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Golden Sun is a more obscure franchise, but one of it's most known aspects is that of the Four Elements.

Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, there's a reason why some people refer to Golden Sun as the closest thing we ever got to a good Avatar game.

Something that's not as known however due to the lower amount of people who played the series is that by the end of the 3rd and currently final game, the ideas of Light and Dark elements start to come up. The game ends on a cliffhanger before they can be truly delved into and there's nothing present for Light Psynergy or Dark Psynergy in terms of gameplay, but imagine if the series had continued long enough to incorporate this?

Makes you wonder what kinds of Psynergy Attacks and Summons, especially summons, they would have come up with.

And in the realm of Smash, part of Isaac's insane moveset potential is the fact that he can use Psynergy of any element depending on his equipment set up. If Light and Dark made it into the series, Isaac would have even more moveset potential than he already does. That's kind of crazy to think about.

Say that a Charizard holding the stone for it's Y Mega Evolution had a moveset consisting of Focus Blast, Dragon Pulse, Solar Beam, and 1 Fire Type Attack.

Which of these two fire attacks would you give to this Charizard? Fire Blast for higher power? Or Flamethrower for higher accuracy?

There was this one time I was playing a round of split the room from Jackbox Party Pack 5 and the scenario that came up was that the Final Fantasy 7 Remake was declared illegal but a friend introduced you to a black market that you could still buy a copy from, and then asked the players if they would risk significant jail time in order to get one.

With any game, not just FF7R, I feel like there are two types of people when it comes to answering that question.

The people who would say no because it’s just a game. So it’s not worth risking jail time over.

And the people who would say yes because they believe the decision to make the game illegal was stupid and/or unfair and would buy a copy on the black market in an attempt to rebel against this faulty law.

Which of the two would you guys be? I feel like I’d lean towards the “it’s just a game” answer myself.

Should pizza boxes be round?

Which of the two is the worst case of Samus having a boyfriend?

1 - The Captain N Comics where she dated Captain N himself for awhile.

or

2 - Adam Malkovich from Metroid Other M.

Does mainline Amy still have that overly obsessive thing for Sonic or did that kind of die off?

Talk of more Nintendo movies since the Mario Movie came out isn’t anything new.

And if we’re talking a Zelda movie specifically, I would personally rather have an animated movie than a live action one.

That being said, I’m not sure the kind of animation that Illumination and similar studios are known to use really works for most Zelda games. Wind Waker Art Style ones sure. But all the others? I don’t know.

What do you guys think?

When it comes to Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, as far as I'm aware the fan favorite between the mascot legendaries seems to be Miraidon. AKA the Mascot Legendary for Violet.

So as someone who picked up the Scarlet Version, I'd like to ask. What are positives you have to say about that versions Mascot Legendary Koraidon? Be it advantages over Miraidon or just general points in Koraidon's favor.

Is it a hot take to say that the appearances of both the male and female villagers in Mario Kart 8 are better than all of the villager palettes in Smash Bros?

Of the sages you recruit through the regional phenomena quests in Tears of the Kingdom, Tulin is the only one who's weapon isn't counterintuitive to their ability. The other 3 all have combat based abilities that can be tricky to trigger since their weapons of choice encourage them to get up close to enemies. Which is what they do.

This is especially a problem for Riju and Yunobo since they're abilities are projectile attacks.

So what if, in TOTK DLC, Each Regional Phenomena Sage gets a secondary weapon that eliminates this problem? And I'm not talking things like give Riju a bow or Tulin a spear. I'm talking brand new weapon types that may or may not be made from Zonai Technology.

I even have a couple examples I've thought of myself:

Riju: Correct me if I'm wrong on this, but out of the 4 Champion Races in this Era of Zelda, aren't the Gerudo the only ones to not have a signature instrument? Majora's Mask gave Goron Link a set of drums and Zora Link a fishbone guitar, and BOTW had a Rito with an Acordian in the form of Kass. Give Riju a Snake Charmer Flute or something like that and have her play some classic Zelda Songs to effect enemies from a distance. Song of Storms to call a thunderstorm on enemies with metal weapons, Song of Time to apply the Recall effect to a single enemy projectile, Earth God's Lyric to sink an enemy into the ground, Song of Healing to restore Link's hearts? I don't know would that one be too overpowered?

