Sonic Heroes Theme 8 Bit Remix
11okay for once i actually have a decent excuse as to why the pixel art today is bad: my computer was actively rotting yesterday and there was a bunch of wacky shit going on with it. i genuinely don't know what the problem is but i've narrowed it down to ram problems or the feds planting shit on my c drive because i have something like 0b to 20mb of space on it at any given point and it causes my computer to slow to a crawl constantly. i bought new ram recently but i have yet to actually install it, i'll do it soon.
anyways, sonic heroes is a pretty good time. i don't dislike it like i dislike sa2 but i also don't love it like i love sa1. it's a cool little game that tried something new and pulled it off pretty well. frankly, i don't really have any new or profound opinions on it because there isn't much to contest or add to discussion. no point in taking about something that's already been talked to death if you've got nothing important to add, eh? one of my biggest problems with video essayists/essays (i know this is the 4 gorillionth time i've talked shit about video essays but fuck if i care, it's funny) is that you'll never see video essays on games that nobody has ever heard of and when you do it's often just someone poking fun at it. video essays rely on characters, story, and minor gameplay mentions, greatly limiting the amount of games/series one could talk about (see all the 6 gorillion video essays on persona or zelda or whatever the fuck) which is exactly what game reviews shouldn't fucking be. shoutout to motherfuckers who review exclusively the gameplay of different video games, i got a lot of respect for you. video games very rarely need any level of story "dissection" or whatever the fuck people say they're doing, the only acceptions being shit like mgs and yiik, but even then people go overboard on that shit. there's this one fucking mgs4 video i got reccomended a while ago that was like, 4 hours long and i watched a bit and hated it. why do people like having every aspect of a game explained to them in order??? just play the fucking game, or better yet, read the story summary if you care about that shit. i know you're probably sick of the "eggo complains about video essays" schtick by now but unlike video essays every time i talk about these people i always have something different to say. i'll move on now.
i think 2023 has been a decent year for game releases up to this point. i haven't played any new releases besides fist of the north star fitness boxing but there's some shit that looks good coming up. obviously there's the new sonic game, but mario wonder (lol it leaked) looks alright, too. the game i'm most looking forward to seeing this year besides the new sonic is grendizer feast of the wolves. it looks like it's shaping up to be fun eurojank at worst and absolute soul incarnate at best. i've said time and time again that i don't play games often anymore and only make occasional acceptions for new things so who knows if i'll actually play it but either way i'm glad a dynamic pro series is finally getting a non-srw game. it looks like they're going for a varied gameplay style with the new dizer game and honestly i think that's probably the best way to do a grendizer game. the spazer shmup sections look fun and the ground combat looks great. this video isn't about grendizer so i won't talk about it but check out the feast of the wolves trailer, it looks good. i was hoping that a new isao sasaki recording of the main theme would be used but i guess they're holding that off for dizer u (which i probably won't watch becuase they made duke look gay (in the homosexual way) to appeal to people who's only exposure to robot stuff was evangelion) but either way it's cool that there is finally a proper super robot game.
modern video games really have nowhere else to go. advancement in graphics and technology leveled out in like, 2015 and no new tech innovations have happened since, so really all that is left to do is innovate on and create new game styles, and people aren't even doing that shit anymore. i saw a thing on the google news feed thing that i look at occasionally that was something about a new undertale-inspired rpg which looked incredibly derivitive of undertale. we've officially reached the point where we are getting indie games "inspired" (translation: "stealing content from" because a lot of people people aren't creative enough to come up with new ideas for games anymore) by other indie games by other indie games which were inspired by niche old games. the only hope left for vidja games are indie devs and most of them aren't doing much with the opportunities they have. i dunno, though. i'm just a dude making fun stuff on the internet at the end of the day.
have a wonderful day, gentlemen.