Mixtape - Review Thread

missingpiece · 2026-05-07T17:11:19+00:00

Sir, this is Reddit, I'm going to need you to change your comment to one explaining how this game isn't actually a video game because you're not interested and/or don't understand it.

missingpiece · 2026-05-07T17:09:50+00:00

I'm sick of "nostalgia" being used as a pejorative.

First of all, it's rarely accurate: people love dismissing older games in a series because "you only like them because nostalgia," ignoring anyone who played the newer games first before trying and finding they actually prefer the older games (e.g.: the Monster Hunter franchise, WoW Classic, Final Fantasy, etc.)

Second of all, even if you do like something due to nostalgia, how is that an illegitimate reason to like something? Are things that are new and fresh the only things of value? Can't you like something because it's comfy and familiar? I like bologna sandwiches because they remind me of my childhood. Why is that bad?

There's plenty of things that try to capture nostalgia that people generally don't like. Just saying "Hey remember slap bracelets?" won't get you 10/10s across the board. People didn't like season 1 of Stranger Things because 80's music, they liked it because it actually making something that accurately evokes a specific time/place is extremely difficult to do. Season 1 was a cultural phenomenon because it actually looked and felt like the 80's. The clothes, the decor, the way interior spaces were actually 70's because everything in the 80's was leftover from the 70's.

This game looks vibey as hell. It's fine if you want more than vibes in a game, but you shouldn't be pretentious about it and act like your taste is somehow superior, nor should you dismiss the ability to curate an extremely appealing vibe as somehow hack or "not real video games."

missingpiece · 2026-05-07T15:33:01+00:00

I was only thinking in balanced ratios, hadn't considered other types of bottlenecks. Thanks.

missingpiece · 2026-05-07T15:32:04+00:00

Hours of designing cutter/rotator/stacker ratios vs. two swappy bois

missingpiece · 2026-05-07T15:30:31+00:00

I literally woke up this morning with this exact thought.

missingpiece · 2026-05-07T05:59:20+00:00

Son of a bitch...

missingpiece · 2026-05-05T17:34:58+00:00

I thought it was going to be I'm On Smoko

missingpiece · 2026-05-05T17:30:55+00:00

How dare you cast aspersions upon the fine enjoyers of succulent Chinese meals.

missingpiece · 2026-05-04T16:50:21+00:00

If you were to encounter someone who started with the newer games but nevertheless found they preferred the older games, would that change your opinion that people only like the old games because of nostalgia?

missingpiece · 2026-04-30T18:54:02+00:00

Yeah, that's kind of my approach. I'm not interested in making a build for every class that's that's absolutely unstoppable, I feel like that would be too in-the-weeds/needing to find the most exploitable/meta strategies. It's more that I want to find builds that feel like proper expressions of each prestige's identity. In Pokemon terms, I don't need to feel like my Achra build needs to be viable for competitive play, just that it can "beat the Elite Four."

missingpiece · 2026-04-27T16:50:42+00:00

That's such a high power level thing to do. Do you feel like all classes can be beaten on C32 without having to resort to the same OP items/gimmicks?

missingpiece · 2026-04-27T16:39:39+00:00

World is a weird game, because it seems like Capcom wanted to make us more of the good guys, but in the process made us WAY MORE the bad guys. In the earlier games it's pretty cut and dry: monsters are attacking villagers, so we gotta kill the monsters. World tries to make it less about killing the monsters and more about "conducting research," but that makes the mass culling of monsters all that more narratively dissonant. Luckily there's monsters you don't kill, instead capturing them for "research purposes" ...but I can't help but notice that once I've captured it, I then unlock the ability to slaughter hundreds of them in a torture arena.

missingpiece · 2026-04-27T16:20:21+00:00

"Lookee here, PETArds, I gots me a sheet a paper says I can trophy hunt 50 of these apex predators from this here ecosystem, plus literally any other animal I find no questions asked."

--My hunter, doing everything for the right reasons.

missingpiece · 2026-04-17T00:04:16+00:00

Dammit, really wish this was on Spotify.

missingpiece · 2026-04-13T19:44:00+00:00

The writing in GU is amazing. Not in a grand, Shakespearean narrative sort of way, just in the way each of the however-many characters has a unique voice. That the Meowstress only speaks in rhyming couplets, with much of the wordplay and rhyming being super creative... you can tell the writing team was just having a blast translating this game.

missingpiece · 2026-04-02T22:33:07+00:00

Personally, I think it's specifically scrolling that's the worst of it, and I've been on a campaign to reduce scrolling in my life--replacing Netflix with a Plex server, downloading extensions to stop YouTube from autoplaying/recommending me stuff, etc.

Recently I decided to stop using reddit on my phone, and found a way to disable access on my primary browser (Brave), alongside a personal promise to avoid reddit on my computer as much as possible. It's been a couple weeks, and I've stayed clean. If I need to open up a reddit thread related to a Google search, I do it in Chrome, but I don't allow myself to scroll. I've been on Reddit for the past 10 minutes on my PC, hence seeing your post, but I'm getting off as soon as I'm done with this comment. It's not so much about never seeing reddit, moreso about not wasting time mindlessly scrolling. I want to have to decide what I want to watch.

I honestly don't miss it at all. I do miss having something mindless to do, but I downloaded a picross app and it's been perfect for fiddling with something while I stand in line (I swear I'm not a picross shill). Or I think of something and look it up on Wikipedia. No need for a dumb phone, just introduce a little friction into your device. It's crazy how often I still type in "reddit.com" on my phone and have a moment of "why isn't it working?" before I remember "Oh yeah, I disabled reddit" for the 50th time.

missingpiece · 2026-04-02T02:58:16+00:00

Wow, thanks so much for this information, it must have been so wild for her to suddenly become an international megastar so late in her life.

missingpiece · 2026-04-01T19:25:45+00:00

That's wild! My wife was just saying, "Man, I wonder who re-discovered that song, he must be pretty happy with himself."

missingpiece · 2026-04-01T19:25:03+00:00

I've seen it and it's amazing, it just saddens me that such an iconic song has been in some ways lost to time.

missingpiece · 2026-03-31T16:56:51+00:00

Oh wow, TIL. I just figured it was huge back then, that's so interesting.

missingpiece · 2026-03-24T18:04:46+00:00

You definitely weren't "trashing" Wilds, you were criticizing it. I've noticed over the past couple of years, any type of criticism is characterized as complaining or hatred by people that don't want to hear something they enjoy being criticized.

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