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Mad Dash Racing advocate, Mario Sunshine apologist. Posts like people care, deletes & rewrites often. https://backloggd.com/u/Bradaloop/games/ he/him
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I've called New Super Mario Bros my favourite 2D Mario for a while now, but I was never sure how much of that was just nostalgia. Replayed it recently and it turns out the answer was very little. It's still my favourite 2D Mario and maybe even my favourite DS game.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon is awesome actually

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Desperately hope those Switch 2 physical prices are a temporary thing - a supply issue, a tariff issue, something. The digital prices are also a lot, but /are/ less than the £70 standard that PS and MS are charging. I can stomach those, but not the £75 physicals.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Wtf are Nintendo smoking with these game prices. Physicals costing more in Europe is insane as well.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Very funny that a lot of the games shown in today's Nintendo Direct looked or ran terribly. Multiple occasions where I was like "well, maybe I'll get this, but definitely not on Switch". Switch 2 can't come sooner.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Just wrapped up Another Code: Two Memories. It's really short, but makes interesting use of the DS's features & form factor in its puzzles. Gameplay is finnicky at times, but I vastly prefer the style over the remake's. Blood Edward Island has an isolating, Myst-like ambiance.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

RDR2's online requirement on PC sucks so much. I'd have probably bought it already if it didn't have it. Just going to keep hoping for a PS5 version with a physical release. Online check-ins are so bad.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Played most of Banana Mania now, enjoyed it a lot - great, simple fun, though deceptively tough. Some of the changes are great, but the total removal of lives & the physics tweaks really undermine the original design. It's great despite this, but unfortunately not definitive.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Recently played through Strider 1 & 2 on PS1, after trying the 2014 reboot. 2 is solid and fun, with a visual style that I really like. 1 was just alright, but has some aspects I prefer over the sequel. Given both are ~1h long, they're worth at least a try before the reboot.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

SomnaBuster came completely out of left-field for me, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's one of the best 2D platformers that I've played in a long time. Further thoughts here: www.rankone.global/bradaloop/pl...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

FSR 4 is such a significant improvement from FSR 3. Looking forward to future iterations of FSR now - DLSS might not be undoubtedly the best for long, and I might actually consider an AMD card in future.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Nvidia dropping 32-bit PhysX support for the 50 series (and presumably onwards) is so cringe. I wasn't gunning to upgrade, but now I probably won't do so until later series of cards can run emulated PhysX well.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Patches are great, but it's crazy that games can be fundamentally changed post-purchase. If something you love gets patched out, should you be able to get a refund? Constant updates for single-player games also makes me hesitate to play them; I just want the best experience the first time around.

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

The Invincible title card gag gets me every time, it's so stupid.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments