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Jude @nucleargodhead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

On top of that, there is a LOT of forced grapple beam usage in Maridia, and as I've said... I don't think I have ever played a 2D action platformer style game that had a fun grappling hook. It was fun using the grapple to instant kill the boss though.

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Jude @nucleargodhead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My least favorite area is definitely Maridia. Unbelievably complicated layout, and the sand is next to impossible to deal with. I was really expecting an upgrade that would help me deal with the sand, but there wasn't one. It's your worst enemy.

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Jude @nucleargodhead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Speaking of which... I love the wall jump. It's fun that there's a move for advanced players that lets you sequence break if you're good, and I am really shocked that most metroidvania games do not have some equivalent. I enjoy bomb jumping too, but I didn't get to do that much.

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Jude @nucleargodhead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Space Jump is extremely inconsistent, and I can't come up with any explanation as to how that could be my fault. It's a single button. Even the wall jump is easier to do. I found myself wall jumping a lot in place of doing the Space Jump to make up for the inconsistency.

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Jude @nucleargodhead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Super Metroid's controls are extremely unresponsive at times. Storing a shinespark is very inconsistent, and often doesn't work. I can maybe chalk that up to the fact that I was using a stick.

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Jude @nucleargodhead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Combat is a hell of a lot less aggravating than it was in the original Metroid. I feel powerful instead of helpless and I enjoy that the cannon upgrades stack with each other. Charging is a welcome addition too.

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Jude @nucleargodhead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Still, for a first attempt at a feature the series absolutely needed, it is mostly fleshed out and its addition makes the game infinitely more approachable than Metroid 1. This is petty, and I'm mostly joking, but it pisses me off that the map tiles don't align with the BG lol.

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Jude @nucleargodhead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The map isn't perfect. It will tell you which rooms have an item, but it will not tell you if you've obtained it or not. On top of that, unlike in most games of the genre, it does not show you if you can get to a room from an adjacent room.

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Jude @nucleargodhead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This game gives me the same feeling Symphony of the Night gives me. The environments are lovingly detailed and feel alive, and fill me with a sense of wonder. I could see myself loading up my save file and just exploring to look at everything.

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Jude @nucleargodhead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Super Metroid complete! Glad I beat this. I enjoyed this a lot more than the original Metroid and I can see myself eventually replaying this. I just wish the controls were more responsive. I'm fine with the floaty character physics to be honest.

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Jude @nucleargodhead.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There is a wall jump in this game that is supposed to be a mostly optional part of your moveset, but it is so much more reliable than anything else that you can do that I find myself using it constantly, and I have the god damn Space Jump.

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Jude @nucleargodhead.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And in Maridia you are forced to use it CONSTANTLY, everywhere. Super Metroid is a good game, but it is kind of amazing how unresponsive Samus feels to control at all times.

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Jude @nucleargodhead.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Holy fuck, Maridia is total ass LMFAO. How did Nintendo think those sand physics were okay. I don't think I've ever played a 2D platformer with a grappling hook and enjoyed using it BTW. I don't think grappling hooks in 2D games are a thing game designers have figured out.

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Jude @nucleargodhead.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Watching Yri play Super Metroid and she's at Ridley

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Jude @nucleargodhead.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's easy, it's cheap, and it's free. Pouring river water into your penis.

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Jude @nucleargodhead.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm going to wreck your fucking hole

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Jude @nucleargodhead.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I beat the abandoned ship and now I'm in the one entirely underwater area. Really glad I have the Gravity Suit. I do not like the character physics in water...

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Jude @nucleargodhead.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm having fun abusing wall jumps and bomb jumps to sequence break. I tried walljumping up that steep cliff in the green room before the speed booster, and I almost got it, but an enemy knocked me down. After I killed the enemies I just bomb jumped up there.

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Jude @nucleargodhead.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So I was carrying those expectations with me. Now that I have some distance from it, and I've freshly played the original Metroid, I feel like I'm in a much better position to enjoy it. The character controls still feel incredibly floaty though.

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Jude @nucleargodhead.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've been playing through Super Metroid and I've been enjoying it so far. When I first tried playing a long time ago, I bounced off of it because of the character physics. I had just played AM2R (this was briefly after it came out), which plays like Zero Mission...

