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faea ʚїɞ
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the world's first "woman who is also a bug and is in your computer"
she/her, queer, nd, weird :)

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sorting pics for this month's journal and this one just really embodies how metroid 1 is the silliest game ever. the lava is fake. there's a hole below the floor below the lava. that means the floor below the lava is probably fake. this whole segment was probably my fav bit of the whole game
metroid 1 lower norfair (i think). samus standing in lava that isn't hurting her. the very bottom row of tiles below the floor is just empty. this planet is so silly
December 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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STREETS OF RAGE 3 (JP)
Immediately felt a little off in some not-too-impactful ways compared to my perfect darling baby, namely the extra mobility and fluidity; particularly on the jab, which can now advance between its combo hits while still holding enemies in hitstun. I spent my first playthrough not really focusing on the fundamentals that its predecessor drilled into me so hard, instead mainly just advancing jab → throwing everything, and not really feeling like I was being pushed to do much else until near the end. Thankfully, I found myself a lot more fond of it on my second go, on Hard. This game feels like SoR2 redirected to as much silliness as it can muster: the aforementioned advancing jab being one of the new options as well as a universal sprint, bizarrely tight air control, fast-refilling special meter that lets you spend one for free, and your dash attack getting stronger with your performance. There’s certainly the same strong core recognisable, but the breadth of new options allows itself to feel pleasantly unique from its predecessor, rather than just trying to reheat it. That also manifests in how many stage gimmicks this one has; SoR2’s stages often very restrained, and 3 in comparison feels like it’s throwing everything at the wall: bottomless pits, damage hazards on fixed routes and cycles, traps, screenwide conveyors, literally the entire premise of Stage 6! And even the more eclectic ones play very well into bmup fundies, pushing against you in ways that enemies just can’t do by themselves. There’s a level of visual excess on this that makes it feel a little harsh for me though, unfortunately. I’ve certainly played much WORSE games, even other bmups, but there’s a few too many screens with visual excess layered over the foreground that makes me a bit unwilling to keep revisiting it; it’s not extreme as to feel inaccessible, but a bit too uncomfortable for me to want to keep playing it over games that aren’t.
December 29, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Ornstein and Smough (DARK SOULS, 2011)
December 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Me and who.....
December 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Me and who
December 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Happy birthday
December 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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yeah sure i'll post my topsters now as well. first is a smaller list of favourites, second is a bigger list sort of a mix of favourites and 'cool stuff i want to put on other people's radars', leaning away from all the super most popularest stuff
4x4 topsters titles "faea's favourites ʚїɞ" Pokemon Crystal Version Pokemon Blue Version EarthBound Hypnospace Outlaw Touhou Chireiden: Subterranean Animism Touhou Youyoumu: Perfect Cherry Blossom Moon: Remix RPG Adventure Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 Armored Core Dark Souls Demon's Souls King's Field: The Ancient City (King's Field 4) Final Fantasy II Madou Monogatari 1-2-3 Mother Final Fantasy Legend II
December 25, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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one of my friends noticed this like a month and a half later so it was worth it probably
December 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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i love that discord just fucking obliterates the quality of my avatar its so awesome
fuck you
December 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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i was going to put this in the quote and it was going to be really funny but i forgot so oops
textbox: "GOOD LUCK, N.B.BATMAN."
December 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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NINJA BASEBALL BAT MAN
It’s so, so interesting to jump from an incredibly restrained, fully fundies-focused bmup like SoR2 straight into something like N.B. Batman (official abbreviation) that embraces full chaos and has a new idea pretty much every screen, whose gamefaqs movelists for each character are as long as some fighting game movelists, and still clearly has really really good fundies. Just instead of doing a slow, measured control, you’re doing honest-to-god inputs and throwing out flashy bullshit to put out damage half the time. And it works really well! All the flashy stuff has clear downsides (namely animation lock/speed), and your basic toolkit in jabs and throws is still the best option a lot of the time. Enemies suffocate space in the same way a good SoR2 group does, and the extreme wackiness of the game allows for weirder, sillier enemies and hazards that cover space in more unique ways. Normally I’d only want to write about an arcade game after 1ccing or at least clearing it to a reasonable standard of play, but this is like the hardest game ever – enemies hit really hard, a continue is only two lives, and I’ve never seen an extend in this game yet – so I’m sticking this down after just a 1p and 2p credit-feed clear. I’ll be playing more, though!!
