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Bladebrent

@bladebrent.bsky.social

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Sometimes Pixel artist. Sometimes anime nerd. Sometimes plays video games. I do not give permission for any of my art to be put into AI generators or turned into NFT's or anything of the like.

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Bladebrent @bladebrent.bsky.social · 18d

Heres another set of KH CoM cards. This would actually be the tenth set I've made so i'm pretty proud of myself. That makes these 145 to 160.

Names and references will be in the alt text if you wanna guess which are which. Some are original designs

A bunch of fanmade Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memory cards with various weapons.
From top left to bottom right:
Knock on Nexus (Yume Nikki)
Heavy Sound (Kasane Teto)
Cup Overfloweth (The Cup Arcana from Tarot Cards)
Crate Breaker (Team Fortress 2. Yes, thats just a Sandman bat with a key taped to it)
Cardiotomy (Valentine's bonesaw from Skullgirls. I just came up with the name)
Hospital Vein (Original design based somewhat on a hospital)
Whizzing Arrow (Oban Star-Racers)
People Pleaser (Tina from Rock is a Lady's Modesty)
TV TIME (Tenna from Deltarune)
Power Surge (Dynatron from Mighty no. 9)
Not in the Cards (Original design based on a deck of cards)
Sound of 1000 (Original Design I just doodled)
Cool Grabby Dinosaur (Original design based on one of those dollar store grabby claw toy things)
Watcher's Staff (Watcher from Slay the Spire)
Hat in Time (Hat Kid's Hat that is labelled 'Kid's hat' in Hat in Time)
Gift of Strength (based on Theodora's spear in the Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave trailer)

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Bladebrent @bladebrent.bsky.social · 3h

Exact same issue here. "Man I'd love to learn how to do this thing" countered by needing to be taught a specific way otherwise I suffer an anxiety attack, or alternatively, wanting to be creative but simultaneously 'not feeling like it' so its hard to drag myself to do it unless I trick myself.

Bladebrent @bladebrent.bsky.social · 4h

The idea of 'you could just NOT use it" is kinda something I've been thinking about lately too.

In this case, it sounds like the Chainsaw was more like an alternate playstyle in old SH? You could go for it but it has its own drawbacks so its a different experience

as opposed to 'the easy option'

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Bladebrent @bladebrent.bsky.social · 7h

For an example, I made a single character mod for Rivals of Aether (a MOD) and here is the list of animations I was given in order to make that happen.

Yeah sure, the attack animations were obvious, but there's so many little animations you don't even notice but can be important for game feel

A list of animations to make a single character in "Rivals of Aether." There's 49 different animations listed.

While some animations can be copy pasted (such as air-versions of special, or some of the hurt animations), there are many animations that you have to remember that can't be shortcutted very easily, like DashStart, stop, and turn. Jump Start, Wave Land, Bounce hurt, and spin hurt

Bladebrent @bladebrent.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/nGaajB8m5Q0?... Fun fact actually: Sakurai claims he did write every single Parameter for every character in melee.

But this was just for Melee and just for TUNING the characters. He was definitely very hands-on during development of Ultimate but he still didn't do EVERYTHING himself.

Making Your Game Easy to Tune [Programming & Tech]

YouTube video by Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games

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Bladebrent @bladebrent.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I didn't find the levels that bad when I played it, and I assume its cause I wasn't trying to see if I can beat the level without moving left and right like other people were doing.

Like sure, it doesn't fully excuse that thats possible, but its definitely not as bad people make it sound.

Bladebrent @bladebrent.bsky.social · 4d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShG7... "Oh some random game I've never heard of. Might be fun to try it out. Lets just hop onto training mode here and-"

Gakushin Theme - Koihime Enbu OST

YouTube video by K :/

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Bladebrent @bladebrent.bsky.social · 8d

Dang, I remember playing this waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in the day, classic.

Honestly, something annoying about Heihachi's revival this time is they didn't even need to do it. You could've just had him be DLC and not had him return in lore at all but whatever.

