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Kishi
@kissy.bsky.social
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Illustrator, translator, dot artist, games historian, voice actor, and hypnodomme.
日本語/English. They/them.
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I see.
It's Lex's follows. The most recent one appeals to be "Spheal Posting."
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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@mightymothra.bsky.social posed this template to me, so I did my best. ❤

#メタルギア #MetalGear #MGS3
A template with the header, "In the space provided below, draw YOUR Greatest Fear!!!!" In the space, I have drawn "The Fear," a character from Metal Gear Solid 3 (2004). He wears combat fatigues with a spider web camouflage pattern, and his tongue goes all the way out of frame.
November 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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September 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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In Metal Gear Solid (1998), when fighting the Hind D helicopter, you're advised to keep track of its location by listening to the stereo panning. But if you've set "Sound" to "Monaural" in the Options menu, you get this exclusive addition. . .
September 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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(Photosensitivity warning)

In FFII, if a spell fails, the game just says "Ineffective" and moves on. But if it's blocked by Wall, the spell's entire animation plays, followed by "Magic blocked." For Toad, this means showing the enemy turning into a little toad, and removing it from the battle. . .
September 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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A birthday present for @fayeokay.bsky.social.❤
It's Faye in a white hooded robe with red triangles along the trim, the uniform of a White Mage in the Final Fantasy series. Her hair is tied around itself in lethal forward-facing pigtails, like the female White Mages in Final Fantasy Tactics. She smiles as she brandishes a wooden staff and holds aloft a little toad. Tied about her wrist is the ultimate armour, a ribbon.
September 6, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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About all that~
In the earliest Final Fantasy games, attack consist of multiple "hits," which multiply the attack's effectiveness. Magic works the same way, though the games don't divulge this. It's a D&D thing, I think—dice rolls and all. In FFII, each time a character attacks, the number of hit attempts is equal to their skill level with their equipped weapon type. Magic similarly has a number of hit attempts equal to a spell's level. The Slow spell effectively subtracts its own hit successes from the hit attempts a character gets when they attack. If this would result in a negative value, the character's hit attempts are just set to 1. But a result of exactly zero is not accounted for. The Emperor casts Slow 9, which may succeed in 1 to 9 hit attempts if it lands at all. Richard is Level 4 with bows. If Slow succeeds in exactly 4 hit attempts, Richard's attack will attempt exactly zero hits. The value apparently underflows to an impossibly high positive, though we can't be sure how many, because the indicator reads "🏹🏹 0" (so true). The animation plays 62 times, which is, more than normal. The damage dealt is 9376, a bit in excess of the Emperor's total of 1290 HP. In Final Fantasy X, that's called an "Overkill."
September 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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I think you got him~

I learned alt text works differently for videos, so I'll explain in the next post. Final Fantasy II is a funny game sometimes. ❤

#ファイナルファンタジー #FinalFantasy
September 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Very impressive achievement. Congratulations on answering the age-old question. ❤
An excerpt from page 64 of Nintendo Power magazine issue 55 (December 1993), the "Power Player's Challenge" section. The relevant challenge posed: "FINAL FANTASY: Can you defeat Chaos with four White Wizards in your party?" Beside a screenshot of four White Mages battling a group of IMPs near the beginning of the game, a caption reads, "It will take some careful planning to succeed." A screenshot from the ending of Final Fantasy (1987). Above a peaceful landscape, in a bright blue sky, the narration reads, "The Warrior who broke the 2000 year Time-Loop is a truly a LIGHT WARRIOR.... That warrior was YOU!"
August 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Now that I've played Prodigal, my new favourite character is Revulan, the feared leader of an anti-royalist shadow government who lounges on a throne and kills you with lightning if you talk to her three times whilst infiltrating her evil lair.

She's just like me, for real, I feel. ❤
August 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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It's ordinarily obscured by the logo, but Simon's bride on the Haunted Castle title screen.

