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Green Hell
2019
this shit hard
Green Hell
2019
I really couldn’t do it, idk if it’s just the port but this game hurt me physically and emotionally. The controls are very particular with the hit boxes being so difficult to find sometimes. The graphics look awful I can’t see what’s going on in front of me. Basically the forest but if it was a bad port. First unfinished game on here
Donkey Kong Country
1994
In comparison to Super Mario World, I feel that Donkey Kong Country is more colorful, animated, and more unique. It's crazy just how much detail was put into it, not just with level design, themes, and gameplay; but even artistically. It's like every pixel is used to make the animals and other assets more detailed than that of other SNES games. All that together just makes a masterpiece, I love it so much.
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I love this game so much.
This is the pinnacle of long term storytelling in gaming. What MoT does the best, is slow building. They take the time to get you emotionally invested in the characters, the story, why you should care. The first game did that to perfection, leaving the second game to close the story.
Haku is a super relatable protagonist, hes an average fun guy who happens to be in a bizarre situation. We his identity of “haku” as we know it die in MoT, every day is emotional hell as he’s forced to confront his friends behind a mask, wishing he could interact with them genuinely. The every day interactions build up to emotional crescendos perfectly. Whether its Kuon & Nekone, Haku/Oshtor and his mom, Kuon & Haku, these encounters are teased insanely well. You know its gonna happen, you know one day they’re going to find out Oshtor is Haku but they tease the moment countless times, forcing you to want it even more.
When Haku finally lets his guard down, and allows Oshtor’s mother to acknowledge his suffering, that he still exists, I couldn’t stop crying. The imagery of a mother, even while blind, still recognizing Haku as Haku, knowing her son Oshtor was probably dead was beautiful. He had been holding so much in and the payoff was emotional as hell, they do this amazingly.
As Oshtor’s sister, we see a young Nekone attempt to cope with her brothers death, and Haku stealing his identity. To make it worse, her role model Kuon left for a while, its impossible to really understand her pain but we see her open up bit by bit. When Kuon comes back, Nekone is shaking its very obvious something is wrong. Kuon is the only one to see this side of her & comforts her, this breaks her “im fine nothing is wrong” facade as she starts sobbing even though she cant tell Kuon what really happened. The line when Kuon offers Nekone to sleep with her for the night, but a shaking child responding “Just the night? You wont leave me right…” broke me. Shes only a child that misses her older brother dearly.
The last example I wanna bring up is the relationship between Nekone & Haku. Nekone is very uncomfortable acting like Haku is her dead brother, but she goes with it because its what must be done. “If he’s my older brother, then where will my real older brother go.” She can not truly mourn Oshtors death/memory, its an unbearable burden to put on a young child. Its extremely painful, but she justifies it by blaming her brothers death on herself. Its heartbreaking. We see the culmination of this guilt when she’s kidnapped. She goes on about how she doesnt want to be saved, that she should be left to die since shes such a burden to Haku & Oshtor. Yet by the end, Haku saves her anyways & tells her that he only wants her to smile. Even though they both acknowledge Oshtor is never coming back, their relationship improves and Haku becomes an amazing role model and big brother figure for her. Character development is beautiful.
Master class in storytelling, easily my favourite game of all time.
This is the pinnacle of long term storytelling in gaming. What MoT does the best, is slow building. They take the time to get you emotionally invested in the characters, the story, why you should care. The first game did that to perfection, leaving the second game to close the story.
Haku is a super relatable protagonist, hes an average fun guy who happens to be in a bizarre situation. We his identity of “haku” as we know it die in MoT, every day is emotional hell as he’s forced to confront his friends behind a mask, wishing he could interact with them genuinely. The every day interactions build up to emotional crescendos perfectly. Whether its Kuon & Nekone, Haku/Oshtor and his mom, Kuon & Haku, these encounters are teased insanely well. You know its gonna happen, you know one day they’re going to find out Oshtor is Haku but they tease the moment countless times, forcing you to want it even more.
When Haku finally lets his guard down, and allows Oshtor’s mother to acknowledge his suffering, that he still exists, I couldn’t stop crying. The imagery of a mother, even while blind, still recognizing Haku as Haku, knowing her son Oshtor was probably dead was beautiful. He had been holding so much in and the payoff was emotional as hell, they do this amazingly.
As Oshtor’s sister, we see a young Nekone attempt to cope with her brothers death, and Haku stealing his identity. To make it worse, her role model Kuon left for a while, its impossible to really understand her pain but we see her open up bit by bit. When Kuon comes back, Nekone is shaking its very obvious something is wrong. Kuon is the only one to see this side of her & comforts her, this breaks her “im fine nothing is wrong” facade as she starts sobbing even though she cant tell Kuon what really happened. The line when Kuon offers Nekone to sleep with her for the night, but a shaking child responding “Just the night? You wont leave me right…” broke me. Shes only a child that misses her older brother dearly.
The last example I wanna bring up is the relationship between Nekone & Haku. Nekone is very uncomfortable acting like Haku is her dead brother, but she goes with it because its what must be done. “If he’s my older brother, then where will my real older brother go.” She can not truly mourn Oshtors death/memory, its an unbearable burden to put on a young child. Its extremely painful, but she justifies it by blaming her brothers death on herself. Its heartbreaking. We see the culmination of this guilt when she’s kidnapped. She goes on about how she doesnt want to be saved, that she should be left to die since shes such a burden to Haku & Oshtor. Yet by the end, Haku saves her anyways & tells her that he only wants her to smile. Even though they both acknowledge Oshtor is never coming back, their relationship improves and Haku becomes an amazing role model and big brother figure for her. Character development is beautiful.
Master class in storytelling, easily my favourite game of all time.
3rd best game ive ever touched, played it a lot when i was little and I also play the remaster. Amazing game, well worth buying. Certified TK classic baybee
Among Us
2018
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Among us
Played it on 360 and PC. Amazing game with tonnes of replayability, especially if you mod the game. Certified TK classic baybee
Fallout: New Vegas
2010
It is a pretty good game and can be better with modding, as most of Bethesdas catalog goes. However, I can't help but feel the game is extremely overhyped for what it is. Can't go wrong with playing it though as the story is good and the gameplay is fun as hell, certified TK classic baybee
I don't know who the fuck Mark Sprenger is, but I can only assume he was proud enough of this besmirchment of Chester Cheetah to put his name in the intro due to being a massive health nut and hating the shit out of the snack industry.
He accomplished this by having Chester develop a literal glass jaw and having him shatter on impact at even the slightest provocation of manlet ape skateboarders and stationary platforms. Chester also sometimes forgets to jump when you hit the jump button, even moreso when the game is chugging like a shitty Windows 95 running Brood War with ten copies of BonziBuddy installed.
He accomplished this by having Chester develop a literal glass jaw and having him shatter on impact at even the slightest provocation of manlet ape skateboarders and stationary platforms. Chester also sometimes forgets to jump when you hit the jump button, even moreso when the game is chugging like a shitty Windows 95 running Brood War with ten copies of BonziBuddy installed.