All three metroidvania games from that developer are great. The other two are Touhou Luna Nights and Blade Chimera.

Metroid Prime

A fantastic game, and has one of the best remasters I’ve ever seen.

I think the only recent re-release of that game was for the PS4, so unless you have that console it’s probably easier to emulate the original.

I love the more “linear” first half of The Messenger, but didn’t enjoy the “metroidvania” second half nearly as much.

Still a great game though.

FYI Nine Sols has a “Story Mode” that lets you tweak damage numbers (and AFAIK only locks you out of a single achievement). Knowing that exists was one of the reasons I decided to try the game despite my PTSD from Silksong.

I ended absolutely loving it even though it was crazy hard, and haven’t lowered the difficulty yet. Though right now I’m stuck at the last boss and that may finally force me to do so. 😀

If you didn’t like Hollow Knight you probably won’t like Silksong either.

The game is good, and incredibly polished, but feels aimed at the people who 100% the first game and wanted more.

Played a lot of these in the last two years, with Ender Magnolia and Nine Sols being my favorites among them.

All-time I think I’d still go with Super Metroid, despite its age and having completed multiple playthroughs I still end up playing for hours anytime I boot it.

Honorable mentions for Rabi-Ribi (don’t let the cutesy anime artstyle fool you, this is a fantastic non-linear game with some of the best boss battles in the genre), the recent Momodora games and the Team Ladybug games (with Touhou Luna Nights being my favorite of the three).

I’ve migrated not too long ago from Win10 to Kubuntu which is very Windows-like, and the adaptation was quite easy.

However, I have to ask: Are you comfortable typing commands on a terminal or editing configuration files? I ask because while it’s gotten much easier to use Linux with just a graphical interface you’ll still bump into some annoyances here and there where you’ll Google how to fix and it will often tell you to ‘run command x in the terminal’

Last week. Super Robot Wars Y has some really funny character interactions if you’re familiar with the source material.

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The secondary weapons are mostly useless and as the video said, you need to farm resources to be able to use them.

I’d argue these are some of the few “useful” upgrades since some of these tools are really strong. But I agree they made them quite annoying to use due to the need to manage/farm resources.

Fair. Act 1 is fairly tough but one can still go through the mist to skip last judge at least which is where most struggle.

Though that’s quite well hidden and very few people will find that without some Google help. I’d also argue that it’s probably harder to go through Sinner’s Road and Mist than fighting Last Judge, though YMMV.

It goes from 5 dmg --> 9 dmg --> 13 dmg.

That didn’t match my experience, I did a lot of tests after getting the first upgrade and it definitely didn’t cut down the hits by that much.

So I was looking into that and according to tests made by a redditor there’s some kind of “damage reduction” stat in place that negates some of that buff. Their page is a work-in-progress but they’re documenting the exact damage and # of hits to kill each enemy with each upgrade.

https://raiderking.com/hollow-knight-silksong-all-enemy-health-values-skill-and-needle-upgrade-damage-values/

The Switch 2 launch felt oddly rushed.

Lack of details, initial backward compatibility list having only ~20% of games with basic testing finished, the need for SD Express cards that are hard to find. Even the GCK situation is probably due to cost/availability issues that will improve over time.

This DevKit situation looks to me like another example of this.

Finished three games:

• ATRI: My Dear Moments
• We Love Katamari Reroll+Royal Reverie
• Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition

Will be posting more details on !nintendo@lemmy.world’s next “What are you playing this weekend?” thread tomorrow, but I enjoyed and recommend all three games.

Started playing two more today:

• Witch on the Holy Night
• Guacamelee! 2

First impressions are good but it’s too early to recommend either of these.

I’ve been using backloggery.com for more than 15 years.

It’s a simple, manual site, but I think that’s also its main strenght - I’ve had too many issues with other sites where I wanted to add a niche game I played but it was not in their databases, inconsistent naming between games in the same series, no ability to add duplicates when I occasionally double-diped on a game and so on.

It has all features I need - you can add reviews, notes, track priorities, wishlist, borrowed games, make custom lists, get stats… it’s also community supported with no ads.

The site was a bit stale without development for a while, but Drumble (the owner) finished a major rewrite last year and started developing new features again. You can check his profile here for an example.