u/FirefighterSad2370

I am seriously loving my playthrough of Tomba 2 so far, but this Trolley segment I swear came straight from Hell.

Maybe I just suck at this lol, but it feels like one of, if not THE hardest objective in Tomba 2, possibly the whole series. Oh and the trolley guy mocks you for giving up and laughs, it's like they scientifically crafted the most evil objective in the game

Don't get me wrong, the first game is great, I'm not finished with the second game yet so my opinion might change (currently in circus village), but so far? I think I prefer Tomba 2

The puzzles feel less cryptic, The low poly graphics I think actually aged quite well, especially with that style coming back into fashion, this game looks great. The voice acting is delightfully bad, and I love the new items such as the suits, especially the flying squirrel suit. Maybe my opinion will change by the end, but this one seems to be clicking with me a lot more

I just made it to this world and I already want to leave

This is just Clanker's Cavern if it REALLY fucking hated you

Whenever people talk about Disney films, this one is rarely brought up, and with a title like "The Brave Little Toaster", you wouldn't expect much.... right?

While it does have a lot of cute and comedic moments you'd expect, there are A LOT of surprisingly really intense moments with a shockingly high death count on screen. Sad moments don't even have music half the time, it's just a character realizing that one of his friends may have died or that there is no purpose to life and they are useless.

The songs are also legimately great, with my favorite being "Worthless", seriously, give it a listen. When they arrive at the junkyard, each of the sentient cars sing about the life they once had and didn't expect to be abandoned once their usefulness expired, and as they are singing, are carried away to be executed. it's also a banger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqT2uOa1-d0&list=RDFqT2uOa1-d0&start_radio=1

The flower scene is also worth mentioning, none of the characters are kind to Blanky and find his loneliness annoying with a lack of compassion, but once they arrive in the forest, the toaster encounters a sentient flower that he accidentally kills from breaking it's heart, the flower is the same color as Blanky and the toaster begins to feel deep regret about how they treated him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8kQDNLkT3c

I’m cis, so I recognize that trans viewers may have a different perspective, but something I appreciate about Jax being trans is that the writing still allows Jax to be genuinely cruel, selfish, and deeply flawed.

Jax’s identity provides context for some of the repression and self hatred, but it doesn’t excuse the awful things Jax does entirely. Sometimes representation can feel overly cautious about allowing marginalized characters to be seriously unlikeable because writers don’t want to reinforce stereotypes. Jax instead feels like an actual character, not a symbol who has to demonstrate perfect behavior. To me, that makes the representation feel more human, not less.

I was actually really optimistic at the start of season 9, as the team ups were a fun addition and I love the new characters. However, as the meta developed, this is the first season in awhile where I don't even feel like playing the game anymore because of how unfun it is, taking a lot of steps backwards from the past few seasons:

-Character diversity is worse than ever despite the larger roster, there's a big power gap between the top tiers and the rest of the cast, it feels like all the roles have fewer viable characters than ever and it's creeping into all levels of play

-You either never die or blow up in 1 second, outside of the support ult spam in team fights, you got characters like black cat with little to no counterplay

-The visual clutter, this one I've talked about a lot, but the visual clutter is insane right now, Half the time I can't even see what I'm doing in team fights, bubbles, particles etc. just engulfing the screen

Especially for being "newer" characters, they aren't that old and they've already been thrown in the dumpster balance wise.

Sure Devil Dino was overtuned on release, but he got half a season, HALF A SEASON to be good and then gutted him ever since. Whitefox is honestly one of the coolest designed strategists, she got maybe a season or so of being decent, but is now a throw pick basically.

Cyclops? I almost forgot he existed and this is Cyclops we're talking about, he was also good on release, then just took an absolute nosedive.

HONORABLE MENTION: Jeff, I'm honestly surprised Jeff got thrown in the dumpster too, as he was always the cute, goofy pseudo mascot character for the game. Even his team ups are lame

I'm a tank main, but have a pocket Rocket/Ultron incase I need to fill. However, Ultron is a triple support character and Rocket doesn't feel too great this season, figured I'd try Jubilee myself since the other strategists never interested me much.

Idk how much time I'll invest in the character, but man is she fun to play, I can see now why there's so many Jubilees in my matches lol, even just her left click rapid fire is pure dopamine with the sound effects, zipping around healing people while pew pew pew fireworks

I couldn't help but notice that outside of the missing hat and shirt, nature has produced an uncomfortably similar character design to their mascot

This could change overtime, and I use the blade team up usually, but so far? Not too bad, the swing CD can feel noticeable in certain situations, but otherwise he still feels like a strong character

As a Devil Dino main, I always put on the Jeff costume for Quickplay. But my Jeffs never wear the Devil Landshark skin back.

I'm still early into trying it out so this opinion might change, but early impressions so far? Definately feels better and I'm curious about it's potential in a defensive playstyle, but the punisher team up still feels less team reliant. It's hard to argue with that range and poke potential to round out his kit.

I will admit though, an anti dive tank that can heal teammates while still dishing out damage simultanously? I like that both team ups offer different niches like that. For example, I was able to defend my healer from a diver, but it wasn't just me intercepting, I was also healing my healers so they could continue to do their job without self healing. I'm already used to very defensive playstyles, so I kinda want to mess with the team up more and see where it goes.

I tried it. Incredible damage even after the nerfs, enormous healthpool, the laser beams, displacing enemies by carrying them in your mouth

This is like if Devil Dino's Jeff skin looked like a shark, but had cat ears