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Daily Rhythm Heaven Groove Review! Day 76: Remix 16 Music: ★★★☆☆ Gameplay: ★★★☆☆ Theme: ★★★★★ Synergy: ★★★★☆ 7/10; Rank 45 of 82

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i never 100%ed TOTKs armor upgrades because its legitimately insane to me that part of the grind asks you to AFK for nine and half hours... but the part that actually made me stop was needing 50+ ice lizalfos tails, requiring you to kill 200 lizalfos, which is more than there are spawns

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this is only 6.25% of the way there, im not 100%ing this game before im done with the reviews lol

im such a weird person because im watching a TOTK playthrough right now and i cant help myself but analyse their gameplay and thought processes and endlessly critique the game itself as i watch but its also making me want to replay TOTK

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what is up with the people who pin throne wishlists on personal accounts no youtube channel, no linktree, no creative works. not even like thirst traps less than 1k followers, averaging 5 likes on posts about videogames no one is buying you a 500 dollar anime figurine

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being australian is waking up at 5 am one day and actually seeing livestreams when you click on your subscriptions tab

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i have a pokemon fangame concept rolling around in my head but its at the point where so much is different that it might as well be an original game

Daily Rhythm Heaven Groove Review! Day 75: Remix 15 Music: ★★★☆☆ Gameplay: ★★☆☆☆ Theme: ★★★★★ Synergy: ★★☆☆☆ 6/10; Rank 64 of 82

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im so glad this nickname i came up with on the spot barely fit lol

pokemon black and white is genuinely evil for putting the fossils right before you get the bicycle how many players backtracked across skyarrow bridge and back on foot before but do they even intend you to do that? the fossils are level 25 (matching chargestone cave) (and eat shit against elesa)

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for a vanilla pokemon game, not a romhack actually designed around nuzlocke rules, setting your level cap and party size to the next gym leaders LOWEST level pokemon and party size is so much more interesting and difficult all my pokemon are at the cap, and the bottom two tipped over

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is that a pride flag. is burgh gay

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Daily Rhythm Heaven Groove Review! Day 74: Synchro Wings 2 Music: ★★★★☆ Gameplay: ★★★★☆ Theme: ★★★☆☆ Synergy: ★★★★★ 8/10; Rank 29 of 82

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its funny that in gen 1, chanseys signature move (softboiled) was actually a TM that mew could also learn but even funnier is that in BW1, one of zoruas signature moves is an unobtainable TM (snarl)... because it was supposed to be distributed via mystery gift in HGSS...

hippo @hippoqueenv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

pokemon black and white is funny because every so often youll fight a trainer with just one elemental monkey which means somewhere else on the route are two more motherfuckers with the other elemental monkeys

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Daily Rhythm Heaven Groove Review! Day 73: High-Fiver Fever 2 Music: ★★★★☆ Gameplay: ★★★★☆ Theme: ★★★★★ Synergy: ★★★★★ 9/10; Rank 18 of 82

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ok this shouldve been fairly obvious hitmonleee and hitmonchan both went from 35 special to 110 special defense meanwhile chansey went from 105 special to 35 special attack! almost exact opposites of eachother :p

bored so im calculating which pokemon got the best and worst deals in the gen I -> gen II special split

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trying this in pokemon black (if im planning replaying the sequel 17 times i should probably experience the original again) purrloin is such a heinously bad pokemon im trying to make it do literally anything but it couldnt solo a single pokemon across all of the first split

Daily Rhythm Heaven Groove Review! Day 72: Feeding the Beast 2 Music: ★★☆☆☆ Gameplay: ★★★★☆ Theme: ★★☆☆☆ Synergy: ★★★☆☆ 5/10; Rank 73 of 82

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what if people played pokemon like fire emblem classic mode save before each fight, reset if you take a death, and if you cant find a way out without taking a death (or dont want to reset for a difficult or rare out), thats when you box a pokemon

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Daily Rhythm Heaven Groove Review! Day 71: Germ Aerobics 2 Music: ★★★★☆ Gameplay: ★★★★☆ Theme: ★★★★★ Synergy: ★★★★★ 9/10; Rank 18 of 82

