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Video games are not mere time killers. They are albums of sound, aesthetics, animation and narrative.

This community is in appreciation of that. Screenshots, fanart, animations, gameplay clips. It is all welcome here.

The one common thread should be an eye for the aesthetic. This is not a place to discuss mechanics or stats, but to show off simply the artistic, expressed through the video game medium.

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Secret of Mana promotional art (~1993) [REPOST] (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) by tal@olio.cafe to c/gameart@sopuli.xyz
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This is a resubmission of an earlier image I submitted

originally on lemmy.today's pict-rs instance

that later became inaccessible, and where a commenter complained. For some reason, whenever I try to update the image URL to point to an off-site host, lemmy.today tries instead using an URL that proxies through lemmy.today.

Uploading to catbox.moe and then creating a new post using an alternate account on a PieFed home instance as workaround.

EDIT: If I browse this post via lemmy.today, the server still intercepts the image, tries to cache it, and then fails, I assume because it's too large. If anyone else has problems with Lemmy's pict-rs proxy image serving on their own home instance, here's a direct link: https://files.catbox.moe/753253.png

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[–] tio_bira@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

This is the best quality version i've seen this art, are my new wallpaper now

[–] RonnyZittledong@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago

A poster of this came in the box when you bought the game. I had it hanging in my bedroom for years

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 10 hours ago

Love this game so much.

It’s weird that they don’t give you the names in the US version, but you can input them. Randi, Primm, and Popoi for the guy, the girl, and the sprite.

I used to think they were misgendering the sprite, but it’s an agender fae creature that resembles a human child and wears something like a dress (could be a robe).

I wonder if anyone else played like I did. I did love the music but my mother had Enya tapes and I’d listen to them along with the game. Some of those songs really fit! Having Pax Deorum from Memory of Trees playing when you’re in that weird temple… or the witch’s forest… a bit cooler than her more upbeat songs playing during the overworked scenes.

[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 4 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I always wanted to play this game and never got the opportunity. Now I just don't have the time.

[–] tio_bira@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I really recommend the remake, the art style still fantastic, the rearranged musics are perfect (you still can play with the original score), and the gameplay have been rebalanced.

It's available on Steam, PSN and PSVita, also one of the easiest Vita games to emulate on androis "wink, wink"

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I get you, friend. Life gets in the way sometimes.

That said, it's not the 90s anymore and advances in emulation make big games really accessible now. My other half picked up an Anbernic console and it's amazing to play old games with the QoL improvements - the key one being save states.

There's also the option to emulate on a phone but personally I think the lack of physical buttons really hurts the experience - that's a preference thing not a hard and fast rule.

Have a think about it - I used to dismiss big games out of hand based on the time factor, but now I'm finding half an hour here or two twenty minutes sessions an afternoon breaks up the day or a journey.

Just a thought.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I manage to get an hour in with the phone plus a controller with a phone holder attached (8bitdo in my case). It's easy enough to sleep it when needed but you need to be careful it doesn't auto close. Still an attachment, but one I have by my bedside.

Absolutely better than doomscrolling (which I obviously am doing atm, but I'm in-between retro games lol)

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 11 hours ago

There's additional information and discussion on the earlier submission.