If you like Jamestown, definitely Progear.  Pick n Mix of some faves off the top of my head (ymmv - and most are horizontals, which is the superior subgenre): Gradius Gaiden, Gradius V, Sexy Parodius, Gokujyou Parodius, Sengoku Blade, Giga Wing, Dragon Blaze, Raiden Fighters series, Lords of Thunder, Hyper Duel, Gynoug, Bio-Hazard Battle.

It's annoying and not interesting.  You either waste time grinding up a balanced arsenal for all contingencies, in which case every encounter is just a matter of selecting the right peg for the right hole, or find yourself struggling/dominating at random for no particular reason because you happened to put on the wrong-coloured pants that day.  There's nothing good about it.  It's a mechanic for pre-schoolers.  There are lots of good games that happen to utilise it, but they're always good despite it, not because of it.  I guess it has some balance applications, but there is always a better way.

I thought the game was a hot mess gameplay-wise.  Involved but not interesting, waaaay too much emphasis on elemental damage (the worst jrpg mechanic).

stay out of my way im angry on the internet beep beep

I'm working on this thing it's gonna be a masterpiece.

Please add cat ears to the female character.  I want to see people explain to me with withering contempt and no small amount of pity how cat ears aren't 'animu' and that they are part of a rich mythological tradition.  Then I'll explain how Dragonmaw wants to dress children up as Miles 'Tails' Prower and fuck them until they die of boredom.

Sonic 2: Change the halfpipe stages to something better.  Maybe the emerald stages from the first one?  Something that can be beaten faster if you're skilled, and is less memorisation-dependent.  I would also make enemies more aggressive and numerous as you get more rings, and give the player a button to pan the camera forward to look ahead.

There are a million games, god.

"It's anime so I hate it."

1.) You're wrong
2.) I hate you

I expect Nintendo to shut down this project - at least with the name Mother 4 - as soon as they find out. There's a reason they aggressively litigate those that misuse their trademarks and such.

It's a shame too; this game has got some serious development muscle, and is really stunning looking.

Shut up, cock.  I am on record as liking Princess Tutu, Spice and Wolf and Kimi ni Todoke over in the animu thread.  Bitches don't know about my animu.  I just don't think it belongs in Earthbound.  Also, Nintendo *doesn't* aggressively litigate fan projects at all, that's absolute nonsense.  You sure do love to weigh-in on stuff you have no clue about.

You're right, I fully expect them to let a game literally titled as the next entry in the Mother franchise to slide. They obviously love fan projects that are depicted as a numbered franchise edition.

Nintendo aggressively litigates anybody who they feels dilutes their franchises. If this was titled something like "Mother: Reborn" I wouldn't expect a Nintendo C&D. There are plenty of fan projects that go around under obvious fan project names, like AM2R. But given the name, I will not be surprised if Nintendo steps in and issues a conditional C&D (stop using the Mother 4 name, switch to something else).

You're wrong because it doesn't look anime at all. It looks Mother, but higher res. Someone earlier in the thread compared it to Canadian cartoons, and that's probably the most accurate. You're fixating on different color hair and a girl's outfit. Why? I have no clue, it's honestly kinda creepy.

In short: You dumb.

You're a stupid fucking sewer animal and a pederast.  Fuck off.

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"It's anime so I hate it."

1.) You're wrong
2.) I hate you

I expect Nintendo to shut down this project - at least with the name Mother 4 - as soon as they find out. There's a reason they aggressively litigate those that misuse their trademarks and such.

It's a shame too; this game has got some serious development muscle, and is really stunning looking.

Shut up, cock.  I am on record as liking Princess Tutu, Spice and Wolf and Kimi ni Todoke over in the animu thread.  Bitches don't know about my animu.  I just don't think it belongs in Earthbound.  Also, Nintendo *doesn't* aggressively litigate fan projects at all, that's absolute nonsense.  You sure do love to weigh-in on stuff you have no clue about.

Those sprites weren't actually in the game, this is what she actually looks like:


It's different because she's like a lesbian punk or whatever who was raised by magical drag queens.  Unless the purple-haired schoolgirl was raised by a tribe of hentai pvc kits, I don't want to hear about it.

Aside from the hairband, that style isn't very 50s-looking at all.

Ok, you guys are right - a girl with eleborately-designed purple hair in a Japanese-style sailor school uniform is definitely not animu.

Ah yes, yo said characters, which other bears animu diesgn styles?

The two teenage males are trickier, because male animu characters are a lot more vanilla than the female of the species - especially when abstracted down to Earthbound-style pixel art.  But you stand them on either side of Sailor Moon there and suddenly they could pass for Persona characters - tousle-hair stripey top fails the pencil test for sure.  Guilty.

Ok, you guys are right - a girl with eleborately-designed purple hair in a Japanese-style sailor school uniform is definitely not animu.

that's a catholic schoolgirl uniform, not a japanese schoolgirl uniform. get your schoolgirl uniforms right!

It looks like the ones in Bible Black to me, we'll call it a tie.

Ok, you guys are right - a girl with eleborately-designed purple hair in a Japanese-style sailor school uniform is definitely not animu.

But sadly they realy dont loook like you say they do. They look more canadian tho.

Are you being serious?

The characters look like they came from a modern-era highschool animu, which poisons everything else and inspires no confidence.  No thanks.

you should get a room with phil fish

Why?

joke; he was well known for hating japanese games (it caused a bit of controversy). it seems like it's become a trend in the last 5 years or so to hate anime, as if it became uncool this generation, and to hate everything associated with it, whereas in the 80s and early 90s, liking anime was cool, now it's become more popular to hate it

i don't think it's that healthy either way, anime-style games should neither be hated on sight nor loved on sight

Putting aside the politics of animu criticism, it's just a terrible fit for Mother.  If you get one thing out of my posts in this thread, let it be that.

I'm still waiting for *my* PM.

The characters look like they came from a modern-era highschool animu, which poisons everything else and inspires no confidence.  No thanks.

you should get a room with phil fish

Why?

The characters look like they came from a modern-era highschool animu, which poisons everything else and inspires no confidence.  No thanks.

Make my game, I'm terrible at all the stuff you're good at.