DAMMIT SAKURAI! NOW I HAVE TO ADD MORE LINES OF CODE TO THE GAME THAT I'M ALREADY BURNT OUT ON!
Freeze frames are probably something I can do, but no way in hell am I doing screen shakes or slow motion. Screen shakes would require me to mess with viewports and I really don't feel like getting in to that. Slow motion would require me to either reduce the framerate (which I don't know how to do in MonoGame) or slow down every single object.
@xianc78 nah he's a programmer too. man spent so much time working on smash 4, i think it was, that he had to be temporarily hospitalized. a game director or designer wouldn't even have enough stuff to do to warrant that.
dude programmed the entirety of kirby's dream land on a trackball: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/the-first-kirby-game-was-programmed-without-a-keyboard/