He ran a kickstarter with some grand animation expectations & then took the money and ran, not giving anyone the things they pledged for. Radio silence on that always. I can't stand people who bite the hand that feeds them... TL:dr: Don't send me Snow Bear plz 🙏

Ages ago during the metoo era at least 4 women artists I had looked up to came out with accusations of misogyny against him. Twitter exploded into X and very little of that remains to link back to. I watched him live do some suss political art around georgefloyd & mock a lgbt student's coming out

It felt like a way of keeping up with modern releases in markets where upgrading to modern consoles was prohibitively expensive

You were basically being sold a fantasy

I'm lucky because PT quickly shed the need for bootleg systems by the mid to late 90s. Others weren't so lucky

Not that it doesn't make it less jarring for those who're used to the separate physics of these specific Mario games individually, but still

From what I recall, the physics all being the same between the styles was intentional to keep it all consistent

Feels very PS1-ish

Obligatory:

youtu.be/lGnGvx7Q0HU

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