hi !

Hi!

Hi!
Thanks for the kind words. I was gonna welcome you to Botb but it says you've been here since 2014! Get into it dude :)

enjoy your b00n

don't waste it on candy or the drugz

that was kind of you. who was the person who is missing boons?

Wow today is my lucky day! https://ibb.co/mR5EGx

the corn is gone. change goes on

hallo~

why not Gentoo? (but im lazy, using ubuntu instead! xD )

Man in the virtual_muzak_scape: VIRTUALMAN

greet-off challenge accepted!!!!!! HALLO

Happy burf!

ha nice! (sorry, just saw your message on my profile now!!)

so what is ur avatar. i see different things at different times... astronaut? biker? boxer? old painter? a lady weeping?

Hi, VirtualMan : )

Hey there VirtualMan! I finally got around to checking my BotB account after a while, and I saw your post on my profile. See my reply there!

what?

hey, noticed you inquired about my pfp. Unfortunately the person in question is one of my real-life buddies and I don’t think he’s super comfortable posting his art yet (which is weird considering how good it is). I could see if he’d be interested but I don’t believe he’s really doing comms yet or anything. Hope this clears up some questions!

oh boy I have a fair amount of opinions about cave story - mostly admiration for how solid of a solo effort by an indie dev it is!

I would not actually count it as a true metroidvania - it's not particularly nonlinear enough, you don't do enough 'backtrack with a new ability' type activities - and your upgrades (whether weapons or abilities) generally don't double as combat-or-traversal-mechanic items. (with the excellent exception of using the machinegun as a jetpack)

but that doesn't mean it's not an excellent platformer, just more of a 'run and gun' type deal.

I played it in college originally pretty soon after it first came out - then again five years ago when I was considering it for a podcast episode. it still holds up pretty well, the released/upgraded version is appropriately spruced up 🤷‍♀️

(I actually like Pixels' Kero Blaster better though)

hello virtual man I would love to be friends! my favorite taiyaki filling is chocolate

Luigi Wins By Doing Absolutely Nothing - BotB account edition

> "does the linearity you reference pertain to environment exploration and not necessarily storyline progression?"

- yes, that's more what I'm looking at - for me, Metroidvania requires that you explore an area initially, notice currently inaccessible areas, then return later with new abilities that allow you to access those areas. A ledge that's too high to jump to, an seemingly impossibly strong enemy, a space too small to fit into, etc -

and consequently it's also important that when you find a new ability, you understand how to use it, and that it clicks, in your brain, "Oh, shit, now that I have the freeze beam, I can go back to that tall vertical shaft and freeze the flying enemies into stepping stones to make it to the top!!"

(and sidenote, though there is some sequence-breaking you can get away with in Super Metroid, I also see Metroidvania as a genre that grew out of Super Metroid and Castlevania Symphony Of The Night - but that doesn't necessarily mean that either of those games are *pure* Metroidvania. Even Hollow Knight, the game I view as the worthy successor to that legacy, is a metroidvania/soulslite hybrid.)

I never checked out Eternal Daughter! I will have to take a look!

(I've been trying to be more of a 'budget gamer' the last couple years, so I haven't been playing as many of the newer MVs as I should 😅)