Will you be playing his game?

I don't play puzzle games :/

>>715468535 (OP)
He's making 3 different expressions depending on what set ot 2 points you consider his eyes. For me? It's glasses + crying.

Yeah I'll give it a shot.

Yes. Matthew's videos are still in a category of their own and have helped me hone my own writing. Even though his game doesn't really fit my tastes I will still buy it to support Matthew cause he's given the public so much with his videos yet he's still insanely underappreciated

>>715468535 (OP)
>Spent half a decade making his own engine so he could make some puzzle game that looks like it could've been put together in GameMaker over the course of a few weeks
Why do all of the pseudointellectuals /v/ worships always turn out like this?

>>715468535 (OP)
Yea, I'm playing his game. Can't believe he actually made one.

I have a tests IQ of 83 so know

>>715468535 (OP)
Only if it includes the word nigger.

>>715468535 (OP)
Yeah, it's gonna be $5 so no reason not to buy it if only to support all the videos he's made over the years.

>>715468535 (OP)
How did people even find out about this? It doesn't look like he's posted about it on social media.

>>715468535 (OP)
What game?

>>715469825
Patreon post some week ago. Shit's free, so a lot of people subscribed to get updates.

>>715469113
GameMaker games don't run on the original GameBoy.
>>715469825
He's been posting about it on his Patreon, which you can follow for free
>>715469868
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3816700/Logic_Bombs/

>>715468535 (OP)
yea, need to train my brain anyway, so what could be better for that than a Zacklike
that said, I'm not sure how to feel about the fact that he publishes the game under his youtube moniker. feel like he could've promoted the game on his youtube but not make his studio name matthewmatosis and the trailer narrated by his voice. that's too much "ah, yea that youtuber" for me when the game itself (not the marketing ofc) would ideally be disconnected from all that.

>>715469916
>GameMaker games don't run on the original GameBoy.
Ah yes, that's a very important consideration when you're releasing a game in the year 2025.

>>715469916
>logic boms
Are those related to TRVTH NUKES?

>>715470656
So, what, developer intent doesn't matter and indies should just make whatever is most commercially viable?
Let the man practice his programming and gain a foundation. Now his next game can be more complex and he won't be tied down by a third party like YoYo Games/Opera/the CCP.

>>715470656
it's not important RIGHT NOW
but if you understand Matt's kind of autism, you'll understand why.
as time passes, the past becomes more and more compressed in people's minds. mozart, chopin and satie are all considered classical music, right? but none of them were even alive at the same time.
so from Matt's perspective, if it was the year 2130, and someone would go back ans try out some classic Gameboy games, then it wouldn't actually matter to them whether it was released in 1998 or 2025 because it was so long ago that they came out within the same era. a person in 2130 wouldn't know the feeling of "oh, they stopped making game boy games in 2000 though", it wouldn't mean anything to them. and then if we look at it from the year 3000 then they may as well have been released on the same day.

>>715471427
so people in 2130 are going to be browsing steam to download roms to play on the original game boy? sounds very logical

>>715471427
As good of a point as that is in that video, I think the guy just wanted to make a GB game because it's simple.

>>715468535 (OP)
?

what happened to the sidescroller he was making?

Will the game have achievements?

>>715468535 (OP)
probably, i'll play it regardless but i don't know if people will bother to crack what i assume will be just steam drm.
>>715469916
Did he elaborate on how he made this game? Was it made on fucking assembly? That would be impressive.

>>715471427
i understand your point but why did you feel the need to quote fucking Matthew lmao

>>715471427
People aren't looking back on gameboy games now, with the exception of the big first party titles and Tetris

>>715472617
first of all, I paraphrased, and secondly, why would I not use his words when I'm just stating his own point? do you want me to, like, change around the example to make it look like i came up with it myself? that would just be pretentious.

I've been seeing you e-celeb worshipping cocksuckers post this guy's avatar for close to a decade and I still don't know, or care, who it is.

>>715472925
nobody asked

>>715472401
Put on hold, turns out making a Metroidvania with only 2 people is pretty hard.
It makes sense to release something smaller first anyways, since it means he gains better fundamentals on developing/releasing a game and Mitosis has more time to work on art.
>>715472536
He didn't mention it in his Q&A post but he did say he would like to do a commentary on the development of the game down the road.
>>715472726
Pokemon Red/Blue are still very loved and looked back on. Link's Awakening to a lesser degree but enough to get a modern remake.