And even some non-battle uses like playing the Sun's Song when it's raining outside to clear up the sky.

Tulin: His ability may not be hindered by his weapon, but it wouldn't be fair to exclude him in this regard. What I'm thinking is a pair of Zonai Power Gloves that are designed to go on a Rito's Talon's instead of a Hylian's Hands. Can you imagine Tulin using those to pick up a Lynel and drop it to the ground from high up in the sky to cause fall damage?

Yunobo: A Zonai Dominion Rod. Simple description but it's the best I got.

Sidon: A Zonai Fishing Rod. Okay hear me out on this one. Sidon casts the rod at an enemy from a distance, the hook lands in a conjured pool of water, Sidon wrestles with a fish construct underneath this pool, which causes water to splash around the area, and then Sidon fishes out the fish construct. It could be one of a certain number of types of fish that would each spray a different kind of water attack at an enemy.

You know. In Avatar the Last Airbender Aang got a pretty raw deal on that Iceberg that allowed to survive until 100 years later.

If it had allowed him to survive until the time of Futurama than he truly could have trained with the greatest Bender of all time.

I just realized. If you put ketchup on your pizza it still technically has tomato sauce on it.

Is there some kind of Archive of every April Fools version of Smashboards that has been made?

The only two I can remember are Ridleyboards and Prattboards.

Should money be edible?

In a certain sense, Octavo from Cadence of Hyrule is kind of another Geno.

That sense being that he’s only appeared in a Nintendo game, but Nintendo doesn’t own him.

At least I don’t think they do. Maybe they actually do. Or maybe it’s a co-ownership with the Devs of Crypt of the Necrodancer.

You ever notice how a lot of characters in anime and such have hair that’s very clearly red, yet characters with orange hair are still referred to as redheads?

I get the feeling that there’s a reason for this. But I have no idea what that reason is.

Did you guys know that the original Wii had a very obscure problem where if it received too many messages via its own message system the console would crash?

And by Crash I mean it would reach a point where it wouldn’t turn on anymore unless you sent it out for repairs. And even if they fix it, all your data is still wiped clean.

The reason I know this is because of an old YouTuber who took questions for his Q&A videos via the Wii Message System. So he’s like the only guy it ever happened to.

Still, it is a thing that exists.

I have now decided to join the trend of basing my avatar off of fazdude's.

I wonder who will be the first one to figure out the connection.

You end up getting stuck on an island for a really long time.

There is plenty of food on the island, no dangerous wildlife or anything of the sort that you’d have to worry about, and a tv as well as all the cords you’d need to hook up a game console and recharge its controllers. No internet though for obvious reasons.

If you could pick any 1 console (Console, not PC) to be the only one you’d have with you during your time on the island, with a substantially large amount of its game library available to you in both physical and digital, which one console would be your console of choice?

What is an effective combat ability that is used by tons of fan-favorite female characters from games and anime?

I'm sure you all have heard the meme of EA making a Mario game called Pay Per Mario.

But if this were to actually happen, would it bring peace to both sides of the Paper Mario fandom by giving them a common enemy to unite against?

I feel like sharing my thoughts on the Sonic Riders Games.

The Original: I am a fan of the Riders series, so I feel like it would be hard for me to not at least appreciate the game that established the formula. Fortunately I do more than just appreciate the game. It’s just straight up a game I like. I think it’s easy to get why. It’s a racing game where I enjoy the roster, courses, music, and racing mechanics. Pretty easy to figure out.

But one of the more obscure things about the game I find neat is how if it was actually the case that Shadow stayed dead after Sonic Adventure 2 like some people believe he should have then he could still be playable in this game since he’s not involved in the story. Neat little realization.

Zero Gravity: I mean, it’s certainly a Sonic Riders game. But I don’t think it’s as good as the first one.

A lot of the appealing aspects feel like a downgrade. The courses are more bland, the music isn’t as exciting, and even the racing itself feels a little too slow for my tastes.

It’s not a bad game and there are parts I like. The mission mode for example is pretty good. But Zero Gravity isn’t really my cup of tea overall.

Free Riders: First things first, I do not agree with the statements that the controls in this game don’t work. As someone who 100%’d the game, I know that they function.

