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videogametako · 3 months

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steam next fest feb 2024: plushie from the sky

anime girl souls-like, cute. link here

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1679510/Plushie_from_the_Sky/

we're in tutorial land, a land of joy and whimsy

lowered graphics twice to reduce lag (laptop could not handle)

overview

so uh as the name implies we kinda just fall out of the sky and we go through the tutorial (see above screenshots)

when we're done with that we once again fall from the sky into

yeah, with how slow this loaded on my computer i died a few times immediately lol, it asks you to immediately learn to fly without pausing time (which i think devs should consider doing)

an enemy spawns right beside your save point too uh i'm not agreeing with some of the design decisions here ngl

the enemy isn't that hard though. i kinda like the weird enemy designs contrasted with the player character's whimsical joyous kid stuff. it's certainly quirky (as the devs put it) and having an anime girl fight a cactus monster with a monkey plush first thing is a neat way to set the game's atmosphere

mechanics

the controls feel like a bit of a mess, but maybe it's just because i'm not used to souls-likes? regardless, judge for yourself

dashing barely depletes stamina so all you basically have to manage is melee attacking and rolling. ideally. i say ideally because stamina never really felt like a problem. also you can kinda just blitz past enemies, though i wanted to feel how combat is and it's how i expected it. ranged attacks need ammo but cost no stamina and you engage from a distance, and melee attacks are pretty strong bc they seem to always stagger enemies? upon further inspection it's more like, as long as they aren't already attacking which makes more sense

chests and critters to collect, pretty standard

recovery mechanic, you get a cute bed like when you save. it charges when you melee combat, fair enough. though i didn't expect meeting a boss so soon after this, i was engaging a mob then suddenly the big cactus thing just rolls up in the background and there we are

weak point. i was mainly just jumping around and switching between melee and range attacks and it died. yippee

anyway right after i discovered that rolls have no cooldown between them, it's pretty fun to do and when you get the rabbit plush you move pretty fast. you can even practically fly with it. i tried getting screenshots but ended up turning on high contrast mode so i decided to get my thoughts of the game so far down first. so, uh, lemme try again

i think that's good enough. decided to map dodge to F so i could do this easier

oh yeah those collectible critters are apparently ammunition! you can do a charged shot in this game

i ended up lagging too much at a certain point (you'll see why) so it's time to conclude this post after this uh, anecdotal section

that one enemy

i ended up stopping early because one of the enemies (pictured) makes this really really annoying ringing sound and uh, it uh, summons other enemies.

a lot of enemies.

a LOT of enemies

i upped my stamina regen so i could basically infinitely roll + jump (not that hard) in the air but they chase you so like. i could not play. at all. my frames were probs below 10 throughout this entire ordeal and uh, honestly in it's own way it was kind of fun

closing thoughts

plushie from the sky felt like a casual soulslike experience (from someone who doesn't play so many soulslikes) and i thought it was interesting enough! there is a lot of polishing that needs to be done here. or maybe my device just couldn't handle it.

i can sorta see the vision the devs have for this game i think, and i respect that. it's definitely not my thing (at least not until i can run it properly). i'd also rather reserve judgement for a (1) demo that (2) i cannot run properly in (3) a genre i don't have much experience in (i just tried it out bc it looked cute). the later levels shown on the steam page look kinda cool and fun too

overall, i'm keeping my mind open to this game, will probs try it again when it releases and i hopefully have a better computer. wishlist it if it sounds like something you'd like, it helps the devs

#video games #plushie from the sky #fishwind #indie games #game review #next fest #steam next fest #demo

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bigskydreaming · 4 years

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Lemme get the timeline right, so Dick was about 15-16 when first Teen Titans happened, then he came back to Batgirl's debut, some time later he left for college & that was the issue where Bruce is kinda teary, looking at Dick's prizes, Dick teases him a lil? Or was that golden age? Then he's recruited by Raven, NTT happens, but the firing... I'm confusing these parts. He got fired after getting shot by Joker? He was Robin then so before Jason, but was he with NTT or in Gotham?

LOL don’t worry about being confused, because it very much IS confusing thanks to so many continuities and retcons.

Personally, I tend to go with pre-New 52 timeline and then just later stories like that timeline never ended and just kept going with New 52 and Rebirth stories....with any discrepancies being like....’flashback stories’ retroactively inserted at the appropriate point in the characters’ histories. That’s just my approach though, doesn’t necessarily work for everyone.

But pre-New 52, the ages up until Dick is around 16 or 17 are pretty flexible.....you can kinda pick and choose when you view the first Teen Titans having formed because there aren’t any hard age milestones to use as a marker. So regardless of what you go with, up until Dick was about sixteen, maybe seventeen, he lived full time in Gotham with Bruce, was Robin, and ‘moonlighted’ with the Teen Titans, who in their early years were kinda more an excuse to hang out with their superhero friends rather than like....a specifically focused team.

THEN is when it gets confusing, because enter the Age of Retcons:

ORIGINALLY, pre-Crisis of Infinite Earths, aka Retcon-Palooza, Dick went on to become Nightwing while he was still on good terms with Bruce. Bruce took Jason in and adopted him, but there was zero conflict with Dick over this....in fact, at this point in the comics, Jason was ALSO an orphaned circus acrobat whose family had been friends with Dick’s family, and DICK was the one who helped him after his parents were murdered, and took him to Bruce, which led to Bruce adopting him.

(Fun fact, and part of why I side-eye people who dismiss retcons as ‘not counting’......Jason’s extremely iconic and well-known history as a street kid who Bruce found stealing his tires......only spanned about TWELVE ISSUES. Before his death, he literally only existed with that origin for about a year’s worth of comics....as opposed to pre-Crisis, when he existed for SEVERAL years worth of comics as the plucky acrobat who adored Dick and was always doing his homework and saying “Robin gives me magic” and stuff. Fandom lives mashing these two versions of Jason together, which is fine, but they have zero problem plying his twelve issues of having grown up as a street kid for angst, while being dismissive of other characters’ retcons, and that’s right up there when talking about Things That Make Me Go HMMMM).

Anyway, so originally, pre-Crisis, Dick moved on to become Nightwing when HE was good and ready, of his own volition, because he felt he was entering a new stage of his life and wanted to reflect that. And then HE gave Robin to Jason HIMSELF, like, literally bequeathed it to him, brother to brother, with Jason being appropriately grateful to HIM for that rather than crediting Bruce with it, who had absolutely nothing to do with it other than looking on fondly and proceeding from there with Jason as his partner. Dick then transitioned to living and working with the New Teen Titans full time in New York.

He also briefly went to college at this time, but dropped out after just one semester or one year or so......which other people often skew to make it sound like he’s lazy or spoiled or just wanted to live off Bruce’s money all of which makes me gnash my teeth, lol.....nah, he already had the equivalent of several college degrees just from growing up being trained by Bruce. Dick dropped out for one reason only: nothing he wanted to do with his life benefited from a college diploma specifically, and none of the jobs he went on to work later required one. He’s a kid who comes from a family who never went to college either because they didn’t NEED to in order to do what they loved....and Dick was no different. People love to cite that Dick was already fairly old when his parents died and that’s why ‘he didn’t need Bruce to be his parent as much specifically’ or whatthefuckever....but then they turn right around and act like he should live his life more according to the expectations and standards of Bruce as opposed to.....in keeping with his first family and their priorities and whatnot. BUT I DIGRESS.

But anyway, at this point, he mostly lived in New York and came back to Gotham every now and then to visit or to help with cases. Babs had at this point been Batgirl for some time, before he became Nightwing, but again, the timelines are messy, so the only real marker that’s important IMO is that her history with Bruce and Dick as Batgirl predates Jason joining the family, AND post-Crisis, when Jason had his street kid origin.....I think she interacted with that version of Jason maybe once?

My point there is there’s a lot of piling on the angst and pointing back to Dick as the ultimate culprit, with people making a big deal about how Barbara and others were constantly comparing Jason to Dick and resenting him for not being Dick and this made Jason’s childhood even with Bruce especially difficult....but again, nah. The vast majority of the time Babs/Batgirl co-existed with Jason/Robin, it was pre-Crisis Jason, which meant that he was on great terms with Bruce AND Dick and Dick was on great terms with Bruce, all of which means....NOBODY WAS RESENTING ANYBODY OR COMPARING ANYONE TO ANYONE ELSE, THEY ALL COEXISTED JUST FINE.

NOW.

ENTER THE RETCONS.

This is where it gets messier and more complicated, because JUST LIKE the comics retconned Jason’s origin to make him a street kid - and which NOBODY has trouble acknowledging or balancing......the comics ALSO retconned Dick’s departure from Gotham. Now it was because there was a story in which Dick was shot by the Joker, Bruce freaked out about his safety, and decided the best way to express this was by firing Dick as Robin and alienating him. Dick lingered for a few weeks, its said, in the hopes that Bruce would change his mind, but when Bruce didn’t, Dick finally packed his bags and left to go live with the Titans full time, where he became Nightwing. Its further said that this was the last contact they had for about a YEAR AND A HALF.....with Dick being the one to make the first move to resume contact.....when he found out from the papers both that Bruce had taken in a new kid (Jason) and adopted him already, AND made him Robin.

(A name which no matter WHAT origin you go for in terms of what it means to Dick, is regardless HIS CREATION, the mantle HE made for HIMSELF, and was never Bruce’s to give away, whether or not you go with the take that it was Dick’s mother’s nickname for him, or it being a reference to Robin Hood, Dick’s favorite childhood hero).

Anyway, Dick confronted Bruce about this, and Bruce basically just....acknowledged this without actually ever putting the words “I’m sorry” or “I messed up” in there, and that was Dick’s one and only ON THE PAGE interaction with Jason post-street kid origin before A Death In The Family....which occurred like two story arcs later.

(However, something I like to point out is the issue where Dick and Jason meet after both their respective retcons, was a FLASHBACK issue. It literally starts the issue off with the caption “One year ago”.....meaning that even though Jason died only two story arcs later and we never saw Dick and he interact on the page again, that issue was deliberately scripted in such a way as to allow for a good couple years to pass IN UNIVERSE....which, IMO, is where Dick and Jason’s sibling bond and dynamic had more than enough time to form. Just because Dick was on bad terms with Bruce doesn’t mean he ever took this out on Jason, and we know from later stories that they at least interacted a few times we never saw, like when the two of them went skiing together - so while people act like they barely knew each other because Dick was never around, IMO there’s literally no reason to assume that Dick wasn’t just as good about reaching out to Jason and forming a sibling bond with him after that first initial meeting, as he later was with Tim and Cass and Damian. In fact, given how familiar Dick and Jason seem to be with each other after his return to Gotham years later, IMO the thing that ACTUALLY strains credulity is the idea that before Jason died, he and Dick only interacted a bare handful of times. Nah. That doesn’t track.)

ANYWAY. That’s how all that played out those two different times, and why there’s so much confusion, BUT I maintain a huge part of that confusion is artificially produced.....by people deliberately trying to mix and match continuities in a way that just flat out doesn’t work. Sooooooo many times over the years, we’ve heard takes on how Dick ‘quit’ being Robin and then Bruce made Jason Robin and Dick resented both of them for this, but uh.....that’s the one version of things that DIDN’T ever happen. There were two distinct ways it played out. In the first, Dick quit voluntarily, and then made Jason Robin himself, and he and Bruce and Jason were all on great terms. In the later version, (the definitive version, because just like Jason’s street kid origin, it was the retcon, yes, but it was also never refuted or contradicted, the way it would have to be to ‘reset’ canon to that earlier sequence of events/state of affairs) - but yeah, in the later version, Dick was fired, Bruce made Jason Robin, and Dick resented BRUCE for this.

But people keep trying to play mix and match so Dick both quit - thus ‘giving up his claim to Robin/theoretically having no basis to object to someone else being Robin’....AND Bruce made Jason Robin - thus getting ‘credit’ in Jason’s eyes for giving him this mantle, responsibility and trust - with Dick then resenting Bruce for giving away the thing he ‘gave up.’

And that’s so disingenuous and obnoxious, when people try and play that game. They don’t want Dick to have ‘the right’ to the same complaints they have about Jason and Tim being ‘replaced’ but they also don’t want him to get credit for giving Robin to Jason because that would imply a strong brotherly bond and connection between them, one in which Dick clearly loves his little brother, and its just....uggggggh. So annoying.

BUT I DIGRESS.

Anyway, that’s the scoop, the buzz, the happening.

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sigurdjarlson · 7 years

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replies??? Finally

anzareveange said: im going to kill a puppy every minute untill i get my book.

*genn greymane voice* NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

anzareveange said: *cry inside*

same but i have that reaction whenever i think about khadgar

shadowphoenixrider said: I concur, though I’d prefer if he gave us a piggyback ride.

we’ll compromise. there are different variations ;)

choachie150 said: NO!! PIGGY BACK RIDE!!!!

*Khadgar screaming as he charges a very confused and distraught Gul’dan with you on his back*

anzareveange said: I seconded the motion.

Khadgar just..needs to be ridden.

spicymulligan said: He carries you with his small bird talons as he flies around

this is khadgar as a flying mount yes good. he is very strong birb. medivh is v proud

ghoulghoulneighbor said: u ever tried putting wings in a shirt friend

that is..a really good point lmao

shadowphoenixrider said: You can’t just wave things like that and then snatch them away from us. Or me. Definitely me. I’d read that.

ahhhh i’ll try to get something out <3. I really wanna write it but I keep scrapping everything i try to write

spicymulligan said: Maybe if you weren’t a got dam FURRY then you wouldn’t run into disappointments like that

WHY WON’T YOU ACCEPT ME FOR WHO I AM

ghoulghoulneighbor said: “are we there yet?” “I SWEAR TO GOOSE-GOD, BRAD, I WILL TURN THIS FUCKING FORMATION AROUND”

I’m brad

shadowphoenixrider said: I think you have Khadgar and Kalec as the poster boys, aaaand then it gets awkward!

okay but...what about Khadgar’s older models ;)) super sexy ;o (I cry)

lo-honko said: Wish you good luck!

Thank you <3

tibbitoo said: Pinocchio :) Where the boys turned into donkeys

.....pleasure island is a very unfortunate name. or I just have my mind in the gutter. <--- probably the second one

unidentified-starman said: i’ve just bought the RotS novelization today and i’m ready to Die™

I need to buy it so I can fall deeper into obikin hell

shadowphoenixrider said: lemme tell you the one in the West Plaguelands where you bring back a child’s painting from the father’s old house killed me

dude i remember that one it’s fucking heart breaking </3 blizzard is cruel

werewolvv said: i swear to fucking god it’s just because she has grey hair jfc

It is i think. It’s so annoying? Like a bunch of the men have grey in their hair in the show and everyone be like heart eyes motherfucker but Carol does and they’re like ummm :// too old. (sexism at it’s finest)

spicymulligan said: Daryl and Little Ass Kicker get married next season when she turns 5 because there’s finally someone young enough for him

ONngLDNBlf BETH WASN’T ENOUGH FOR THESE HEATHENS

nikorys said: JAJAAJAJAJJAAAAAAAAAA

Khadgar is a very talented boi

lawdd0itsu said: omfg i gotta get on proudmoore asap thAT S MY JAM shadowphoenixrider said: just gonna nope outta here

there are two types of reactions to my tauren erp post and I love both of them

shadowphoenixrider said: Ah yes, that fucker of a quest. Then you have to do the Trial of Valor afterwards! Draggka almost threw Xe'ra at Khadgar after it all. TAKE HER AND HER BULLSHIT AWAY

I’m finishing that quest tonight finally. But then ToV? bluhhhhh

anzareveange said: maigod, send nudes, i mean screenshots.

I’ll go see which ones i got.

screenshots i mean. i can’t post khadgar’s nudes. that would be rude.

shadowphoenixrider said: You can’t fight Khaddy???

nope </3

lawdd0itsu said: i see you sinning

u wanna kno my secret? im always sinning ;o

spicymulligan said: Ur good at a lot of things

bitch where (ily im kidding)

lawdd0itsu said: i think one of my animations has him going ‘medivh…?’

the way he says it makes me want to throw myself into the sun. HE LOVES THAT FUCKO SO MUCH same

anzareveange said: *giving love, too much love, infinite love*

me @ khadgar 24/7 too

shadowphoenixrider said: The giant husband

giant in more ways than one hoohhoho.

anzareveange said: i think illidan is hot too, but i feel that all his sexappeal is killed by his His Machiavellian way of thinking, his attitude of “I can do it all alone” and that shit of “being the chosen one”

i can see how that could be a turn off but I love my broody edgelord bitch boi <3

shadowphoenixrider said: There is no help, only terrible puns. Archmemes, you could say.

Archmeme...NUTBLASTS

verygayfordragons said: No, worgen couples do not have worgen offspring. The curse has to be manually transmitted.

ahh thank you :)

shadowphoenixrider said: It’s implied in Tides of War that she did respect Khaddy a great deal (and that the fact he’s showed up to hear her out on Theramore’s defence is kinda big deal). I think he winds her up tho from WoD onwards.

to be fair everyone winds her up post Cata (I say that with love)

shadowphoenixrider said: Congrats! I’m still trying to get the blue (trying to get the mount from Vortex Pinnacle and hating myself)

I really, really want the Onyxian Drake and the mounts from Dragon Soul

anzareveange said: replace Khadgar with thrall, those are the kind of stories that Metzen likes.

Me and Metzen have that in common ; ) although I want Khadgar in em’

#replies #shadowphoenixrider #anzareveange #verygayfordragons #lawdd0itsu #werewolvv #unidentified-starman #ghoulghoulneighbor #tibbitoo #choachie150 #lo-honko #nikorys

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