December 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Metal Max Balls
December 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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HEBEREKE
www.romhacking.net/translations... (but also you can just play the actual english ver if you'd rather play as a fucked up dinosaur called Freeon Leon instead of a catgirl. which i can respect)
Metroid for tiny baby children is pretty neat! Though none of the immediacy (platforming or combat) is ever particularly interesting, the game breaks open in a cool way after getting the wallclimb. There’s a (at least theoretical, cause I haven’t played enough recently to have seen this much) problem with these really strong movement powerups where, if you get them too early, later levels have to warp themselves around that ability, making it feel less like a strong powerup and more like a Standard Part Of Your Moveset – I think Hebereke’s brevity lets the wallclimb feel really cool for the whole game, both because nothing supersedes it and because it’s a fun tool to awkwardly shimmy around and ‘break’ platforming challenges that were tricky until you got it, and I think the sections around the time you get it really emphasise that. Although later sections do still fall into that aforementioned problem a little, both from having less straightforward platforming sections and by sidelining it for a different (imo far less interesting) powerup later on. But it’s cool! I wasn’t enjoying the game that much until I got the wallclimb, and enjoyed it enough to wanna plow through until the end. I also think an exploration-focused game is such a good outlet for SUNSOFT’s insane late-NES presentation – NES and GB/C are probably my two favourite consoles ever presentationally, and both of SUNSOFT’s NES games I’ve played are really some of the best I’ve seen. Also the final boss was sort of fucked up massively for being a boss you have to run back to and pick up potions for every time you die, but every time I dodged a weird situation by crouching it made me feel so cool. Same feeling as dodging by morph balling in Metroid. My favourite part is the bit where you have to slowly and excruciatingly bomb through five layers of blocks and if you miss the next two jumps you get sent back to the start of the area and have to do it all again. They got bad Mario Maker levels in 1991
December 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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STREETS OF RAGE 2
As someone whose perception and processing has always been bad, and has felt the consequences of that harder than ever this year, it’s really, really comforting to have a wonderful, difficult action game that’s just this slow; this is an action game where I can very easily see and process every single situation, and make immediate sense of every hit I take. It’s a really cool game as well, one focused almost entirely on positioning and crowd control almost like a puzzle: understanding which enemies are most threatening and how a group’s threat ranges overlap in order to know which enemies to prioritise with which moves, while avoiding getting surrounded, overcommitting to something, or picking the wrong options for the situation (or alternatively, just pressing Axel’s dash attack an awful lot). I’ve been calling this “the world’s most fucked up neutral” in my head a lot, and I think that especially sticks out with the bosses: having to play slow and patient and basically whiff-punish enemies with ridiculous movement or damage, or that just have abilities that nothing else in the game can do. I’m also a big fan of how meaningfully different the game feels in 2p compared to 1p: in particular, I felt my usual footsies vs bosses just wasn’t as applicable due to all the natural consequences of it having two targets to focus on, rather than one. Having to actively mind your positioning compared to your partner is fun, as well; it’s very Monster Hunter, or maybe Monhun is very multiplayer beat em ups… (it’s more interesting here though :p) It’s a bit too long for me (1hr+) to ever really want to commit to a full run without a friend tethered to me, but it’s fun enough to where I’ve been playing lots by myself anyway, and just going for as long as I feel like. I started playing on the hardest difficulty before I had even cleared the game before, and being able to have genuinely difficult encounters straight out of the gate cemented that I just really, really love this game
December 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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hey everyone do you like my neutral
axel streets of rage 2 using dash attack on absolutely fucking nothing. it is very honourable. some speculate that axel uses this technique to locomote as opposed to walking
December 16, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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yes. Fuck yes!!! i just love "Achieving"
steam replay crop: "258 Achievements Unlocked ^ 125 more achievements than last year"
December 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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undertale
Listen, have you heard about this new "AMUSING FLOWERS"?