Bladebrent @bladebrent.bsky.social · 8d

I'd be happy with one the same style as Dissidia Duodecim. Just....don't do the forced team thing or put it on mobile devices.

Bladebrent @bladebrent.bsky.social · 8d

The one that annoyed me was Psychonauts 2.

There's one level where you can get ALOT of flavour text by connecting thoughts, but if you take too long, the game just tells you the answer on which thoughts to connect. It will literally INTERRUPT the flavour text to backseat you.

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Bladebrent @bladebrent.bsky.social · 10d

Don't need to be so hostile just cause I bring it up. Yeesh.

Bladebrent @bladebrent.bsky.social · 10d

uh, unfortunately not. I actually have a hard time falling asleep to begin with and "knowing I have to wake-up early the next day" can also just prevent me from getting to sleep so thats fun.

Uh, get plushies. They'll help i'm sure!

Bladebrent @bladebrent.bsky.social · 10d

Time to learn that staying in bed and oversleeping also leads to being tired. Good luck

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Katie Wilson 🐇 @floral-anvil.co.uk · 11d

Even more proof that bsky are quite literally suppressing people they don't like.

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Sarah @vyletbunni.com · 11d

so allegedly bluesky is preventing people from seeing their own posts asking for alternative websites?

uh??????

Paledoptera 🦋 @paledoptera.bsky.social · 11d

what the actual fuck

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Bladebrent @bladebrent.bsky.social · 12d

But his name doesn't start with V

Would that make it the "AV Club?"

Bladebrent @bladebrent.bsky.social · 13d

make a plan to jinx your next plan and then you won't

Bladebrent @bladebrent.bsky.social · 14d

One that comes to mind is a Fighting game video (I believe its by sugarpunch) about how Nerfing characters feels worse than buffing them. People interpreted it as "THIS IS WHY WE SHOULD ALWAYS BUFF AND NEVER NERF" when that statement is never once said in the video itself.

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Bladebrent @bladebrent.bsky.social · 14d

I can give plenty of examples of games people think are bad that I can use as a *good* example of something. Mighty no. 9 introduces more ways for Beck to interact with bosses, adding more character, and Balan Wonderworld's bosses actually have a cool set-up that encourages experimenting

Bladebrent @bladebrent.bsky.social · 14d

Art is so flexible that just about anything you can think of that might be a 'hard rule' to be 'objectively good' can or has likely been subverted to show it's not true.

Bladebrent @bladebrent.bsky.social · 14d

The one that drives me up the wall is Astral Chain. They constantly tell YOU what YOU are feeling all while the protagonist just stands there plain-faced

No, I didn't break the rules because "I'm so desperate to catch Jena;" I did that cause this is a video game and its how I progress the game.

Bladebrent @bladebrent.bsky.social · 15d

Yeah. To me, breaking the mold and trying different things is how you move things forward to begin with. I hate when people complain something isn't like what they're used to therefore its bad, or wish something played more like what they're familiar with instead of adjusting to it.

Bladebrent @bladebrent.bsky.social · 15d

wait, do people really say "the protag must be silent so the player can relate to them"? Because nothing makes me relate to the protagonist LESS than making them silent. It just reminds me i'm playing a video game because the character I'm playing never reacts to anything.

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Bladebrent @bladebrent.bsky.social · 16d

Hazards can refer to enemies or stage hazards too so it still applies. Actually, come to think of it, 'hazards' is even broad enough that it apply to games without enemies too.

Bladebrent @bladebrent.bsky.social · 16d

Better word might be "Hazards" rather than "Enemies."

The example that comes to mind is Mighty no. 9; I think it has some issues with how specific hazards are placed but enemies aren't usually the problem. If anything, the enemies are placed well enough to get you to use your weapons smartly

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Bladebrent @bladebrent.bsky.social · 16d

wait, whats Northsky and Blacksky?