@amy @Lucy what gave it away

@aescling @Lucy dammit i should have put rayman 2 in best art style

@wallhackio @Lucy sonic riders only gets in my best art style because of the opening video, which is is CRIMINAL that sonic team has never returned to. also it’s criminal that the game itself doesn't look like that. i would put rayman 2 otherwise

@aescling @wallhackio @Lucy I guess add mine to the thread. https://glaceon.social/@The_T/116389744177028929

@aescling @wallhackio @Lucy holds a knife to you over your Overrated

@The_T @wallhackio @Lucy i had just played through sonic unleashed and had a great time when i played generations and that made generations feel like a watered down version of a game i’d rather play instead. after dealing with unleashed’s bullshit and nonsense i felt like the game was too furgiving lol, and that ever stage felt too bite-sized

the best part of the game fur me by far was the unrespectedly unsettling overworld puzzle platfurming right befur the final boss. it made me feel that the developers really wanted the game to be something more than just a fun time nostalgia romp, but also that they didn’t really get to fully execute on whatever that would have been

@aescling @wallhackio @Lucy I agree that Unleashed is straight up better, but Generations is also amazing in every way. With that said, I think Unleashed could have been slightly better with a little bit trimmed off (some of the bosses were a bit much, most of the DLC isn't fun, most of the Challenges are very not fun) and Generations could have been better with a little more (more stages rather than Challenges; but for the most part the Challenges are good and varied.)

@The_T @wallhackio @Lucy i straight up disagree that it is ”amazing in every way” but i do think it is fun

@aescling @wallhackio @Lucy and I guess what made Generations work was at the time I played it, every single game it covered was deeply important to me. Sonic 1, 2, 3. Even '06. Definitely the Sonic Adventures, Heroes.

@aescling @Lucy wow i wish i put blops 3 in my "not usually my thing"

@wallhackio @Lucy nobody has commented on scarlet appearing on ”biggest personal impact” and also “turn my brain off”, but i just want to let it be known that the latter was very much derogatory

@aescling @wallhackio @Lucy yeah, I don't follow either of those at all. I can't imagine a game that recent being a big personal impact...

My experience with every mainline (non-remake) Pokémon game from Gen 3 on was weird. I played them all for stream, so I played them in a very specific way: I didn't go out of my way to catch Pokémon, ever. I tried to beeline objectives when I could. I basically had an incredibly streamlined playthrough of all of them; and for all the early games, I planned my team ahead of time to make sure no gym leader gave me trouble. (for most of the later games this wasn't an issue, but for example in Scarlet I did stumble into Flamigo being one of the stars of my team...)

There's a lot of stuff in those games I skipped right over; most of the optional legendaries and other optional dungeons (unless they seemed genuinely interesting enough to look at). But I had a blast and I wouldn't change how I played those games at all.

@The_T @wallhackio @Lucy the short version is that playing through scarlet managed to tf me into a cat when i was already a cat, and also the starfall street storyline was great

what i mean by turn my brain off is that i do think scarlet is very effective at having a game loop that i can get lost fur literally hours. i do not find it terribly interesting gameplay, it’s just spamming you relentlessly with random little items and mons to farm, but i begrudgingly admit it works. the best way to capture why i dislike this about it though is very similar to the way super eyepatch wolf described the 29th and 30th seasons of the simpsons—it’s fine, j guess, but the way it feels like it’s despurrately trying to keep your attention at all times is kinda mind numbing and i don’t really respect it

@aescling @wallhackio @Lucy I wish that Penny was a more major part of the story.

So I fell in love with Carmine instead.

And yeah, I definitely avoided that part of Pokémon when I played, and I felt I was better off for it!

@aescling @wallhackio @Lucy ...and Pokémon Black probably got Best Story just cuz I fell in love with N...