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I have yet to get around to actually playing the 2nd Wave of Age of Calamity’s DLC. So I decided to wipe my data for that game clean and start fresh.

I forgot how much I hate Revali.

One of the reasons I like to try and complete games at 100% (or at full completion for games that go higher than 100%) is that it helps get the full experience of what the game has to offer.

However............Crash 4.

Haven't played it yet, but I've been made aware of how much of a pain it is to fully complete. So I kind of doubt I will try to do so if I ever play it, but at the same time I feel like I'd want to try do more than just complete the main story and be done with it.

So out of sheer curiosity, what would you guys say is the best way to strike a balance between the two with Crash 4?

I know there are quite a number of people online who have a disdain for EA. But that has been the case for a good while now and EA is still around and to my knowledge, still going strong. By which I mean there's not really any signs out there that they'll kick the bucket anytime soon.

That's gotta mean they're doing something right doesn't it?

My last post mentioned how Crash Tag Team Racing has a platforming overworld.

Now I don’t know if this is still the case, but I know Tag Team Racing wasn’t viewed with positive reception when it came out.

So for those who don’t view the game fondly (and anyone else who wants to answer) would Tag Team Racing have been better off as a platformer considering the overworld?

Despite being a Cart Racer, Crash Tag Team Racing had a platforming overworld set in an amusement park.

Did you know that the game also has a cheat code that turns the heads of every resident of the park into chickens?

And since the game lets you kill chickens, literally making them explode into nothing via the Spin Attack, this means that cheat code lets you decapitate everyone in the park.

What I'm about to mention could very well be speculative gossip that people claimed was true back in the 2000's but never actually was, but I heard back then that there were plans to give each playable character in Diddy Kong Racing their own game like what Banjo and Conker got. Aside from Diddy of course since he already had one.

Now let's assume that if Rare did end up going through with this, instead of just giving all of them a 3D Platformer they would only give about 1 or 2 of them a 3D Platformer (or none of of them would get one if you'd rather envision that) seeing as how Diddy, Banjo, and Conker already had the platformer genre covered (though Conker's Bad Fur Day doesn't exactly have typical platformer gameplay).

With that in mind, what kinds of games do you think each of those characters would star in?

A heads up for fellow spoiler dodgers. Word through the grapevine is that Tears of the Kingdom has leaked.

Yup. Another Nintendo Leak. Mario must not be a very good plumber.

My local Fred Meyer has one of those crane game machines installed.

Yesterday it had a Sonic plushy inside that was oddly aurora colored for a Sonic Plush.

It is a very common opinion that SpongeBob hit a major decline after season 3 and that one of the bad aspects of newer SpongeBob is how Mr. Krabs greed has turned him into a terrible person.

But greed and an obsession with money have been character traits of his from day 1. Which is why I could understand it if someone were to seriously wonder if Mr. Krabs was ever good.

In my opinion, yes, there was a time where despite his greed, Mr. Krabs was not a horrible person.

However the only episode I can think of to use as an example is “Pickles”, and even then I think some would try to argue that he only helped SpongeBob find himself again so he could get his money making fry cook back.

I personally do not believe this to be the case seeing as how he allowed Soongebob time off to gather his bearings, but back to the main point here.

Are there any episodes aside from Pickles that show a good side of Mr. Krabs.

In case anyone is unfamiliar with how the Tournament of Power works in Dragon Ball Super, you have 8 teams of 10 in a battle royale to knock all the members of every other team out of the ring, and the use of weapons and healing items is prohibted.

However, Zen-oh, the supreme god of everything who governs the rules for the tournament, would actively allow the "no weapons and items" rule to be broken if he thought the technique that used it was cool.

Which makes you wonder, 8 franchises with a playable character in Smash were to participate in a Tournament of Power styled battle royale, would characters like Link, Marth, and Cloud be ineligible to enter? Or would Zen-Oh allow them to break that rule and join because he's a fan of their games?

If I had to choose a preference, I would rather keep non-video game characters out of Smash.

That being said, if a couple of them were ever to become playable I wouldn’t hate it. I’d need some time to get used to it I’m sure. But if the character is fun to play then there’s no issue as far as I’m concerned.

And if I didn’t find the character fun to play? Well that’s just my opinion. Others would enjoy the character and the decision to include the character would never have been mine to make anyway.

Be it with malicious intent, or just to point out a coincidence, a number of people in the anime community notice traits of other anime characters in Asta from Black Clover.

I've seen him compared to Naruto a couple times, Asta's dream is very similar to that of Luffy, and in my own opinion, I think his appearance has a similar aura to that of Natsu.

So I wouldn't be surprised if Rock Lee is another character people compare Asta to given that they have the same trait of possessing a disability that prevents them from accessing the typical powers of their respective verses.

