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[–] Odo@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Harmony of Dissonance on the GBA was a pretty good entry too, though with a couple minor issues. Circle of the Moon inadvertently highlighted how hard it was to see the original GBA screen (too dark, and it caught reflections like crazy), so Konami overcorrected with Harmony and focused too much on the graphics. Unfortunately they put so much processing into the visuals that there wasn't much room left for music samples so it's all chiptunes. That's not necessarily bad but it did feel like a step backwards.

The gameplay was fun, at least. It's been a while but I recall a neat system combining the various classic sub weapons with different magic elements.

It's worth playing the whole GBA trilogy, but do it in order. After Aria you likely won't want to go back to the others.

[–] Odo@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)
[–] Odo@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/animals-abused-milo-and-otis/

That was a rumor, and has never been verified despite decades of discussion and many attempts to prove or disprove it. Also, it was filmed in Japan, not China.

[–] Odo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Either they have seen it but were so traumatized they can never speak of it, or they assumed it was a fever dream ("duck boobs? Nah, I must've dreamt that...").

But yes, I saw it several times as a kid yet couldn't stand 5 minutes of it as an adult. Such a profoundly awful movie with bizarrely good special effects.

[–] Odo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

On VHS: Moonraker. A truly terrible Bond film, but I was too young to understand that.

[–] Odo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Behind the dress, yes. No one's disputing that. The difference between that bright light and the dress itself makes it look like it's in shadow, at least to some of us.

[–] Odo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

See, it always looked to me like blue light (or maybe shadow) around the dress itself, where the only sense it makes to my brain is that the fabric is white.

[–] Odo@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

And then finding out years later that lamp pic really was what you thought:

spoiler

Edit: Or not? It's lies all the way down...

[–] Odo@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

E.T.

Yes really. I played it all the time as a kid and didn't think it was any more difficult or abstract than the rest of the 2600's catalogue. Granted, we kept the manual, which made a huge difference in understanding and enjoying its bizarre logic, but still. I had no idea it was so hated until at least a decade later.

[–] Odo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"How he looked like"? Really BBC? Not "how he looked" or "what he looked like"?

 

Full OST by Will Loconto, Will Nevins, Stan Neuvo, Al Chaney, Bobby Prince, and John Romero.

Any resemblance to any previous game's music is just a coincidence.

...Probably.

 

This is also listed under the title "Indestructible". Hard to tell which, if either, is real; there isn't much info on the soundtrack out there.

 

Adios, Tango. :(

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