MBRedboy31

I think the issue with the Deadly Six in Sonic Lost World (specifically in their debut in Lost World,) isn’t their simple personalities, or their cartoon oni-like designs that are a bit weird next to everyone else, but rather, the lack of environmental storytelling to demonstrate how dangerous they are.

In any game where Eggman is the main villain, his influence on the world is obvious; in addition to his minions being basically everywhere, he usually has at least one massive factory, playing up the destruction he brings to nature and to everyone else. Even if his boss fights happen to be easy in the particular game, his power overall is hard not to notice.

On the other hand, the Deadly Six don’t have their own minions (they just stole Eggman’s,) they don’t have their own lair (again, they just stole Eggman’s,) and there isn’t really anything in the environment showing what kinds of things they’ve done to whatever civilizations exist or existed on Lost Hex for them to gain their reputation. I’m not even asking for anything huge, here: a few murals in the ruins in Desert Ruins and/or Silent Forest would’ve gone a very long way, you know? So you mostly just have stuff in cutscenes (which is evil, but harder to take seriously within the game’s tone, and not uniquely distinct from what Eggman was doing) and their boss fights, the majority of which are very easy, so they don’t really feel like as much of a threat as they’re supposed to be.

For the record, I think it’s neat that Zavok and Zazz are in Sonic Racing Crossworlds, given that it also has the obvious inclusions that were missing from Team Sonic Racing, so there’s room for them.

People act like Kamek becoming an item is a unique fate, but Omochao and Dark Chao also became items in Sonic Racing Crossworlds, after previously sharing a car alongside two other Chao in Team Sonic Racing.

The Animation Versus devs revealed the last two new characters on their livestream today; a mysterious translucent stick person surrounded by entangled nodes that is the game’s main antagonist, and a pink train conductor with a satchel full of tools!

The problem is that they only said the antagonist’s name out loud instead of in text, and it could be “I”, “Eye”, “Ai”, or “Aye”. Ugh, that’s going to drive me crazy.

What do you mean MySims Cozy Bundle got an update a few days ago with new features??

The idea of a pair of ancient Wii games getting an update like that is a little surreal (even if they’re pretty nice changes that, according to the patch notes, were a pain in the neck to implement.)

I’m curious if the Switch 2 Pro controller will be legal in Smash tourneys at all, since it has built-in support for macros.

I do have to admit, a lot of us are hyping up Sonic Racing Crossworlds as being cheaper, but it does have a Digital Deluxe Edition, so if the base game is $60 and DX is $20 dollars more, a lot of us would be paying $80 anyway. Sega hasn’t actually announced the pricing yet, though, so I’m merely spectating.

(Although, it does have the advantage for me of not needing to buy a new console since I already have a good PC, plus PC doesn’t require a $20 subscription for online.)

Anyway, when’s Sonic Racing Crossworlds news?

We know for a fact that there’s stuff in that game that Sega hasn’t shown off yet. They’ve only revealed about 1/3 of the tracks that the website claims there are, they haven’t yet properly explained how Extreme Gear (hoverboard) vehicles work (although whether or not there’s actually anything functionally unique about them besides stats and character animations is yet to be seen,) and they haven’t shown all of the content included in the Digital Deluxe version yet either.

Now I’m thinking about how much returning content Kirby Air Riders in general will have.

What if… it brought nearly everything back? There‘s 16 tracks (a standard amount of tracks for a Mario Kart game to bring back, plus the fact that 7 of these are Top Ride tracks that are tiny), 20 vehicles for Kirby across all modes, 2 alternative characters, 1 moderately big city map, and ~13 (?) small areas for City Trial’s Stadiums.

I don’t know how much staff they’re devoting to it, but, if it is notably higher budget than the original (it has a fancy CGI teaser after all,) it doesn’t seem impossible that most of the original stuff could return alongside a similar amount of new stuff. Or it could be all new stuff and they’ll put the original game on NSO. I’m excited to learn anything about the game beyond the trailer, really (although I don’t expect much info about it until after MKW’s release.)

