Great philosophers don’t get kissed, silly. (Actually Nietzsche himself likely said something like that.)

Now I’m even more scared

Yep, I’ve never had major problems with platforming on HK. I do have some NES platformer background, but the bosses are beating me up countless times. Same happened with Metroid Dread, didn’t have big issues with previous Metroids but Dread bosses had become insanely difficult compared to the former games. I guess there’s nowadays some soulslike crossover trend happening on metroidvanias causing this melee difficulty ramp-up. I haven’t played souls games so it has came as a shock for me.

Anyway, I have found workarounds in HK. Whenever I get stuck on some boss I keep exploring the map further and find powerups which then make the fighting difficulty seem more balanced again. Luckily HK allows really versatile nonlinear progression.

Lol, that has some pre-Switch Nintendo naming energy

I’ve seen you everywhere, or maybe it’s just my Metroid fanboy eyes picking up…

GTA2 moment

Super and Echoes might be my favourites as well. Also shoutout to Fusion and Zero Mission. They were good too, although they owe so much to Super.

Metroid 2 turned its technical limitations into claustrophobic feeling. It has aged surprisingly well if you disregard the visuals. I started my Metroids with Prime, but og M2 is the oldest I have actually played through. NEStroid has many outdated features that makes the gaming impractical like starting with 30 health, slow healing, save system, difficulty curve etc. Playing M2 felt closer to Super than NES. The spider ball was also neat. I even liked the experimental soundtrack even though that’s an unpopular opinion.

Despite ideological relatedness they really weren’t in good terms. China and Soviet Union even had an armed border conflict in 1969. They’ve also had those old area disputes still in 2000s as well.

Public platforms could still have issues with privacy too. The platform could profile its users, sell that information and bombard targeted ads or algorithm curated content at users. These aren’t a thing here in Lemmy or elsewhere fediverse, other than Threads…

Linux Mint already has an alternative Debian edition maintained.