My favorite detail is that after like 40 runs Zagreus decided he was going to use a nickname for a boss, and thereafter the game uses that nickname for it in all the UI

I really want to read this review, but I think I’ll wait until I’ve completed a few more runs so I don’t spoil my ending.

A remaster after two years kind of pisses me off.

It’s definitely true that if you defeat Asterius as a miniboss he has reduced HP in the big fight.

This use of a David Bowie song isn’t anywhere close to a character drinking a soda in a movie.  They’re such wildly different concepts that I find it weird that it would need to be pointed out.

The only time I broke this rule was when I had first cleared with every weapon except one. I repeated that weapon until I did it.

Theseus and Asterius is the big hill that once you get over the rest feels a lot better. 

The products are made ambiguous in movies, not because the movie studio is afraid of getting sued by Coca Cola. It’s because they don’t want to give Coca Cola a product placement without them paying the movie studio for it.

I’m not sure what about that is spoilers. 

The story in the game makes it pretty clear that Cerberus belongs to Persephone and is close with Zag

Does it count if I pet him, but I bought it from Epic Game Store instead?

As far as Trials of the Gods.. yeah you get two boons from them, but I often find them to some of the hardest non-boss encounters in the game. I avoid them when I’m concerned about health and I often end up burning a life on them.

I’m not good at these kinds of games.

There’s a whole section where the launch titles are broken down apples to apples...

My memory of the PS2 is that it didn’t have any actually worthwhile games to play for YEARS after launch.

Like, I feel like if I was a speedrunner - I’d want to take the seed that has the current world record and optimize it - just because that’s the sort of attitude I’m used to seeing speedrunners have.

That’s not a leaked uncompressed version. Click through to the tweet.

That’s really interesting! 

for games like spelunky, are they able to practice like a particular RNG seed or something? Kind of seems like the random aspect would make speedrunning impossible otherwise.

Sailor moon is the only one I remember being in a song that charted #2 on Billboard

PS2, Dreamcast and Gamecube all had some sort of analogue feature on their controllers.

That was the only generation where that happened. I’m not certain why the industry completely abandoned it, but it might have to do with the cost of production and the fact that so few games made any use of them.