Recent reviews by Millie Squilly

It's like the extreme sports games of my youth! But queerer and with unicycles! This owns!

ok yes I like the game about the tea that makes you a furry

A retro aesthetic, the 1-bit art style is something that really tickles me. And the story of this little online community made my heart ache in some ways, it resonates with some real experiences I've had.

For a multiplayer game this has surprisingly nice vibes!

gay fox mario :3

First off, the port. TBH I would say it is bare-bones but serviceable. Like, there are some niceties it is missing, e.g. the resolution being locked at 1280x720, but it totally works (although I hear the keyboard control is pretty wonky so probably you'll want to use a gamepad)

As for the game, it is by this point fair to say it's a classic. But playing it after the first game in the series I kind of get a sense of it being both an obvious improvement and a bit of a letdown - like it's good and the additions compared to the first game give it a fresh feeling, but it also feels like narratively a bit more, I guess I'd say up itself? By all means though it is a very good game and like as a part of the Metal Gear series overall it's one you'll want to make sure you play.

Metal Gear Solid absolutely holds up, even like over two decades later it's still extremely engrossing and excellent to play.

This rerelease is an emulated version of the PS1 original developed by M2, and while there are a few issues with it that I'm hopeful could get fixed in a patch (lack of analogue controls and a weird stutter thing I've been getting are the ones that come to mind) I feel a lot of the complaints are a bit kind of just "upset that this isn't something else". Like, it's an emulation of the PS1 original, complete with low resolution and all the weird playstation texture filtering going on. That's totally fine, that's how it was on the PS1. Sure you could run some sort of higher resolution renderer, but honestly I am not sure that actually looks good - like the PC port that GOG sells basically does that, and I don't know if that's necessarily an objectively "better" look for the game as such - like the higher screen resolution just looks out of place with the low-res and low-poly assets. And if you start worrying about like filtering or upscaling the assets, then we're getting a bit revisionist and I'm really hesitant about the idea of Konami doing that without Kojima around. But in general like there's nothing wrong with presenting games in an emulated form running in their original resolution.

To be honest, game is excellent and this is a totally OK way to play it, and here's hoping they patch the few minor issues. They've fixed some already so fingers crossed.

Update: so with the latest update there's a high resolution mode and it does look pretty nice, but I'm kinda tempted to still argue for the original PS1 kinda wobbly lowrez vibes, since the higher resolution rendering kinda doesn't suit the models so much in my view. But hey it's an option now! And hey it looks like that stutter I mentioned is fixed now so that's nice! (I think they fixed the analogue controls thing too)

It's the best one! This one!
The only downside is knowing that I've seen the pinnacle now!

Short but kinda lovely! Essentially a relaxing place in the form of a Sierra game

Honestly this is probably one of my favourite games. It's just so tight and great feeling, and I really feel the 80s microcomputer inspired aesthetic is not used enough (most retro stuff just looks like console games tbh). The soundtrack is fantastic too.

It's kind of one of those "keep trying something over and over and respawn quickly and try again" type games which I think really appeal to me! If that's a style of gameplay that you enjoy then you absolutely definitely need to play this!