Slime Salad

Mentioning enemies being affected by status effects/being worn down some already when you encounter them reminds me of Doom Gaze from FF6 and the "running" legendary Pokémon in the main-series Pokémon games, who don't get their HP restored when they run from you. I'm not sure about Doom Ga...

Pretty good issue overall. Another review/retrospective of one of those old games I've seen on the CP gamelist before but never played, lots of stuff to read ("Stupid Battle Gimmicks" is a really great idea for one of those articles that continues through multiple issues), and lots of art-...

Is "nopoping" even a word? Spell-check says it isn't, but...

What would it even mean? Nopoping... no-pope-ing... not being the Pope?

Whoa, those town graphics look great. Walkabouts are good, too. A lot of the class names sound kind of awkward and too-long to me, though. I mean, there's a few I can't find any problem with (Mad Scientist, Iron Lung, Troubadour, Maestro); they're not typical RPG classes by any means, but the names ...

There's already a Mother 4 fangame in progress. More like half a dozen of them... unless maybe the others all changed their names to avoid sharing their titles with all the other Mother 4s. Or they've been abandoned already. Anyway, yeah, just calling it Mother 4 probably wouldn't be a good idea. M...

FF6 style "limit breaks"~chain normal attacks using the percentage option condition with HP as the stat value. you'd probably need to have each character use their own unique weapons for this, though... I actually had these in my fangame contest entry that didn't go anywhere, along with r...

I had completely forgotten about the PC version of Mario is Missing (actually, I think I even forgot that there was a PC version of Mario is Missing...)

I guess I must have assumed it was the CD-i Mario because of how everything from the CD-i Zelda ended up being used in the same way.

It was originally just a nickname for Luigi. I'm pretty sure Mario calls Luigi this in the Mario & Luigi GBA/DS games sometimes (either that or he's just saying "Luigi" really fast and the L is hard to hear... I'm not sure which), and Luigi even refers to himself by the nickname after ...

Heart of the OHR Tribute (Barnabus)

Pretty sure this one was from... sometime early in 2011 (maybe January?), which would make it not quite eligible for the game-of-the-year-2010 thing.

Not sure, really. It might be okay as-is, but maybe try that (making it a pixel bigger in the back) and see if it looks any better that way.

A bit of advice: don't save sprites as JPEG. Of course, you might have uploaded them as BMP (and Photobucket turned them into JPEGs automatically), but it's generally not a good idea to upload BMPs directly to the Internet either, since they're usually huge. Try saving them as PNGs instead (MS Paint...

I never really saw how Cyan was "bad," honestly. Sure, he's not as good as Sabin or Edgar, and he's not as good with magic as any of the magic-based characters... but he never seemed to be disproportionately weak compared to the others, either. Besides, it's not like FF6 is such a hard gam...

If you're spoofing Hello Kitty, you have to remember to mention that she has no mouth.

0-999 for accuracy/evade seems kind of excessive (but then again, I don't like seeing a lot of huge numbers for stats in games. It really annoys me that the newer Final Fantasy games keep tacking more and more zeros onto their bigger bosses' HP...) I'm all for new accuracy/evade formulas and new cha...

Spawn animations would be great (along with "when entering battle" graphics for enemies that are there from the start of the fight.) Assuming that they'd work like reversed death animations, there would have to be "un-melt" (reversed Melt; blobby things oozing up out of the groun...