The actual problem that comes from the Kinect is that it’s a very situational add-on in terms of if it can even be used. Given the movement required, especially for Free Riders, if you’re in a small room, a low-ceiling room, or a room that’s on a higher floor of an apartment complex, than you’re out of luck. You pretty much can’t use the Kinect at all in those situations.

But as big a weakness as the Kinect is for Free Riders, it’s pretty much the games only weakness.

It’s the most appealing game of the 3 to look at (obviously), it has the best courses and soundtrack out of each riders game, and while the roster lacks any cameos of other Sega characters, the roster is still pretty solid overall with a lot more of the characters being involved in the story this time.

If it had the option to use a regular controller, Free Riders would be the best riders game. I also think it’s the only riders game that got Super Sonic right.

Sometimes I think about what a kart racer from Konami that crosses over all their franchises would be like.

I think it’s a cool idea, but theirs one aspect I have trouble envisioning as appealing.

Cool as tracks from Castlevania and Metal Gear and such would be, those games are a little more on the dark and gritty side.

And as someone who’s more into the bright and colorful tracks that you’d find in something like Mario Kart or Sonic Riders, my limited knowledge of Konami franchises has me unable to think of a lot of games that could include those kinds of tracks.

Off the top of my head the only ones I can think of are Bomberman and Rocket Knight. And even then I’m totally clueless as to what specific tracks could be pulled from those games.

Anyone have any good ideas for this topic?

Nintendo of Japan
Nintendo of America
Nintendo of Europe

For a very long time, people have talked about these three 3 divisions of Nintendo in ways that made it seem like they are the only 3.

In reality, there’s more. Such as the main division for this post, Nintendo of Canada.

How did I learn about them? Well back when Smash Ultimate was announced, but not released, there was this guy on the internet by the username of SpookyWoobler who was a huge Smash fan.

Unfortunately, and I mean VERY unfortunately, SpookyWoobler was fighting a very difficult battle with cancer. So difficult in fact, that by the time the E3 that had a demo of Ultimate came to an end, it had reached the point where it was a for sure thing that the Cancer was going to take his life. And according to the doctors, it would do so before Ultimate came out. Something SpookyWoobler was pretty bummed about.

So a bunch of his online friends were reaching out to people to help support their push to inform Nintendo of America in hopes that they could allow SpookyWoobler to play the game somehow before he passed away.

I forget if it was Nintendo of America themselves that pointed this out, or if it was one of the supporters who realized this, but reaching out to Nintendo of America wasn’t the correct approach because SpookyWoobler lived in Canada.

So the supporters started attempting to inform Nintendo of Canada instead. And thankfully, the message was heard.

Nintendo of Canada brought a copy of the E3 Demo to SpookyWooblers house, and he played it a bunch with friends and family and had a blast.

Which was a really cool thing of Nintendo of Canada to do.

Apparently Microsoft will buy Actiblizz after all.

Who are they going to try to buy next? Watch them try to buy Disney. That would be funny. Even though Microsoft would lose that battle something fierce.

Want to hear a dumb idea for an Echo Fighter?

Take Sage from Sonic Frontiers, have her use weird Cyberspace Magic or whatever the heck her abilities are in that game (haven't played Frontiers yet) to make herself as tall as Rosalina, and make Sage a Rosalina Echo who uses Chao instead of Luma's.

As someone who has a history of playing in Yu-gi-oh Tournaments, one of the more ironic aspects of the Yu-gi-oh 5D's Anime to me is the change in rules that comes from dueling on motorcycles.

Motorcycles are all about "vroom vroom, fast fast" and even in the 5D's anime they advertise the thrill of speed as an upside for Riding Duels.

However when in a Riding Duel, there's always a mandatory Field Spell that only allows Speed Spell Cards to be played, and depending on what Speed Spell you want to activate, you need the right amount of Speed Counters. Which is something that both players only get 1 of each turn.

So despite being played on speedy motorcycles, the core mechanic of a Riding Duel actually slows down the pace of the duel itself.

We all know this is impossible to make, but say there were actually a Smash Bros game that did include every possible video game character option that people have said or ever could say they wanted.

Would you even play this Smash Bros game?

Would you believe me if I told you that ProJared got his start in online videos by being the JD of a Scrubs parody set in a GameStop instead of a Hospital?

