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crane flies are my arch enemies

Relationship: Single af Favorite Color: Black Lipstick or Chapstick: Lipstick Last Song I Listened To: Aiden - I Set My Friends On Fire Last Movie I Watched: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 Top 3 TV Shows: Lucifer, American Gods, Westworld Top 3 Characters: Yuri Lowell, Allen Walker, Qrow Branwen Top 3 Ships: Fluri[Flynn Scifo/Yuri Lowell], Ristelle[Estellise Sidos Heurassein/Rita Mordio], KouAo[Koujaku/Aoba Seragaki] Books I love to read: Discworld series - Sir Terry Pratchett, The Sandman - Neil Gaiman

oh? how so?

In Yoshi’s Island the platforming is completely trivialized. Only select levels have usual platforming challenges like bottomless pits or stage hazards, and on top of that you have a flutter jump that slows your movement & maintains altitude (if performed correctly you do not lose *any* vertical height, most players will lose it very slowly). Secondly, the ‘combat’ is trivialized, because Yoshi can swallow almost every enemy immediately at a distance, convert them into ammunition & shoot enemies with them from even further.

The effect is that the platforming & combat are de-emphsized compared to typical platformers of the time. The focus is placed instead on exploring very large, often non- or semi-linear levels, discovering secrects & collecting items (stars, flowers & red coins). By diminishing the platforming & broadening the exploration they arrive at a similar design to the european ‘exploration platformers’ like Turrican.

Wario does this too, to an even greater degree - in Warioland 3 & 4 you cannot actually die at all, for example - although Wario is actually less powerful than Mario, having a short jump which falls quickly & no long range attacks.

Anyway, Turrican arrives here in a different way - not by shifting the focus of a platformer but by broadening the scope of a run n’ gun. In Turrican there is more emphasis placed on platforming than in most run n guns, and therefore the levels are afforded more verticality, and platformer style collectibles & secrets are added (probably directly cribbed from Mario - the developers’ first game was a Mario clone). Yoshi’s Island & Turrican also have the similarity of giving you mainly long-range attacks.

why do I recognise this pear

name: Vanna nickname: V gender: Genderfluid star sign: Sagittarius height: idk hogwarts house: Slytherin favorite colour: black  favorite colour to paint the walls: black favorite colour of lipstick: black or red  favorite animal: cats time right now: 19:31 favorite fictional character: Yuri Lowell, Allen Walker, Road Kamelot, Noctis, Pagan Min, and loads more but i can’t think of any others rn number of blankets i sleep with: 1 favorite singer/band: My Chemical Romance, Fearless Vampire Killers, Sister Shotgun dream job: singer or something to do with music anyway when was this blog created: Last year in like October?? I had a different one before that I made like 2011? when did your blog reach its peak: it hasn’t i don’t think?? what made you decide to make a tumblr: i don’t remember why did you pick your url: i am trash, i wanted a gender neutral version of trash queen and then my name  last movie you watched: i think The Road To El Dorado last song you listened to: Fall Out Boy - Coffee’s For Closers last book you read: The Wisdom Of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS - Elizabeth Pisani last thing you ate: pizza if you could be anywhere right now, where would it be at: a gig what time would you travel to: 2011

*wario voice* i h a t e y o u