MBRedboy31

Really niche thing I want that I pretty much never see people discuss: I still want a new Freakyforms. I still boot up Freakyforms Deluxe on my 3DS occasionally to recreate one of my OCs in it...

If Nintendo ever makes Mario Maker 3, they really need to do something about underwater levels being such a slog that you barely see anyone use the underwater background. I have a few ideas that could help (ideally they could add all 3) :

1. Add the Dolphin Kick badge ability from Wonder. It could be an item that you could place at the start of the stage, or there could just be an option in the level settings to have it be given to the player automatically. I don’t think Nintendo would want to completely remove the “classic“ swimming gameplay, hence why it’s an optionally added item.
2. Add Warp Pipes that emit wind/current. This is the main solution the NSMB games use to speed up underwater gameplay (and Wonder uses them too) and it’d be fun here as well.
3. Add arbitrarily sized water blocks usable in all backgrounds, that would become air blocks when the underwater background is selected. Swapping between swimming and running would make it feel more dynamic. Random floating rectangles of water or air might be a bit strange looking, but Mario games have had those water blocks before, and you could always arrange the terrain to make them more natural looking if you prefer.

Really random thing, but, anyone else remember the obnoxious plastic packaging that Wii Shop Channel points cards used to come in way back in the day that you had to cut through just to get to get to the card itself with the code on it? The eShop cards nowadays are so much more convenient, you just peel off the thing covering the code and that's it...

In terms of newcomers for Rivals 2, I think it’d be cool if, instead of just more fighters of the usual 4 elements, we’d also get some kind of horrible Abyss monster as a playable character.

As an example of this, I’ve been thinking about how the Gatekeepers (the final boss from Rivals 1, assuming I didn’t forget their name) would look as a playable character, scaled way down of course. Normally the two floating eyes bound with shadowy tendrils would be entwined together and act as a single body, but you can separate them for powerful projectiles, setups, and combos, at the cost of you potentially taking big damage if the opponent is able to attack them when separated.

Here’s a silly idea for a future fighting game: Customizable Super cutscenes!

You know how a lot of supers result in a cutscene, and what happens in the cutscene doesn’t functionally matter as long as it deals the same damage and lasts the same amount of time? Give us the ability to choreograph what happens in that cutscene. You can select from a wide variety of moves your character can use on the opponent, plus a variety of other actions for both you and the opponent, and you can set up camera angles and effects. Super sick combos? Really silly combos that’d never really work or be super suboptimal normally? Some kind of silly animation where the two characters are super out of character for a bit and it ends with the opponent becoming the object of slapstick comedy? The choice is yours! You’d be able to go online, and you‘ll never know what will happen when you get caught in the opponent’s super! (You can also turn off custom supers client-side if you want, since the altered animations affect nothing.)

In the 2024 Minecraft mob vote, there should be two separate votes, and each user would vote in both: one for the mob’s design, and one for the mob’s function.

This would require all of the designs to be in a similar category where their functionalities could be interchangeable (i.e. all of the design options are golems of different materials, or different small dragons of similar size, or something like that) but it would mean that nobody would need to choose between either voting for their favorite mob or for their most wanted function.

Watch for Rolling Rocks is no longer 0.5 A presses. There is no more building up speed for hours, and no more parallel universes. It is the end of an era.

One nice thing I’ll say about Sticker Star is that I think it’s kinda neat that some enemy types can drop their weapons as usable stickers after defeating them, such as Spikes’ spike balls, Ninjis’ shurikens, and Sombrero Guys’ sombreros.

Personally, I'm really glad we got all 3 of Diddy, Funky, and Pauline in Mario Kart; aside from the fact that all three of those are great picks in their own right, people would complain forever if we got only 2 or fewer...

Did you know that Super Bomberman R 2 is out now in stores and the digital version releases tomorrow/in like 20 minutes (depending on time zones)?

Like… wow, did they barely advertise it…

I‘m not currently planning on getting it (I might change my mind later,) but I still want it to succeed…

Here's a Kirby costume from Spirit Halloween to bless your day/night.

I’m just imagining if Splatoon added “Salmonlings,” but, instead of being humanoid salmon like Inklings and Octolings, they’re just Smallfries driving person-sized mechs and trying to blend into Inkling society (and somehow succeeding at it even though you can very obviously tell what they are)

One thing that still bothers me: in the first Ant-Man movie, (spoilered since it’s still technically spoilers even though this isn’t even a big part of the movie and the movie is old at this point)
Sorry about unleashing my inner evil genius for a bit there, but it drives me crazy when something so powerful is just forgotten about. I guess I get why these kinds of things are forgotten about, but still.

