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Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · Oct 23

Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · 12h

Just read Gerald Robotnik's journal, watched Dark Beginnings and almost started sobbing. Gonna play Shadow Generations now.

Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · 13h

Never before has a cutscene been so fucking awesome that it almost makes me cry, AND IT WAS HOT OFF THE HEELS OF ONE OF THE WORST FINAL BOSSES OF ALL TIME!!!

Sonic Frontiers made me way more emotional than I expected.

This game is amazing, besides the fact that Final Horizon is miserable to play.

Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · 4d

SONIC GENERATIONS IS AWESOME I'M HAVING FUN YIPPEE HURRAY WEEEE!!!

I'M SO HAPPY! I'M HAVING MORE THAN 3 CONSECUTIVE MINUTES OF GENUINE FUN IN A SONIC GAME! I'M NOT FALLING TO MY DEATH EVERY 5 SECONDS ANYMORE!

the air dash is lame but at least it's easy to control, fuck that drop dash thing though.

Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah I think maybe I'll just come back to Unleashed later when I'm more accustomed to Sonic games because there's just way too much trial and error and tedious bullshit to deal with

Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · 4d

Despite my... Experience... With SA2 and Unleashed, I bet I'm still gonna love any references to either of them in later games because that's just how being a Sonic fan works I guess.

Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · 4d

I'm on the verge of skipping the rest of Sonic Unleashed because it feels like it's actively trying to discourage me from playing it.

I hate most of the levels and getting to a new level only for it to tell me I'm missing 18 sun tokens is fucking miserable.

Also the game runs like shit.

Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · 4d

And no, I don't care what reasons there were for it being that way, it doesn't matter how good your reasons are if it's a fundamentally bad idea. It's like if Kratos died in GoW Ragnarok, sure they could've done it well but that doesn't change the fact that they just shouldn't do that.

Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · 4d

Snake talks so little in MGSV that it tickles my brain whenever he does because for fucks sake dude, you get fucking Kiefer Sutherland to voice him but then give him like a third of the dialogue David Hayter would have in a single cutscene across the entire game. (not including cassette tapes)

Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · 7d

Rooftop Run Act 2 is actually one of the worst things I've ever had the misfortune of experiencing in my life, that is EASILY the worst level I've played in a Sonic game so far.

You can't take one fucking step without your life being left in the hands of a fucking coin toss.

Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · 8d

And then because of all that, when a genuine problem with the game shows up, you wanna blow your fucking brains out because it feels like unplayable bullshit

For example: Sonic Unleashed having a shitass framerate makes boosting an inherently bad idea because I can't fucking see anything

Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · 8d

The worst part about being bad at a game is it's very easy to get frustrated and blame the game because you don't fucking know how it actually works so you kinda just make assumptions and you're wrong...

Anyway I'm bad at Sonic games because I've literally just started playing them and I'm upset

Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · 8d

Also I hate the 2d sections because I CAN'T FUCKING SEE! ZOOM THE FUCKING CAMERA OUT!

Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · 8d

Sonic Unleashed doesn't have fuckass controls like SA2, instead it annoys me in new ways, Sonic runs too fast and the game runs too slow, seriously I can't fucking understand what's happening when I'm moving around at the speed of sound because the game runs like shit.

Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · 8d

Whoever decided to use DOOM to try to kill physical media can get fucked.

The disc has less than 100mb of useless bullshit on it, you need internet to be able to even start playing this offline singleplayer game. The game is factually able to fit on the disc so this is purely malicious.

Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · 12d

Replaying MGSV and I forgot how fucked up and stressful the prologue is

Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · 14d

Forgot about daylight savings and suddenly I'm going to bed an hour later than I wanted

Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · 16d

Video game

Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · 16d

Protag no mean goodie

Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · 18d

Stop wasting good music please, bring Infinite back and make him actually good so I can love his music even more

Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · 19d

Norman dies a classic Goblin death, impaled on his own glider

Peter retires for good

I'm writing these for myself so I can come back in like 3 years probably and see if I'm right even once. I'm pretty confident of a couple of these because I predicted several things in SM2.

Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · 19d

My predictions for Spider-Man 3:

Carnage is what forces Peter to return

Norman waits for Carnage to be dealt with before making his move so nothing can come between him and Spider-Man

Harry either becomes Anti-Venom or dies, driving Norman mad with him seeing it as Spider-Man murdering him

Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · 19d

I want Peter to be terrified of Carnage in Spider-Man 3

Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · 19d

Google "pump-action submachine gun" and you won't be surprised by the top result

Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · 21d

"PUBG: Battlegrounds" is some DVD disc shit

Ashkel @ashleyskeloten.bsky.social · 22d

SA2 is a broken mess.

It does a major disservice to its level design by having dogshit controls and mechanics that have a 50/50 chance of actually fucking working or throwing you off a cliff, I can NOT wait to get my hands on Unleashed so I can finally feel what it's like to enjoy a Sonic game.