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2d Auster

finished playing 8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
As a #metroidvania, it works decent, and though it is a tad linear, being a #soulslike hides that decently.

Combat and exploration can be a bit clunky, but the clunkiness doesn't get in the way too often.

Music is mostly ambient but fits quite well.

Art feels quite fitting, somber as expected from a metroidvania, but not as oppressive as they usually are. Also the style fits quite well also the folklore/myth line the game goes for.

Story works but better to not say much else I risk spoiling things.

Feels like a solid 7/10!

Also, NeoDB doesn't track entries there yet, so to those interested, #8Doors is on #GOG too.

2d Auster

finished playing Samurai Aces 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
Played the delisted Steam version of #SamuraiAces, appid 1261980 since I don't know if it had any other delisted versions.

It's overly hectic even for a #shmup, or at least the ones I'd seen yet, so patience may be needed with this one. Or, if you got a version that can be emulated, or even whose ROM can be built from the game files, abusing save states would be a good idea too (though patience is still advised).

Story is as basic as an arcade game from Psikyo gets from the few I saw so far, so not much to say on that front.

Music, art, enemy variety and stage progression do the job, I guess, but I was too busy trying not to die to pay deep attention to those hehe

Still overall, it was fine, feeling like a 6/10.

4d Auster

finished playing 3D Pinball: Space Cadet 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
Nostalgia plays a great factor for #3DPinballSpaceCadet, yes, but having had the chance to play it recently, I defend, it's still a fantastic game in 2026.

10/10

Also a tip:
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4d Auster

finished playing #hasicontent 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
#hasicontent is a very short and simple game, but fun at that. You can finish it in a sitting, and lack of saves incentivize that. Not much else to say about the game itself.

A tip, though: it's available as a #PICO8 "PNG" cartridge on both #Itchio and #Lexaloffle's forum, meaning there's a chance you could play wherever there is a PICO-8 player or emulator.

3w 1 Auster

finished watching The Big O 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
It was an interesting watch.

Story-wise, rather cryptic, and some elements are left to interpretation, though in a good sense.

On tone, not very familiar with noir, so unsure how it compares to others, but at least imo, it was well executed.

On animation/art, characters have a bit exaggerated proportions, like they're out of a comic book, but nothing that the watcher can't get used with. And in the mecha sections, they do feel like building-tall metal objects, instead of being animated slideshows as mechas usually are.

On sound direction, it is minimalist but effective - not many musics but played when needed without getting old, mechas' sounds also do seem like a machinery's, and the English dub is great for the noir tone.

There's a bit of humor, but rarely overplayed, being mostly a comic relief.

#TheBigO #watched

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