Neither the current Happening, nor DRC acting like a broken piece of shit will stop the #BestVidyaGirlContest Final:

Samus Aran (Metroid) VS Tamamo-no-Mae (Fate/EXTRA)

Who truly deserves the title of Best Girl?

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@ChristiJunior@bae.st @ChristiJunior@detroitriotcity.com that's golden lol, i think dread has the least labyrinthian level design of any metroid game while still feeling like a labyrinth. it's so natural where to go at all points but you barely even recognize the game's guidance.

@beardalaxy Can you imagine just how badly Super Metroid would wreck that nigger? Let alone the original NES Metroid.

@ChristiJunior @beardalaxy Teleporters/Portals can reduce backtracking believably in a Metroidvania but I liked how in both Fusion and Order of Ecclesia it’s themed sectors branching out from a travel hub. Especially in Fusion where it makes complete sense with the varying climates in the laboratories. Oh, and it’s not a fast travel MENU option you have to actually traverse it, so when you notice something is off about the hub’s surroundings you know some fuckery is imminent.

@MusicVideoGuy @beardalaxy Fusion absolutely nails the atmosphere in general, and really makes the space station come alive, even as all the human crew has been killed.
@Rasterman @beardalaxy I'm sure he played Super Metroid - the 3-minute long trial version in Smash Bros. Brawl's Masterpieces mode.
@ChristiJunior @beardalaxy I don't remember: do you have to go through the intro? Because if so, I wonder how much farther after Ceres can you make it (if you can even make it).
@Rasterman @beardalaxy I never even knew this, but Brawl Super Metroid apparently has two save files: one at the beginning of the game, and another starting you off in Norfair with decent progression.

....I'm sure Jaffe just rage quit after dying to Ceres Ridley tho, this is the guy who got wrecked by the Dread brain mini-boss.
@ChristiJunior @beardalaxy >I'm sure Jaffe just rage quit after dying to Ceres Ridley tho

:bluedoggo: I mean, a player that bad would have to make a living as a game designer. Like what they say about movie critics being failed directors.

@ChristiJunior @rasterman apparently you can beat ocarina of time in the brawl demo lol

@beardalaxy @ChristiJunior That's shorter than NES Zelda! If it's such a short game, maybe I can squeeze it in between other games. Like a round of F-Zero 99... :thinkhappy:

@rasterman @ChristiJunior it won't be short for you because you'll somehow find a way to skip getting any of the dungeon items

@beardalaxy @ChristiJunior @ChristiJunior Around that Jaffe embarrassment there came out a video explaining how Dread is constantly guiding you in a way you don't even realise it. It's genius. That retard Jaffe managed to get stuck for lacking the curiosity, imagination or desire to live others take for granted. The compilations of other various streamers playing through that part without issue just made his failure funnier.
@Rasterman @ChristiJunior @ChristiJunior @beardalaxy I just spent half s day playing dread and it guided you pretty obviously and deliberately through the map, it's still very enjoyable though
@Kagekokoro @ChristiJunior @ChristiJunior @beardalaxy If you found that obvious and deliberate, now think about Jaffe and how he got stuck in a room in the first zone because he never thought to shoot up. :pepe_newspaper:
@Rasterman @Kagekokoro @ChristiJunior @beardalaxy Jaffe also got very upset when he was reminded that the game TELLS you early on to try shooting at walls to see if you can break them - he called it a cheap, tacked on "cover your ass" last-minute copout or something.
@ChristiJunior @ChristiJunior @Kagekokoro @beardalaxy Yes, he also said the game is shit. Almost verbatim quote.

And then there's that cringe tweet where he retroactively makes Kratos bisexual because if a game about killing European gods wasn't sufficient insult, now the character needs to be a faggot like him.

inb4 Kratos was adopted and his real parents were Hebrews.
@Rasterman @ChristiJunior @Kagekokoro @beardalaxy He claimed that Shantae and the Seven Sirens was better than Metroid Dread. I like Shantae and all, but that's a retarded crackhead take.
@ChristiJunior @ChristiJunior @Kagekokoro @beardalaxy Have it. Haven't played it yet. I hope it's good; but I will probably not think it's better than Dread unless I get stuck in a room and forget Shantae can whip her hair.
@Rasterman @ChristiJunior @Kagekokoro @beardalaxy I found it to be OK, but it didn't really resonate with me, dunno if I was kinda not feeling Metroidvanias at that point, or if the game was at fault. I definitely thought both Pirate's Curse and Half Genie Hero were better.
@ChristiJunior @ChristiJunior @Kagekokoro @beardalaxy I have yet to finish a single Shantae game. I wanted to start with the original, but damn it looks fugly. :pepesad:
@Vidmastereon @ChristiJunior @Kagekokoro @ChristiJunior @Rasterman @beardalaxy idea: game technology that measures the player's blood alcohol content and offers hints and reminders of where you're at and where you're going when you're playing drunk
if it can also detect game journalists and sneak it up to hardest difficulty to filter them, that'd be great
@Rasterman @beardalaxy @ChristiJunior @ChristiJunior Yeah it's pretty darn linear with the illusion of more classic metroid world. Great game though, I loved it.
@YuiHirasawa @Rasterman @ChristiJunior @beardalaxy It also does let you do some juicy sequence breaks, even designing one of the boss fights around it (Spoilers I guess):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ2WGL_q7bI
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