It's episode 92 of @nerdsabroadcast.bsky.social and I got to chat with my wonderful co-host @thelpprincess.bsky.social about our favourite mansions and castles in TV, movies and games. 😃 Any suggestions, people?
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The hard to track down images of Japanese cover of Alundra with the elf boy and several characters around and behind him in dramatic poses.
A snap of part of a feature on the game from issue 34 of my zine: Did Working Designs ruin Alundra? Absolutely not! That’s the accepted wisdom, mostly from half-remembered playthroughs back in the day from what I can gather! Yes, Working Designs doubled the health of common enemies and made bosses harder. And they reworked dialogue, added a few now-dated pop culture references, and gave certain kinds of personalities to characters that didn’t have much of one in the Japanese original, such as weed-smoking surfer dude Bonaire. But, from our recent 45-hour playthrough and analysing the game design along the way, we can confidently report that the bulk of the difficulty for Alundra comes from Matrix Software themselves. Working Designs’ HP revisions do make the early game considerably more difficult, with enemies sometimes taking upward of eight hits from the base dagger - annoying! But that difficulty is alleviated considerably about a ¼ of the game in and then becomes trivial after that. The perspective and the over-reliance on platforming puzzles that cause the greatest and longest-lasting frustration and difficulty are baked into the design of the game itself and not due to Working Designs.
Happy birthday, Alundra! Released 29 years ago today in Japan.
Still one of my favourite ARPGs. We replayed it late last year to the start of this one, (some of you may remember me posting about it) and it ended up being one of the most eye-opening and thought-provoking revisits of a game to date.
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Ooh! Happy birthday to you! 🥳👍
Thank youuu! 😁 It's at grids.fun if you want to make one. I'd be interested to see your choices. 👍
I did the thing. 😅
Punching Missiles
'Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon'
Nintendo 64
Here's episode 90 of our little @nerdsabroadcast.bsky.social for your listening pleasure. This week @thelpprincess.bsky.social and I discussed films and games that made us laugh so hard we couldn't breathe. 😄
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Ooh! Would love to get you on our podcast at some time to chat about it - we're big Signalis fans. 😁
Then I shall! 😅👍
Happy Easter to all of my gaming friends on here! What have I been playing a bit of today to mark the occasion? Only the greatest egg-hunting game I could think of... SNES Jurassic Park! 😅👍
I keep looking at this and thinking I should give it a go. 😁👍
A scan of an aged letter with some crumpled folds, with Adam writing to Atari about being excited about their computer. He writes about the Atari easter egg as a PS with a diagram of how he does it.
Adam draws out the Created by… hidden message how it appears on the screen
A scan of the envelope and the atari addy and whatnot
🕹️ Bytes of Gaming History ⏳
A day for video game Easter Eggs and one of the earliest: Adventure (1980)
Developer Warren Robinett snuck a hidden message into the game, unhappy with Atari's non-crediting policy. They were made aware of it by Adam Clayton, whose letter has been preserved.
Lo Wang and Hoji - what a team! 😁
What do we reckon, people? Does Signalis look better in red or black?
Ooh... never seen it but Signalis is a personal favourite of recent years. 😃
Ohhh yes!! Shadow Warrior 1 and 3 are absolutely unmissable! 😎🤟
Heck yeah!! Sleeping Satellite!! 😃👍
You know those times when a videogame comes completely out of nowhere and really really impresses you? That's what happened when I first played The Sexy Brutale. I was gutted when I missed @superraregames.bsky.social put out a beautiful big-box edition, but so glad to own one now! 😁👍
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We apologize for the idiot here and there, we did this in two parts during last week's Discord Outage.
ALSO, IT'S THE TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY! AND ONE OF US IS A GOOD GIRL, OR TRIES TO BE! YOU ARE VALID, NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE!!!
Mine won't even turn on. Absolutely no idea why. 🤷♂️
Clearly those of us who love PS2-era survival horror are having a great time right now! 😎
What do we want next? My vote goes to Clock Tower 3. 😁
In this episode of @nerdsabroadcast.bsky.social I got @thelpprincess.bsky.social to watch a TV show from my childhood.. with funk and justice for all! 😁
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Happy #MAR10 Day to all you super players 🍄
A double page ad for Shadow Hearts, with a background of gothic imagery with renders of Yuri and Alice, with Yuri carrying her in his arms.
📖 Bytes of Game Ads 📺
The Time for Judgement Has Come: Shadow Hearts!
The start of a new trilogy on PS2 in 2001, following on from the release of Koudelka. And as a fan of pre-rendered background graphics, I'm particularly fond of Shadow Hearts.
Love Signalis so much! 😃👍
