SuperGreatFriend recently attempted to play Michigan: Report from Hell. Despite all the deserved flack this game gets, it’s still amazing how it is never not entertaining. No matter who plays it, or how apathetically. The game is a comedy force.

I’m sharing iconoclast187’s playthrough because I favor his knowledgeable explanations of what’s actually going on.

This movie version is also good.

Neither is complete though. 100% playthroughs are not possible, and it’s a shame to miss any of it.

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I’ve been hanging around some ps1 communities, and no one talks about Sentient, but I still think about it regularly.
SuperGreatFriend’s playthrough is probably the most complete source of information out there for this game. Reminds me of when everyone needed to use MikeNnemonic’s LSD playthrough to research that game… SGF got, I believe, 11 of the possible endings in the game, and there are still questions left unanswered.

This game probably deserves to be right up there with Martian Gothic, and Echo Night for ps1 story gems.
Depending on your attention span, you might want to start on video 5 or 6. There’s a lot of false starts that are inevitable with a game this cryptic.

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Yesterday I caught a Sonic Advance race on GamesDoneQuick. It reminded me how under appreciated Sonic Advance 2 is, despite seemingly everyone in the chat reassuring each other on how amazing it is.

Maybe “under appreciated” is the wrong term, perhaps its too accepted. Not controversial enough. Sonic is a huge brand, so even though the Advance games are an offshoot, there is still a huge amount of people who have played them, and I’m under the impression that the majority have enjoyed it. But when people speculate, albeit less so since Sonic Mania, how Sonic games haven’t really improved since the Genesis days, Sonic Advance is still regularly overlooked.

I’d love to see the Advance games picked apart, or over glamorized, as much as the other Sonic titles. Actually that goes for most of the Sonic portable titles, or at least including the Rush series. There’s just so much there that was brought to the franchise that just seems like it’s fenced off in its own fractioned fandom.

Anyway, here’s an old vid by the Geek Critique which I don’t agree with, but he makes a lot of great points that I think apply better to gaming in general. I’d argue that being a good Sonic game is a bit different than being a good general game, but hairs would need to be split.

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People don’t know how to play Nights. Now I know, but I still can’t do it.

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Quick week.  Some things feel better, other things feel drastically worse.  Big focus on head shapes, I think.  Seems to mean I lost focus on feature proportions.

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