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Takes some gumption to even touch a notorious broken flop like that

Just this week in Vantaa, Finland three 12-year-old girls piled onto one of those electric scooters you subscribe to with an app and proceeded to get run over by a car at a crossing, killing one of them

The app is supposed to have an age restriction but it's easy to bypass and you're not supposed to have more than one person riding on one, which people routinely ignore

I hate seeing kids and teens speeding around dangerously on those fucking things and then just leaving them laying around on high-traffic bike routes because they don't give a shit since they treat the scooters as completely disposable

Fucking awful bazinga-brained Silicon Valley-ass idea and business model. Actually, there are also bikes you can use with an app but curiously you don't see kids doing reckless shit with those, almost as if electric scooters were uniquely terrible

You have this level that takes place on a mountain, and the devs wanted to have a spot where you could see the gloomy landscape below with more mountains silhouetted in the distance... except this was the PS2 so it's just two jpegs, one for the sky so you can get some parallax and a curved panoramic one for the landscape. It still looks decent enough

This era was interesting since you could have pretty detailed character models and environments but still had to use fake backdrops and other tricks for larger environments. Makes you feel like you're on an old movie set

Can't believe I completely missed the news, I remember being really excited when they first joked about collaborating however many years ago.

Unfortunately, I hate to say it but the game looks to be a bit, well... crap.

Visually it reminds me of Swery's first indie game, THE MISSING: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories which was also a rather spartan-looking 2.5D platformer with whacky visuals and tons of violence. I assume that's a limitation of the probably tiny budgets he's working with these days, so I guess I can't harp on him too much for it, but still, it's disappointing to see when his early games had him ambitiously punching way above his weight class.

As someone who loved Deadly Premonition it's just sad to see Swery continue to flounder.

I'm playing Onimusha 2 with an undub patch and this difference between the Japanese and English scripts got a chuckle out of me.

After defeating a lady demon boss, Jūbei says fairly neutrally in the English version:

All demons will be destroyed!

While the Japanese line is:

これで、世の男たちは一安心だぜ。

Which translates to "The men of the world can rest easy now." Jujudormah, the boss in question, was a joke character whose entire joke consisted of "Fat ugly lady thinks she's hot and is always horny." She also killed the protagonist's mom before the boss fight but I guess Jūbei is so stoic and unflappable he got over that already and didn't need to make his post-fight one-liner about getting revenge for her, preferring to instead reiterate one final time that the demon was, indeed, an uggo

Something something woke localisers destroying Japanese culture

Or bras, judging from the jiggle physics

I know sexy female ninjas are a trope but she still looks goofy running around with no pants on

Reminding me of Resident Evil, Dino Crisis and Devil May Cry is a great first impression.

There were 4 of these games on the PlayStation 2 and one of them has fucking Jean Reno in it

Interesting to see what the quality curve on these will be given they were pumped out in about 5 years

Edit: It's got tank controls and pre-rendered backgrounds

I'm sorry but I don't make the rules

Is that why identifies with him

He self-deprecatingly described it as Biohazard for ojisans

Two d-pads, one analog stick, three triggers and two face buttons? What were they smoking in Kyoto in the early 90s I have only seen a Nintendo 64 in real life like twice back in the 90s so I have no clue what all these buttons do in most games.

Thanks to recent developments I went and downloaded every Nintendo emulator I could. I was surprised to see how fractured Nintendo 64 emulation seems to still be on PC. I was expecting there to be a Duckstation, PCSX2 or Dolphin equivalent but no, there seems to be no clear winner, and two of the bigger ones are closed source and use plugins like it's 2005, and one doesn't even come with a GUI by default