Recent content by tketle

Back for my quinquennial song thread post.

The only thing I'm not really ecstatic about is the return of the Nopon. I didn't find them amusing in the first Xenoblade, not even Riki, and I won't find them amusing in X. Other than that the game is looking to be everything I could've dreamed a Xenoblade sequel to be. It's possible, based on...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjiUxm8acPM

Didn't play many new games this year, but Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze turned out to be my favorite of 2014, and quickly became one of my favorite games of all time. It's absolutely fantastic in every conceivable way and I honestly think it deserves to be held in similar esteem to Mario...

That Twilight Princess has a good art style.

Brief summary of my thoughts: the Aqua subforum and chat were largely inactive; fewer than half of the active userbase even joined a clan; the competitions were kind of interesting, but participation was really low there as well -- is pursuing the idea really worth it? We pretty much failed...

Feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeeeeeliiiiinnng

Peach or Rosalina. I tend to be drawn toward female characters in video games for some reason. Peach's floating ability is also really useful in the games where she's playable, as is Rosalina's double-jump in 3D World.

Speaking in terms of level design themes, I'm really partial to all of Pipe Land from Super Mario Bros. 3. Level 7-5 in particular is a lot of fun. I love it because the levels are distinctly non-linear in a distinctly linear game, series, and genre. The first time I played through it, which was...

Full camera control, no motion controls; thank God. It's looking really great so far, and in spite of the fact that the footage wasn't direct, I'm incredibly pleased that we got to see anything at all before E3 2015, let alone gameplay. The size of the overworld seems to be living up to how they...

I like muted blues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiI_caFfquA

Lord, I'm Coming Home - Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhCLalLXHP4