AlolanYoda

Honest to God, Toree Saturn

I have a lot of things I'm excited for but I really can't wait for Toree Saturn

Is it just me or is Heathcliff being more important in his strips recently? Maybe as a response to your efforts?

Your comment made me finally go there and check. Wow, the comments here and there are night and day. The most common comment on similar threads is "Norway, Spain and Ireland are showing the world that terrorism works".

Knowing how Cyanide and Happiness comics usually go, I was sort of expecting one of them to like the licking part

So it is! I don't know why I remembered it as kaos (καος with the accent somewhere, I don't know Greek, modern or ancient). It's χάος. Makes total sense.

Still think it sounds better in English!

Chaos.

I love what it represents, how it can be good or evil depending on your point of view (there's a reason why DnD used it as an axis perpendicular to Good-Evil), and it sounds really cool. It is also the first word I'd use to describe my life at any point in time. Maybe life itself!

It sounds good in all languages I know but has the distinction of sounding even better in English, despite coming from the Greek Kaos it somehow sounds cooler in English (a distinction shared by few, if any, other words coming from Greek to English). It is also written in an amazing manner, with a "H" that came out of nowhere and has no reason to be there other than just cause... Chaos. I love it.

My country's president is clearly heading towards dementia. I'd be a crow, they can just speak, so I'd simply fly to him and tell him. He'd probably believe me, no questions asked.

I understand. I thought you had a better way of implementing the high jump with different properties, instead of just removing it altogether. To be fair, I'd remove it too and a double jump would probably be my preferred approach!

I like Mario 64's triple jump, but I don't think it'd be a good fit for a colectathon like this. I can't put to words why I think it'd be different in YL, but I have a feeling that I'd get really annoyed if it asked me to use multi-jumps often to reach specific ledges. I don't think triple jumps are ever required in Mario games, are they? I doubt YL would ever introduce a move and not flood the levels after that with obstacles that you need to use the move on to progress

Thanks for your write up! I never finished the game, it didn't really pull me in as I expected it to. But on this topic:

My main gripe is just that they seem to have mapped controls in a retro way for nostalgia reasons and it holds the game back. Rather than triggering the moves organically through context, the left trigger is again used as a face button modifier. Jump with A, high jump with LT+A. Sonar ping with Y, Sonar explosion with LT+Y. They didn't need to do that but at least the animations are short to trigger so it isn't too painful.

How would you have done it? I don't think I'm against the LT being used in this way. For instance, how would you have implemented a high jump like what they have? Or would you have removed the move entirely?

I was not expecting giveaways on Lemmy!

Honestly I haven't seen much of this game (having a PhD to finish and all, I haven't allowed myself to hahaha), but I am hopeful that it will allow me to try to solve conflicts with diplomatic and out of the box thinking instead of just combat, and having it feel like I haven't cheated myself out of content: it bothers me that I can't avoid conflict in most games without feeling like I'm missing out, and Star Trek is the perfect IP to make it work.

Thank you for the giveaway! Best of luck!

Edit: Is this valid for all regions?

Yes. That implies you are on the same level as Stephen King.

You should publish as Steven Emperor ;)

Remember white spy? This is him now. Feel old yet?