But if you ask me, it would be more accurate to compare Asta to Toph Bei Fong in this regard. Yes, Lee does have the trope in question here, but he just uses something else in the place of what his disability prevents him from having. Toph on the other hand is the best user of Seismic Sense in history because she's blind. And given how much that enhances her overall Earthbending, Toph is the type to where her disability is also her greatest ability.

Asta being capable of wielding the Five Leaf Clover Grimoire because he has no mana feels much more similar to Toph's Case.

I have yet to see the Mario Movie. I know I want to, but I kind of agreed to see it with a friend so we need to wait for the right moment for our schedules to allow time for it.

But I do want to know this. Without spoiling anything, what seems to be the more popular consensus about the movie? Like or Dislike?

One of things people who don’t like pineapple on pizza say against it is “Why would you put fruit on a pizza?!?!?!”

To which people who do like pineapple on pizza counter with the fact that tomato sauce is a staple pizza ingredient and tomato is a fruit.

Which has me curious. Do some people who don’t like pineapple on pizza try to claim that tomato is a vegetable in response to this?

Every once in a while I check out a website called blockfort.com which is a site dedicated to making Top 10s in blog form.

They have two Top 10s for wanted Smash Bros Characters. One for first parties, one for third parties.

First Party List:

#10 - Waluigi
#9 - Toad
#8 - Camilla (Fire Emblem Fates)
#7 - Skull Kid
#6 - Bald Bull
#5 - Ashley
#4 - Elma
#3 - Paper Mario
#2 - Wart
#1 - Pauline

Third Party List:

#10 - Rayman
#9 - Wonder Boy
#8 - Jack Frost (Shin Megami Tensei)
#7 - Bomberman
#6 - 2B
#5 - Shantae
#4 - Geno
#3 - Kunio (The series with games like River City Ransom)
#2 - Lara Croft
#1 - Ryu Hayabusa

Any thoughts?

So guys, which one is worse?

Eating Habit A: The fact that I never put syrup on my Pancakes and Waffles.

or

Eating Habit B: The fact that since the only part of pizza I like is the crust, whenever I order a “pizza” it’s always from a parlor that will accommodate my request for it to be just the crust. No cheese, no sauce, no toppings, I only get the bread. And for those wondering, no, I am not lactose intolerant.

Obvious statement is obvious. But there does exist a problem within bits of the online smash community of placing too much importance on movesets being as much of a 1:1 adaptation of the source material as possible.

For example, I saw an idea once by the retired Smashtuber pizzadudemanguy of a concept for Marin from Link’s Awakening. Said concept pulled absolutely nothing from Marin’s moveset in Hyrule Warriors.

Instead, it used the fact that Marin is a singer as inspiration for a moveset that used the abilities of songs from all over the Zelda catalog. Like the song of birds from Spirit Tracks as a recovery move.

I think that’s a great idea. But it is the kind of idea that people might harp on because it doesn’t pull much from Marin’s “canon abilities”.

Such a thing can be viewed upon with too much negativity. As the disdain out there for the Wario Waft and certain Final Smashes shows.

Do gamers still use the terms "Scrub" and "Get Good" or are those pretty much outdated at this point?

You ever notice how Toy Story 3 technically holds the title of the best Barbie Movie?

I have an embarrassing confession to make about the Spyro games.

Now I have yet to play one, but I've been interested in doing so for a long time. And one of the first aspects of the series I learned about that appealed to me was the variety of elemental breaths. I've always loved multi-elemental abilities, so I thought it was pretty cool that these games had that kind of feature.

I wasn't until much later on that I learned these elemental breaths debuted in Enter the Dragonfly and that the original trilogy didn't have them. They only had fire breath.

That's the embarrassing part is that ended up being a bigger turn off for me then it ever should have been. And it kinda sorta didn't help that fire is my least favorite of the 4 elements.

It took a number of mental shouts at myself that this isn't a big deal for me to realize it's not a problem.

In Superstar Saga, Mario got the Firebrand ability and Luigi got the Thunderhand ability.

Sure that was the only game where Luigi had Lightning Powers, but still, let’s say Wario and Waluigi got their own elemental hand abilities.

What would their elements be?

Not that this really matters, but when Ridley was revealed to be playable in Smash Ultimate, do you think they would have used the reveal tagline "Ridley Hits it Big" if Smashified hadn't already used it for their fan render?

Did you guys know that despite being a character of manga origin, Natsu from Fairy Tail has a workaround to the video game characters only rule?

The mangaka of Fairy Tail, Hiro Mashima, likes to reference his older works in his newer works. Like with how Elsie Crimson from Edens Zero is very similar in appearance to Erza Scarlet from Fairy Tail.

And there’s a mobile game out there developed by Square Enix called Gate of Nightmares that Mashima was so involved in that it’s honestly more of a Hiro Mashima game that Square Enix just happened to develop.

Gate of Nightmares has ended service, but during its run Mashima made a character for the game named Manatsu who is Natsu in everything but name.

