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HerzogZwei
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writes on (mostly old) video games, master thrifter, electronics tinker-er, formerly cohost's #1 crazy taxi poster, habitual jeopardy enjoyer, mad bad and dangerous to know

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new review up on shinobi: art of vengeance!

the first in sega's planned revival of several dormant IPs, it's quite a looker, and a lot fun to boot!... but it left me with a feeling of disappointment. is it still worthy of a recommendation?

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Shinobi: Art of Vengeance / herzogzwei
21st Century Shinobi Man
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does anyone remember seeing a recent-ish post about some... high-rank video game studio guy saying something along the lines of "it's impossible to make a good sci fi video game"?

i'm trying to find it again and i can't tell if i'm misremembering the quote or hallucinated this experience entirely
November 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Hi I wrote about the Sega Master System and how it’s been criminally overlooked because everyone goes on about the NES like it was the only 8bit console in the world look don’t get me started

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
Master System at 40: the truth about Sega’s most underrated console
Forty years ago, the Nintendo Entertainment System dominated the markets in Japan and the US. But in Europe, a technologically superior rival was making it look like an ancient relic
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
November 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
did another playthrough of chaotix after several years and i had... more fun than last time, exclusively flinging myself through each level

the timer must not count time spent in special stages cause i needed like 12 tries and did a few wireframe ones. i also had to redo an amazing arena stage lmao
November 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
did you see that, zach?! clear as a crisp spring #RandomGameSaturday morning!
November 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
welp. $100 later and i have one less reason to claim i am not an absolute fool idiot
November 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
metroid prime 4 was destined to fail from the beginning because it was the first numbered entry to not use a prime number. should've just skipped to metroid prime 997 tbh
November 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
in case anyone was curious if this was still me, this is still me
#hourly #dook https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/dook/photo_1000@22-11-2017_05-28-36.jpg
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
today's thrifting post is a look back at when portable DVD players were high-end hi-fi instead of an epidemic of cheap e-waste

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November 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
i don't know why i've beaten 4 different GBA yugioh games this year, they just kept getting more irritating... at least reshef of destruction was comical in it's hatred of the player

7 trials to glory should have been called 7 weeks of going right back to bed after waking up
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
beat starflight after 30-ish hours. i restarted my save 10 hours in cause i wasn't taking notes and fucked my money situation, and this definitely a notes-taking game

it's... interesting. there's a good setting and story in here, and participating in Space Capitalism to avoid the apocalypse is fun
November 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
beat elemental master, getting a 1cc after running out of credits to the stage 5 and 7 bosses a few times

it's... fine? idk, i'd rather play a thunder force, but it's still a good time. the graphics and tunes are fine, but it's a shame that the starting weapon is the best in almost every situation
November 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
NEWS: gta 6 will require the user to smoke an entire pack of marlboro reds upon every startup or wake from sleep, will also require an xbox kinect to verify the entire pack was smoked in one sitting
November 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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had to quick out a piece for the boondocks anniversary
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
in a timely holiday edition of a bowl and a movie, the weed log gets "it's the great pumpkin, charlie brown"! also it's front-loaded with reading wikipedia lol

i learned about a cancelled peanuts baseball game from the NES color a dinosaur studio! neat(?)

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#weed log / herzogzwei
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November 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
what the fuck is this. i didn't vote for this. this is bullshit. chuck schumer is gonna get a few phone calls from me about this
November 6, 2025 at 3:48 AM
the shitty chromebook i threw ubuntu on for word-processing and website-updating has suddenly started boot looping during it's own bootup, or while idle in the GNU GRUB menu if it gets that far

rip the original drafts for my reviews i had on it, i guess. eMMC should be illegal
November 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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November 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
after playing pat riley basketball three times i can beat the CPU by over 80 points lmao
November 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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May 17, 2025 at 3:34 AM
played two games of pat riley's basketball on genesis, although it's still plenty rough around the edges

the default CPU will counter-steal your swipe immediately, and i had soooo many back court violations from steals that happen at the half line where i don't have an opportunity to stop running
November 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
you will never guess where this video goes that's frontloaded into the DVD for "it's the great pumpkin, charlie brown". not in a million years.
November 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
for #RandomGameSaturday, accept this invitation to be transported to the ideal fantasy world: a 90s japanese high school where everyone is obsessed with the card game uno
November 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM