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I don't know why the intro of Bubsy 3D has some guy doing a really bad Homer impression in the background.

I feel one aspect that is sorely overlooked by a lot of people when trying discuss 1st party Smash picks (or more niche 3rd parties) with any reasoning beyond "theyre cool " is the appeal that character will or won't have to outsiders - or basically, the fundamental concept and design of the character once you strip away your emotional attachment to their personality and adventures. To a Kirby fan, Bandana Waddle Dee is an insecure hero who longs to be respected like his friends are, but to a non-fan, he's just a Goomba in a hat. While we all I know I'm no Geno fan, I can at least say he has a fundamentally fun concept and design - even if you don't know about him being a star taking a physical form or whatever, you can still see a cloaked puppet with go-go-gadget gun fingers and think "that's cool". People don't just give characters "cool ratings" for being in Smash alone, Smash needs to prove that they're cool, and the inherent non-personality-driven nature of a crossover fighting game (combined with Smash's probably-wise-but-still-limiting avoidance of dialogue) removes a lot of characters' ability to be cool.

It's part of the reason I've turned away from supporting Muddy Mole so avidly (alongside my shift to belief in a true COGH roster), he's just... a rodent who throws things. Not really too appealing without context.

I want to go back in time and tell 17 year old me that I'll absolutely loathe the current state of Smash Bros, partake in multiple flame wars related to Jimmy Neutron's dad, and both of those events are directly related.

Nintendo licensing games vs. ESRB rating online interactions

After posting that dumb meme status about Drawn to Life, I've been trying to look more into the series' history and what motivated those bizarre storytelling decisions - allegedly (so take this with a grain of salt) the CEO and lead developer (who supposedly stole the latter role from another dev on some projects) was a zealous Christian who made the company's (5th Cell) logo as an abstract crucifix and attempted to convert his employees in spite of bragging about his workplace's religious and racial diversity, (which sure makes the whole Creator/Mary & Joseph = Mari and Jowee/T-pose hero drawing stuff a lot more uncomfortable now) and stole budget assigned to certain projects for his passion project shooter game (Hybrid I believe) - the ending was basically just a hollow attempt to be edgy and had a lot of pushback from the rest of the dev team.

Supposed source, contains links to another supposed source

I also read a few reviews on job-seeking websites and uhh... let's just say false promises of overtime is a worringly recurring allegation

It's kinda cool how Popeye got in SMSB around the time his cancelled movie got leaked.

I feel that often times lists of "best game music" tend to just be "the best games and their best music" or "the best uses of music in video games" - like, if you could somehow listen to every game ever's soundtrack and then rank them isolated from their source material there'd be less Sonic or Final Fantasy and a lot more "Lindt Chocolate Bunnies' Puzzle Adventure for the GBC (Germany only)" or "Dunston Checks In: The Official Video Game for Amiga (unreleased, reskin of The Care Bears Movie 2 for NES)"

it should not be this hard to find a youtube video of the space invaders background music

the new yellow splatoon idol's design seems to really embrace the idea of "forehead goblin"

Poppy Playtime marketing to kids would be perfectly acceptable if they made an upbeat novelty album like this

The Scrimblo Bimblo debate is legitimately fascinating in a lot of ways - like, NOA have been spending a third of a decade trying to combat the kiddy reputation they gained from sweaty Mortal Kombat, but now that they've succeeded a good chunk of Nintendo fans, especially of the N64 era, have already embraced the idea of "manchildhood" and just feel isolated. Sometimes I wonder if Nintendo would've been better off (from a discourse-averting perspective in some bizarre AU where corporations care about their consumers and fandoms, not a business perspective) creating a Touchstone-esque fake brand to release their consoles and darker/less silly games under.

a nintendo direct but nintendo still advertises using dark gross out humour skits like the 90s

NINTENDO DIRECT SPOILER: METROID PRIME 4 GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE! Playable Sylux, new Plasma Suit, open world, a live action homeless man uses a puppet raccoon as toilet paper, Kraid is the main villain

Pro tip

Swap the "shorts/" for a "watch?v=" in the URL

While this obviously isn't going to happen because of MVS, I'd love a Looney Tunes-specific (platform) fighter where the main gimmick is that everyone's special movesets are designed to work off themselves and thus allow for complex setups with either bombastic or underwhelming payoffs depending on how you use them like slapstick gags. Basically high IQ Pac-Man: the game (though obviously not everyone would be a trapper)

If I was making a Pac-Man movie I would've tried to experiment with sprite animation on the big screen as opposed to a live action movie.

i, too, would pay that much for a localisation that doesn't exist

multiversus doesnt have red shirt shaggy

this is an OUTRAGE next youll tell me the disney fighter doesnt have blue shirt bart

I'm betting Rocko's stage in NASB will have a PM GHZ layout. I can't put it into words, but something about that pendulum platform feels very... Rocko.

i like how the vs battles wiki took ben's gravestone in barnyard literally as to mean he's called "Ben A. Good Cow"

I felt it'd be good to do a bit of research into King Features' properties and licenses in case Popeye gets in SMSB and...

oh no.

Will probably go for weekly updates to Paradox.

At long last: the guest fighter job is here. Prepare for 4th party chaos.

tfw you put all your budget into manufacturing a gaming drawing tablet but you have to make a legally distinct second rate version of your own game instead of using an established and popular drawing-themed ip because car crash coma

"Please stop turning my personal computer's interface into a cartoon house!"

I had a dream where NASB installed a mega update that added like 20 characters for free - the only two (technically three) characters I remember are Donatello (without Rapheal) and Tak, who had fellow questionable ethnic stereotype Papu Papu from Crash Bandicoot as a clone.

The layout of Hugh's stage in NASB implies that Hugh is in some way, shape, or form an equivalent to one of these two characters


probably shape

I like how the spoiler tab is basically our one PG-13 swear word.

Can someone please explain why people get upset over Pokémon characters being male?

Like, I get the horny, and I don't take issue with the horny, but like... just draw a girl version.

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I feel the most logical game to compare Multiversus to would be PlayStation All-Stars. A lot of the stuff MVS is acclaimed for were done first in PSASBR (down to super specific stuff like unique KO animations in minions), and both of them have unique rules to distinguish them from Smash rather than unique physics like other platfighters.

GoAnimate is the only official capacity where you can see Captain Picard; Ryu; Chowder; that grinning bunny on the edgy 2000s t-shirts; Underdog; and Domo in the same place

Multiversus is a very different game to NASB, I don't get why you'd single them out for comparison, even in good faith, without also putting games like Rivals of Aether; Icons; and Rushdown Revolt in the comparison - one is a team fighter with characters from all mediums and a focus on new, relevant characters and easter eggs + callbacks to please fans; while the other is an "anime" platform fighter exclusively featuring animated children's television characters with a focus on decades-long nostalgia and competitive play. One can't really be better than the other when they're not even aiming for the same goal. It's equivalent to comparing Super Mario 64 to Crash Bandicoot.

HUGH IS HERE

If TV Tropes is correct and Tingle is barred from Smash because of how hated he is in the West, it feels weird to me that they still went ahead and added Pythra, probably the most controversial Nintendo characters since Jynx.