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OH MY GOD THAT SECOND TO LAST LESSON TOOK ME THREE DAYS TO DO BUT A PASS IS A PASS BABY (BEBE) OTHERWORLDLY SKILL TIME

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Bonus Rhythm Heaven Groove Review! Cast of Characters Music: ★★★★★ Gameplay: ★★★★★ Theme: ★★★★★ Synergy: ★★★★★ 10/10; Rank 1 of 82

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hippo @hippoqueenv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

nintendo sending me a survey asking me why i havent bought fortunes weave when i apparently love fire emblem IT COSTS A HUNDRED AND TWENTY FUCKING DOLLARS!!!!!

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Daily Rhythm Heaven Groove Review! Day 70: Remix 14 Music: ★☆☆☆☆ Gameplay: ★☆☆☆☆ Theme: ★☆☆☆☆ Synergy: ★☆☆☆☆ 2/10; Rank 82 of 82

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hippo @hippoqueenv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Daily Rhythm Heaven Groove Review! Day 69: Synchro Wings Music: ★★★★☆ Gameplay: ★★★★☆ Theme: ★★★★★ Synergy: ★★★★☆ 8/10; Rank 25 of 82

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Daily Rhythm Heaven Groove Review! Day 68: Pop, Don't Drop 2 Music: ★★★★☆ Gameplay: ★★★★☆ Theme: ★☆☆☆☆ Synergy: ★★★★★ 7/10; Rank 49 of 82

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almost didnt replay it because metroid 1 exhausted me so quickly that i forgot i loved metroid 2

another metroid (two) take (because im playing metroid 2) its crazy how some people will go crazy over recommending zero mission over metroid 1, but those same people (no this isnt the goomba fallacy) will recommend AM2R over metroid 2 metroid 2 aged a thousand times better than metroid 1!!!

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its funny how metroidvania veterans talk about metroid fusion and dread as though theyre more linear than super mario and then you hear a casual players opinion and they say "this is the only game ive played where i got lost with an objective marker on screen"

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i dont have an explanation but these two are the same person

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yk its funny how "a link to the past" would make sense as a subtitle for a lot of zelda games, but not a link to the past

i think my biggest pokemon pet peeve that im also sometimes guilty of is when people calculate the power of a move and call it base power no, STAB super-effective sharpness night slash isnt 315 "base power". its just 315 "power". youre no longer talking about base power once you add multipliers

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Daily Rhythm Heaven Groove Review! Day 67: Slice N Dice Kitchen 2 Music: ★★★★★ Gameplay: ★★★★★ Theme: ★★★☆☆ Synergy: ★★★★★ 9/10; Rank 12 of 82

I forgot about diffusion beam..... am i a metroid larper...

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hippo @hippoqueenv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i want a metroid game with starter pokemon 3 core upgrades in the first area (morph ball, dash, charge beam) where advanced tech and pathing is required in order to acquire all 3, so on a first-time playthrough you only get to have one for the first few hours

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Daily Rhythm Heaven Groove Review! Day 66: Space Sentry 2 Music: ★★★★★ Gameplay: ★★★★★ Theme: ★★★★★ Synergy: ★★★★★ 10/10; Rank 1 of 82

hippo @hippoqueenv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i decided it was about time i do hollow knight steel soul and i accidentally got the first speedrun achievement too lol

hippo @hippoqueenv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

whenever nintendo releases a complete 9+/10 singleplayer title, they inevitably release some bullshit like "luigis mansion 3 + polterpups pizzaria" no one wanted that retroactively breaks the entire game but when you ask nintendo to fix the glaring issues in their brand new game they go

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hippo @hippoqueenv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Daily Rhythm Heaven Groove Review! Day 65: Remix 13 Music: ★★★☆☆ Gameplay: ★★☆☆☆ Theme: ★☆☆☆☆ Synergy: ★★★☆☆ 4/10; Rank 75 of 82

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hippo @hippoqueenv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I miss when youtube analysed all your data, but actually did something useful with it 10 years ago if you watched every installment in a youtube series the moment it got uploaded, youtube would start recommending the next episode at the top of your home page before you got a chance to search it up