yyyup: 電脳継承祭 / Cyber Heritage: The Continuum 2026, a community-run Virtual-On series tournament and successor of sorts to the annual-ish events recently run by Tanita www.vo-22nd-century.com 🇯🇵 online regional qualifiers start this weekend, culminating in hybrid online/local finals in early Feb

I guess in La-Mulana areas take on multiple meanings. You get the sense of figuring out sth larger (map-wide puzzles, interpreting a language) &an overall logic that implies exploration is the point instead of a means to an end. Calling by its own genre (archeological ruins exploration?) is deserved

Real, wish there was even more group fights instead of single boss memorization tbh

Oh god... (cute but that game database seems very limited, even things like Titanfall 2 are missing ???)

IIRC super bosses in Rabi-Ribi and some on max difficulty have a lot of this, but I never played these. That game def has real combos you want to do for DPS which is part of the appeal. Nails being a shmup + action game hybrid at points www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJsI... www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOuQ...

Maiden & Spell Extra stages, Rabbit & Steel, Granblue Relink give some examples. There's easily a dark side to this, on multiple relink bosses DPS check is the 'hardest' part of the fight (trivial to execute) which just makes the fight worse since you cant do the rest underleveled for more challenge