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Blader
@localbuttonmasher.bsky.social
Wannabe Youtuber who analyses game design

Lover of Indie games, shooters, and Action games in general

LEFTIST

YouTube: https://bit.ly/4egLqPf

https://backloggd.com/u/LocalBtnMasher/
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Games I finished in 2025 thread!
"Got them grouped up, time to punish, hell yea"

The humble Beat em up enemy about to shove a plus jab in your ass:
November 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Beat em up "fans" are one of the few playerbases where you can show open contempt for the genre, and not only get away with it, but be embraced for it
November 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
>Started dying on the first stage of Fight n Rage after a couple of really good attempts

Enough for today...
November 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Metroid Prime 4 added the average Nintendo fan into the Game and players are not happy
November 15, 2025 at 10:55 AM
1 HP Clutch
November 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Spec ops: The Line essay, but you spend the entire runtime discussing the gameplay with no mention of narrative
November 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Type of shit I've been on recently
November 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
When any cutscene starts ever:
a man wearing a black sweater with an arrow on it
ALT: a man wearing a black sweater with an arrow on it
media.tenor.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
A design analysis and a run at the same time!

"I spent 8 minutes and 33 seconds in HELL (DEVIL DAGGERS 500 Seconds commentary)"

(Link in reply)
November 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The Steam Machine eating AS MUCH console market as possible is the number 1 priority, because it allows indie developers to reach the "I do not want to hunch over a desk" Bed/Desk gamers as serious customers
November 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
If Valve price this Steam Machine at a big enough loss they just one shot the non-nintendo console market
November 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
My incredibly bold, curveball prediction for Half Life 3, is that it's going to push tech in an insane way, while being a mid game
November 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Matthewmatosis liking the new Shinobi is such an ass take that it retroactively makes me question everything he has said
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Genuinely dystopian shit

And SOME of you were defending this game
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Reposted by Blader
Wrote a post talking about the design of Shinobi, Rolling Thunder & Elevator Action and how excellent of a run n gun template it was+how it developed over the years. I'd love to see more indie games take a crack at developing this, cuz Shinobi devs sure as fuck won't

www.patreon.com/posts/142967...
November 10, 2025 at 7:11 AM
It's interesting that Mikami is seen as THE horror guy cuz of RE1, despite him making mostly action games

Goof troop, Godhand, Vanquish, PN03, RE4
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Tank controls being rooted out as a system in the industry becomes even more infuriating

When you play a game with tank controls and realize haters are just being stupid...
November 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
New video in a couple of days...
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Unfair difficulty is going great :)
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Every single time a Fighting game players says anything to me I get polarised against the entire template, and its really not fair to it
November 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Ngl doing issen on Hell mode is way too risky

I'm playing Onimusha like a bootleg NGB relying on frame data and strafing
November 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
One of the most noticeable things about Onimusha is how solid the findies are, for no reason

Devs use to just *get* it
November 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I miss fights like the Church or Chapter 11

But honestly it's hard to justify playing anything except Survival in NG2

It has basically fully sublated the campaign for me
November 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
we gotta dial it back on the militant "make your own game, in a game" rhetoric. Really discentivizes developers from testing or designing at all
November 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Lets have a candid discussion about the channel to celebrate (Dont forget to give your feedback in the comments)

"The BLADERIST party grows to 1,000 SUBS! (Milestone retrospective)"

(Link in first reply)
November 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM