Recent Content by Mercury

Mostly agreed. While I'd love to see the "shonen cool" make a return, "cute Sonic" is also very much a retro aesthetic - I'm thinking of all the...

Hmm, interesting. HPZ is definitely similar in the fact that the last three colours of lines 3 and 4 are the same, but the other ramps are the...

Was this already known? (Quoting from my Twitter) [ATTACH] [ATTACH]

I think this may be less about direct inspiration and more about common tropes at the time. I've contemplated the magical girl connection myself,...

Thanks! The whole Sonic Extractor line needs a refresh, now that I've moved well beyond Game Maker. Ideally they would also have the ability to...

It's neat that the themes that eventually made it into Nights have their roots this far back. It's also cool because you could fold the early...

I'd like to make a revision to the tool that fixes this issue. Can you let me know what the correction process was?

I, too, grew up using the term "debug mode" exclusively, almost certainly as a direct result of US magazines. Specifically, I owned that GamePro...

When I was working on The One Ring / ReadySonic, I extended the layout of Marble Zone Act 2 just a tad, so it wouldn't be quite as abrupt and it...

Was having a conversation about the minutiae of how 1-ups are awarded in the classic games and discovered this: Flags are set when you get a life...

Thanks for this. More people should be aware of these legal details. Just because something seems like it's morally "fair use", doesn't mean it's...

The art in Major Magnet is gorgeous. Unlike some others, I wasn't disappointed that Mania was pixels and not HD, but after looking at this I'm...

We should start calling the developers Mania Team or something, so that everyone gets credit. Too often I hear people just say Taxman, and even...

Okay, let's talk about the game itself then. I don't think many people have addressed this yet: I do hope the game is challenging. In none of the...

No, I'm nowhere close to saying that they're going to do anything. I'm wondering if there might be an elevated risk. Companies are forced into...