Honestly in an ideal world to me this is what the gaming sphere should feel like. Stuff by people who respect eachother exploring concepts in a way that's influenced by one another without being judged for "COPYING" or even being paranoid that they could accidentally do so...

The idea of standardizing a system where a (boss) enemy can say "i'm being combo'd too long" and being able to fire off a custom response is something i've been discussing with @gobadev.bsky.social for the game he's makin...

this is so beautiful

The story is so nothing on 3 to the point its hilarious. but you go back to something like 1 and the story there is just Bootleg Evangelion

also a good bit of hard corps (which is the best contra game of all time, of course)