https://animatedscreenshots.tumblr.com/post/173838521035/donkey-kong-country-donkey-kong-country-2 – Reviewing this set of GIFs… Diddy and Dixie kicking each other like footballs as their swap animation feels like it conveys something very specific about their relationship, unlike how they act to other kongs. They are circus clowns to each other.
This is a remake of a 2000s board game, and while the original designs do have some charm, I definitely prefer the children's-book art style over the original's standard high fantasy RPG theme.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x4RiSeoZpu4PvdutJXvGiweArBptl6_r/view?usp=sharing - Uma… Musume? Yeah, sure, I'm playing that right now…
Recently I surveyed my most common Windows programs to sort out what exactly the F keys did in each, and I'm a little dismayed to report…… F9 doesn't have a real use?? Unlike its popular counterparts F1-Help and F5-Refresh, F9 is always some misc menu item, if anything at all.
I also find it a little amusing that the once-humble F11 has single-handedly claimed "fullscreen" almost entirely off the strength of Chrome and Electron shells.
The first ever "boss runback" in videogames was when Super Mario Bros. 1 didn't include midway checkpoints in the castles.
Still… the 10th anniversary of Undertale was yesterday, and I sent a few thoughts to a few people about what that game means to me 10 years on. Then I remembered I have a blog I could paste those sentences into.
So here, then, is my short UT reflection:
https://fairysvoice.net/blog/Undertale_10th_anniversary_reflection/