>>715473201
>Metroidvania
It's very clearly a goblike!

Wait, wasn't he doing a platformer?

>>715473391
that was like 3 shelved ideas ago and he said that ghost and goblins resurrections basically did what he wanted to do so there's no need for that game anymore

>>715472925
Frankly, the only good game reviewer. Not the only entertaining game related video maker, but the only one who's always right games.

>>715473073
I don't care. You saw it and responded.

>>715472852
i just wanted you to say normally, it read like an AI for two paragraphs.

>>715473596
about* games.

>>715473596
>but the only one who's always right
History will vindicate him when we have the ability to control the camera without the right analog stick.

>>715473201
Hello, Matthew, will your game have achievements?

>>715473728
I'm from the future, and he was right again

>>715472925
I always find this funny. It's like yahtzee feeling the need to go "uhh, everybody, i didn't do a video on undertale because of this". This weird fucking need for people to give you attention because you didn't care about something. Hopefully i'll never be like you.

>>715473832
I am not Matthew but I assume not since that would require using Steam's DRM and you shouldn't need an extrinsic motivator like that anyways. What would they even be, an achievement for every 16 levels beaten?

Matthew still has his tripcode on his YT profile lol
I wonder when the last time was that he even used it? Probably 10 years.

>>715474365
No achievements in 2025 are a dealbreaker for a lot of people, you should really consider it man, I doubt it would take a lot of work, just add at least 2 achievements, one for beating the tutorial and one for beating the entire game.

>>715474523
not a single person who cares about achievements would play a logic puzzle game

>>715474435
it was actually in 2020

>>715474523
It's a fucking GameBoy nonogram game. Do you actually think there is a single fuck given about mainstream appeal?

>>715474719
>>715474837
I mean I care, it would be nice to have on my achievement list an achievement for beating 160 fucking puzzles and show it off to people. I'll spend hours solving those puzzle and in the end I'll get nothing to prove that I've done it.

>>715475046
Why do you even play video games? This is a serious question. You don't have to reply, but actually consider it.

>>715468535 (OP)
Yeah, that's the exact type of puzzle game I like
I'm happy for Matt and I'm happy he made something I actually want to play

>>715475046
nice bait

>>715475149
I won't avoid a game just because it doesn't have achievements, but it's a bummer that I'll never be able to have proof on my profile that I finished 160 puzzles. I honestly doubt it would take much effort to add achievements to a game.

Happy he's made a real video game and releasing it, sad we probably won't see Mushido finsihed in the coming 10 years.
I was genuinely excited for the concept of a Castlevania-ish game featuring cool bugs. The concept art looked really neat.

>>715475915
>Castlevania-ish
that's not what it was at all. it was a ghost and goblins like

>>715468535 (OP)
No, it looks like some mid flash game that runs on a TI-83

>>715476284
It's called soul.

>>715476235
>ghost and goblins like
does he like those? which one is his favorit gng?

>>715476284
it's funny that you said it looks like a flash game, tower of heaven is the only one i remember that kinda looks like that.

>>715475915
>concept of a Castlevania-ish game featuring cool bugs
that's literally hollow knight

>>715476235
>>715476565
Not Castlevania as in SotN, but like Rondo of Blood Castlevania. Classicvania.
I heard it described as a mic of CV and GnG, but they are pretty close to each other anyway.

>>7154765651
Matthew invented the word "metroidvania", so shhh

>>715476663
no, he quite literally said that ghost and goblins resurrection was basically what he wanted to make, and that he now feels like that market gap has been filled by that game and Mushido is no longer "needed" to fill that gap.
which btw is not me saying he scrapped the game because of that, that's not the kind of "need" this is.

>>715468535 (OP)
Unironically who.

>>715468842
You're autistic, the eyes can only be under his eyebrows. the other holes are nostrils.

can some patreonfag post what the gameplay actually looks like?

>>715477424
The Steam page is the only footage that's been released.

>>715477424
just open the steam page?

>>715468535 (OP)
when it comes out i will be too rich and famous to play computer games

>>715469916
It just about looks like what I’d expect from him. It’s going to be mechanically thoughtful, simple but deep, and soulless in the presentation department.

>>715477424
huh? patreonfags still exist when he hasn't made videos consistently in 4 years or something?

