Room of Squirrel

that's right bitches (/affectionate)! got enough Puuchin here to choke on.

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696 - リトルビッグプーチン-LittleBigCollector- by noni100percent

soooo... i don't know why Puuchin (that is to say The Collector) wound up getting adopted as a mascot by the Jside LBP kids, but it does seem to have been the case. Not that she would show up in every Japanese level, nor that she never showed up in non-Japanese ones, but she did figure in fairly often, and prominently in ways i never really saw her being used outside of them. Is very cute, she has a lovely, simple design.

just look at her. tits out at the pool, and not a care in the world. iconic.

As for the level, and holy shite. Like, seriously, holy shite. noni100percent, rhymes777, SAMURAI-09, and Rio_lotta, have worked together to:

(1) recreate the intro to LBP1, substituting Puuchins for all the people,

(2) create four unique stages all wiv their own theming, gimmicks, and enemies, wiv

(3) nine unique costumes, all granting their own ability, and

(4) a multistage final boss that requires you to be able to juggle between those costumes in order to beat.

Like, holy shite.

And are they successful in their endeavour? Ehhhhh.... 95%? Like way more successful than not. The gameplay is fun, the presentation is cute and varied, i love the idea of everything being Puuchin. Like, it's all really good.

But, on the honest downsides, The Western (4th stage) really needed better checkpointing, and there's a really fiddly jump about halfway through, that fucking up sends you all the way back to the beginning. That this jump is over a cactus, and it's already established the Gunslinger costume kills cacti, but not this one apparently, is kinda crummy and feels like an oversight.

The final boss, also, is probably just a bit too busy for its own good. It's all fun and games swapping costumes to handle the various attacks it does, and navigate to the buttons you need to hit to kill it, except, you've got no i-frames when in that menu, so you need to be in a safe space, but if you were in a safe space, you probably wouldn't need to be swapping costumes in the first place.

Aside from those two flies in the ointment, tho', and yeah, the level is fantastic, and if you've got the half-hour or so to invest in it, i'd highly recommend downloading it and having a go.

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things are well enough here, i guess? finally cleaned some in the apartment, just the worst bits of dust (so, like, the south wall. that area gets hella dusty, and since that's where all my wires and cables are, it's a real pain in the arse to get sorted), and the bathroom sink. no idea why the sink, and not really anything else in the bathroom, picks up mold so bad, but it sure does do that thing.

got out to the bank to pull what cash i have out of my account, 'cause it's a lot easier not to spend it when i can't just pull out my debit card at the bini. this month's going to be real tight, but unless things totally crater in August, i should be able to just cover 2hours of electrolysis (along wiv the various attendant expenses, like needle fees. but not painkillers, so that'll be fun). that'll just have just have to be good enough, and if not, well, i guess we'll just have to get whatever's left over some other time. nurse on the phone was recommending 3hrs when i made my appointment, but there's no way in hell we'll have 180k yen plus fees by September. especially not wiv a tax bill to be paid on the August paycheck.