The two red pixels... ❤
Title screen graphic for Haunted Castle (1988), without the title logo. In the foreground is Simon looking toward the background, where Dracula clutches Simon's just-married bride. Close-up of the freshly-bit bride, with the tell-tale two red pixels in her neck.
August 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Never seen this character before, but Nebulon for Tōkon.
A panel from The Defenders (1972) #13, by Len Wein and Sal Buscema. The narration reads: "And when the brilliance faded, we four were no longer ALONE. Before us stood a being so AWESOME, he seemed not so much HUMAN as he did HEAVEN in the shape of a MAN. And he spoke in a voice like the ringing of a thousand crystal GONGS..." The awesome being is a man with luxurious long white hair, bright yellow skin with a seemingly metallic sheen, and blank white eyes with a lot of eye liner around. He's wearing a navel-deep V-neck leotard that appears to contain the cosmos. Snarling beautifully, he demands: "Who summons NEBULON? Who calls THE CELESTIAL MAN from the place beyond the sky?"
August 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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I've only played Curse Crackers (For Whom the Belle Toils), but I'm eager to start Prodigal as well. I love all the little OCs who only have an idle animation and two lines, but you can sense there's more to them in the creator's mind. Endlessly fascinated by Shroomella, the mushroom witch. 🍄
July 31, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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I agonised over the visual a bit, so I'll share it here, too. ❤
My answer to "How did UNDERTALE impact you?": "When first I saw it, I said, 'Another indie riff on EarthBound, huh?' My friend replied, 'But this one is actually good.' I still haven't played it, but I want to. Maybe this year." To the side is a little 2-colour 50x50 dot art impression of some version of myself.
July 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Four screenshots from the fight with Guard Scorpion, the tutorial boss of Final Fantasy VII (1997). 1. Guard Scorpion's tail is raised. Cloud instructs Barret, "Attack while its tail's up!" 2. Cloud continues, "It's gonna counterattack with its laser." Barret's attack has already been queued. 3. Barret attacks Guard Scorpion. 4. Guard Scorpion sure enough counters with Tail Laser, a devastating attack. Thanks, Cloud!
July 24, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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It would do a bit more damage per hit, but the shield can't reach from a stable position.
Screenshots showing the Alucard Shield does not reach Galamoth's face from the nearby ledge.
July 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Comparing three ways to clown Galamoth, super boss of #Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

Dual-wielding Crissaegrims: 271 frames
Maxed-out (+999 ATT) Muramasa: 383 frames
Shield Rod + Alucard Shield: 335 frames

Measured from first hit to last.

The bug demonstration at the end is just for fun. ❤
July 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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I thought the win pose in Sagat's trailer looked interesting, and then I realised it looked familiar... In fact, it's referencing this illustration from the first version of Street Fighter II. ❤

#Capcom #StreetFighter #StreetFighter6
A page from the October 1991 issue of Gamest magazine—the all Street Fighter II special issue. Most of the page is taken up by an illustration of Sagat. His pose is difficult to describe, but he's standing on the ball of one foot, and his opposite leg is raised high, crossing over his upper body, which is reclined almost horizontally. Both his fists are clenched, with one arm out to the side; the arm opposite his raised leg is raised above his head. It's a memorably distinct display~ Unfortunately, it's not recognisable as the work of any specific Capcom artist, and the 2003 artbook, Street Fighter Eternal Challenge, only credits it to "Development Staff." So the artist is unknown. Sagat's win pose from "Street Fighter 6 - Sagat Gameplay Trailer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBNCSeG391Y The pose is much the same, except with his leg raised high enough that his face is clearly visible, and his wrist and ankle are "crossing over" in a pleasing way.
July 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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A joint ad for TMNT TF and Vampire Killer, from the 1993/12 issue of Beep! Mega Drive. 「カメば、噛むほど」 "Kameba, kamuhodo" is a common expression meaning "The more you chew, the better it tastes." "Kame" can also mean "turtle," and "kamu" also means "bite," like a vampire bites. That Konami wordplay. ❤
A two-page spread. The left page is an ad for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters with a photo of a live turtle for a background. The right page is an ad for Vampire Killer (also known as Castlevania Bloodlines, or Castlevania: The New Generation) with a close-up of someone's cheap-looking Dracula cosplay for a background. The two pages are joined across the middle by the copy 「カメば、噛むほど。」
July 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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I saw some people doing this: "Top Games of the Century So Far." Here are mine—in chronological order, since that's what makes my brain happiest.

