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infinite phantasm
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socially awkward 25yr old dweeb that likes video games and really old tech | they/ask me | buy me a 5key beatmania cabinet
anyways the moral of the story is remember to press the space bar once to find what you're looking for
November 18, 2024 at 2:07 AM
for a quarter of a million dollars, you too can be a fully-blown entrepreneur and own this old-ass, horribly jank hunting lodge in the middle of nowhere
November 18, 2024 at 2:06 AM
and when you're done resting, you can shower off in the literal actual dormitorium shower, placed directly next to the washer and dryer
November 18, 2024 at 2:04 AM
speaking of, if you aren't sleeping there, you get to sleep in the Bomb Shelter, featuring at least 16 different beds to rest in, on more probably fragile bed frames!

no you don't get to re-angle that first bed that definitely has enough space to be pushed back in
November 18, 2024 at 2:02 AM
connected to this, is the ~Rec Room~, with the worst wallpaper i have ever seen delicately placed on two pillars, a giant table for one TV, more questionably old furniture, and...a bed? in the recroom??

i guess this is where you get condemned to at night if you don't hunt as well as everyone else
November 18, 2024 at 1:59 AM
as you descend further into the catacombs, you begin to see even more questionable design choices, such as this insane clash of disconnected colors

leading into appliances that look like they came out of 2004 or so

AND another one of these bedframes that looks like it'd snap if you were too heavy
November 18, 2024 at 1:55 AM
there's also this bathroom connected to here where there's a giant mirror not mounted to anything?? just left slightly slanted on the wall, ready to slide down at the slightest accidental nudge
November 18, 2024 at 1:53 AM
although the second you turn around in this kitchen you are met with the area you can sit and have your shoulder bashed in by this door if you've made the unfortunate decision to sit on the left side
November 18, 2024 at 1:49 AM
there *are* some relatively inoffensive design choices in some of these rooms, like the dining room and bathroom are pretty well-laid out, and the kitchen is something i'd actually want to use, with surprisingly modern appliances
November 18, 2024 at 1:47 AM
like no seriously what's going on in this one bedroom. why are you trying to temperature control a garage bedroom. why is light visibly leaking through the floor where the 'doors' are. what the FUCK
November 18, 2024 at 1:44 AM
the above-ground bedrooms are also a sight to behold

the first one having a tiny-ass window on the side

the second having a grand piano taking up 30% of the space, and seemingly being in a garage?

and the third having some kind of horrible wooden bedframe with the worst 'crib' (??) i've ever seen
November 18, 2024 at 1:42 AM
when i showed this to my friends, we were like genuinely befuddled at the main space you're meant to...exist in?

initially it felt like a nursing home with the way the furniture was, and then you pan back and see the office chairs and get confused, and then you see the like, *stage* in the back???
November 18, 2024 at 1:35 AM
then you step inside, and the further in you go, the more you enter the liminal space
November 18, 2024 at 1:31 AM
from the outside, it looks about as average as it could be, from a building made in the literal 1900s

looks like it could do with some work, but it's not anything outwardly terrible
November 18, 2024 at 1:25 AM
the story behind me finding this was that i was looking at places in New Town, which is a community/housing area in st. charles, missouri (tl note: misery)

however, by accident, i was directed to *newtown*, missouri; which is an entirely different place in the middle of nowhere
November 18, 2024 at 1:23 AM
...oh yeah, bonus fun fact for this post; the 'question' for this one was that there was no question. except there kind of was because the SQUARE PIXELS logo in the original image was upside-down, which somehow meant 'clear stage 3 of Street Mix 5 with REVERSE active'.

god i love how stupid this is
October 5, 2024 at 11:05 AM
lastly, creds for most of the images & videos goes to FEIITV; additional credits to thhe62 for the Hey Barbie video, Chihara14 for the Kamui video, PST for the Art of Turntablism video, 호미 for the Airwave video, & sinus hd for the Eraser Rain for GAIA video & snowsphere for the Harpe for GAIA video
October 5, 2024 at 10:58 AM
and, as mentioned earlier, go buy EZ2ON REBOOT : R and its many DLCs! the devs deserve it for the amount of soul and passion they put into it, even now, and it's 100% worth the money with how much there is to play and improve with, especially for a successor to EZ2DJ/EZ2AC!
EZ2ON REBOOT : R on Steam
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October 5, 2024 at 10:53 AM
if you'd like to see the other unlocks i didn't talk about, they're laid out over here on namuwiki in machine translated english

en.namu.wiki/w/EZ2AC%20:%...
October 5, 2024 at 10:52 AM
anyways, that's enough of my goobery yappin' about a game series that's long since vanished; not counting EZ2ON REBOOT : R, of course (which, by the way, buy it buy it play it play it it's so good)! hopefully you enjoyed this thread and it was interesting to like, at least One person out there
October 5, 2024 at 10:51 AM
even outside of arcade rhythm games; rhythm game devs, don't be afraid to get silly with your unlocks! make something difficult to solve, but rewarding to attain! allow for really fun ideas and hidden tracks that are discoverable through unique means! if you've got ideas, i believe you can do them!
October 5, 2024 at 10:49 AM
personally, i think this was a great idea! with improved (less crazy) hints, i think this would be a really fun idea to return to in modern arcade games; with maimai, there's already ARG events like 'project raputa' and the more recent 'KALEIDXSCOPE', so what's stopping others from doing the same?
October 5, 2024 at 10:46 AM
was it a worthwhile unlock system? that's mostly up to personal opinon, but from what i've seen while researching this, it was mostly well-received. some of the hints were regarded a bit too tough (as you've probably seen), and some of the unlock conditions were even taken down pretty fast.
October 5, 2024 at 10:43 AM