From Earth With Love

HIGH The Popemobile.
LOW A 500-square-kilometer level with no map.
WTF Flaming Rocket Powered Chainsaw Launcher.
HIGH The Popemobile.
LOW A 500-square-kilometer level with no map.
WTF Flaming Rocket Powered Chainsaw Launcher.
HIGH Now that’s how you end a video game.
LOW Why can’t I drop weapons I don’t want instead of having to use them?
WTF That supervillain storyline gets WEIRD.
HIGH Leaping around in low gravity outside the station.
LOW Trying to complete the baffling campfire sub-quest.
WTF The mad god boss fight is something else.
Somewhere in the not-too-distant future, dinosaurs have returned and it’s not the harmless thrill-ride that the Jurassic Park films would suggest.
HIGH Perfecting my all-bamboo watercraft.
LOW Dying because I was too weak from hunger to hunt for food.
WTF Seriously, how is there not a hunger meter separate from Stamina?
HIGH The main character’s best friend is named Rotten Dollheart.
LOW The grim reaper is more annoying than threatening.
WTF To reiterate, there is a character named Rotten Dollheart.
HIGH Finally figuring out the final boss’ pattern and weakness.
LOW Those zombie sorcerers are way too fast.
WTF So… no hints at all about the secrets?
The first and most important thing to note about Star Renegades is that it’s gorgeous — the world is rendered in some of the most detailed and animated pixel art I’ve ever encountered. This isn’t a case of people using pixel art for budgetary reasons, these are artists embracing the chunky rawness of the pixel art aesthetic to build their world.
It’s impossible to be certain exactly what Heironymous Bosch (the painter, not the cop) was trying to convey with his famous depictions of hell. He left no writings explaining his method, and the 15th century wasn’t a popular time for biographers to document the lives of artists.
HIGH Getting a massive power-up card just as I engage with the boss.
LOW Enemy abilities that can lock my entire hand.
WTF The Toybox Arsenal!
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