I felt the same way because of it! There's even some of the Hero's personal psychology & philosophy (regarding game development) that Kimura shares, that he randomly told fans while out walking, years ago pre-development, so it was cool to even see that worked in

"Ok, this is clearly a reference to *****, & I just got *****, so what if I use this right here?

Oh wow! I got a Gem!/Oh, nothing? I'll keep trying in different places here..." - me the bulk of the game before I learned what the gems were even for

The Demon King's throne in Crescent Moon, is the exact same throne room of the Hero/Dragon from that too! I'm a Moon/Onion Games freak, so the entire game had me racking my brain at all the symbolism, parallels, & secret callbacks it'd reward you for. The amount of stuff from the games I tried lmfao

If you enjoyed 100%ing Moon, & didn't mind not getting "rewarded" for it, you'll definitely have a good time with Stray Children. You don't have to wait around for things, unlike Moon, so take it at your own pace, & feel free to make it easier when it feels unfun, or harder when you want.

I wonder if the lady was a fan of the group, a fan of the show, or maybe worked on it...

Oh, yeah, some times we would do laundry, feed dogs, go bathroom, & just have the game up, so maybe like 45-48 hours is what we actually took

Thank you! It was so hard to resist looking at all your posts, cause every play session, my Wife & I would just scream at the game at all the Kimura games being referenced in some way, & the parallels to Moon's unused Dragon Tail sequence

It was so good, & I really want the OST coming out

We just really liked it, so we explored everything hella slow, tried to 100% everything. We didn't do it, but playing the game casually, & making good use of the items that make attacks easier to dodge, will shave off a lot of time too. We just tried playing on a self-inflicted hard mode.

It depends on what you wanna do & invest into it, it's similar to Moon, where you can finish it relatively quickly without having to do much. We clocked in 53 hours for 100%ing everything that we wanted to do, but could have finished our 1st playthrough in maybe 20-30 satisfyingly too

OG Macross is the best, hope you have fun watching it

admittedly, i like the way it looks too. but the stylistic “human touch” is running cover here for the fact that the aesthetic was born from a labor crackdown that actually eliminated a large portion of the human beings working on the film