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AKA Kerry Brunskill. Hi and/or sorry Enby They/She 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Freelance writer - hire me! Contributing writer @pcgamer.com Come smother yourself in enthusiastic gaming goodness: https://kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com Support my work: https://ko-fi.com/kimimi

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · Nov 15

Hi there new people (and old people too, of course)!

So I was trying to think of an easy way to explain what sort of games I like and what you'll probably see here but my taste is... well, I'm kinda a bit like this:

A photo looking down on a large pile of games. The games are (top to bottom, left to right):

Shin Samurai Spirits (MVS)
Xian Jian 5 (PC)
Tokimeki Memorial 2 (PS1)
Monster Hunter Portable 3rd (PSP)
Magical Hat (MD)
Fantasia Sango 2 (PC)
Everybody's Gold Portable (PSP)
Kirby's Adventure (FC)
Koro Koro Kirby (GBC)
Enemy Zero (Saturn)
Samurai Spirits (GB)
Nemesis 2 (GB)
Baroque (Saturn)
Metal Gear Acid 2 (PSP)
Ogre Battle (NGPC)
Burning Rangers (Saturn)
Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance (PS2)
Xin Xian Jian (PC)
Baldur's Gate 3 (PC)
Knights of Valour 2 Nine Dragons (IGS PGM)
Sakura Wars 2 (Saturn)
Biohazard (PS1)
Harukanaru Toki no Naka de (PS1)
Ristar (GG)
Wil Card (WSC)
Rocket Knight Adventures (MD)
Phantasy Star IV (MD)
Brandish (PSP)
X (GB)
Ghostbusters 2 (GB)
Zwei!! (PC)
Daina Airan (PC)
Nights (Saturn)
GG Aleste 2 (GG)
Shadow Tower (PS1)
Phantasy Star Online (DC)
Dynamite Deka 2 (DC)
Soukyugurentai (Saturn)
Vampire Night (PS2)
Densha de D Burning Stage (PC)
Marvelous (SFC)
Starfox (SFC)
Dungeon Master Chaos Strikes Back (PC98)
Ys 1 (PC88)
Tori no Hoshi (PS2)
Strider 1 & 2 (PS1)
Final Fantasy 12 International (PS2)
Samba de Amiga (DC)
GetBass (DC)
Radiant Silvergun (STV)
Illusion City (PC98)
Chiki Chiki Boys (MD)
EX-Ranza (MD)
Umihara Kawase Shun (PS1)
Densha de Go 2 (NGPC)

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 3h

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We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

Design Room

Video game oral histories

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 2m

OMG, look at this amazing feature! The battle cutscene view accurately reflects the position and direction of the other characters on the field, from the attacker's POV! :O

A screenshot from Record of Lodoss War (Mega CD). This is a top-down view of a cave. One goblin is attacking the hero, Pahn. Etoh stands a little further away.

A screenshot from Record of Lodoss War (Mega CD). This is a first-person shot of the battle, from the goblin's point of view. Pahn is much closer to the screen, matching his position on the overhead map. As before, Etoh is further away.

Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 1h

Not at all!

We'll get through this. Eventually.

Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 1h

Thank you for articulating that better than I've been able to! I try, but I always end up yelling at the sky instead. D:

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 1h

Cruel is definitely the right word... :/

Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 1h

I don't have an A level in English.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 3h

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 2h

Currently fuelled by caffeine and mild irritation D:

Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 2h

Nothing wrong with that!

Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 2h

Ok, fine! FINE! I’ll try something a little more straightforward instead, like this Record of Lodoss War Mega CD RPG…

A photo showing the case, disc, and manual for Record of Lodoss War (Mega CD). It’s all pretty elves and armoured guys.

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 2h

Oh no! I'm glad you were eventually able to continue.

Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 2h

It's very odd! Still, I tried :)

Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 2h

Last time I checked Mitsuda's contribution to the soundtrack, which IIRC is about a third of the game's music, is available on iTunes.

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 3h

(The second is "Go to [place] and complete a request for [guy in town]". Follow a FAQ. Check other FAQs. Initiate quest as I should. Absolutely nothing where it's supposed to be)

Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 3h

(I know with older RPGs in other languages it's easy to claim something's a bug when in fact it's user error. In this case it went "I need to grab my gear">grabs gear>absolutely nothing happens>restarts the entire game>grabs gear>gear shows up, can leave)

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 3h

So! I spent a couple of hours today playing the game, reading FAQs, trying to work out why I couldn't progress... turns out I'd hit a game-breaking bug. Hey, it happens! So I started fresh, which fixed the bug and then... I appear to have run into another. I think I might have to call this off D:

A screenshot from The Seventh Seal (PC). This is a map screen, rendered in an old-timey hand drawn way. An elaborate border frames the image, a large and not very useful compass sits in the top-right corner, and a large ship sails decoratively on a timeworn painted sea.

A screenshot from The Seventh Seal (PC). A battle scene. Two heroes are being battered by flying monsters. Battles use a sort of ATB-style system, featuring combos.

A screenshot from The Seventh Seal (PC). A town scene. The intricately decorated stone floor of this outside area is partially covered with snow.

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 8h

OK, time for a new article!

We've got new game discovery woes, the very real difficulties in dealing with an avalanche of demos, being more receptive to new games, and six recommendations from the latest Steam Next Fest! Come take a look!

ko-fi.com/post/Making-...

Making the effort

Kimimi published a supporter-only post on Ko-fi!

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 3h

My pleasure!

Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 4h

It's a good one!

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 13h

"This is a truly pioneering survival game, one that still stands out as a unique and almost painfully tense experience almost three decades later."

kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2022/10/14/f...

Septentrion: Found at sea

Septentrion is so unashamedly eager to ape ’70s disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure it doesn’t just broadly copy the setting and flow of its memorable inspiration, the game even makes…

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 8h

Making the effort

Kimimi published a supporter-only post on Ko-fi!

ko-fi.com

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 10h

Hope you can fix that one day!

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revenant @notrevenant.bsky.social · 18h

forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.ph...

wrote up a bit of info on a less common US revision of Micro Machines for the NES, featuring a pretty nasty bug, discovered just a little too late and then worked around by using a PLD to patch a single *bit*. this is what day one patches looked like in 1991!

front view of a NES cartridge PCB, featuring ROM, RAM, and two logic chips

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 12h

"Ooh, this looks interesting!"
>OK so we used AI but only like a tiny bit for concept art and portraits and monsters and basic foundational stuff that doesn't matter and then we changed the AI stuff a bit after so it's OK and kinda not AI now.

*banished forever to the ignore list*

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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 14h

Still looking for someone, haven't found a single person so far (that I can contact). I have a 46-episode script that I need translated. This would be a paid job!

Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 11d

Completely unrelated to my 2am doomposting but does anyone know an English to Japanese translator, ideally with experience in screenplays?

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 12h

The ship really is the star! I still can't quite believe they actually managed to pull this off :O