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3DS games making use of the systems microphone are often frowned upon for being hard to get functioning right, but would you believe me if I told you that what I consider to be hands down the most ridiculous use of the 3DS mic is also one of the more well developed uses of it?

The game in question is Azure Striker Gunvolt 2. The storyline of that overall series revolves around a girl with a special ability to enhance other people’s special abilities by singing. And in this represented in the game as a super mode where she appears and starts singing to Gunvolt to give him a power up while you’re playing the game.

But when you get to the final boss she gets separated from GV and is only able to leave behind small remnants of her power within him. Which, in order to damage the final boss, the player has to have Gunvolt channel this power by singing one of the girls songs into the 3DS microphone. No, I am not kidding.

Thankfully the mic just needs to detect noise coming into it for you to be able to damage the final boss. So you could just go “aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh” into the microphone and it would lead to the same result.

You know, Four Swords Misadventures may be a fan-made parody focused on comedy, but it introduced a damn good idea for a mechanic in a Zelda game.

Using the Ocarina to summon a super powerful cucco to attack the enemies. Absolutely brilliant.

I just had the funniest realization about Yu-gi-oh Vrains.

So the plot of that show revolves around six beings known as an Ignis. An Ignis is an Ai with free will.

They were “created” by humans. I’m putting created and create in quotes to emphasize them. That will be important later.

Those who created the Ignis eventually decided it was a mistake to do so. So they tried to destroy the Ignis.

The Ignis eventually decided to try and destroy humanity in response to that. But up until that point they just wanted to live peacefully in cyberspace and “create” the Cyberse-Type Monsters featured in the Yu-gi-oh Card Game. Which means those monsters have to be DRAWN onto the cards.

Have you figured it out yet? The plot of Yu-gi-oh Vrains is basically a war between Ai Art and Human Art.

Super Mario Bros. Z is a childhood newgrounds classic for a lot of people. But around the timeframe that the original 8 episodes were airing there was a Zelda parody series on newgrounds that I always sort of associated as being in part of a duo with Super Mario Bros. Z. Similar to how people loosely associate Mario and Zelda as being a duo in a few ways.

It’s called Four Swords Misadventures and it’s more of a comedy focused series as opposed to Super Mario Bros. Z being more about action.

You can still find it on the YouTube channel of its original creator HadoukenDude (known nowadays as VicHD) but keep in mind that it’s a web parody from the mid-2000’s. So I can’t guarantee that you’ll think it’s aged well.

Wait.....if Mallow grew up in that swamp, doesn't that make him a Marsh Mallow?

It’s kind of a dig to find it, but I did leave a comment on someone’s post once saying that Vivian from Thousand Year Door is a character I would like to play as in Mario Party.

But thinking about that a little more……I mean I still like the idea on paper (pun not intended) but a lot of Mario Party Mini Games require the characters to jump into the air.

And if I’m remembering right, TTYD only ever showed Vivian being attached to her shadow on the ground. I don’t think there was a single moment of her entire body being airborne.

Sure she can extend her bottom half to lift her top half into the air, but even she’s still connected to the ground.

So wouldn’t this kind of mean that Vivian could not be playable in Mario Party?

People have speculated that there will be a sequel to the Mario Movie based on things like it's post credits scene.

People have also stated some things they'd like to see in this sequel like Peach's backstory before she arrived in the Mushroom Kingdom as a baby and the inclusion of more characters like Wario, Daisy, and especially Yoshi.

Me personally, the shipper in me wants to see some good interaction between Peach and Mario's Mom.

Very often for worse, and quite possibly not at all for better, sometimes people have very specific personal requirements for games that they think need to be present in the game a little too much.

Using the idea of a crossover game between Legend of Zelda and Fire Emblem as an example, some people might say “The gameplay better be a Zelda style adventure that involves Fire Emblem characters or I won’t buy it.”

Others might claim “This game better have Fire Emblem style battles with Zelda characters as units or it’s trash.”

For me personally, my mindset would be “The game better have something for Dimitri from Fire Emblem riding Dimitri the Dodongo into battle on a tidal wave or I riot.”

Correct me if I'm wrong. But isn't it the case that while Mobile Game Emulation does exist, the way it goes about doing is basically emulating the phone itself? Meaning that if it's a game that's ended service like Dragalia Lost then emulation still won't allow you to play it?

Pretty sure this is the case, I just want to see if anyone knows about some possible exceptions that I'm unaware of.

Let's say that they were to make an animated Zelda Movie (whether it would be separate from the upcoming one or just happening instead of the live action one is up to you).

Which approach would you personally prefer?

Illumination does the movie by using the character designs from games like Wind Waker to make a movie with the same kind of animation as the Mario Movie?

Or

The movie, regardless of studio, is done in a more anime style animation and uses characters designs closer to ones like Ocarina of Time or Twilight Princess?

Most of the stories I've experienced in recent years that involve time travel employ the idea of multi-verse theory.

So I ended up surprised once I figured out that the time travel present in the story for Tears of the Kingdom did not use multi-verse theory.

Which of these is the best compliment to Chocolate?

Peanut Butter
Caramel
Strawberries
Pretzels

Who would win in a fight?

Peter Pepper from Burger Time? Or Billy Burns from Donut Dodo?

I think I’d give a “well how about that?” kind of cackle if the next playable Kirby character in a smash game is the 3 Mage Sisters.

One of a number of advantages Consoles have over Mobile Games is that platform exclusivity isn't anywhere near as much of a pain.

Sure buying a console you don't already own isn't exactly cheap. But if a mobile only game is exclusive to a specific type of phone? You'd have to deal with more than just buying a new phone. You'd have to go through all the hurdles of joining a new carrier and all the fees you have to pay for the phone on top of that. I'd be surprised if there were any examples of mobile only games that made this process worth it.

And for those who might be wondering, yes, exclusivity to specific types of phones is a thing. As a Fairy Tail fan I wanted to get the Forces Unite Mobile Game for the series, but it's only available on Android. Which is not my carrier.

If Ash’s Pikachu didn’t have the pivotal role he had that led to him needing to be in Ash’s team all the time, I wonder what other Electric types Ash would have had at his disposal.

I’m sure we all know the classic Christmas Song “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”.

I gotta admit, the part of that song that goes “All of the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names” became really weird for me to hear once I saw Olive the Other Reindeer.

In Tears of the Kingdom the way you make it so that the Magic Rod, Magic Scepter, and Magic Staff actually, you know, cast magic is by fusing gems onto them. With you getting a different kind of magic depending on the gem.

I know that this isn't actually possible within the game, but I wonder what sort of magic you'd get if fusing meat onto one of those weapons actually made them magical.

I just discovered that deep fried candy bars exist.

Why is this a thing?

How do you guys feel about the idea of having to unlock a character that’s part of a DLC pack you bought? Not just for fighting games, but for games in general.

Do you think the character should be available right away if you paid for the pack?

Do you appreciate the extra gameplay time needed to unlock the character?

Or does your answer vary depending on the game?

You know it’d be pretty crazy if Konami releases an Aria of Sorrow remake in 12 years.

Since at that time it will actually be the year 2035.

I'm going to get a little nostalgia test going here.

What company used to have the slogan "Gather 'round the good stuff!"

One of the weirdest things I discovered when I first started using the internet was the amount of people who dislike Scrappy Doo.

When I was a kid I thought Scrappy was cool.

There’s this old sprite animated smash parody called Smash Kingdom. It got a sequel called Smash Kingdom Melee.

Around the time of Brawl the guy who made those was going to make a Smash Kingdom Brawl, but he lost interest in doing sprite animations before he could finish it.

So he released the skits he was able to finish before then and called it Smash Kingdom The Lost Levels.

I wonder what an actual Smash Bros game would have to do to make Lost Levels a fitting subtitle.

Imagine if Pizza Tower 2 had voice acting and the voice of Peppino was Charles Martinet.

You may or may not be aware, but in Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg you could hatch other Sega characters like Sonic and Nights into helping you out.

Watch the undeniable confirmation that Bayonetta is owned by Sega come from her being a character you can hatch in Billy Hatcher 2.

Welp. Youtube has now officially implemented a feature that blocks the video player from being used by anyone who uses an Adblock.

I won't lie, I have mixed feelings about this.

On the one hand ads are annoying, but on the other hand Youtube not doing a good job of supporting smaller content creators, such as video game top 10 makers like Fawful's Minion or QuarterGuy, has been a problem with the website for a long time. Or so I hear at least.

The point is, if people can no longer avoid ads while watching their vids it might help out their channels and the ad revenue those channels get.

Not going to lie, I freaked out a bit at first when I saw that Linkmain-Maybe doesn't have an avatar anymore. My initial thought was that something happened to where he got banned.

Now that I know what the actual reason for his lack of an Avatar is, I'm relieved.

Would Yoshi Meat be fruit flavored?

You know now that the Poplins are a thing, we could have a playable character from a race based on each of the 3 power-ups from the original Super Mario Bros.

Toad for Mushrooms

Poplin for Fire Flowers

And Twink from the original Paper Mario. He’s a Star Kid. So there you go, the Super Star.

I remember for a lot of Brawl's Lifespan there were a great many people who thought that in terms of controllers when playing the game, it was the Gamecube Controller or Bust.

How many people still believe that when it comes to Smash in the modern day? I know I still prefer the Gamecube Controller but that's me. I haven't the foggiest idea how people feel about this now.

Remember how the Sega Genesis game Vectorman has fans that hope to this day for a new installment?

I wonder how those fans feel about the fact that the closest we've ever come to that is Vector the Crocodile being turned into a Robot Master in the Sonic and Mega Man Crossover Comic.

Linkmain-maybe made a post once calling out the "inferior ones" who don't like Dark Chocolate. And as a fan of Milk Chocolate myself, I certainly felt a bit of "oof" when I read that.

But the true question of the matter is, what about white chocolate?

I just saw a YouTube upload of the “Peter the Strawberry” clip from Family Guy that was slapped with the “made for kids” label.

Go home YouTube you’re drunk. With a blood alcohol level of Google.

What if Pikmin 3 had a bad ending to where the crew gathered so little fruit that they had no choice but to bring all the Pikmin back to their planet as food?

Sure it would be a belated birthday present at this point, but watch Nintendo shadow drop a TOTK update that adds the recipe for what was for dinner in the CD-I Games.

So has youtube actually started doing that thing of pop-ups for people who use Adblocker saying "Adblock is not allowed, please disable it" or was that one I just saw some freak occurrence that only happened to me?

My job is bagging groceries for customers and today I had to bag a square of bison meat.

The Avatar fan in me was very unpleased.