Posts by Lace Sabatons

As it stands now, I'm pretty sure the forum is composed entirely of staff.

Ooo, I've been known to enjoy a good pun now and again.

I've never really gotten into mystery novels for whatever reason. I've mostly enjoyed the ones I've read, but I don't generally seek them out. I have recently acquired some of Agatha Christie's greatest hits, and will hopefully be digging into those soon.

Claraviolet Is it Lisa Gardner?

I've also been reading "Axiom's End" by Lindsay Ellis, as I am a huge fan of hers. It's a good story, slightly clunky in places, but fun and thoughtful, and better than any other art I've seen from someone who built their reputation on being a critic.

^Should definitely go pester the pickle. Get him on here

< Just woke up, so the last thing I ate was dinner. Rice, broccoli, and oven roasted chicken. Came out alright.
V Will know the secret of Cow Tools.

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Kaynil Xanadu is a weird word. It is basically an early 19th century English poet's attempt to transliterate the name of a great Mongolian city. He did a really bad job of it, but the word has endured in English as a sort of metaphor for a grand, and perhaps unreachable city.

I was never able to make much progress in the game as a kid, but the promise of the game was so striking that I kept coming back to try. (In that sense I suppose the game is aptly titled!) It has stuck in my mind for most of my life.

It was originally a PC game. I played the dickens out of it when it first came out in 2014, which is part of why I'm only now getting around to the additional campaigns. I beat the original 4 times in a row, and by the time they released Plague of Shadows I was just too burned out on the game to be interested.

The original is a highly polished experience with loads of variety from level to level. Very close to being a perfect platformer, IMHO.

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Happy to hear you enjoyed it, man.
Back in the day I enjoyed the Gameboy one a lot.

That got me thinking, I wonder how would the original be for people that first enjoyed the remake. Would it still be enjoyable for them? :/
There'll be some things they'd probably miss, like only having two buttons for all their inventory without a set button for sword and shield, haha.

I've been thinking the same thing! I kinda wanna play the original sometime soon. I was particularly aware of that two-button limitation as I went. It was certainly nice having my sword and shield available all the time, but I defs think there was some interesting complexity lost.

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Savvy~ I read Silence of the Lambs first. I went into it not expecting much, and was pleasantly surprised. I figured I'd give Red Dragon a chance as well, and it was also entertaining.

I haven't read any of the later books, and do not plan on it. I know enough spoilers about them to know I'd rather not read the stories. Not my vibe.

I've been calling this game "Fax-uh-nah-doo" for 30+ years.

But it's a portmanteau of "Fantasy Xanadu,"

So it would be properly pronounced "Fah-Zan-ah-doo"

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I bought Red Dragon (by Thomas Harris) and I was really excited to read it. It has been almost a year and I still haven't read it but I'm still excited to read it.

I read Red Dragon earlier this year, actually! I enjoyed it.

The character motivations seemed to float a little awkwardly for my taste, particularly with the protagonists family. The central mystery was well constructed and interestingly delivered, though. I found myself really caring about the bad guy, even rooting for him a little bit.

I will surely be defeated!

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Hard mode could defs be fun!

If anything, I'm at a place where I've got more video games to play than I know what to do with, so I'm not really itching to squeeze more fun out of the ones I've got. But maybe in a year or so, it might be fun to start the whole game over in hard mode. :D

I just recently finished playing the fourth Shovel Knight campaign, "King of Cards," where you play as King Knight. It seems to be the most unique of the later campaigns, with much shorter levels that are entirely new aside from some of their art assets. Plus there's this whole game within a game with the Joustus cards.

The moveset is a little awkward to get used to, but once I did I had loads of fun with it. The story also has some genuine pathos to it. King Knight is a character who could have had a lot of love in his life, but was too narrow minded in his ambition, and too selfish to accept the love he had around him. There's a scene near the end which intentionally mirrors one in the main Shovel Knight campaign, and it legitimately brought a tear to my eye.

Enjoyed the hecc outta this, would be curious to know if any others have played.

My sister got it for me as a gift a couple months ago. It's quite good! I had never played Link's Awakening before, so it was all new to me. Enjoyed it thoroughly, though I confess that once I completed the main quest I pretty much lost all interest. I'd like to collect the rest of the shells and heart containers, but I am pretty satisfied with how my initial run-through went.

Maybe in a few years I'll get the itch to revisit it, and do a more thorough play through. One without so many deaths.

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I, too, would love to see Zilla around. I haven't really run into him since the last time we were both here, actually.

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A likely story. >:)