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@coriander J liked Tails's story more than i did

i just did not really care for tails's characterization in the game and i cannot abide this game doing that to The Boy

@Lady lmao

@coriander intrestingly i shared the general progression he's laying out about how the game started to win him over by the second island; i outright just stopped bothering with the first island and finished it off because i was getting VERY bored, but for the rest of the game i felt like i had a better idea of what it was trying to do and it was not really that taxing to me to unlock all the map and do all the major things they have to offer

@coriander i've seen others suggest that the game was targeting the switch and that explains the technical issues, but if the digital foundry tech review is any indication, this is just simply not true; global illumination (which is what the hedgehog was literally built FOR) is just completely removed on switch, heavily downgrading the lighting in the game

@coriander i would contend that sonic the hedgehoh 2(022) was a step down from its predecessor but nobody agrees on this

@coriander yeah same

i mean i didn't mean the lattter as faint praise either; i've never really gotten the impression he's like, phoning it in; he clearly has his own voice and it's coming through and he's just saying what he thinks

@coriander i mean, i am critical while finding good things in it so i will purrobably find this review agreeable; i'll happily take a look---OH it's j's reviews, i've watched a lot of him

tbh i think his critical voice is eh but i respect that he is pretty good at making long videos somewhat frequently

* if you just wait around

@manifold 👀

also, you can get LITERALLY every necesarry item from a fishing minigame, the tokens for which you can farm trivially, you just wait around long enough

really weird that i have yet to see a review of sonic frontiers mention that basically every reward you get for exploring aronud (except for vault tokens) can be farmed by spinning in circles, in place, if you’re patient enough.

why would you undermine the rewards for exploration. in an open world game.

@Lady lmao

@Lady putting the Glitch in GlitchCat

@coriander oh shit nice

@coriander i think monsterfork might have had a way to do that at one point

(i say more or less this exact post somewhat frequently lol. RIP)

@Lady yeah, that's purrobably for the best

iirc i ended satisyfing te linter for the entire file file doing the business logic for ALWAYS_TRENDING_TAGS and i did start to wonder how that would handle any future changes from upstream..........

@Lady lately i try to satisfy it when it comes to new code we've written

@noracodes i was wondering when you'd updated the theme to your blog

i quite like it

@hourlyfoxbot babie