#g: crosscode

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Video Game Track Bracket Round 2

Calamari Inkantation 3MIX from Splatoon 3

vs.

Hack Your Way! from CrossCode

Propaganda under the cut. If you want your propaganda reblogged and added to future polls, please tag it as propaganda or otherwise indicate this!

Calamari Inkantation 3MIX:

Every iteration of calamari inkantation fucks severely but this is the best one. I need this song in my bloodstream. In my DNA.

Hack Your Way!:

CrossCode is a singleplayer RPG video game which takes place inside a video game - CrossWorlds, a futuristic, full-immersion VR MMO. You play as Lea, a player waking up in the video game without her memories (or her ability to speak), so your best chance of regaining your memories is to re-experience the game to jog your memory. This track plays during segments where your hacker friend utilizes his hacking skills to save the day during an otherwise extremely unfair situation. If this sounds interesting, maybe check it out yourself, it's an extremely interesting and well polished game, and the rest of the soundtrack is also a banger :)

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(sending it again because I think tumblr ate my ask? Feel free to ignore and happy belated birthday!!)

Some (g)old recommendations for you to look into Action: Bayonetta? Onimusha (3/DD)? God of War? RPG/Turn Based: SMT (Nocturne)? Shadow Hearts (2), Golden Sun, Chrono Cross, Transistor, Radiant Historia Tactics: FFTWoTL, Tactics Ogre Other: Ghost Trick, 999, CrossCode

Recommending off the top of my head and mostly the ones who have some uniqueness to them. Might come back later with more suggestions if you enjoy any. :P

Thank u! It did go thru it’s just I don’t post game suggestions cuz they can get lost in posts also I don’t have much to say if I don’t know the games or just don’t have any opinion on them :) so the lists sit in my inbox for when I want to check something out!

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The Steam Summer Sale might be almost over (you've got a little under one hour left as of the time of this posting) but there are always little sales here and there, on a bunch of different storefronts so here's a small, non-exhaustive list of the games I've been obsessed with that'll help you if you're looking for things to do during the SAG-AFTRA/WGA Two Strikes No Waiting

These are in no particular order, some of them are bigger names than others, some of them are older, but they're all ones I've personally enjoyed the hell out of

Tunic: I've only just started this isometric Zelda-like with the Dark Souls campfire mechanic that all games seem to have these days, but it's not only adorable, it's extremely engaging, and some of the collectables I've been finding have been pages of its own instruction manual. It's like a love letter to Link's Awakening.

Hardspace Shipbreaker: A first-person 3D-physics game wherein you disassemble spaceships and send the components into three different colored bins based on what they are. It's really soothing, the zero-G mechanics aren't that bad to get used to, the Americana Folksy soundtrack is a banger, and the background story is your crew working on setting up a labor union.

CrossCode: Another Zelda-like adventure platformer with surprising three-dimensional depth for a two-dimensional top-down game, you play someone logging into an MMO for the first time and finding herself wrapped up in the mystery about that MMO's development, and on the way make some fun friends like Emilie, the French girl who is obsessed with laser bridges.

Chained Echoes: I haven't gotten that far in this but I'm really loving it - it's a loving tribute to your favorite SNES RPGs, with what appears to be three warring kingdoms and fantasy mecha. Including a neat twist to the turn-based combat system where you also have to balance your offensive and defensive skills to keep yourself in the sweet spot that is Overdrive.

Cosmic Star Heroine: Another loving tribute to the SNES RPGs, this one Chrono Trigger in particular. Featuring the titular space heroine who actually has sensible boots and clothing. One of your party members is a lounge singer who is also an assassin.

Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous: Using the Pathfinder 1e rules and one of the most famous Pathfinder 1e Adventure Paths, much like the previous game Kingmaker, you've got a top-down RPG that plays like the Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights classics, with a marvelous voice cast, some fantastic characters, and a relatively new photo mode that takes a bit to get used to but I really like.

Oxygen Not Included: A survival colony builder that's been described as a vertical Dwarf Fortress, it's cute and hand-drawn and surprisingly deep mechanically - the midgame involves managing heat and everything has a unique thermal conductivity. Be prepared to spend hundreds of hours in this, and you will die but every new game you start, you've learned something new about how to make your duplicants not die.

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2020 year-end lists

albums: Amnesia Scanner - Tearless Ana Roxanne - Because of a Flower Annie - Dark Hearts Better Person - Something to Lose Bogdan Raczynski - Debt EP Braids - Shadow Offering Brandy - b7 Cecile Believe - Plucking a Cherry From the Void Charli XCX - how i'm feeling now Croatian Amor - All in the Same Breath Dean Blunt - Roaches 2012-2019 default genders - pain mop girl 2020 Diana Gordon - Wasted Youth EP Eartheater - Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin Italians Do It Better - After Dark 3 DV-i - Implementation EP Elysia Crampton - ORCORARA 2010 Elysia Crampton Chuquimia - Selected Demos & DJ Edits [2007-2019] Grimes - Miss Anthropocene Hayley Williams - Petals for Armor Hitoshi Sakimoto - 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim OST Jam City - Pillowland Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure? Jessy Lanza - All the Time Joanne Robertson - Painting Stupid Girls EP Julianna Barwick - Healing Is a Miracle Lady Gaga - Chromatica Lorenzo Senni - Scacco Matto Loscil - coast/range/arc// Mechatok - Defective Holiday OST Mica Levi - Ruff Dog Oklou - Galore Oliver Coates - skins n slime Oneohtrix Point Never - Magic Oneohtrix Point Never Oval - Scis 박혜진 Park Hye Jin - How Can I EP Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd - Another Flower Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine SALEM - Fires in Heaven Sam Prekop - Comma Sewerslvt - Draining Love Story Shinichi Atobe - Yes The Soft Pink Truth - Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? TOPS - I Feel Alive Various Artists - A Little Night Music: Aural Apparitions from the Geographic North William Basinski - Lamentations Windy & Carl - Allegiance and Conviction Why Be - YB MEMORY [2009 - 2019] Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind

