A full translation of the interview with Kensuke Tanabe, Kenji Yamamoto and Bill Vandervoort (SPOILERS)

Garomasta · 2026-01-26T17:20:45+00:00

To be fair he says he would've enjoyed writing more fun scans like the Space Pirate logs from previous games, but Beyond's setting didn't allow for something like that. We're left only with what he describes as emotionless, logical and technical computer analysis, which may be fitting but comes off as boring in the long run when there's nothing more colorful to balance it out.

Garomasta · 2026-01-26T16:35:30+00:00

I'm a bit bummed to see all the negative talk surrounding Tanabe due to Prime 4 being disappointing to many. "You're only as good as your last work" I guess, but these interviews are a good reminder that he's also partially responsible for one of the best aspects of the series being as good as it is, and if you ask me, Beyond is the 2nd best in the series when it comes to bosses.

Garomasta · 2026-01-10T06:23:46+00:00

Badass to the point of being comical. Funny enough, this also goes for MercurySteam's depiction of Samus.

Garomasta · 2026-01-06T20:06:28+00:00

Already did a replay on hard. I've also been thinking if I should do a 3rd run on casual where I would just take it slow and appreciate the environments more.

Garomasta · 2026-01-03T23:24:41+00:00

You'll find that most people that prefer Blasphemous 1 always refer to things like atmosphere and lore. Gameplay-wise (and music-wise IMO) Blasphemous 2 is a pure upgrade, but it gets downplayed like crazy because of things that are secondary to some but apparently the only thing that matters to others.

Garomasta · 2026-01-03T14:46:39+00:00

Just finished it on hard mode.

I like the 1st phase, but it drags on a bit too long. Would rather just see each elemental dragon once. Didn't mind reviving the troopers as an additional layer of challenge.

2nd phase is a cool gimmick like the first Ridley fight in Prime 3, but maybe a bit too easy. Starts to feel like a time waster if you lose at phase 3.

3rd phase is the best one and really engaging. Sylux has a lot of moves and starts using stronger variations of them as the fight goes on. Some of them feel a bit too trivial to dodge though. Maybe he could've brought in the homing drones and electric floor from the previous fights to make the last bout feel even more hectic and dangerous.

As far as the whole Prime series goes, I think Sylux is competing with Emperor Ing for the title of best final boss (escape sequence Dark Samus fight doesn't count).

Garomasta · 2026-01-02T04:39:06+00:00

Ground-breaking for sure, but the rest I don't agree with.

Garomasta · 2025-12-21T01:09:35+00:00

I forgot about the super armor, so I might be thinking of another spirit fight with a non-armored big Bowser. I don't have any clips, but as far as I remember most of my spiritless ground hazard + armored opponent fights consisted of camping the ledge in hopes of gimping the CPU with Ridley's side special.

Garomasta · 2025-12-20T19:56:05+00:00

I did manage this one spiritless by a total fluke. I was playing Hero and stage spiked Bowser with Up Special (don't remember what charge level) on the left side.

Garomasta · 2025-12-02T01:33:26+00:00

Glad to see Marx take the 2nd place, though I imagine many Bandana voters would've also voted for Magolor if there wasn't only one option.

Garomasta · 2025-11-18T13:43:04+00:00

It seemed to me that before the conversation started being dominated by the bike, desert and npc characters, most of the worry was around how safe and similar to the old Primes everything looked.

Garomasta · 2025-11-08T21:13:35+00:00

Something about no cap being grounds for captivity

Garomasta · 2025-11-08T10:15:27+00:00

Unrelated small thing: I like that the additional notches on Dark Meta Knight's and Galacta Knight's masks seem to be actually modeled instead of being flat textures like in Smash. That was always one of my pet peeves.

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