I wonder if Top Ride is returning in Kirby Air Riders. Like… Air Ride is the obvious mode that must be included, and City Trial is such a colossal part of the original game’s identity that it‘d be incredibly weird if it didn’t return, but Top Ride feels like it is just kinda there, you know?

It‘d be neat if Top Ride gained vehicles to choose from beyond just the two control schemes.

Wouldn’t it make more sense for powerscaling debates to use the median power level of a character, instead of their highest feats? Like, if you list every instance of a character and rank them in order of power, you should use the one in the exact middle, to eliminate the influence of outliers.
Although I’m really just sick and tired of characters’ greatest feats being brought up again and again and again, instead of thinking about how a “standard” fight would go.

Don’t mind me, I’m just continuing to be frustrated that Sonic Rumble keeps running events that begin and end before the global launch (May 8th.) Like maybe I wanted to play as AiAi and MeeMee and Opa Opa?? Nope, sucks to be me I guess.

Can we get Formee from Freakyforms: Your Creations, Alive! in Smash as a create-a-character? We’d have every character ever in Smash, even if they have to be weird wobbly 2D representations with elastic limbs. Like, it’d be the next Miitopia-face-paint, it’d go crazy.

In case you’ve never played that, you really can make pretty much anything you can think of (as long as you can figure out how to build it out of 20 or fewer premade shapes stuck together.) And, no matter the proportions of what you came up with or the specific quantity of limbs you chose to give it, the animations are procedural, so it’ll automatically work out.

I’m imagining if the new Tomodachi Life were to get a freeroam mode, where you can wander around the island on foot to watch the Miis do stuff (as opposed to the disembodied flying camera you usually have.) Although, it’d have to be first person only since the player in Tomodachi Life games is never seen aside from their hands and arms.

And then, I realized it’d be the most LEGO Island 1 thing in ages. Just walking around a weird island in first person watching weird people do weird things. If this does end up being a thing, I’ll have to try playing the Lego Island OST in the background to soak up all the vibes.

I want to see Puyo Puyo Tetris branch out into more puzzle games. Like, I want to see the chaos of 4-player matches where every player is playing a completely different game.

Even beyond the idea of including stuff like Panel de Pon and Dr. Mario in a Switch 2 exclusive release (the Panel de Pon fairies would fit in pretty well with the PPT cast, wouldn’t they?), why don’t they at least include Columns? Doesn’t Sega own Columns?

So, I’ve been thinking about how a 3D (arena) platform fighter would be designed.

Since you can’t input “up” or “down” in a 3D game, I was thinking a couple of the triggers would be devoted to “low stance” and “high stance” so you can still do your up and down tilts/airs/specials/smashes. But then you can’t play it on a GameCube controller without a weird control scheme.

Although, for there to even be a point to there being so much space to run around in (other than making it easier to stall and run down the clock,) all of the characters‘ movesets would need to have a crazy amount of stage control, wouldn’t they? It would be an interesting opportunity to think about some design ideas that‘d be absurd in a 2D game.

You know what feature Animation Versus REALLY needs? A desktop pet mode. You know, so the stickmen are fighting on your own computer’s desktop. You could either play standard matches using whatever windows you have open as custom-arranged platforms (although obviously this mode would be local multiplayer/vs CPUs only) or you can let the CPUs fight while you use your mouse cursor to troll them.

You know, I think I am getting Sonic Racing Crossworlds first, and maybe getting Mario Kart and a Switch 2 later down the road. Mario Kart’s going nowhere, after all.
Or maybe I’ll get neither. If I wait, Sega games always go down in price. But then I don’t know how long Crossworlds’ online will be active. Team Sonic Racing’s online died incredibly fast, but it also didn’t have crossplay, so hopefully Crossworlds will fare better since it does have crossplay.

I’m just wondering when Sega is going to share more information about it. They haven’t even announced a release date. I’d imagine they were waiting for Nintendo to announce the Mario Kart release date so they can plan around it, so hopefully they have a release date in mind now.

