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Cuphead is the absolute perfect side-over-protag series for Smash but y'all aren't ready to hear it. It's a game where the main draw is the bosses and their animation, plus its protagonists would be zoners if added.

Phelous/Bootleg Zones is hillarious in brief doses, but after more than 10 or so minutes (5 for certain videos) he gets really grating - probably by intent, but still.

I always thought bad music was a myth - anything that isn't a piano being smashed is listenable. Both infamously annoying songs and songs made as bad as possible as a joke I can at least vibe to a little.

Then I heard the FNF Vs. Coconut Fred mod.

The Robot Chicken SpongeBob mod from the same pack sounds good though

we all know the reason daffy duck isn't in multiversus is because of the mature mode - putting daffy in an adult context would force us to face an image we were never meant to see.

imagine if playstation all stars 2 had the dog from dogs life in it so whenever characters in the platform fighter genre as a whole are discussed and compared as opposed to a single game you have to specify either "jake the dog from multiversus" or "jake the dog from psasbr2"

While I do generally think Smash lags behind a majority of, if not all, alternative platform fighters in most aspects (especially gameplay), I do think casual stages are a notable exception - while pretty much every other game has more visual variety in stages and a better lineup of competitive stages, Smash has way more layout variety for casual play. You wouldn't see a stage like Venom or Peach's Castle 64 in NASB or Rivals (forgivable in the case of the latter where even having casual stages is quite a surprise, and it's all made with sprites too)

I do feel that a lot of casual platform fighter stages tend to lack solid layouts, specifically because they like to avoid caves of life and walls. Often times they'll have a really cool casual stage mechanic but bog it down by just putting it into a Final Destination/Smashville clone instead of building a good stage layout to support it *cough*technodrome*cough*royal woods cemetery - though TBH Ultimate's new stages suffer from that too.

I was watching a YouTube video where someone mentioned an American commercial called "Kars 4 Kids" - I looked up the commercial and honestly I cannot imagine what else it could be but teaching children to drive. Are all American charity commercials this non-descript, and is underage driving that socially acceptable there?

To me, Crazy Bus is just a normal bus

I love how Hugh's stage in NASB looks like a lazy asset recycle, but has almost entirely original models not used in Hugh's moveset (I believe one of the smaller background pies comes fron Garfield, but that's it - the ducks Hugh throws are porcelain while the inanimate ducks in the stage are parade floats) - like, they wanted it to look like that. Based Fair Play Labs.

i had this dvd as a kid didnt realise peter perfects face was reflecting off the trophy so i was waiting fruitlessly to see the anthropomorphic trophy every episode.

I've never really been a fan of bosses in platform fighters/platform fighter concepts. Feels like a waste of a potential character to me - even when it's a variant like Ganon I'd rather have two Ganons over one playable Ganondorf and an super flashy unplayable Ganon.

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.