There are many eligible games that I want to play but have yet to get to, but this is what I have for now. I'd love to see more people's lists, too. ❤
2000.01.XX The Typing of the Dead 2000.03.21 Wario Land 3 2000.04.27 The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 2000.07.07 Final Fantasy IX 2000.XX.XX Dragon Blaze 2001.09.25 Ico 2002.03.22 Resident Evil (2002) 2003.03.21 WarioWare, Inc. 2004.03.18 Katamari Damacy 2005.01.11 Resident Evil 4 2005.07.28 Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2005.10.18 Shadow of the Colossus 2005.12.22 Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence 2007.11.13 Contra 4 2009.11.12 New Super Mario Bros. Wii 2012.10.12 Resident Evil 6 2012.11.18 New Super Mario Bros. U 2013.07.25 Dragon's Crown 2014.04.24 Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call 2015.09.01 Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain 2016.11.29 Final Fantasy XV 2017.08.15 Sonic Mania 2018.01.25 Celeste 2019.01.25 Resident Evil 2 (2019) 2020.04.10 Final Fantasy VII Remake 2020.04.30 Streets of Rage 4 2022.10.27 Signalis 2023.03.24 Resident Evil 4 (2023) 2023.05.12 The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 2023.11.17 Super Mario RPG (2023) A Top 30 was the lowest I could go before the cuts became overly uncomfortable. Actually, there are exactly 5 games from 2000 here, so if you begin from 2001, it becomes a Top 25. ❤ By the way, here's the distribution of the picks per year: 2000 ..... 2001 . 2002 .. 2003 . 2004 . 2005 .... 2006 2007 . 2008 2009 . 2010 2011 2012 .. 2013 . 2014 . 2015 . 2016 . 2017 . 2018 . 2019 . 2020 .. 2021 2022 . 2023 ... 2024 2025
July 11, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Watch The Vision of Escaflowne. ❤
July 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Less than a day left for #SteamSummerSale, but I saw someone asking for recommendations~
Listed prices are USD. I've played all these games and vouch for them. ❤
Blazing Chrome — $4.24 (-75%) Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon — $5 (-50%) Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 — $6 (-60%) Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night — $10 (-75%) Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night - Classic II: Dominique's Curse — $5 (-50%) Celeste — $5 (-75%) Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils — $3.74 (-75%) CRISIS CORE –FINAL FANTASY VII– REUNION — $20 (-60%) DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT — $16 (-60%) FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE — $30 (-25%) Furi — $2 (-90%) Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection — $10 (-67%) Iconoclats — $5 (-75%) killer7 — $5 (-75%) Mark of the Ninja: Remastered — $6 (-70%) Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 — $8 (-60%) The Ninja Saviors: Return of the Warriors — $12 (-40%) Portal — $2 (-80%) Portal 2 — $2 (-80%) Resident Evil — $5 (-75%) Resident Evil 2 — $10 (-75%) Resident Evil 4 (2005) — $5 (-75%) Resident Evil 4 — $20 (-50%) Resident Evil 6 — $5 (-75%) Resident Evil 7 biohazard Gold Edition — $10.04 (-75%) Resident Evil Village Gold Edition — $15 (-70%) Resident Evil Revelations 2 Deluxe Edition — $5 (-75%) Rez Infinite — $7.50 (-70%) Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove — $20 (-50%) SIGNALIS — $14 (-30%) Sonic Mania — $5 (-75%) Streets of Rage 4 + Mr. X Nightmare DLC — $12.22 (-59%) TIMEGAL HD Remaster — $20 (-20%) UFO 50 — $20 (-20%) Vengeful Guardian Moonrider — $9.85 (-42%) Ys Origin — $5 (-75%)
July 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Alternatively: Running bulldog.
July 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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The combination of karate and basketball.
July 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Suddenly recalled I drew this for a game of telephone four years ago. Just a normal horse.
A powder-blue horse with a pink mane, its face framed by sparkles. Its muzzle is lowered; its expression, come-hither. It likewise appears to be beckoning verbally: "Come" is written in cursive. Drawn with a mouse in no more than two minutes.
June 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM