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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I mean, putting aside “murder is wrong”, killing a cop is not a great idea when you’re trying to avoid notice. Sure he would’ve caused problems while alive too, but still.

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’m not sure I’d say it’s shantae-like (or a metroidvania) but it’s absolutely worth playing

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“what if we swapped sylveon’s sp atk and def and gave it boomburst”

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Can’t be a Samus Returns, not enough parryslop

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They're the same genre of game, but I wouldn't say HK is "just" SotN

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I guess it's impossible to say without a full understanding of Konami's internals, but if it's been long enough that most of the institutional knowledge has been lost, then this was the inevitable result either way

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You said “only game doing that genre” not “only AAA game”, so I thought it was fine to bring up indies. If we are excluding indies entirely from the discussion of what genres are being made, then I’d say that the AAA dynamics have other factors in play.

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But Awakening's difficulties are entirely consistent worldwide.

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That is not true about Awakening, I think you're conflating Path of Radiance (where the highest difficulty was JP-exclusive, and there was a localization exclusive Easy mode), and Radiant Dawn (where the opposite happened: JP-Normal was EN-Easy).

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I dunno if that’s the reason; people have definitely been making stuff like the 2D Zelda games (and Classicvania). I think the barrier for 3D Zelda is that it warrants a much bigger scope and budget than most indies can really go for.

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s just not a perspective that generalizes very well because it means you have to dismiss a lot of the reality of how games as a medium have developed; without Quake modding we don’t get Team Fortress and so TF2. Without Warcraft modding we do not have Dota and all the MOBAs that came afterward.

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Worth checking out the devs’ other hacks (Dream of Five, Homecoming) if you liked this one, and they’re currently working on the sequel right now

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The final escape sequence where you possess Bowser and this track plays: youtu.be/DNXTxZVZ4UQ?...

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Break Free (Lead the Way) - Super Mario Odyssey

YouTube video by Nintentions Music

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They've made an updated post that basically amounts to making an exception for AI code to some extent: www.reddit.com/r/PokemonROM...

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From the PokemonROMhacks community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the PokemonROMhacks community

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

okay but it‘s where lost painting plays so

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s a fangame but I’m pretty fond of this as an alternate DD sequel that does more with Apollo without adding more backstories: aaonline.fr/forum/viewto...

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[T] AA: Beyond the Shadows ●●●●● - Ace Attorney Online

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah, I’m genuinely happy they were able to come to whatever agreements were necessary to get it ported, it’s a neat game all things considered

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They also apparently are planning on remaking the Layton crossover

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s kind of the inherent tension because marketing to kids has often really meant marketing to their parents via the kids, whether it be toys or video games. If you can snag the demographic with actual money, you do.

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This blogpost is from a year AFTER Shovel Knight released? That’s hilarious

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I honestly wouldn’t even say it’s a Japanese thing, I bet if you managed to poll all the people who played and liked the games, protags would rank near the top among western audiences too, just not like, the more vocal parts of fandom

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nah that's Kaga still being restrained, you need to play Vestaria Saga to experience him at his "80-year-old retiree still making SRPGs for the love of the game"

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Genealogy is 50 hours because you spend 25 of them trying to get dipshit mcgee through the arena

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am not immune to hype moments and aura (and also I do just think the depowered sequence is really tense and fun)

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I can see it but I still do really like that new stealth/escape sequence into getting a new suit

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Like, how would that even be made to be “separate” endings you could get individually

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

isn’t the entire point of the adult/child split that both happen because of the ending of the game

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh yeah this hack finished and had its full release a couple days ago btw

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José Maia @josemaia.pt · 11/09/2026

fire emblem rom hacks

spanish guy is confused by the need of She/They pronouns in the bio of Blair, the Lord of the romhack The Morrow's Golden Country, because she is obviously a woman.

poster named Fringus replies: "cause its epic"

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Now that I think about it there is also a hack I played (Pokémon Elysium) where your starter gets stolen by one of the rivals before you reach the first gym so your actual starter is a Sylveon you find shortly afterwards

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There’s some romhacks/fangames like this

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I would tentatively say it matters a bit more when you have games like Skyward Sword that are trying to do grand timeline stuff like being “the origin” of the series.

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Like even when these games‘ settings were more ostensibly connected (like FE1-5) it was never all that necessary to know either, so why should we give a shit if someone doesn’t know that Valm in Awakening is future Valentia from FE2

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Look I just think it is entirely correct of the fanbase to not take Engage‘s cosmology as meaningful in any way besides that it lets you fight alongside your best friend Marth in this one

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fire Emblem’s multiverse stuff is almost entirely limited to justifying either crossover games or when they want to do DLC about a timeline where everything went to shit

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Honestly it’s a miracle that Dread came out to kinda be a game about killing your dad

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

They can always go play the crossover Pokemon hack bsky.app/profile/poke...

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I don't entirely disagree, but following this logic I would be better off if the games I played with brilliant stories were also messes (educational messes, but nevertheless messes) instead. I don't think that's true either!

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It’s something that struck me with the star fox remake is that it’s a similar unicorn. No one would make a AAA game with its high fidelity realism that’s also an arcadey on-rails shooter, outside of the context of it being a remake.

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I guess I could just write a fanfic but it'd be the most disjointed script fic in existence so instead it will just stay in my head (and discord chats)

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I gotta be honest with regard to SA1 pretty much 90% of my daydreaming about my dream remake is how I'd rewrite a new script. I've spent way more time thinking about how I'd re-arrange Tikal's scenes to match character arcs than like, changing Amy's gameplay or whatever.

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

fortunately they already showed that it’s still just “listen” for incidental dialogue; full VA is only for cutscenes

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I actually like Link's face being kinda pudgy but the smoothness is really at odds with the individual hair strands

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knabepicer.bsky.social @knabepicer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I mean, that's how we got walking simulators

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