire game where you could even do that

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Once again, I know people make fun of the "I'll kill you AND the night" line at the end of Lament of Innocence, but the scene playing off that line 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 genuinely has one of the hardest lines in all of Castlevania

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I started Lament of Innocence was because the recent Belmont's Curse demo really annoyed me So finally discovering that Lament isn't 3D SotN, but is actually a pseudo-dungeon crawler with DMC1 gameplay & level design that looks like THIS has me feeling like I'm a Goddamn prank victim

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Started playing Lament of Innocence for the first time, and while I know there's one line at the end everybody pokes fun at, I've NEVER seen anyone mention how fucking funny the moment where a battle-hardened, holy knight of the crusades suddenly becomes a reasonable 21st century therapist is

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not everything needs a reaction... listen and learn...

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But how are we supposed to enjoy PUDDING & PASTA NIGHT WITHOUT THE PUDDING????

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Please play Xanadu NEXT, it just went on sale for less than a deli sandwich and it's worth way more than that if you're an RPG-head bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm real glad this post sold me on Xanadu Next, because it embodies all the subtleties that most action RPGs today have forgotten: tight character progression, gear that actually matters, fixed camera angles to emphasize scale, incredible pacing, & punchy sound design that ties it all together.

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hey man at least it makes sense for a Switch 2 game Imagine it happening several times for famous GBA, SNES, & NES games for the same video (stay strong brotherman)

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The big takeaway from this is that while Zero Mission is my favorite 2D Metroid, I'd gladly sacrifice it if that meant the Zero Suit never existed and we could get the superior Samus design back into the series

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Since I can't stop making Metroid videos for some reason, why not jump on the Metroid opinion template that's been going around? Nothing really that surprising here, but I did throw some explanations in the alt text to explain the weird outlier picks here

Donzosscanlog's "About me: Metroid Edition" template, with the following fields filled to reflect my personal opinion

Favorite 2D Game: Zero Mission (I've replayed this a ton, but it's close with Dread and Super for me; the former has incredible movement & game feel, while the latter is essentially perfect)

Favorite Power Suit: Dread's Gravity Suit (this used to be the Dark Suit in Prime 2, but I think the Dread suit has finally surpassed it for me)

Favorite Zero Suit: Fusion Samus (ironically, I hate the Zero Suit and much prefer Samus's design towards the end of Fusion, rather than the skin-tight bodysuit with a high ponytail that grew so popular afterwards)

Favorite Prime: Prime 2 (Sky Temple Keys suck, but I love the emphasis on boss fights and more alien locales)

Most Underrated: Metroid 2 (no, AM2R & SR could never replace the series' most seminal title)

Favorite OST: Prime 1 (c'mon, it's nothing but series-defining bangers)

Favorite story: Fusion (Super & Dread are close yet again, but I feel Fusion's is the most fleshed-out)

Most overrated: Prime 3 (still a good game, but its gameplay is worse than Prime 1 & 2 in literally every way - unlike Fusion, it doesn't really compensate much for the more railroaded structure. )

Favorite upgrade: Speed Booster (I almost put flash shift, but shinespark chaining is a genius mechanic basically no other series has replicated)

Favorite Fan Game: Super Metroid X-Fusion (it's a very non-standard Metroid experience, but that's exactly why I love it: X-Fusion is very much not a "safe" game)

Favorite boss: Raven Beak (Quadraxis and Metroid Prime are close runner-ups, but Raven Beak kinda has it all)

Favorite music track: Ice Belt - Power Generator (This is a tentative pick, but it's easily my favorite track from Prime 4 and among the series' best; Phendrana Drifts, Torvus Bog, and Rundas's Boss Theme are close contenders. I can only hear Brinstar Red & Ridley's theme remixed so many times before rolling my eyes)

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

OoT Remake bashers: "More like GROKarina of Time, why even play this instead of the extremely faithful PC decomp of OoT" The faithful OoT decomp now literally being "written" with AI code:

