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Kevin
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hobbyist gamedev, Interested in critical evaluation of gameplay, narratives, character, and the interplay of those
hobbyist game design critic
needs to start a blog or something

nightreigning
been playing hollow knight

first few hours: felt oppressively linear, felt like obvious dead ends
probably died twice to soul master (had zero geo)
dropped it for several years

the road to 25 charms and all the buyable notches:
felt money starved
avoided city of tears thinking id finished it prev.
November 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
patstaresat finished his playthru of Lisa the Painful and apparently enjoyed his ending

which is great
but he's going to go play Lisa the Joyful
which is great

i really enjoyed my time with Lisa up until the ending and i skipped Joyful
saw it a little while layer thru a friend
October 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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a game that crashes when you’ve played too much and need to go to bed
October 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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October 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
i think mark here is a fantastic artist
To celebrate reaching 10K id like to do an art giveaway sometime this month, will pull the winner in a week or so and they will get a 3D sculpt of a new OC or a redesign of an existing character in my style.

To enter just share this post if you're followin me (AI/Crypto accounts will be ignored✨)
October 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
i think that we can learn a lot about the respect presented to "metroid brainia" type games like tunic or outer wilds in that it isn't necessarily the quality of any individual puzzle or challenge in a game that makes it so resonant
its the ability for friends to make a recommendation and then
have a favourite final sidequest / character because they'll be following some guide on how to build the most boring team and spent dozens of hours grinding that they never even bother to finish the story before falling off of "reading the book"
September 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
i think that silksong's release schedule preventing the youtube/tiktok apocalypse of day1 tricks tips cheetz secrets meta builds etc

was a good thing actually
i don't think it hurts critical game evaluation if a article/essay is written a month or a year or ten years after the commercial release
September 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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This image actually made something click in my brain. I was already highly vocal about how much I like friction, but now I think the most noble thing a game can do is devastate the player so badly that they want to put it down.
September 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
i have thoughts on skong but i got stuck eating my hollow knight homework

and its still apparent from both times ive dropped off of hk and said, "maybe i'll just wait for skong, seems like a sequel might address my biggest critiques"

they did address them and yea i'm gonna fall off hk again soon
September 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
@tuyoki.bsky.social theres a character in hk silksong that reminds me of your vocal talents
but credits are really hard to track down rn due to the last minute launch
did you do a cameo?
September 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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September 2, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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i didnt know they were real like that damn
August 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
bought the deltarune piano album sight-unseen because the first live performance of: "my castle town", is still an emotionally resonant& i return to it often

accidentally heard a bit of bigshot
the vibes were off

just listened to field of hopes and dreams
the vibes are incredibly dire
August 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Hello! Omen of Duality is a Super Hydlide / Ys / Zelda inspired game I've been working on.
November 16, 2024 at 1:52 PM
having some dumb feelings
August 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
griffin mcelroy / taz reference in this Nobi Nobi (sword) tabletop game i just got
August 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
pretending i fully understand the thesis of the paper from the provided tagline and acting superior
nber.org NBER @nber.org · Aug 16
Studying the use of a misspecified overdifferenced model to forecast the level of a stationary scalar time series, from Kenneth D. West and Kurt G. Lunsford https://www.nber.org/papers/w34112
August 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
might be interesting
August 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
old releases working on:
ff6
armored core
maybe ds1 meme run
August 14, 2025 at 11:54 PM
waiting for
drag x drive
duskbloods
August 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
writeup about another crabs treasure
astrobot
void stranger
donkey kong bananza
totk
August 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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good to know
July 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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July 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
seeing a lot of ff4 references in deltarune
June 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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if you're a user of the Unreal Engine, you may benefit from my collection of Scoops unrealscoops.com - bits of valuable info that are hard to obtain
June 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM