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Decompilation of Star Fox 64 is 76% done 👀

I don't even care about a PC port (although it would be nice). I just want to see ANY hacking tools available for the game. The only notable Star Fox 64 mods have been ones for Ocarina of Time lol. I'd love for my favorite game to have custom levels. I imagine that people who really enjoy Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time have a heyday with all the cool mods people make for that... I can only hope SF64 gets anywhere close to the same treatment!

I guess if you have any knowledge of decompilation or want to look into it, here is the github!

https://github.com/sonicdcer/sf64

#starfox #decompilation #decomp #n64

I used to want old games and old movies I really enjoyed that hadn't had the proper love they deserved to come back, but now seeing how bad they are when they finally do come back I'd rather just have all of my favorite franchises wither away so I don't have to go through the pain of them getting shot in the head.

Okay, last post about Silent Hill: The Short Message. Just a summary.

The best way to explain this is like when you were a kid and you put all your favorite snacks into a bowl and then into the microwave for 30 minutes. No one else, just me? Okay you get what I'm trying to say though. It comes out smelling and tasting like shit and if you didn't have a nose it would have burned your entire house down.

The developers took everything they liked from every horror game ever and tried to squish it into here, except they did everything worse. About the only thing I can praise here are the environmental graphics, because it does look very good.

There is nothing subtle about the writing of this game which betrays what makes Silent Hill so good to begin with. It has extreme "how do you do, fellow kids?" vibes. They try to be contemporary but don't know what contemporary actually is. I can't say this game would be contemporary for any time period because it is a mix of a bunch of different time periods that don't make sense all existing at once.

It's bad. The two things we now have seen from the so-called "Silent Hill Revival" are awful. This definitely isn't as bad as Ascension, but it's nowhere near as good as any other Silent Hill game, and if it weren't for how good the graphics are (other than the player model), I'd think it was some trash indie fangame that misses the point entirely and is too far up its own ass to realize that.

Holy SHIT the end credits song is HORRENDOUS. I know that some of the lyrics in the vocal songs are not the greatest, maybe a little cheesy at times, but this is a whole new level. No Mary Elizabeth McGlynn vocals either!

Vocals start 50 seconds in. Cringe shit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKTS0pYTS3o

Oh, and at the end of the credits there is one final suicide warning lmao. Five. Five times. It's a total joke.

Correction, it takes place over the course of a few years, 2020 and COVID stuff included in that.

Anyway, we're doing this now?? This trope of "character walks in a straight line and sees memorable things from their life and talks about them without letting the player just simmer on it?" Niiiice. Again... every single horror game trope is here and they are all done worse than the games they are lifted from.

Oh, I don't know how I missed this, but the game takes place in 2020 during COVID lockdowns and shit. I kind of see what they were going for because that was a scummy time in general... but with just how ridiculous it actually was, it cheapens everything else. Especially because it was so recent. I think it's something people want to actually forget about and having it brought up in a horror game isn't scary or traumatizing or anything, it's just kind of lame and feels overplayed.

Well, the streamer I was watching didn't finish it. He got stuck on a part where you have to find pages with the monster thing chasing after you in a dark maze like it's Slender or some shit.

nnnooOOOOOO

no FUCKIN way did they put a sh4 reference in here randomly

Okay the story took a completely massive turn now out of nowhere. It's no longer about the bullied girl's suicide, it's about MC's mother being abusive and killing her brother or something. Not really sure how this plays into everything? I guess it could go along with MC's feeling of abandonment or insecurity. It's a story that is being told in completely seperate chunks though, which makes it harder to see it as something that is intertwined.

I don't know man, there are way too many things going on at once for a demo that's only like 3 hours, and it's all so in-your-face that I cannot take it seriously.

I think some of the ideas are sort of good but the developers have NO idea how to actually execute on them. That is the difference between Team Silent and pretty much every other horror game studio out there. Bright side of all of this is that it does give me a bit more perspective for my own horror game. I can't remember the exact story beats I have laid out there but when I start to work on it again I am definitely going to be doing some refining so I don't risk things being this horrifically bad.

I know for a fact I've got a boss encounter written that shows a news document of a murder right after that pertains to the boss. I should try and find a way to illustrate that through symbolism more. I'm sure there are other things like that I wrote too. Keep in mind this was actually like 5 years ago and before I played any Silent Hill games except for Shattered Memories lol. It makes me wonder how much of the dev team for this game has actually played the classic Silent Hills, and if they have, then how much do they really understand them?

Fourth suicide warning, ah-ah-ah!