Y'all need to watch Air Master. Former gymnast turns martial artist. She even fights a luchador named Lucha Mask in the first episode. Not quite ballet, but "close enough."
I mean, if you really want to see ballet martial arts...
There's something about this game that rubs me the wrong way, feels like it's trying to be more artsy than it actually is, like it's a bit pretentious or something. It lacks the charm of games like Journey and Abzû.
I kinda like this style better from a critical standpoint. Some artsy indie games are so vague that you can just project whatever you want onto them. Even Inside, which has a concrete story set in a world that's down to earth except for a couple of sci-fi elements, has been interpreted by people on this forum as a metaphor for pregnancy or video game development or whatever. This game is clear on what exactly its metaphor is(In this stage, it first shows a scene where a giant man throws the princess and then a a drawing of an adult lifting a little girl up in the air), and while that means it isn't subtle, it means the analyses and theories won't be as dumb. It reminds me of Papa & Yo.
The downside to it is that I can't just shut that out and enjoy the game just for the mechanics and pretty visuals, like I could in something like Journey. The metaphor is ever-present. So while I appreciate that it can't generate as many annoying forum posts and youtube videos, I'm not interested in playing it.
The art style is really bad. I'm not a big KoF player, but those sprites they used to animate beautifully, while this mostly looks plain and cheap. King of Dinosaurs and Antonov are pretty funny, though. Antonov has a real Final Boss of Metal Gear Rising-thing going on.
I really don't understand why you guys like Popplio so much. Is it keeping alive the proud 90s tradition of being ironic? Did your motherly instincts kick in because lots of people think he's dumb-looking? Is Popplio somehow the only pokemon that appeals to people that don't play pokemon?
Now, if you were talking about the new sand castle pokemon...
Edit: Oh my god, I never realized all of you guys had such long names. "Daniel Joseph Ryckert"? "Alexis Alexander Navarro" takes the cake, though. No wonder you go by Dan and Alex. That's the funniest conversation I've heard in a while, I feel for Alex and hope Dan changes his name as soon as possible. Live the life of Gorilla Monsoon!
As a person born in 1990, I was gonna post my own pop quiz results, but... The only one I knew was question 1, which is about a band from 2005. This is what happens when I mostly discover pop songs through Jojo endings and video game radio stations.
I'm surprised this many members of the cast went to a religious school, that's really uncommon where I'm from. But yeah, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure part 7: Steel Ball Run for all the hot news on Jesus' body. Steel Ball Run is great.
Wonderful podcast this week, so many good conversations with both Dan and Austin on. When he said he was gonna stop by sometimes after leaving the site I thought he was just being polite, and I'm so happy he actually turned up, and so soon too. Look forward to having you on another time, Austin!
I wish the PR cycle for No Man's Sky hadn't been so long and vague. If they did just say "survival game" at the start, then the hype wouldn't have reached the stupid level that it did because it is a pretty specific niche. I can instantly look at that No Man's Sky quick look and go "This is too boring for me. The gameplay is dull, the planets have uninteresting geography, the procedural generation makes everything feel small because it's so similar. I would only play this with a podcast to kill time mindlessly". But I could not do that with the trailers and preview content that came out of that game for most of the development period. I feel similarly about We Happy Few, except the hype died immediately when the people excited about the story stuff learned what it was.
Between "It's like an Xbox 360 B-tier game" and "It's like a Twitterbot, 80% is going to be bad", there are some good back of the box quotes in this podcast.
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