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Gaming Gaiden @gaminggaidenpod.bsky.social · 3d

Finally got around to Snatcher. Definitely a great story, and it just works so well. The style, the music, the writing, the acting – all on another level.

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Gaming Gaiden @gaminggaidenpod.bsky.social · Sep 11

Nintendo is the way it is because its success is built on the theft of intellectual property. They learned the valuable lesson that if they didn’t want to end up getting their own stuff stolen, they needed to be a yippy chihuahua … in a legal sense. Now, they’re everyone’s problem.

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Gaming Gaiden @gaminggaidenpod.bsky.social · Sep 10

The only good that ever came from the corporatization of EVO was the burrito I got that one time.

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Gaming Gaiden @gaminggaidenpod.bsky.social · Sep 3

Shinobi: Art of Vengeance is one of the best games this year. I absolutely love it. I cannot stop playing. I really need to go to bed. M

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Gaming Gaiden @gaminggaidenpod.bsky.social · Aug 29

Shinobi: Art of Vengeance is good. Get it. Simple as that.

Gaming Gaiden @gaminggaidenpod.bsky.social · Aug 19

Sorting through gaming news is getting quicker and easier because there are so many headlines for roguelikes, soulslikes, and Pokémon, all of which I can confidently ignore knowing very well that I have no interest in any of them. M

Gaming Gaiden @gaminggaidenpod.bsky.social · Aug 5

Pretty strange selection of tracks here. I forgot I had this. Interestingly, these tracks are not on the official digital soundtrack I bought years ago.

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Gaming Gaiden @gaminggaidenpod.bsky.social · Jul 30

I absolutely cannot pass up something like this for $10. I wish other consoles could get the third-party support Switch does, but it’s hard to argue with 150 million units sold, even if the vast majority of those owners would never buy this at any price.

Gaming Gaiden @gaminggaidenpod.bsky.social · Jul 22

M2 deserve to be recognized as living national treasures for their work with “intangible cultural properties.” Their technical artistry is just on another level, and their releases always impress, even when the work they’re preserving has no appeal for me. It’s their work that makes it work for me.

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Gaming Gaiden @gaminggaidenpod.bsky.social · Jul 10

Plus, the vouchers are account limited IIRC, and they expire within a year. They could run this deal because it was always an illusion. Superficially, it looks like you’re saving $10 on a $60 game, but the limitations pretty much balance it out in Nintendo’s favor. Now that games are $70 to $80 …

Gaming Gaiden @gaminggaidenpod.bsky.social · Jul 10

The Nintendo Switch Game Voucher program was never a good deal. It requires a paid NSO membership, which is $20 minimum, and the best deal you can usually find for $100 eShop credit was $80, now $85. That means you had to spend $100 to get two games at $50 each, but the usual sale price is ~$42.

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Gaming Gaiden @gaminggaidenpod.bsky.social · Jul 8

I’m pretty sure that’s Mojo Jojo’s nephew.

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Gaming Gaiden @gaminggaidenpod.bsky.social · Jul 8

I generally turn off rumble at the system level, but the SNES rumble controller is definitely interesting to me. I don’t really want to shell out for the new Doom and all though. I finally packed away the SNES a couple of months ago because my shift to RPGs meant the CRT wasn’t important anymore.

Gaming Gaiden @gaminggaidenpod.bsky.social · Jul 7

Gaming Gaiden @gaminggaidenpod.bsky.social · Jun 13

I picked up The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo on a whim at a local bookstore, and I honestly couldn’t be happier with my purchase.

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Gaming Gaiden @gaminggaidenpod.bsky.social · Jun 10

Sometimes, I’m torn on whether the visual novel genre is simply misplaced media that would be better served as pure text or if these stories simply would not exist without the medium to drive their creation.

Gaming Gaiden @gaminggaidenpod.bsky.social · Jun 9

Damn, now I have to change my plans last minute for the Zelda movie.

Gaming Gaiden @gaminggaidenpod.bsky.social · Jun 8

If a classic game sees rerelease without save states, it’s a failure, no matter how great the game or conversion is otherwise. Like it or not, freely available emulators are competition, and if an emulated version sold at any price can’t do what the free option can do, that’s a failure.

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Gaming Gaiden @gaminggaidenpod.bsky.social · Jun 7

I got Cyberpunk for XSX for $5, but I haven’t played it because I got Echoes of Wisdom from the library, which I abandoned in favor of a Zero play-through of Mega Man x4 … and then promptly moved on to Mega Man Legends. I just can’t get enough of these classic games on Mister.

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Gaming Gaiden @gaminggaidenpod.bsky.social · May 31

Sometimes, playing on original hardware is less than ideal. This is the only game I’ve heard the disc seek noises with, but I think it’s time to move over to emulation. It’ll just be more convenient, which is kind of sad.

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Gaming Gaiden @gaminggaidenpod.bsky.social · May 30

Mark your calendars! June 5th is the big day!

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Gaming Gaiden @gaminggaidenpod.bsky.social · May 30

Mark your calendars! June 5th is the big day!

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Chained Echoes | by Umami Tiger @chainedechoes.bsky.social · May 30

Heroes and villains from 13+ Indie JRPGs collide in Infinite Alliance - a FREE Crossover game made by @criticalgamesau.bsky.social

INFINITE ALLIANCE: OFFICIAL REVEAL TRAILER

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Gaming Gaiden @gaminggaidenpod.bsky.social · May 27

I propose the term “D-board” controller instead of “leverless”. That’s D as in directional, like D-pad.

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Gaming Gaiden @gaminggaidenpod.bsky.social · May 23

A few years ago, I learned that scallops served in restaurants are often actually stingray meat, so even though I’ve never intentionally had stingray, there’s a good chance I’ve eaten plenty of it. That looks a little tough, though.

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