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Willing to meet in the dead of night and have a spiritual awakening by dueling in front of the combination Dunkin' Donuts/Checkers/Popeyes on Myrtle Ave (serious inquiries only)

The world-famous combination Dunkin' Donuts, Checkers, and Popeyes by Myrtle Avenue in New York City, as made famous by that one tweet on the other site (which I think people misremember as a fighting game tweet these days)

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's surreal having spent the better part of a decade thinking THIS killed Metroid; I've seen people really argue Prime 4 "killed Metroid", but being a Metroid fan from 2010-2017 was a humiliation ritual For maybe the first time in 18 years, it really does feel like a good time to be a Metroid fan

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

While I love Metroid Dread to bits, my one issue with it is that you could really FEEL MercurySteam rushing to wrap it up due to pressure from covid, deadlines, & managerial issues So yes a brand-new 2D Metroid from a team that GETS Metroid & learned from those mistakes has me VERY excited

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

They gave me the W*lds Switch 2 announcement instead bsky.app/profile/blue...

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

THAT'S MY GOATTTTTT QUAGSIREEEEEE

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

PUERTO RICO REFERENCED YESSSSSSSSSSSS

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We're discovering new genres of edits and motion graphics that have never been seen before in Youtube videos (because almost nobody is insane enough to edit them like this)

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"Hey, tough guy! You just gonna stay down there or are ya getting up sometime in the next year?" 🎨: @amlogamer.bsky.social #CrossArt

A drawing of Cross resting on the ground, staring back at the viewer over her shoulder, playfully sticking her tongue back at them.

Following the successful breakthrough in robotic engineering that led to the Accords, Lyanna Light - chief engineer and COO of Albrite Industries - became something of an overnight success story. Once unknown in the mainstream eye, she quickly found herself something of "the face" of modern robotics. Though, she's quick to bemoan her newfound fame during interviews, feeling it pulls away from the achievements of her colleagues and creations. As she puts it, solely crediting her for the creation of the accords is akin to crediting the success of a child to their parent for birthing them.

Though Lyanna has enjoyed a great deal of success following the proliferation of the Accords, she sometimes speak of the process leading to their creation with a rather wistful tone. More specifically, two colleagues from her old university days seem to be a recurring subject of displeasure for her: Dr. Bryce Blackwell & Dr. Ashe Ravencroft.

Records show that the three were regular collaborators many a time ago - but over time, fundamental differences in their personal philosophies drove them apart. While Lyanna believed in a future where machines could live among humans as truly autonomous, sentient beings, Blackwell believed machines to be nothing more than tools to man. Their debates on the subject eventually grew so heated, that it was clear they couldn't reconcile their differences, and set out on their own paths.

While Lyanna often speaks of Bryce with regret, with her attempts to reach out to him rebuffed for years on end, she seldom speaks of Dr. Ravencroft in the same way. Among the scant few times she's been asked, her only comments about Dr. Ravencroft are that "history tells us there are many kinds of love: not all of them good."

This piece was a commission drawn by the fantasic @amlogamer.bsky.social!

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

CAPCOOOOOOOOM ANNOUNCE A SWITCH 2 UPGRADE PATCH FOR MONSTER HUNTER RISE: SUNBREAK AT NEXT WEEK'S NINTENDO DIRECT... AND MY LIFE IS YOURS

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Me about to kill myself over how bad the double State of Play was before realizing Nintendo will show off a new 3D Zelda, Metroid Prime 2 Remastered, and Metroid Ravenous in the same 24-hour window

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm crying man, the Monster Hunter team finally remembered they made Guardian monsters (which they immediately forgot about so they could circlejerk tempered & AT monsters again), only to put in another Rathian instead of a monster who wasn't already in the game

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yoshimi "I Fucking Love Not Paying Employees" Yasuda: *somehow swiped the rights to make a new Lollipop Chainsaw* Everybody I follow instantly QRTing this to remind you that the original developers & creative team are NOT involved with this in any way: bsky.app/profile/wari...

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Blue @bluestigma.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

You may not be one to make callout posts for artists ghosting you for paid work 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘢𝘮

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