New Monthly Silly issue out now! This month's issue features a dark, ominously surreal Roguelike for the Sega Saturn, a guest review of an exceptionally bad RPG on the original Game Boy, and a Yap Trap about my dislike of a certain genre that's become all too common lately, particularly among indie games.
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I read issue 14 and I really like how you handle emulation with your Easy Emulation sections. A lot of people try to sell emulation as some "get rich quick" piracy tool made exclusively so you can play games for free, which is annoying because that isn't what emulation is at all! It's so that people can enjoy the classics that shaped modern gaming as a whole without spending an arm and a leg! [...]
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Great site! Love the different backgrounds you chose for each page, and I'm a big fan of your art style.
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dogsmicworks
2 weeks ago
I'm glad! After I sent that message I ended up reading your Starfaring Strangers webcomic and it was really interesting, I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes.
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someotherstranger
2 weeks ago
Oh sick, glad to hear it! I'm figuring on getting back to working on it soon 'cause, uh, it's been at least two months since I last updated it. Oop.
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Doesn't seem to be much here yet, still very intrigued already though! Looking forward to seeing what you put here :D
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retrogameaday
2 weeks ago
Thanks!! Yeah, I just joined a week ago. So I went through a beginner tutorial to learn a little bit and changed the layout some. So I am still learning.
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Can't believe you slandered Brawl like that, got me wanting to write a review of it myself to give it the love it deserves. Half-joking aside, curious what you mean when you say "unlocking the characters is annoying", aside from Wolf/Puff/Toon Link you get them all just by playing Subspace. If anything, Melee strikes me as the hardest Smash to unlock characters in.
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irrelevantreviews
2 weeks ago
Unlocking brawl characters isn't hard just super hard to find. You either have to fight 500 brawls (which I'm not doing) or find doors in specific areas sometimes as a specific character which makes zero sense when nothing tells you to do that. If I need to look up a tutorial to find a basic feature in the game, that's not good game design. [...]
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irrelevantreviews
2 weeks ago
I feel like brawl is a very subjective game. As much as I dogged on it in my review I do genuinely think it is a great game but compared to other entries it feels a bit pathetic. Honestly I do think I was a bit too harsh for the review, lol.
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dogsmicworks
2 weeks ago
Yeah that's fair, I'll give you that Wolf/Puff/Toon Link are a pain even if you can get the rest just through Subspace. Kinda disagree on Brawl not measuring up to other entries, Subspace's story is hardly some Shakespearean masterpiece but it is genuinely cool seeing these characters interact and watching the very nonlinear story unfold. If anything I think Smash 4 is the most "nothing" entry, it doesn't really-
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dogsmicworks
2 weeks ago
-have anything that stands out about it like the others do. I do get not liking it though, even if I'm used to it by now it does control kind of strangely. Kind of confused by the 7/10 score though, seems like a high rating when you don't seem to have much of anything you personally enjoy about the game.
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irrelevantreviews
2 weeks ago
Yeah, I think I was a bit too harsh when criticizing Brawl. I genuinely do think it's a good game but it's not without any flaws. It was pretty hard to emphasize any positivity since almost my positive opinions of the were just "it felt fun", so the negativity is talked way more in my review -- which is my bad! I'm still learning, so I'll get better at getting my point across the more I write.
dogsmicworks
2 weeks ago
Ah, yeah that's very fair. I have the same issue sometimes, with something that doesn't work it's often easier to notice where it fails compared to successes being much harder to articulate. I'm sure you'll improve, looking forward to seeing what you write next :D
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It's really nice that you use emulation as a vessel as a way of saying, "Hey, this game is super cool, and also super easy to get!" -- and not "Hey, this game is free if you just pirate it!"
Same! plus the og devs wouldn't get the money anyway. Sometimes the only way to get the hardware to play those games are through scalpers, and I just rather emulate it myself than to give them any money :/
True! The thinking was that I'd like for each issue to have something the reader is basically guaranteed to be able to play regardless of money or hardware, so I've made sure there's an Easy Emulation in every issue I release. Emphasis on the "Easy" part too, the NES/SNES/Mega Drive/GBA games I typically tend to cover are very easy to emulate both from a hardware perspective and being simple to set up.