#transiruby

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Transiruby

Time Played: 8.3 h

Status: Completed

Rating: Good

Big Pro: short, sweet, fun

Big Con: Simplistic story

Transiruby is cute and fun, and I don’t know what else to say about it. It doesn’t take itself too seriously, it has some pretty awesome moments, and the upgrades are fun to play with!

I wish the lore had gone a bit more in-depth, but maybe Skipmore’s other games have more of a connected thing to them, I don’t know.

And maybe more lore would have meant it wouldn’t be allowed to be as silly and lighthearted. Maybe it’s ok that the lore was barebones.

This review is part of my “Quest To Find Metroidvanias that Don’t Hate Me”. You can find the full list of the games I’ve tried on my pinned post.

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Replaying Transiruby, I've reached the Metro area. Ah yes, I need an ID card to proceed. Truly, this game is earning its chops as a Metro ID vania.

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Skipmore's new game Post Apocalypse Microbe Lab takes place in the same universe as Transiruby, judging by the Dimension Fall in PAML's opening credits, and it introduces my favorite new worldbuilding detail:

"Cyborgs" in this setting have visible obvious metal bits sticking out as well as fuckoff huge tubes sticking out of their backs, they can turn into motorcycles and so on, two out of the three cyborgs we see have clearly-artificial paper-white skin

"Androids" by default look more-or-less identical to baseline humans.

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usually I when I make memes I save them as pngs, but I had to make that one a jpeg. you understand.

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I dreamed that I was wandering around this school, which was also an RPG dungeon, with hidden collectables and stuff (at one point there was either a Giant Tranchip from Transiruby, or a special stage Giant Ring from Classic Sonic). At one point it turned into a lategame Game Boy Zelda-style dungeon, depicted in 8-bit on a Game Boy screen, it didn't specify any further details than that. Joe Biden was there.

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Anyway, I like to think that the in-universe reason why Siruby goes "We're stuck!", when there's a platform directly over her head which her gun can activate, is less because she doesn't know until that moment that she can aim her gun in a direction other than horizontally directly in front of herself, and more that it didn't occur to her to look up, so she didn't notice that the platform was there in the first place. This of course means that Necom was being slightly more of a passive-aggressive little shit by saying "hey you can aim your gun up :D"

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Sonic the Hedgehog was undoubtedly one of my formative influences, and so "gotta go fast" is one of my most basic delights. Even if it's just turning into a motorcycle or a spaceship in a metroidvania (i.e. Transiruby), or being a stunt-racing car game in general (i.e. Distance). I am absolutely a video-game-adrenaline-junkie in that regard.