I have to admit: as much as I loved Kirby Air Ride back in the day and played it for hours (much of that being just messing around in the free roam mode of City Trial,) I can’t really realistically imagine I’d play Air Riders quite as much, even if it has way more content.

I think a big part of that is just the fact that, as an adult, it’s harder to just enjoy, like, existing in a game’s world. Gotta experience all the functional content, gotta move onto the next game…

In regards to MKW’s giant overworld, the idea of exploring it gets my imagination going but I’m not sure if it’d actually be that fun, at least as an adult.

Interesting thing I noticed from MKW footage is that, instead of you holding the item button to drag items behind your vehicle, all items are automatically dragged behind you. And I mean all items (that aren’t orbiting triple items.) I assume that might mean that people can steal your beneficial items by bumping into your rear bumper, so watch out. Admittedly, it’ll be nice to not need to hold the item button for ages (if I do buy it, idk yet.)

The main thing during the Kirby Air Riders teaser that made me think it might be Air Ride was the fact that Kirby was trying to grab onto the flat side of the Warpstar (in a Kirby platformer, he grabs onto the thin side instead.) I might be too much of a Kirby nerd.

Also, props to Kirby for being a total boss and nailing the perfect glide landing after freefalling out of the stratosphere (also confirming that perfect glide landings are a returning mechanic.) I would’ve crashed into the ground and gotten the laggy awkward bounce that slows you down.

Quoth the Sonic the Hedgehog social media account about a couple hours ago:

Big day for worldly racing games!

Anyway, get ready for the ONLY upcoming kart racer you can play with your friends around the world across all your favorite platforms: Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds!

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Based on the title “Kirby Air Riders”, I wonder if it might have more playable characters. It’d be cool if you could pair any character with any vehicle (unlike the original game, where Dedede can only exclusively use his specific Wheelie Bike and Meta Knight can only be on foot.) A big advantage of this system is that the other characters would be usable in City Trial (if it returns) too.

I wonder how they’d manage to make the other characters as interesting and fun as Kirby with his ability to copy enemies for a variety of distinct moves, though.

Did you know there’s a brand new non-remake Katamari Damacy game releasing tomorrow?
…exclusively on Apple Arcade.

I’m watching a Japanese livestreamer playing it right now since it’s already April 3rd there.

Me potentially becoming a PC-only gamer after seeing Switch 2 game prices:
I really hope my PC somehow never breaks down, I do NOT want to have to buy a new one

There is a very significant possibility that, for the entirety of the Switch 2’s lifespan, I will never press the C button, except by accident.

Just tried some ranked Fall Guys since that just released today. The difficulty level is insane right now since all the best players are still in the low ranks (although, I'm pretty good myself, so I still managed to get a win after a few tries.) The gameplay isn't really much different than non-ranked, so it's mainly an extra thing to work toward each season, I think.

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As I had guessed might happen, Landfall indeed shadowdropped Haste: Broken Worlds (now simply titled Haste)!

Anyway, the Rivals of Aether Micro Direct approaches! Come to the Livestream and watch this rectangle slowly grow larger for the next 45 minutes until it starts, for some new platform fighter news! (Don’t forget, Olympia releases tomorrow! )

March 31... what a boring day in gaming. All the cool stuff is April 1st or April 2nd.

Before you tell me that April 1st consists only of jokes, a bunch of stuff is already pre-announced:

• The Fall Guys Ranked Mode Update + Woo-dland Wonders battlepass + themed decorative creative mode objects I want the squirrel skin
• The Worldbox - God Simulator open beta for the next big update
• The Goat Simulator Direct probably a huge meme but probably has some real news in it
• The Rivals of Aether Micro Direct probably also a huge meme with a real bit of news in it. It is a micro direct so don't expect too much

And, Landfall (the devs of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, Content Warning, ect.) usually posts something significant on April 1st. They could possibly shadowdrop their next game Haste: Broken Worlds for all we know (TABS was also shadowdropped on an April 1st.) Or maybe they have something completely different planned? Who knows?!