December 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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many people are saying this
THERE IS A PAIR OF SPIKES SOMEWHERE IN FLORIDA.
December 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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chat is this true
I AM BUG GIRL ?
December 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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marathon boxart descent boxart
December 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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MARATHON
store.steampowered.com/app/2398450/...
After having played (and thoroughly enjoyed) seminal first-person shooters Doom and System Shock, it’s hard to not compare this to both: the enemy-dense projectile-dodging focus of the former lightly crossed with the pre-Y2K sci-fi aesthetic and heavier scenario focus of the latter. UNFORTUNATELY, it implicitly comparing itself to two of the coolest games ever is not the best look for it but there is a lot I like about it still. I really like that the levels are often really dark in a way that hides enemies, and the radar that tracks them isn’t that useful during a combat situation, but muzzle flash lights up the room fully for a complete second so certain encounters turn into trying to track enemies by using the light from shooting. I think the radar being sort of unreliable except for vaguely tracking faraway enemies is neat, and the combination of both gives certain encounters a neat level of depth I haven’t seen in other shooters. So it’s pretty unfortunate that the shooting bit is generally not very interesting. Every enemy type only really know hows to walk directly towards you and shoot you, and in tight, confined levels like the game loves to use, it’s predominantly a game about camping doors or hallways as everything filters through in single file. And by extension, the only way it can really up the ante is by having more – often exhaustingly more – stronger guys, or by ambushing you. The healing system also isn’t great: having it purely through free infinite healing stations both makes levels absolutely trivial and a little bit tiring once you find one – just run straight back whenever you get a widdle scratch – and often excruciating if you *can’t* find one quickly enough. Think I might have played this one because I saw people bigging up Descent a good while ago and they basically have the same boxart so I might have got the two mixed up. Oops!
December 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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METROID (NES)
This game is like so, so clearly awesome. Combat is defined by limitation: Samus starts off being unable to attack enemies on the same elevation as her, and quickly becomes able to do so albeit in a very slow and cumbersome manner. It’s really fun to see the bomb become a genuine core part of the moveset after feeling like a vestigial “bomb the walls” tool in like every other Metroid I’ve played, and it’s equally fun to see how both the beam upgrades are also defined by limitations, both able to do certain things very well that the other can’t. It’s grounded in a very intimate relation with the enemies themselves; rather than just feeling like flat strength upgrades, both had me going “oh, that’s how I deal with *those* guys”, then missing that strength dearly when I switched. It’s probably a testament to the strength of the enemy design as well, how each of them has a completely unique means of threatening your space. Bugs not respawning until their dropped items are picked up or respawned is my favourite little detail; never felt so cool for *not* picking up a healing drop. Exploration’s wonderful as well. Bit annoying at the start, before you catch onto the game’s tricks – a couple of moments did feel like bombing randomly at the start – but repeating rooms effectively telegraphing that if there’s a bomb block in a room, it’ll be there in *every* instance of that room made it super fun to hunt for the secrets in the back half of the game. And Lower Norfair is probably their admission that they thought that it was super awesome, too; that place is sooo silly and fun to navigate. Love how small and compact the map is as well. I’ve seen people talk about this like it’s a demonic evil thing where you have to draw out your own map on paper, but it’s really small enough to where it’s not so hard to vaguely remember where things are. then there's one hundred and eighty-two words of me talking about the 30hp respawn but i ran out of alt text space
December 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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THIS fucking guy
kraid metroid 1
December 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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thats awesome i dunno if i can top that one. but i did kill fire emblem so that's something
December 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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i think the move is to change the boxart of every game you don't like to the stupidest one it has
demon's souls ps5 backloggd page but i changed the boxart to one that's just a scan of the actual box because that's on there
December 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM