Rider24

@rider24.bsky.social

22, he/him | Decide to be a nerd on YouTube every now and then. I play Puyo Puyo semi-competitively. Also a fan of Splatoon, Rocket League, and Nintendo in general. NA sports fan on the side, root for a mix of teams from Boston/NOLA.

Got to this part of Metroid Dread and not sure where to go from here. I have to be either stuck or soft locked because I can’t see anything I’m supposed to do or anywhere I’m supposed to go which seems like poor game design to me

Screenshot from Metroid Dread. Samus in a room with a ceiling platform above her

It is possible to corrupt Donkey Kong Country 3 simply by being too skillful. Clearing the final level in one go without dying can result in Dixie and Kiddy becoming trapped in a nightmarish red location without escape, all just for being too good at the game.

Was walking past this building and through the window saw this backrooms-ass room, so I accidentally took the coolest picture ever due to the window's reflection

A backrooms-ass room with a twilight sky and trees seemingly imposed over it in a dream-like fashion (it's the reflection of the window)

One of the most blatant lies in a Mario-related game is "Tetris Attack inspired by original Tetris." In fact, Henk Rogers, the founder of the Tetris Company, literally regrets giving Nintendo the right to use the name "Tetris" because Tetris Attack has nothing to do with it.

In the ending to Tetris Attack, Yoshi walks along a rainbow while this text appears:
TETRIS ATTACK INSPIRED BY ORIGINAL TETRIS
Fact 1: Tetris Attack is a reskin of Panel de Pon, a game that has nothing to do with Tetris.
Panel de Pon:
swapping adjacent rising blocks to make lines of 3 to 5 blocks of the same color
Tetris:
steering and rotating falling blocks, the color of which is irrelevant, into full horizontal rows
The only commonality between the two is that they both use blocks.
Fact 2: Henk Rogers, founder of the Tetris Company, literally regrets giving Nintendo the rights to use "Tetris" for Tetris Attack because the game has nothing to do with Tetris.
"When Nintendo came to us, and said 'we would like to take this Japanese game called Panel de Pon, and rename it Tetris Attack', I'm saying, 'it's not Tetris'. But my partner's saying 'but it is money!' So, uhhhh, so, we, I, reluctantly agreed. In retrospect, we should never have done that. I don't think that's a good idea. It dilutes the brand, it's like naming another cartoon character Mickey Mouse just cause you need the money. It's just a bad idea. So I wouldn't do that again."
-Henk Rogers, 2009 interview with Destructoid
Source: vgmuseum.com/end/snes/a/tetrisattack.htm, destructoid.com/interview-with-alexey-pajitnov-and-henk-rogers-on-tetris/