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@KitRedgrave @Lady yes

@KitRedgrave @Lady my silly ass thought this would be easier and "simpler" lmao

@Lady @KitRedgrave they explicitly target only upstream’s featureset as a scope limitation so i think that would actually be pretty difficult to convince them to do

@monorail blessb

@KitRedgrave @Lady i would say "that's why i don't bother with that shit and run everything on one VM" except then i do shit like this

@Lady good job

@Lady it works now

@gayocats bunnycat

@coriander i feel like a good summary of my complicated feelings about the game is how the hard mode True Final Boss is far and away the most fun boss in the game to play but holy SHIT is it actually unimpressive to look at, unlike the rest of the super sonic bosses, which at least do manage to be (very jankily) Actually Really Badass

@coriander huh i actually thought the fourth island was really close to being incredible; it's a very dramatic moment and what it needed was for sonic to be controlling in game like he is being corrupted by cyberspace, as he is in the cutscenes

how you do this without being totally irritating i'm not sure (it may have needed a lot less game and fairly simple movement challenges) but i think it would have really sold the moment

@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 👀