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Mystics Ablaze is all neutral, baby. I love the mindgamey dance that happens in this game.

Speaking of Mystics and fighting game lingo, we took it to a local fighting game gathering and got some great responses and feedback! If anyone's in Stockholm and hasn't gone to Dragon's Lair to play fighting games with Lightdash, I highly recommend it, they're great. Mostly Tekken and Guilty Gear but all games are welcome, and they were very accomodating to us as newcomers.

AERIAL FENCING

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me and my friends in boston jammed up a little party game! Grab a friend and some controllers and get to it! I'm really proud of the song I made for this, it's a bop

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Unforgivable?, a game i helped write and did audio for, just got a big update with a bunch of added graphics and stuff before we send it off to the SGA.

You really, really, really should play Unforgivable? at least once. Really. Do it now, if you have 45 minutes to spare!

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Unforgivable?, a game i helped write and did audio for, just got a big update with a bunch of added graphics and stuff before we send it off to the SGA.

You really, really, really should play Unforgivable? at least once. Really. Do it now, if you have 45 minutes to spare!

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SGA TRAILER

We have submitted a demo of Mystics Ablaze to the Swedish Game Awards! Check out the new trailer here: https://youtu.be/1lxccBMRc-E This is an exciting opportunity for us 🥁🔥🥁 Wish us luck!

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MYSTICS ABLAZE

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and they say i dont release music no more smh

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We're posting weekly footage! A new round of Mystics, every Thursday. Stay orbed

MYSTICS ABLAZE

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GAMEPLAY REVEAL

Experience blazing fast battles of magical orbs and explosive teleportation in the upcoming MYSTICS ABLAZE!

We'll be showing more clips and tidbits in the coming months 🔮

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Please check out me and my friends' game Mystics Ablaze, we're working super hard on it! I'm so excited and proud that we've gotten this far, and can't wait until y'all get to try it for yourselves!

GAMEPLAY REVEAL

Experience blazing fast battles of magical orbs and explosive teleportation in the upcoming MYSTICS ABLAZE!

We'll be showing more clips and tidbits in the coming months 🔮

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CHARACTER REVEAL: Flytrap

Flytrap is a playable character in our upcoming unorthodox fighting game: MYSTICS ABLAZE!

What can Flytrap do? What does "unorthodox" mean? What IS Mystics Ablaze? Stay tuned!

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CHARACTER REVEAL: ASTROLOGER

The stars have brought Astrologer to our upcoming unorthodox fighting game: MYSTICS ABLAZE!

Gameplay reveal coming soon!

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sixten copy pastes some rambly discord messages into a review and calls it a day: An InFamous 2 Review

(Copy/pasted from my backloggd)

i like how WEIRD the movement is, there's not really any other games where the character moves like the InFamous games, except Ghost of Tsushima, which is made by the same studio and also directed by Nate Fox. It's kinda hard to explain but it's like right in between uncharted and a PS2 platformer, with a bunch of special interactions with grind rails, power lines and such. The game feels weird at first, but when you get into the swing of it it feels REALLY good to play, especially the movement. I can run around for hours in the InFamous games and never get bored, the balance of flow vs careful pathfinding is immaculate. I like the electricity, both looks-wise and how you're constantly aware of and interacting with electrical currents in the world

there are few games that are so mechanically fixated on the way you perceive and navigate your environment while also being focused on being empowering and free flowing

i also really like New Orleans as a setting, i like the misty swamps and the faux french architecture, i like the way hints of jazz sneak into the soundtrack in subtle and unexpected ways

infamous 1 and 2 are probably the most deserving of a HD rerelease out of literally any games because they run like dogshit and it brings the experience down SO much, especially when you're not a kid with patience for bad framerates

what else… I just love that Cole (the guy you play as) is this parkour dude with big pants and a funny courier bag, he loves urban exploration and he's like a gruff bald late 2000s game protagonist but he has a few moments where he softens in a way that feels human and believable. I love that his best friend, Zeke, is this kind of sleazy but truly loyal and kind southerner who clearly doesn't have his shit together but isn't portrayed with any kind of disgust or malice. Any other game would have that character just be a GTA-style piece of shit that you're supposed to just kind of dislike but feel empowered by what a piece of shit he is, but here he's portrayed with empathy and nuance

also while i don't particularly love comic books the game bleeds love for them, and it's just nice when things are so earnest. I can see what they were going for and i truly appreciate it

the good/evil system, while kind of binary and oversimplified, still has a fun dichotomy of carelessly explosive or carefully precise. Both playstyles are cool and valid, even if the moral choices themselves are generally complete no-brainers. But that's kind of the point: the more evil shit Cole does, the less he has to care. What's motivating him truly is personal greed, which aligns with the players motivations if they're drawn to that explosive playstyle. Moral choices in most games come down to investment in the story, but InFamous primarily treats it as investment in mechanics, with story beats reflecting the implications

for all the jank, strangely balanced combat encounters, annoying enemies shooting you as you're trying to get from A to B, terrible framerate, and often sort of forgettable and limp story, I can't help but give this game the highest score. None of those issues manage to get in the way of the impact this game has had on me, and all the fun I've had just running around in it. Every moment of jankiness, be it gameplay or narrative, is met by not only moments where it works really well but also shows some truly interesting, unique and clearly well thought-out artistic choices.

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sixten gushes hyperbolically but it's true though: A Devil May Cry 3 Review

(Copy/pasted from my backloggd)

From first playing about half of this game when I was like ten at a friend's house and idolizing Dante because OF COURSE he's the coolest guy of all time to finally beating it in my 20s after multiple attempts to pick it up, I can with confidence say that this is one of the greatest games of all time. It took the insane, pie-in-the-sky expectations I'd built up over a lifetime of saying it was one of my favorite games without actually having played through it and somehow managed to surpass them.

No other game has me hooting and hollering like this one. It's completely bonkers, and yet full of quiet moments, problem-solving, and sincere melodrama. The aesthetics are immaculate, the cutscenes are my favorite out of any game, the music slaps, its gameplay hits a sweet spot that even the other DMCs don't, and it all comes together to form one of the most fun and stylish and beautiful statements in the medium.

Devil May Cry 3 has shaped me in a way that I'm truly proud and grateful for. It has shown me that boyhood dreams can come true, that even the best things can be better than we remember them. Beating DMC3 was like finding out the One Piece is real. So, now I guess there's nothing for it but to get out there and become the king of the game makers.

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CHARACTER REVEAL: ASTROLOGER

The stars have brought Astrologer to our upcoming unorthodox fighting game: MYSTICS ABLAZE!

Gameplay reveal coming soon!

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CHARACTER REVEAL: Flytrap

Flytrap is a playable character in our upcoming unorthodox fighting game: MYSTICS ABLAZE!

What can Flytrap do? What does "unorthodox" mean? What IS Mystics Ablaze? Stay tuned!