>>715469916
neat, looks like a fun little puzzler. A smart first release for matt. I like that he seems to better understand scope than when he first started full-time gamedev

>>715475915
man i wish he'd make a more linear adventure game rather than vania-slop. I hate backtracking and get the item to get the powerup to get the key to open the door to lower the drawbridge.

either be a puzzle game or be an action game. no one has EVER had fun doing the backtracking item-usage parts of a metroidvania

>>715477587
well their likely just funding his game development

>>715477819
>man i wish he'd make a more linear adventure
That was literally the idea, yes. It's a ''Walk slowly to the right and hit stuff'' game.

>>715477912
oh i was under the impression it was more "get the item to backtrack to unlock the door to get the item" stuff. Glad he's focused on combat.

>>715477819
good for you then because that anon is a retard, and it's not anything vania, just a linear hardcore precision platformer

>>715468535 (OP)
he's gonna give me a key

>>715478086
>it's not anything vania
He described it as such multiple times and actually just used a Castlevania sprite as a placeholder.
Ghosts 'n' Goblins and Classicvania games are the same style of action platformer.

>>715476463
he played the shit out of SNES and resurrection on stream, but i think they all offer about the same thing to him. he just wants more of it.

>>715468535 (OP)
Yus

I dont care about his game at all. I just want him to make videos.

>>715476463
He's really fond of Resurrection. There was also a really fun Halloween stream where he played through Castlevania Bloodlines and Ghouls & Ghosts back to back, finishing with Rocket Knight Adventures.
I think he was getting a bit tipsy during it, because there are some good rants about cameras and Wonderful 101 being way better than anyone will believe.

>>715472536
it's literally just going to have a gameboy rom in the install dir.

>>715468535 (OP)
NO. I don't play e-celeb garbage.

I was thinking of sending Matthew an email asking him some questions. Not sure if he'll answer but anything you guys want me to ask?
>>715478625
The camera rants are my favorite.

>>715478190
give it to me
i'm your friend
>>715478675
IIRC he made a pc port as well. I just want more colours.

>>715478787
My only question would be if he lurks these threads. But i think that would be a surefire way of getting ignored lol

>>715478625
I thoroughly enjoy all of matts stuff and and find myself agreeing with almost all of his opinions

however i will never understand his autism for wonderful 101. its just pretty pretty good. a solid 8.5/10 i mean yeah the presentation and cutscenes and tone and character of the game are all ace

but the combat never really felt like anything that special to me. I think the gimmick of drawing to form the proper weapon for a situation is neat but i dont think it adds much to the game in terms of making the combat more satisfying, and the drawing can actually be kind of frustrating at times

>>715478832
>I just want more colours.
Then use a GameBoy Colour emulator :^)

>>715478905
I think everyone just has that one game that they really fucking love, but at least Matthew is able to explain why.
It's not a game I like too much, but when you consider some of the points he's made about cameras and action games and how they control, it starts to click why he fancies W101 so much.
It's clearly a very well thought out game and has a ton of charm.

>>715478903
He hasn't posted in a while but he probably still lurks. You can never leave.

>>715479154

>>715468535 (OP)
Only once he releases his Mario Odyssey and MGSV reviews

get to it you lazy mick fuck

>>715479383
>You can never leave
That's not true, because I did.

>>715479295
>some of the points he's made about cameras and action games and how they control
Where? I wanna watch that video.

>>715481072
Joseph Anderson's Odyssey critique is already the golden standard for that game.

>>715468535 (OP)
No, he's a fucking retard and patient 0 for the fart sniffing retarded overlong video essay epidemic we are currently suffering from.

>>715472925
you are not missing out on anything

>>715481072
I've been rewatching his stuff recently and as much as I would've liked those I don't know if there's much he can say about them.

>>715484546
there's always something to say.

>>715481967
Don't have much else to do, so I tried to find some timestamps. Outside the obvious W101 review, or the Context Sensitivity video.

Bayo 3: https://youtu.be/v83DUNlL7XA?t=7215

Bloodlines/GnG/Rocket Knight Adventures: https://youtu.be/ZKaZLhIsULY?t=19578

I know there are more examples, but for now I can't really be bothered to find them.

How does /v/ do it? Even with all its flaws it still manages to maintain a level of quality far above the other media boards

>>715472925
Okay.

i wonder if he’ll give it out for free at christmas like concernedape

>>715479383
I have a headcanon that he still posts. You sometimes read very eloquent or well thought out posts on games he has an interest on which mirror talking points in his videos. The last one I think was on the DS2 threads last week, and some sentiments sometimes echo his thoughts on Kojima games.