Have you ever thought about how awful the view from a lot of the stadium seats in some Mario Kart tracks is? Like, some of these people can see almost nothing, yet it’s always a sold-out crowd. Imagine sitting behind the big antigravity track piece in Mario Kart Stadium, or next to the underwater section of MK8’s DS Wario Stadium where it’s completely walled in with very tall walls and nobody can see what’s happening there. At least the people in the bottom seats in Pokémon Stadium 1 and 2 in Smash can clearly see the fighters when they’re edgeguarding…

Any port of N64 Block Fort to any other Mario Kart game will never have quite the same feel for one big reason:

In later Mario Kart games, Green Shells don’t bounce forever. It was always a terrifying moment whenever you dropped down to the base floor and had to face the possibility of a long-forgotten Green Shell randomly coming your way, but later games don’t have that. It’s probably for the better that later games don’t have that, but still…

I miss the bizarreness of the Fighting Polygon Team, Fighting Wireframes, and Alloys, and I hope we get something new that’s like them in some future platform fighter.

I appreciate the fact that the Fighting Mii Team gives Miis a notable role in singleplayer, but there isn’t much interesting about them.

I have yet to see a Smash fangame or indie platform fighter with a unique equivalent to these old teams; most of them just recolor or retexture the default characters and leave it at that. Admittedly, part of that is just the fact that many of these games are sprite-based so there isn’t much else they can do, but still. At the very least, I hope Rivals 2 makes the Abyss clone enemies look more unnatural instead of just being shadowy-looking retextures, assuming that some kind of Abyss mode returns.

It would’ve been cool if Rey attached her lightsaber to her scavenger staff instead of using it the normal way. It’d make her fighting style more unique as she’d be one of the only polearm-wielding Jedi, and it’d make her quick mastery of the fighting style make more sense as she had already used the staff for years.

I hope the guy who narrates the descriptions of the poses you do in Warioware Smooth Moves returns in Move It!.

Just like last time, I enlisted an AI to bring us some Direct leaks. Here's the most interesting one I got:

On June 21st, 2023, Nintendo released a new Nintendo Direct presentation featuring news about incredible new games releasing later this year. One incredibly surprising reveal in particular set the internet ablaze, however, which was the reveal of the controversial new game (the AI's part starts here) company in the form of Invisible, Inc.

The announcement to turn the offices of major corporate players into hostile zombie-like environments and manipulate their workforce into mindless zombie minions, as well as making them fight for control of a mysterious device, gave a huge advantage to anyone using the Game Manager, the zombie analogue of the Wii Fit Balance Board, which could be plugged into almost any workstation, turning it into a zombie version of itself.

(edit: I forgot where the AI‘s part started, I fixed it.)

I wonder what's going on in the Star Wars galaxy right now. You know, not "a long time ago." Is it peaceful now where technology and culture flourish? Or, have the wars continued in the long run in an almost cyclic manner and so it's barely different than it was a long time ago? Or, did the current Empire-equivalent win so decisively at some point that nobody has been able to effectively rebel against them for a long, long time and life sucks? Or did they slowly eventually giant-death-laser every single planet in the galaxy out of existence and there's basically nothing left except a few spaceships, if even that?

Fall Guys has an event ongoing right now that allows one to grind for Crowns ludicrously quickly (at least compared to how you normally grind for them.) Over 800 of the over 1,700 Crowns I’ve ever gotten in Fall Guys I’ve gotten this week during this event, and I’ve been playing since the game released. I finally got my longtime goal, both halves of Golden Wolf, and I am exhausted.

Although, on Tuesday, the next battle pass begins. More grinding! Woo!

I was just thinking about if WarioWare is canon to Mario, and, a theory I just thought of is that the Mario characters really are just actors in the Warioware + Rhythm Heaven universe. Wario does acting work for Nintendo's Mario and Wario Land games from time to time, which is why he has a different outfit in those games and why the other characters in these games almost never mingle with the rest of the WarioWare cast. Wario Land games also sometimes appear in 9-Volt's Nintendo themed microgame collections.

(Speaking of 9-Volt's microgames somehow containing Nintendo IPs, either Wario somehow convinced Nintendo to license out their IPs to his tiny indie company, or this universe just doesn't have copyright laws. I'd assume it's the latter since you can rip off as many IPs as you want in WarioWare DIY and sell them, and you'll never get in trouble.)

Furthermore, in this theory, Wario and Waluigi aren't at all friends in real life, just in Nintendo's games, hence why Waluigi never appears in Warioware. It's a bit sad, but that's how it is with actors sometimes. On the other hand, Mario and Wario's rivalry is real to at least some extent (or at least it is from Wario's viewpoint,) as shown in a few particular microgames.

I was just thinking about that time Paper Mario basically performed a Fatality on a boss.
Like, it’s pretty gruesome when you think about it…

I went shopping today and, while in the car on the way there, I saw someone who was dressed as for some reason. It was absolutely, unmistakably meant to be a Ness cosplay. It was kinda random (I didn’t see anyone else in cosplay, I don’t think there was an event or anything,) but it was kinda neat to see.

