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✝️ ENG/PTBR I love Shadow of the Colossus, Ace Attorney, Sonic and Major more than I should. I love Kasumi Yoshizawa, Susato Mikotoba, Maya Fey, and Shoka Sakurane. Daughters: Liko, Rayfa and Mizuki. Married to Princess Peach. https://lenhishiro.carrd.co/

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Rain 🌧️ @lenhishiro.bsky.social · 20d

September 13th was my second wedding anniversary with Peach, and today, my friend selene-lunette gifted me this wonderful illustration of me and Peach holding hands, representing the Sun and the Moon. I have no words to express the sheer beauty of this work. It's perfect 💛🩷

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James @nitrorad.bsky.social · 39m

This was deleted because the context was made to be uncharitable

Sure, but it's still important to criticize the titans of the industry instead of worshipping them like messiahs. And what he said along with much else he's said, still gives me the vibe that he sees art more as capital than anything

James @nitrorad.bsky.social · 4h

Actual nonsense. This is not how an artist thinks.

Rain 🌧️ @lenhishiro.bsky.social · 19m

Miyamoto sees games as toys rather than art. Great developer at his time, but people give his thoughts far too much credit.

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Mystic_Ode @icoshrine.neocities.org · 5h

Using this, @jaikhay.bsky.social found another iteration of The Queen's design in that early demo (disc version dated June 6th, 2001).

The headdress here is far more elaborate than even the feathered one seen in Game Informer's screenshots. And this is our best look at her tattered cloak of shadow.

The Queen stands below the Main Gate stage, suspended in air. Her headdress is like a blackened halo formed of thick lines running in an elaborate pattern. The edges fray like ink on a page and the extremities form a shape akin to a spider.

Her slender body is sheer black shadow, with only a very frayed and hole-riddled cloak over top of it. Her stark white face is the only part of her skin that can be seen.

A close up of The Queen's face. This earlier model resembles Yorda's face even more than the final build's.

Rain 🌧️ @lenhishiro.bsky.social · 5h

Every few months something happens in my brain and I start thinking about Bloodborne all over again.

Rain 🌧️ @lenhishiro.bsky.social · 5h

Rewatched the three endings in Bloodborne and they're all so good. My favorites are Childhood's Beginning and Honoring Wishes because of the implications they have for the relationship between the Hunter and the Doll.

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Hoshu • ✨ @hoshumos.bsky.social · 8h

Happy Birthday, Rindo!!!!! 🥳🐉🎂🧡
#奏竜胆生誕祭 #ntwewy #twewy

Rain 🌧️ @lenhishiro.bsky.social · 6h

Violet just has a bunch of metallic pokémon. It's so bad 💀

Rain 🌧️ @lenhishiro.bsky.social · 15h

On a side note, I found it funny how they changed the color of Simon's wife's hair in the remake, probably to avoid comparisons with Jonathan and Erina from JoJo.

Rain 🌧️ @lenhishiro.bsky.social · 15h

I'm happy to have finally played both versions of Haunted Castle. Revisited was a great surprise from Dominus Collection, and it shows how talented the developers at M2 are. I hope they continue to create more games in the series, and I hope they get the chance to develop an original title.

Rain 🌧️ @lenhishiro.bsky.social · 15h

The controls are very satisfying, the enemies are great, and the game is very balanced, too. Bosses are on the easier side of the spectrum, but they still provide enough challenge to be interesting. The music was also a good surprise.

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Rain 🌧️ @lenhishiro.bsky.social · 15h

Revisited, as I already mentioned, feels more like an original game than a remake, but the presence of similar ideas (level themes, enemies, etc) makes it easier to see it as a different version of Haunted Castle. +

Rain 🌧️ @lenhishiro.bsky.social · 15h

and it would be hard for the developers of the arcade version to take inspiration from Castle 3, aside from this game being inspired by Simon's adventure, not Trevor's. Thematically, I really liked the selection of levels and their visuals.

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Rain 🌧️ @lenhishiro.bsky.social · 15h

and Haunted Castle managed to be very faithful to the Castlevania formula. I felt like there was a certain lack of focus on the platforming gameplay, compared to the action, but that wouldn't be a fair comparisson since Castlevania 3 was released in the same year, +

Rain 🌧️ @lenhishiro.bsky.social · 15h

So far, it's my favorite "classicvania" after Castlevania 3, which I didn't expect at all.

I don't know if that's just my perspective, but I haven't seen that many platformers in arcades, so it's always interesting to see how the genre is translated to that environment, +

Rain 🌧️ @lenhishiro.bsky.social · 15h

Revisited, on the other hand, was incredibly surprising. It's a little hard to call it a remake when it is fundamentally so different from the original, besides using similar ideas for the levels and enemies. +

Rain 🌧️ @lenhishiro.bsky.social · 15h

While I don't like being negative in this series of posts, I would be lying if I didn't say that Haunted Castle was the worst game I played this year. My expectations were already low, and the game still found a way to surprise me by being even worse than I expected. +

Rain 🌧️ @lenhishiro.bsky.social · 15h

Arcade Weekend #5: Haunted Castle / Haunted Castle Revisited

Another "double feature" weekend, where I got to play both the original version of Haunted Castle and its remake. What an experience it was.

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Rain 🌧️ @lenhishiro.bsky.social · 16h

Graveyard in Haunted Castle Revisited

Rain 🌧️ @lenhishiro.bsky.social · 19h

Did Kasumi wake up in DOA Xtreme???

Rain 🌧️ @lenhishiro.bsky.social · 19h

I miss when DOA looked like this

Rain 🌧️ @lenhishiro.bsky.social · 19h

I miss when DOA looked like this

Rain 🌧️ @lenhishiro.bsky.social · 20h

I'll never forgive Game Freak for gender locking the rival, but the number of people I've seen roleplaying Paxton as a trans girl has been one of the most amazing events of this month.

Rain 🌧️ @lenhishiro.bsky.social · 20h

I want this vibe

Rain 🌧️ @lenhishiro.bsky.social · 20h

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Rain 🌧️ @lenhishiro.bsky.social · 22h

Ace Attorney Wiki also needs a better spoiler policy, but, at the very least, they don't put major spoilers in the first paragraph of a wiki page/article like the megaten one.

Rain 🌧️ @lenhishiro.bsky.social · 22h

I looked at Megami Tensei Wiki and sighed