I've been enjoying my time with the Sonic Frontiers' Final Horizon update, myself. It's really fun to play as the other characters after nearly two decades of not playing as them, and I think the new challenges the game presents are really fun!

Though, be warned, this update is hard, and I mean HAAARRD. I've seen people call it a "Kaizo" styled update, but really, I think Kaizo hacks tend to be incredibly cheap in their design that I don't think it's accurate. I'd say it's as hard as a Celeste game, nothing wrong with a bit of challenge, like I said, I've been enjoying my time with it, I didn't even mind the two Only Up-styled tower climbs and the trials at the top of them, but it WILL test your skill.

I say the hardest part is the Cyberspace stages, because oh my god, my blood was boiling way more in them than ANYTHING ELSE in the update. I haven't even beaten a single one yet, and I don't think I'll be able to 100% them like I did with the OG ones. They are even harder than everything else the update offers.

But overall, it's still a fun time. It's not hard that I'd say it's unbeatable or impossible or not fun, and I'm still looking forward to doing more of it tomorrow (pray for me in the Cyberspace levels)

Schala's a lovely girl. There's a reason why I love her as much as Iris :)

Funny enough, sometimes I call her "RPG Tikal the Echidna" because of the similarities the two share in respect to their context heh

Also, the ability to share more than one image at once in Newgrounds feels so good to have!

I did a random Fembot Neo-Susie (my own Gijinka Susie) because I woke up early and had a hard time sleeping. She was constantly in my head heh

Have I mentioned that I like Adventure Time? Yeah, I do, and I do find Marceline a lot of fun

It's been ages since I've last watched the show, I need to rewatch it again. In the meantime, have the vampire herself heh

Also, I decided to rewatch some Adventure Time clips, since Nepp gave me the feeling of nostalgia from Fionna and Cake, and I'll be honest...

Hearing Finn's actual English voice after years of listening to the Arabic one (I love in Egypt, for context), which made him sound like a late teen, felt really cursed

A few hours ago, I woke up from my nap with some happy news.

En Ef Tee (intentionally misspelled to avoid bots) market has collapsed completely and every fungible picture there is now worth nothing at all, more writers participate in Writer's Strike against AI, and... I've been blessed with this from Sonic Superstars!

Finally, a canon Team Metal from Sonic Team, and Metal Knuckles from Sonic R is back... oh, and some Metal Sonamy too heh

Last night, I challenged myself to draft sketch every owed art I have, and I managed to do it, didn't think it was possible, but I did it! lol

You probably won't see me do what I did yesterday in a while, but, I still think it was worth it. There are two Twitter raffle sketches that I wanna try & do today, but for the meantime, have some sneak peaks for that Godot thing I wanna make.

I've seen some leaks of a new Xbox Series X model, and honestly, I can't tell if the design here is cool, or if it's the most non-Xbox-looking thing I've seen from Xbox. It's one or the other lol

I'll probably get my hands on that controller though. If it has an option for color-coded buttons, I'll get that heh

I'VE FINALLY PASSED MY DRIVING TEST!! WOOOO!!!!

And now, I bring some sketches I was working on this morning.

We have a (suspicious) Gijinka Bow from Paper Mario, a Rouge from Sonic the Hedgehog, and... a map showing where my Sona lives

Totally don't have a master plan in mind

Did I ever tell you that Peach was a scrapped boss in Sonic & the Black Knight? :)

I'm sorry that I have to put my inner Sonic fanboy in this sketch :)

Also, I saw yesterday's Direct, TTYD Remake is my favorite heh

Dude, I'm not even happy to talk about this, because it's something that I am genuinely upset about, and it's about the Unity installation fee thing.

By just this one decision to charge developers a fee per installed game, they've ruined their reputation in mere seconds more than anything they've done before. People and developers are already seeking alternatives like Godot and Unreal.

This isn't the thing that upsets me, the developers have the right to think about switching engines and I can't blame them for it. What upsets me is that Unity is LITERALLY DOUBLING DOWN on their decision and constantly defending it and... "clarifying" it (yes, the quotation marks are necessary, they're doing terrible at it) instead of doing the opposite and listen to their own community and turn back in the decision.

As someone who's dreamed about making a game in Unity for so long and has seen this happen and unfold, I'm genuinely disappointed