I’ve seen people claim that Shigeru Miyamoto is past his prime while using the situations that led to games like Paper Mario Sticker Star and Star Fox Zero as points to back up their argument.

If I’m to be honest I do see the logic behind that. The part that causes me to wonder if this is truly the case is the fact that we’ve still been getting great Mario games like Mario Odyssey. And I feel like this aspect might be getting overlooked because Miyamoto’s involvement in those games isn’t as immediately obvious.

Granted that’s just something I wonder is the case or not. I myself don’t actually know what sort of involvement Miyamoto had in such games.

People are harping on Elemental a lot for not doing well at the box office and apparently this Ruby Gillman movie didn’t do too great in that regard either.

But like, given the influx of movie streaming and how many people skip out on going to the theaters nowadays in favor of waiting for the movie to come out on streaming platforms, is underperforming in theaters really that big a deal now?

I’ve got a joke prediction.

What if the next Nintendo Console is named the Wii Woo and it’s signature launch title is a crossover 3D Platformer that stars Luigi and Patrick.

Fun fact. Back when Death Battle Season 2 started, I was on a volunteer research team for the show. Seriously. Look at the credits of Episodes like He-Man vs Lion-O and you’ll see for yourself.

That volunteer research team was abolished a long time ago due to circumstances that never should have been as unfortunate as they were, buy I certainly appreciated being granted the volunteer status.

It was through that status that I learned about some neat little behind the scenes tidbits for Death Battle.

I would like to share them. But…..well……would NDA’s still apply if the volunteer research team no longer exists? Most of what I want to share does involve already released episodes, but there is one detail about an idea that has not been made into a Death Battle yet. And given how many years it’s been since this idea was talked about, I don’t know if it will.

Even so……

I do believe it’s been made apparent that relevance at the right time does impact the dev team’s decisions in which characters join Smash.

That being said, I could easily believe that some people place too much importance on a character needing to be relevant to get in.

A new Avatar Video Game

Not entirely sure what kind of game it's trying to be yet, but those character models and animations look like they need some work.

I like how the environments look though.

I'm a little slow on realizing this since it's been known for a little bit now that Lego Sonic is in Sonic Superstars, but that fact technically means that if they wanted to, Sega could make a Sonic Generations 2 with 3 Sonics. Classic Sonic, Modern Sonic, and Lego Sonic.

Why is it called Pineapple anyway?

You’re just putting the word Pine in front of the name of an already existing fruit. So what made them decide on an Apple?

Let’s say a Smash Bros. game were to be released where the soundtrack is entirely composed of remixes that are done by a single video game remixer on YouTube.

Which 1 YouTube remixer would you want it to be?

I think I’ll go with GaMetal.

This an artwork I commissioned the Deviantart user Sincity2100 for.

Anyone here who is a fan or has been a fan of Yu-gi-oh? Those familiar enough with the original series know about the Egyptian God Cards. Monsters which, within the game of Duel Monsters, have a monster type known as "Divine Beast".

And any Zelda fan who knows about Breath of the Wild is familiar with the term "Divine Beast". So this commission is the first out of a total of 3 I'm commissioning of Sincity that shows each Egyptian God Card as a Divine Beast, with their signature duelist as a Divine Beast Pilot.

This first one is for Osiris the Heaven Dragon (aka Slifer the Sky Dragon) with Atem as it's pilot.

Atem is dressed in the Desert Voe Outfit and is depicted here as a King of the Gerudo. His weapon is a Magic Staff from Tears of the Kingdom with an Amethyst fused to it to make it a staff of Dark Magic. Just like the good old Dark Magician.

I had a super weird dream about Smash Bros last night. So many weird things were happening that I couldn't even remember all of them when I woke up.

But I do remember these:

The art style looked a lot like Super Mario Bros Wonder. But the way Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong were drawn did NOT look good.

Geno and Mallow were both playable as their own characters. And Geno had the ability to turn into a minecart.

Goku and Vegeta were playable. But their reveal trailer was done in a sprite based artstyle.

Naruto and Luffy were also playable.

Deku from My Hero Academia was playable too. But he was a Centaur.

Amaterasu from Okami was playable, but not by herself. She was part of an Ice Climbers style duo with Oki. Except Oki was named Frosterasu.

And I can't completely remember this last part, but the games name was something like "Super Smash Bros. Wii U Never Made".