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Oh also! The story is extremely simple, but it has a few leads into it for a sequel so I'm really hoping that this sees another game come out! I would love that.

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Just finished New Super Lucky's Tale! Honestly, I wish there was more! It was a super duper fun game. Definitely easy the majority of the time because it's definitely aimed toward younger kids, but I still had a really fun time playing it.

This is what I'm talking about! This is the quality kids deserve in their video games. Easy to play, very simple game design, no bugs, no weird crap. Just a short and fun adventure with a bunch of funny characters.

The music was about what you'd expect from a 3D platformer. Not anything memorable, but still good.

For a 3D platformer, it was pretty unique! There are only so many gameplay tropes you can use for a game like this, but it blended them pretty well.

You have 6 different hub worlds that let you play different levels. There are ones that are very Donkey Kong Country inspired, ones that are essentially just the minecart levels from those games, slightly more constrained Mario 64 type levels, a couple mazes, some mildly tricky puzzles, and even a few marble balancing levels. The gameplay never got stale because there was a decent amount of stuff to do all the time.

A Hat In Time is like a more expanded Mario Sunshine. Yooka Laylee is a more empty Banjo Kazooie. I'd say New Super Lucky's Tale is like a more expanded Donkey Kong Country. If the DK series went more towards Mario than it did Banjo with the N64 game, I think this is what it would have turned out like. You still get a good amount of that classic DKC gameplay but it opens up another axis of movement.

A big reason why I think this too is because you can collect letters that spell out "LUCKY" within every stage. That's 100% DKC blood right there.

The movement is very simple and very snappy. It was pretty easy to control and once you get a hang of it you can actually pull off some really nice maneuvers. The only thing that's really missing here is a dash button, because there were times I definitely felt like I was moving around too slowly. The dig mechanic perhaps could have been sped up a bit because it feels only like 1% faster than your default move speed.

Something really fun that I noticed is that you could use a combination of moves against a wall in order to gain infinite height, so long as the wall was there. Depending on the wall this trick ranges from dead easy to needing an extra step to perform, but it's really funny breaking the game this way. I haven't watched a speedrun yet but I noticed so many places to do this that I'm sure they abuse the heck out of it, unless there is something even more broken. This isn't a bad thing about the game though, because it's not like you can do it on accident. If anything, it made me enjoy it more because I could hop around to places I wasn't supposed to be, like this photo that I took here on top of the castle from the first hub world.

Great game. Would really recommend it if you're looking for a short and fun platformer, or if you have young kids! I'm pretty sure it's on every console as well as PC, so hey, pick it up if you want :) I had a good time with it!

8/10. Wish it was longer.

@wyliesau people think secret agents do cool james bond shit in reality they just have a lot of gay sex
OK, so check this out:

Earlier today (more precisely this morning), there were a dad and son at a bakery talking to each other, and they were said to be "joking about lawyers".

Then, a fucking law student that was in the bakery took offense of this and went to confront them. The argued for a bit, then the law student fucking pulls a gun and shoots the son 4 times.

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!

In the altercation, a tempered glass door exploded (the accounts are a bit odd, some say a bullet hit the door, some say the guy who was shot fell back through the door), and a glass shard hit the law student (again, accounts vary: he was hit either in the stomach or in the neck), and the bleeding dude fleed the scene in his car, which was a bullet-proof version of a Ford Fusion.

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!

Again, the accounts of this vary, there are some news places that say the guy just lost a lot of blood, but there are reports saying that the guy was so dumb that he managed to shoot himself in the leg while driving, and he lost control of the vehicle and hit a pickup truck that was coming in the opposite direction. The truck driver went unscathed, and he saw that the driver of the Fusion was looking to be in a pretty bad shape, so he decided to come out and help him.

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!

As I mentioned, the Ford Fusion was an armoured car, and with the hit the driver's car got stuck in a way that was not openable, and the door was not easy to just bend, so the truck driver was basically trying to bust it open with a crowbar to save the dying law student.
Then, a lady who was driving by thought the truck driver was trying to rob the guy in the Fusion, and decided to help.
By running over the truck driver with her car.


End results:
The law student is dead
The son who got shot 4 times is in the hospital, but reports say his condition is fine
The truck driver got a sprained ankle after he was run over

you know, even with the 2.0 update and phantom liberty coming out soon, i don't know if i'll actually go back to cyberpunk 2077 quite yet. idk, i feel like from everything i've seen it doesn't have a big enough impact for me to want to hop in again. i'm mostly a play-it-once kind of guy and i know i'm just going to be playing the same story over again with the same mostly unsatisfying ending.

i was hoping that phantom liberty was going to offer up another way to remove the relic, which could potentially give you a different ending, but it doesn't seem to be the case. it's basically just its own self contained thing. which is fine, it's just not really enough for me to want to go back to the game.

i don't understand the people who want to defund cops and also ban guns

how are you gonna enforce the ban on guns lmao

And just like speak Swedish the entire time or something lol

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There's a "pagan pride" festival coming here soon and I think it would be really funny to show up with a massive drinking horn and clothing exclusively made from fur pelts then act extremely confused when all the people there are just weird trannies.

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