SpookyGenderCommunist [they/them, she/her] @ SpookyGenderCommunist @hexbear.net

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Oh hell yeah! This fucking rules

The Studio Ghibli movie, Castle in the Sky fits that bill pretty well. Especially on the "old adventure vibe" front. It's definitely got cozy and funny moments throughout, but all the guns and explosions might be a bit much.

But if you need stuff that's pure cozy, Non Non Biyori is good, as is Yuru Camp. Not big on the fantasy or adventure part, unless you consider walking to the candy store, or going camping, to be adventures.

For something cozy and fantasy based: Hakumei to Mikochi is good too! It's about a couple of lesbians who live in a tree, in a charming fantasy setting. It's got big cottage core vibes.

These are all definitely solid critiques of the remake. I get why they gutted the A/B scenarios. Games are way harder to make now.

But the ways they smashed the two versions of the story together in the remake, and then failed to link those stories together... Meh. I had a ton of fun, but narratively, it left a little to be desired.

So I played the original Claire A run, and the remake, back to back.

And the Sherry segment in the remake is... Better? Gameplay wise. It's more fun to play at least.

The original had two playable segments with Sherry. One where she runs off, gets vomited on by zombies, completes an awful puzzle, doesn't find what she's looking for, and runs back.

In the second one, she gets lost in the sewers and ends up getting uh... Implanted.

These segments in the original were awful to play, but they provided valuable characterization for sherry. Yes, she's a scared little girl, but she also has agency, and can Muster up the courage to get things done of she needs to, however misguided.

In the remake though... I'm not doing stupid puzzles in the sewer anymore, the parallel between Claire being stalked by Mr. X, and sherry being hunted down by the chief is good thematically. As is the subjectivity of placing the camera down low, at Sherry's eye level.

But in the remake... Sherry has no agency. She's kidnapped, and Claire has to save her. You get to be with her for only a brief time before the game effectively cuts to sherry passed out in the sewer. You rescue her, and she immediately passes out again.

Maybe this is my connection to this character talking, but I really feel like Sherry is the core of Claire's entire section of the game. Claire goes to raccoon city to find her brother. So the know her primary motivation is rooted in family. So I makes sense that her part of the story revolves around the conflict among the Birkin family. Claire becomes a maternal/big sister figure for sherry as her shitty absentee parents self destruct, and as their creations destroy the city. There's a big "found family" thing here that makes my little queer heart sing, but also feels woefully under explored on both games.

Sherry in the remake is such a nonentity, and a consistent damsel in distress, and I think that hampers an otherwise really solid remake.

The Hexbear fountain of youth

Nah, it made me laugh

IDK but they're kinda cute :3

You are 1000% correct. Please, I'm begging these people, to learn basic fucking food science! You can't just replace shit all willy nilly!!!

The obsession gamers have with "good graphics" is at a point where we're seeing diminishing returns. Do games need to look any better than they did in the PS3/360 Era? Not really. Can they look much better? I guess? But who cares? I don't need realistic horse testicle physics. I need a fun game to play!!!

But the question remains... Is the back squishy?

Can you elaborate on what you mean?

Fr though, please help, Idk what's up

You refuse to get on tiktok because it's CCP spyware.

I refuse to get on tiktok because short form, vertical, video content is awful.

We are not the same

I do! I mostly have queer and politicial pins

Everyone should read Building The Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela by George Ciccariello-Maher before saying anything about Venezuela, I stg

Yeah, but he doesn't actually give a shit. Erdogan is happy being a NATO puppet and ethnically cleansing northern Syria

I've said it before, and I'll say it again

The people in Michael Brooks' orbit have all drifted off into some wild directions since his passing, and it sucks to see

Nah, her colleague, Ana Kasparian is the biggest disappointment. Ana did a "why I left the left" and went down the TERF pipeline. Being lib is cringe, but it's better than cynical, far right, grifting.

Yeah I really could've gone without knowing about this...

Whatever the hell is going on here

https://youtu.be/nhSdljm909Y