>>715487625
He doesn't strike me as the type of person who would be posting here anymore, but who knows?
Personally, I think you got it backwards. Matthew is fairly popular on /v/ and there are a lot of aspiring vidya critics here who do put some amount of effort into their posts.
Thinking that makes me feel a little more hopeful that there will eventually be one other person who can make good YT analysis videos and it would mean he's played a small part in making that happen. It would be nice.

>>715468535 (OP)
Yeah, I already played Wonderful 101. Great game.

>>715487979
Sometimes I get tempted to make videos but don't really want to. The last thing I need is any kind of notoriety or following. Disseminating ideas here and seeing them catch on is good enough for me.

>>715468535 (OP)
>mathewmatossis
truly the "tim pool" of video game reviewers
(i.e. astroturfed midwit with almost nothing to contribute to the conversation.)

>>715469825
Patreon + he's done a thousand videos about it on his alternate channel.

>>715468535 (OP)
No. Can't stand puzzle games.
It's the only genre apart from sport that i just ignore completely.
I played the shit out of tetris on a gameboy for years back in the day, i don't need another puzzle game in my life ever again.

>>715472401
He realised he had bitten off more than he could chew, dropped it, and started making a puzzle game instead.

>>715476463
He has never played the arcade version of GnG which infuriates me because it's hands down the best game in the entire series by a long margin.

>>715488628
and who does have something to contribute to the conversation?

>>715477554
It's less "soulless" and more he's not an artist so there's no real point in trying to make something elaborate in the presentation department.

>>715489115
lmao and he said he played all the monster hunters this year, like man keep some of this shit to yourself

>>715489115
What is the difference between the arcade and the Mega Drive version?

>>715488628
He made the best review of pic related out of anyone, years before it was released.

>>715488895
if you've played a treasure game, you've played a puzzle game.

>>715468535 (OP)
I'll get out of my comfort zone and give it a real, earnest shot. I liked his channel back in the day and want him to succeed.

>>715485285
That Castlevania Bloodlines timestamp unironically blew my fucking mind when I was watching. I genuinely think that's his greatest take, better than "if you're not on the ground you can't jump". The fact that it leads onto him talking about eating cereal off his own head just makes it funnier.
>>715489549
Impressive, that's more than what the majority of Monster Hunter "fans" have played.
I wonder what he thinks of Dos.

>>715489549
>>715490475
Which weapon did he main?

>>715490475
>The fact that it leads onto him talking about eating cereal off his own head just makes it funnier.
This shit cracked me the fuck up. It's probably the most pants-on-head retarded thing he's ever said, but maybe there is something to being a bit more impulsive and doing silly harmless things like that for the experience.

I wish him the best, but it's not the kind of game I'm interested in playing.
He's the second best game video maker, after ourest of our guys Instig8.

>>715489549
Where did he say that?

>>715491346
>Instig8
He made a video on cinematic games 10 years ago that I found actually kinda interesting, but it got completely scrubbed off the internet.
You don't happen to know where I can find it again, do you, completely anonymous poster?

>>715491443
Backed up on my HDD, of course.
Also here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dW_rof6rzE

>>715491640
I actually think he was cooking here. Shame he decided to quit, or go underground as someone else, because it's still a good video.
I can understand not wanting to keep the channel as it was maybe a bit too closely connected to GamerGate and even if he moved away from that type of content, it'd follow him for a long time.
I hope he's doing alright wherever he is and whatever he's doing.

>>715492595
Yeah, the initial point about moviegames and movie+games is great.

>>715469916
This tryhard 3deep5u vidya essayist faggot finally makes his own video game and it's fucking MINESWEEPER?
Fucking LOL

>>715489923
He failed to predict the open world and just how much it would make a boring game worse.

i did not care for dark souls
maybe try to gather some vim before talking, who even wants to hear the most monotone motherfucker on the planet

I wonder what he's changing.
Also looks like he improved the text on all the banners and whatnot. New logo looks a lot better.

>>715494441
The kerning on the logo is kinda bugging me.

>>715494583
All the space between the G I and C? Yeah. I get what he's going for with the grid but maybe using an Ɪ would be better due to the kerning

>>715494746
Also if he makes a sequel he can use "LOGꞮꞮC BOMBS"

>>715475915
>>715477819
Sounds like Curse of the Moon with the character playing like Zangetsu powered up with soul abilities.

