Colin Spacetwinks

watching SGF play resident evil 1 and boy i hadn't really remembered or thought of just how rink a dink shitty the spencer mansion attic is. going all out everywhere else with the puzzle doors and theming but up there is "fuck it, who cares". using the junk drawer crest to find the random bullshit

belmont's curse finally got a laugh out of me and it wasn't with any of their intentional jokes: it was "that jump is too big." "rose, you defeated death. if anyone could do that jump, you could" and now rose could double jump. by. believing in herself, i guess.

something about a lot of dems... like yeah, they want to avoid certain questions, they wanna change the topic, they wanna bullshit you. nothing surprising there. but they're not good at it either. we are rife with bullshitters who aren't any good at bullshitting.

you ever go back and watch an old daily show where obama pops on? now that's a man bullshitting at the top of their game! but so many of these motherfuckers are bullshitting with that awkward 'person raised solely in gated coolmmunity finally meets outside society' cadence and movement

house of leaves inspired metroidvania where the messages you find in game that would normally be world lore or puzzle hints are instead a guy saying "daaaaaamn i'm horny as fuuuuuuck"

[thinking about the gameboy color Grinch game with the slutty minxy Grinch the artist clearly wanted to fuck] hm.

further non gameplay griping about Belmont's Curse: the brauner boss 'fight' c'mon, man. just a whole reaction of :/

which fits in a little with a smaller thing that was bugging me, that there was really no drama or theatrica or just 'looks cool' shit when bosses lose. just screen transition to absorbing their powers, w/e. a lot of 'Vania bosses have very memorable LOSING animations, in retrospect

further non gameplay griping about Belmont's Curse: the brauner boss 'fight' c'mon, man. just a whole reaction of :/

it did make me think about Castlevania's tone as a whole, though, and how it DOES have a lot of goofy stuff, but what helps make the goofy stuff work is that the characters themselves are very self serious and don't wink at the audience. it's a dynamic and balance that works very well

non gameplay mechanic gripe: how're you - WHY are you - making isaac castlevania curseofdarkness LESS slutty in 2026

tfw you have a knife

fucking incredible

TBH one thing i've imagined Knightmare as a format would actually be very good for would be a kind of gimmick dungeon/raid in an MMO where you have one person who has to actually make the decisions and movement - with no or limited sight - and 3 people just telling them what to do

kinda funny the yggy thing about "AES is talking about healthcare, not immigration, that's smart" when el-sayed has publicly called for ICE to be abolished. it's just that the people attacking him aren't focused on immigration, but on "this man is muslim, and arab", so it 'feels' unsaid

tried Belmont's Curse and found the thing putting me off about it wasn't anything about 'is this *really* Castlevania' it was that the movement, something about it, just didn't feel right. and then it clicked: it's aiming for that Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown feel but it's just not as smooth.

and going through Belmont's Curse, i see this nugget of a cool idea, using the whip - especially with the idea of using it specifically on *enemies* to get around, the opportunities it opens up in movement - but it just has this slight anchor weight about it that feels off.

tried Belmont's Curse and found the thing putting me off about it wasn't anything about 'is this *really* Castlevania' it was that the movement, something about it, just didn't feel right. and then it clicked: it's aiming for that Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown feel but it's just not as smooth.

and not as a 'the player shouldn't feel any friction or struggle, they should always feel powerful' thing, but there's this... extra weight, this slight delay in how you move that makes the movement itself not feel like you're really being acrobatic as you master the mechanics. it's just not tight.

tried Belmont's Curse and found the thing putting me off about it wasn't anything about 'is this *really* Castlevania' it was that the movement, something about it, just didn't feel right. and then it clicked: it's aiming for that Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown feel but it's just not as smooth.

hwuuugh the temptation strikes again