iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 05/10/2026

i p consistently end up loving the tangible / physical push and pulls in cgt games but "the larger you upgrade your drill, the more you get pushed backwards by the force of hitting enemies" is like rly rly rly good. exceptional teaser

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 05/10/2026

sometimes they will edit a cutscene in this game the same way a live-action film does cuts in order to hide immersion-breaking details. but it's a video game where they presumably 3d modeled everything to look good at every angle. it's kind of incredible in some sorta way

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 04/10/2026

i was prepared for a lot of things about resident evil 5 (it being insanely racist, it being re4 but Worse) but what's surprised me / gotten me the most so far has been the sudden movement / over-dramatic zoom-ins on mundane details / shakey cam cinematography. it is so mid 2000s it's unbelievable

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 04/10/2026

yknow i forgot to reply this: jjust wait until u catch me writing about this game

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 04/10/2026

what the fuck is this joke icon in money for girls traced from??? it's on the tip of my tongue

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 02/10/2026

lakespirit.love/posts/2026-1... NEW ARTICLE!! STREETS OF RAGE 2, FINAL FIGHT, THE FLOOR, THE CEILING LETS TALK BEAT EM UP FUNDAMENTALS i establish a basis thru the latter, and get into the nuances thru the former. its a long one!! intended to inspire curiosity

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 30/09/2026

came up with a cute idea from my website (which means i stole it from faea) ^__^ every single page on my blog (reviews included) should now end with a strip of buttons of my mutuals who make blogs. just to keep da circle movin the only rule for consistency's sake is they must be 88x31. gifs work

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 29/09/2026

the jam is starting in five minutes and this is what my team are doing. we are so cooked

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 25/09/2026

my fav thing to do in marvel cosmic invasion was to play captain america as passionlessly as possible

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 24/09/2026

my friend found a cute sports game on staem that's currently in a free playtest mode called Just Volleyball. i like it and it's cute and i'm bad at it. apparently it has 6v6 volleyball which is insane store.steampowered.com/app/5037200/...

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 24/09/2026

i had this version of this post in my drafts saved from last night and thought it was too mean. what do yall think

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 24/09/2026

booooring. put on the next video

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 23/09/2026

the thing is tho, they aren't even good at it! I keep seeing people post images of the switch 2's library compared to the ps5's. y'all look like the emu wars to me. fight a battle people'll actually remember. if ur rly about this Nintendo shit, start comparing the switch 2 to the PS2's launch cycle

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 21/09/2026

actually just showing my cards and posting the pitch. if any game dev oomfs read this and immediately think "this idea sucks" in any area feel free to yell at me. and if u think it sounds fun then give me candy & treats. except if i never finish it. then don't

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 21/09/2026

I want the fundies to be inspired by beat em up and shmup dynamics.. but I also want the aesthetic to be nonviolent and girly. I rly admire the toru iwatani methods of pop art abstraction

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 21/09/2026

my theory of desires is that the one person who clicked funny on this review i posted on steam is my worldly soulmate and we will meet eachother under the cherry blossoms and wed instantaneously

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 20/09/2026

reminded me of another quote from shigeru miyamoto on that interview w/ tajiri. rly interesting how early into the medium this already became an issue to grapple with, and how so many of the things miyamoto discusses in general are essentially unresolved to this day shmuplations.com/miyamotoxtaj...

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 18/09/2026

my gen z historian friends have weighed in

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 11/09/2026

oh by the way. im playing touhou smt check it out. it's like actual smt (i overcomplicate things and then remember blowing myself up with a bomb is a valid strategy)

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 11/09/2026

this sounds like an obv wolverine subtweet but honestly it was Xenoblade 3 that made me realize this. u can at least turn the lines on and off but there is literally no setting to turn off the giant blue objective markers that cover the screen. what if I want to just look at the scenery for a sec??

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 11/09/2026

ok i forgot what i said gbut i think i understand lol

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 10/09/2026

i feel i prob should've shouted out one (ok h-zorua kinda counts but also doesnt) gen 5 guy. but it didnt fit into the four. cuz her contributions to gen 5 are defo her most iconic beyond the initial gen 1 batch (and a meaningful evolution of her artstyle). okay shows you four of them for fun

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 10/09/2026

srsly, if ppl are not aware of how "very obviously the best monster designer involved with the series ever" nishida is, she's responsible for all of these guys

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 10/09/2026

I am actually incredibly sold on that render of link... I genuinely like it, and if anything it just makes me disappointed the rest of the game isn't even trying to keep up with it. the NPCs look like they're from PS3 games

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 10/09/2026

in retrospect, most of the bootleg doom 2016-y stuff they do with samus' personality in early bits of dread feel overly safe.... i am pleasantly surprised by ravenous seemingly both making her a freaky monster, but also making the action way more over the top. lol she does a rider kick at the end

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 09/09/2026

FIRST DEATH TO PERFECT FREEZE ON TOUOHOU 6 REMAKE DAY ‼️

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 09/09/2026

y'know this is the main touhou 6 character that used to make me think "these sprites are kind of strange & weird" and they barely changed it. what was the point of this remaster lol

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 08/09/2026

I am rly obsessed with ocarinas overworld aesthetically / feel fwiw. but imo the og has a pretty cohesive colour palette of hazy green-yellow morning humid wet palettr". from the brief footage I saw, the remake having a bunch of small distractions from that focus does emphasize the og's strength

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 08/09/2026

last thing I'll highlight from this great read (shoutouts shmuplations) is how tajiri takes his cynicism towards medium-wide homogenization, and earnestly hypes up the potential for creating new things regardless. 30 years later, I find myself believing that optimism remains true

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 08/09/2026

seems like there was an industry wide crisis in the mid 90s, as video games reached a standard of scale that while totally still broadly achievable, was slowing down development pipelines and artistic growth / testability (both quotes without context are Miyamoto)

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 08/09/2026

great mic drop final sentence from tajiri here

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 07/09/2026

astral court DX is. kinda simple and un-dynamic but it's cute for the scope of a free game. simultaneously a slightly below average arcade game, but also had me wishing more devs made that sorta thing. it's great practice and non-committally fun

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LAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 07/09/2026

why are there so many fucked up cycles on this stage LOL i like it

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