-They look pretty much exactly the same.
-They have the same Voice Actor.
-They are both Fire Element Melee fighters.
-They are both Dragon Slayers

Despite this, Manatsu is still a character designed for a video game. Therefore, he is of Video Game Origin.

So there’s the workaround. Put Manatsu in Smash and you basically have Natsu in the game =P

Awesome as it is that they made the Switch region free, are there even any notable examples of Switch games that are only available in specific regions?

Goku vs. Future Trunks vs. Majin Buu.

A 3-way battle of who was done the most dirty by Dragon Ball Super.

Who wins?

So because backlogs are a pain, I only just recently started the Dragon Ball Xenoverse games. Playing through 1 currently and haven’t even bought 2.

Before I started seriously getting into the actual game, I spent a lot of time deleting the save data and restarting so I could get the created character just right.

That ended up requiring some research into the stats and traits of each race. During which I saw a lot of opinions that the only good race from a gameplay perspective were the Earthlings.

Problem is, I couldn’t make an earthling I liked. I tried making myself but I just couldn’t get over how all the options for brown hair in XV1 suck, then I tried making Erza from Fairy Tail (my waifu) and while the results were better the lack of a hair length long enough to match hers just made it look too different to really feel like Erza.

So I eventually just said screw it and decided to make a character of the Frieza race with an appearance mostly based on my favorite breed of dogs (Boston Terriers).

The low opinions of the stats on that race had me a bit concerned but I figured that if I’m just trying to get through the main story first it should be fine.

And it looks like I was right because there’s not been any trouble so far.

If Twitter was a human being and they were in captivity by a Yandere who’s too much a fan of the Twitter website, why would that Yandere not allow Twitter to take a Shower?

Remember in the first episode of Sonic For Hire’s 5th season where Peppy was explaining to Sonic and Tails that they needed help since Fox left?

And then Tails said “Well I’m a fox, so naturally I should be in charge.”only for Peppy to reply “Thanks but uh no thanks. We’ll go with the blue guy. Not the gay fox.”

When you stop to think about it, isn’t Peppy basically saying he’d rather have Falco as a leader than Fox?

Not sure who here remembers Sonic Rivals, but as you'd expect from the title the idea of that game is to feature Sonic and the characters that have served as rivals to him over the years.

I don't know if what I'm about to mention is actually true, but I heard once upon a time that Jet the Hawk was considered to be a playable character in the game since he is a rival to Sonic, but they decided against him since his speed comes from him riding extreme gear.

I would be able to see the login behind that if not for the fact that extreme gear that comes in the form of Jet Boots, has been around since Sonic Riders began. Just give Jet one of those and you're good to go.

Would it be considered an unpopular opinion for one to say they prefer Silver over Gold?

A couple weeks back I made a post talking about the idea of an alternate Dragon Ball timeline where Goku was a mage.

It was kind of a satirical post, but seriously speaking, let's assume that such a thing actually does happen.

Dragon Quest also has it's characters done in Toriyama's Art Style. So would the magic Goku uses in this scenario just be copy-pasted from Dragon Quest? Or would they try to do something different?

Should the Babylon Rogues have been playable in Team Sonic Racing?

Say what you will about Sonic and the Black Knight. But when else will a Sonic game have a cutscene where Shadow bows to Sonic?

Many video makers who have been around for years said things when they first started out that they cringe at in the modern day.

I’m sure that Stuttering Craig from Screwattack.com is no different.

Back in 2007 (pretty sure it was that year) Screwattack released a video called “Top 10 Worst 2D to 3D Games” and the description for that video on Screwattack’s website said “If you’re like Stuttering Craig, you think that gaming peaked at the SNES, and that 3D wasn’t necessarily a good thing.”

Yeah, I don’t think I need to explain the issues present with that statement.

Gotta be honest, I feel a little weird about the statement of “4th Party Characters”

To explain why, let me put it this way.

I saw a Twitch stream once where the streamer said “There’s no such thing as a 4th party franchise. That’s just a term the Smash community made up and no one else uses it”.

And honestly, he’s kinda right.

Ok its barely been a full day, if even that, since the Mario Movie came out.

The people posting spoiler videos of it on YouTube, the kind to where the title and thumbnail alone can spoil stuff, can screw right off.

If Sakurai ends up binging The Big Bang Theory at just the right time for deciding the roster of a Smash game, then watch him include a Pokemon Trainer who, instead of Rock Paper Scissors, has team synergy based on Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock.

So apparently people are doing the whole "Smash or Pass" thing with the roster of Smash Ultimate.

...........Well if Arizona from Thems Fightin Herds becomes playable in a future smash title, then we all know which option All Might from MHA would pick.

Well since my Chris Pratt Avatar appears to be from Jurassic World, what better time to ask this?

If Dinosaurs weren't extinct, which one do you think would make the tastiest meat?