Yes, I think it's great & it looks and runs cleaner now since Splatoon 3 got patched on Switch 2

Actually it's also kind of giving Vampire Survivors. Upgrade your abilities to make bigger and bigger numbers pop out of the Salmonids. HMMM. Also this defo borrows a lot from Side Order (which was great)

There is just no Nintendo series that looks as good as Splatoon to me. I absolutely adore the art direction. And I love what the Raiders trailer is putting forward ideas-wise. It's giving co-op PVE tower defense, with all sorts of treasures to go out and find. Incredibly hyped for this

Big shout out to what Tucker has been doing with Dev Dive. What a gift it is to get a meaty convo like this EVERY WEEK.

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New Monday, new Dev Dive! I talked to @ekanaut.bsky.social and Sunny Dube about Dosa Divas, a short turn based RPG based around culture, family and cooking.

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We've threatened Jake's return to BLB many times, we have to follow through

This is a trick question because every airport is the worst airport in the country

yeah Dread is really snappy and fun to play but there's a lot about its world, structure, and story that kick it down my ranking. For 2D games, I rate Fusion and Zerio Mission above it

Unfortunately I don't think I'll know exactly where I land on 4 until Prime 5 is a thing and 4 is no longer burdened with the expectations of being the game I waited a bajillion years for and is instead just another Metroid game

Replaying Dread this month raised my opinion of Prime 4. I just don't think ZDR has any motion and such a huge part of Metroid for me is my imagination being piqued by the world and I think Viewros' biomes and architecture rock. That's best in the series stuff. But it plays like a weaker Prime 3 imo

Just in case anyone is curious, if you asked me how I'm feeling about Metroid Prime 4 today, I would say that it's in my top 10 Switch games without a doubt

Closest I've come to this in the modern era is when I listened to a Tricot album after playing Splatoon for a decade and realizing holy fuck I really like math rock

I really love that Jake explores how Pragmata uses its """videogamey""" systems to make meaning. Such a brilliant example of what exciting insights we can reach when commentary doesn't stop short at nebulous talking points!

The folks at @strangescaffold.bsky.social are an absolute dream and so is bringing these beautiful beasts to life! 🤘🔫

Happy birthday! Really good stuff. I'm especially interested in this idea: "If games are a sport, I was overexerting myself time and again and asking why it hurt. I was putting in junk miles and ignoring the exhaustion." This felt both unconventional and immediately resonant to me

FINALLYYYYY got the skin for doing all the Vandal challenges!!

As I was discussing in a different thread, there is certainly a very passionate and authentic community forming around this game that is *also* making crass or lowest common denominator stuff, but very much feels to me as though it's coming from a less cynical place

Totally valid, and i think it's useful for me to be clear that I'm pretty particularly critical of a type of poster on Twitter and TikTok primarily, where the framing of their content feels geared towards engagement above all. Something I could've stood to be more specific about.

Yeah, I suppose then what I'm wondering is whether what would've come out of a game with boundaries to subvert might've been more clever than what's being pumped out now. Maybe part of why this'll peter out is that any test to the limit always results in "yeah you can draw/say that"

Fair point & I agree that it's a blank canvas which is partially why I view it cynically. The stuff that bangs on socials is all lowest common denominator, similar shock humor. Certainly people do find that funny, or it wouldn't be viral. But I think that viral incentive flattens & shapes the humor

The 3DS game was host to this kind of low-hanging fruit as late as shortly before Living the Dream launched, so that type of posting won't ever be fringe, esp given the broader meme culture among my generation. But I think that it eventually won't feel like the first and last word on the game

Absolutely. To your point about being unable to tell what the motivations for posting are, I think I err on the side of cynicism in part because the game's just launched and there's still incredible novelty to posting shallow provocations. But a meaningful community is forming in spite of them

I greatly appreciate this feedback and really like the idea that a game like this reflects the culture it's released into

I think what I'm especially interested in the pull to engage in this type of play, and whether people self-select to perform like streamers. With a game as open-ended as this, there's so much interesting stuff to be pulled from the way people choose to interact with it

This is so awesome!

I really appreciate this. I hope that people continue to write about the game's community and how everyone responds to it over time, because there's already so much to say positively & negatively. I feel like people in our circles don't realize exactly how enduring these games are!

Yeah I was completely convinced that no filter was the right choice but I'm less sure now. I think I probably still err on the side of the choice Nintendo made, my issue being more with how people are using that freedom than it being central to the game's design

Thanks so much! It's definitely tough when a game like this gets clouded by its community. I think you gotta stick close to the experience of playing it and your relationship to it, and focus on that rather than letting this odd behavior from other players stop you from making meaning with the game

Thanks so much!