I still have a copy of Cubic Ninja for 3DS, not to hack my 3DS back in the day when it was needed for that, but because I saw it in the store and it looked interesting. Maybe I should’ve sold it back then, but oh well.

I’ve completed it 100%. Did you know you can turn off the motion controls in the options menu? They didn’t make the name of the option to disable motion controls very obvious, though.

I should actually try hacking my 3DS sometime.

In the next Smash, they should make it so that, if Link fires his bow while holding an item, the item he was holding gets attached to the tip of the arrow.

If creators of fighting games (both big FGC games and indie platform fighters) want their game to be extremely eSports, why don’t they make a stage where the fighters are fighting in an eSports venue so that there’s a bit of extra meta-ness to it?

To take it even further, imagine if, at each Evo from now on, the top 8 of the SF6 tournament is played using a temporarily exclusive stage that is an exact replica of the place where the players are playing IRL.

I was thinking about moveset ideas for Warioware characters, and I thought of an interesting gimmick for Kat & Ana.
So, they’re a duo, but you only play as one of them (they both have the same moveset) and the other is invisible. Their B moves involve summoning the other sister to do a quick dashing sword slash or throw shurikens or something and then ninja vanish out, kinda like a Marvel assist. However, if you press B again during this, you switch control to the sister that’s doing the assist attack and the one that you were controlling will teleport out. The choice of whether to switch or not opens up a lot of options, since the opponent will need to predict which one you’ll be controlling. You can also summon the other sister, do an attack with the one you’re still controlling, and then press B to switch during that attack’s endlag, so you can do some fancy combos or apply lots of pressure. Beware, though, as they share the same damage meter (although the inactive one takes slightly less percent per hit,) and the opponent can KO the inactive sister to make you still lose a stock.

I also thought of some moves for Jimmy T, although he wouldn’t have any big gimmicks in his moveset. He mainly has disco moves as attacks, plus he can stun the opponent with his smartphone’s camera flash bulb. He’d probably have his air dash from Get it Together as up special or side special, and he can do three in a row in any direction, sorta like Sora’s side B, although they each don’t have a lot of distance.

It's over. An entire year of grinding points in this game is finally over.
(is the image thing broken again? I had to just post it as a link.)
Was it worth it? IDK. At least Squirrel has lots of outfits now.

Anyone else excited for the Fall Guys presentation tomorrow?
It’s been so long since we’ve gotten any Fall Guys news, never mind new content…

I got an Oculus Rift for Christmas several years ago and it was really fun and I used to use it all the time. I eventually started using it less since there just aren’t enough VR games out there that interest me, though. Worse, Meta is forcing me to switch my Oculus account to a Meta account to continue using my headset, and I really don’t want to do that, so my headset might as well be bricked (unless there’s a way to run it purely through SteamVR or something without the Oculus app.) I just deleted all my VR games to save space on my computer, and I should probably sell the headset sometime… it’s kind of a shame it had to be this way…

I think it would’ve been funny if the Mario Movie used Always Smiling from DDR Mario Mix and tried to pass it off as a licensed song nobody’s heard of. Then we‘d get to see peoples’ reactions to looking it up and finding out that it’s actually a remix of a polka from the 1800s…

Game idea: Puzzle game where you’re playing some simple old videogames in a simulated emulator, but they’re very glitchy and you have to perform ACE or other memory manipulation tricks to beat them.

So, for ACE, you have to look through the RAM watch, move things around in the game to set up the payload, then force the game to run that as code, without the simulated game crashing. It’d have to be very simplified compared to real ACE, especially in the earlier levels, and it would need to have a very specifically designed GUI so that players can easily see the effects of their actions, but it could be very interesting if the skill curve can be balanced appropriately.

There it is: Nintendo Switch Sports’ 52nd cosmetic collection. The last one.

I haven’t missed a single cosmetic collection except the first one, so I’ll finally be able to get that one once it wraps around next week.

Imagine: high-tech Post-Its that, when you approach them, audibly yell whatever is written on them.

”BUY GROCERIES!” “CALL THE PLUMBER!” “ORDER PIZZA!”

I like how perturbed my avatar looks, like he’s looking at the current state of PrattBoards.

Platform fighter fans (and fans of games featuring anthropomorphic animals,) don’t forget! The Rivals Direct is TOMORROW!

I just realized that maybe the biggest thing I didn’t like about weapon durability in BotW was the existence of named weapons with sentimental value such as the Champions’ signature weapons, which make me scared to use them and clogged up my inventory. I know there’s a place in the game where you can get them replaced, but, if the game purely had random cheap weapons (such as the kinds of things they used in that TotK gameplay,) it’d feel like a lot less of an issue.

Someone ought to make an Elebits-like game in VR. I think throwing things around with the Capture Gun would feel really good with VR motion controls. It’d also be possible to dual wield Capture Guns.
You’d also be able to open doors with your bare hands instead of needing to use the Capture Gun. That sure would reduce a lot of frustration, ahaha