>>715494746
would've made more sense to just use a monospace font i'd think

so is it any good

>>715493973
The open-world is the best part of Elden Ring, even Matthew would agree, he loved the freedom that Dark Souls had to go to like 8 different maps from Firelink Shrine.

>>715496715
It's not about the font it's about the fact that each letter is placed on a grid as an analogue to the game itself

>>715475915
The bug bow enemy is inventive.

>>715489115
Ghouls and Resurrection are better than the GnG arcade. I like them all, but the original is less refined. It only beats out Super since it's not as focused on platforming.

>>715489661
The Mega Drive game is a port of Ghouls 'n Ghosts, the 1988 sequel.
The original is Ghosts 'n Goblins from 1985. It got a shitty NES port.
The MD port of Ghouls is actually good, Yuji Naka ported it himself since he liked the game so much.

The first two games were arcade originals. Super Ghouls is the 3rd game, which was released only on SNES. All 3 are distinct games.

>>715469916
the system requirements put a smile on my face

>wonderful 101
>very well thought out game

>>715496953
monospace means that the letters are all the same width, which to me seems to be the problem with the font he chose.
it's really not that bad of a logo, i really wouldn't get too up in arms over it, but it seems like an obvious thing that i would've tried if i were him.
the 'pop' that the different sized letters have has an obvious appeal from an eyecatch perspective, as well.

Going to bet that this will turn out like Baba Is Kusoge, an apparent logical game where the rules are laid out but the dev is a seething tard and breaks them and patches anything out that outsmarts him

>>715498396
Source?

>>715498253
Explain why you think otherwise.

>>715498785
Look at what happened with Baba is You

>>715498853
>interrupts your action game with shitty minigames every two minutes
>the minigames are just references and not even done well
>you have to farm in an action game
>if you shoot out a unique wonderful one then you can't use their special morph and there's no way to know
>the first portrait cut in indicating a special move in the boss fight is the exception to the rule, despite being the first one
etc etc

>>715498873
I'm asking for a source on your claim that the dev patched out unintended solutions to the puzzles (and that he seethed while doing so). Go on, I'll wait.

>>715498987
Because he literally did?

>>715499018
Ok, so you have no source for any of your claims, thank you for conceding the argument.

10 years later and MM still has the best game analyst going. No gimmicks, no marketing, just dumps the essay and walks away.

>>715499051
https://www.reddit.com/r/BabaIsYou/comments/qxw2va/which_levels_had_significant_changes_in_the/
Sigh

>>715499097
>leddit
ok retard

>>715468535 (OP)
I just finished Viewtiful Joe on emudeck, so now I feel like I can finally try out W101.

>>715499182
>ask for proof
>get shown it
>n-not like that!!!
Most intelligent Babafag

>>715499097
Where's the seething? Where's the proof that those levels were changed because the dev felt "outsmarted"? You're making a lot of assumptions, kid.

>>715481072
>>715484546
>>715484617
Did Matt ever give his thoughts on Odyssey? IIRC he's said he's mixed/negative on MGSV for the obvious reasons.

Odyssey I'm assuming he really liked considering everything he said in his 3D Mario reviews.

>>715468535 (OP)
Can't wait for his game to be shit so he and his shit takes can be forgotten by everyone.
>Contextual button interractions bad
>99% of the highest rated games(some by himself) has tons of contextual button interractions
Holy pseudo intellectualism

>le jumping is a contextual action
Was Matt always a pretentious pseud or did he evolve into one?

>>715499537
>black and white thinking
>appeal to popularity
retard

Odyssey feels like the most baby esque 3d Mario, and it isn't even close. I am shocked more people don't have that opinion.

>>715499671
3D World is more babified

>>715499434
What does he say in his 3D Mario reviews?

>>715499671
Been years since I played it, doesn't it have by far the least amount of platforming of any 3d mario? You're just running around massive open terrain mostly, and the jumps that are there you can't really fuck up.

>>715499774
Movement good. Exploring 3D levels and focus on platforming good.

>>715469916
looks like a puzzle bomberman. Neat

>>715499891
Wow, such deep and insightful analysis.

>>715499434
>Odyssey I'm assuming he really liked considering everything he said in his 3D Mario reviews.
It's a regression in terms of camera controls thoughbeit.

>>715500024
Watch the videos retard

>>715500065

bump

>>715469103
lol

>>715481518
And now look where you are.