The Flipside of Gaming
This is a double preview of Coven and Tarnished Blood, Coven was played with a retail key, Tarnished was played with a press key. Both games are in early access and what you see may not represent the current version.
0:00 Intro
00:17 Coven
4:23 Tarnished Blood
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I know, lots of posts on this blog end up being about Nintendo in one way or other, but their corporate stance of toymakers, regardless of its truth, means they often do interesting things, and one category of those things is having special animations when you delete save files. But deleting save files is destructive, obviously, so many people never see them. Here’s a video compilation of some of them. Of particular note is the deletion process of Animal Crossing games (yes, them again!), and of all of those there’s the one for the original Gamecube version, which pretty much implies you’re killing your village’s inhabitants. A pretty heavy trip to lay on a kid! Here’s that video, from Nintendo Unity (9 minutes):