songs: A.G. Cook - Silver Amnesia Scanner - AS Tearless (ft. Lalita) Ana Caprix - Prex Anamanaguchi & Planet 1999 - Everyday, Everynight (DV-i ReSYNC Style) Ange Halliwell - Winter Day (ft. Malibu) Annie - Corridors of Time ANOHNI - I Will Survive Arca - Mequetrefe Ariana Grande - Positions Austra - Mountain Baby (ft. Cecile Believe) [Octo Octa's Contemplation Mix] BABYNYMPH, SOPHIE & BAYLI - clown shit (up the wall) [SOPHIE Remix] Bad Bunny - Safaera (ft. Jowell & Randy and Ñengo Flow) Better Person - Hearts on Fire Biosphere - Angel's Flight BLACKPINK - Lovesick Girls Brandy - Bye BiPolar Caribou - Never Come Back Carly Rae Jepsen - Fake Mona Lisa Cecile Believe - Crickets Christine and the Queens - La vita nuova (ft. Caroline Polachek) [A. G. Cook Remix] Croatian Amor - No End to New Moments Dasychira - Jester's Crowfield Dean Blunt - NITRO GIRLS 3 Diana Gordon - Rollin Doss / SOPHIE - New York's Burning Down Dua Lipa - Levitating Dua Lipa & Angèle - Fever (Oklou Remix) Eartheater - Metallic Taste of Patience Ebhoni - MIA Elysia Crampton - Flora (ft. Jeremy Rojas) Elysia Crampton - Grove (ft. Embaci) Farah - Boyz R Bad Fennesz - Fortress Grimes - Delete Forever Halsey - 929 IZ*ONE - Fiesta Joanne Robertson - Am I Grief Johnny Jewel - Surgery (ft. Glüme) Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande - Rain on Me Lil Uzi Vert - Celebration Station Malibu - Isle of Us Mechatok - All the Time Merely - I'm Your Lover (Himera Remix) Oklou - god's chariots Oliver Coates - Honey Oliver Coates - Soaring X (ft. Malibu) Prurient - Help If I May Ask The Radio Dept. - You're Lookin' at My Guy Rico Nasty - IPHONE Rina Sawayama - LUCID Róisín Murphy - Murphy's Law Róisín Murphy - Something More SALEM - Sears Tower sèverine - LOOK HOW HARD I'M INTO YOU Sewerslvt - Ecifircas Shinichi Atobe - Yes Shygirl - FREAK SOPHIE - My Forever (ft. Cecile Believe) 9m26s edit Tohji & Malibu - Oreo (Malibu Seven Seas Mix) TWICE - Do What We Like Weki Meki - The Paradise White Poppy - Broken Why Be - Impossible Drops1 Yves Tumor - Hasdallen Lights Zhala - Holes (Olof Dreijer Remix)

mixes: https://soundcloud.com/alldayfreeself/candlelight-imum-coeli-mix-009 https://soundcloud.com/caprix/trance-party-9-set https://soundcloud.com/corporatebigwig/corporate-mix-2 https://soundcloud.com/doss/doss-paper-magazine-x-lady-gaga-mix https://soundcloud.com/doss/doss-the-sky-upside-down-secret-sky-mix https://soundcloud.com/ff-sound/ff-radio-3-with-toxe-on-nts https://soundcloud.com/danielstettner/butterfly-soundtrack https://soundcloud.com/danielstettner/smile-3 https://soundcloud.com/honeysoundsystem/hnypot-349-exaels-seraphim-vape-mix https://soundcloud.com/s_m_i_le/smile-radio-049-liyo-ssaliva https://soundcloud.com/tank-magazine/my-mix https://soundcloud.com/tank-magazine/tank-mix-rui-ho

games: 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim Animal Crossing: New Horizons Astro's Playroom Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout Crosscode Demon’s Souls Final Fantasy VII Remake Final Fantasy XIV: Patches 5.2-5.4 Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory Hades Nioh 2 Paper Mario: The Origami King Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition

movies: August at Akiko's (Christopher Makoto Yogi) Days (Tsai Ming-liang) Gay USA (Arthur J. Bressan, Jr.) How to With John Wilson S1 Lux Æterna (Gaspar Noé) Nomadland (Chloé Zhao) Possessor (Brandon Cronenberg) s01e03 (Kurt Walker) Survivor: Winners at War S40 Tenet (Christopher Nolan) Vento Seco (Daniel Nolasco)

[metroidvanias]

CrossCode - Released!

Forgot to post about this one because I was too busy enjoying the heck out of this game!

It has the trappings of MMO gameplay, as the game takes place within an MMO, but after a few hours it adds so many tweaks and different implementations of basic systems and moves that it makes your head spin. 

A bit Zelda, a bit MMO-y, a bit Phantasy Star (Critical Damage name drop), a bit Terranigma (O V E R L O A D - D A M A G E name drop). Big thumbs up!

Link: CrossCode on Steam  Link: CrossCode on Humble Bundle Link: CrossCode on Itchio