shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 3hit still definitely has some weird quirks but i really enjoyed getting to contrast how much of a refinement original 2 was over 1 having gone into it directly after 010
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 15/10/2026it is unfortunate that, much like roman concrete, we've lost the technology to display sharp pixelated monochrome images in the modern day 😔 bsky compression really did a number on these 130
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 14/10/2026what about the bats that look virtually indistinguishable from the pumpkins 110
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 14/10/2026a lesson i think other video games could and should learn from pcb is that you should let the player play as a cool, knife throwing maid 041
Reposted by shikaspotsxct @xct.bsky.social · 14/10/2026It's my great pleasure to give a long overdue progress update on our fully human-translated and human-coded English patch for the legendary Tokimeki Memorial 2! 342272840
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 13/10/2026being stubborn while playing rance ii will have you saying statements to yourself like "i can't give up and look at a guide, i can't let the penis teleporter maze beat me" and i think that's beautiful 140
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 12/10/2026leisure suit larry age verification quiz leisure suit larry age verification quiz, japan 030
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 11/10/2026honestly the normal mojibake is one thing, the "ark simply pretends those files don't exist, and if you try mounting the iso dolphin gets really mad at you for trying to navigate to them, and good luck trying to cd to them in the command line" was a new level of pain i was not quite prepared for 110
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 11/10/2026life tip: never put yourself in a position where you want to extract files from an iso that has shift-jis encoded filenames in it on linux 120
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 11/10/2026the problem i had with scooby-doo on zombie island is that i thought it was really scary when i was like 6 or however old i was when we got it on vhs 😔 020
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 11/10/2026the developers put in this line to make sure the audience understood that rance is a bad person of low moral character 080
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 09/10/2026if you really want to hurt someone you're mad at, just say "i hope you get the 'discounts detected' notification on dlsite and its for an item that is on sale 100% of the time refreshing its sale instead of something you're actually waiting for a real sale on" they will never recover from that 230
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 09/10/2026actually, update: of course it is the fault of the french i shouldn't have doubted my instincts 110
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 08/10/2026i like when worldend dominator starts playing in umineko because i get to say to myself "wow, this is a great arrangement of fires of hokkai", a track which i'm pretty sure post-dates it, and probably would not actually sound that similar if i were to actually compare them to each other directly 040
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 04/10/2026beatrice playing a completely unedited tape recording of him speaking normally, not even trying to pretend it sounds like the voice she does here, and him steadfastly refusing to accept it hasn't been doctored, tears streaming down his face 030
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 04/10/2026imagining a version of umineko where at this point instead of continuing the current story line it becomes about beato attempting to convince battler that he does really sound like that 130
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 02/10/2026alas, relative currency strength and game pricing strategies have left canada in a fun situation where it is often break-even or even cheaper to import a japanese copy, but it is at least a big convenience win to not have to deal with doing imports 010
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 02/10/2026i am glad it has at least seemed markedly less common for newer game releases (outside of the vn space where it still seems to happen a lot), but so much of the back catalogue is like this and it's not like anyone is going back to adjust that, and, yeah, it's all just so depressing 110
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 02/10/2026navigating to a japanese game on steam that was released before like 2020 (or alternatively is a visual novel) and getting hit with one of these never stops being 😩 140
Reposted by shikaspotsMocca🔞 @whatsmocca.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"respect the players time" "quality of life" Some of the worst phrases ever 010317
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 01/10/2026few things worse than having a strong opinion about something and then seeing a popular youtuber drop a video that agrees with it and knowing that is going to be brought up pretty much every time the topic comes up going forward 061
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 01/10/2026different distro, but debian does this with freedoom for all the doom source ports they package i'm pretty sure 020
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 01/10/2026but rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed the interface, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it 080
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 30/09/2026guy who criticizes movies for having "annoying backtracking" when they have scenes where characters return to locations that previous scenes took place in 030
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 30/09/2026ultrawide hidamari sketch vn where the backgrounds and text are still confined to 4:3 but sometimes their heads hang off the outside and stretch all the way across 000
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 30/09/2026is it even a real video game name entry screen if it does not force one who wishes to write a name in kanji to hunt through giant horrible on'yomi-sorted lists? 010
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 29/09/2026yeah, like, i do more or less "get it" with respect to why some people default to skipping voice lines, but i simply could not live that life, few things better than getting a va just absolutely nailing it on some random line delivery lodged in your brain 010
Reposted by shikaspotsSnowyAria (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧🏳️⚧️ @snowyaria.goodorevengreat.games · 28/09/2026New Switch girl is a laser-targeted weapon of depressive cuteness 3265
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 28/09/2026many people don't let voice lines play all the way out when playing vns, and that's fine you do you however i do think it's important to understand that if you skip it when the voice actor is doing something like this you will not pass through the gates of heaven 45020
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 27/09/2026the real complaint imo for gamefaqs for newer games is they're always that multi-page html format they started supporting at some point which gives up one of gamefaq's best features: being able to ctrl+f for the thing you want instead of hunting through a bunch of pages for it 120
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 27/09/2026entire engineering team of website dedicated to playing videos, owned by the third largest company on the planet, somehow incapable of making a video player that doesnt jump 3 minutes backwards 2 minutes after you've unpaused a video they're calling it the most difficult problem in computer science 130
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 26/09/2026anyway, i did not, in fact, hate it. i had a really good time and in many ways this feels like it was written for the me of today, so perhaps the 15 year gap, aside from the accidental matching up of one of the important in-game time gaps, was the perfect accidental way to finally get to this 010
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 26/09/2026finished up steins;gate 0! the anime adaptation of the original steins;gate was a "rewrite my 15 year old brain" thing for me, but i never got around to any of the 0 stuff for a variety of reasons including for some reason assuming i would hate it despite it being pretty well received 120
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 26/09/2026yeah it's like, i'm more than happy to revisit a movie, or book, or whatever, that i like and i'm not really sure why that same thing shouldn't apply to a linear game 120
Reposted by shikaspotsdownchasm @downchasm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026one aspect regarding retro gaming scenes that genAI has been blazingly efficient at is in trust erosion whether it’s fan TLs, FPGA cores, or recomp scenes, within the past year so much optimism and excitement regarding new projects has been swiftly replaced with doubt and suspicion thank you genAI 8639198
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 24/09/2026it's all really quite simple: to access the internet through a cable, to be physically connected to its holy tendrils, is a sacred act while to access it wirelessly, severed from its warming embrace is profane, a great transgression 091
shikaspots @shikaspots.bsky.social · 24/09/2026i still open the app up for voice chat to make push to talk work properly, but, yeah i moved to a normal pinned browser tab for it awhile ago because does just seem generally better there for me as well 000
