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Thesaurus Rex (They/Them)

@nukelassic.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, and asks lots of questions about videogames. | Writing a little, want to write more. | thethesaurusrex.com | They/Them

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Thesaurus Rex (They/Them) @nukelassic.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Chaos Field: I've always enjoyed how conducive the ballet of bullets is to erasing the friction between player and controller. Once you're in, how easy it is to reduce your entire focus onto a single pixel. The sci-fi style and great soundtrack help. 3/365 #365Games
Screenshot from the first stage of Chaos Field, a top-down action shooter in which the player's ship carefully navigates around bullets fired from a larger enemy ship.
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Thesaurus Rex (They/Them) @nukelassic.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Harvest Moon (SNES): Though it has long since been improved upon by sequels, this game was my first in the farm, life, and romance-sim genre. They're surprisingly crunchy games if you let them be, but the texture gives me the same feeling of opportunity I always felt after-school on a Friday. 2/365
The protagonist of the Super Nintendo version of Harvest Moon in a field overgrown with weeds, tree stumps, and the farmer's dog.
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Thesaurus Rex (They/Them) @nukelassic.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Shenmue: The reason I enjoy it isn't exactly as an action game. Shenmue is a series I always enjoyed for having a strong sense of place—a game world that wasn't made just for its player. Ryo is a too-focused-often-inhuman protagonist, but the world resists being just a martial arts backdrop. 1/365
A screenshot from Shenmue, depicting its main character Ryo Hazuki looking at text reflected in a mirror.
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Thesaurus Rex (They/Them) @nukelassic.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Cropped so I don't give this post too more oxygen, but I remain baffled that opinions like this persist. Game criticism sites close regularly, writers are looking for work constantly, the people who write big articles are the same ones who write news churn. Where is all the supposed pay off money?
Cropped image of a post that reads "why would anyone be listening to games media when they would give shit a minimum of 7 out of 10. it was a paid and bought for industry filled with shills that thought they were too good to actually play the games half the time and acted like a glorified advertisement"
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Thesaurus Rex (They/Them) @nukelassic.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Name a game with a 10/10 soundtrack.
A cover image of Dustforce, which depicts the main characters sitting on a cliff's edge looking out among leaves floating out of frame.
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