People say that people would be alienated if they drastically change veterans’ movesets, but… if they drastically change every veteran’s moveset, so everyone is alienated, nobody is alienated, right? We’d all be in the same boat learning our new characters.

Because of the fighting game Animation Versus being an upcoming thing, I finally actually watched Animation vs. Animator (although I didn’t watch all of the other animations yet that are outside that subseries.)

It’s crazy how high-quality the animation gets as it goes on!

I also had kinda assumed it was mainly a relic of ancient YouTube (which the earliest episodes were,) but the most recent episode of the main AvA subseries released only 3 months ago, and there are even more recent animations than that.

Now, I just want to know if the new Tomodachi Life has Miitopia Switch’s customization features.

I think it’s gonna take me a while to get used to the new Tomodachi Life’s art style.

Today, Neopets released its 56th Neopet species, the Varwolf, which is the first new species they’ve released in the last 11 years! It’s currently only available in an “early access” state if you have Premium, and won’t be available for everyone until the summer, though.

This design was actually created back in 2005 as part of an April Fool’s prank where they claimed they were adding 50 new species. So, it took them 20 years to actually use it.

I like the fact that, since every Neopet has a Flash animation introducing it, they had to make a Flash animation for the Varwolf too. A Flash animation in 2025, can you believe it?

This is the kind of game that I’m really excited about the release of, not because I plan on buying it and playing it myself, but because I’m really excited to watch videos and livestreams of people way better at it than I am playing it.


Also, the little foxes that appear in a couple of the modes are cute.

Goofy game pitch: in a new Luigi’s Mansion game, King Boo accidentally addresses a letter to Waluigi instead. After Waluigi shows up alone to the spooky mansion, E. Gadd, having no idea who Waluigi is and not trusting him to use his latest and greatest Poltergust, instead gives him a modified Chiritorie to catch ghosts with.

So there goes Waluigi… trying to catch ghosts with a tiny remote-controlled Roomba… with a remote that only has a single button on it…

Luigi shows up later and has to work together with Waluigi despite their complete lack of any kind of chemistry. Insert funny cutscenes with 10/10 Next Level Games animations.

I remember seeing someone having a thread on Twitter asking how people would react if the next Nintendo Direct sucked. The problem is, I’m finding it hard to imagine what could possibly realistically be in the Direct that would lead to me thinking it absolutely sucked (as opposed to “that’s disappointing but at least I saw thing.”) Like, it’s pretty much guaranteed to have Mario Kart info in it and that alone would be interesting enough for me.

I guess it hypothetically could only talk about the system‘s specs but they wouldn’t do that. …Right?

Actually, I might also be pretty disappointed if they don’t show off the system’s OS at all. I think that’s a more realistic worry.

I wonder if Icarus (the guy in actual mythology, not Pit) will ever appear in Kid Icarus.

He might not be a kid, though, given he’s a regular human and the timescale of the series. He might also be a little angry, actually, after faceplanting into the ground and having to crawl his way out of the Underworld (the entrance to which would probably logically be at least briefly unguarded after the defeat of Hades and most of his underlings.)

Have you ever thought about how cursed an actually 2D game would be?

You know how we 3D people essentially only see in 2D, even despite having depth perception? A truly 2D game would have a 1D display. Merely a vertical or horizontal line with colors.

Maybe it could still have depth perception, which I’d represent by making the line thicker when objects are nearer. If the game is a side-scroller and not top-down, I’d also say the protagonist has eyes on both sides of their head and thus display both directions in splitscreen. Even with all that, navigating this environment would be pretty challenging…

(At least it isn’t a 1D game, in which the display would be a single pixel.)

I had an Apple Arcade free trial, but it ended today, so I finally stopped procrastinating and speedran nearly all of Sonic Dream Team (I had only beaten the first two levels beforehand) to beat the final boss in one day. Maybe I shouldn't have waited until the last day, but it was pretty cool still.

(It's very hard to play it with touchscreen controls, so I connected a PS4 controller to my iPad to play it, although needing to do that is a big part of why I was procrastinating in the first place.)