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Have you ever loved something, only to realize it’s a commercial flop or just obscure? What’s something that deserves more light than it got?

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[-] dkppunk@piefed.social 1 points 18 minutes ago

Games: Epistory and Nanotale. Both typing games from Fishing Cactus. Absolutely beautiful games that have interesting stories and you get to practice with your typing skills. I love both of these games so much.

Tv: Sliders. It was fairly popular when it was running and got kind of weird at the end, but I love that show. It was one that my family got together to watch every episode each week when they were on broadcast. I was also part of an early online petition to save the show and move it to the SciFi channel. I was also part of the early online petition to save MST3K, back when online petitions actually worked.

Movie: Ghostbusters Answer the Call. People will disagree with me but I unapologetically DGAF. That movie is hilarious and I love putting it on when I work out. It’s a far better Ghostbusters movie than the last two garbage ones that were put out. It has everything from the original: dark adult horror comedy about scientists who save the world. The last two were not true GB movies, they are family friend teen coming of age movies with a plot that depended so heavily on nostalgia that they felt like a crappy cash grab. ATC is my second favorite GB movie behind only the original. Holtzman is my hero!

[-] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 1 points 30 minutes ago

Within a Deep Forest Freeware, came out in 2006, by Nifflas. You're a ball.

Love the soundtrack, love the controls, love the design. It's perfect.

[-] MusicSoulEdu@lemmy.ca 2 points 58 minutes ago

Stella Glow!

I played it on the 3DS. The story is pretty good, the music is gorgeous, some of it is voice-acted, and I loved the JRPG and dating sim elements.

Apart from my spouse, I cannot find anyone else who has heard of, let alone played, the game so I can geek out with them over it. 😭

[-] early_riser@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 55 minutes ago)

Not a single piece of media, but I want to make an apologia on behalf of amateur sci fi writing. No the prose isn't going to wow you, but I love seeing other people's unfiltered imagination at work.

I'm very much into worldbuilding, and I'll devour fan wikis without even consuming the source material. My knowledge of Warhammer 40K and D&D is almost exclusively from various wikis. Seeing regular people build their own little paracosms, with or without accompanying art or fiction, I find very engrossing.

As for actual media, judging by how little representation the series gets in the US, I'd say Custom Robo. I thoroughly enjoyed the single entry on GameCube that Nintendo localized here.

[-] Astrius@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 hours ago

Foundation on Apple TV is a visually beautiful show and follows the books generally well with a few caveats.

[-] VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 hour ago

I haven't read the books, so I can't comment on that, but wow, Lee Pace kills it as Day.

And shout out to Jared Harris for being in this and The Expanse

[-] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

This show keeps popping on my radar and I mean to snag it, and then, as with many things in my life, it disappears into the void.

[-] Astrius@lemmy.ml 1 points 58 minutes ago

Absolutely check it out.

[-] spudsrus@aussie.zone 6 points 2 hours ago

Cloud Atlas is my usual mention.

Favourite movie and it's usually a fairly even split between people like myself who love it and people who think it's garbage.

Not much middle ground

[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 1 points 58 minutes ago

Gomi, an early $5 iOS game that involved eating successively larger objects until an objective was reached, utilizing the tilt feature. It had so much potential to be a game with a medium to large speedrun/highscore community.

[-] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 hour ago

TUNIC

It looks like a cutesy Zelda clone, but it's so much more than that. It's dark with extremely atmospheric music. It is a "knowledge-based" game, with metroidvania/Zelda aspects.

The puzzles are phenomenal, and I don't think it can ever be replicated.

[-] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

I just finished up Deaths Door and watching that video really reminded me of it. Looks fun, thanks for sharing.

[-] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

I liked Death's Door. TUNIC is far better, IMO.

[-] early_riser@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Story time:

I had just beat Hollow Knight and was messing with Elden Ring, and the oppressive souls-like atmosphere was getting a little stale, so I went browsing the steam store looking for something more upbeat. Oh what's this? A cute little Zelda clone? Sounds like just what the doctor ordered.

No. No it wasn't.

Not only was it another souls-like, deciphering that writing system absolutely consumed me, to the point I had to uninstall the game for a while because I was losing sleep over it.

spoilerI'm 99% sure Trunic is based on the Shavian alphabet. Both scripts are phonemic writing systems for English. Both use rotated letters to contrast voiced and unvoiced consonants, but the real clue for me is that both Trunic and Shavian use single letters for rhotic vowels.

Oh, but the music is great. And I really one other devs to go further with the "manual as gameplay" concept.

[-] octobob@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 hours ago

How to with John Wilson is one of the best shows that has a very simple premise. He basically just finds odd things happening around NYC and gives commentary, advice, and self-reflection, and is very funny.

[-] PillBugTheGreat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Day of the Triffids

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Joe Pera Talks With You

It's a treasure and it's hard to get people to watch it. I've watched the series all the way through at least four times, by now. It's sadly short, so not too hard to do.

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 2 hours ago

His weird grandfather appeal totally worked for me. A man operating at a quieter/calmer frequency than the chaotic world around him, completely at peace with his lot in life.

I think I like what he represents, more than who he is

[-] ideonek@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

He Who Fights With Monsters litRPG adventure. Amazing book disguised as simple fun.

[-] ideonek@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

PeopleWatching. Im acctively mad that it doesn't get a fraction of the attention it deserves.

https://youtu.be/avckLOJR8BY

[-] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

Planet of the Apes - the French book that spawned all the films an shows.

[-] ramsgrl909@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Triangle is an independent movie made in 2009 - so good. First found it on YouTube for free, I believe i recently saw it on peacock

[-] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I enjoyed this flick. Went through a phase of movies dealing with the concept that is at the core of this one, I enjoy them.

[-] LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago

You're gonna think I'm weird, but star vs the forces of evil. It's a trip. It's so creative and different. Watched it with my youngest and my grandson.

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[-] mattyroses@lemmy.today 5 points 4 hours ago

Don't Trust The B in Apt 23

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

There's this indie game called The Gap. It's about a man who is trying to find the cure to Huntington's disease to save his family. He discovers that déjà vu is one's own memories from a parallel universe. He uses this knowledge to search other realities to find the cure. It's a slow burn but it's so good.

This is actually one of my favorite games and it has the third place spot after Silent Hill 2 and SOMA. This isn't a horror game just to be clear. I haven't seen anyone talk about this game which is a real shame. I highly recommend it!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1458300/The_Gap/

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