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Tool-Assisted Speedrun clips @tasnocontext.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Game: Super Metroid (1994, SNES) TAS Author: JXQ Source: tasvideos.org/817M

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nessie @nessiemooo.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

bread and water soup

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Effy Neprin @effyneprin.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

Sketch for Sunday 🙏

A sketch of Gallica from the new game, Metaphor Re:Fantazio. She's a fairy, wearing a yellow leotard with a blue floral pattern at the bottom. She has four long and light wings, coloured in a stained glass style, though only three are visible. She has short, ginger hair and a metallic headband that runs across the top of her head from ear to ear. Oh, her ears are pointy, too! She has a happy expression, is tilting her head toward the viewer, and giving a peace sign with her right hand.

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tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com · 16/09/2026

A friend found one of my business cards from 13 years ago

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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

thinking about this again and smiling

“james hennessy: it's sad reading like 14th century Christian theologians who spent an inordinate amount of time writing "OK there are exactly 3,892 demons and these are their names and these are their powers"... man, you would have loved Dragonball Z
Sep 27, 2023 at 9:32 pm”

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Jude @nucleargodhead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have been resisting every single urge I have to scream about this 😔

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Jude @nucleargodhead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Halloween avatar time. You know what that means. That's right, Zonda.

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We don't talk enough about the soundtrack of Fuck's Quest II, which was clearly made by someone who understands how to compose music and used that knowledge for evil

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ALL YOU NEED IS KURARARA @houraisan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

dude, does anyone else remember when he said this!!!!!!!!!! #epic #leftism #juchethought

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Motherboard Slumd0g from the WetWork NetWork @beachepisode.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i do wish i were more productive this month, but i'm glad i powered through depression enough to at least do a few things

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Sgt M @sgtm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Game design meme for me and maybe three other people on this site.

Guy looking at random encounters: "Wow! RPGs are grindy!"
Text overhead: "Random encounters help ensure that the the play experiences combat at regular intervals instead of avoiding fights and ending up underpowered, increasing the risk of quitting entirely."

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Piper Paige @pipermintz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's fucking me up that I wrote this four years ago 😭

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zac @10amlunch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

random encounters exist because the combat is fun you are supposed to enjoy it, if you dont enjoy it you should be playing a different video game, i dont understand how this conversation keeps happening

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ななこ☆ @nanasoni.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

ジョーイ 🏥

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Rosie🌷 @lozyrosie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

torchic and skitty ko-fi request!

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Wolno 👁️‍🗨️ @wolno.art · 27/09/2026

Gyaru Honey The Cat

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🌻Luc @mumidraws.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yuna ( Mega Man Legends) comm for PizzaStart - Always loved her design, was super fun to draw her!!♥ #megaman #rockman

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Many games for the GameCube use only a fraction of the storage capacity of the disc. I have analyzed the data to determine what the maximum number of retail Mario games that can fit on a single disc would be, creating the Luigi & Wario + Puzzle + Rhythm Maximum Value Pack.

$A GameCube disc has a storage capacity of 1.46 gigabytes. Many Mario games use only a fraction of that storage. Below is the optimal distribution of the smallest Mario-related games on the system to fit 6 entire retail games on a single disc. Unused space 54 MB Luigi's Mansion 186 MB DDR Mario Mix 264 MB Wario World 257 MB Donkey Konga 2 312 MB Donkey Konga 250 MB Please note that this pie chart is for data visualization only. If the games were in fact put on one disc, the data would be arranged in rings, not in slices. Concept for post based on an idea from a comment by @vinchvolt.bsky.social$

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Noppy @thomasnoppers.com · 25/09/2026

A hero's final rest. #lego #bionicle

A colourful drawing of line art and watercolour of bionicle Toa Tahu. The Red Orange one. Resting against a tree in the woods. At his feet are the 5 masks of all the other original bionicles heroes. A Spot of sunshine comes through the trees. Wide enough to form a circle in the shape of Tahu and ailluminate him in the otherwise dark forest. Toa is covvered in rust and dust. Leafs spout from his shoulders and mask. His plating looks old and battered. One may wonder how long he has been here.

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